Quotes with semi-good

Quotes 1641 till 1660 of 2785.

• No one had written a good long life of Schubert. He had lived long in music and short in life.

  ― Bernard Malamud
  American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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• No one is born a good citizen or a good democrat or a good leader; it takes time and education.

  ― Kofi Annan
  Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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• No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

  ― John Mason Brown
  American drama critic and author (1900 - 1969)
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• No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he only had good intentions. He had money as well.

  ― Margaret Thatcher
  British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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• No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.

  ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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• No people do so much harm as those who go about doing good.

  ― M. Creighton
   
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• No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty.

  ― James A. Froude
  British Historian (1818 - 1894)
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• No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.

  ― Annie Besant
  British socialist, activist and writer (1847 - 1933)
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• No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.

  ― André Gide
  French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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• Nobody does good to men with impunity.

  ― Auguste Rodin
  French sculptor (1840 - 1917)
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• None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.

  ― John Milton
  English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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• Nonsense is good only because common sense is so limited.

  ― George Santayana
  Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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• Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

  ― Plutarch
  Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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• Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

  ― Socrates
  Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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• Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.

  ― Titus Livy
  Roman historian (59 - 17)
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• Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.

  ― Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
  German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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• Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.

  ― George M. Adams
  American newspaper columnist (1878 - 1962)
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• Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts.

  ― Roger Staubach
   
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• Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism!

  Source: American Pastoral (1997)

  ― Philip Roth
  American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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• Nothing has ever moulded our conscience so strongly as our knowledge of what is good and what is evil.

  ― Bjornstjerne Bjornson
  Norwegian writer (1832 - 1910)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• encouragement
• opportunity
• philosophy
• encouraged
• temptation
• conscience

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