#good intentions

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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Now, the United Nations is an organization that I believe was founded with good intentions. As a matter of fact, a prominent Tennessean named Cordell Hull was very involved with it. ↗

— Zach Wamp

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

— Robert Brault

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Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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

— Warren Christopher

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

— Suze Orman

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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

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Good intentions are not enough. They've never put an onion in the soup yet. ↗

— Sonya Levien

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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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