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Doing well is a conservative idea; meaning well is a liberal idea -- Dennis Prager
In your walks about London you will sometimes see bent, haggard figures that look as if they had recently been caught in some powerful machinery. They are those fellows who got mixed up with Catsmeat when he was meaning well. -- P. G. Wodehouse
Christmas has a certain universal appeal that gives it meaning well beyond a day to celebrate the birth of Jesus, but Christians have a special duty to experience its sacred and profound spiritual significance and non-Christians have a duty to treat the day with special respect. -- Michael Josephson
Anger elicits anger, fear elicits fear, no matter how well meaning we may be. -- Martha Beck
We have children to pursue other elements of well-being. We want meaning in life. We want relationships. -- Martin Seligman
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding. -- Louis D. Brandeis
Well-meaning Europeans sometimes argue that unlike the U.S., their countries are traditionally 'homogeneous' and have little experience with immigration. -- Noah Feldman
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
After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true. -- H. G. Wells
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.
Smart, well-meaning people get it wrong when they start believing that the world owes them something and that the rules are different for them. -- Guy Kawasaki
Well-being cannot exist just in your own head. Well-being is a combination of feeling good as well as actually having meaning, good relationships and accomplishment. -- Martin Seligman
I'm so fascinated by the human longing for meaning. The way we relate romantically to each other is so much to do with our longing for meaning as well. -- Kimbra
The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation. -- Tim Berners-Lee
In talking, shyness and timidity distort the very meaning of my words. I don't pretend to know anybody well. People are like shadows to me and I am like a shadow. -- Gwen John
There seems to be this sense among even well-meaning Americans that Africa is this black hole of murder and mutilation that can never be fixed, no matter what aid is brought in. -- Nicholas D. Kristof
If it can affect me, if it has meaning to me, if I feel I can do it well, I will do it and record it and thats why I recorded these songs. -- Neil Diamond
Well, there's no question that the law passed in 1996 was flawed. It deregulated the wholesale market, meaning the price that the utilities had to pay energy companies for power, but not the retail market. -- Gray Davis
Placing too much emphasis on a yes/no diagnosis, meaning you either have a disease or you don't, can lead even the most well-meaning physicians to miss underlying causes and early warning signs of illness. -- Mark Hyman
To many, Homer may appear lazy and a loser, but he's just much misguided. He's boorish, sure, but well meaning and, I guess, the one thing we have in common is the pursuit of lousy diets. -- Dan Castellaneta
I get even more nervous singing when everyone's fallen silent, but I really try to communicate the meaning of the lyrics, and there's people there listening to that, and if they're moved by it, then I'm moved as well. -- Namie Amuro
Early on, a story's meaning and rationale seem pretty obvious, but then, as I write it, I realize that I know the meaning/rationale too well, which means that the reader will also know it - and so things have to be ramped up. -- George Saunders
I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act. -- Orson Welles
I doubt not God is good, well-meaning, kind -- Countee Cullen
A story is not only meaning, it's music as well. -- Aharon Appelfeld
I was almost put out of business by a well-meaning corpse. -- W. C. Fields
Work is a search for daily meaning as well as for daily bread. -- Studs Terkel
While many governments and well-meaning individuals have redefined marriage, the Lord has not. -- Neil L. Andersen
The Kingdom of Heaven is not for the well-meaning: it is for the desperate. -- James Denney
Priests are often well-meaning people who haven't yet looked too thoroughly into comparative religion. -- Robert Genn
Nothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
Washington has a mysterious power to turn perfectly reasonable, wholesome, well-meaning human beings into equivocating crooked gasbags. -- David Harsanyi
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 lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only. -- Thomas Carlyle
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Some of life's biggest and most positive changes are propelled by mini conspiracies of a few well-meaning folks. -- Bernard Lown
Charming villains have always had a decided social advantage over well-meaning people who chew with their mouths open. -- Judith Martin
Blossoming out through one's comfort zone should be well meaning so as to achieve newer levels of excellence -- Priyavrat Thareja
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No matter how well-meaning your intention, doing too much is not always an act of love but of sabotage. -- Judith Orloff
You know, the one with all the well meaning rules that don't work out in real life, uh, Christianity. -- Homer
It has been well said that an effective leader must know the meaning and master the technique of the educator. -- Philip Selznick
The only prayer which a well-meaning man can pray is, O ye gods, give me whatever is fitting unto me! -- Apollonius of Tyana
I have faith in all mankind. Well,not faith really, more like hopeful suspicion. And not "all" but 5 people. Mankind meaning computers. -- Dane Cook
What volunteers bring is the human touch, the individual, caring approach that no government program, however well-meaning and well- executed, can deliver. -- Edward James Olmos
(`Stairway to Heaven' is) a nice pleasant, well-meaning naive little song, very English. It's not the definitive Led Zeppelin song. `Kashmir' is. -- Robert Plant
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
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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 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
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
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
It is not a new thing for a thoroughly good and well-meaning preacherÂ´s soft heart to run away with his soft head. -- Mark Twain
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
The well-meaning contention that all ideas have equal merit seems to me little different from the disastrous contention that no ideas have any merit. -- Carl Sagan
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
Remember that that "rude awakening" which your parents and well-meaning relatives threatened you with as a kid is better than no awakening at all. -- Perry Brass
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
In my judgment, a great mistake has been made by well meaning and zealous men, through treating error and infidelity with altogether too much respect. -- J. G. Holland
It was the academic community who wired up their universities so it was put together by smart, well-meaning people who thought it was a good idea. -- Tim Berners-Lee
Well, to find, not the meaning of life because I believe in mysteries, I believe that there is a mystery that goes far beyond our understanding. -- Paulo Coelho
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
The future belongs to the competent. It belongs to those who are very, very good at what they do. It does not belong to the well-meaning. -- Brian Tracy
The future belongs to the competent. It belongs to those who are very, very good at what they do. It does not belong to the well meaning. -- Brian Tracy
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
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
Terrorism isn't insanity. It grows out of social conditions that are well known: poverty, social oppression, dictatorship, and a void of meaning in the lives of ordinary people. -- Deepak Chopra
Unfortunately, the boards of art institutions tend to be populated with well-meaning supporters of the arts who often lack any business background or appetite for imposing appropriate discipline. -- Eli Broad
If not for Death, they'd be content to simply exist, but with Death, well, their lives will have meaning "? a boundary beyond which the living cannot cross. -- Neil Gaiman
There is no greater satisfaction for a just and well-meaning person than the knowledge that he has devoted his best energies to the service of the good cause. -- Albert Einstein
A man really living alone (alone mentally as well as physically) would have little or no occasion to reflect upon his past experience to extract its net meaning. -- John Dewey
Libraries are public treasuries. They're ways in which well-meaning societies leave the wealth of the past arranged A to Z so that anyone walking past can find it. -- Francis Spufford
Nothing has yet been offered to invalidate the doctrine that the meaning of the Constitution may as well be ascertained by the Legislative as by the Judicial authority. -- James Madison
Nowhere is wisdom more necessary than in the guidance of charitable impulses. Meaning well is only half our duty; Thinking right is the other, and equally important, half. -- Samuel Gridley Howe
The substitution of meaning accounts for the grasping of misers as well as the extravagance of spendthrifts. Karl Marx well understood this peculiar transformation of flesh into coin. -- Lewis H. Lapham
General Taylor is, I have no doubt, a well-meaning old man. He is, however, uneducated, exceedingly ignorant of public affairs, and I should judge, of very ordinary capacity. -- James K. Polk
Philanthropy is not about giving money but about solving problems. While well-meaning, the idea of writing a check and calling it 'philanthropy' is extremely short-sighted and unfortunately, extremely pervasive. -- Naveen Jain
Fifty-five years ago, when my dad was a penniless teenager, thank God some well-meaning bureaucrat didn't put his arm around him and say let me take care of you. -- Ted Cruz
Depression is an illness that robs one of the meaning of life. Heal the illness. As the depression heals, enthusiasm, well-being, and a sense of life's purpose will return. -- Peter McWilliams
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
Im so fascinated by the human longing for meaning. The way we relate romantically to each other is so much to do with our longing for meaning as well. -- Kimbra
Philanthropy is not about giving money but about solving problems. While well-meaning, the idea of writing a check and calling it 'philanthropy' is extremely short-sighted and, unfortunately, extremely pervasive. -- Naveen Jain

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