“Wishes cannot be summoned up or kept away at will. They come from deeper within us than good or bad intentions. And they spring up unannounced.”
Source: The Neverending Story
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German author 1929–1995Related quotes
“And the spring comes slowly up this way.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Christabel
Part I
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Christabel
“People are more inclined to believe in bad intentions than in good ones.”
Giovanni Boccaccio book The Decameron
La gente è più acconcia a credere il male che il bene.
Third Day, Sixth Story
The Decameron (c. 1350)
Charles Williams (1886–1945) British poet, novelist, theologian, literary critic, and member of the Inklings
The Descent of the Dove (1939), Ch. 5
Ron Paul (1935) American politician and physician
The Glenn Beck Program, January 23, 2008 http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/196/4897/ <br class="br">2000s, 2006-2009
“Intention, good or bad, is not enough.”
John Steinbeck book The Winter of Our Discontent
Source: The Winter of Our Discontent
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
1830s, The Lyceum Address (1838)
Context: At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it? — Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never! — All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.
At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
“No good water comes from a muddy spring. No sweet fruit comes from a bitter seed.”
José Rizal (1861–1896) Filipino writer, ophthalmologist, polyglot and nationalist
Letter to the Young Women of Malolos
“Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.”
James C. Collins (1958) American business consultant and writer
Source: How The Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In