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The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour.


Hubert H. Humphrey

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JOHN RAY Hell is paved with good intentions.
LORD EDWARD COKE Hell is paved with good intentions.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Hell is paved with good intentions
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HOWARD ROSENBERG Hell is paved with good intentions, roofed in with lost opportunities.
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LATOYA HANKINS Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.
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ROBERT SOUTHEY It is melancholy to reflect that Mankind has suffered more from ill-judged philanthropy than from ca...
GILES ST. AUBYN The road to evil is paved with socialist intentions.
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KELLY JONES Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
STEPHEN KING Hell is paved with good samaritans.
ROBERT HERRICK Hell is paved with good Samaritans.
WILLIAM M. HOLDEN The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.
PHILIP ROTH I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs
STEPHEN KING Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER My parents meant well, but the road to Hell is paved with publicity stunts.
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WILLIAM JAMES No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments ma...
WILLIAM JAMES Hell is paved with priests' skulls.
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TEKOA MANNING The world is a beautiful place
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if you don't mind happiness
not always...
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AYAAN HIRSI ALI By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER Everything has it's own time and place, Transformation becomes effortless when we go with the flow.
SHELLI THOMPSON To stand on the
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JOHN CONNOLLY Mother Superior jump the gun...
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ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The road to success is paved with depression.
VINECK KUMAR POSARIA All right. Have it your own way. Road to hell paved with unbought stuffed dogs.Not my fault.
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HUBERT HUMPHREY Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
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VIKRANT PARSAI Hell is paved with infants' skulls.
RICHARD BAXTER Hell is paved with priests' skulls.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Hell is paved with priests' skulls
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BEN HARPER I'm trying to be a good parent and set a good example. When I'm on the road, they don't ...
BOB SEGER Be civilized. Grudges are for Neanderthals. – Hubert Humphrey
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GEORGE P. ELLIOTT I never take ideas from the headlines. I feel that if a story is good enough, a real story that is, ...
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GREGORY MAGYAR The problem with forbearance is that it always looks like a good thing to do until it stops working.
RAGHURAM RAJAN Hell is full of good intentions or desires.
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FLANNERY O'CONNOR If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best.
ROBERT SIAHAAN The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick.
L. FRANK BAUM The road to success is paved with the hot asphalt of failure.
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Godliness with contentment is rare.
CRAIG GROESCHEL What man ain't the honestest cove in his own eyes?" Grote's round face is a bronze moon in the dark....
DAVID MITCHELL Hell is paved with the skulls of great scholars, and paled in with the bone of great men.
GILES FIRMIN There's such cultural rot taking place, such a disintegration throughout our culture. Values, mo...
RUSH LIMBAUGH I sense that the road to Heaven is paved with dashed hopes.
MICHAEL LEUNIG In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good inten...
RACHEL PLATTEN I'm a thinker. That is what I do, in great depth and detail, every waking moment of the day. I like ...
BRIAN HERBERT Unification of differences is power.
SHESH NATH VERNWAL If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled ...
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TANYA THISTLETON It's good to fight with your brothers, and it's good to tease them to give them advice.
MALALA YOUSAFZAI Good deeds from good intentions flow; but good intentions only; build for us a place below.
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GARRETT DILLAHUNT Life is a magical game so play it with love.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Look to your heart and soul first, rather than looking to your head first, when choosing. Rather tha...
JEFFREY R. ANDERSON A piece of blank paper is always a place of good intentions.
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ASHLEY YOUNG One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart...
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AGATHA CHRISTIE The Senate passed a pretty good bill and we don't want to see it put in the dumpster.
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HUBERT MARTIN All my past heartache and pain suddenly made sense. That was who I would not be to the person who de...
HUBERT MARTIN It was the end for something. It was the beginning for another. But in reality it just fell in the m...
HUBERT MARTIN You are whole today, looking back at fragments of the past. Such a hollow foundation for such a powe...
HUBERT MARTIN I wanted nothing more than her attention. Her thoughts filled with me. Her eyes lost in my image. I ...
HUBERT MARTIN My body held on though I held snapped threads in my hands and patches of my flesh were missing entir...
HUBERT MARTIN She had the blood of the sun running through her veins and the dust of stars at her fingertips. Her ...
HUBERT MARTIN And though they fell as ashes, their shadows drifted as leaves.
HUBERT MARTIN I realized the world around me was fragmented and broken... I had to be gentle enough not to scrape ...
HUBERT MARTIN He spoke in polished honesty free of liar's filth. He said the hardest words with an unshakable voic...
HUBERT MARTIN Her words were slickly lacquered, dripping with venom that singed the air as they fell. She traced h...
HUBERT MARTIN She was the half-whispers born from half-thoughts, the half-breaths of dying half-hearts.
HUBERT MARTIN When it came to her, I became an indomitable warrior. My muscles became her shield and my lungs aide...
HUBERT MARTIN Hoping fast that my arrow's flight is steady and true,
I need this, I need my arrow to find yo...
HUBERT MARTIN My heart may be bruised and scarred, bleeding slow drip-drip with every thump and every other thump-...
HUBERT MARTIN Whether it was in the maze of my fantastical mind or the allure of her gossamer eyes, they took me t...
HUBERT MARTIN She is beyond any mortal structure of words, yet she inspires the effort to try anyway.
HUBERT MARTIN She was the sort of girl who flooded my five senses. Her voice was melody to my ears, her taste gave...
HUBERT MARTIN That's what really broke me, she was better than any fantasy I could hope to imagine. I've spent my ...
HUBERT MARTIN I always deemed myself a one chance person, if you hurt me or betray me, then I'm done with you. As ...
HUBERT MARTIN She speaks in heartbeats and the rises of her chest, words forever seared in thoughts that will neve...
HUBERT MARTIN He sang softly, less with words and more with thought. She cradled his head, stitching together his ...
HUBERT MARTIN These places I traveled through, they were a lot like the people I knew. Some abodes I muddled about...
HUBERT MARTIN In a way, she became the sand to my hourglass... she made watching that trickling sand a little more...
HUBERT MARTIN She was carmine shadows reflecting from my crimson words. Every pulse sent a velvet ripple through t...
HUBERT MARTIN As I watched the sky morph shades of amber and amethyst, of fiery orange and smoldering pink, I alwa...
HUBERT MARTIN That last bit of hope always lingered as a stubborn thread. Every time I would try to cut it I would...
HUBERT MARTIN I spill my emotions and hopes on pieces of paper and pixels of screens, combining and creating, merg...
HUBERT MARTIN