Good Deal Quotes


One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles but a good deal about their acts.

What happens when children reach puberty earlier and adulthood later? The answer is: a good deal of teenage weirdness.

We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is Manifest Destiny.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

I'd say that to be a good deal maker you have to have 3 basic characteristics - timing timing and timing.

An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem.

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.

Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.

Stock prices relative to company assets are no better at signaling the likelihood of future earnings growth than they were the day the Titanic sank and risk management is a good deal worse.

As the fashion carousel spins ever faster the concern is that while the stream of newness never runs out there's going to be a good deal more crash and burn among designers in the future.

Good deal: justice for you mercy for me.

I have travelled a good deal in Concord.

A good deal of our politics is physiological.

Not-writing is a good deal worse than writing.

Other psychological theories say a good deal about compensation.

A good marriage shuts out a very great deal.

Writers never get a very good deal in Hollywood.

I have learnt a good deal from my own talk.

Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.

There is a good deal in a man's mode of eating.

It's never a good deal when only one party thinks it is.

A good deal of large and rather interesting work is drifting my way.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

A good leader sees everything overlooks a great deal and corrects a little.

Our power of being happy lies a good deal in ourselves I believe.

Well before the New Deal...[The Emancipation Proclamation] would be a good start.

Women singly do a good deal of harm. Women in bulk are chastening.

Political elections are a good deal like marriages there's no accounting for anyone's taste.

If the deal isn't good for the other party it isn't good for you.

It would ha' been a good deal easier if ye'd only been a witch.

I don't know exactly how it's done. I let it alone a good deal.

Death possesses a good deal of real estate namely the graveyard in every town.

Some homes need a hickory switch a good deal more than they do a piano.

Life is a good deal more comfortable if one doesn't expect it to be fair.

A good deal of Paradise Lost strikes one as being almost as mechanical as bricklaying.

One must love people a good deal whom one takes pains to convince or instruct.

Lending war equipment is a good deal like lending chewing gum. You don't want it back.

Genius is a good deal like the sea ... Nothing can restrain its tide or quicken it.

Political success is a good deal pleasanter than political failure but it too brings its problems.

I don't have a great deal of stress job-wise in my life and that feels good.

Well I suppose you know that men will stand a good deal when they are flattered.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

If it's sin that's good news! Sin is the simplest thing in the world to deal with.

I would have doubled up and tripled up the sanctions [on Iran] and made a good deal.

Marriage is a good deal like taking a bath-not so hot once you get accustomed to it.

A good deal of education consists of unlearning-the breaking of bad habits as with a tennis serve.

Though a good deal is too strange to be believed nothing is too strange to have happened.

Pure philanthropy is very well in its way but philanthropy plus five percent is a good deal better.

Health and health inequalities tell us a great deal about the good or bad effects of social policies.

The good agent probably is not the reader he's just the guy who can put together a deal.

His principles were out of date but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices.

The best way to make a good deal is to have the ability to walk away from it.

Progress. There's a good deal too much o' this progress about nowadays an' what's more it'll have to stop.

He thought and suffered a good deal but he lacked the resolution to dare--the first requisite of a practitioner.

With the guitar I've suffered a great deal but when I've had a good time the suffering seemed worthwhile

I suspect that in our loathing of totalitarianism there is infused a good deal of admiration for its efficiency.

As a motive for terror religion has more often than not required a good deal of lubrication by lucre.

To turn a human being into a part-canine or lupine creature takes a good deal of artistry and money.

When I was 17 I signed my record deal and passed my driver's test. It was a very good year!

There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

It's nice to know that what you're doing is being read and enjoyed by a good deal of people.

Why Mrs. Piper has a good deal to say chiefly in parentheses and without punctuation but not much to tell.

I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.

You know I once leased a Mercedes because I got a good deal on it because of my first name.

One can't prescribe books even the best books to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person.

If you want the truth rather than merely something to say you will have a good deal less to say.

The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.

Only me eh? Is that how you see yourself? Only you is worth a good deal more than you think.

There is often a good deal of the child left in people who have had to grow up too soon.

I think there are a number of little Ribbentrops running around. But Molotov hasn't found a good enough deal yet.

I'd say that to be a good deal maker you have to have three basic characteristics - timing timing and timing.

Nothing to mountaineering just a little physical endurance a good deal of brains lots of practice and plenty of warm clothing.

My body has certainly wandered a good deal but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.

Whoever would do good in the world ought not to deal in censure. We ought not to destroy but rather construct.

In practice a good deal of the outcomes produced by the market reflect nothing more than luck - good or bad.

If you have to go through life being unhappy to conform to society around you that's not a very good deal.

Now so many really good groups who have had a first major hit can't get a deal for a second one.

For the drivers a weekend off would be nice but for the fans it would not be a very good deal.

As for restaurants I'd say I'm always down for Wendy's. A little fry dipping in a Frosty - that's a good deal.

I think the writer makes a good story good or a good story bad. The writer has a great deal of responsibility.

You cannot escape what you have to deal with inside yourself. It will never bring good things. It will only bring madness.

We must use a good deal of economy in our wood never cutting down new where we can make the old do.

The modern essay has regained a good deal of its literary status in our time much to the credit of Joseph Epstein.

Most people do a good deal of whatever they do motivated by love. For me few stories are truly complete without it.

My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child's soul through the dirt.

It is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale - they are well-equipped to deal with these

In the composition of the human frame there is a good deal of inflammable matter however dormant it may lie for a time.

Of course language is not an infallible guide but it contains with all its defects a good deal of stored insight and experience.

The only good thing I can say about the deal with Iran is that it brought the Arab states and Israel closer together.

The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. I rewrite a good deal to make it clear.

I am too easily contented with a slight and almost animal happiness. My happiness is a good deal like that of the woodchucks.

I think one ages and one dates. I tend to have a good deal of difficulty in liking some of the new poets.

A great deal of American T.V. viewed on Hulu which is superb - '30 Rock' for instance is on very good form.

I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums and possibly a good deal more.

I am naturally fond of adventure a little ambitious and a good deal romantic - but patriotism was the true secret of my success.

Two things Florida can teach the other 49 states: how to make a good margarita and how to deal with the aftermath of a hurricane.

I don't know one Jewish person that doesn't want to have a deal a good deal a proper deal but a really good deal.

... on the whole we have just as much orange left and it tastes far better if we give a good deal of it away.

Usually in romantic comedies you end up sacrificing a great deal of the complexity - you know just two attractive people and a good soundtrack.

He wondered why the pelican was the symbol of charity except it was that it wanted a good deal of charity to admire a pelican.

Language is one component of the human cognitive capacity which happens to be fairly amenable to enquiry. So we know a good deal about that.

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense without the grace of genius can deal with successfully.

Men are a good deal better collectively than they are individually. Many a man will do that privately which he will denounce in a crowd.

War is hell and all that but it has a good deal to recommend it. It wipes out all the small nuisances of peace time.

It is a good deal easier for most people to state an abstract idea than to describe and thus re-create some object they actually see.

If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.

For what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends on what sort of person you are.

A half century of living should put a good deal into a person's face besides a few wrinkles and some unwelcome folds around the chin.

There's not an instruction manual on how to deal with success so you just have to rely on having great friends and a good team.

Most of the writers I like just intimidate and humble me but in that there's a good deal of inspiration to be had as well.

Several very good friends of mine have died of AIDS. I spent a great deal of time with them when they went through that process.

Good and evil are a great deal more complex than a princess and a dragon . . . is not the dragon the hero of his own story?

It's a wise man who profits by his own experience but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow.

A woman's intuition is better than a man's. Nobody knows anything really you know and a woman can guess a good deal nearer than a man.

I'm far from perfect but I have managed to earn a good deal of respect by trying to implement the kinds of things you learn about.

There's a good deal in Pound's and Eliot's poetry that stood up even though their politics were deplorable. Or Pound's very deplorable Eliot's kind of deplorable.

I can deal with people who watch me on stage but I am not good in communicating with people any other way than through my work.

Separation is the worst. There's no good way to deal with it other than to get on the phone and do Skype and try to visit.

I see a good deal of talk from Washington about lowering taxes-I hope they do get 'em lowered enough so people can afford to pay 'em

India in particular is looking to develop nuclear power for domestic commercial use and we should work with them. This is a good deal for both countries.

I would love to have a good deal to end the nuclear ambitions of the Iranians but I don't trust the Iranians. They've been lying and cheating.

I lived through a golden period where society felt that it was good to help people who didn't have a great deal of money fulfil their potential.

I did learn a great deal about my husband but I also learned something about myself: I made a wise choice. I think he's a good man.

To me good storytelling is about journeys. It's about people's journeys people's discoveries and how they deal with those discoveries; circumstances that put people in different situations.

The fable says that the tortoise won in the end which is consoling but the hare shows a good deal of speed and few signs of tiring.

I have to give props to my stunt double who is the real deal and gets to do all the fun stuff and make me look good.

Everybody must be managed. Queens must be managed. Kings must be managed for men want managing almost as much as women and that's saying a good deal.

Only a soul full of despair can ever attain serenity and to be in despair you must have loved a good deal and still love the world.

... it is a great mistake to confuse conventionality with simplicity ... it takes a good deal of intelligence and a great many inhibitions to follow a social code.

I am courageous at the decisive moment. But I need a good deal of start-up time and I try to take as much as possible into consideration beforehand.

Andrea Leadsom also denies any tax avoidance says she 'shopped around' for a good deal and it was from a British bank that booked the biz in Jersey.

I got good notice from that show and on the last day of filming Townies Twentieth Century Fox called wanting to meet with me about a development deal.

Life is learning how to deal with traffic. It requires patience a good sense of timing and sometimes not giving in to the traffic but reshaping your life.

Happiness follows sorrow sorrow follows happiness but when one no longer discriminates happiness and sorrow a good deal and a bad deed one is able to realize freedom.

I'm a free agent so I'm probably gonna be signing a major deal that I'm gonna be announcing pretty soon and a few good singles are coming out.

Stop making me feel good. If you are anti-Semitic fine. If you don't like me personally fine. But deal with me as an individual not as a Jew.

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words or in good order.

I've been turning it over in after-dinner speeches but it looks awkward-it's not what people are used to-it wants a good deal of Latin to make it go down.

I loved I was loved my health was good I had a great deal of money and I spent it I was happy and I confessed it to myself.

The price of freedom of religion or of speech or of the press is that we must put up with and even pay for a good deal of rubbish.

I have something that makes me happy on some level and this is a good way for me to deal with the torment of that teenage life gave me

A consumer-finance agency is a good thing but it would do well to teach consumers a simple lesson: if you don't understand the deal you're making don't make it.

You can't do a good deal with a bad guy. The dishonesty tax is too high and is not something you will factor into your side of the equation.

Learning to draw is really a matter of learning to see - to see correctly - and that means a good deal more than merely looking with the eye.

We were arguing about what was good to deal with making education fairer diverse and more American. We were not arguing about where black scientists get a good education.

You know we always tried to rationalize by saying you take the good you take the upside you got to deal with the downside you've to take the downside.

I was searching for something a little more than a dashing metaphor a good deal less than a cultural map: and for those purposes the two cultures is about right.

People who have read a good deal rarely make great discoveries. I do not say this in excuse of laziness but because invention presupposes an extensive independent contemplation of things.

Life will deal me many different hands some good some bad (maybe they've already been dealt) but from here on in I'll be turning my own cards. â??Alton Richard

Yes I do enjoy walking at night. The worldâ??s more to my liking then not so loud not so fast not so crowded and a good deal more mysterious.

There's a good deal of ivory being sold that claims to be antique ivory. In fact we've seen evidence that there are fake antiques being carved in countries like China.

There is a good deal of solemn cant about the common interests of capital and labor. As matters stand their only common interest is that of cutting each others throat.

To get a good deal I buy them all with a friend. The houses the boat everything. We each buy half. So I pay half price! They get used more.

I have traveled a good deal in Concord; and everywhere in shops and offices and fields the inhabitants have appeared to me to be doing penance in a thousand remarkable ways.

Many an American jazz musician has been beguiled by the lush melodies and sumptuous rhythms of Brazilian music but Peter Sprague has taken the romance a good deal further than most.

...mediocre people find their way into positions of authority...because when it comes to even the most important positions our selection decisions are a good deal less rational than we think.

This kind of charge reveals a good deal about the personality of the people who make it; to impute such motives to another man is to imply you're harboring them yourself.

The fact is the king was a good deal more than a king he was a man; and when a man is a man you can't knock it out of him.

I know I fib a good deal. After all a woman's charm is fifty per cent illusion but when a thing is important I tell the truth. - Blanche Scene II

We may not be able to do any great thing; but if each of us will do something however small it may be a good deal will be accomplised for God.

Living is very serious very real. It is also always a game. If we are wise it is very real very terrible and very lovely and a good deal of fun.

A good deal of time spent researching this book might well have been wasted and valuable opportunities missed if it had not been for the help and suggestions of archivists and librarians.

Power is sweet and when you are a little clerk you love its sweetness quite as much as if you were an emperor and maybe you love it a good deal more.

Naturally the reader has access only to the events I show and the way I show them but as has been said there's generally a good deal of ambiguity in that presentation.

Although talent feels and looks predestined in fact we have a good deal of control over what skills we develop and we have more potential than we might ever presume to guess.

My notions of life are much the same as they are about traveling; there is a good deal of amusement on the road; but after all one wants to be at rest.

If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.

It can destroy an individual or it can fulfill him depending a good deal on luck. No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.

It is impossible to be a cynic if you live a good deal with young people. Fundamentally every young person has a feeling that the future is going to hold something of value.

When a certain show or film or celebrity captures the imagination of the masses that has a good deal to say about us I think and what is happening in our collective psyche.

Don't be carried off your feet by anything because it is modern - the latest thing. Go to the Louvre often and spend a good deal of time before the Rembrandts the Delacroixs.

Isn't every human being both a scientist and an artist; and in writing of human experience isn't there a good deal to be said for recognizing that fact and for using both methods?

Tell me of what plant-birthday a man takes notice and I shall tell you a good deal about his vocation his hobbies his hay fever and the general level of his ecological education.

A man must have a good deal of vanity who believes and a good deal of boldness who affirms that all the doctrines he holds are true and all he rejects are false.

Elections are a good deal like marriages. There's no accounting for anyone's taste. Every time we see a bridegroom we wonder why she ever picked him and it's the same with public officials.

I'm interested in the way in which the past affects the present and I think that if we understand a good deal more about history we automatically understand a great more about contemporary life.

Children are natural practitioners of the Queer and the Questing for childhood is nothing but a quest through a queer country. Of course they often have a good deal of trouble with the Quiet.

Police business is a hell of a problem. It's a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men and there's nothing in it to attract the highest type of men.

There is a good deal of evidence that the United States is moving to the right and that the main force behind the movement is a resurgence in a new form of racial prejudice.

Father expected a good deal of God. He didn't actually accuse God of inefficiency but when he prayed his tone was loud and angry like that of a dissatisfied guest in a carelessly managed hotel.

Don't do what we did. Make sure it's right and make sure it's what you wanna do. Make sure it's actually a good deal that you're not going to lose out too much on it.

When a man thinks he has got a good deal of strength and is self-confident you may look for his downfall. It may be years before it comes to light but it is already commenced.

A man who knows how to make good bargains or finds his money increase in his coffers thinks presently that he has a good deal of brains and is almost fit to be a statesman.

Don't be afraid � she said coldly " as far as love may go she may be worthy of you. It must have taken a good deal to overcome her pride. Don't be afraid John.