Intention Quotes And Sayings

Quotes And Sayings About Intention

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I was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were.
~By Sitting Bull ~


I'm very skeptical about the good intentions of Milosevic.
~By Warren Christopher ~


It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it.
~By Hans Blix ~


Many Japanese painters and calligraphers would change their names intentionally to keep their relationship to the art always fresh. This way, others' expectations can be avoided.
~By Tina Weymouth ~


I believe all life has value, from conception to natural death. And I believe the intentional taking of human life, except to save lives, should be a capital offense, as it is in most states in America today.
~By Tom Coburn ~


How many wives have been forced by the death of well-intentioned but too protective husbands to face reality late in life, bewildered and frightened because they were strangers to it!
~By Hortense Odlum ~


I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.
~By Rene Descartes ~


Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation.
~By E. Stanley Jones ~


I had, before I went to college, I had taken a few years off after high school and really had, I guess in those days, I had no intentions of going to college.
~By Duane G. Carey ~


The remarks about my reaching the age of Social Security and coming to the end of the road, they jolted me. And that was good. Because I sure as hell had no intention of just sitting around for the rest of my life. So I'd whip out the paints and really go to it.
~By Norman Rockwell ~


Any agreement that you have isn't going to be based on North Korea's intentions or trust.
~By Mitchell Reiss ~


I don't believe in guilt, I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person, and don't judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free.
~By Angelina Jolie ~


I'm not a celebrity. I'm intentionally and defiantly not a celebrity. I don't have any interest in it. I don't have any talent for it. I keep my personal life out of my public life as cleanly as I can.
~By Charlie Kaufman ~


However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~


I've got absolutely no intention of ever going to play at another club.
~By Steven Gerrard ~


If I commit an error I do it without bad intention.
~By Stand Watie ~


A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.
~By Roberto Burle Marx ~


It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
~By Ansel Adams ~


So to hope to be able to have peace, to be able to have justice and environmental balance, are consequences of our behavior, not just our intentions.
~By Godfrey Reggio ~


Should we fear hackers? Intention is at the heart of this discussion.
~By Kevin Mitnick ~


Back in the 1960s, the number of deaths each year from unintentional poisoning was 15 times greater than it is today.
~By Hal Stratton ~


Intention involves such a small fragment of our consciousness and of our mind and of our life.
~By Jasper Johns ~


I never say a funny thing intentionally.
~By Jayne Meadows ~


Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.
~By E. Stanley Jones ~


My hatred is a thousand times more powerful than all your good intentions.
~By Jim Goad ~


You know, we have a long history of covering different periods of this band's development with a live record... a sort of live thing that would be done for three or four records, and that was the intention with this particular package.
~By Alex Lifeson ~


Apparently, there's this whole set of disgruntled people but obviously it's not my intention to offend anyone by changing the style of music that I've done.
~By Jonny Lang ~


I used some vivid language that, if I could take it back, I'd take it back. It's not my intention to be personally critical of the President or of anyone else.
~By Paul O'Neill ~


Good intentions are not enough. They've never put an onion in the soup yet.
~By Sonya Levien ~


Why do I need succession planning? I'm very alert, I'm very vibrant. I have no intention to retire.
~By Sheldon Adelson ~


History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.
~By Ted Koppel ~


Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~


Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity.
~By Kate Smith ~


Well, many of us believe that excessive media concentration is a subject that ought to be addressed, and it is, of course, the intention of the majority party not to allow that to be discussed.
~By Barney Frank ~


My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation.
~By Maurice Ravel ~


A key to the mentality of the left is that it judges itself by its best intentions, and judges its opponents - America chief among them - by their worst deeds.
~By David Horowitz ~


It wasn't my intention in going after this part but I suppose now I do. The adult roles are a lot meatier - you're not always just the daughter or the girlfriend or whatever.
~By Emmy Rossum ~


I am not surprised that they show no intention to follow in my footsteps, although if I had a second chance myself, I would certainly try to repeat my present career.
~By Richard Ernst ~


Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
~By Milton Friedman ~


I have absolutely no intention of marrying Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
~By Paul Getty ~


I suppose no man becomes a pocket hunter by first intention.
~By Mary Austin ~


In Oxford before the war, I had, with this interest in mind, written a short textbook entitled, An Introduction to Economic Analysis and Policy. It was now my intention to rewrite this work.
~By James Meade ~


Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only a purpose or intention of parenthood.
~By Robin G. Collingwood ~


We talked a lot about The Best Intentions and how we could shoot certain scenes in different ways with slightly different bits of dialogue and information, so that later on, we could cut the piece more easily and it would still feel complete, even though it was shorter.
~By Bille August ~


I don't know anyone in the public eye who has not made a mistake and said something in a manner that does not truly reflect their intentions.
~By Jim Jeffords ~


In the Steven F. Austin Colony, which was the first colony, Texans first established a provisional government in 1835 with the intention of writing a declaration of independence soon after.
~By Michael McCaul ~


Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against your will, whose notion of beauty always differs from yours and whose means are often too limited for active assistance to your intentions!
~By Alexander Alekhine ~


Some months ago, while I was preparing a new work, I told a young cinema executive my intention of including in a soundtrack two themes from Bach. But when he asked me which has been the last hit from that Bach?, then I knew that I had no longer place in cinema.
~By Maurice Jarre ~


We have to deal with where we are. We have to create cooperatives, we have to create intentional communities, we have to work for local cooperation where we are.
~By Jerry Brown ~


I've tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray!
~By Alberto Giacometti ~


Intentions count in your actions.
~By Abu Bakr ~


Our intention is to really explore this transition and, beyond that, explore the particular things that someone comes up against when they're gay or lesbian.
~By Laura Innes ~


It's understanding the intention of a composer that allows a producer and an arranger to make those moments speak.
~By Michael Bolton ~


It strikes me there's a bunch of people in power who have really strong intentions of running the world and adjusting the world to exactly how they see it.
~By Colin Hay ~


All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.
~By Reinhold Niebuhr ~


In the end, a small section of the crowd, maybe 2,000 to 3,000, turned against me. And that was it. Inside the club they know your best intentions, but the minority shout louder than the rest.
~By Bryan Robson ~


I'm delirious with joy. It proves that if you confront the universe with good intentions in your heart, it will reflect that and reward your intent. Usually. It just doesn't always do it in the way you expect.
~By J. Michael Straczynski ~


Is your remarkably sexist drivel intentional, or just some horrible mistake?
~By Yeardley Smith ~


Superfund was passed with the good intention of cleaning up America's toxic waste sites.
~By Fred Thompson ~


I have no intention of discussing my private life with anyone.
~By Claire Bloom ~


I imagine that the intention is to get rid of them. The interests of security demand that we get rid of them.
~By Moshe Sharett ~


Now, the United Nations is an organization that I believe was founded with good intentions. As a matter of fact, a prominent Tennessean named Cordell Hull was very involved with it.
~By Zach Wamp ~


You can pour holy oil and holy water on a thug until you have emptied buckets of both; but at the end he will be a consecrated thug, but a thug all the same unless interior intentions and a disciplined man are present.
~By William H. O'Connell ~


I don't have any friends and don't have any intention of making any. People will stab you in the back, mistreat you, talk about me behind your back, steal from you. And they're not really your friends. They're only there because you're a celebrity or because they want to get something from you.
~By Gary Coleman ~


I think England has served me very well. I like living in London for the reasons I gave. I have absolutely no intentions of cutting those ties. There is absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly not, so that I can have a swimming pool and a palm tree.
~By Colin Firth ~


The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.
~By Helen Garner ~


The smallest deed is better than the grandest intention.
~By Roger Nash Baldwin ~


With this new album, I prepared for it a long time, and I was happy with the songs and the production. I felt that I proved myself with the first album, and with this new album, I just want to share some of my music. And that was always my feeling and my intention.
~By Jon Secada ~


It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale and playful in intention.
~By Brendan Gill ~


A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.
~By Liberty Hyde Bailey ~


Eileen Ford wanted me to fix my nose and my teeth. I said, Sure, great, but I really had no intention to.
~By Lauren Hutton ~


A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.
~By Jonathan Swift ~


Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.
~By Lao Tzu ~


Sometimes, his methods and his motives are questionable and even his morals are questionable in the way he does things. But I think his intention is always to protect his daughter.
~By Victor Garber ~


Most previous immigrants came to the United States to become Americans, with no intention of returning home. They relinquished their ties with their homeland. English was their key to prosperity, and they worked hard to master it.
~By John Shadegg ~


It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it.
~By Edvard Munch ~


One cannot help being impressed by the protesters. They have begun each day of the protest in Kiev in prayer and all activities are accomplished with a collective sense of respect, kindness, and an intention to conduct a peaceful revolution.
~By Bob Schaffer ~


Some people come out going, I don't get it. And I don't quite know what they're trying to get, what they're struggling for. We have had the reaction where people leave the movie sort of uncomfortable and befuddled. Although that wasn't our intention.
~By Joel Coen ~


Well, it's an adventure story, and a Bildungsroman, of course, but there was also the intention to describe a culture that had been seen in rather narrow terms.
~By John M. Ford ~


Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.
~By Jimmy Breslin ~


So we knew their intentions were to strike in the United States. We also knew from other sources of dozens of examples of where the notion of using planes as weapons was discussed.
~By Richard Ben Veniste ~


The lion's share of what I hear right now are people who, intentional or accidental, have avoided all jazz prior to 1960. And all the musicians who were successful in the '60s spent their entire lives, prior to 1960, listening to all the musicians these people avoid.
~By Branford Marsalis ~


The intention was to shoot short films that can exist as shorts independently, but when I put them all together, there are things that echo through them like the dialogue repeats; the situation is always the same, the way they're shot is very simple and the same.
~By Jim Jarmusch ~


The test of a belief is not exclusively in the belief itself, but also in the intentions and actions of those who embrace it.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~


My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to lecture, not because I despise the vocation, but because I have no desire to appear on the public rostrum.
~By Mary MacLane ~


I think I can deceive people. I'm like, the nice, sweet girl when you meet me. And I don't have any bad intentions. But I'm a bad girl too.
~By Alicia Silverstone ~


Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.
~By Aldous Huxley ~


Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself short of provisions.
~By Patrick MacGill ~


Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~


I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.
~By Casey Stengel ~


One of the most amazing things I got from the film, so much green screen, there are so many moments and it really taught me about how important it is to have an intention when flying, when going somewhere and having an intention.
~By Brandon Routh ~


One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.
~By John Dewey ~


It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.
~By Chuck Berry ~


I intentionally aided them by being there and blocking an avenue of escape for the victims.
~By Robert Iler ~


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.
~By Hubert H. Humphrey ~


Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.
~By Adolf Hitler ~


I learned one thing in Watergate: I was well-intentioned but rationalized illegal behavior," he said. "You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as your ends.
~By Chuck Colson ~


I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.
~By Charles Darwin ~


He would catapult you forward, and that was his intention with the Jazz Messengers. He would take young people with a potential and help them develop a voice as a player and as a writer.
~By Benny Green ~


The Security Council decided to deal with Iran's nuclear intentions. The international community will not be willing to tolerate an Iran with a nuclear capability and an Iran that collaborates with terrorist organizations.
~By Moshe Katsav ~

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