Despite The Best Intentions Quotes

#1. Where the sky begins, the horizon ends, despite the best intentions.

Tom Petty

#2. Instead of celebrating what makes each child unique, most parents push their children to "fit in" so that they don't "stick out." This unwittingly stomps out individuality and encourages conformity, despite these parents' good intentions

Tom Rath

#3. Esmerelda's blue and green eyes could have made Stevie remember being hired by Mister Snuffleupagus, if that was what she wanted.

Jim Butcher

#4. I eat with my hands when I am home alone!

Travis Fimmel

#5. Despite her best intentions, she was beginning to accept the reality of the attraction she felt for him.

Nicholas Sparks

#6. A man betrayed by life's rats either hates and seeks eternal revenge, or forgives and seeks eternal distance; A man honored by life's faithful builds, and builds, and builds. A man indifferent to betrayal is not a man.

Mark Donnelly

#7. If your environment is stacked against you, you will use up your strong drive for self-control, and despite good intentions, your efforts may fail.

Paul Rosman

#8. Despite her words about letting go, melancholy washed over her. Because words are easy and often thrown around with trite intentions.

A. Lynn

#9. Despite good intentions, the result is troubling: Feeding the Beast becomes the central focus.

Ed Catmull

#10. Let's face it: It's difficult enough to be funny without worrying about what is going to offend whom.

Alan King

#11. Our children forever changed our relationships with our mothers. Pity replaced the mild contempt with which we had previously regarded them, and we loved them as we never had before, as we could only love ourselves, because despite our best intentions we had become them.

Anthony Marra

#12. Despite the best of intentions, people create rules variously and often in reaction to behaviors deemed unacceptable to the larger goals of the group. That is why we often find ourselves revising the rules when new conditions reveal their loopholes.

Dov Seidman

#13. But she knew that, despite their best intentions, people reached a point beyond which they could not return but could only hope for a safe landing.

Rona Jaffe

#14. 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.

Cindy Gallop

#15. But by the way Pigpen's eyes are flickering between that piece and me, I might have to stab him in the hand with a fork to get it.
"It's mine." He whispers. "Go for it and you're going down."
Despite my best intentions, I smile and his eyes shine with the win.

Katie McGarry

#16. the passionate defense of the Bible as a "history book" among the more conservative wings of Christianity, despite intentions, isn't really an act of submission to God; it is making God submit to us. In its most extreme forms, making God look like us is what the Bible calls idolatry.

Peter Enns

#17. You can keep waiting to get plucked from obscurity, or you can learn how to champion your project one person at a time.

Seth Godin

#18. I didn't understand why I could not control myself despite my best intentions.

Rachel Reiland

#19. Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

Charles Simmons