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Wealth of good manners is what no one can steal from you. You can keep it with you wherever you go. — Moazzam Shaikh

What good is it being a painter if you can't paint yourself? — Gregory Maguire

Hmm what wine is this love thing that your species has, not necessary even on a good day, but like a mob of maniac limpets you cling to it. — Steve Merrick

What is will? It is a decision. It is a decision to be something. We really aren't anything in particular. We can be anything. That's the good news. — Frederick Lenz

A good leader is someone who knows what he's bad at, and hires someone who's good at it to take care of it for him. — John Flanagan

A good time occurs precisely when we lose track of what time it is. — Robert Farrar Capon

Have faith in 'What Is'. You will get your due, good or not so good, to your liking or not, but in time, as it is meant to be. — Fakeer Ishavardas

I'm not afraid of being thought of as someone who is associated with film music. Why not? If it's a good song, what does it matter? — Bryan Adams

I think the good thing about my face is it has always been expressive. With Botox that goes - not what you want as an actress. — Jane Seymour

Power is not good or evil. It is what it is in the hands of the wielder. — Karen Marie Moning

It is in length of patience, endurance and forbearance that so much of what is good in mankind and womankind is shown. — Arthur Helps

But this is what it means to be civilized - doing what her betters say she should, for the ostensible good of all. — N.K. Jemisin

I edit as I write. I revise endlessly. I don't go forward until I know that what I've written is as good as I can make it. — Anita Shreve

Excuse me, but you didn't answer me. What part of it is good for you?" she pressed.
"I found you," he said. — Heather Burch

My faith is whatever makes me feel good about being alive. If your religion doesn't make you feel good to be alive, what the hell is the point of it? — Tom Robbins

What the readers want is a good story, and what the writers always want to luck into, it's a good story. — Stephen Graham Jones

There is no good or evil here, it all depends on what side you're standing. Nor is it about wrong or right, it's about surviving." Triven — Jennifer Wilson

Women have a very good sense for seeing instantly what constitutes a good man. Not physically. The physical strength is only a small side of it. — Werner Herzog

Typecasting is a good thing. It's good to be known for what you do. — Steve Guttenberg

Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for? — Orson F. Whitney

I think what it means is that central to living A life that is good is a life that's forgiving. — David Rakoff

The act of wishing someone a good life even if it means us not being a part of it is the purest act of love. To know what is best for someone. — Monique Gold

Any time that you can give the consumer more of what they want, it's a good thing. I said from Day 1 that the unbundling of the album is a good thing. — Edgar Bronfman Jr.

It is easy to identify a shallow person by the attention he gives to what will do him absolutely no good. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Death does that: it makes everyone feel sentimental. When we stand in front of a coffin, we all see only what is good or what we want to see. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

But is it what we love, or how we love,
That makes true good? — George Eliot

I'm about to start reading it again, because what good is a story you only want to read once? — Bill Willingham

Riding a bicycle is about getting back to basics. It's good for the waistline and it's good for the wallet, is what I'm saying. — Phil Keoghan

The only reason you make a movie is not to make or set out to do a good or a bad movie, it's just to see what you learn for the next one. — Alfonso Cuaron

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is; the people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived ... (Bk2:3) — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Ireland is a good place to start out as a filmmaker. If what you do is good, even at a very small scale, it will get recognized. — Lenny Abrahamson

Anybody can make 'good' music. I make terrible music, which is what makes it so different, and therefore better. — Thom Yorke

The important matter is freedom. When the people choose what they want, it is good for them and for us. — Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

There's not much high and low culture any more: there's just mingling streams of art and what matters is whether it's good art or bad art. — Neil Gaiman

If you have the Holy Spirit and let Him take charge of your life, it doesn't matter what your situation is, He'll turn it around for your good. — Chris Oyakhilome

After all, what good is a life saved if you fail to live it? — Lisa Wingate

I'm a believer in what your record is. I am what my record is - some of it good, some of it bad, some of it hard to tell. — Dan Rather

But I am a great pretender, sometimes so good at it that I convince myself that what I pretend is what is truly real. — Kameron Hurley

What good is it that Christ was born [2,000] years ago if he is not born now in your heart? — Meister Eckhart

A good jolly is worth what you pay for it. — George Ade

It can be good to be given what you want; it can be better, in the end, never to have it proved to you that this is what you wanted — Mary Renault

Trial by jury is the palladium of our liberties. I do not know what a palladium is, but I am sure it is a good thing! — Mark Twain

Advertising, if it is any good, should help to confirm what already is, not what should be. — Scott Bedbury

Today, like any other day, is totally incomprehensible. It's good to be in a state of wonder and be alive to what's happening. — Art Hochberg

What it missing, I think, is this notion of the common good. — Susan George

There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him. — Robert A. Heinlein

Sometimes love's not enough. And if it's not enough, what good is it ? — Sylvia Day

What good is it if they miss your face but not your mind? — Crystal Woods

What good is religious liberty if it can only be practiced behind stained-glass windows on Sunday? — Ralph E. Reed Jr.

What good is success if you're not willing to share it? — Karl Malone

I was a very good nurse, but I burned out after eight years or so because it wasn't what I truly wanted to do. Writing is what I belong to. — Sue Monk Kidd

A good part of what appears to us - prima facie - as objective reality is, instead, just a consequence of our conventions to discover it. — Felix Alba-Juez

Cherish your health: If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help. — George Carlin

But my Arabic is pretty good. It's good enough to have conversations with people, to understand what they say, to understand what they're feeling. — John Abizaid

Fishermen, no matter what supreme good fortune befalls them, cannot ever be absolutely satisfied. It is a fundamental weakness of intellect. — Zane Grey

good is what we built when it leads to this? What good is knowledge when stupidity and ignorance will always trump it? Well, — David D. Hammons

The fact is that blank pages inspire me with terror. What will I put on them? Will it be good enough? Will I have to throw it out? — Margaret Atwood

Change is good; it's what fashion is all about. — Suzy Menkes

What good is a revolution anyway if it isn't joyful? — Jonathan Talat Phillips

What seems good turns bad, what seems bad turns good. It is an endless cycle. — Brenda Shoshanna

What really counts in life is the quiet meeting of every difficulty with the determination to get out of it all the good there is. — Helen Keller

I've thought about what is an alternative word to feminism. There isn't one. It's a perfectly good word. And it can't be changed. — Annie Lennox

I mean, what good is a women's lib if we can't use it to ask guys to dances? — Cynthia Hand

What good is a secret if it remains a secret ... Secrets are meant to be discovered ... — Jocelyn Murray

You'll learn there is another rule. Esme's obeyed it all her life." "And what's that?" "When you break rules, break 'em good and hard," said — Terry Pratchett

What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune. — Baron De Montesquieu

On Earth they've forgotten how to make everything except money. But what good is it, if there's nothing worthwhile left to buy? — James P. Hogan

I always said a good despotism was the best form of government; and I am twice as much in favour of it now I see what a quorum is! — Elizabeth Gaskell

What good is it if you talk in flowers, and they think in pastry? — Ashleigh Brilliant

Ethics without virtue is an illusion. What is the highest purpose of ethics? It is to make a person good, that is virtuous. — Peter Kreeft

It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing. — Cyril Connolly

What good does the theory [of economics] do if it is not working for people? — Muhammad Yunus

Character is what is hidden deep, shows up in the worst of times, be it good or bad, and reflects the heart of a man. — Robin M. Bertram

What is the good of influence if one can only use it on strangers? — Chris Cleave

It is security that I crave and money provides security. What is that old line about money? "Some is good, more is better and too much is just right." — Neil Oliver

Good Morning, Sunshine! Josh F**king Bennett. By now, I'm pretty sure that if I were to find his birth certificate that is exactly what it would say. — Katja Millay

Find the autonomy in your work. Autonomy is key to feeling good about the work you do, no matter what kind of work it is. — Jean Chatzky

What good is having an imagination if you don't use it? — Miss Lore

Heart can keep a secret, but face is not a good secret keeper! So what heart knows, face will expose it! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

It is good, as I have said, to be neither victim nor victimizer. Unfortunately, it is not possible. What — George Friedman

What good is all the cash if it doesn't buy time and what good is bein famous if I'm never on your mind? — Drake

Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what's left tastes bitter. — Bertolt Brecht

The swimming stinks here because there are no waves even little waves. What good is it without any ways and you never get scared or turned all over — J.D. Salinger

What's good about talking about being victimized is that it is the beginning of being able to stop it. — Teri Hatcher

Nobody can tell you if what you're doing is good, meaningful or worthwhile. The more compelling the path, the more lonely it is. — Hugh MacLeod

The best way to get something good out of what you're doing is to put something good into it. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

This is really a pretty good system you have here. What do you call it? "Due process". We're very proud of it. — Alex Kozinski

It never does any good to dwell on what could go wrong. There is risk in everything. — Laura Lee Guhrke

In order to do evil, must first believe that what they are doing is good, otherwise they can't do it. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I'm more open to give things a go, but what I'm not good at yet is holding back. If something is daft or rubbish, I just go, I can't be doing it. — Karl Pilkington

Well, it often happens that people with good eyesight fail to see what is right in front of them. — Ruskin Bond

Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing. — Quincy Jones

I suffer from Irish-Catholic guilt. Guilt is a good reality check. It keeps that 'do what makes you happy' thing in check. — Edward Burns

If what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me at all — Socrates

Yes, but what is it good for? What does it mean?" Her look was full of pity. "If you have to ask that question, you wouldn't understand the answer. — John Varley

Spread the good and it will return to you. Spread the bad and it will return to you. Choice is yours what you want to receive. — Ambreen Ali

What, more petitions! Won't you be, and stay, intimidated? You must really annoy Sen. Dodd. Here it is [my signature], and I hope it does some good. — Edward Condon

If truth is not objective, there is no good or evil. There is only what people do and how people feel about it. — Rebecca McKinsey

Knowing what to expect from a teacher is a really good thing, of course: It lets you get the right answers more quickly than you would otherwise. — Alison Gopnik

It's easy to do what is not good And things that harm oneself. It's very difficult to do Things beneficial and good. — Gil Fronsdal