In every human society, there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the height of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this effort and to diffuse their influence universally and equally.
Cesare Beccaria
GoodHappinessPowerEffortSociety
Really, I am just a guy who likes his profession and travelling and good food, and that is it. I'm no different from you or anyone else.
Hasnat Khan
GoodFoodI AmGood FoodYouGuy
I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.
Carl Sandburg
GoodPeoplePromisesTryWriteGet
On the microphone, I'm not scared to step up and say, 'This is my ability, this is how good I am.' In other areas of life, I'm not so confident; I'm still adjusting to the photo shoots, all that stuff. But behind the mic, I'm fully confident.
Stormzy
LifeGoodI AmStepConfidentSay
While I have always had a good relationship with my father, much of the time it has been a very limited relationship until I was older. So you can't really give him credit or blame for how I turned out.
Christie Hefner
GoodFatherRelationshipTimeBlame
I'm very happy at City, very happy since the day I came. I knew that the project was good, and in my head, there is nothing else but Manchester City, so how long I'm going to be at City is just never a question.
Sergio Aguero
GoodDayHappyCityLongNothing
My career has been very good to me, but really, the odds are really slim. It's a tough life, and you deal with a lot of rejection and unemployment, and if you're lucky to have a career, it's not easy. So you just want to protect your kids from the pain of rejection.
Morena Baccarin
LifeGoodPainMeToughRejection
I'm not a matchmaker. I'm a horrible matchmaker. I always try. I'm not very good.
Eva Longoria
GoodTryAlwaysHorribleVery
No, ramen's not good for you. But in Japan, our favorite thing to do after drinking all night, especially in Sapporo where it's freezing cold, is to go to the ramen place at two, three in the morning.
Cary Fukunaga
GoodMorningNightColdYouPlace
The key to any good sports story is identifying the defining moment. In football games or a boxing match, it's usually pretty obvious. But in golf, sometimes it happens on Thursday. Usually it's Sunday, but guys who don't know the game, they can miss it.
Dan Jenkins
GoodSportsMomentFootballGame
I think that Gollum is really the character who is a very human character, and he's very flawed, like most humans are, and has good and bad sides.
Andy Serkis
GoodCharacterThinkBadHumanLike
If we play to first time Blink 182 listeners, it's good they are listening to us and not the Backstreet Boys. Old Fans or new fans, it's all the same to us.
Travis Barker
GoodTimeListeningPlayNewFirst
Principles of fair and equitable treatment included in many treaties are uncontroversial as general principles of good public governance.
Jose Angel Gurria
GoodPrinciplesFairGovernanceMany
I can be impatient. But I don't think it's always a bad habit. Sometimes a little impatience can be a good thing. It keeps you motivated.
Brant Daugherty
GoodHabitThinkYouBadI Can
I'm not a fan of musicals at all, but I do think 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' is a very good. I always thought 'Walk the Line' was very good, too. I was in 'Nowhere Boy.' I played Paul McCartney. That was kind of musical - we did songs in that.
Thomas Brodie-Sangster
GoodWalkThinkThoughtChristmas
I started listening to a lot of Jimi Hendrix and Neil Young when I was 8 or 9 years old - I had siblings that gave me good music instead of the crap that was on the radio in the '90s.
Eliot Sumner
GoodMusicMeListeningYoungRadio
I get such joy out of performing for people, and you can tell whether they like you or they don't like you the minute you walk out on the stage. And they don't even have to tell me that they had a good time. I know they had a good time.
Darlene Love
GoodTimeWalkJoyPeopleMe
If I like something, I will pick it up from anywhere and wear it. I don't believe that only branded stuff looks good on you. If it doesn't look good in my eyes, I'll never wear it.
Kajol
GoodEyesBelieveYouLookLooks
I'm not saying that there's anything better than mated bliss at its best, but I'm saying that living alone is as good in its own way. But we haven't quite given ourselves permission to recognize that.
Barbara Feldon
GoodAloneBestSayingBetterWay
To this day, I get rewrite offers where they say: 'We feel this script needs work with character, dialogue, plot and tone,' and when you ask what's left, they say: 'Well, the typing is very good.'
John Sayles
WorkGoodCharacterDayFeelYou
If I know a guy who's a really good improvisational actor, I'd be foolish not to let him because he'll come up with goodies and all kinds of little freebies that you get.
Rob Reiner
GoodYouKnowActorHimUp
But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events.
Diane Wakoski
GoodPoetryThinkEventsWordVenue
I was serving good but was returning especially well, which was a weakness in my game. So not only was I serving well, but I was also breaking these other guys, and they felt the pressure.
Richard Krajicek
GoodGameWeaknessPressureServing
I hate to say 'chain restaurant,' but we're sort of a corporation now. How do we defy that concept, where people assume each restaurant can't be good?
David Chang
GoodHatePeopleRestaurantNowSay
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