Good Intentions Turn Bad Quotes & Sayings

Cope had caused office ripples when he first took over as county prosecutor and stunned all by promoting Muse to be his county chief investigator. The job was usually given to a gruff old-timer, always male, who was supposed to show the political appointee through the system. Loren Muse was one of the youngest investigators in the department when he selected her. When asked by the media what criteria he had used to select a young female over more seasoned male veterans, he answered in one word: "Merit." Now here she was, in a room with four of those same passed-by old-timers. "I — Harlan Coben

I like rough edges. That's what makes a person real. — Cinda Williams Chima

Nothing exceeds the license occasionally taken by the imagination of very rigid people. — Henry James

But oh, she dances in such a way!
No sun upon an Easter-day
Is half so fine a sight. — John Suckling

How easy it was to lie to strangers, to create with strangers the versions of our lives we imagined. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Talent is what drives this world ... Doesn't matter how many satellites you f
ing stick in the air. — Howard Stern

One can either work or meet. One cannot do both at the same time. — Peter Drucker

There are a lot of very good New York novels, but there's no single all-encompassing novel, the way you could look at any number of Dickens books and say we know London as a result of that. — Pete Hamill

People realize this man knows what the hell's going on and nobody else does. — Kary Mullis

Before you judge someone, imagine what the world looks like through their eyes. — Ken Petti

Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I never understood why you cared what those morons thought. They weren't your friends. They didn't know shit about you, so what did their opinions matter? — Bijou Hunter