#good intentions

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

— Robert Southey

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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

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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. ↗

— Peter Drucker

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The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

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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

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This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a presumption that, without relentless scrutiny, the government will misbehave. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

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So many financial dreams are thwarted by the failure to act upon good intentions. ↗

— Suze Orman

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One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the research of gangs in New York City, seems to have allowed crime figures at the time, like Luciano, Capone, Torrio and Rothstein, to organize to become more powerful, which pulled all the way through until the '70s. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

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I'm delirious with joy. It proves that if you confront the universe with good intentions in your heart, it will reflect that and reward your intent. Usually. It just doesn't always do it in the way you expect. ↗

— J. Michael Straczynski

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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

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