Though sex in some form or other enters into all human activity and it was a good thing that Freud emphasized this aspect of human nature, it is fantastic to explain everything in terms of sex.

The matter may seem a small thing to some people, I know, but it's a very good start on the road to Totalitarianism The Commission has posted signs in Washington Square saying:

Maybe it's a good thing it happened.

The last thing in the world that resembled a war was our line of farmers and storekeepers and mechanics perched on top of a stone wall, and this dashing rider made us feel a good deal sharper and more alert to the situation.

The shift in sentiment from excessive optimism early in the year to the present mood of caution has probably been a good thing, in that it has prevented the accumulation of the burdensome inventories that have characterized many previous swings in the business cycle.

Now good definition is one thing that all of us can acquire with occasional high-set, high-rep, light-weight workouts.

Even if you live above that line, the FHA will back you, for they have decided that the inclusion of air conditioning in all new homes is a good thing and should be encouraged.

Now the thing for us to do is to find ourselves a couple of those wonderful flowering currants such as the red Ribes sanguineum of our Pacific Northwest, or otherwise a good sloe tree, or perhaps some nice pussy willow in bloom, preferably one with male or staminate catkins.

Mr. John Magee, whose work has been discussed in this chapter, was quoted in a New Yorker Magazine profile as saying: `` Of course, you have to remember it's a good thing for us chartists that there aren't more of us.

The Providence Daily Post thought that there were probably good reasons for the haste in which the trial was being conducted and that the only thing gained by a delay would be calmer feelings.

When asked how this was different from being a good Protestant, the boy answered, `` It's the same thing ''.

`` A lot of people are so peculiar that they don't like cats, it's not the easiest thing in the world to find good homes for kittens -- and, damn it, you know very well if I have them around long, impossible to give them away!!

He is talking about an action which just as efficaciously does an evil thing ( and is known certainly and unavoidably to lead to this evil result ) as it efficaciously does some good.

It was a good thing that she clung to her religion, he thought.

Just the same, he thought, pondering over it, it would be a good thing for a girl like Carla if she got up and went to church.

`` I'm not good at that kind of thing ''.

( One good thing about a suit of armor, his leg wouldn't show.

Growing up without a mother from the time she was three -- it wasn't a good thing for a child, even knowing the kind of mother Alice had been.

The prophet, though blind with old age, knew the wife of Jeroboam as soon as she approached, and under a divine impulse he announced to her that inasmuch as in Abijah alone of all the house of Jeroboam there was found " some good thing toward the Lord ," he only would come to his grave in peace.

" He declared many of his contemporary scholars to be stupid, lazy, vain, or all three, proclaiming: " Knowledge is good, method is good, but one thing beyond all others is necessary ; and that is to have a head, not a pumpkin, on your shoulders, and brains, not pudding, in your head.

: And he used to repeat that sentence from St. Paul “ It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God ,” and many other verses of Scripture, urging us thereby to awake from the slumber of the soul by thinking in good time of our last hour.

For one thing they had too good an opinion of their own ability ... Another point was their faulty field dispositions, and in addition there was rampant indiscipline and inexperience displayed ...

In the early Confucian tradition, lǐ was doing the proper thing at the proper time, balancing between maintaining existing norms to perpetuate an ethical social fabric, and violating them in order to accomplish ethical good.

Something is ' good in itself ' when it is intrinsically good, and ' good without qualification ' when the addition of that thing never makes a situation ethically worse.

`` Billy Tilghman is too good a man to shoot in the back.

Something was beginning to stir and come alive in her, too ( it may have been there for a good while, since she was twenty now ; ;

It ignores the sordid financial aspects ( quite conveniently, too, for his audience, who could indulge in moral indignation without visible, or even conscious, discomfort, their money from the transaction having been put away long ago in a good antiseptic brokerage ).

They for their part are convinced that Holmes is too `` unorthodox '' and `` theoretical '' to make a good detective.

Steele apparently professed his sentiments in this book too openly and honestly for his own good, since the government was soon to use it as evidence against him in his trial before the House.

and in contemporary society we often complain of too much reaffirmation of the goodness of the good.

Obviously the commander-in-chief had confidence that Morgan would furnish him good intelligence too, for on the 23rd of May, he told Morgan that the British were prepared to move, perhaps in the night, and asked Morgan to have two of his best horses ready to dispatch to General Smallwood with the intelligence obtained.

They had my mother's opinion of him: that he was too sharp or a little too good to be true.

Until the last year or so the profession of friendship with the United States had been an article of faith with Trujillo, and altogether too often this profession was accepted here as evidence of his good character.

While some think we move too fast and others too slowly, Florida's record is a good one and stands out among the 50.

But even so, he had a good year in 1960 and won't do too much better.

Thanks for your good coverage of Ahmad's visit, too!!

She was wise enough to realize a man could be good company even if he did weigh too much and didn't own the mint.

But then, after the little operetta had been given its feeble amateur rendering, everyone insisted that it was too good to be lost forever, and that the Royal Academy of Music must now have the manuscript in order to give it the really first-rate performance it merited.

The one- or two-season hunt, of which there have been too many recently, may do more harm than good ; ;

Allow project to stand for about five minutes ( if wooden press mold is a good antique, do not leave clay in too long as the dampness may cause mold to crack ).

Acreage in excess of the minimum is good practice as recreation areas are never too large for the future and it is often more economical to operate one large area than several small ones.

By the time Barco reached the count of three, the situation seemed to Welch almost too good to be true.

A hypothetical issue of this sort might deal with the establishment of a free public junior college in a community where there already was a good private college which served the middle-class youth adequately but was too expensive for working-class youth.

`` Lillian's bread is so good and everything tastes so much better here that it is hard not to eat too much '', said the secretary ruefully eyeing her extra pounds.

I think you made a dam good chouise to turn off as nise a feler as Alf Dyer and let that orney thefin, drunkard, damed card playing sun of a bich com to sea you, the god damed theaf and lop yeard pigen tode helion, he is too orney for hel.

The din was successful, too, for just before the moon disappeared, the frightened toad had begun to spit it out again, which meant good luck all around.

He, too, believes in good intentions and is astounded and offended when they are not taken for the deed.