Good Quotes

Mystery writers' conventions are usually good, and this one has been excellent and extremely well prepared and thought out in advance. A lot of people have given their time and their skill, and a good deal of wit, and Anchorage has made us extraordinarily welcome.

To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it - this is a hard lesson.

The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound. I'm caught up in the story writing and I miss a good deal of sleep thinking about it and working out the plot points.

These deserters were our undoing. I shall have a good deal more to say about them before I finally lay down my pen, and I shall not hesitate to call them by their true name, the name with which they will be for ever branded before all the nations of the world.

An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem.

Nothing to mountaineering, just a little physical endurance, a good deal of brains, lots of practice, and plenty of warm clothing.

War is hell and all that, but it has a good deal to recommend it. It wipes out all the small nuisances of peace-time.

We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens, and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government it's surest support.

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Police and firefighters are great, but they don't create wealth. They protect it. That's crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to become good citizens so that citizens can then go create wealth. But they don't create the wealth themselves.

We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the hero.

We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world.

Ants are good citizens, they place group interests first.

Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice.

If we are to perpetuate the state, we must not only produce citizens, but good citizens - men and women of sound bodies, clear minds and clean souls.

A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes.

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.

Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and its conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.

The reason that a good citizen does not use such destructive means to become wealthier is that, if everyone did so, we would all become poorer from the mutual destructiveness.

I don't want to run for governor, but I don't think anyone should put public service out of the question because that's not what a good citizen does.

After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.

At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.

No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.

Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

We are very near the end, but have not and will not lose our good cheer.

There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.

The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.

The man who radiates good cheer, who makes life happier wherever he meets it, is always a man of vision and faith.