Goodness quotes
248 goodness quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines- From the movie: Radio
“But the truth is, we're not the one been teachin' Radio, Radio's the one been teachin' us - cause the way he treats us all the time is the way we wish we treated each other even part of the time.”
- From the movie: The Laundromat
“Saving the world, as it turns out, is very hard, you know? Long hours, bad pay, and perhaps the world does not want to be saved. Inside all of us, there are packs of wolves, some flocks of sheep roaming through our thoughts. We want to be fair, and yet, we want to win. We want to be righteous, but we want to get ahead. Such is our struggle. Uh,...” (continue)(continue reading)
- La trovi in Life and Death in Hollywood
“Immortality is to live your life doing good things, and leaving your mark behind.”
- From the movie: What Dreams May Come
“Good people end up in hell because they can't forgive themselves.”
- La trovi in Celebrities on other topics
“For every Mother Teresa, there's a Jeffrey Dahmer.”
- From the movie: The Pelican Brief
“- Edwin Newman: She sounds almost too good to be true.
- Gray Grantham: She almost is.” - From the movie: The Ninth Configuration
“- Colonel Kane: You're convinced that God is dead because there's evil in the world.
- Captain Cutshaw: Correct.
- Colonel Kane: Then why don't you think He's alive because of the goodness in the world?” - From the movie: Shutter Island
“Which would be worse? To live as a monster, or to die as a good man?”
- From the movie: Batman: The Dark Knight
“- Two-Face: The joker chose me!
- Batman: Because you were the best of us. He wanted to prove that even someone as good as you could fall.
- Two-Face: And he was right.” - From the movie: Citizen Kane
“- Kane: If I hadn't been very rich, I might have been a really great man.
- Walter Parks Thatcher: Don't you think you are?
- Kane: I think I did pretty well under the circumstances.” - From the movie: Radio
“It's never a mistake to care for someone. That's always a good thing!”
- From the movie: Road to Perdition
“People always thought I grew up on a farm. And I guess, in a way, I did. But I lived a lifetime before that, in those six weeks on the road in the winter of 1931. When people ask me if Michael Sullivan was a good man, or if there was just no good in him at all, I always give the same answer. I just tell them... he was my father.”
- From the movie: Cinderella
“When there is kindness, there is goodness. When there is goodness, there is magic.”
- From the movie: Inherit the Wind
- From the movie: A Hidden Life
“- Franz Jägerstätter: I don't know everything. A man may do wrong, and he can't get out of it to make his life clear. Maybe he'd like to go back, but he can't. But I have this feeling inside me, that I can't do what I believe is wrong.
- Judge Lueben: Do you have a right to do this?
- Franz Jägerstätter: Do I have a right not to?” - From the movie: The Diary of Anne Frank
“I know it's terrible trying to have any faith when people are doing such horrible... But you know what I sometimes think? I think the world may be going through a phase, the way I was with mother. It'll pass. Maybe not hundreds of years, but someday. - I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are really good at heart.”
- From the movie: The Night of the Hunter
- From the movie: Guys and Dolls
- From the movie: Bad Boys for Life
- From the movie: Shane
- From the movie: Live by Night
- From the movie: All the King's Men
“- Willie Stark: Do you know what good comes out of?
- Adam Stanton: You tell me, Mr. Stark.
- Willie Stark: Out of bad, that's what good comes out of. Because you can't make it out of anything else. You didn't know that, did you?” - From the movie: Rope
“Good and evil, right and wrong were invented for the ordinary average man, the inferior man, because he needs them.”
- From the movie: The Paradine Case
“Nice people don't go murdering other nice people.”
- From the movie: The Laundromat
“Thank you, Lord, thank you. Thank you for everything. I hate to ask this, but I was just wondering when exactly the meek will be inheriting the Earth?”
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