Quotes about Good Deal

One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others. Votes: 2

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts. Votes: 2

What happens when children reach puberty earlier and adulthood later? The answer is: a good deal of teenage weirdness. Votes: 2

We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is Manifest Destiny. Votes: 2

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish. Votes: 2

I'd say that, to be a good deal maker, you have to have 3 basic characteristics - timing, timing, and timing. Votes: 2

Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising. Votes: 2

An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem. Votes: 2

One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success. Votes: 2

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ. Votes: 2

One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul. Votes: 2

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Now, if you're Al Gore, you can afford $10 a pop for squiggly-pig-tailed fluorescent light bulbs. But if you're mainstream America, two or three kids, mom and dad working outside the home, that's not a very good deal. Votes: 2

I am sorry to say that sometimes matters of very small importance waste a good deal of precious time, by the long and repeated speeches and chicanery of gentlemen who will not wholly throw off the lawyer even in Congress. Votes: 2

There is a lovable quality about the actual tools. One feels so kindly to the thing that enables the hand to obey the brain. Moreover, one feels a good deal of respect for it; without it the brain and the hand would be helpless. Votes: 2

As soon as she gets her divorce one of us is going to marry her. We don't know which. She is about as beautiful a woman as I ever saw, and very witty and well-informed, but it would cost a good deal to keep her in diamonds. Votes: 2

If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we do transportation, energy production, agriculture and a good deal of manufacturing. The problem originates in human activity in the form of the production of goods. Votes: 2

I recognize that I had a good deal of good luck in my life. I came along at a time when it was pretty easy to get a job in journalism. I went to work at CBS News when I was about 22, and within a year or so was reporting on the air. Votes: 2

Heads are a good deal, and I think they would be a common feature. It's hard to think of species that don't have heads, although there are some. It's good to have a head because it puts some of the sensory organs - eyes, ears, whiskers or whatever - next to the CPU, the brain. Votes: 2

When you grow up by the sea, you spend a good deal of time looking at the horizon. You wonder what on Earth the waves might bring - and where the sea might deposit you - until one day you know you have lived between two places, the scene of arrival and the point of departure. Votes: 2

I smoke as much as I want and chew tobacco a good deal of the time. I don't pay any attention to the rules for keeping in physical condition. I think they are a lot of bunk. The less you worry about the effect of tea and coffee on the lining of your stomach, the longer you will live, and the happier you will be. Votes: 2

That's the great thing about being an actor: Stuff shows up that you never thought was going to go down. You get to play or experience an area of the world that - you know, I live a pretty simple life, I'm not much of an adventurer. I like my couch and my television. So when stuff comes up in the job, it's a good deal. Votes: 2

Good deal: justice for you, mercy for me. Votes: 0

A good deal is a state of mind. Votes: 0

I have travelled a good deal in Concord. Votes: 0

A good deal of our politics is physiological. Votes: 0

Not-writing is a good deal worse than writing. Votes: 0

A girl in love will do a good deal. Votes: 0

Other psychological theories say a good deal about compensation. Votes: 0

A good marriage shuts out a very great deal. Votes: 0

Writers never get a very good deal in Hollywood. Votes: 0

..we'll deal with it, because the good outweighs the bad. Votes: 0

You can't make a good deal with a bad person. Votes: 0

I have learnt a good deal from my own talk. Votes: 0

Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal. Votes: 0

People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it. Votes: 0

A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection. Votes: 0

There is a good deal in a man's mode of eating. Votes: 0

It's never a good deal when only one party thinks it is. Votes: 0

A good deal of large and rather interesting work is drifting my way. Votes: 0

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. Votes: 0

A good leader sees everything, overlooks a great deal, and corrects a little. Votes: 0

Our power of being happy lies a good deal in ourselves, I believe. Votes: 0

Well, before the New Deal...[The Emancipation Proclamation] would be a good start. Votes: 0

Women singly do a good deal of harm. Women in bulk are chastening. Votes: 0

A good deal of classical music is, today, the opium of the good citizen. Votes: 0

Political elections are a good deal like marriages, there's no accounting for anyone's taste. Votes: 0

If the deal isn't good for the other party, it isn't good for you. Votes: 0

It would ha' been a good deal easier, if ye'd only been a witch. Votes: 0

I don't know exactly how it's done. I let it alone a good deal. Votes: 0

Death possesses a good deal, of real estate, namely, the graveyard in every town. Votes: 0

A pin has as much head as some authors and a good deal more point. Votes: 0

Some homes need a hickory switch a good deal more than they do a piano. Votes: 0

A pin has as much head as some authors and a good deal more point. Votes: 0

Life is a good deal more comfortable if one doesn't expect it to be fair. Votes: 0

a good deal of childhood is strong stuff for adults and totally unsuitable for children. Votes: 0

A good deal of Paradise Lost strikes one as being almost as mechanical as bricklaying. Votes: 0

One must love people a good deal whom one takes pains to convince or instruct. Votes: 0

Lending war equipment is a good deal like lending chewing gum. You don't want it back. Votes: 0

Genius is a good deal like the sea ... Nothing can restrain its tide or quicken it. Votes: 0

Political success is a good deal pleasanter than political failure, but it too brings its problems. Votes: 0

I don't have a great deal of stress job-wise in my life, and that feels good. Votes: 0

Well, I suppose you know that men will stand a good deal when they are flattered. Votes: 0

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything. Votes: 0

If it's sin, that's good news! Sin is the simplest thing in the world to deal with. Votes: 0

I would have doubled up and tripled up the sanctions [on Iran] and made a good deal. Votes: 0

Marriage is a good deal like taking a bath-not so hot once you get accustomed to it. Votes: 0

A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal. Votes: 0

A good deal of education consists of unlearning-the breaking of bad habits as with a tennis serve. Votes: 0

A GOOD man values his INTEGRITY and CHARACTER. NEVER deal with one that has no SELF RESPECT! Votes: 0

Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened. Votes: 0

Pure philanthropy is very well in its way but philanthropy plus five percent is a good deal better. Votes: 0

Health and health inequalities tell us a great deal about the good or bad effects of social policies. Votes: 0

Most writers are in a state of gloom a good deal of the time; they need perpetual reassurance. Votes: 0

First of all, war is a very, very difficult thing to deal with, even on the good days. Votes: 0

The good agent probably is not the reader, he's just the guy who can put together a deal. Votes: 0

It will be great when it's not such a big deal when a woman gets a good job. Votes: 0

His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices. Votes: 0

The best way to make a good deal is to have the ability to walk away from it Votes: 0

The best way to make a good deal is to have the ability to walk away from it. Votes: 0

It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead of his past Votes: 0

Progress. There's a good deal too much o' this progress about nowadays, an', what's more, it'll have to stop. Votes: 0

He thought and suffered a good deal but he lacked the resolution to dare--the first requisite of a practitioner. Votes: 0

With the guitar I've suffered a great deal, but when I've had a good time, the suffering seemed worthwhile, Votes: 0

Good communication may not make a risky deal safe, but poor communication may sell benefits of a good deal. Votes: 0

I suspect that in our loathing of totalitarianism, there is infused a good deal of admiration for its efficiency. Votes: 0

The prisoners eyed the clothes some time, and laughed a good deal among themselves before they put them on. Votes: 0

We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful. Votes: 0

As a motive for terror, religion has more often than not required a good deal of lubrication by lucre. Votes: 0

To turn a human being into a part-canine or lupine creature takes a good deal of artistry and money. Votes: 0

For one quarter, Black Tiger lets me escape from my rotten existence for three glorious hours. Pretty good deal. Votes: 0

When I was 17, I signed my record deal and passed my driver's test. It was a very good year! Votes: 0

There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work. Votes: 0

It's nice to know that what you're doing is being read and enjoyed by a good deal of people. Votes: 0

Whether it is fun to go to bed with a good book depends a great deal on who's reading it. Votes: 0

I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows. Votes: 0

Why, Mrs. Piper has a good deal to say, chiefly in parentheses and without punctuation, but not much to tell. Votes: 0

I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal. Votes: 0

You know, I once leased a Mercedes because I got a good deal on it because of my first name. Votes: 0

One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person. Votes: 0

If you want the truth rather than merely something to say, you will have a good deal less to say. Votes: 0

The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels. Votes: 0

Only me, eh? Is that how you see yourself? Only you is worth a good deal more than you think. Votes: 0

There is often a good deal of the child left in people who have had to grow up too soon. Votes: 0

I think there are a number of little Ribbentrops running around. But Molotov hasn't found a good enough deal yet. Votes: 0

I think it should be ambitious and good music does deal with life and art and all these wonderful things. Votes: 0

I'd say that, to be a good deal maker, you have to have three basic characteristics - timing, timing, and timing. Votes: 0

Nothing to mountaineering, just a little physical endurance, a good deal of brains, lots of practice, and plenty of warm clothing. Votes: 0

My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough. Votes: 0

Good action films - not crap, but good action films - are really morality plays. They deal in modern, mythic culture. Votes: 0

Whoever would do good in the world, ought not to deal in censure. We ought not to destroy, but rather construct. Votes: 0

In practice, a good deal of the outcomes produced by the market reflect nothing more than luck - good or bad. Votes: 0

If you have to go through life being unhappy to conform to society around you, that's not a very good deal. Votes: 0

Now so many really good groups who have had a first major hit can't get a deal for a second one. Votes: 0

For the drivers, a weekend off would be nice, but for the fans, it would not be a very good deal. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I think the writer makes a good story good or a good story bad. The writer has a great deal of responsibility. Votes: 0

The attitude of the English towards English history reminds one a good deal of the attitude of a Hollywood director towards love. Votes: 0

When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone. Votes: 0

You cannot escape what you have to deal with inside yourself. It will never bring good things. It will only bring madness. Votes: 0

We must use a good deal of economy in our wood, never cutting down new, where we can make the old do. Votes: 0

The modern essay has regained a good deal of its literary status in our time, much to the credit of Joseph Epstein. Votes: 0

Most people do a good deal of whatever they do motivated by love. For me, few stories are truly complete without it. Votes: 0

My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child's soul through the dirt. Votes: 0

It is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale - they are well-equipped to deal with these Votes: 0

In the composition of the human frame there is a good deal of inflammable matter, however dormant it may lie for a time. Votes: 0

Of course language is not an infallible guide, but it contains, with all its defects, a good deal of stored insight and experience. Votes: 0

As long as we keep learning new music and getting better musically, there's a good chance that the record deal won't change anything. Votes: 0

The only good thing I can say about the deal with Iran is that it brought the Arab states and Israel closer together. Votes: 0

The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. I rewrite a good deal to make it clear. Votes: 0

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. Votes: 0

I am too easily contented with a slight and almost animal happiness. My happiness is a good deal like that of the woodchucks. Votes: 0

...though the conversation always touched an exceptionally high level of brilliance, there was apt to be a good deal of sugar thrown about. Votes: 0

I think one ages and one dates. I tend to have a good deal of difficulty in liking some of the new poets. Votes: 0

A great deal of American T.V. viewed on Hulu, which is superb - '30 Rock', for instance, is on very good form. Votes: 0

As an actor, you deal with so much rejection and humiliation. When the good things come around, you tend not to trust your instincts. Votes: 0

I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more. Votes: 0

I am naturally fond of adventure, a little ambitious, and a good deal romantic - but patriotism was the true secret of my success. Votes: 0

Your retirement comes before your children's tuition. That's because there's no financial aid for retirement, and there's still a good deal available for college. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

... on the whole we have just as much orange left and it tastes far better, if we give a good deal of it away. Votes: 0

You spend a good deal of your life gripping a baseball, and it turns out it was the other way around all the time. Votes: 0

Usually, in romantic comedies, you end up sacrificing a great deal of the complexity - you know, just two attractive people and a good soundtrack. Votes: 0

I think daily deals are a good idea. Any ad people view as content is a good ad, and that's true for daily-deal ads too. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Bragging about what a good deal you got is one of the many great art forms that my people, the Jews, have introduced to American culture. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Good design is probably 98% common sense. Above all, an object must function well and efficiently-and getting that part right requires a good deal of time and attention. Votes: 0

The publicity I have been getting, a good deal of which is untrue, and the rest of it ill considered, has done me more harm than good. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob; it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right. Votes: 0

... 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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My idea of good company, Mr. Eliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance. Votes: 0

A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

New clothes are a great way to deal after a breakup. A good mix CD also helps you get through it and... you know, 72 hours of ice cream. Votes: 0

I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We may waive just so much care of ourselves as we honestly bestow elsewhere. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

Gut level is a good level to deal with life, and for me, I have to say that Buddhism makes sense for me because it's how I'm an artist. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: 'What about the next one?' Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

You can choose to be someone's Angel or choose to be a Troll, either way you will have to deal with the consequences of your actions, good or bad. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It is, I think, a good deal owing to the preponderance of the commercial element in Society that conversation has sunk to its present dull level of conventional chatter. Votes: 0

Among mathematicians, even in those days, the reputation of being a good Glass Bead Game player meant a great deal; it was equivalent to being a very good mathematician. Votes: 0

Sex without love is like a goddamn business transaction. And sometimes both parties feel as if they got a good deal, but that doesn't make it any less so. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

When you can find a strong character and a director that does want to protect the integrity of all characters, female and male, then you have a good deal. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. —Alton Richard Votes: 0

Yes, I do enjoy walking at night. The world’s more to my liking then, not so loud, not so fast, not so crowded, and a good deal more mysterious. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

...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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My own way of writing is very meditated and, despite my reputation, rather slow-moving. So I do spend a good deal of time contemplating endings. The final ending is usually arrived at simply by intuition. Votes: 0