Good Quotes

Every country we conquer feeds us. And these are just a few of the good things we'll have when this war is over. Slaves working for us everywhere while we sit back with a fork in our hands and a whip on our knees.

There's always a question of duration, there's a question of who the orchestra is. No one is free to write what you want - you collaborate on a film score, and one of the good things is that someone else's work is motivating you.

A lot of good things start in Virginia; a lot of good things have started in Virginia. We're no strangers to firsts.

The difference of the degrees in which the individuals of a great community enjoy the good things of life has been a theme of declaration and discontent in all ages.

We've got some very good things to do without screwing around with sleeves.

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

A good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.

It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

A good thing never ends.

As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.

It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core.

I've gone for each type: the rough guy; the nerdy, sweet, lovable guy; and the slick guy. I don't really have a type. Men in general are a good thing.

In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.

Chemotherapy isn't good for you. So when you feel bad, as I am feeling now, you think, 'Well that is a good thing because it's supposed to be poison. If it's making the tumor feel this queasy, then I'm OK with it.'

Julia progresses from cradle to grave, showing how government makes every good thing in her life possible. The weak economy, high unemployment, falling wages, rising gas prices, the national debt, the insolvency of entitlements - all these are fictionally assumed away in a cartoon that is produced by a president who wants us to forget about them.

There is no harm in repeating a good thing.

A lot of people would be embarrassed to admit that they were on 'Barney', but I embrace the fact. I just had such a wonderful time doing that show. I learned what a camera and prop is, and all that. I learned my manners too, so I guess that's a good thing!

Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.

It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.

Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.