Busybodies Quote by Laura Lippman Download Open image “There was nothing more dangerous than people convinced of their own good intentions.” — Laura Lippman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Busybodies Convinced Dangerous Good intentions Intention Interference People
There's nothing more dangerous than than someone trying to act for the greater good. — James Patterson Copy Share Image
There's nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place. — Banksy Copy Share Image
There are few things more dangerous than a mixture of power, arrogance and incompetence. — Bob Herbert Copy Share Image
Nothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
There is nothing more dangerous than a government of the many controlled by the few. — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
Believing everybody is dangerous, but believing nobody is more dangerous. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupdity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People with good intentions but limited understanding are more dangerous than people with total ill will. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
One usually thinks people to be more dangerous than they are. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief. And by dangerous I don't mean thought-provoking. I mean: might get people killed. — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Relationships are chess for women," he said. "They can see the whole board, plan way ahead. They're the queens, after all. We're the kings,… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
People still struggle with this notion of gifted writers somehow being in touch with a higher power, but it's all about showing up and… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
If I waited to be inspired to go to the gym, I'd never get there. I schedule my exercise time; I schedule my work… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
“I hate to think how many minutes of my life I've spent on goddamn hold. I want those minutes back. When death comes for… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
I've long believed that the work-out life has lessons for the writing life. I've 'solved' a lot of books while at the gym, in… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
...Baltimore. It's imperfect. Boy, is it imperfect. And there are parts of its past that make you wince. It's not all marble steps and… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
“She was furious, with the kind of fury peculiar to the nonpaying client. Those who can't afford private attorneys . . . assumed legal… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
We become comfortable saying that there's nothing new, and then something like Malarky comes along, which is new and old and different and familiar,… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
My husband, David Simon, and I make our livings using our imaginations. — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
I think Baltimore suffers from nostalgia and it keeps us from being honest in talking about what really happened here. A place doesn't have… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
Baltimore has been a punchline/punching bag for years - I've landed a few blows, to be fair - but those old jokes are out… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
Jane had that happy disposition which would like to imagine that every one really wishes the well-being of his neighbour and struggles, though sometimes… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
The one prediction that never comes true is, 'You'll thank me for telling you this. — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
You know how some people are - they always feel they have to do things for other people's good, no matter what happens to… — Frances Parkinson Keyes Copy Share Image
Making those we love happy sounds innocent as a dove, but it can be as destructive as a lion. — Florida Scott-Maxwell Copy Share Image
Nest of Soviet fellow travelers clacking busybodies in a Soviet jellyfish front, sitting here in Leesburg oozing out their funny little propaganda and making… — Lyndon LaRouche Copy Share Image
People used to complain about 'the idle rich.' But the idle rich did not do the kind of harm being done by today's busybody… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
People who seek political power are, with exceptions too rare to matter, never to be trusted; at best, such people are vain and officious… — Donald J. Boudreaux Copy Share Image
Do I look like someone who has something to do here on earth?' —That's what I'd like to answer the busybodies who inquire into… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
there is nothing so easy as to be wise for others; a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly wasted. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
