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Goodness Quotes (page 408)

Thomas Carlyle quote: "A good book is the purest essence of a human soul."
A good book is the purest essence of a human soul. Thomas Carlyle
The guys in the saloons shoving free ones across the bar and saying happy new year and many more of them kid you been a good customer have one on the house happy new year and the hell with the prohibitionists some day the bastards are going to give us trouble. The girls from the hash houses and the girls from the hotels and the guys swarming out of dirty little apartment bedrooms and music and dancing and smoke and somebody with the ukulele and have another and the feeling of being lonesome... Dalton Trumbo
Up to a point a person’s life is shaped by environment, heredity, and changes in the world about them. Then there comes a time when it lies within their grasp to shape the clay of their life into the sort of thing they wish it to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune or the quirks of fate. Everyone has the power to say, "This I am today. That I shall be tomorrow. Louis L'Amour
Needless to say, the fact that he actually spoke to me at all practically caused me to pass out. And then the fact that he was actually saying something that sounded like it might be a prelude to asking me out - well, I nearly threw up. I mean it. I felt really sick, but in a good way. Meg Cabot
Alyssa Milano quote: "For me, there is no hope without faith. Faith is a higher..."
For me, there is no hope without faith. Faith is a higher good. Faith in our divinity. Alyssa Milano
C. S. Lewis quote: "Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good."
Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good. C. S. Lewis
When I have neither pleasure nor pain and have been breathing for a while the lukewarm insipid air of these so-called good and tolerable days, I feel so bad in my childish soul that I smash my rusty lyre of thanksgiving in the face of the slumbering god of contentment and would rather feel the most devilish pain burn in me than this warmth of a well-heated room. - Harry Haller Herman Hesse
A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; abase, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; alily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be abawd, in way of good service, and art nothing butthe composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch: one whom Iwill beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniestthe least... William Shakespeare
There's a good part of Computer Science that's like magic. Unfortunately there's a bad part of Computer Science that's like religion. Hal Abelson
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "If what Jesus said was good, what can it matter whether he was..."
If what Jesus said was good, what can it matter whether he was God or not? Kurt Vonnegut
For in the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little. The story of their coming to be shapen after the average and fit to be packed by the gross, is hardly ever told even in their consciousness; for perhaps their ardour in generous unpaid toil cooled as imperceptibly as the ardour of other... George Eliot
Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called. A. A. Milne
Charles Bukowski quote: "Food is good for the nerves and the spirit. Courage comes..."
Food is good for the nerves and the spirit. Courage comes from the belly? all else is desperation. Charles Bukowski
They sat on a bench and Sproule held his wounded arm to his chest and rocked back and forth and blinked in the sun. What do you want to do? said the kid. Get a drink of water. Other than that. I dont know. You want to try and head back? To Texas? I don't know where else. We'd never make it. Well you say. I aint got no say. He was coughing again. He held his chest with his good hand and sat as if he'd get his breath. What have you got, a cold? I got consumption. Consumption? He nodded. I... Cormac McCarthy
Sydney Smith quote: "we know nothing of tomorrow, our business is to be good and..."
we know nothing of tomorrow, our business is to be good and happy today Sydney Smith

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