Quotes on Good

It's not good enough to give it tender, loving care, to supply it with breakfast foods, to buy it expensive educations. Those things don't mean anything unless this generation has a future. And we're not sure that it does.

Reality is like a doughnut: Everything that is good and funny and juicy is outside the center, which is just emptiness.

Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

There is still a real need for good quality architecture, not paper architecture, but the real stuff.

I think you can be depressed and flourish, I think you can have cancer and flourish, I think you can be divorced and flourish. When we believed that happiness was only smiling and good mood, that wasn't very good for people like me, people in the lower half of positive affectivity.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

Many of the factors that we think will cause motivation, such as fair pay and a good manager, won't make you love your job. Even if you eliminate what makes you dissatisfied, that doesn't make you motivated. It doesn't make your work rewarding. You just are less bothered by things.

I cannot write about the past unless I go where history happened. Some make very good armchair historians, I'm not one of them. If you're going to inhabit someone else's world, the very least you can do is to spend a little time in it.

Weak character will neutralize all of the other possible good qualities a person might possess.

In the Fifties, there were certain places we couldn't ride on the bus, and now there is a possibility of a black man being in the White House. You have to feel good about it.

It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway.

Being around a church culture, even leading a gathering of believers, I've gotten pretty good at predicting what's going to happen in a church service.

'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.

A good society is characterised not just by liberty but by mutual respect and responsibility. When this breaks down it takes a lot more than police officers to put things right.

Really good books need a chaos element: something weird or inexplicable.

Disasters are usually a good time to re-examine what we've done so far, what mistakes we've made, and what improvements should come next.

I focus on very few things in life - my work, my family, my friends. Those things are important to me and I pay good attention to them, and everything else just comes and goes.

In Saudi Arabia, they always tell us we are queens. We are pistachios. You know the nut? Like something that is protected. So even if you have a very good education, restraints are put on women.

Into this, for good or ill, is woven every belief of every man who has speech of his fellows. A awful privilege, and an awful responsibility, that we should help to create the world in which posterity will live.

If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it's an outstanding landing.

Tactics are so important because everybody has to know what they have to do on the pitch. The relationships and behaviours off the pitch between team-mates have to be as good as possible.