Goodnatured Quotes & Sayings

People like me know that there is no magic. There is only the grind. Work looks like magic to those unwilling to do it. — David Wong

Much of the Kama Sutra is like origami; I don't quite understand all the bending that needs to happen. — Erica Goros

A feeling of foreboding, and, indeed, of physical as well as psychological discomfort, had come over him. He suddenly recalled - and this did nothing at all to help - a phrase he had once come across: Someone is walking over your grave. — Arthur C. Clarke

I watched his face put on that mask of bluff, goodnatured tolerance which is the mask of corruption in this particular time (for — Doris Lessing

Do you blame a vulture for perching over a carcass? — Chinua Achebe

Courtney was a doctor herself. She diagnosed herself with Schizophrenia years ago, but didn't take any medication. The point of her barely leaving her home or having limited conversations with people, was to keep her mood swings under control. — Nako

Well, I must own that you are not at all goodnatured to your sisters," she said frankly. "Not that I blame you for that - at least, not altogether! They seem positively to take delight in setting up your back! I wonder they shouldn't know that pinching at one's brothers is fatal! But whatever you may say you are not a monster of selfishness. You wouldn't be so kind to Jessamy and Felix if that were so. — Georgette Heyer

She doesn't want to begin, she wants to continue. No: she wants to go back. — Margaret Atwood

Anything you make has its own wavelength and its own sound. It's like a tuning fork, until the things that resonate are correct for it. — Akiva Goldsman

Hold your tongue!' said the Queen, turning purple. 'I won't!' said Alice. 'Off with her head!' the Queen shouted at the top of her voice. Nobody moved. 'Who cares for you?' said Alice (she had grown to her full size by this time). 'You're nothing but a pack of cards!' At this the whole pack rose up into the air, and came flying down upon her; she gave a little scream, half of fright and half of anger, and tired to beat them off, and found herself lying on the bank, with her head in the lap of her sister, who was gently brushing away some dead leaves that had fluttered down from the trees upon her face. 'Wake up, Alice dear!' said her sister. 'Why, what a long sleep you've had!' So Alice got up and ran off, thinking while she ran, as well she might, what a wonderful dream it had been. Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventure in Wonderland, 1865 — Lewis Carroll

One thing must be granted to the rich: they are goodnatured. — William Graham Sumner