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When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.
— Joyce Meyer
I actually think that the most efficacious way of making a difference is to lead by example, and doing random acts of kindness is setting a very good example of how to behave in the world.
— Misha Collins
For me, life is about experience and being a good person.
— Chris Hemsworth
Fun is good.
— Dr. Seuss
What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
— Mahatma Gandhi
People change over the years, and that changes situations for good and for bad.
— Bobby Knight
Less is only more where more is no good.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Being a good leader requires remembering that you're there for a reason, and the reason certainly isn't to have your way. High-integrity leaders not only welcome questioning and criticism - they insist on it.
— Travis Bradberry
No matter how busy I get or how much pressure is on my shoulders, a good workout makes me feel at ease. I come off the treadmill feeling relaxed, full of joy and with a sense of perspective over the issues on my plate.
— Robin S. Sharma
I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.
— Margaret Thatcher
Rather than dividing the world between good and evil, the Left divided the world in terms of economics. Economic classes, not moral values, explained human behavior. Therefore, to cite a common example, poverty, not one's moral value system, or lack of it, caused crime.
— Dennis Prager
I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after.
— Cat Stevens
None of Us is as Good as All of Us.
— Ray Kroc
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
— Booker T. Washington
I am like the sick sheep that strays from the rest of the flock. Unless the Good Shepherd takes me on His shoulders and carries me back to His fold, my steps will falter, and in the very effort of rising, my feet will give way.
— St. Jerome
When you have a dark side, nothing is ever as good as it seems.
— Pink
Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.
— Plato
I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.
— Lou Holtz
The good thing about flying solo is it's never boring.
— Steve Fossett
There are going to be good times and bad times, but lighten up.
— Chris Pine
There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.
— Joseph Heller
Great champions have an enormous sense of pride. The people who excel are those who are driven to show the world and prove to themselves just how good they are.
— Nancy Lopez
Just knowing you don't have the answers is a recipe for humility, openness, acceptance, forgiveness, and an eagerness to learn - and those are all good things.
— Dick Van Dyke
When you realize who the good people are in your life, you're so lucky.
— Sophia Bush
There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.
— Steven Spielberg
Animals praise a good day, a good hunt. They praise rain if they're thirsty. That's prayer. They don't live an unconscious life, they simply have no language to talk about these things. But they are grateful for the good things that come along.
— Mary Oliver
If a great outfit gets you one step closer to feeling good about yourself, then it's worth every penny.
— Rachel Roy
I think sometimes in life we want to ignore the problems of society and just think about the good. I believe in positive thinking and affirmative living, I also think it's really important to remember all of our disenfranchised members of society.
— Kerry Washington
The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.
— Abraham Maslow
A hard beginning maketh a good ending.
— John Heywood
Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to balance it against the altruism to which we should all aspire. It is a difficult balance to strike, but no definition of goodness can be complete without it.
— Alan Dershowitz
God is good for everybody. The sun shines on good people and bad people, and it rains on both, too. God doesn't choose rain only for bad people.
— Mariano Rivera
Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.
— Alfred Hitchcock
Be not simply good - be good for something.
— Henry David Thoreau
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.
— Swami Vivekananda
The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.
— Andrew Wiles
To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.
— Sophocles
You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.
— Earl Nightingale
I believe, I believe every day is a good day when you paint.
— Bob Ross
A long healthy life is no accident. It begins with good genes, but it also depends on good habits.
— Dan Buettner
Well, you need the villain. If you don't have a villain, the good guy can stay home.
— Christoph Waltz
If you are the person who gets the lion's share of attention in good times, guess what: you get the lion's share of attention in bad times.
— Matt Lauer
No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
— Hunter S. Thompson
Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it's good to capture people when they are themselves.
— Patrick Demarchelier
The good inside of all of us is wrapped in a layer of apathy, and we forget how much potential we have within us, in each and every one of us, to change the world for the better for ourselves and our children, and thus to bring about oneness.
— Shari Arison
I went further on less talent than anyone, but I was a damned good entertainer.
— Jimmy Dean
You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for one's self-respect to be a punching bag.
— Ed Koch
People don't want to go to the dump and have a picnic, they want to go out to a beautiful place and enjoy their day. And so I think our job is to try to take the environment, take what the good Lord has given us, and expand upon it or enhance it, without destroying it.
— Jack Nicklaus
I don't judge others. I say if you feel good with what you're doing, let your freak flag fly.
— Sarah Jessica Parker
Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. If makes it feel needed.
— Charles M. Schulz
Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
This is important: to get to know people, listen, expand the circle of ideas. The world is crisscrossed by roads that come closer together and move apart, but the important thing is that they lead towards the Good.
— Pope Francis
The underbelly of the human psyche, what is often referred to as our dark side, is the origin of every act of self-sabotage. Birthed out of shame, fear, and denial, it misdirects our good intentions and drives us to unthinkable acts of self-destruction and not-so-unbelievable acts of self-sabotage.
— Debbie Ford
Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.
— Lao Tzu
Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
— Tacitus
Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.
— Douglas Horton
Without your health, you've got nothing going on. I thank God every day for good health.
— Ric Flair
When you train seven days a week, you need good scenery to inspire you.
— Alistair Brownlee
As you are not yet married, and as marriage is the fundamental state of life as well as the unity of the commonwealth, make up your mind whether you are called to this state. If you make up your mind to marry, do not marry merely a good wife: marry a good mother to your children.
— Vincent McNabb
The funny thing is, I'm so used to not caring what anyone says, good or bad, that unfortunately even when people say good things... I wish it made me feel good, but it doesn't.
— Rob Zombie
I wouldn't say that I am one of the greatest dancers, but I am really quite good at what I do.
— Lady Gaga
The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
— Wendell Berry
The good and the wise lead quiet lives.
— Euripides
It's good to shut up sometimes.
— Marcel Marceau
When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.
— Buddha
I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.
— Elon Musk
Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn't come alive until the leader models it.
— John C. Maxwell
Among a great many other things that chess teaches you is to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good. It trains you to think before grabbing and to think just as objectively when you're in trouble.
— Stanley Kubrick
You have to be very, very good looking to get ahead in motion pictures.
— Elaine Stritch
The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.
— George Burns
Self-awareness is the ability to take an honest look at your life without any attachment to it being right or wrong, good or bad.
— Debbie Ford
I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
I think every girl has a little bit of rebellion inside. It's always fun to not follow every trend and not be the perfect good girl. It's edgy to be a little rebellious.
— Behati Prinsloo
I'm a pretty good winner. I'm a terrible loser. And I rub it in pretty good when I win.
— Tom Brady
Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.
— George Orwell
It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
— Enrico Fermi
Good things do not come easy. The road is lined with pitfalls.
— Desi Arnaz
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
— Brian Tracy
If there's one thing I'm good at, it's gathering people together to do something fun.
— Dave Grohl
My folks were raised pure prohibitionist. They were very good people, with high moral standards - but very repressed. There was no hugging and kissing in my home.
— Hugh Hefner
Uncertainty is a very good thing: it's the beginning of an investigation, and the investigation should never end.
— Tim Crouch
Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.
— Paul Rand
But the real secret to lifelong good health is actually the opposite: Let your body take care of you.
— Deepak Chopra
A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.
— Xun Kuang
I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and there is positive intent behind it.
— Michael J. Fox
If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.
— Grace Hopper
Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life - all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity.
— Zig Ziglar
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
— Josh Billings
My idea of a good night out is staying in.
— Martin Freeman
My philosophy of leadership is to surround myself with good people who have ability, judgment and knowledge, but above all, a passion for service.
— Sonny Perdue
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.
— Jean Paul
A real man loves and respects his wife and is not only a good father but a man that his kids want to call 'Daddy.'
— Frank Abagnale
The most important thing, in anything you do, is always trying your hardest, because even if you try your hardest and it's not as good as you'd hoped, you still have that sense of not letting yourself down.
— Tom Holland
A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.
— Elbert Hubbard
Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.
— Henry David Thoreau
When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.
— Mae West
All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
The good old days are now.
— Tom Clancy
Better is the enemy of good.
— Voltaire
He who stops being better stops being good.
— Oliver Cromwell
Nothing leads to good that is not natural.
— Friedrich Schiller
It's far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
— Judith Martin
The one thing I need to leave behind is good memories.
— Michael Landon
It's good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.
— Maya Angelou
When you have a baby, when you feel his love, you feel so at peace with the world. You just want to share the good news and share how happy you feel.
— Shakira
In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
You never realize what a good memory you have until you try to forget something.
— Franklin P. Jones
I feel grateful because I have a lot of love in my life. I found the person I'm sharing my life with. I have a good man.
— Gisele Bundchen
Every day we wake up, we have an opportunity to do some good, but there's so much bad that you have to navigate to get to the good.
— Chesley Sullenberger
It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.
— Carine Roitfeld
The worst thing about that kind of prejudice... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.
— Nina Simone
The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.
— Pablo Picasso
Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.
— Kevin James
Don't get me wrong: school is good and all, but school is way too slow for me. Like, super slow. So I didn't want to go. I wanted to learn on my own with real life experiences.
— Lil Uzi Vert
One way to break up any kind of tension is good deep breathing.
— Byron Nelson
A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Good enough never is.
— Debbi Fields
It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.
— Tiberius
Since I don't look like every other girl, it takes a while to be okay with that. To be different. But different is good.
— Serena Williams
No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and without someone being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
— Phillips Brooks
It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on.
— Floyd Abrams
A good villain exudes charisma and power. He has principles, though; that just gives him a level of dimension. It makes him seem to be a bit unpredictable, because he's usually deemed as some type of evil, ruthless person, and then he shows you his principles, and you don't know what to think of it.
— Pusha T
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
— Plutarch
Before every show, I have to put perfume on. I know the crowd's not necessarily going to smell me, but when I smell good, I feel like I can dominate the room.
— Rita Ora
My life is good because I am not passive about it. I invest in what is real. Like real people, to do real things, for the real me.
— Gwyneth Paltrow
As long as I have my faith in God, I'm good. I know everything else is going to come.
— Derrick Rose
If you want to feel good, you have to go out and do some good.
— Oprah Winfrey
I'm still not aware that I'm good looking.
— Jamie Dornan
Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.
— Amelia Earhart
Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.
— Aldous Huxley
What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough.
— Bertolt Brecht
It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.
— Blaise Pascal
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
— Charles Evans Hughes
I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.
— Dave Barry
Good copy can't be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You've got to believe in the product.
— David Ogilvy
We cannot make good news out of bad practice.
— Edward R. Murrow
Acorns were good until bread was found.
— Francis Bacon
Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.
— James Allen
Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.
— Josh Billings
No news at 4:30 a.m. is good.
— Lady Bird Johnson
Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.
— Michel de Montaigne
I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for.
— Thornton Wilder
A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
— E. W. Howe
Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.
— Warren Bennis
There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.
— Unknown
I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.
— Ronald Reagan
One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.
— Jose Rizal
It's different for different people, and for a woman it's important to look as good she wants to look. But you don't need to do it for someone else or to impress some male out there. You do it for your own sake. You wear what makes you feel good, you put make-up and jewellery - whatever gives you self-confidence.
— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
All the good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.
— Grant Wood
Football is about joy. It's about dribbling. I favour every idea that makes the game beautiful. Every good idea has to last.
— Ronaldinho
As long as your intentions are solid and about growth and progression and being productive and not being idle, then you're doing good in my book.
— Frank Ocean
I'm so single. It's funny. I'm usually a relationship girl. I love being in love and having a partner in crime. But it's good to be your own partner in crime. God, that makes me sound like I have multiple-personality disorder.
— Brittany Snow
I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.
— Adam Smith
You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
— William S. Burroughs
Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.
— Truman Capote
I have a daughter and she's the greatest thing that ever happened to me. She gives me a good excuse to watch cartoons.
— Mike Dirnt
Contemplate the good things in your life and be grateful for them.
— Rebecca Pidgeon
Protesting is good, but healing is better. We need to see America heal.
— Alveda King
Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.
— Wayne Dyer
Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise. To be known as a man of sound judgement will be much in your favor.
— Grantland Rice
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
A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
— Horace
Be yourself, fill your life with good people, and don't get a big head. It can all be gone tomorrow.
— Molly Sims
Some are blessed with musical ability, others with good looks. Myself, I was blessed with modesty.
— Roger Moore
'Free Fallin' is a very good song. Maybe it would be one of my favorites if it hadn't become this huge anthem. But I'm grateful that people like it.
— Tom Petty
I tend to write on an acoustic guitar or the piano. I have kind of a rule: if I can't sit down and play this and get the song over, I don't take it to the band, because most any good song, you can sit down and deliver it with a piano or a guitar.
— Tom Petty
I have certain things that I stand for, certain things that I believe in, and if you don't like it and you tell me to go to hell, I think that's your God-given right as a fan. It's one of those deals where I'm that one guy who is outside of that realm of good guy, bad guy. I'm just me, and it elicits a response both positive and negative.
— John Cena
On a good day I think I'm handsome, on an average day I'm average. I'm a man's man so I don't necessarily know how cute we're supposed to be.
— CeeLo Green
The second you think that all your good fortune is a product of your virtue, you become highly judgmental, lacking empathy, totally without self-awareness, arrogant, stupid - I mean, all the stuff that our ruling class is.
— Tucker Carlson
When people see your personality come out, they feel so good, like they actually know who you are.
— Usain Bolt
If everyone were a good person, it'd obviously be a better world.
— Aaron Paul
Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.
— William Wycherley
It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
— Voltaire
Good writing is like a windowpane.
— George Orwell
As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.
— Diogenes
My life off the court has changed. I'm feeling good inside, so I guess it shows on the outside too.
— Mary Pierce
A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
— Mahatma Gandhi
How can you be content to be in the world like tulips in a garden, to make a fine show, and be good for nothing.
— Mary Astell
It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.
— Publilius Syrus
Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.
— Dan Quayle
The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.
— Plutarch
Nobody minds having what is too good for them.
— Jane Austen
Be sweet, be good, and honest always.
— Emma Bunton
Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.
— John Bunyan
The 'good old times' - all times when old are good.
— Lord Byron
Too much of a good thing can be taxing.
— Mae West
That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.
— Ninon de L'Enclos
A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.
— Richard Whately
Have a very good reason for everything you do.
— Laurence Olivier
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
— Francis Bacon
Free is the best. Anything free is good.
— Sandra Bullock
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.
— Jean Paul
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
— Bertolt Brecht
What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.
— Barbara Jordan
You cannot hold on to anything good. You must be continually giving - and getting. You cannot hold on to your seed. You must sow it - and reap anew. You cannot hold on to riches. You must use them and get other riches in return.
— Robert Collier
A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something.
— Wilson Mizner
Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
— Ben Jonson
Evil and good are God's right hand and left.
— Horace Mann
Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
A good beginning makes a good end.
— Louis L'Amour
Either positive or negative comments are good because it shows I am still relevant.
— Justin Guarini
The more one has seen of the good, the more one asks for the better.
— John Mason Brown
What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.
— Vita Sackville-West
I'd rather be lucky than good.
— Lefty Gomez
I don't think I am any good. If I thought I was any good, I wouldn't be.
— John Betjeman
If it were better, it wouldn't be as good.
— Brendan Gill
Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
— Oprah Winfrey
The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.
— Melody Beattie
And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Celebrate what you want to see more of.
— Tom Peters
If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.
— Cyril Cusack
Make New Year's goals. Dig within, and discover what you would like to have happen in your life this year. This helps you do your part. It is an affirmation that you're interested in fully living life in the year to come.
— Melody Beattie
Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.
— Samuel Pepys
Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.
— Cavett Robert
What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.
— Diogenes
Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
— Hal Borland
What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?
— Aeschylus
Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.
— Mark Twain
I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
— Carl Sandburg
Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.
— Wally Lamb
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.
— Henry Moore
Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.
— Mason Cooley
If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.
— P. J. O'Rourke
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
— W. Somerset Maugham
My New Year's resolution is to stick to a good workout plan that will keep me healthy and happy.
— James Lafferty
I don't even drink! I can't stand the taste of alcohol. Every New Year's Eve I try one drink and every time it makes me feel sick. So I don't touch booze - I'm always the designated driver.
— Kim Kardashian
Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.
— Goran Persson
All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives.
— Steven Spielberg
I never worry about being driven to drink I just worry about being driven home.
— W. C. Fields
Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy.
— Akhenaton
To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can't explain why it happened. Something has to happen that you can't coach.
— Bobby Bowden
Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
— Jonathan Edwards
Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
— Barbara Walters
A year from now, you're gonna weigh more or less than what you do right now.
— Phil McGraw
My New Year's Resolution List usually starts with the desire to lose between ten and three thousand pounds.
— Nia Vardalos
I have no way of knowing how people really feel, but the vast majority of those I meet couldn't be nicer. Every once in a while someone barks at me. My New Year's resolution is not to bark back.
— Tucker Carlson
I like to go to parties where I know everyone. How are you going to have fun with people you don't know?
— Mary-Kate Olsen
New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.
— James Agate
I know. I'm lazy. But I made myself a New Years resolution that I would write myself something really special. Which means I have 'til December, right?
— Catherine O'Hara
Dick Clark will be truly missed. We will carry on his legacy every New Year's Eve.
— Fergie
I had a New Year's kiss once. But it was like, 'Let's start the year off together,' and then we wound up breaking up the night after!
— Joe Jonas
To be an ideal guest, stay at home.
— E. W. Howe
If you want an interesting party sometime, combine cocktails and a fresh box of crayons for everyone.
— Robert Fulghum
I've had some lovely extraordinary experiences on New Year's Eve.
— Debbie Harry
And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death.
— William C. Bryant
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
— Marcus Garvey
We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
— Harry S Truman
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
— Karl Marx
Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.
— Christopher Columbus
More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations.
— Kofi Annan
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
— George Santayana
Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
— Haile Selassie
I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stands for liberty, and freedom. It is the history of our nation, and it's marked by the blood of those who died defending it.
— John Thune
I came, I saw, I conquered.
— Julius Caesar
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
— Desmond Tutu
The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
History never really says goodbye. History says, 'See you later.'
— Eduardo Galeano
You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise.
— Maya Angelou
The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
— Karl Marx
It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
— Henry James
I never feel lonely if I've got a book - they're like old friends. Even if you're not reading them over and over again, you know they are there. And they're part of your history. They sort of tell a story about your journey through life.
— Emilia Fox
Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.
— John F. Kennedy
We're running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere... can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe.
— Elon Musk
The worst thing about Halloween is, of course, candy corn. It's unbelievable to me. Candy corn is the only candy in the history of America that's never been advertised. And there's a reason. All of the candy corn that was ever made was made in 1911. And so, since nobody eats that stuff, every year there's a ton of it left over.
— Lewis Black
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.
— Joan Rivers
Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
— Margaret Thatcher
Our nation is built upon a history of immigration, dating back to our first pioneers, the Pilgrims. For more than three centuries, we have welcomed generations of immigrants to our melting pot of hyphenated America: British-Americans; Italian-Americans; Irish-Americans; Jewish-Americans; Mexican-Americans; Chinese-Americans; Indian-Americans.
— Ami Bera
History proves that the white man is a devil.
— Malcolm X
I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.
— Kanye West
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Legend remains victorious in spite of history.
— Sarah Bernhardt
People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
— James A. Baldwin
Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
— Karl Marx
There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.
— Harry S Truman
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
— Karl Marx
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
— Maya Angelou
I live off a motto that says, 'yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery'. I have goals and agendas. Where ever I'll be tomorrow, that's where I'll be.
— Vanilla Ice
It is important for all of us to appreciate where we come from and how that history has really shaped us in ways that we might not understand.
— Sonia Sotomayor
The United Nations has a critical role to play in promoting stability, security, democracy, human rights, and economic development. The UN is as relevant today as at any time in its history, but it needs reform.
— Chuck Hagel
If you look at history, innovation doesn't come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect.
— Steven Johnson
The American flag is the symbol of our freedom, national pride and history.
— Mike Fitzpatrick
The centuries-old history and culture of India, majestic architectural monuments and museums of Delhi, Agra and Mumbai have a unique attractive force.
— Vladimir Putin
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
— George Orwell
My heart goes out to victims and survivors of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and to their families. This disaster will go down in history books as one of the largest natural disasters in U.S. history.
— Ellen Tauscher
The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.
— Fidel Castro
History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.
— Gerald R. Ford
History has taught us over and over again that freedom is not free. When push comes to shove, the ultimate protectors of freedom and liberty are the brave men and women in our armed forces. Throughout our history, they've answered the call in bravery and sacrifice.
— Tim Pawlenty
You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job.
— Richard M. Nixon
My countrymen: we have reached a turning point in our history. The choice is yours. Shall we venture into this brave new world, bright with possibilities, or retreat to the safety of our familiar but sterile past? I am for crossing the frontier.
— Ferdinand Marcos
The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
— Woodrow Wilson
It does not matter how much we donate it matters whether the donation is meaningful. How to define meaningful? Let society and history judge.
— Ronnie Chan
Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
— Lord Acton
Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it.
— Prince Charles
The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
We have this long history of racism in this country, and as it happens, the criminal justice system has been perhaps the most prominent instrument for administering racism. But the racism doesn't actually come from the criminal justice system.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.
— Benito Mussolini
If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
— C. S. Lewis
American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
— James A. Baldwin
I was always told that I was good in mathematics, and I guess my grades and standardized test scores supported that. My worst subjects were those that generally involved a lot of reading - English and history. So, having good test scores in math and mediocre ones in reading, I was naturally advised to major in engineering in college.
— Henry Petroski
A people without a positive history is like a vehicle without an engine.
— Steven Biko
History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
— Mark Twain
History repeats itself. So you might wanna pay attention.
— Quavo
Be as a tower firmly set Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.
— Dante Alighieri
History shows that all protest movements rely on symbols - boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, flags, songs. Symbolic action on whatever scale - from the Montgomery Bus Boycott to wearing a simple wristband - is designed to disrupt our everyday complacency and force people to think.
— Hugh Evans
Automobiles have always been part of my life, and I'm sure they always will be. What is it about them that moves me? The sound of a great engine, the unity and uniqueness of an automobile's engineering and coachwork, the history of the company and the car, and, of course, the sheer beauty of the thing.
— Edward Herrmann
It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.
— Vladimir Lenin
I love history... everything is inspired by history, so that's why I love vintage and antiques.
— Kelly Wearstler
They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.
— Douglas MacArthur
Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history it is haunted by history. You cannot walk around it without perceiving it.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
May the friends of America rejoice! May her enemies be humbled and her censors silenced at the news of her noble exertions in continuance of those principles which have placed her so high in the annals of history and among the nations of the earth.
— Marquis de Lafayette
History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.
— Milton Friedman
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
— B. C. Forbes
History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.
— Thomas Jefferson
In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.
— Jesse Jackson
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
— Thomas Jefferson
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
— Abraham Lincoln
Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.
— Ibrahim Babangida
History shows that there are no invincible armies.
— Joseph Stalin
History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.
— William Morris
The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history.
— Kim Il-sung
Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.
— Maya Angelou
When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
— Ma Jian
When it comes to discrimination, Americans pride ourselves on how far we've come. Racial segregation is history. Explicit sex discrimination is banned. Same-sex marriage is the law of the land. But amidst all the progress, the male-female wage gap persists, and it's big.
— Cass Sunstein
One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement, Mohandas Ganhi in India, Nelson Mandela in South Africa are examples of people standing up with courage and non-violence to bring about needed changes.
— Jack Canfield
What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?
— Philip Zimbardo
In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.
— John F. Kennedy
I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
— Pablo Picasso
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
— Mahatma Gandhi
So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.
— Milton Friedman
The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
— Mao Zedong
My only advice is, follow your dream and do whatever you like to do the most. I chose journalism because I wanted to be in the places where history was being made.
— Jorge Ramos
The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death so are statues and inscriptions so is history.
— Lew Wallace
We just feel like history repeats itself. You ain't never going to see nothing brand new you're only going to see when records are broken. And we're here to just set records and set trends and follow the footsteps that have been shown to us.
— Quavo
History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
— W. H. Auden
Junk stands and antique markets are the perfect place to pick up clues about the history of a country, region or town.
— Judith Miller
I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.
— Queen Elizabeth II
As an immigrant, I appreciate, far more than the average American, the liberties we have in this country. Silence is a big enemy of morality. I don't want our blunders in history to get repeated.
— Gloria Estefan