The truth is, bad things don’t affect us as profoundly as we expect them to. That’s true of good things, too. We adapt very quickly to either. – Daniel Gilbert
The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things. If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone. – Noam Chomsky
There’s a certain grace in accepting what your life is and embracing all the good things that have been – but there’s still an expectation of good things to come. Not necessarily what you expected. – Emmylou Harris
Suppose you like someone very much. Then, by a familiar halo effect, you will also be prone to believe many good things about that person – you will be biased in their favor. Most of us like ourselves very much, and that suffices to explain self-assessments that are biased in a particular direction. – Daniel Kahneman
As far as pleasures, you’ve got to have limits. You shouldn’t have too much of good things, so you’ll always have a desire for more and you won’t get bored. – Compay Segundo
We’re not environmentally doing very good things to this planet, and we might not be around too long. – Peter Dinklage
If you do a full-on workout and then eat McDonald’s or Wendy’s, you’re defeating the purpose. If you put good things into your body while working out, you’ll see results. – Matt Kemp
The guy in the airplane goes with you. So he has self-interest to do the good things, too, and I don’t know of any pilots that don’t have a self-interest in staying alive. – Gordon Bethune
And so there are so many good things going on all across Iraq and unfortunately that’s not what the American people see on TV or they don’t read a lot about it in the newspapers. – Donald Evans
I always look at films as real stories with real people in real situations. That’s why I struggle with the whole notion of calling someone the ‘good guy’ or the ‘bad guy’, because I think we all have potential to do good things and all have the potential to do bad things. – Guy Pearce
Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly. – Democritus
The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said. – Friedrich Durrenmatt
I don’t like talking about myself. I’m not really interested in myself. One of the good things about being a supporting actor is that you get to talk about other people. – David Morse
The Grateful Dead were very kind. It was Santa Claus. It did good things. It allowed other people to benefit. The benefits that we played were enormous, and we played free. So you’ve got a band that loves to play free, and that was a wonderful thing. – Mickey Hart
I eventually realized that good things wouldn’t happen to me if I didn’t make the right choices. – Melissa Marr
Things happen. And good things happen, and bad things happen. And I’m a person – I’m a believer that everything happens for a reason. – Manti Te’o
I just consciously try to enjoy the good things that are happening. And if it ended tomorrow, that would be fine. – Peter Capaldi
As long as you’re not hurting anybody else, as long as you’re being kind to people and you’re doing what you love, only good things can come of it. – Jason Silva
You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater – why the better it is for all of us. – Jerome Lawrence
Growing up in Ireland, there never seemed to be the notion that children should be seen and not heard. We all looked forward to mealtimes when we’d sit around the table and talk about our days. Storytelling and long, rambling conversations were considered good things. – Maeve Binchy