#good

Raymond Carver is good. I think he'll be appreciated more and more. He's an easy writer to imitate. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#carver #easy #good #i #i think

The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

#also #desired #evil #former #good

There are a lot of good causes out there, but they can't possibly all be served by government. ↗

— Jesse Ventura

#good #government #lot #out #possibly

And indeed if you think you're a genius at something, what you achieve is very much according to your expectations; if you think you're no good, you're not going to get anywhere. ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

#achieve #anywhere #expectations #genius #get

This generation of filmmakers is very good. They're seasoned, for some reason. ↗

— Dennis Farina

#generation #good #reason #seasoned #some

We feel good about our running backs as we have them right now, and we will continue to see how they progress. ↗

— Jerry Jones

#backs #continue #feel #feel good #good

A performance is only as good as the audience you are playing to. A lot of times you feed off of the audience, and we always try to give them all we've got and sometimes you don't get a lot back, but we've never been dead whenever we've performed. ↗

— Kelly Jones

#audience #back #been #dead #feed

What appeals to me? There are things, points of view, uses of the language, habits of dress, ways of thought and believing that came to me from my grandparents and came to them from theirs. Things that are of good use in any situation, no matter what the future may hold. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#appeals #believing #came #dress #future

My father was a carpenter, a very good carpenter. He also worked for the Jones boys. They were not family members, we weren't related at all. They started the policy racket in Chicago, and they had the five and dime store. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#carpenter #chicago #dime #family #family members

I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future. ↗

— Van Jones

#cannot #colleagues #conscience #deck #defending