Good
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When you think positive, good things happen.
To be a good father and mother requires that the parents defer many of their own needs and desires in favor of the needs of their children. As a consequence of this sacrifice, conscientious parents develop a nobility of character and learn to put into practice the selfless truths taught by the Savior Himself.
I suppose being fierce is a very good thing, and a very cool thing. But more than fierce, I think I'm a strong person and a strong individual. And that's what I take with me every day.
I used to do my best thinking while staring out airplane windows. The seat-back video system put a stop to that. Now I sit and watch old' Friends' and 'Everybody Loves Raymond' episodes. Walking is good, but here again, technology has interfered. I like to listen to iTunes while I walk home. I guess I don't think anymore.
How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.
He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
Food is for eating, and good food is to be enjoyed... I think food is, actually, very beautiful in itself.
A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more peace and content in life than simply being a good husband and father.
Sometimes, fear is good. Sometimes it's a good thing to have a little bit of a reality check.
The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.
There's design, and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designer than nature — if you look at a branch or a leaf, it's perfect. It's all function. Art is different. It's about emotion. It's about suffering and beauty — but mostly suffering!
Yes, I am seeking a husband. As soon as the right man asks me, I shall say, 'It is not good for a woman to live alone'.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
No man's credit is as good as his money.
The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.
Everything I've done in my career is a result of growing up in rural Oklahoma, because if I hadn't had the training from Mama and Daddy to work hard, to do what I'm told, to take directions, to mind and to do a good job at anything I set out to do, then I wouldn't be where I am today.
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