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"In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea." Douglas Noel Adams 4.0800 average rating Rate this Quote
"If I had to choose between putting a saloon or a liberal church on a corner, I'd choose the saloon every time. People who drink up the pay check in the saloon are less likely to become Pharisees, thinking that they don't need the Great Physician, than those who weekly swill the soporific doctrine of man's goodness." Jay Edward Adams 2.8750 average rating Rate this Quote
"You can have anything you want--if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose." William Adams 4.5778 average rating Rate this Quote
"Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public." Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno 4.6667 average rating Rate this Quote
"I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil." Æschylus 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin." Aesop 4.8500 average rating Rate this Quote
"In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again: and in him, too, once more, and of each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life; toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terror, and of God." James Agee 4.4667 average rating Rate this Quote
"Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite." Edward Albee 3.7500 average rating Rate this Quote
"Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes." Louisa May Alcott 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that." Alan Alda 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness." Alan Alda 4.4615 average rating Rate this Quote
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." Kurt Herbert Alder 4.4444 average rating Rate this Quote
"A plane is a bad place for an all-out sleep, but a good place to begin rest and recovery from the trip to the faraway places you've been, a decompression chamber between Here and There. Though a plane is not the ideal place really to think, to reassess or reevaluate things, it is a great place to have the illusion of doing so, and often the illusion will suffice." Shana Alexander 3.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit." James Lane Allen 4.2000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more." Woody Allen 3.6364 average rating Rate this Quote
"Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good." Marcus Aurelius Antoninus 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"As long as we think we can save ourselves by our own will power, we will only make the evil in us stronger than ever." Heini Arnold 4.4444 average rating Rate this Quote
"From my close observation of writers...they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review." Isaac Asimov 3.6667 average rating Rate this Quote
"Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness." Athenæus 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"We cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and at the 11th hour something gloriously triumphant will prevent the worst before it happens." (Justin) Brooks Atkinson 4.6000 average rating Rate this Quote
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