"Good Things" Quotes . Top 30 Short Quotes About "Good Things"

"I've never before been so aware of the thousands of little good things, the thousands of things that go right every day."

--- A. J. Jacobs

#Good Things #Littles

"Read. As much as you can. As deeply and widely and nourishingly and irritatingly as you can. And the good things will make you remember them, so you won't need to take notes."

--- A.L. Kennedy

#Good Things #Needs #Remember

"Acceptance is supposed to be a good thing - Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change. Also compromise, as every couples therapist will tell you. But the cost was high - the damping of expectation, the dwindling of spirit, the resignation that comes to replace enthusiasm, the cynicism that supplants hope. The mouldering that goes unnoticed and unchecked."

--- A.S.A. Harrison

#Therapists #Serenity #Accepting

"The good thing about being Dr. Frankenstein is that you can always make new friends."

--- Aaron Allston

#Dr Frankenstein #Good Things #Drs

"I don't know why we play better on the road. I really don't. Chalk it up to coincidence, I guess. I don't think we care where we play, which is a good thing. But you'd like to see our home record be a little better than it is."

--- Aaron Boone

#Thinking #Care #Play

"The saving of empty beer and liquor bottles is a strange college phenomenon. I bet most of you college students reading this right now have some empties on a shelf in your room. Everyone knows how much college kids like to drink, do we really need to display it? It's a good thing, though, that this trend stops after college. Wouldn't it be weird if your parents had empty wine bottles up on their bedroom wall?"

--- Aaron Karo

#Phenomenon #Bedroom #College

"The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it's two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it's a good thing."

--- Abdallah II

#Thinking #Fifteen #Five Years

"And, inasmuch [as] most good things are produced by labour, it follows that all such things of right belong to those whose labour has produced them. But it has so happened in all ages of the world, that some have laboured, and others have, without labour, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits. This is wrong, and should not continue. To [secure] to each labourer the whole product of his labour, or as nearly as possible, is a most worthy object of any good government."

--- Abraham Lincoln

#Happened #World #Good Things

"I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself."

--- Abraham Lincoln

#Good Things #Knows #Slavery

"In the early days of the world, the Almighty said to the first of our race "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread"; and since then, if we except the light and the air of heaven, no good thing has been, or can be enjoyed by us, without having first cost labour."

--- Abraham Lincoln

#Race #Said #Bread

"So plain that no one, high or low, ever does mistake it, except in a plainly selfish way; for although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself."

--- Abraham Lincoln

#American Slavery #Way #Good Things

"It has long been recognized that the problems with alcohol relate not to the use of a bad thing, but to the abuse of a good thing."

--- Abraham Lincoln

#Abuse #Long #Bad Things

"But, slavery is good for some people! ! ! As a good thing, slavery is strikingly peculiar, in this, that it is the only good thing which no man ever seeks the good of, for himself."

--- Abraham Lincoln

#People #Good Things #Slavery

"None seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing but from the abuse of a very good thing"

--- Abraham Lincoln

#Thinking #Abuse #Injury

"Jihad should be waged in places where there is war. Bombings in places where there is no war is not a good thing."

--- Abu Bakar Bashir

#Bombing #War #Good Things

"I just want to be in good things that I want to see, and I want to work with talented people who are smarter than myself."

--- Adam Brody

#People #Good Things #Want

"When handsome men or beautiful women take up the work of the intellect, it impresses us because we know they could have chosen other paths to being impressive; that they chose the path of the mind suggests that there is on it something more worthwhile than a circuitous route to the good things that the good-looking get just by showing up."

--- Adam Gopnik

#Impressive #Beautiful #Impress

"In America our public schools are intended to be religiously neutral. Our teachers and schools are neither to endorse nor to inhibit religion. I believe this is a very good thing."

--- Adam Hamilton

#Teacher #Good Things #I Believe

"Any show that's bringing in a young audience is doing a good thing, because that's the only way that theater will continue to grow. All the other audience members are going to be dead soon!"

--- Adam Pascal

#Theater #Way #Good Things

"I learned a new language for it all in the 90s. Which in some ways isn't bad... I mean getting people to think about what language actually means before they use it is a good thing. But it's become very clear the past nine years that some Americans truly resent thinking before they speak."

--- Adrian Matejka

#People #Thinking #Mean

"The good things that happen to us were meant to happen, and the bad things that happen are lessons meant to teach us to be better."

--- Adriana Trigiani

#Bad Things #Good Things #Meant To Happen

"I have definitely been in experiences where my girlfriends have outgrown me and that's ok and I think that I should be inspired by that to know that it's time to move on - it's time to evolve as well and I think that should be inspirational to other people. They shouldn't feel stifled and feel like oh we can't grow up, we can't move on - change is a good thing."

--- Adrienne Bailon

#People #Thinking #Feels

"Good things come in small packages."

--- Aesop

#Packages #Good Things #Nsa

"It is possible to have too much of a good thing."

--- Aesop

#Too Much #Good Things #Too Much Of A Good Thing

"You wake in the morning and proclaim yourself to be the bearer of goodness. "I will bring good. I will attract good. I will create good. Good things happen to me, and my life is good." You start to move into the track of goodness, and that becomes a place of abundance, a place of rest, a place of relaxation, and a place of trust."

--- Agapi Stassinopoulos

#Things Happen #Goodness #Life Is Good

"One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of."

--- Agnes de Mille

#People #Thinking #I Can

"On the last album, I didn't want to disturb the melody with too many stories. This time, I wanted to know if I was able to create images with words, with the sound of words.(...) I think that’s a good thing when the one who is listening, is feeling it in a different way that the one who creates. We are all listening with different perspectives.(...) I don’t want to impose my subjectivity to the listener."

--- Agnes Obel

#Thinking #Lasts #Different Perspective

"The good thing is I picked a profession that I'm passionate about."

--- Ainsley Earhardt

#Passionate #Good Things #Profession

"Ernest Hemingway has been the most important influence on me as a writer. But at a certain point as a writer, I realized that he was writing about good people doing good things. This did not match my experience of life and so I found my sentences stretching and becoming less plain."

--- Akhil Sharma

#People #Writing #Good Things

"Comedy to the Senate? Well, there certainly hasn't been a satirist or a political satirist who's done that. So, that really was uncharted territory during the campaign. But I think it's a good thing. Some people thought that it was an odd career arc, but to me it made absolute sense."

--- Al Franken

#People #Thinking #Made

30 "Good Things" Quotes