Quotes with good-natured

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  • Joyce Cary For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.
    Joyce Cary
    Irish novelist (1888 - 1957)
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  • Richard Brinsley Sheridan For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!
    Richard Brinsley Sheridan
    Anglo-Irish dramatist (1751 - 1816)
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  • Boman Irani For me, a director is a director immaterial of the gender. At the end of the day, the audience is only interested in watching a good film.
    Boman Irani
    Indian actor (1959 - )
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  • Bob Harper For me, working out is a form of therapy. It's cathartic for me; it's a good stress reliever. I know that when I go to the gym I am taking care of myself, and I know I'll feel so much better afterwards.
    Bob Harper
    American personal trainer, reality television personality, and author (1965 - )
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  • James Boswell For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.
    James Boswell
    Scottish biographer and diarist (1740 - 1795)
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  • Brad Henry For only by nurturing the minds and strengthening the values of our children can we give them an opportunity to be full, productive citizens, to reach their God-given potential, and to have good jobs right here in Oklahoma.
    Brad Henry
    American lawyer and politician (1963 - )
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  • John Dryden For present joys are more to flesh and blood than a dull prospect of a distant good.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • John Florio For proverbs are the pith, the proprieties, the proofs, the purities, the elegancies, as the commonest so the commendablest phrases of a language. To use them is a grace, to understand them a good.
    John Florio
    Italian-English linguist and translator (also called Giovanni Florio) (1553 - 1625)
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  • Bob Schieffer For sure, the American people have access to more information now than any other people who have ever lived on earth. And I think we do a pretty good job of sorting out what's important.
    Bob Schieffer
    American television journalist (1937 - )
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  • Bria Skonberg Fortunately, I have always played a lot of sports, so I keep my lungs in good shape. That translates to singing as well.
    Bria Skonberg
    Canadian jazz trumpeter and vocalist (1983 - )
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  • Mark Twain Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • George Orwell Four legs good, two legs bad.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Mikhail Bakunin Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.
    Mikhail Bakunin
    Russian politicial theorist (1814 - 1876)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Beilby Porteus Friend to the wretch whom every friend forsakes, I woo thee, Death! Life and its joys I leave to those that prize them. Hear me, 0 gracious God! At Thy good time let Death approach; I reck not, let him but come in genuine form, not with Thy vengeance armed, too much for man to bear.
    Beilby Porteus
    English Bishop and reformer (1731 - 1809)
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  • Eustace Budgell Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
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  • Baltasar Gracian Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. Tis the sole remedy against misfortune, the very ventilation of the soul.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Ben Horowitz From a systematic standpoint, I think that capitalism is the best system. I can spend a lot of time explaining why I like communism, but it is actually not a good solution. Nor is socialism. So, capitalism is the right model.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Sophie Tucker From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55 on she needs cash.
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  • James Thurber From now on, I think it is safe to predict, neither the Democratic nor the Republican Party will ever nominate for President a candidate without good looks, stage presence, theatrical delivery, and a sense of timing.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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