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 ~
A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
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 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 ~
I am interested in the study of music and the discipline of music and the experience of music and music as a esoteric mechanism to continue my real intentions.
~By Anthony Braxton ~
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 ~
With a film, I do my best to understand the author's intentions and try to bring the characters to life.
~By Bruce Beresford ~
I didn't have evil intentions, but I guess I did have power.
~By Harmon Killebrew ~
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 ~
It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.
~By Robert Southey ~
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 ~
You have to think an awful lot about your motivations or people's behavioral intentions or what their body language can indicate or what's really going on or what makes people sometimes do, sometimes, the irrational things they do.
~By Ron Silver ~
Any agreement that you have isn't going to be based on North Korea's intentions or trust.
~By Mitchell Reiss ~
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 ~
Why do I need succession planning? I'm very alert, I'm very vibrant. I have no intention to retire.
~By Sheldon Adelson ~
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 ~
Give us a chance to show you that those so-called protective laws to aid women - however well intentioned originally - have become in fact restraints, which keep wife, abandoned wife, and widow alike from supporting her family.
~By Martha Griffiths ~
My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive.
~By Stand Watie ~
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 ~
It is not cowardly, quite the contrary, to seek to meet the adversary and know his intentions. However, it is cowardly, shameful and treasonable to lay down arms.
~By King Hassan II ~
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 ~
In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
~By Henri Bergson ~
It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.
~By Chuck Berry ~
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'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 ~
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 ~
Our tools are extensions of our purposes, and so we find it natural to make metaphorical attributions of intentionality to them; but I take it no philosophical ice is cut by such examples.
~By John Searle ~
Should we fear hackers? Intention is at the heart of this discussion.
~By Kevin Mitnick ~
I'm very skeptical about the good intentions of Milosevic.
~By Warren Christopher ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Just the same way I'd say a prayer before going onstage, taking that even further and using the drum to inspire people. And using that as a vehicle for the intention.
~By Rick Allen ~
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 ~
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 think that it is our intention to deny cancer any control over us.
~By Elizabeth Edwards ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
All that counts in life is intention.
~By Andrea Bocelli ~
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 ~
Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity.
~By Kate Smith ~
History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.
~By Ted Koppel ~
There is less pressure as a character actor. It generally means that you will be acting for all of your life, which is my intention. It is not my intention to just be a rich and famous person, that would be pretty boring.
~By Tim Roth ~
But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions.
~By Joey Skaggs ~
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 ~
Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots.
~By David Byrne ~
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 ~
Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention.
~By E. Stanley Jones ~
I've got absolutely no intention of ever going to play at another club.
~By Steven Gerrard ~
I had no intention of being an actor. I was quite good at it. I was pretty capable at other things but never any good at anything.
~By Sean Bean ~
I have no intention of discussing my private life with anyone.
~By Claire Bloom ~
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 ~
Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer.
~By Len Deighton ~
I have absolutely no intention of marrying Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
~By Paul Getty ~
Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.
~By Lao Tzu ~
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 ~
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 ~
The intentions of record companies are not good, from the musician's perspective.
~By Melissa Auf der Maur ~
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 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 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 ~
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 have no intention of resigning, and confidently expect to resume official duties within three months.
~By Frederick W. Borden ~
Mr. Chamberlain desires to avert the threat to England's peace by making England, in alliance with Germany, stronger than her rivals and so to force them to renounce their hostile intentions against her.
~By Bernhard von Bulow ~
Our intention creates our reality.
~By Wayne Dyer ~
Kubrick never explained the ending to us, or what his intentions were. He didn't intend for it to be a predictable film.
~By Keir Dullea ~
It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it.
~By Hans Blix ~
One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.
~By John Dewey ~
When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
~By Otto von Bismarck ~
I have never wavered from my intention to advance the cause of diversity in new and more effective ways.
~By Jeb Bush ~
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 ~
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 ~
If I commit an error I do it without bad intention.
~By Stand Watie ~
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 ~
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 ~
I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.
~By Casey Stengel ~
A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.
~By Christopher Columbus ~
To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy.
~By Ronald Reagan ~
Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
~By Xun Zi ~
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 ~
Back in the 1960s, the number of deaths each year from unintentional poisoning was 15 times greater than it is today.
~By Hal Stratton ~
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 ~
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 ~
The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions.
~By Robert Brault ~
All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.
~By Reinhold Niebuhr ~
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 ~
After leaving law school, I intentionally said that I never wanted to hold a job more than six years.
~By Alphonso Jackson ~
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 ~
I love more than anything looking at a movie scene by scene and seeing the intention behind it.
~By Jodie Foster ~
Sometimes his methods are questionable, and even his morals are questionable, but his intention is always to protect Sydney. So in that way I think he's a good parent.
~By Victor Garber ~
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 ~
Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.
~By Adolf Hitler ~
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 ~
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 ~
I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions.
~By George Byron ~
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 ~
The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
~By John Burroughs ~
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