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Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
— George Washington
A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
So what? He's good to you and Hazel now, isn't he? Who cares if he's got history with some other broad?
— Brian K. Vaughan
God still has a way of wringing good out of evil. History has proven time and time again that unmerited suffering is redemptive.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
To this day, good English usually means the English wealthy and powerful people spoke a generation or two ago.
— Jack Lynch
I've taken my number & if history is kind ... I'll always be remembered as being a good & caring person who just made a bad mistake.
— Timothy Pina
The first lesson of history is that evil is good.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in the affairs whereof they write.
— Michel De Montaigne
I've got a long history of suicid in my family; the good news is it skips a generation, so, if I'm lucky, my kids will kill themselves.
— Anthony Jeselnik
In popular government results worth while can only be achieved by men who combine worthy ideals with practical good sense.
— Theodore Roosevelt
History is littered with dead good men.
— Joe Abercrombie
The more I travel, the more I see how important it is to each population to see that their history of the good and the bad is remembered by others.
— Shane Claiborne
Now that we're established and we have a history we know that we can expect people to show up and to have a good time.
— John Petrucci
As history shows, dead metaphors make good idols.
— Elizabeth A. Johnson
Photos of yesterday give good evidence of how yesterday was and they are a true prove of history!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
History is a better guide than good intentions.
— Jeane Kirkpatrick
History should not be written to make the present generation feel good but to remind us that human affairs are complicated.
— Margaret MacMillan
Most of the mess that is called history comes about because kings and presidents cannot be satisfied with a nice chicken and a good loaf of bread.
— Jennifer Donnelly
The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat.
— Edith Hamilton
The anti-hero has played an important role in the history of mankind, so much so that the whole ethos of what is good and bad has become blurred.
— Stephen Richards
Since Caesar, we know his historians are liars. The good writers get read. Bad history doesn't get read.
— Peter Greenaway
All good human work remembers its history.
— Wendell Berry
Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
— John Stuart Mill
It's a very good historical book about history.
— Dan Quayle
Disregard for the past will never do us any good. Without it we cannot know truly who we are.
— Syd Moore
It feels good to be a part of history.
— Kevin Durant
Is he a good man?" "Define 'good'.
— Cleopatra
In history, good intentions do not always make good consequences
— Alija Izetbegovic
Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
I came into the world either too early or too late; at present, I am good for nothing.
— Klemens Von Metternich
I love history. It was the only thing I did well at in school. I'm not ashamed to admit that I was not a good student but I was great at history.
— Steven Spielberg
All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and the good, are never lost.
— James Martineau
During the boom in velocipedes - known with good reason as 'boneshakers' - tyres were made of solid iron.
— Robert Penn
I don't care so much anymore about 'good photography'; I am gathering evidence for history.
— Gilles Peress
I don't particularly have a good memory. I think history is many times just the text written by the victors. I wanted to counter that aspect.
— Elia Suleiman
If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.
— James Buchan
Only a good-for-nothing is not interested in his past.
— Sigmund Freud
The slave trade was globalism. Why people insist that globalism, after its hideous history, is a good thing, I do not know.
— Jamaica Kincaid
Hanging out is good historical methodology.
— Jean Pfaelzer
Should we be rewriting history just to make people feel good? That's not history, that's psychiatry.
— Ed Koch
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
— Winston Churchill
Is religion a force for good? The evidence of history and the evidence of current events cast doubt on the truism.
— James A. Haught
Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
— Victor Hugo
The attitude of the English towards English history reminds one a good deal of the attitude of a Hollywood director towards love.
— Margaret Halsey
If there is any good in life, in history, in my own past, I invoke it now. I invoke it with all the passion with which I have lived.
— Elizabeth Kostova
Those are the bad guys, right?""Depends on who wins, I guess. — Shannon A. Thompson
...but the power of spilled blood overwhelmed the good intentions of those who wanted to end the violence.
— Jeffrey Goldberg
War makes rattling good history.
— Thomas Hardy
As Michael (Chekhov)'s pupil, I learned more about acting. I learned psychology, history, and the good manners of art - taste.
— Marilyn Monroe
What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?
— Philip Zimbardo
Have you ever felt you were born in the wrong decade, or came just a bit too late and missed out on all the good stuff when it was in its heyday?
— E.A. Bucchianeri
History is nothing but good people dying for the wrong reasons.(Graukar) — Aleksandr Voinov
I like politics and history and am happiest when having a good argument about ideas.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Much of history turns out to be the consequence of small acts of fortune, accident or luck, good or bad.
— Phil Mason
Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.
— Thomas Sowell
Most of our people have never had it so good.
— Harold Macmillan
All of political history history can be summed up as a struggle to throw the bad guys out and put the good guys in.
— John Pugsley
An ordinary Turk, an ordinary Arab, an ordinary Tunisian can change history. We believe that democracy is good, and that our people deserve it.
— Ahmet Davutoglu
Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the worst of the creators
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I just want to make sure I'm contributing good films to movie history rather than being famous just to be famous.
— Logan Lerman
Fortunately, as human history has shown, it is not unusual for good to come of evil, less is said about the evil that can come out of good
— Jose Saramago
We pride ourselves on making a good history of our lives, a good story to be told. And
— Terry Pratchett
The history of the world shows that when a mean thing was done, man did it; when a good thing was done, man did it.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
I was never very good at history, but I was pretty sure douchebags like Hitler didn't laugh very much.
— Rick Yancey
All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.
— Leslie Fiedler
Good design should reflect a sense of human history-some aspect of where we've come from.
— Hartmut Esslinger
My history's not very good, but did David win?
— Andy Gray
History is the necessary food of good and noble sentiments. It ought to give us at once humility and confidence in the face of greatness.
— Vincent Massey
War does one good - it teaches people geography.
— Will Durant
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