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Goodness Quotes (page 466)

He's dead: Internal bleeding. When they opened him up they found a toothbrush shiv lodged in the anal cavity. It was never determinded whether he'd put it up there for safe keeping himself or somebody else did it for him, but it was a good lesson for the rest of the inmates. They even put up a sign. "Never put sharp objects up your ass. Michael Connelly
Does a soldier go to war in order to kill the enemy? no, he goes in order to die for his country. Does a wife want to show her husband how happy she is? no, she wants him to see how she suffers in order to make him happy. Does the husband go to work thinking he will find personal fulfillment there? no, he is giving his sweat and tears for the good of the family. And so it goes on: sons give up their dreams to please their parents, parents give up their lives in order to please their children;... Paulo Coelho
Will holding a secret in your heart make it any less true? If you never tell, never speak of it, will it become only a dream, less than a dream, a nightmare half-remembered? Oh, if only the gods would be so good. (Catelyn) George R. R. Martin
Harriet Beecher Stowe quote: "The power of fictitious writing, for good as well as for evil,..."
The power of fictitious writing, for good as well as for evil, is a thing which ought most seriously to be reflected upon. Harriet Beecher Stowe
Charles Bukowski quote: "young or old, good or bad, I don't think anything dies as slow..."
young or old, good or bad, I don't think anything dies as slow and as hard as a writer. Charles Bukowski
C. S. Lewis quote: "You've no idea how good an old joke sounds when you take it..."
You've no idea how good an old joke sounds when you take it out again after a rest of five or six hundred years. C. S. Lewis
the sweet heavy smell grew very much less. For though the whole fire had not been put out, a good bit of it had, and what remained smelled very largely of burnt Marsh-wiggle, which is not at all an enchanting smell. C. S. Lewis
Suddenly, I don't want to be this person anymore. I don't want to pretend I'm fooling the world when I'm not. I want someone else to have a plan for me, because I'm not doing a very good job myself. Jodi Picoult
A number of religions in Ankh-Morpork still practiced human sacrifice, except that they didn't really need to practice any more because they had got so good at it. Terry Prachett
His chief failing was a habit of cracking heavy pedantic jokes; he was unable to let a good idea drop, and remarked several times during the course of the film that the heroine looked like she ought to be playing the horse. The comment had some truth in it, in that the heroine did have an equine cast of feature, but he made it too often, and with too little variation; however, she was willing to forgive him, in view of his evident tolerance of her social errors, such as an inability to say... Margaret Drabble
A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well--or ill? John Steinbeck
Taylor Swift quote: "I'm on my guard with the rest of world but with you I know..."
I'm on my guard with the rest of world but with you I know it's no good. Taylor Swift
You must not let fatigue set in," she warns. "That is what my mother said. Let your body work until it is spent, but keep your mind for yourself."Good advice."To tell the truth, I do not know this thing called 'mind', what it does or how to use it. It is only a word I have heard."The mind is nothing you use," I say. "The mind is just there. It is like the wind. You simply feel its movements. Haruki Murakami
Tove Jansson quote: "It was a particularly good evening to begin a book."
It was a particularly good evening to begin a book. Tove Jansson
Henry Fielding quote: "Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done..."
Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil. Henry Fielding

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