Tracy Hickman Quotes

Everyone saves someone at least once. Just as he kills someone at least once. Even though he may not know it.

She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it.

Half of the results of a good intentions are evil; half the results of an evil intention are good.

The Second Rule is that the greatest harm can result from the best intentions. It sounds a paradox, but kindness and good intentions can be an insidious path to destruction. Sometimes doing what seems right is wrong, and can cause harm. The only counter to it is knowledge, wisdom, forethought, and understanding the First Rule. Even then, that is not always enough.

God save us from people who mean well.

I think that Lee should have been hanged. It was all the worse that he was a good man and a fine character and acted conscientiously... It's always the good men who do the most harm in the world.

She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.

She who means no mischief does it all.

The things we do to our children - most of the evil in the world is not done with bad intentions but with the best intentions ever.

There are people who do what they believe is right, but as they say, 'The road to hell is paved with good intentions.'

People can do bad things for good reasons, or for what they think are good reasons.

People do bad things, but that doesn't mean they don't have other colors or qualities.

I think my characters are all fairly fundamentally decent, even if they have negative characteristics.

Whatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm.

It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done.

My good intentions are completely lethal.

In all the ills that befall us, we are more concerned by the intention than the result. A tile that falls off a roof may injure us more seriously, but it will not wound us so deeply as a stone thrown deliberately by a malevolent hand. The blow may miss, but the intention always strikes home.

In history, good intentions do not always make good consequences

If you go through life being casual, you will end up a casualty

The apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse.

I caused my husband's heart attack. In the middle of lovemaking I took the paper bag off my head. He dropped the Polaroid and keeled over and so did the hooker. It would have taken me half an hour to untie myself and call the paramedics, but fortunately the Great Dane could dial.

He was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset

Even if people end up doing awful things, you can empathize with their motives when you know them. When you get to know the person, you can understand why they make those choices, even if they're bad. And oftentimes people do have good drives that are sympathetic and can even be seen as selfless and good-hearted.

We are cruel enough without meaning to be.

Dorothy said nothing. Oz had not kept the promise he made her, but he had done his best. So she forgave him. As he said, he was a good man, even if he was a bad Wizard.