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The only way we'll be saved is if we save ourselves. Good people can't triumph over bad people just by being good; they have to act.


Dean Koontz

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DEYTH BANGER It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY Don't be afraid if you are being ignored be so good that people cant ignore you.
BILAL SAIF The only thing I hate about good people is that they like making their being good people bad people�...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA People are people the world over. Some are good, some bad, some greedy and some generous. Nations ar...
GEORGE AIKEN If we make all of the people good, markets will be good. If markets are bad, which they are, that me...
DAVE BRAT I never thought I was a bad person. I just thought I was the one good person living in a world of ba...
DEAN AMBROSE Being good or being evil is not something that is inherent in our nature over which we have no contr...
LAURENCE OVERMIRE All good people agree,
And all good people say,
All nice people, like Us, are We
An...
RUDYARD KIPLING We must never, never, never forget New Orleans, ... The equation is always the same -- where there a...
WAYNE LAPIERRE Dean Koontz always find way out of the horror and when it's about silence he should be the first ima...
DEYTH BANGER people have a natural tendency to anthropomorphize their pets, to ascribe human perceptions and inte...
DEAN KOONTZ We say a country is bad,when the few bad people decide to be more active than the many good people &...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Good people don't spend their time being good. Good people want to spend their time mowing the l...
ALAN FURST Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way aroun...
PLATO good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way aroun...
PLATO See no good, hear no good, speak no good; and the people will eventually find you good!
HUSEYN RAZA The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that b...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that b...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. What if life could be this way? Only the happy parts, none of the terrible, not even the mildly unpl...
JENNIFER NIVEN We need bad people, To be good people
HADI NOURALLAH We just want people to have a good experience and the only way we can guarantee that is if we know y...
DAVE OLSEN A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other stan...
B. R. AMBEDKAR Sometimes the only way you can feel good about yourself is by making someone else look bad. And I'm ...
DAN CASTELLANETA Dead people can be our heroes because they cant disappoint us later; they only improve over time, as...
VERONICA ROTH If your house smells good, people perceive you as a good person. If there is a bad smell, people may...
ALAN R. HIRSCH I was really good at being a bad guy; I like that role. Not being bad to people - just talking bad.
RIC FLAIR I realized crime isn't the only way you can judge people. People can do good things, and people ...
TAKERU KOBAYASHI If you look in real life, it is very hard to describe people as good people, bad people, heroes or v...
LENNIE JAMES Just as humans have a prior right to existence over dogs by virtue of being more highly evolved and ...
VALERIE SOLANIS In stories like Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast, they always say the heroine is 'a...
ALEX FLINN It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good te...
C. S. LEWIS It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temp...
C.S. LEWIS When people failed to be something good in life or to achieve something good. They become savages. S...
DE PHILOSOPHER DJ KYOS Sometimes the only way you can feel good about yourself is by making someone else look bad. And I...
DAN CASTELLANETA The best people are always the worst. They drive everyone mad by being so good at second-guessing ev...
CRISS JAMI I think we have six people who are really sort of OK. They are all good people. We don't have bad pe...
DONALD TRUMP People can save the world by the way they think and by the way they behave and what they hold to be ...
CYNDI LAUPER Only after the last tree has been cut down,only after the last river has been poisoned,only after th...
THE CREE PEOPLE What kind of a world do we live in, when the good are taken advantage of by the bad, while the bad h...
C. JOYBELL C. True, the apostles did not expressly say that people will be saved only if they repent, believe, and...
LEWIS B. SMEDES There are only good people in this world. Sometimes good people do bad things, but thats ok, we forg...
CHARLIE JAMES Striving to be good is the ultimate struggle of every man. Being bad is easy, but being good require...
SUZY KASSEM It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of...
NEIL GAIMAN Others are not born bad or good... and neither are people, by the way.
SERGEI LUKYANENKO Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the ...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. I think if we keep on doing good music and people like us and they buy the magazine because we are i...
VILLE VALO People who concentrate on giving good service always get more personal satisfaction as well as bette...
PATRICIA FRIPP Believe it or not, Christianity is not about good people getting better. If anything, it is good new...
TULLIAN TCHIVIDJIAN All of my close friends are emotional train wrecks. This is what makes our lives interesting - const...
PATRICK DEWITT We cant judge people because not everyone is kind and not everyone is bad
AINA JAHIRAH There is always much to be learned from bad times, and to many people who prosper, they get good les...
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE There is always much to be learned from bad times, and to many people who prosper, they get good les...
AULIQ ICE These were his friends, and his mother was wrong: they weren’t bad friends. Maybe, he thought, the...
STEPHEN KING Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just...
WALT DISNEY COMPANY Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD You think good people can't hate?" she asked. "You think good people don't kill?"[...}"Good people d...
LAINI TAYLOR Maybe there aren't any such things as good friends or bad friends - maybe there are just friends, pe...
STEPHEN KING We have to humble ourselves and the way you do that is by serving other people.
TIM TEBOW The biggest problem is people don't keep good records. If people kept better records, they'd save mo...
DAVID MELLEM Doing good in this world, and being kind and being honest and noble is really underrated. And I thin...
TOM HIDDLESTON I don't know why we're not interested in seeing good people. I think we like seeing good peo...
JAMES MCAVOY People crave trustworthy information about the world we live in. Some people want it because it is e...
BILL KELLER It's cool to be different and just be who you are and shock people in a good way.
BRENDON URIE God is good for everybody. The sun shines on good people and bad people, and it rains on both, too. ...
MARIANO RIVERA If we cant laugh at ourselves, do we have the right to laugh at others?
C.H. HAMEL Kennedy said that if we had nuclear war we'd kill 300 million people in the first hour. McNamara, wh...
NORMAN THOMAS Kennedy said that if we had nuclear war we'd kill 300 million people in the first hour. McNamara...
NORMAN THOMAS As humans have a prior right to existence over dogs by virtue of being more highly evolved and havin...
VALERIE SOLANAS I think it's a good idea. Anything they can do to save people lives is obviously a good idea.
JACK MORAN If most people could ever understand a person who is truly good, then history would not have witness...
ANUJ SOMANY There are no good and bad peoples; there are only leaderships that behave responsibly or insanely.
YOSSI SARID If someone talks bad about us, we feel bad. If someone talks good about us we feel good. The questio...
ABHYSHEQ SHUKLA Success to me is being a good person, treating people well.
DAVID LACHAPELLE There are more honest people and more good people than there are thieves and bad people. It's ju...
MICHAEL NESMITH Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy; but good administration can never save bad ...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY He taught us about being good to people by being good to us.
LAURIE KISTLER I think Judy Blume, Stephen King, and Dean Koontz are the three authors responsible for my being whe...
JAMES DASHNER Could it be that Christians, eager to point out how good we are, neglect the basic fact that the gos...
PHILIP YANCEY The day for people to just give us things is over. We have to stand up for ourselves. We have to hel...
CYNTHIA WILLIAMS Being a good person does’nt guarantee that others will be good people too.You only have control ov...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA In good times, people want to advertise; in bad times, they have to.
BRUCE BARTON Good people won’t do bad to you if you hurt them. They’ll just be neutral and walk away, with ex...
VIKRMN We want salaries. We want the government to live up to its responsibilities. If they don't have the ...
ABU HASSAN Maybe, he thought, there aren't any such things as good or bad friends - maybe there are just friend...
STEPHEN KING Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have...
FANNIE FLAGG I thank to bad people. They help me identify good people.
WOHI PURANA A good character is not only about the good person people know you to be. Your ability to tell the t...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Good people do all the things bad people do, Lazlo. It's just that when they do them, they call it j...
LAINI TAYLOR A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The aim of being a good designer is to have an influence. If you design furniture or lifestyle, you ...
OLIVIER THEYSKENS Figure it out. We beat Shelton, 3-1 and Shelton beats them, 7-1. Not only were they good, we helped ...
PETE CIVITELLO There’s no such thing as a good or bad person: there are just people who have each been or seem to...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Life takes its path and sometimes there are people to blame. Of course there are bad people in this ...
ANDREA CORR This is probably the advantage of being stupid. Stupid people just do. We tend to overthink. If we c...
SARAH STROHMEYER All the lies, all the ways we have of trying to make life simple for ourselves by putting people int...
JULIA GREGSON Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things...
STEVEN WEINBERG We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us fr...
G.K. CHESTERTON With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good peopl...
STEVEN WEINBERG

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DEAN KOONTZ The world has too few modest fry cooks and far too many self-important professors.
DEAN KOONTZ Narcissists are everywhere in this ripe age of self-love, which amazes me because so much in life wo...
DEAN KOONTZ They said there was no rest for the wicked. In fact, there was rest neither for the virtuous nor the...
DEAN KOONTZ Lies hurt people; imagination makes life more fun.
DEAN KOONTZ I thought you married me for my looks, my sensitivity, and my fabulous bedroom stamina."

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DEAN KOONTZ Although he was a young and virile man at 37, he was not inexhaustible. In addition to food and drin...
DEAN KOONTZ It's difficult to spend time in any carnival or amusement park and not realize that a repressed fear...
DEAN KOONTZ You're a poster boy for sincerity. You have all the guile of a lamb.
DEAN KOONTZ From birth to death we explore and seek, and in the end we arrive where we started, the past having ...
DEAN KOONTZ That I had come full circle shouldn't have surprised me, for we are born into time only to be born o...
DEAN KOONTZ She might have been born this way, without an empathy gene and other essentials. In that case, she w...
DEAN KOONTZ For the likes of you, the path to happiness is one mean son of a bitch of a path.
DEAN KOONTZ One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that that he's the only studio head I...
DEAN KOONTZ I don't find slashing and blood flying everywhere to be scary. I just find it repulsive.
DEAN KOONTZ That's life. Something always happens. We don't live in stasis, frozen in amber.
DEAN KOONTZ Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reins.
DEAN KOONTZ The sky is deep, the sky is dark. The light of the stars is o damn stark/When I look up, I fill with...
DEAN KOONTZ The galleon clouds seemed to have dropped anchor in the sky, and the night appeared to have frozen i...
DEAN KOONTZ Lem searched for the words to convey what he felt. As he found the language to describe what the dog...
DEAN KOONTZ it grinned the foolish and charmingly witless grin of all dogs who had ever ridden shotgun in such a...
DEAN KOONTZ Moral responsibility is on the shoulders of those who take the technology out of the lab and use it ...
DEAN KOONTZ Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over every day, the pleasures and joys of life c...
DEAN KOONTZ There’s such a thing as trying too hard, he told himself. It causes constipation of the mind. But ...
DEAN KOONTZ He continued to stroke its back and scratch its ears, but after a minute or two he realized he was s...
DEAN KOONTZ The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any rea...
DEAN KOONTZ He was sure that he was not the cause of the abrupt silence. His passage through the canyon had not ...
DEAN KOONTZ His love was an architect that entirely remade the reality of the chapel, transforming it into a cat...
DEAN KOONTZ The dog chose more letters, waited for them to study the words, then looked solemnly at each of them...
DEAN KOONTZ But this animal’s unadulterated joy in being alive was like a spotlight that pierced Travis’s in...
DEAN KOONTZ