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You can have the best intentions, but the moment there's a hairline crack, it is only a matter of time before you go to pieces. — Jodi Picoult

It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Where the sky begins, the horizon ends, despite the best intentions. — Tom Petty

Life is haphazard. We plan, and then we deal when the plans go awry. Control is an illusion; best intentions are the best we can do. — Anna Quindlen

And I'd learned, the hard way, that sometimes, even with the purest intentions, we make things worse when we do our best to make things better. — Gregory David Roberts

And that was when she had one single, awful realization. It's not a doll. And against all her best intentions, she began to scream and couldn't stop. — Rachel Caine

I feel like a traitor, a phony, a fake. But I am a hypocrite with the best intentions, and I need kissing desperately. — Coco J. Ginger

I don't think I threw myself into music because I had the best intentions; it was because I was really angry. — Ariel Pink

With a film, I do my best to understand the author's intentions and try to bring the characters to life. — Bruce Beresford

There is no way of finding the middle ground, even with the best intentions of the world. Our most sensible policy is to stall. — Yitzhak Rabin

Mothers and fathers do really crazy things with the best of intentions. — Rosalind Wiseman

They programmed you with the best of intentions but unfortunately their best was mediocrity. — Maddy Malhotra

If people with the very best intentions carry on prosecutions that are oppressive, the end may not always perhaps sanctify the means. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

The intention to live as long as possible isn't one of the mind's best intentions, because quantity isn't the same as quality. — Deepak Chopra

Most of the bad situations I've encountered began with the best of intentions. — John Connolly

A stone in the path may have the best intentions, but it must be kicked out of the path, for all that. — Ethel Lilian Voynich

Some of the worst things are done with the best intentions, Petra," August said. "You shouldn't have done this to me. — Kris Noel

...best intentions notwithstanding, no one can control how the media communicates a story and what the public eventually understands. — Alexandra Zapruder

We are not our best intentions. We are what we do. — Amy Dickinson

If the way ahead is not clear, time is often the best editor of one's intentions. — Jacqueline Winspear

Time and distance have a way of playing tricks with your best intentions. — Anthony Kiedis

Wizard's Second Rule
The greatest harm can result from the best intentions. — Terry Goodkind

Life has a way of disregarding even your best intentions. — Sarah Dessen

And yet. Our best intentions are often thwarted by external forces - forces that we ourselves set in motion long ago. — Andre Agassi

Exactly what the powers of hell feed on: the best instincts in man. — Philip K. Dick

Words are easy to say, but emotions betray the best intentions. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

But people may do great good accidentally, though with evil intentions - conversely people may do great evil though having the best of intentions. — Michael Moorcock

His heart overflowed with good intentions but his fists felt best covered in blood. — Debra Anastasia

We judge our own character by our best intentions and most noble acts, but we will be judged by our last worst act. — Michael Josephson

Disaster usually happens for me when everything I have counted on has stopped working, including all my best skills, intentions, and good ideas. — Anne Lamott

On that bright May morning, with the lilacs budding and the kids off to school, Tom Markham approached his wife with the best of intentions. — Barbara Delinsky

Sometimes our best intentions are not enough, but always remain genuine. — Michelle Carithers

Even with the best intentions, growing apart might just be an inevitable part of growing up. — Megan McCafferty

With the best of intentions you toss me a lifeline.
Failing to see how a piece of rope will do me any good, I ignore it and drown. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Sometimes people do what they think is for the best, and their intentions are misinterpreted. — Theresa Breslin

Even with the best intentions, you can have a nuclear war, a nuclear holocaust, through miscalculation, through accidents. — Mohamed ElBaradei

Sometimes, even the very best course of action fails. — Bernard Beckett

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

Despite her best intentions, she was beginning to accept the reality of the attraction she felt for him. — Nicholas Sparks

The greatest harm can result from the best intentions - Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander — Terry Goodkind

There was a little too much of the best intentions going on — Charles Dickens

Even the best intentions turn around one day ... Nobody's right all the time. — Stevie Nicks

Only a foolish soul would love the stars. As beautiful as they are, they will burn you. Regardless of your best intentions. — Kendal Rob

Unless a decision has degenerated into work, it is not a decision; it is at best a good intention. — Peter Drucker

A choice that is made with the best of intentions is all anyone can do. No — Ellie Wade

It took me a long time to realize that distance can ruin even the best of intentions. — Nicholas Sparks

For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions. — James Russell Lowell

The gifts we are given in life require the best of us, not merely our best intentions. — Les Brown

The road to Hell is paved with the best of conscious intentions. — Elizabeth F. Howell

It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done. — Oscar Wilde

Good intentions are the best business. — Debasish Mridha

It has often been our best instincts, not our worst, that have led us to do harm in the world — Rosa Brooks

I was finished with assuming the best intentions of those who abandoned me, done trying to assuage my loneliness in barren places. — Saleem Haddad

A parent's best intentions are no substitute for attention. — Wes Fesler

Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested. — Edward Albee

Please tell me you will remember, no matter how much I do wrong that I had the best of intentions all along. — Travis Tritt

We destroy things with our curiosity. We shatter with our best intentions — Lauren DeStefano

This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions. — Lord Byron

She did her best but like Uncle E says, sometimes your best just ain't good enough. — Patricia Wood

I didn't understand why I could not control myself despite my best intentions. — Rachel Reiland

Without action, the best intentions in the world are nothing more than that: intentions. — Jordan Belfort