Lynn Good Quotes
I am honored to be named chairman of Duke Energy's board and privileged to lead our company forward for our customers, employees, and shareholders.

Quotes to Explore
-
It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education. When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you're producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?
-
For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will rise and we'll have more storms - it's how this intersects with that cocktail of inequality and racism.
-
The hardest thing in the world to do is to have someone in a seat in a theater laughing so hard that they're making weird sounds.
-
For the traditional fantasies, a lot more of my research comes from reading rather than doing. I like my worlds to feel real, so I do a lot of world building research.
-
Getting four people awake, fed, dressed, and out the door on time is a challenge. Add to that making a school lunch, and you can tilt over the edge. Unless you are well prepared and have a simple method to follow.
-
In life go straight and turn right.
-
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
-
I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
-
Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.
-
I'm learning Spanish - I got Rosetta Stone for Christmas.
-
The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
-
A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
-
The IRS targeting certain groups for harassment because of their politics would be unfair. If we found out the NSA was keeping special tabs on everyone who worshiped at a mosque or took a Bible trip through the Middle East, you'd have an uprising.
-
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
-
We condemn any kind of abuse of Muslim women or women anywhere in the world.
-
A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.
-
Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
-
Mediaeval mythology, rich and gorgeous, is a compound like Corinthian brass, into which many pure ores have been fused, or it is a full turbid river drawn from numerous feeders, which had their sources in remote climes.
-
It's like all the signs were telling me that I shouldn't be a boxer, so I quit.
-
Then a sentimental passion of a vegetable fashion must excite your
-
On the page was exactly what I had written, but it was clearer, more immediate. The erasures, the transpositions, the small additions, and, in some way, her handwriting itself gave me the impression that I had escaped from myself and now was running a hundred paces ahead with an energy and also a harmony that the person left behind didn't know she had.
-
As the body dieth when the soul departeth, so the soul of man dieth, when it hath not the knowledge of God.
-
He who loves his enemies betrays his friends; this surely is not what Jesus meant.
-
I am honored to be named chairman of Duke Energy's board and privileged to lead our company forward for our customers, employees, and shareholders.