quotations about intentions
A good intention feeds no one.
BOBBY DARNELL
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Time for Dervin: Living Large in Geiggityville
Unity of intent is on the lips of many, but in the hearts of few.
FAUSTO CERCIGNANI
Simply Transcribed: Quotations from Writings by Fausto Cercignani
The plea of good intentions is not one that can be allowed to have much weight in passing historical judgment upon a man whose wrong-headedness and distorted way of looking at things produced, or helped to produce, such incalculable evil; there is a wide political applicability in the remark attributed to a famous Texan, to the effect that he might, in the end, pardon a man who shot him on purpose, but that he would surely never forgive one who did so accidentally.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
American Statesman: Thomas Hart Benton