Good Quotes

• I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Insecurity

• Partly, I like a bad reputation. But I also want a reputation of being a good person.

  

  Joan Jett
  • Good
  • Bad

• Men always like to please women. Women like to please men, too - some women. Some are very good at it.

  

  Kenneth Jay Lane
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• Oddly enough, I'm not religious but I'm also very fond of St Peter's in Rome. When I'm there, I always know there's a good meal not far away.

  

  Jonathan Pryce
  • Good
  • Religious

• Many of us came away from our youth thinking that the story of the Revolution was that the Americans were patriots fighting the oppressive British. It was kind of good versus evil, liberty versus tyranny. When you get into it, you find that it was much more complicated.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Thinking
  • Evil
  • Fighting

• And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worth while, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction: 'I served in the United States Navy.'

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • Life
  • May
  • Pride

• Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Men
  • Gold
  • Brave

• I think there's a good kid underneath everybody. I really do.

  

  Maury Povich
  • Good

• I am a huge, huge fan of the plain white tee. A good-fitting, vintage plain white t-shirt, like the 'boyfriend shirt', is the sexiest thing a girl can wear. It goes with anything, fancy or casual.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Girl
  • Fan
  • Boyfriend

• Even though the album is an endangered species, can we try and make a coherent and good one, even if it's like making a horse and cart at a Nascar conference?

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Horse
  • Album
  • Species

• Good Lord, I went in for a check up the other day and the doctor said 'You need to lay off eggs.' I go 'Is my cholesterol bad?' He said 'No, your farts are killing everybody in this room.'

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Up
  • Good
  • Bad

• Because I'm a designer, I'm quite good when I shop. I know what I'm looking for.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Good
  • Know
  • Looking

• War has given applied psychology a tremendous impulse. This will, on the whole, do good, for psychology, which is the largest and last of the sciences, must not try to be too pure.

  

  G. Stanley Hall
  • Good
  • War
  • Psychology

• I had a great AP U.S. History teacher in Pittsburgh. We still exchange Christmas cards. She was the first teacher who said I was a good writer - and I'd never heard that before. And so I remember that, and I remember that level of loving the material and really loving writing about it.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Great
  • Writing
  • She

• But I want to do good work, after this series.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Good
  • Work
  • Good Work

• Barack Obama is not a man of The Gut, and it is driving official Washington crazy. This is a good thing, because resisting The Gut is what the Constitution is all about, especially in its war powers, which this president is conspicuously contemplative about exercising, at least in every context except launching drones.

  

  Charlie Pierce
  • War
  • Crazy
  • Driving

• I've started doing yoga and meditation, but I'm not very good at that kind of thing and turning my brain off.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Brain
  • Yoga
  • Meditation

• The industrial thing came about mainly through giving up trying to write pop songs in the early '90s. I don't think I was ever very good at pop music and as soon as I stopped trying, and started to write more the things I loved, it became much heavier and more aggressive.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Up
  • Music
  • Trying

• All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities.

  

  James F. Cooper
  • Good
  • Political

• Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Good
  • Learning
  • Brain

• I hear my own daughters talking about big companies polluting the environment, and then I realise they are talking about companies of which one I am running. But when I tell them to read the things we are doing, then they realise we are doing good things. But millennials are really a great lot.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Great
  • Running
  • Environment

• There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • May
  • Saying
  • Be Prepared

• Good health is true wealth.

  

  Urijah Christopher Faber
  • Good
  • True
  • Health

• Most of the stuff that people look at on Quora today was not written in the last month. You write something really good, and maybe it's the definitive answer on the Internet for the next 10 years. Maybe it's only a year, but not like a tweet, where it's only relevant for a day or a week.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • People
  • Today
  • Day

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