Good night, and good luck.
- Edward R. Murrow
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow 
The obscure we see eventually.
The completely obvious,
it seems, takes longer.
- Edward R. Murrow
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
- Edward R. Murrow
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To be persuasive, we must be believable;
to be believable, we must be credible;
to be credible, we must be truthful.
- Edward R. Murrow
We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason
if we dig deep in our history and remember
that we are not descended from fearful men,
not from men who feared to write, to speak,
to associate and to defend causes
which were for the moment unpopular.
- Edward R. Murrow
Most truths are so naked
that people feel sorry for them
and cover them up,
at least a little bit.
- Edward R. Murrow
People say conversation is a lost art;
how often I have wished it were.
- Edward R. Murrow
Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world
doesn't mean you are wiser
than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
- Edward R. Murrow
A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow.
There's nothing tangible of yesterday.
All I can say I've done is
agitate the air ten or fifteen minutes
and then boom - it's gone.
- Edward R. Murrow
Just once in a while, let us exalt
the importance of ideas and information.
- Edward R. Murrow
Anyone who isn't confused,
really doesn't understand the situation.
- Edward R. Murrow
Fame is morally neutral.
- Edward R. Murrow
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
- Edward R. Murrow
If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ
in color for a full hour,
there would be a considerable number of stations
which would decline to carry it on the grounds
that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable.
- Edward R. Murrow
We cannot make good news out of bad practice.
- Edward R. Murrow
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.
When the loyal opposition dies,
I think the soul of America dies with it.
- Edward R. Murrow
Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.
- Edward R. Murrow
We will not walk in fear, one of another.
We are not descended from fearful men,
Not from men who feared to write, to speak,
To associate and to defend causes
which were for the moment unpopular.
This is no time... to keep silent.
- Edward R. Murrow
The speed of communications is wondrous to behold.
It is also true that speed can multiply
the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.
- Edward R. Murrow
No one can terrorize a whole nation,
unless we are all his accomplices.
- Edward R. Murrow
The politician in my country seeks votes,
affection and respect, in that order.
With few notable exceptions,
they are simply men who want to be loved.
- Edward R. Murrow
A satellite has no conscience.
- Edward R. Murrow
The newest computer can merely compound, at speed,
the oldest problem in the relations between human beings,
and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem,
of what to say and how to say it.
- Edward R. Murrow
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
He who can no longer pause to wonder
and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead;
his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
- George Bernard Shaw
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves
to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson
Treat those who are good with goodness,
and also treat those who are not good with goodness.
Thus goodness is attained.
Be honest to those who are honest,
and be also honest to those who are not honest.
Thus honesty is attained.
- Lao Tzu
The River of Life has no meaning,
no good, no bad, no better, no worse,
no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
Regrets are the tears of good deeds left undone
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Play to win, but be a good loser.
Have a plan for your life,
but accept whatever comes your way
with grace and gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
There is more value in a very good painting
that is completed and on display,
than in an excellent painting
that is still in the artist's studio,
or perhaps still in his mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Start living now.
Stop saving the good china
for that special occasion.
Stop withholding your love
until that special person materializes.
Every day you are alive is a special occasion.
Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.
- Mary Manin Morrissey
May love and laughter light your days,
and warm your heart and home.
May good and faithful friends be yours,
wherever you may roam.
May peace and plenty bless your world
with joy that long endures.
May all life's passing seasons
bring the best to you and yours.
- Irish Blessing
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was:
"If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?"
But... the good Samaritan reversed the question:
"If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Self-care is critical to having a strong inner foundation.
Taking good care of YOU means the people in your life
will receive the best of you rather than what is left of you.
- Lorraine Cohen
A good head and a good heart
are always a formidable combination.
- Nelson Mandela
Fighting not good. But if must fight... win.
- Miyagi: character in the movie The Next Karate Kid
If being good isn't working - try being outrageous.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
Good humor is the health of the soul,
sadness is its poison.
- Lord Chesterfield
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Robert A. Heinlein
He who wants to do good knocks at the gate:
he who loves finds the door open.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Not life, but good life,
is to be chiefly valued.
- Socrates
Good things come in small packages.
- old proverb
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
When I do good, I feel good.
When I do bad, I feel bad.
That's my religion.
- Abraham Lincoln
Do not be too moral.
You may cheat yourself out of much life.
So aim above morality.
Be not simply good;
be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
There is a good ear, in some men,
that draws supplies to virtue
out of very indifferent nutriment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
- John D. Rockefeller
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is good to have an end to journey towards;
but it is the journey that matters in the end.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
"Good morning!" he said at last.
"We don't want any adventures here, thank you!
You might try over The Hill or across The Water."
- J. R. R. Tolkien
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
- Mother Teresa
A sense of humor... is needed armor.
Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips
is a sign that the person down deep
has a pretty good grasp of life.
- Hugh Sidey
I am not interested in power for power's sake,
but I'm interested in power that is moral,
that is right and that is good.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Bad times have a scientific value.
These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever you are, be a good one.
- Abraham Lincoln
Sometimes good things fall apart
so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
Good works are links that form a chain of love.
- Mother Teresa
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln
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