After all, what's good enough for Austen ought to be good enough for anyone.
I've always tried to be conscious of how I represent women in my work. They don't have to be good or strong women, but they have to be complex.
There are certain people who I worked with, Pamela Anderson, Arnold Schwarzenegger, they are figures. And they know this. They don't pretend to be good actors. They were made by the industry into figures.
You are good. But it is not enough just to be good. You must be good for something.
To choose this or that is to affirm at the same time the value of what we choose, because we can never choose evil. We always choose the good, and nothing can be good for us without being good for all.
But what is Freedom? Rightly understood, A universal licence to be good.
I'd like to prove to women my age that there can still be good years ahead of us.
We all do what we can, and it has to be good enough, and if it isn't good enough, it has to do.
Would thou confound thy enemy, be good thyself.
To be good is to be in harmony with one's self.
But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.
I want to be good at what I do, obviously, and to do that I need to keep my head straight.
So much saintlike patience cannot be good for anyone.
To be good we must needs have suffered; but perhaps it is necessary to have caused suffering before we can become better.
I wanted so terribly to be good to him.
If anyone's comments affect anyone that much, I think it's more about their own security with themselves, because you can call me whatever, and I'm going to be good.
Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.
If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.
There's nothing for getting you good fast like having to be good fast, if that makes any sense.
I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.