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The welfare state has always been judged by its good intentions, rather than its bad results.
Liberals get credit for good intentions, and that's about it, because everything they do fails.
No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well.
My nature is to provoke, that's true. I can't help myself. But it's always with good intentions.
I think I'll be going to Heaven, because I had good intentions. But my actions are another thing.
Neither smiles nor frowns, neither good intentions nor harsh words, are a substitute for strength.
Unless a decision has degenerated into work, it is not a decision; it is at best a good intention.
Half of the results of a good intentions are evil; half the results of an evil intention are good.
I don't give a damn if I go to hell. I love you Satan. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.
It is a hard, embittering thing to have one's kind feelings and good intentions cast back in one's teeth.
I think every religion is founded with good intentions, but with any good thing, there's a negative use for it.
Do any of us know how we’re actually doing? Whether or not all the hard work and good intentions are paying off?
Institutions mistake good intentions for objectives. They say "health care"; that's an intention, not an objective.
The single largest pool of untapped resource in this world is human good intentions that never translate into action.
Good intentions are very mortal and perishable things. Like very mellow and choice fruit, they are difficult to keep.
There are people who do what they believe is right, but as they say, 'The road to hell is paved with good intentions.'
People started down the road with good intentions, but the moment the road became rough or difficult, they'd abandon it.
It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.
We shall act with good intentions, but at times we will be wrong. When we are, let us admit it and try to right the situation.
China never had good intentions. Since the late 1980s, its stated aim has been world domination, technologically and militarily.
The tendency of the UN and its major supporters is to think good intentions and mild to rampant corruption are as good as actual results.
Start your day with good intentions and set yourself up for a good attitude. It's not what happens to you that matters but how you respond.
The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour.
In JavaScript, there is a beautiful, elegant, highly expressive language that is buried under a steaming pile of good intentions and blunders.
There seems to me nothing very bad about a nation's capital having good intentions - and when the intentions are magnificent, so much the better.
The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
Good intentions aren't enough. People have good intentions when they set a goal to do something, but then they miss a deadline or other milestone.
Perdition awaits at the end of a road constructed entirely from good intentions, the devil emerges from the details and hell abides in the small print.
So many people view the war on drugs as a failure, as something that was perhaps intended and carried out with good intentions but very badly executed.
It is of unspeakable advantage to possess our minds with an habitual good intention, and to aim all our thoughts, words, and actions at some laudable end.
I think we're entering a very dangerous time. The West has set itself up, decided it's in charge, not for good intentions, not for the benefit of mankind.
I'm always in awe of and respect humans for their ability to plan, but sometimes, good intentions are lost along the way. And often the way becomes the goal.
Power is an instrument of fatal consequence. It is confined no more readily than quicksilver, and escapes good intentions as easily as air flows through mesh.
Among the good and decent men, some are unprepared for the surprises of life, and their good intentions run aground when confronted with issues like child care.
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.
Nothing is so capable of overturning a good intention as to show a distrust of it; to be suspected for an enemy, is often sufficient to make a person become one.
We made 'Baahubali' with pure intentions. It taught us that we might be remembered for the rest of our lives if we do something with good intentions in our hearts.
When things go wrong or dont turn out the way you pictured them in your head, you just have to go with the best intentions defense. I have a lot of good intentions.
We call an intention good which is right in itself, but the action is good, not because it contains within it some good, but because it issues from a good intention.
When things go wrong or don't turn out the way you pictured them in your head, you just have to go with the best intentions defense. I have a lot of good intentions.
I love the story of Quasimodo, about someone who feels like they don't belong but is pure of heart and has good intentions. It's a great message for a younger audience.
There's a deep-freeze of sorts for all good intentions - a place that you store your plans to make changes in your life when you know you're not going to make them at all.
My experience is that our intelligence officials try to do the right thing, but even with good intentions, sometimes they make mistakes. Sometimes they can be overzealous.
Good intentions often get muddled with very complex execution. The last time the government tried to make taxes easier, it created a 1040 EZ form with a 52-page help booklet.
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.
In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good intentions, and if you are kind to people, I believe that good things happen to you.
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.
Good intentions, regular worship, Bible study, do not prevent blindness. Part of our sinful nature instinctively chooses to see what we want to see and to ignore what we want to ignore.
Despite their good intentions, today's businesses are missing an opportunity to integrate social responsibility and day-to-day business objectives - to do good and make money simultaneously.