Good Intentions Quotes (page 4)

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• good
• skeptical
• intentionally

I'm very skeptical about the good intentions of Milosevic. Warren Christopher

• good
• hell
• placing

It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also. Robert Southey

• good
• business
• busy

It's a pragmatist's business, comedy. Start off with good intentions and references to the Pompidou Centre and you end up with boiled sweets and a pantomime cow. Mel Smith

• world
• evil
• may

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding. Albert Camus

• good
• lawyer
• affordability

He wanted to be a lawyer, couldn't afford it, so he started dealing to go to college - good intention. John Leguizamo

• good
• prayer
• mostly

The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions. Robert Brault

• comforting
• people
• understanding

Like anywhere, we had to make people understand that we were there with good intentions, and that we were there with respect. We started making contacts with the people in the neighborhood three months before shooting began, so that everyone involved was comfortable. Mathieu Kassovitz

• garden
• effort
• good

A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them. Liberty Hyde Bailey

• good
• bad
• enough

Intention, good or bad, is not enough. John Steinbeck

• good
• bad
• fate

...intentions, good or bad, are not enough. There's luck or fate or something else that takes over... John Steinbeck

• light
• job
• good man

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants. A good scientist has freed himself of concepts and keeps his mind open to what is. Thus the Master is available to all people and doesn't reject anyone. He is ready to use all situations and doesn't waste anything. This is called embodying the light. What is a good man but a bad man's teacher? What is a bad man but a good man's job? If you don't understand this,... Lao Tzu

• good
• evil
• excuses

There is a place within each of us where we cannot hide from the truth, where virtue sits as judge. To admit the truth of our actions is to go before that court, where process is irrelevant. Good and evil are intents, and intent is without excuse. R. A. Salvatore

• good
• mistake
• intelligent

Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention. E. Stanley Jones

• knowledge
• men
• him

The good repent on knowing their sin; the evil become angry when discovered. Ignorance is not the cause of evil, as Plato held; neither is education the answer to the removal of evil. These men had an intellect as well as a will; knowledge as well as intention. Truth can be known and hated; Goodness can be known and crucified. The Hour was approaching, and for the moment the fear of the people deterred the Pharisees. Violence could not be triggered against Him until He would say, 'This is... Fulton J. Sheen

• mindfulness
• mind
• good

The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well. Ursula K. Le Guin