Good Quotes

You've got to change incentives for good behavior as opposed to just disincentivizing bad behavior.

~ Gavin Newsom

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

~ Joyce Meyer

Routines are normal, natural, healthy things. Most of us take a shower and brush our teeth every day. That is a good routine. Spiritual disciplines are routines. That is a good thing. But once routines become routine you need to change your routine.

~ Mark Batterson

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

~ Joyce Cary

You can talk yourself into a good emotional state. I stop for a second, take a deep breath, and think about something that's beautiful. A beautiful thought for me is cutting the umbilical cord for my child. I can guarantee you that your emotional state will change.

~ Montel Williams

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

~ David Lloyd George

Change is good. And in fact unavoidable.

~ Dirk Benedict

Sometimes I think change is a good thing.

~ Katie Couric

I had to think ahead. How much would I really enjoy committing five or seven years to working on this? When you're an unemployed actor offered a TV pilot, no matter who you are you're tempted by the good hunk of change to be made. It keeps you out of the unemployment line.

~ Gerald Mcraney

How many Republicans does it take to change a light bulb? Three. One to mix the martinis, one to change the light bulb, and one to reminisce about how good the old one was.

~ Christopher Buckley

Even if I know I shall never change the masses, never transform anything permanent, all I ask is that the good things also have their place, their refuge.

~ Richard Wagner

If you can change three lives in 10, three lives in a hundred, that's got to be good, hasn't it?

~ Ian Botham

A good wife is someone who thinks she has done everything right: raising the kids, being there for the husband, being home, trying to do it all.

~ Julianna Margulies

Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best.

~ Kin Hubbard

I am not Superwoman. The reality of my daily life is that I'm juggling a lot of balls in the air trying to be a good wife and mother, trying to be the prime-ministerial consort at home and abroad, barrister and charity worker, and sometimes one of the balls gets dropped.

~ Cherie Blair

New England is the home of all that is good and noble with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions.

~ Ellen Swallow Richards

I am alone a lot, which is good. I need that time to just be alone after a long day, just decompress. So, I go to either my house or the hotel, or my apartment, or whatever - wherever I am, I go home and I watch TV and I sit there, with my cat, and I just watch TV or go online, check my emails.

~ Taylor Swift

I daresay one good concert justifies a week of satisfaction at home.

~ Robert Plant

Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.

~ Babe Ruth

All good hotels tend to lead people to do things they wouldn't necessarily do at home.

~ Andre Balazs

Fresh out of college, you tend to join a company because it's a job. But, you tend to stay because it becomes a career; you start to feel at home. In the beginning of your career, you're focused on you: 'I like this place because I'm doing rewarding work; they take good care of me; the people are nice; there's runway for me,' etc.

~ Ursula Burns

There are things they tell us that sound good to hear, but when they have accomplished their purpose they will go home and will not try to fulfill our agreements with them.

~ Sitting Bull

We should be the natural home for young mothers. But we're not. Because too often we sound like people who think the only good mother is a married mother.

~ Francis Maude

We need to rediscover the idea of the common good and work together to build a home.

~ Jonathan Sacks

Well, I'm not good with sliminess. I hate the thought of creatures that have slime on them or creatures that leave a slimy trail. At home, the sight of a slug can bring up my breakfast.

~ Jenny Eclair

There is nothing more important than a good, safe, secure home.

~ Rosalynn Carter

People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.

~ Zig Ziglar

A heart makes a good home for the friend.

~ Yunus Emre

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

~ John Mason Brown

Beer is not a good cocktail-party drink, especially in a home where you don't know where the bathroom is.

~ Billy Carter

I'm the type of woman you might say is too good. I'll massage a man's feet, have dinner cooked when he gets home. But once they leave, the door is closed, and the locks are changed.

~ Angie Stone

I'm shocked at how early everything closes here. But people start earlier. I miss the late nightlife in NYC, but then again I sing and burn so much energy in the show that it's probably good - I get to go home and sleep.

~ Neil Patrick Harris

Many women assume they can't be good mothers and have challenging careers at the same time, so they might give up trying to do both as they get to a crucial point in their career. Although it can be hard at times, it's important for women to recognize the benefits of working outside the home.

~ Susan Wojcicki

Early on, I played one or two disturbed people, and I guess I must have been good at it, because it stuck. But, you know, I'm a regular guy. I stay home a lot, I make an effort to keep a distance from the whole social thing, the openings, the parties. I try to live in a calm way.

~ Christopher Walken

'Feminist comedy,' practically an oxymoron, had a couple of good years after WWII. Chalk it up to the forced female autonomy that occurred during wartime, when Rosie the Riveter went to work in the factories, constructing the Allies' war machines while taking charge of the finances, the home, and the children.

~ Grace Slick

When I was eight, I would look at the cover of the 'Ghost Rider' comic book in my little home in Long Beach, California, and I couldn't get my head around how something that scary could also be good. To me it was my first philosophical awakening - 'How is this possible, this duality?'

~ Nicolas Cage

I want my home to look good, feel good, and smell good. I want it to be inclusive, to reflect the people who live there.

~ Cindy Crawford

The thing about being at home versus being out in the world working is, it's a whole different vibe. When I'm home with my kids and partner, I will cook - even though she's a very good cook. She's learned over the years. We started with basics, you know, how to saute onions, how to saute mushrooms.

~ Cat Cora

I come from a broken home. My parents split up when I was nine. Everyone gave me a good wallop. But I come from a time when you just put up with that, you got on with things rather than sitting moaning about them.

~ Len Goodman

What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home?

~ Johann Georg Hamann