Sometimes when you have something that seems too good to be true, you start waiting for it to crumble to pieces around you.
—Aurora Rose Reynolds in Assumption
Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.
—Anatole France
Nothing leads to good that is not natural.
—Friedrich Schiller
People, you'll find, aren't usually all good or bad. Sometimes they're just a little bit good and a whole lot bad. And sometimes they're mostly good with a dash of bad. And most of us, well, we fall in the middle somewhere.
—Gabrielle Zevin in Elsewhere
For no reason I can explain, I began to discover how little it mattered where you are or what anyone does to you. I was sure that what I had done to get there [imprisoned for draft resistance] was right, and somehow the longer I was there, the better I felt.… I felt filled with love for everyone: everyone I knew and everyone I didn't know; for plants, fish, animals; even bankers, generals, prison guards, and lying politicians—everything and everyone. Why did I feel so good? Was it God? Or approaching death? Or just the way life is supposed to be if we weren't so busy trying to make it something else?
—David Dellinger
It takes a great man to be a good listener.
—Calvin Coolidge
There is no such thing as a good tax.
—Winston Churchill
Just when it seems like life is getting good, something always has to come along and ruin it.
—Susane Colasanti in So Much Closer
Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
—Henry David Thoreau
There's a great satisfaction in knowing that we've made good use of our days, that we've lived up to our expectations of ourselves.
—Gretchen Rubin in Better Than Before
There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more.
—Woody Allen
So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
—Helen Keller
Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being fundamentally people.
—Terry Pratchett
If you're in a bad situation, don't worry; it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry; it'll change.
—John A. Simone Sr.
I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
—Seneca