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Good People Quotes (page 56)

Amy Sedaris quote: "My mother always said 'Don't bother other people.' I think..."
My mother always said 'Don't bother other people.' I think that's good advice. Amy Sedaris
Doug Coupland quote: "TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people..."
TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public. Doug Coupland
Vernor Vinge quote: "Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their..."
Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart. Vernor Vinge
You know, people don't want their intelligence insulted. They don't want to be preached to. They don't want to be degraded. All they want to do is sit, laugh, have a good time, love one another, forget about what's going on in the world, and find something out so they can be useful in this life. Do this and you have common sense. Tyler Perry
I don't feel the slightest interest in the next world; I think it's here. And I think anything good that you're going to do, you should do for other people here and not so you can try to have a happy time in the next world. Katharine Hepburn
They were all there (at the airport) - the deaf ammoomas, the cantankerous, arthritic appoopas, the pining wives, scheming uncles, children with the runs. The fiances to be reassessed. The teacher's husband still waiting for his Saudi visa. The teacher's husband's sisters waiting for their dowries. The wire-bender's pregnant wife. "Mostly sweeper class," Baby Kochamma said grimly, and looked away while a mother, no wanting to give up her good place near the railing, aimed her distracted... Arundhati Roy
For a writer to put his own intellectual musings, which he might sell for a low price as essays, into the mouths of artificially constructed characters which are more remunerative when issued as people in a novel is good economics, perhaps, but does not make literature. Ernest Hemingway
Suzanne Collins quote: "Maybe everyone is just trying to protect me by lying to me. I..."
Maybe everyone is just trying to protect me by lying to me. I don't care. I'm sick of people lying to me for my own good. Suzanne Collins
[Imagination] is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine. If he gets so he can imagine truly enough people will think that the things he relates all really happened and that he is just reporting. Ernest Hemingway
Jodi Picoult quote: "What good is the legal process if people can decide their..."
What good is the legal process if people can decide their motives are bigger than the law? Jodi Picoult
Stephen King quote: "I believe most people are essentially good. I know that I am...."
I believe most people are essentially good. I know that I am. It's you I'm not entirely sure of. Stephen King
These reflections made me very sensible of the goodness of Providence to me, and very thankful for my present condition, with all its hardships and misfortunes ; and this part also I cannot but recommend to the reflection of those who are apt, in their misery, to say, Is any affliction like mine? Let them consider how much worse the cases of some people are, and their case might have been, if Providence had thought fit. Daniel Defoe
Theodore Roosevelt quote: "90% of the work in this country is doneby people who don't..."
90% of the work in this country is doneby people who don't feel good". Theodore Roosevelt
Make as much racket as you like people. Noise is life and an excess of noise is a sign that life is good. There will be time for us all to be quiet when we are safely dead. Salman Rushdie
Without a revolution of the inner life, however slow, all our big designs are worthless. The work we have to do is with ourselves if we're ever going to be at peace with each other...the good that flows from it will shape our societies in an unprogrammed, unforeseen way, under the control of no single group of people or set of ideas. Ian Mcewan

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