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In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.
What does it mean to be good?
To live well is to live in harmony with ourselves, others and nature, and that idea of harmony is, of course, an aesthetic one.
The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
Too much is how I love you, but too well is how I know you.Love-- Ani Difranco
Splendid, replied the man by the well. But the first man pronounced the word as a young man might say it about a woman, and the second as an old man might say it about the weather, not without sincerity, but certainly without fervor.
Good's a pretty funny word. Never seems to have the same meaning to any two people" -T. Walker
The actual well seen is ideal.
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
Well done is better than well said.
I'm suffering very much, but am I suffering very well? That's the point!
Words mean what you want them to mean.Words-- Ally Condie
A soul that makes virtue its companion is like an over-flowing well, for it is clean and pellucid, sweet and wholesome, open to all, rich, blameless and indestructible.
Good describes a situation in comparison with its opposite. Not only that, but what is good or bad also depends on context, which itself is changeable.
A well lived life means weathering a few storms. Our lessons don't come from sunny days on the beach, they come from copping a few waves on the head.
Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess.
To get away well is so very much! And to get away well is often so very difficult!
Words don't mean, people mean.
For even the best err in words when they are meant to mean most delicate and almost inexpressible things.
Ah, yes. Fine. A lovely sounding word that means absolutely nothing.
Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression; it is having wit, soul, and taste, all together.
Good health is a crown on the head of a well person that only a sick person can see.
The way I write, words can means lots of different things.
When a person tells others 'Be good,' he conveys to his hearers the feeling that he is good and they are not.
Meaning is something we experience more than we attain. It's like finding a nice, easy current in a river that carries you through life.
What is conceived well is expressed clearly.
Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it that even those most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of it than they already possess.
Finally, good sense is the body of poetic genius, fancy its drapery, motion its life, and imagination the soul that is everywhere and in each; and forms all into one graceful and intelligent whole.
To write is to think, and to write well is to think well,
Living is the same thing as dying. Living well is the same thing as dying for others.
Good words do not last long unless they amount to something.
Failing well means ending something that is not working and choosing to do something else better.
One should use well a mouth for someone will remember your words and the manner they were spoken. One should pose well in a body for someone will remember your image and how you carried it. One should serve well for someone will recall the kindness and spread it among humanity.
Good and bad are really arbitrary words when it comes to character.
Good is not good, where better is expected
What-e're thou art,
Act well thy part.
The well heeded well heard.
Good, better, best,
never let it rest,
until your good is better,
and your better best.
Usually, meaning tends to find you, in the middle of the night, and when you least expect it.
A wellborn soul is guided by only one principle in the world: always do good to others and never harm
Good is latent in every living thing and simply needs to be called into active expression through the gracious application of respect, sympathetic understanding, gentleness and love.
Good-breeding is the art of showing men, by external signs, the internal regard we have for them. It arises from good sense, improved by conversing with good company.
The way to do well is to do well.
A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
Meaning is not something you can sell
Good intention" is a hall pass through history, a sleeping pill that ensures the Dream. An
A gauge of a life well-led: when it won't change if something you own breaks or is stolen; even a heart.
Meaning is not what you start with, but what you end up with.
Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed.
Good cannot be a single and universal general notion; if it were, it would not be predictable in all the categories, but only in one.
Wellsted will remember this moment for the rest of his life. It is the first time he desires something for himself that is not dedicated to his own advancement. It is the moment he falls in love.
Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.
One cannot think well, love well, or sleep well, if one has not dined well.
Words can so often mean what you take from them rather than what was intended.
Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.
Good-humor is a state between gayety and unconcern,
the act or emanation of a mind at leisure to regard the gratification of another.
It only means what you decide it means.
For whom is it well, for whom is it well.
There is no one for whom it is well.
If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much
You know sometimes words have two meanings.
What is your personal definition of "good"?
A world in which everyone is universally empathetic and exercises love and respect with full change-making power.
Do well by doing good.
Well-building hat three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight.
What will be will be well - for what is is well,
To take interest is well, and not to take interest is well.
To seek the highest good is to live well.
Good words are a vain benevolence that demand no sacrifice and are more appreciated than real acts of kindness.
Until you decide what something means, it has no meaning at all. You determine what something means.
Goodness means the highest degree of popularity.
My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.
The good for man is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, or if there are more kinds of virtue than one, in accordance with the best and most perfect kind.
My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient.
I suppose I had some meaning when I wrote it; I believe I understood it then.
I'm not well read.
Wellbeing is attained by little and little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.
Good is a noun rather than an adjective.
Meaning is not what happens, but what you do with what happens.
Goodness is a perpetual quantity, all penetrating, all searching, impartial, noble, a comfort in distress, a refuge to the weak, a tower and a defense to all who wish to be right and to do right.
Nothing has meaning, only the meaning you give it.
Good sense is the most evenly distributed thing in the world; for everyone believes himself to be so well provided with it that even those who are the hardest to please in every other way do not usually want more of it than they already have.
About the meanest thing you can say about a man is that he means well.
Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.
The meanings of words are not in the words, they are in us.
Leave well alone.Leave-- T.h. White
Things are often spoke and seldom meant.
To write well and speak well is mere vanity if one does not live well.
Words have weight, something once said cannot be unsaid. Meaning is like a stone dropped into a pool; the ripples will spread and you cannot know what back they wash against.
Words alone are certain good.
Good and bad, I define these terms, quite clear, no doubt, somehow.
The best is oftentimes the enemy of the good; and many a good book has remained unwritten ... because there floated before the mind's eye the ideal of a better or a best.
But for the most part, people - of the right kind - are good. For them I put on my corset of cheerfulness, a solid serviceable garment. It holds in the bulgings and oozings of emotion, and soon I find they are, temporarily, stilled.
It's your heart, not the dictionary, that gives meaning to your words.
(E)very genuine act or word, no matter how trifling it seems, leaves a sweet and strengthening influence behind
One must live well to know what living is.
It is well to pray when the troubles perch and your pillow is cheated of sleep. It is well at all times, even when there are no troubles and no petitions to be made.
Not all meanings are meant to be clear at once. Some ideas take time. Some words are designed to lead us on inner journeys, with truth hidden deep inside them.
Even the best things ill used become evils; and, contrarily, the worst things used well prove good.
The well is always here. God is always here - precisely because He does care.
A word meant something only between people, and life's meaning, its virtue, had something to do with the depth of the relationships we form. It was the relational aspect of humans that undergirded meaning.
When I write something, every word of it is meant. I can't say it enough.
By doing good, we do well.Good-- Rajiv Shah