Mean Well Quotes

#1. People who mean well always do badly. They are like the ladies who wear clothes that don't fit them in order to show their piety. Good intentions are invariably ungrammatical. Man

Oscar Wilde

#2. When things are difficult, awful, stressful, the thing that always gets you through is a sense of humour. I don't mean - well, maybe I do - laugh at the hangman as he puts the noose around your neck. But an eye, an ear, for the ridiculous, the absurd in life, can get you through a lot.

Paul Merton

#3. got very nasty.' 'People mean well, but they can be so tactless sometimes,' Doreen

Lesley Pearse

#4. People really do not like it when you decide to step off the road and climb the mountain instead. It seems to make even the people who mean well nervous.

Shonda Rhimes

#5. People are going to say a lot of things. And some of it will be helpful, and some of it will be annoying, and lots of it will get on your nerves. But they're saying it because they found it helpful when they lost someone. They mean well.

Michelle Falkoff

#6. My parents mean well," Grace said. "They want me to succeed."
"Well of course," Mallory said. "They love you. But I'm thinking success and happiness don't get along. Sometimes you have to sacrifice one for the other.

Jill Shalvis

#7. Most of us are good. Most of us mean well. But we somehow manage to hurt each other anyway. Don't ask me why.

Drew Magary

#8. You there, you look like a well-rounded lady, oh yes, and I mean well-rounded

TBBishiXO

#9. His eyes widened. "You didn't go back to town, did you?"
"No. I went to church."
"Ah, well. That explains it," he blurted. "I mean ... well ... Two hours of sermons is enough to dim anyone's sparkle.

Laura Bickle

#10. I make mistakes. That's what I do. I
speak without thinking, I act without
knowing. I drink so much that I can
barely walk ... I'm a fantastic lover
though, and an amazing friend. God
knows I mean well.

Candace Bushnell

#11. Oh my lovely princess,"Raoden whispered. "You probably mean well, but handing these people food is the worst thing you could do to them."
-Brandon Sanderson(Elantris)

Brandon Sanderson

#12. In my heart I mean well. But if you help me to grow, then what I have in my heart will begin to show.

DMX

#13. People mean well; they just aren't here enough to get what we are dealing with or what home means to my mother. Everyone thinks they know what should be done, and their suggestions make me suspect they must consider me an idiot who doesn't comprehend the situation.

George Hodgman

#14. Sydney: I can do a lot of things, Adrian.
And - at the risk of sounding egotistical - I mean, well, I can do a lot of pretty awesome things that most people can't."
Adrian: "Don't I know it. You can change a tire in ten minutes while speaking Greek."
Sydney: "Five minutes.

Richelle Mead

#15. You invented the words, and you gave me a dictionary and you said, 'These are what the words mean.' Well, this is what they mean to you, but to someone else, they have got a different dictionary.

Charles Manson

#16. She closed her eyes and willed him to lose the power of speech. Immediately and irreversibly. "Obviously, I didn't mean - " "Well. Thank you." In the entire history of time, had willing ever worked?

Sarah MacLean

#17. Thank God kids never mean well

Lily Tomlin

#18. No, no, my friend. You are kind, and you mean well, but you can never understand these things as I do. You've never been oppressed.

S. Alice Callahan

#19. Sometimes I think we'd all be better off if the people who mean well would just creep away and die.

Stephen King

#20. We're weird guys. I don't know if a lot of people get our humor. A lot of people probably think we're jerks. We're real sarcastic. Really ironic and stuff. We mean well, but we joke around probably a lot more than we should.

Brendon Urie

#21. Adults don't always realize the profound effect their words can have on young kids - girls in particular. These people mean well, of course. What harm could possibly come from telling a little girl she's pretty? Technically, none - unless that's the only affirmation she ever hears.

Kylie Bisutti

#22. God save us from people who mean well.

Vikram Seth

#23. People always mean well, but they don't understand that when you're seriously depressed, suicidal ideation can be the only thing that keeps you alive. Just knowing there's an out - even if it's bloody, even if it's permanent - makes the pain almost bearable for one more day.

Terri Cheney

#24. What's rare is to have a good, strong man, as opposed to a good, weak man. Those are the ones who ruin the world. Men who mean well, but buckle under others' opinions until their good intentions destroy an untold number of lives." My

Sara Raasch

#25. They mean well, and they mean well tae me, but there's nae way under the sun that they can
appreciate what ah feel, what ah need.
Protect me from those who wish tae help us.

Irvine Welsh

#26. I know you mean well, but you have to remember that things don't always work out like they do in your storybooks.

Melissa Hill

#27. If you're honest and straightforward and mean well, it should show in your eyes. It should be unmistakable.

Marcus Aurelius

#28. Ron gave a tiny jerk of the head that Harry understood to mean, Well - if you must.

J.K. Rowling

#29. I can be all pissed off at the oppression of the state, but what does that really mean? Well, it's the tacit consent of a public.

Cecily McMillan

#30. Yes, they mean well, but the only good that an absence of malice guarantees is a clear conscience.

Zia Haider Rahman

#31. We are equal partners. You don't get to stand around and mean well. Get off your butt and do exactly what we tell you.

Khalid Muhammad

#32. Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.

George Bernard Shaw

#33. You'd think, 'What if I make a mistake today, I'll regret it'. I don't believe in regret, I feel everything leads us to where we are and we have to just jump forward, mean well, commit and just see what happens.

Angelina Jolie

#34. This is the courtesy of Deep Heaven: that when you mean well, He always takes you to have meant better than you knew. It will not be enough for always. He is very jealous. He will have you for no one but Himself in the end. But for tonight, it is enough.

C.S. Lewis

#35. We often hear that people mean well: that so many just don't how to interact with people with disabilities. They're unsure of the 'right' reaction, so they default to condescension that makes them feel better in the face of their discomfort.

Stella Young

#36. I've got a stomach now as well as a behind. And I mean - well, you can't pull it in both ways, can you? ... I've made it a rule to pull in my stomach and let my behind look after itself.

Agatha Christie

#37. It is remarkable how quickly extraordinary things turn ordinary.

Nathan Hill

#38. No one would have known, from how he held my hand, [that] over the years of heartache he had hatched a plot to change my life forever. He held his grip and would not let me go. I do not know what joins the parts of an atom, but it seems what binds one human to another is pain.

Andrew Sean Greer

#39. Make a concise statement clearly and you should only need to say it once.

Mary Mihalic

#40. If intellect plays a large part in the field of violence, I hold that it plays a larger part in the field of nonviolence.

Mahatma Gandhi

#41. The denial of assistance is sometimes the greatest assistance. The trick is recognizing when this is the case.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#42. When we are high up, everything looks very small.
Our glories and our sadnesses cease to be important.
We have left whatever we won or lost down below.
From the top of a mountain you can see
how large the world is and how wide the horizon.

Paulo Coelho

#43. The only reason cavemen painted on walls was they didn't have note cards.

Jon Acuff

#44. First, however, and feeling real excitement at the thought, the good burst of adrenaline at last, Behringer wanted to dismantle the sockets and loosen his patient's eyes. Behringer

Jonathan Lethem