Goodness Quotes (page 328)

• 
• 
• 

• learning
• saying
• good

Puddleglum,' they've said, 'You're altogether too full of bobance and bounce and high spirits. You've got to learn that life isn't all fricasseed frogs and ell pie. You want something to sober you down a bit. We're only saying it for your own good, Puddleglum.' That's what they say. Now a job like this --a journey up north just as winter's beginning looking for a prince that probably isn't there, by way of ruined city nobody's ever seen-- will be just the thing. If that doesn't steady a chap,... C. S. Lewis

• good
• exercise
• bad

All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise. Anne Bronte

• imagination
• meaningful
• people

I don't know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as a handing down of answers... Alice Walker

• good
• wishes
• part

Each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune. Theodore Roosevelt

• thoughts
• mindfulness
• mourning

Even the best weapon is an unhappy tool, hateful to living things. So the follower of the Way stays away from it. Weapons are unhappy tools, not chosen by thoughtful people, to be used only when there is no choice, and with a calm, still mind, without enjoyment. To enjoy using weapons is to enjoy killing people, and to enjoy killing people is to lose your share in the common good. It is right that the murder of many people be mourned and lamented. It is right that a victor in war be received... Ursula K. Le Guin

• good
• goodly
• had

Why did we do that to Pluto? We had it good with Pluto. Dave Eggers

• good
• men
• bad

Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad. Thomas Paine

• good
• gift
• essentials

The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector. Ernest Hemingway

• good
• book
• library

I can see he's not in your good books,' said the messenger.'No, and if he were I would burn my library. William Shakespeare

• words
• friends
• good

Be good to your work, your word, and your friend. Ralph Waldo Emerson

• good
• great
• greatness

When you're good at something, you'll tell everyone. When you're great at something, they'll tell you. Walter Payton

• good
• lies
• dead

They lie deadly that tell you have good faces. William Shakespeare

• strong
• new
• hard

It's hard at times, but it makes a kid strong in ways that most people can't understand. Teaches them that even though people are left behind, new ones will inevitable take their place; that every place has something good - and bad - to offer. It makes a kid grow up fast. Nicholas Sparks

• humanity
• pool
• earth

But these few are the salt of the earth; without them, human life would become a stagnant pool. Not only is it they who introduce good things which did not before exist, it is they who keep the life in those which already existed. John Stuart Mill

• change is good
• perseverance
• humanity

Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end. All is change; all yields its place and goes; to persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. The coward despairs. Euripides