Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. ~By Thomas Carlyle ~
Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses. ~By Cesare Lombroso ~
To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness. ~By Timothy Radcliffe ~
Right now, I have to admit, that I'm more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness. ~By Aaron Eckhart ~
Very few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness. ~By Chelsea Quinn Yarbro ~
Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil. ~By Robert Anton Wilson ~
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue. ~By John Dryden ~
Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art. ~By Charles Baudelaire ~
I still believe in the nonviolent Jesus and the basic human goodness present in all of us. ~By Martin Sheen ~
The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher inspiration... Following Paul, we have turned the goodness of love into a fiend and degraded the crowning impulse of our being into a capital sin. ~By Frank Harris ~
I know there is a Supreme Being who rules the affairs of men and whose goodness and mercy have always followed the American people, and I know He will not turn from us now if we humbly and reverently seek His powerful aid. ~By Grover Cleveland ~
Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends. ~By Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force. ~By Gustave Flaubert ~
The gentleman had also a young daughter, of rare goodness and sweetness of temper, which she took from her mother, who was the best creature in the world. ~By Charles Perrault ~
Being part of the natural world reminds me that innocence isn't ever lost completely; we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it. ~By Jewel ~
If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness. ~By Nelson Mandela ~
From this it follows that con-sideration for other persons or for other living beings is very vital for goodness and want of consideration for other people makes human beings selfish, regardless for other people's good. ~By Morarji Desai ~
Schultz is not a Nazi. I see Schultz as the representative of some kind of goodness in any generation. ~By John Banner ~
For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too. ~By Desmond Tutu ~
Well, all I can say is thank goodness I had 15 years of theater before ever I did film roles. You build technique that you can rely on. ~By Chris Cooper ~
Serve the dinner backward, do anything - but for goodness sake, do something weird. ~By Elsa Maxwell ~
In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised. ~By Edward Bond ~
God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue. ~By William Law ~
The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours. ~By Lao Tzu ~
Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing. ~By Francis Bacon ~
The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego. ~By Northrop Frye ~
Our surest protection against assault from abroad has been not all our guards, gates and guns, or even our two oceans, but our essential goodness as a people. Our richest asset has been not our material wealth but our values. ~By Theodore C. Sorensen ~
Plato stands for the union of truth and goodness in the supreme idea of God. ~By James M. Baldwin ~
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand. ~By Bertolt Brecht ~
It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. ~By Benjamin Franklin ~
I think the most that I've learned has been, how do I put this? The innate goodness inside of all of us. ~By Brian Behlendorf ~
I hope to goodness I would not still be working in the corporate world - the money is OK but it is no life at all. ~By Nigel Dennis ~
In order to set forth the goodness of God towards myself, I have thought it prudent to record some of the leading incidents of my life, as a means of setting forth to my children that He is a rewarder of them who diligently seek Him. ~By William Rowley ~
Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice. ~By Abu Bakr ~
Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness. ~By Alphonsus Liguori ~
Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good. ~By Walter Savage Landor ~
My goodness, everyone is planting grapes, even a neighbor with only five acres. ~By Doc Severinsen ~
Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist. ~By Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
Mornin' ladies, my goodness don't you look happy. Must be cuttin' somebody up pretty good. ~By Andy Griffith ~
I have often felt a motion of love to leave some hints in writing of my experience of the goodness of God, and now, in the thirty-sixth year of my age, I begin this work. ~By John Woolman ~
How beautiful it is to excel, and the goodness of giving from your heart. ~By Robert Mondavi ~
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them. ~By Mark Twain ~
It sure looks good to see an honest-to-goodness audience after looking at you all for so long from the silver screen. ~By Hattie McDaniel ~
I'm fighting a losing battle here: I'm trying to lose some weight. I love chocolate; that's one of my biggest downfalls. I haven't gotten a whole lot of chocolate, thank goodness, because I'd probably be about 300 pounds. ~By Carrie Underwood ~
Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty. ~By Louisa May Alcott ~
You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty. ~By Louisa May Alcott ~
Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart. ~By William Dean Howells ~
There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is. ~By Herman Melville ~
Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness. ~By Athenaeus ~
Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick. ~By Lin Yutang ~
Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom. ~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists. ~By Josephine Hart ~
More and more people are able to access information - thank goodness we have the Internet and if you are interested you can find things. Which is different than even 20 years ago. ~By Edwidge Danticat ~
Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental. ~By Samuel Butler ~
We have to put in our time every day to try and achieve and learn so that we can develop our talents and each of you, thank goodness, have special talents; each of you are special persons. ~By Bruce Vento ~
Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality. ~By Beatrix Potter ~
In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness. ~By Ivan Turgenev ~
How goodness heightens beauty! ~By Milan Kundera ~
Goodness is beauty in the best estate. ~By Christopher Marlowe ~
Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings. ~By Barbara Grizzuti Harrison ~
True, He is infinite Majesty, but He is also infinite Goodness and infinite Love. There can be no greater Lord than God; neither can there be a more ardent lover than He. ~By Alphonsus Liguori ~
Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable. ~By E. M. Forster ~
Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none. ~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Goodness is something that makes us serene and content; it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil. ~By Bhumibol Adulyadej ~
Well, our concern has to do with the period prior to 9/11, up to and including the catastrophe that occurred. And thank goodness, we're not obliged to make assessments of what's going on now and deal with these current events. ~By Richard Ben Veniste ~
To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness. ~By Ali ibn Abi Talib ~
The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction. ~By Chanakya ~
For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts. ~By Thomas Mann ~
Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance. ~By Hans Urs von Balthasar ~
Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire. ~By Charles Dudley Warner ~
Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness. ~By Billy Graham ~
There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings. ~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
He has a number of curious facts in illustration of the power of mere goodness to protect against outrage. ~By George Combe ~
I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me - spiritually and financially. ~By Denzel Washington ~
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed. ~By Reinhold Niebuhr ~
Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity? ~By Cesar Chavez ~
The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world. ~By Morris Dees ~
Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature. ~By Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ~
I have good looking kids. Thank goodness my wife cheats on me. ~By Rodney Dangerfield ~
There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report. ~By Richard Le Gallienne ~
Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness make goodness much more serviceable. ~By Matthew Henry ~
You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion. ~By Meister Eckhart ~
After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power, and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork. ~By James Prescott Joule ~
Oh my goodness gracious, what you can buy off the Internet in terms of overhead photography. A trained ape can know an awful lot of what is going on in this world, just by punching on his mouse, for a relatively modest cost. ~By Donald Rumsfeld ~
Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength. ~By Meir Kahane ~
Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love. ~By Saul Bellow ~
I would never describe Charlotte as a prude - maybe at the start, but that was in comparison to the other girls. She wasn't willing to do the stuff they were doing - and I mean, thank goodness! ~By Kristin Davis ~
A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast. ~By Dennis Potter ~
An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it. ~By Maurice Maeterlinck ~
May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition! ~By Daniel Boone ~
People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult. ~By Anne Rice ~
How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon? ~By Dr. Seuss ~
I'd get 3-4 cheap home runs every year. You know, little 'wood shots' down either line. They would be pop flies in any other park. But, goodness me, they didn't count the number of long outs! ~By Bobby Thomson ~
Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty. ~By Anne Rice ~
A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other persons will also be good. ~By Bhumibol Adulyadej ~
Its goodness is a decision for the mouth to make. ~By Lu Yu ~
No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness. ~By Alan Alda ~
When there is life and mankind, a person will live striving for good deeds, liberty and a bright life, and wish that goodness and justice will reign in the world. ~By Islom Karimov ~
It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost. ~By Stephen King ~
It's sort of a feeling of power onstage. It's really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have some effect later on. I don't really think it's power... it's the goodness. ~By Robert Plant ~
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