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A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
— Elton Trueblood
Let's be honest, for a lot of well meaning, open-minded white people, the sight of a young black man in a hoodie still evokes a twinge of fear.
— Hillary Clinton
It has been well said that an effective leader must know the meaning and master the technique of the educator.
— Philip Selznick
The smallest pebble in the well of truth has its peculiar meaning, and will stand when man's best monuments have passed away.
— Nathaniel Parker Willis
Washington has a mysterious power to turn perfectly reasonable, wholesome, well-meaning human beings into equivocating crooked gasbags.
— David Harsanyi
You think, because you have a purpose, Nature must have one. You might as well expect it to have fingers and toes because you do.
— George Bernard Shaw
A well-meaning man, Dhai Ma liked to say, is more dangerous because he believes in the rightness of what he does. Give me an honest rascal any day!
— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
For reasons that are not well understood, war's codes are safer for most of us than love's.
— David Foster Wallace
It is not important how long we live but how well we Live. Add Meaning to your Life each day. -RVM
— R.v.m.
The only prayer which a well-meaning man can pray is, O ye gods, give me whatever is fitting unto me!
— Apollonius Of Tyana
While many governments and well-meaning individuals have redefined marriage, the Lord has not.
— Neil L. Andersen
Forget it, Jonathan, and go back to sleep. And before you go to sleep, pray that no well-meaning god ever makes you immortal.
— Peter S. Beagle
Both, the thoughts as well as the senses, were pretty things, the ultimate meaning was hidden behind both of them,
— Hermann Hesse
The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only.
— Thomas Carlyle
She responded to Letty's well-meaning suggestions with the unblinking disdain perfected by cats in their dealings with their humans.
— Lauren Willig
The meaning of Sannyas is not well defined. Its meaning is not static; it is redefined after short periods of time in the life of a Sannyasi.
— Harshit Walia
Being president of too many well-meaning organizations put my father into an early grave. The lesson in this was not lost on me.
— Roy Blount Jr.
Ye know full well that the meaning of life is to find your gift. To find your gift is happiness. Never tae find it is misery.
— Terry Pratchett
One of the great difficulties about being a member of a minority race is that so many kindhearted, well-meaning bores gather around to help.
— Langston Hughes
All of this was well meaning bullshit. But bullshit is still bullshit and will never be mistaken for McDonald's secret sauce.
— Stephen King
You're the only person who means anything to me in the whole world, you're all I've got...""Well then you've got nothin. — Garth Ennis
Yes, that's what I meant to say. If this seems a bit circular to you, well, it is, but it has deep meaning.
— Kip S. Thorne
Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning.
— Vaclav Havel
Correct morality can only be derived from what man is - not from what do-gooders and well-meaning aunt Nellies would like him to be.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Do you know the amount of evil done by well-meaning humans? Oodles. Do you know the amount done by ill-meaning devils? Infinitesimal.
— Thomm Quackenbush
Some of life's biggest and most positive changes are propelled by mini conspiracies of a few well-meaning folks.
— Bernard Lown
Blossoming out through one's comfort zone should be well meaning so as to achieve newer levels of excellence
— Priyavrat Thareja
But the hidden meaning of life is that life has no hidden meaning. Abel knew Pessoa's poetry well.
— Jose Saramago
Thus, sociologists place these two factors - pleasure and meaning - among the first factors associated with "subjective well-being.
— Frederic Lenoir
If not you, who? If not now, when? The worst thing well-meaning people can do is simply let things remain as they are.
— Christine Pope
North Carolina is temperate and populated with well-meaning people; therefore I will engage in oral sex with another man.
— David Sedaris
Life is mysterious as well as vulgar.
— Roberto Bolano
You want meaning? Well, the meanings are out there. We're just so damn good at reading them wrong.
— David Levithan
Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?
— Kurt Vonnegut
A story is not only meaning, it's music as well.
— Aharon Appelfeld
For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions.
— James Russell Lowell
All the well-meaning advice in the world won't amount to a hill of beans if we're not even addressing the real problem.
— Stephen R. Covey
The weal of the race, and the cause of humanity, here and now, are enough To give life meaning and death as well.
— Edgar Lee Masters
Well, it is true. Sometimes avoiding something can give it more and more meaning rather than less and less.
— Tom McNeal
The house ghost is usually a harmless and well-meaning creature. It is put up with as long as possible. It brings good luck to those who live with it.
— William Butler Yeats
God is not all that interested in your grammar. He is interested in the meaning of your grammar!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Unless you frame yourself, others will frame you - the media, your enemies, your competitors, your well-meaning friends.
— George Lakoff
No matter how well-meaning your intention, doing too much is not always an act of love but of sabotage.
— Judith Orloff
Meaning well is a poor defense,
— Isaac Asimov
Prose exists to convey meaning, and no meaning such as prose conveys can be expressed as well in poetry. That's not poetry's purpose.
— Basil Bunting
Hiding inside this well-meaning phrase is a deep cultural assumption that old is bad and young is good.
— Susan Moon
If the work is going well and it's something that has value with some meaning to it, it gives back a lot.
— Richard Gere
We have children to pursue other elements of well-being. We want meaning in life. We want relationships.
— Martin Seligman
A story has to have muscle as well as meaning, and the meaning has to be in the muscle.
— Flannery O'Connor
Only fanatics - in religion as well as in politics - can find a meaning in someone else's death.
— Elie Wiesel
Reporting concepts as well as the relationships between concepts and other semantic meaning.
— Anonymous
But listen well. In Tir na nOg, because there is no sorrow, there is no joy.Do you hear the meaning of the seachain's song? — Alexandra Ripley
Nothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
I doubt not God is good, well-meaning, kind
— Countee Cullen
Priests are often well-meaning people who haven't yet looked too thoroughly into comparative religion.
— Robert Genn
