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The first good news for all of us, the first joyful story of our lives, is that there is a story at all, and an Author who has loved us into being.
— Anthony M. Esolen
The curse of fatherhood is distance, and the good fathers spend their lives trying to overcome it.
— Steve Farrar
Some angels are too good to live their entire lives in this inferno. They come to Earth for only a short time because they have a mission.
— Cristiane Serruya
I have spent a good part of my life showing what an intellectual bubble the Left lives in.
— Dennis Prager
When good men die, their goodness does not perish, but lives though they are gone. As for the bad, all that was theirs dies and is buried with them.
— Euripides
A student whose life is filled with woes least had and understood the hands of a good teacher that shape lives in a distinctive way
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.
— Lillian Hellman
All good animals have secret lives.
— Kate Bernheimer
But things that are intrinsically good can also become idols-if we allow them to take over any of God's functions in our lives.
— Nancy Pearcey
Good intentions are simply not enough. Our character is defined and our lives are determined not by what we want, say or think, but by what we do.
— Michael Josephson
While television is a good servant, it's a bad master. It can swallow up huge quantities of our lives without much happiness bang for the buck.
— Gretchen Rubin
The good that men do lives after them.
— Ruth Gordon
If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives.
— Earl Hamner Jr.
So our lives In acts exemplary, not only win Ourselves good names, but doth to others give Matter for virtuous deeds, by which we live.
— George Chapman
Children are the keys of Paradise.They alone are good and wise, Because their thoughts, their very lives are prayer.
— Richard Henry Stoddard
Many people wait throughout their whole lives for the chance to be good in their own fashion.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The good and wise lead quite lives
— Euripides
The good and the beautiful is not forgotten; it lives in legend and in song.
— Hans Christian Andersen
We can only try to live our lives with enough joy and passion that when our time is finished we leave behind more good memories than regrets.
— P.C. Cast
Music can change lives. Whether you are having a good or bad day, the power of music can change one's mood.
— Jess Bowen
It was kind of tragic, I reflected, that we all spent our lives working but never really got good at our work, or even finished it.
— Hope Jahren
Good books that often I would hate to finish because they took me into their lives and let me out of mine, for a while anyway.
— Ron McLarty
Naturally, I mine my girlfriends' lives for good anecdotes and stories - so many of their experiences find their way into my books.
— Lauren Weisberger
So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
— Helen Keller
Take a stand. Be disruptive for the greater good of your company. Make a difference to other's people's lives.
— Timi Nadela
Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea; but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in.
— Edward Abbey
My core message is that God has got a good plan for your lives, and we must trust Him, and let go of the past. That's my main message.
— Joel Osteen
A good story is always written with the tears of tragedies and triumphs, and the love and kindness of our lives.
— Debasish Mridha
You scared the life out of me."
"Good thing cats have nine lives, then," she teased. — Carrie Ann Ryan
"Good thing cats have nine lives, then," she teased. — Carrie Ann Ryan
God is a good choice to lean on. He has a proven record of faithfulness to those who commit their lives to Him.
— Joyce Meyer
When they join up, they know I might have to spend their lives, but they trust that I'll get a good price.
— Django Wexler
We spend our lives striving to be persons of influence and consequence, when all that is required is to consistently do good to others.
— Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
Evil comes into our lives because we do not follow the laws set by God for our own good.
— Sunday Adelaja
God has given his law so that we will experience, not earn, the good he intends for our lives.
— Bryan Chapell
I'm the most important person in the lives of almost everyone I know and a good number of the people I've never even met.
— David Sedaris
In God's hands, the ingredients of our lives will always work out ultimately for our good and, even better, for His eternal purposes.
— Elizabeth George
Troy Brennan was the devil, but sometimes, even good girls wanted a healthy dose of evil in their lives. He'd
— L.J. Shen
Traditions are a common part of our lives. They can be good, and not all traditions are wrong, but sometimes they can take the joy out of life.
— Joyce Meyer
Good is that darkening of our lives,
Which only God can brighten;
But better still that hopeless load,
Which none but God can lighten. — Frederick William Faber
Which only God can brighten;
But better still that hopeless load,
Which none but God can lighten. — Frederick William Faber
We are called both to live pure lives and to take the good news to those in greatest need.
— Dillon Burroughs
In the unfixables of our lives we are invited to keep company with Jesus and take a risk that God's intentions toward us are good.
— Adele Ahlberg Calhoun
Or maybe I've just lost the taste for love. Love isn't always a good thing.
Sometimes it makes a mess of people' lives. — Marshall Thornton
Sometimes it makes a mess of people' lives. — Marshall Thornton
A perfect dad isn't required to raise good kids who live good lives and do good things with their life.
— Jimmy Turner
If you can change three lives in 10, three lives in a hundred, that's got to be good, hasn't it?
— Ian Botham
Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back.
— Joe Abercrombie
The Gospel of Jesus Christ can make bad men good and good men better, can alter human nature, and can change human lives.
— David O. McKay
One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.
— John Dewey
I believe now that we're the enemy to the things we really want for our lives. We get really good at telling ourselves ugly lies on repeat.
— Hannah Brencher
I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives.
— Jack Nicholson
People's lives can look so good on the outside and be so much dark shadow on the inside.
— Carol Plum-Ucci
When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling ... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
— Yo-Yo Ma
In the end our lives are nothing more than simple stories. It's good to occasionally step back and make sure you are the one writing.
— Jacob Mandel
One lives in the very present moment; lives intently. There is no urge to be doing: being is the highest good.
— Patrick O'Brian
A life rooted deeply lives and grows in memory.
— Mary Anne Radmacher
Applied good taste is a mark of good citizenship. Ugliness is a from of anarchy.. ugly cities, ugly advertising, ugly lives produce bad citizens.
— Lester Beall
We pride ourselves on making a good history of our lives, a good story to be told. And
— Terry Pratchett
We don't sit in meditation to become good meditators. We sit in meditation so that we'll be more awake in our lives.
— Pema Chodron
It doesn't cost anything to be a good person, but yet there are toxic people around us that will try to tax our lives.
— Ron Baratono
As an educator myself, I understand the profound effect that good teachers and a quality education have on the lives of our young people.
— Ben Bernanke
Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
We should aim for our children to be good people, and to live ethical lives that manifest concern for others as well as for themselves.
— Peter Singer
Ben shrugged his shoulders. "I find that people who have good luck in their lives tend to have good luck medically." Perhaps there is truth in this.
— Sally Ryder Brady
The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing.
— William Wordsworth
The storms of life can be used for good in our lives if we let them drive our spirits higher and closer to God.
— Roy Lessin
Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
People think that fun in Christ is non-existent, but there is fun wherever your heart lives.
— Criss Jami
The best recommendation letter is our lives. Everybody can read our actions and our deeds.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
When we learn to give thanks, we are learning to concentrate not on the bad things, but on the good things in our lives.
— Amy Vanderbilt
I think all documentaries leave out areas of people's lives. Which is good. There are areas that need not be explored.
— Alice Walker
I think we're all here to either make someone happy, to take care of someone who may be in need, or to make a difference in a few lives, good or bad.
— Shanora Williams
A sick body with a good heart is more beneficial to future lives than a fit, healthy body that is used for self-cherishing.
— Thubten Zopa Rinpoche
We spend a good part of our lives trying desperately to convince ourselves as well as everybody else that we know more than we really do.
— Charles Osgood
I don't care how someone lives or how good their spoken English is. I do all of my interviews on Skype text chat - all that matters is their work.
— Matt Mullenweg
I don't think any player lives up to his potential, because people out there put you so high on a pedestal, you'll never be as good as they expect.
— Eric Davis
I never tell them about our lives. You know why? It is not because I am ashamed. It is because some things are just good, too good to be judged.
— Alice Pung
If you have a regulation that's going to save hundreds of thousands of lives annually and not cost very much, that sounds like a very good idea.
— Cass Sunstein
That is the good stuff that comes into our life and it's based on the good stuff that goes out of our life!
— Bob Proctor
Stand-ups are always good to see on YouTube. There's a guy named Mike Head who lives in Cleveland. He's great. He's an African-American stand-up.
— Allison Jones
Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Some live in poverty but with their honor; some live in wealth but with no honor! Some lives are respectable, some are disgraceful!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
In real life, good people die all the time and a**holes can live long and happy lives. It's a crapshoot.
— Bentley Little
Why do you always want to read about other people's lives, Matt? Ain't your own good enough for you
— Jennifer Donnelly
A house takes on the characteristics of its occupant, and, depending on who lives in it, it can become a very good house or a very strange house.
— Kyung-Sook Shin
No actor is a success unless he feels inside himself, as long as he lives, that he is good.
— Stella Adler
Women spend their lives trying to look good for men. So a woman who feels she's sending the right visual signals is pleased with herself.
— Helen Fisher
In a good society, people are interested in the hard lives of the workers, not in the easy lives of the artists and models!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
I said that people never change their lives, that in any case one life was as good as another and that I wasn't dissatisfied with mine here at all.
— Albert Camus
Most of us would like to end our lives feeling both that we had a good time and that we left the world a little better than we found it.
— Philip Slater
Loving others, she thought, is the good thing we do in our lives.
— Alexander McCall Smith
People aren't all good, and people aren't all bad. We move in and out of darkness all our lives.
— Neal Shusterman
You live several lives while reading [a good book].
— William Styron