#good

I'll never forget one morning I walked in and I had a hell of a bruise - it had been a difficult night the night before - and a client said to me, 'Good God, Vidal, what happened to your face?' And I said, 'Oh, nothing, madam, I just fell over a hairpin.' ↗

— Vidal Sassoon

#before #bruise #client #difficult #face

The essence is, what can we do next? And will it be good? ↗

— Vidal Sassoon

#good #next #will

My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me. ↗

— Vidal Sassoon

#good #had #hairdressing #me #mother

I had a good chance when I went to Beijing and the guy who beat me, I'd beaten him three weeks before and he went on to win silver. ↗

— Billy Joe Saunders

#beaten #before #beijing #chance #good

Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another. ↗

— George Saunders

#answers #bad #bet #cruel #declines

I think fiction isn't so good at being for or against things in general - the rhetorical argument a short story can make is only actualized by the accretion of particular details, and the specificity of these details renders whatever conclusions the story reaches invalid for wider application. ↗

— George Saunders

#against #application #argument #being #conclusions

For every 10 good things, there's always some jerk that wants to say something bad. ↗

— Devon Sawa

#bad #every #good #good things #jerk

If you believe in journalism, you don't insult good journalists. ↗

— Sydney Schanberg

#good #insult #journalism #journalists #you

While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#both #evil #future #good #good and evil

I feel really ambiguous about the psychology of people trying to do good in the world. ↗