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“I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.”
Oprah Winfrey
“A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.”
Virginia Woolf
“Less is only more where more is no good.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
“Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
“I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.”
Walt Whitman
“Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.”
Walt Whitman
“I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.”
Walt Whitman
“Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.”
Walt Whitman
“My body doesn't have any rhythm, you know. I've got quite good rhythm when I'm singing but my feet are very much two left feet.”
Adele
“There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.”
Ansel Adams
“Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.”
Ansel Adams
“In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.”
Ansel Adams
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.”
Marcus Aurelius
“That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.”
Marcus Aurelius
“We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'”
Marcus Aurelius
“You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.”
Marcus Aurelius
“In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.”
Lucille Ball
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
Edmund Burke
“All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.”
Edmund Burke
“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”
Edmund Burke
“Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.”
Edmund Burke
“One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.”
Edmund Burke
“Good order is the foundation of all things.”
Edmund Burke
“If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.”
Edmund Burke
