"Advice is judged by results, not by intentions."

-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

#Advice Quotes #Intention Quotes #Results Quotes

“If you want peace, work for justice.”

Source : Pope Paul VI (2007). “Christian Values and Virtues”, Crossroad Publishing Company
“Europeans condemned Chinese foot binding, but any society that had invented the corset had a lot to answer for.”

Source : Mary Jo Putney (2006). “The China Bride”, p.190, Ballantine Books
“We must move beyond an anemic view of our faith as something only personal and private, with no public dimension, and instead see it as the source of power that can change the world.”

Source : Richard Stearns (2014). “Stearns 2 in 1: The Hole in Our Gospel and Unfinished”, p.156, Harper Collins
“The person seeing perfection is the Master.”

Source : Baird T. Spalding (1996). “Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East”, Devorss Publications
“The Stones don't really need to do it for money, so they must get some kind of pleasure out of it. They're not like a group that's disbanded and gone away and made a comeback. They've always been there.”
“The goal is to be both disciplined and loose, so that the writing does not turn into a task or a chore. To leave myself behind, along with the mechanics, and disappear into the lives of my characters.”
“I don't know if it's a good idea to give a woman a box of bullets when she's got a pimple.”
“The furies are at home in the mirror; it is their address. Even the clearest water, if deep enough can drown. Never think to surprise them. Your face approaching ever so friendly is the white flag they ignore. There is no truce with the furies. A mirror's temperature is always zero. It is ice in the veins. It's camera is an x-ray. It is a chalice held out to you in silent communion, where gaspingly you partake of a shifting identity never your own.”

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