Good Quotes

We're having a good time. That's what I did last year. If you can't have a good time, you might as well stay home. I feel real good.

~ Sterling Marlin

I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.

~ Isaac Watts

I'm not saying that there's anything better than mated bliss at its best, but I'm saying that living alone is as good in its own way. But we haven't quite given ourselves permission to recognize that.

~ Barbara Feldon

My idea of management is that what your job is as the boss is to find really good people and empower them and leave them alone.

~ Ruth Reichl

Here in Cameroon, football is our leading political party. It's football alone that that unites us, it's football alone that brings us good things - football is the window into our country - so we don't mess around with it.

~ Roger Milla

The radiation left over from the Big Bang is the same as that in your microwave oven but very much less powerful. It would heat your pizza only to minus 271.3*C - not much good for defrosting the pizza, let alone cooking it.

~ Stephen Hawking

Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page, then it really won't make any difference. You cannot act on force of personality alone.

~ Larry Hagman

No one is good but God alone. What is good is therefore divine, what is divine is therefore good.

~ Saint Ambrose

I'm the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone.

~ Peter O'toole

When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.

~ Magic Johnson

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

~ Eric Hoffer

The first thought that I had about really trying to get sober was, 'Man, I could do a lot of good in the world. I can lead by example and just be this heroic recovery guy.' And that's just a bad reason to get sober. You can't get sober for anybody's benefit, let alone the world at large. You really got to do it for yourself.

~ Steve-O

The thing about markets, and I think the thing people don't understand about that, is markets are not kind, but they're very efficient. So when the marketplace determines an inefficiency in the system, it corrects that, and a market system that's left alone will reward good behavior and punish bad behavior.

~ Randy Neugebauer

I think some people are good at being alone, and some people aren't, and as a child, I really liked it.

~ Karin Slaughter

If I'm alone, I tend to cook for myself. I do a pretty good job of preparing healthful foods. My go-to is everything in a bowl like quinoa, avocado. Later in the day, scrambled eggs. I'm not a gourmet chef. I cook in bulk very well.

~ Ellie Kemper

In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief.

~ John Barrymore

As powerful as is our soul's call, so potent are the forces of Resistance arrayed against it. We're not alone if we've been mowed down by Resistance; millions of good men and women have bitten the dust before us.

~ Steven Pressfield

The good thing about working alone is I get a lot done and I can experiment more. The bad thing is I miss out on the gregarious, social way that most musicians work.

~ Moby

When 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' premiered on the WB Network in 1996, American culture was in trouble. Americans were bowling alone, pursuing individual interests to the detriment of the communal good. Business leaders were celebrating creativity and neglecting discipline. Nike's 'Just do it' ads were teaching young people to break the rules.

~ Virginia Postrel

If I'm alone too long I think too much, and I'm not interested in doing that. That won't lead anywhere good, I'm sure. If I'm busy I tend to stay out of trouble. An idle mind is the devil's playground.

~ Lisa Marie Presley

Politicians usually get the blame for dragging their feet on environmental issues. And fair enough. Most of them do just that. But the blame isn't theirs alone. For politicians afraid of losing votes, a bristling media waiting to transform good green ideas into monsters is a colossal disincentive.

~ Zac Goldsmith

The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted.

~ Brendan Behan

The devil had as good have let Paul alone, for he no sooner comes into prison but he falls a preaching, at which the gates of Satan's prison fly open, and poor sinners come forth.

~ William Gurnall

Good environmental policy is good economic policy.

~ Bernie Sanders

By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.

~ Aeschylus

Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which is good.

~ Elon Musk

In the environmental movement, every time you lose a battle it's for good, but our victories always seem to be temporary and we keep fighting them over and over again.

~ David Suzuki

I've always thought the main argument for organic was more environmental than a health argument. I just don't think spraying a lot of pesticides into the environment on a routine basis is a good thing.

~ John Mackey

There's a myth out there that you have to genuflect at the altar of quarterly earnings. But it's a false choice that you can either be a good fiduciary or promote values such as environmental sustainability.

~ Thomas Perez

The way to make the world a better place, through your eating, is simply to eat a bit less meat. Local is sometimes good, sometimes bad. But even when it's good, its environmental impact is relatively small compared to other possible improvements.

~ Tyler Cowen

I don't know anything about propaganda for Chinese reunification. I only know about charity and environmental work. I just want to do good.

~ Chen Guangbiao

It is all very well for 2% of the population to live in a monastic state of meatlessness while everyone else gorges their way towards environmental meltdown or the nearest heart clinic. Vegetarianism is good for the willing minority, but not much use as a campaign tool.

~ Tristram Stuart

There is a new wave of environmental consumers I like to call Pocketbook Environmentalists. They're going green primarily because it makes good financial sense, but the fact that it benefits their families' health and the environment also makes them feel good.

~ Lynn Jurich

It's obvious nonsense, but it makes nice people feel good about themselves to do their bit for the planet. It's vanity of a grotesque kind to believe that mankind, and our 'carbon footprint', has more impact on the future of Earth than Nature, which bends our planet to its will, as it sees fit.

~ Charles Saatchi

The potential in many environmental issues is that if you undertake corrective action without appropriate understanding of the problem, then you wind up doing more harm than good.

~ Hugh Ross

If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge? We shouldn't marginalise people for this. They must be integrated into society.

~ Pope Francis

Cleanliness is a good thing, which the society should embrace. But it has nothing to do with Modi, nor can he implement it.

~ Kapil Sibal

Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.

~ Thomas Paine

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

~ John W. Gardner

Professionalism is not sportsmanship. If you don't succeed, you won't be in your profession for long. In our society, it's not about good or bad. It's about who's on top.

~ Chili Davis