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81 " Dare to believe that good things are possible when you follow your heart. "
― Timi Nadela , Get To The Top
82 " Don’t make excuses; rather, find support and resources to make good things happen for yourself, your family, your businesses, your community, and the world you live in. "
― Anna Szabo , Turn Your Dreams And Wants Into Achievable SMART Goals!
83 " Maybe awful things is how God speaks to us, Vernon thought, trudging up the lightless tunnel. Maybe folks don’t trust in good things no more. Maybe awful things is all God’s got to remind us he’s alive. Maybe war is God come to life in men. Vernon pushed on toward the light of day. He stepped out onto the ledge and into the heat, and it felt like leaving a theater after the matinee had shown a sad film, the glare of sunshine after the darkness far too real to suffer. "
― Alan Heathcock , Volt
84 " Failures sit around and wait for good things to come to them; winners work until good things happen to them, and still continue to work. "
85 " It was the fear of good things happening, because they, sooner or later, would lead to something bad. "
86 " So, what if, instead of thinking about solving you whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow. "
― Rainbow Rowell , Attachments
87 " It takes a lot of courage to push through hard times. Never give up. Good things are coming your way. "
88 " Honey, it isn’t democracy that runs this country. Capitalism rules. It does no good to reason with the capitalists or their politicians. This is a class war. We have to stir up the American people, the lower class. Some of the better-off lower class do show some sympathy for us when they’re smacked with the facts. And when they voice themselves collectively, good things happen.” — Mother Jones "
― Jerry Ash
89 " How often do we lie simply because we are trying to build ourselves up in the eyes of others? How often do we gossip because we want to appear “in the know,”or because we are trying to make ourselves appear better than someone else? The Bible's command is clear: [“Have regard for good things in the sight of all men” (Romans 12:17 NKJV)]. "
― Billy Graham , Billy Graham in Quotes
90 " Why is it that good always has to fight an uphill battle?" I thought for a moment, then said, " I don't know. Maybe that's the point. Good things are higher up. "
91 " Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion "
― Steven Weinberg
92 " In this universe, even what is called evil, when it is rightly ordered and kept in its place, commends the good more eminently, since good things yield greater pleasure and praise when compared to the bad things. For the Omnipotent God, whom even the heathen acknowledge as the Supreme Power over all, would not allow any evil in his works, unless in his omnipotence and goodness, as the Supreme Good, he is able to bring forth good out of evil. What, after all, is anything we call evil except the privation of good? In animal bodies, for instance, sickness and wounds are nothing but the privation of health. When a cure is effected, the evils which were present (i.e., the sickness and the wounds) do not retreat and go elsewhere. Rather, they simply do not exist any more. For such evil is not a substance; the wound or the disease is a defect of the bodily substance which, as a substance, is good. Evil, then, is an accident, i.e., a privation of that good which is called health. Thus, whatever defects there are in a soul are privations of a natural good. When a cure takes place, they are not transferred elsewhere but, since they are no longer present in the state of health, they no longer exist at all. "
― Augustine of Hippo , The Enchiridion on Faith Hope and Love (Augustine Series 1)
93 " To be evil at all, Satan needs good things he can abuse, things like intelligence, power and will. Those good things come from God. "
― J. Budziszewski , How to Stay Christian in College
94 " Look, I say. You can't just let your thoughts float around in the ether and hope eventually they'll connect with something. It's absurd.No, it's not, Gil says. Lots of good things happen that way. Penicillin. Teflon. Smart dust. Something happens that you weren't expecting and it shifts the outcome completely. You have to be open to it. When I open my brain, I tell him, things bounce around and fall out. They don't connect with anything. Maybe I haven't got enough points of reference stored up yet.You're young, he says, that's probably it. When I let my thoughts float around, I trust that they'll latch on to something useful in the end or make an association I wouldn't necessarily have predicted. I'm trusting that they'll find the right thought to complete, all by themselves. The right bit of fact to ping. You have to trust your brain sometimes. "
― Meg Rosoff , Picture Me Gone
95 " One enjoys the good things more to the extent that one goes to them after having labored in advance, for labors are a sauce for good things "
― Xenphon Ephesius
96 " The answer is good things only happen to you if you're good. Good? Honest is more what I mean... Be anything but a coward, a pretender, an emotional crook, a whore: I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. "
― Truman Capote , Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories
97 " There appears to be value in getting past a mentality that good things can only rest in good things. "
― Craig D. Lounsbrough
98 " God didn't bring you into this life for you to wait around for good things to happen to you. It is time to introduce your life to so many possibilities and opportunities out there. Victory is yours. "
99 " Americans love to hear good things about their bad habits. "
― T. Colin Campbell , The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss, and Long-term Health
100 " Better things will follow you when you do good things to others. "
