If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.
Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.
On a day when you're tired, it's important to just say good morning to everyone so they're kind of aware that it's gonna be a good day. Jamie Lee Curtis told me that.
Every test, every trial, every heartache that's been significant, I can turn it over and see how God has turned it into good no matter what.
I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
There are things they tell us that sound good to hear, but when they have accomplished their purpose they will go home and will not try to fulfill our agreements with them.
Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
A good basic selling idea, involvement and relevancy, of course, are as important as ever, but in the advertising din of today, unless you make yourself noticed and believed, you ain't got nothin'.
Being a good teammate is when you try to sprint down a ball that everyone thinks is going out of bounds. But you go after it anyways and you get it.
It's good for everyone to understand that they are to love their enemies, simply because your enemies show you things about yourself you need to change. So in actuality enemies are friends in reverse.
If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.
I did the best I could, and in some arenas, my best was not good enough. I've made some bad choices.
For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
I believe that love and laughter can only happen when one person takes the time to think about what would cause the other person to feel good.
Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny.
I was walking along and this chair came flying past me, and another, and another, and I thought, man, is this gonna be a good night.
Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.
Your manuscript is both good and original but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.
I swear by that old expression, 'One monkey don't stop no show!' The reality is, we still have some good men out there, and we should hail those men as the kings they are.
A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.
Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
The idea of redemption is always good news, even if it means sacrifice or some difficult times.
It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.
Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception.
No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.
Sometimes I'm so tired, I look down at what I'm wearing, and if it's comfortable enough to sleep in, I don't even make it into my pajamas. I'm looking down, and I'm like, 'T-shirt and stretchy pants? Yup, that's fine. It's pajama-y, good night.'
A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I'll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I'm crepuscular.
I enjoy life when things are happening. I don't care if it's good things or bad things. That means you're alive.
It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
I'm not happy all the time, and I wouldn't want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.