"My good intentions are completely lethal."

-- Margaret Atwood

#Good Intentions Quotes #Virtue Quotes #Intention Quotes

“If you want someone to feel warm, you dress them in a warm color and put a warm light on them and you get the picture. Sometimes, all that needs pushing a little bit to help tell the story.”
“I said Revolver is my favorite The Beatles album, but only because it came to my head and it's a brilliant one. But they're all pretty brilliant. There's variations, but they're all brilliant, and it just depends on if they're very brilliant, or just a bit brilliant. It changes.”
“There's no use in asking what if. No one could ever give you the answers.”
“If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”
“Nothing, save the hangman's noose, concentrates the mind like piles of cash.”

Source : Tim Wu (2010). “The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires”, p.19, Atlantic Books Ltd
“Nowadays the thief cannot be distinguished from his victim. Neither has any valuable objects on him.”
“In common discourse we denominate persons and things according to the major part of their character; he is to be called a wise man who has but few follies.”
“Men are fools to invest in real estate.”

Source : Basil Bunting (2016). “The Poems of Basil Bunting”, p.10, Faber & Faber

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