T Quotes
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“The good of our present state is merely comparative, and the evil which every man feels will be sufficient to disturb and harass him if he does not know how much he escapes.”
Source: The Rambler
“The good of our soul is more important than that of our body; and we have to prefer the spiritual welfare of our neighbor to our bodily comforts. . . If a certain kind of dress constitutes a grave and proximate occasion of sin, and endangers the salvation of your soul and others, it is your duty to give it up.”
“The good of political life is the good of free and equal citizens recognizing the duty of civility to one another and supporting the institutions of a constitutional regime.”
Source: Collected Papers
“The good of the family cannot be achieved without consideration of an individual's important interests. If those interests are urgent and weighty, they must become important interests of the family and can sometimes have priority in case of conflict. Sometimes, members must split their differences in compromise. Over time, yielding to others at some times must be balanced against getting priority for one's interests at other times.”
“The good of the governed is the end, and rewards and punishments are the means, of all government. The government of the supreme and all-perfect Mind, over all his intellectual creation, is by proportioning rewards to piety and virtue, and punishments to disobedience and vice. ... The joys of heaven are prepared, and the horrors of hell in a future state, to render the moral government of the universe perfect and complete. Human government is more or less perfect, as it approaches nearer or diverges further from an imitation of this perfect plan of divine and moral government.”
“The good of the people is the greatest law.”
“The good of the people must be the great purpose of government. By the laws of nature and of reason, the governors are invested with power to that end. And the greatest good of the people is liberty. It is to the state what health is to the individual.”
“The Good of the People was a laudable enough goal, but in denying a man's soul, an enduring part of his being, Marxism stripped away the foundation of human dignity and individual value. It also cast aside the objective measure of justice and ethics which, he decided, was the principal legacy of religion to civilized life.”
Source: The Hunt for Red October
“The good of the whole of Creation, the world and all its creatures together, is never a consideration because it is never thought of; our culture now simply lacks the means for thinking of it.”
Source: The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture
“The good old days are neither better nor worse than the ones we're living through right now.”
“The good old days are now.”
“The good old days were never that good, believe me. The good new days are today, and better days are coming tomorrow. Our greatest songs are still unsung.”
“The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.”
“The good old horse-and-buggy days: then you lived until you died and not until you were run over.”
“The good old maxims of the Bible are applicable, and truly applicable to human affairs, and in this as in other things, we may say here that he who is not for us is against us; he would gathereth not with us scattereth.”
Source: LINCOLN – Complete 7 Volume Edition: Biographies, Speeches and Debates, Civil War Telegrams, Letters, Presidential Orders & Proclamations: Including the Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt & 3 Biographies: The Every-day Life of the President, Lincoln by Carl Shurz and Abraham Lincoln by Joseph H. Choate
“The good ones put your character to the flame and burn away all the rest of the shit until you come out a better you.”
Source: When It's Real
“The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.”
Source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: 1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815
“The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.”
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“The good opinion of the vulgar is injurious.”
Source: Selected essays
“The good or bad is not in the circumstance, but only in the mind...that encounters it.”
“The good or healthy society would then be defined as one that permitted people's highest purposes to emerge by satisfying all their basic needs.”
“The good or ill hap of a good or ill life, is the good or ill choice of a good or ill wife.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“The good or ill of a man lies within his own will.”
Source: The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments
“The good or the bad fortune of men depends not less upon their own dispositions than upon fortune.”
“The good oxymoron, to define it by a self-illustration, must be a planned inadvertency.”
“The good painter is the one who buries a color every day.”
“The good painter must paint two things: a person and the essence of his soul.”
“The good parent: someone who doesn't mind, for a time, being hated by their children.”
“The good part about being famous is being able to help people. The hard part is every day you have to be in a good mood, because that is what people expect. You learn to get good at it.”
“The good part about having a mental disorder is having a valid reason for all the stupid things we do because of a damaged prefrontal cortex. However, the best part is seeing someone completely sane do the exact same things, without a valid excuse. This is the great equalizer of God and his little gift for all us crazy people to enjoy.”
“The good part about these areas that we were taking over, was that all of them had parks where a lot of guys were just hanging out playing basketball. So I used those parks to make a good first impression with my gun, then I followed up with a speech presentation. At the end of the day, we were able to win over the entire park, and eventually their community…..
It was as if these fellas from different areas were just waiting for this, because no one else was going around to them. No one else was telling them that they were needed, only us. Scrooge, former leader of the Rebellion Raiders street gang that once boasted of having some ten thousand members”
Source: The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father
“The good part of Christmas is not always Christian -- it is generally Pagan; that is to say, human, natural.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“The good part of having six kids is, there's always one who wants to hug you and say, 'Daddy, I love you.'”
“The good part of what comics trains you to do is it trains you - especially if you've worked in mainstream comics like Marvel and DC, or if you're just doing your own independent comics - to compartmentalize things and work on multiple things at the same time. And that's a skill that is incredibly handy in Hollywood, because within the first year that you get here, you realize there's a reason why every successful person in Hollywood has like seven or eight projects up in the air at any point.”
“The good part of working in TV is it's like being a studio director in old Hollywood and approaching different genres. It's a chance to try out different styles.”
“The good part of writing is where it gets out of your control and turns into something else. You look at it and think "Whoa, where did that come from? That wasn't what I meant to write, but it's more interesting than what I was intending. Which part of my subconscious or my experience did that come from?" Often the answer isn't clear, and often the line between fiction and fact isn't clear, either.”
“The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively.”
Source: Some Account of the Pennsylvania Hospital: From Its First Rise, to the Beginning of the Fifth Month, Called May, 1754
“The good parts are the people who don't make do. They're the interesting people. Lear doesn't make do.”
“The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life - and one is as good as another.”
Source: Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961
“The good parts of our relationship felt like a rat walking around and gnawing at the inside of my stomach.”
Source: Women
“The good people in our life are like unintentional bodyguards who give us cover, stop the bullets penetrating our armour and help keep us upright.”
Source: Resilient Me: How to Worry Less and Achieve More
“The good people never die."
"What do you mean?" Sky glanced at Leon. He was staring straight ahead and he looked really sad. She wondered if he'd lost someone too.
"They live on in the things they said and did - they live on inside of us.”
Source: Tell it to the Moon
“The good people of Dakota offered to give Calvin Coolidge a farm if he would live on it. I wouldn't advise you to give those people too much credit for generosity. There is not a farmer in any State in the West that wouldn't be glad to give him a farm if he will paint it, fix up the fences and keep up the series of mortgages that are on it. And if you think Coolidge ain't smart, you just watch him not take it.”
“The good photo settles in your eye; the better photo settles in your mind, but the best photo settles in your heart!”
“The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.”
“The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects. So that no one would say, how did you do it, where did you find it, but they would say that such things could be.”
“The good photographer will produce a competent picture every time whatever his subject. But only when his subject makes and immediate and direct appeal to his own interests will he produce a work of distinction.”
Source: Bill Brandt: Selected Texts & Bibliography
“The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.”
“The good pleasure of God is an act of the divine will freely and effectively determining all things.”
Source: The marrow of theology
“The good poet sticks to his real loves, to see within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.”