There are a lot of movies I'd like to throw away. That's not to say that I went in with that attitude. Any film I ever started, I went in with all the hope and best intentions in the world, but some films just don't work.
~By Kiefer Sutherland ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
I have no intention of becoming a shorthand author.
~By Isaac Pitman ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.
~By Lord Byron ~
Intention involves such a small fragment of our consciousness and of our mind and of our life.
~By Jasper Johns ~
Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots.
~By David Byrne ~
My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive.
~By Stand Watie ~
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 ~
I was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were.
~By Sitting Bull ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
~By Milton Friedman ~
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 ~
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 ~
According to recent opinion polls, a large majority of Iraqis believe that the U.S. military has no intention to leave Iraq, and that it would stay even is asked by the Iraqi government to leave.
~By John Conyers ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions.
~By Joey Skaggs ~
Artists, no matter how good their intentions, are always slower than they think.
~By Mark Millar ~
The most difficult thing is the organization of people and the expression of your intentions. It's very easy to have a picture in your head and to imagine that you've told everybody about what you need.
~By Neil Jordan ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Good intentions are not enough. They've never put an onion in the soup yet.
~By Sonya Levien ~
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 ~
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 ~
I've got absolutely no intention of ever going to play at another club.
~By Steven Gerrard ~
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 ~
Our intention is to give people, however you might stylize it, a tax cut or a pay raise.
~By Paul O'Neill ~
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 ~
Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.
~By E. Stanley Jones ~
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 ~
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 ~
My hatred is a thousand times more powerful than all your good intentions.
~By Jim Goad ~
I had no intention of pursuing either the characters or the setting further.
~By Stephen R. Donaldson ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
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 never say a funny thing intentionally.
~By Jayne Meadows ~
All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.
~By Reinhold Niebuhr ~
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 ~
The colors I use may clash or vibrate against one another but this is done intentionally.
~By Frank Bruno ~
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 ~
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'm very skeptical about the good intentions of Milosevic.
~By Warren Christopher ~
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 was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it.
~By Hans Blix ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.
~By Robert Southey ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 sincere teachers of their youth should be met, not with an intention to dictate to them, but to give additional force to their well-meant endeavours, and raise them to public esteem.
~By Joseph Lancaster ~
He wanted to be a lawyer, couldn't afford it, so he started dealing to go to college - good intention.
~By John Leguizamo ~
Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
~By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
There are days when I intentionally don't write. For instance, I never write when I'm traveling, because travel is a situation where I can learn more by looking and listening than by working.
~By Thomas Perry ~
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 ~
No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well.
~By Margaret Thatcher ~
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 ~
Any agreement that you have isn't going to be based on North Korea's intentions or trust.
~By Mitchell Reiss ~
The intentions of record companies are not good, from the musician's perspective.
~By Melissa Auf der Maur ~
Is your remarkably sexist drivel intentional, or just some horrible mistake?
~By Yeardley Smith ~
History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.
~By Ted Koppel ~
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 ~
After leaving law school, I intentionally said that I never wanted to hold a job more than six years.
~By Alphonso Jackson ~
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 ~
I don't think the NFL had the slightest intention of taking me, except as maybe a water boy.
~By Joel McHale ~
On the subject of emigration, it is not my intention to dwell at any length.
~By Charles Sturt ~
I didn't have evil intentions, but I guess I did have power.
~By Harmon Killebrew ~
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 ~
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 ~
Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity.
~By Kate Smith ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
I am 1,000 percent for Tom Eagleton and I have no intention of dropping him from the ticket.
~By George McGovern ~
Back in the 1960s, the number of deaths each year from unintentional poisoning was 15 times greater than it is today.
~By Hal Stratton ~
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 ~
I think that it is our intention to deny cancer any control over us.
~By Elizabeth Edwards ~
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'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 ~
Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.
~By Casey Stengel ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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