Quotes with semi-good

Quotes 901 till 920 of 2785.

  • Alexander the Great How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.
    Alexander the Great
    Macedonian king (352 - 323)
    - +
     0
  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feels is unjust chill the ardor to excel.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
    - +
     0
  • Alice James How sick one gets of being ''good,'' how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness.
    Alice James
    American diarist (1848 - 1892)
    - +
     0
  • Anne Frank How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
    Anne Frank
    Jewish refugee and writer (1929 - 1945)
    - +
     0
  • Buddha However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
    - +
     0
  • Dhammapada However many holy words you read, however many you speak, What good will they do you if you do not act upon them?
    Dhammapada
    collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form
    - +
     0
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
    - +
     0
  • Belinda Carlisle However, if you listen to me I think you can hear years of abuse in my voice - both bad abuse and good abuse.
    Belinda Carlisle
    American singer, musician, and author (1958 - )
    - +
     0
  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children.
    - +
     0
  • Benjamin Franklin Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
    - +
     0
  • Arthur Peacocke Humanity could only have survived and flourished if it held social and personal values that transcended the urges of the individual, embodying selfish desires - and these stem from the sense of a transcendent good.
    Arthur Peacocke
    English Anglican theologian and biochemist (1924 - 2006)
    - +
     0
  • Carl Sagan Humans are good, she knew, at discerning subtle patterns that are really there, but equally so at imagining them when they are altogether absent.
    Contact (1985) Ch. 3
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
    - +
     0
  • Carl Sagan Humans are very good at dreaming, although you'd never know it from your television.
    Contact (1985) Ch. 20 (p. 359)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
    - +
     0
  • Fran Lebowitz Humility is no substitute for a good personality.
    Fran Lebowitz
    American journalist (1950 - )
    - +
     0
  • James Thurber Humor does not include sarcasm, invalid irony, sardonicism, innuendo, or any other form of cruelty. When these things are raised to a high point they can become wit, but unlike the French and the English, we have not been much good at wit since the days of Benjamin Franklin.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
    - +
     0
  • Ludwig Wittgenstein Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
    - +
     0
  • Marilyn Monroe Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.
    Marilyn Monroe
    American actress (1926 - 1962)
    - +
     0
  • Henry Louis Mencken Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
    - +
     0
  • Umberto Eco I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer is not aware of.
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
    - +
     0
  • Austan Goolsbee I am a data hound and so I usually end up working on whatever things I can find good data on. The rise of Internet commerce completely altered the amount of information you could gather on company behavior so I naturally drifted toward it.
    Austan Goolsbee
    American economist (1969 - )
    - +
     0
All semi-good famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 46)