Good intentions have been the ruin of the world. The only people who have achieved anything have been those who have had… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Novel-writing can be a cold-blooded business. One uses whatever happens to be lying around in memory and employs it to suit one’s… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Cutting corners no doubt makes the job easier for the government, but making the government's job easier is rarely a priority. Preserving… — Wesley Pruden Copy Share Image
There is a wine called Easy Days and Mellow Nights, well-known on the outskirts of the Navajo reservation. It is an economical… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Usually the intention of the artistic effect is too sophisticated for most people to understand, sort of like a joke that they… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
With regard to moral rules, the child submits more or less completely in intention to the rules laid down for him, but… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
An enormous amount of art and literature is erotic in the sense that it stimulates vague sexual emotions, but it has no… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
The life of meditation and religious study is absolutely no guarantee of peak moments. Most people involved in religious study and meditation… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the end, a small section of the crowd, maybe 2,000 to 3,000, turned against me. And that was it. Inside the… — Bryan Robson Copy Share Image
On the other hand, the pleasure caused by laughter, even on the stage, is not an unadulterated enjoyment; it is not a… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
Sometimes his methods are questionable, and even his morals are questionable, but his intention is always to protect Sydney. So in that… — Victor Garber Copy Share Image
The main thing is this: we should never blame anyone or anything for our defeats. No matter how evil their intentions may… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
He uses common sense to judge not the intentions of an action but its consequences. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Everywhere you go you find readers who are interested, even though the story takes place here in this very neighborhood. It doesn't… — Jaume Cabre Copy Share Image
Policy is formed by preconceptions, by long implanted biases. When information is relayed to policy-makers, they respond in terms of what is… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Saying "Ameen" is permissible after reciting the Surah of al-Hamd in the Salat (but it's still not part of the Salat) especially… — Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah Copy Share Image
A deep analysis judges technology morally - from its conception and intention to the totality of its consequences, knowing that all "raw… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
I have no intention of letting this decision change the way that I approach my training and preparation for games, but the… — Jonny Wilkinson Copy Share Image
Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake -… — E. Stanley Jones Copy Share Image
I once heard a wise man say there are no perfect men. Only perfect intentions. — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
Jerome was sliding and climbing on top of me and it felt like it had the night before, like a crushing weight.… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
EVERY intention which does not assert itself by deeds is a vain intention, and the speech which expresses it is idle speech.… — Eliphas Levi Copy Share Image
There's a deep-freeze of sorts for all good intentions - a place that you store your plans to make changes in your… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
