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Goodness Quotes (page 475)

William Shakespeare quote: "I am in this earthly world, where to do harm is often..."
I am in this earthly world, where to do harm is often laudable, to do good sometime accounted dangerous folly. William Shakespeare
She was stronger alone; and her own good sense so well supported her, that her firmness was as unshaken, her appearance of cheerfulness as invariable, as, with regrets so poignant and so fresh, it was possible for them to be. Jane Austen
I found out I was in love with you, winter before last," she said. "I wasn't going to say anything about it because - well, you know. If you'd felt anything like that for me, you'd have known I did. But it wasn't both of us. So there was no good in it. But then, when you told us you're leaving ... At first I thought, all the more reason to say nothing. But then I thought, that wouldn't be fair. To me, partly. Love has a right to be spoken. And you have a right to know that somebody... Ursula K. Le Guin
It is a strange fact, but incontestable, that the philanthropist, who ardent in his desire to do good, who patient, reasonable and gentle, yet disdains to use other argument than truth, has less influence over men's minds than he who, grasping and selfish, refuses not to adopt any means, nor awaken any passion, nor diffuse any falsehood, for the advancement of his cause. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Now what good would that have done? They wouldn't know they'd asked a dumb question, but I didn't want to insult them, either. So when they'd ask if I'd read all those books, I'd say, 'Hell, no. Who wants a library full of books you've already read? Harlan Ellison
I don't know why they are all so eager to be remembered. What good will it do them? There are some things that should be forgotten by everyone, and never spoken of again. Margaret Atwood
[from "On Keeping a Notebook"]: It is a good idea to keep in touch, and I suppose that keeping in touch is what notebooks are all about…I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not…Remember what it was to be me: that is always the point. Joan Didion
None was more indifferent to convention than herself, and the marriage tie especially excited her ridicule, but she despised entirely those who disregarded the by-laws of society, yet lacked courage to suffer the results of their boldness: to seek the good opinion of the world, and yet secretly to act counter to its idea of decorum, was a very contemptible hypocrisy. W. Somerset Maugham
Perdition awaits at the end of a road constructed entirely from good intentions, the devil emerges from the details and hell abides in the small print. Iain Banks
James Joyce quote: "Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead."
Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead. James Joyce
Fred Rogers quote: "Feeling good about ourselves is essential in our being able to..."
Feeling good about ourselves is essential in our being able to love others. Fred Rogers
Benjamin Franklin quote: "I will speak ill of no man and speak all the good I know of..."
I will speak ill of no man and speak all the good I know of everybody. Benjamin Franklin
It was as though the whole world was thrown back six or seven hundred years without having the organizations those ancient peoples had." He paused, breathing heavily. "Of course, there were many survivors who understood small skills. Some of them would repair small engines, but they couldn't manufacture them. They couldn't refine fuels. Fortunately a good many doctors who had practiced in small towns and in the country survived. They had their medical books, but they could no longer get the... Hugh MacLennan
Charles Williams quote: "[...] the war between good and evil existed no longer, for the..."
[...] the war between good and evil existed no longer, for the thing beneath the Graal was not fighting but vomiting. Charles Williams
Ozzy Osbourne quote: "I’m no good with business, me. I’m the last person to ask when..."
I’m no good with business, me. I’m the last person to ask when it comes to contracts and dough and all that. Ozzy Osbourne

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