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Goodness Quotes (page 491)

E. M. Forster quote: "I am swathed in cant', she thought, 'and it is good for me to..."
I am swathed in cant', she thought, 'and it is good for me to be stripped of it. E. M. Forster
Joseph Stalin quote: "music's a good thing, it calm the beast in the man."
music's a good thing, it calm the beast in the man. Joseph Stalin
Do the things external which fall upon thee distract thee? Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around. Marcus Aurelius
Anne Frank quote: "I believe that even bad people are truly good at heart."
I believe that even bad people are truly good at heart. Anne Frank
He wondered why the pelican was the symbol of charity, except it was that it wanted a good deal of charity to admire a pelican. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Also, we will make promise. So long as The Blood endures, I shall know that your good is mine: ye shall feel that my strength is yours: In the day of Armageddon, at the last great fight of all, That Our House stand together and the pillars do not fall. Rudyard Kipling
[Six principles that make for a good story:] 1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of a political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. truthful descriptions of persons and objects; 4. extreme brevity; 5. audacity and originality: flee the stereotype; 6. compassion. Anton Chekhov
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley quote: "Friend, good!"
Friend, good! Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Even as the Sun doth not wait for prayers and incantations torise, but shines forth and is welcomed by all: so thou also waitnot for clapping of hands and shouts and praise to do thy duty; nay, do good of thine own accord, and thou wilt be loved like the. Sun. Epictetus
Naguib Mahfouz quote: "In the calculus of good deeds you have the most to gain."
In the calculus of good deeds you have the most to gain. Naguib Mahfouz
if a sheep eats bushes does it eat flowers too? a sheep eats whatever it finds even a flower with thorn? even a flower with thorns. then what's the good of thorns? Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach quote: "Much less evil would be done on earth if evil could not be..."
Much less evil would be done on earth if evil could not be done in the name of good. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Richard wrote a mental diary in his head. Dear Diary, he began. On Friday I had a job, a fiance, a home, and a life that made sense. (Well, as much as an life makes sense). Then I found an injured girl bleeding on the pavement and I tried to be Good Samaritan. Now I've got no fiance, no home, no job, and I'm walking around a couple of hundred feet under the streets of London with the projected life expectancy of a suicidal fruit fly. Neil Gaiman
...for twenty years or more, nothing but loving words, and gentle moralities, and motherly loving kindness, had come from that chair;--headaches and heartaches innumerable had been cured there,--difficulties spritual and temporal solved there,--all by one good, loving woman, God bless her! Harriet Beecher Stowe
...it will always remain my private persuasion that Nature was absorbed in making cabbages when Mrs. Vesey was born, and that the good lady suffered the consequences of a vegetable preoccupation in the mind of the Mother of us all. Wilkie Collins

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