I would say to young physicians that the more you intentionally improve the lives of the people in the community you serve the better your life will be and the greater your value will be to the community. ~By Samuel Wilson ~
It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture. ~By Don DeLillo ~
A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker. ~By David Hume ~
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 ~
This country must be governed, and can be governed, simply on questions of policy and administration and the French Canadians who have had any part in this movement have never had any other intention but to organise upon those party distinctions and upon no other. ~By Wilfrid Laurier ~
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 ~
After leaving law school, I intentionally said that I never wanted to hold a job more than six years. ~By Alphonso Jackson ~
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 ~
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 ~
I know that Duke made a number of demands, including that the attorney general drop its investigation. We have no intention of asking the attorney general to do that. ~By Gray Davis ~
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 ~
This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions. ~By Lord Byron ~
I may err in judgment, but I hope not in intention. ~By Edward Blake ~
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 ~
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 ~
When I got on the airplane in Indonesia coming to Japan, my intentions was to turn myself in to the military for the simple reason I would like to put my daughters with their mother, one thing. Another thing, I'd like to clear my conscience. ~By Robert Jenkins ~
In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention. ~By Thomas Aquinas ~
Naming a transition team varies with the intentions of the candidate; some candidates have been careful to name a transition team as much as a year in advance. ~By Richard V. Allen ~
The hardest task in a girl's life is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious. ~By Helen Rowland ~
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 ~
An utterance can have Intentionality, just as a belief has Intentionality, but whereas the Intentionality of the belief is intrinsic the Intentionality of the utterance is derived. ~By John Searle ~
So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done. ~By Thomas Jefferson ~
I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions. ~By Barack Obama ~
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 ~
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 ~
I don't have nothing to regret at all in the past, except that I might've unintentionally hurt somebody else or something. ~By Jimi Hendrix ~
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 ~
Close to the Edge, Red, One of a kind, Discipline, Earthworks, The Sound of Surprise, all seem to me to be albums that captured the essence of the intention. ~By Bill Bruford ~
The smallest deed is better than the grandest intention. ~By Roger Nash Baldwin ~
I am 1,000 percent for Tom Eagleton and I have no intention of dropping him from the ticket. ~By George McGovern ~
I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice. ~By Casey Stengel ~
I watched what method Nature might take, with intention of subduing the symptom by treading in her footsteps. ~By Thomas Sydenham ~
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 ~
Well, I love Pink Floyd, so I wouldn't be offended by it. I only intentionally robbed them three or four times. ~By Josh Silver ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions. ~By Ted Koppel ~
Our intention creates our reality. ~By Wayne Dyer ~
I didn't have evil intentions, but I guess I did have power. ~By Harmon Killebrew ~
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 ~
Our intention is to give people, however you might stylize it, a tax cut or a pay raise. ~By Paul O'Neill ~
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 ~
When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice. ~By Otto von Bismarck ~
Since the end of the nineteenth century, if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about their motives and their intentions in going to war. ~By Robert Higgs ~
You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan. ~By Ian Mcewan ~
I have never wavered from my intention to advance the cause of diversity in new and more effective ways. ~By Jeb Bush ~
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 ~
But last year there were 540,000 people, roughly, detained coming across the border illegally. Forty-five thousand of them came from countries other than Mexico, demonstrating the fact that Mexico itself now is a pathway into the United States for people all around the world, and we don't know what their intentions are. ~By John Cornyn ~
Like anywhere, we had to make people understand that we were there with good intentions, and that we were there with respect. We started making contacts with the people in the neighborhood three months before shooting began, so that everyone involved was comfortable. ~By Mathieu Kassovitz ~
Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality. ~By Manuel Puig ~
Artists, no matter how good their intentions, are always slower than they think. ~By Mark Millar ~
You don't stay married for 35 years by accident. I think that that's willful and intentional and something that both people really want. ~By Ashley Judd ~
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 ~
It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation. ~By Walt Kelly ~
Families are the tie that reminds us of yesterday, provide strength and support today, and give us hope for tomorrow. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, or well-managed, can provide what our families provide. ~By Bill Owens ~
I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was growing up, really. So when I decided to go to university instead of drama school, it was with the intention of becoming an actor afterwards. ~By Hugh Dancy ~
So on May 1, 1987, at Gary's invitation, I agreed to see him one last time - to confront him face-to-face about his sincerity and with the intention of ending our brief relationship. ~By Donna Rice ~
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 ~
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 ~
A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally. ~By Oscar Wilde ~
The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding. ~By Albert Camus ~
Why do I need succession planning? I'm very alert, I'm very vibrant. I have no intention to retire. ~By Sheldon Adelson ~
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 ~
O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. ~By T. S. Eliot ~
The sad thing is, when it comes to diet, is that even when well-intentioned Feds try to do right by us, they fail. Either they're outvoted by puppets of agribusiness, or they are puppets of agribusiness. ~By Mark Bittman ~
I've got absolutely no intention of ever going to play at another club. ~By Steven Gerrard ~
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 ~
Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's good deeds and then there's good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell. ~By Ben Harper ~
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 ~
Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion. ~By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions. ~By Joey Skaggs ~
Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots. ~By David Byrne ~
I never say a funny thing intentionally. ~By Jayne Meadows ~
I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions. ~By George Byron ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
I intentionally aided them by being there and blocking an avenue of escape for the victims. ~By Robert Iler ~
There was absolutely no intention of splitting up. We had so many great ideas to use on the new album. John Paul Jones was incredible, coming to the studio each day with new instruments to play. ~By John Bonham ~
My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ~By Sidney Altman ~
He wanted to be a lawyer, couldn't afford it, so he started dealing to go to college - good intention. ~By John Leguizamo ~
I suppose no man becomes a pocket hunter by first intention. ~By Mary Austin ~
Let them be reassured, it has never been one of our intentions to ban religion in society, but solely to protect the national education system from any conspicuous display of religious affiliation. ~By Jean-Pierre Raffarin ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 love being irreverent. But I hate being irrelevant. I love being irreverent because at the end of the day your actions belie your intentions. ~By Esai Morales ~
No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well. ~By Margaret Thatcher ~
All that counts in life is intention. ~By Andrea Bocelli ~
If we want to build the Iraqis' confidence about our intentions in their country, if we want to stop adding fuel to the fire of insurgency and terrorism, we must clarify our intent. ~By John Conyers ~
In view of China's growing military strength and intentions, the best way to safeguard Asia's permanent peace and prosperity is to have all Asian countries join forces with other democratic countries in the world to form a global community of democracies. ~By Jim Costa ~
Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it. ~By Milton Friedman ~
Michael Eisner let it be known last week that he had no intention of leaving the entertainment business once he steps down as CEO of Disney in October. ~By Peter Bart ~
I have no intention of discussing my private life with anyone. ~By Claire Bloom ~
Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts. ~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
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