#intentions

It seems it doesn't pay to be good anymore, when people are short-changing you for evil. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#evil #good-samaritan #intentions #morals #short-changing

Good people left me breathless and wondering. How had they got that way? How good were they, anyway? How would it feel to be good? Then I hit middle age and suddenly I wanted to be a better person and to know that I was living a good life. ↗

— Judith O'Reilly

#humour #inspirational #middle-age #resolution #age

Through our intentions, a place no power can influence, we have the power to oppose. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#intentions #motives #oppose #motivational

Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy. ↗

— Jimmy Breslin

#architects #designed #hands #honorable #intentions

I don't know anyone in the public eye who has not made a mistake and said something in a manner that does not truly reflect their intentions. ↗

— Jim Jeffords

#does #eye #i #intentions #know

It strikes me there's a bunch of people in power who have really strong intentions of running the world and adjusting the world to exactly how they see it. ↗

— Colin Hay

#bunch #exactly #how #intentions #me

The intentions of record companies are not good, from the musician's perspective. ↗

— Melissa Auf der Maur

#good #intentions #musician #perspective #record

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

#good #good intentions #government #innocence #instead

While eschewing emotion - and its companion, vulnerability - Obama should be careful not to sacrifice empathy, the 'I feel your pain' connection that sustained Clinton. This connection is the shorthand people use to measure their leaders' intentions. If people believe you're on their side, they will trust your decisions. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#believe #careful #clinton #companion #connection

Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions, present a condescending view not just of the religion but also of women living in Muslim majority countries, as if the desire for choice and happiness is the monopoly of women in the west. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#also #benign #choice #condescending #countries