Good intentions Quote by Aleksandar Hemon

“America, you are full of nothing but bad ideas. Great intentions but awful ideas.”

— Kiera Cass

“What in the world were you doing?” I made a face. “It seemed like a good idea.” Her eyes became sympathetic. “America, you are…

— Kiera Cass

“He was not what he made up his mind to be. A man was the sum of his limits: freedom only made him see…

— Gish Jen

“It had happened again. I had met another American whose generosity, it began to seem to me, gushed out of the spirit of this…

— Peter Jenkins

“It seemed to me then - and to be honest, sir, seems to me still - that America was engaged only in posturing. As…

— Mohsin Hamid

“He had been told that in America, if you worked hard, anything was possible.”

— Fannie Flagg

“America didn't want any of us, and you haven't felt unwanted until America doesn't want you.”

— J.R. Moehringer

“It was practically un-American to not set goals and then do everything you could, everything, to reach them. Quitting-it was a dirty word...”

— Deb Caletti

“America wasn’t perfect, but nothing touched by human hands could be. There was greed, corruption, selfishness, pettiness, hatred. But there were good things too.…

— wildbow

“I wondered if anyone thought what we were doing was unpatriotic. It was weird. Thinking that to protest was somehow un-American.”

— Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely

“Although most Americans believed in Manifest Destiny, few could agree on exactly which lands the United States was supposed to govern.”

— Charles W. Carey Jr

“Sometimes, good intentions couldn't do a thing except make you feel less alone, and sometimes that was enough.”

— Riley Redgate