Good Quotes

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.

I'm very skeptical about the good intentions of Milosevic.

The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions.

It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.

One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.

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.

My hatred is a thousand times more powerful than all your good intentions.

Like anywhere, we had to make people understand that we were there with good intentions, and that we were there with respect. We started making contacts with the people in the neighborhood three months before shooting began, so that everyone involved was comfortable.

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.

Good intentions are not enough. They've never put an onion in the soup yet.

The good ideas will survive.

I love that for Barack, there is no such thing as 'us' and 'them' - he doesn't care whether you're a Democrat, a Republican, or none of the above... he knows that we all love our country... and he's always ready to listen to good ideas... he's always looking for the very best in everyone he meets.

Making art, good art, is always a struggle. It can make you happy when you pull it off. There's no better feeling. It's beauteous. But it's always about hard work and inspiration and sweat and good ideas.

No director wants to be directed, but no good director... would shy away from the good ideas of others.

In the past, it was easier to believe in my own effectiveness. If I worked hard, with good colleagues and good ideas, we could make a difference. But now, I sincerely doubt that.

Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.

There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas.

I have some ideas on how to fix that. They're not very good ideas, but at least they're ideas!

Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.

But obviously, we're looking for all good ideas to help deal with our long-term debt problem. This is something that is going to affect our economy. It affects our kids. And we need to deal with it.

Good ideas are often murdered by better ones.

In the housing projects, people talked of ways to reduce crime, relieve overcrowding, and they were good ideas that we plan to study, and possibly implement.

Having established that good ideas do indeed come in from the cold, start on the fringes and become mainstream, can we make any predictions about what the next move will be?

Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.

But with lots of good ideas, implementation is the key, and so we need to keep our eye on the ball as we go forward and make sure that people honor their pledges in terms of financial commitments, and that we actually use this money so that it makes a real difference.

While one party may possess the levers of power, one party does not possess a monopoly on good ideas. Good lawmaking, after all, is about the ability to craft effective solutions.

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

There really was nothing like it at the time. We had good ideas for implementation, so we proceeded. I think it was an excellent solution to the reliability issues with existing search engines.

I fancy that no good ideas upon that campaign will be mentioned at any time that did not receive their share of consideration by General Lee.

Neal had a couple of good ideas and they fit nicely, so that's the way I decided to go.