Think about it: Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, Vietnam, North Korea, the former Soviet Union - they all start with the intention of leveling… — Trish Regan Copy Share Image
Aikido is the principle of non-resistance. Because it is non-resistant, it is victorious from the beginning. Those with evil intentions or contentious… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree as we do namely, a feeling of almost childish… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I think our goal and intention is to make sure that, when you watch each episode, you don't have to make that… — Alex Kurtzman Copy Share Image
“It is your intention that determines your honor. While it is acceptable to deceive people to protect yourself or your family, it… — Bohdi Sanders Copy Share Image
The nature of what we're doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic. There's no way that you can… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
In the course of a life devoted less to living than to reading, I have verified many times that literary intentions and… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The intentions of a tool are what it does. A hammer intends to strike, a vise intends to hold fast, a lever… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
When your intention is great enough you will ALWAYS find the time and energy to accomplish your desires. You can state excuses… — James Arthur Ray Copy Share Image
I think as designers we realize design is a signal of intention, but it also has to occur within a world and… — William McDonough Copy Share Image
Our intelligence agencies will continue to gather information about the intentions of governments - as opposed to ordinary citizens - around the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
With the best intentions, the job of acting can become a display of accumulated bad habits, trapped instincts and blocked energies. Working… — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
'Bradshaw's' is a lovely device for the time-travelling television presenter. I just hope that people buying it aren't doing so with the… — Michael Portillo Copy Share Image
Mounting those red stairs [in Cannes] is something I've done with a very different intention many times. So it's interesting any time… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
Moral conduct includes every thing in which men are active and for which they are accountable. They are active in their desires,… — Nathanael Emmons Copy Share Image
Life proceeds out of your intention. Your true intention is revealed by your actions, and your actions are determined by your true… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is the act of admitting we are like other people. We are prone to make mistakes that cause confusion, inflict pain,… — Christina Baldwin Copy Share Image
Anyone can lie. One need only have the requisite intention - in other words, to say something with the intention to deceive.… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
He sighed deeply; to fall in love at first sight with this malodorous sleeping girl, with, as far as he could see,… — Betty Neels Copy Share Image
All motivation is defined by intention. If the intention is to hurt, divide, or belittle, it's wrong; if it's an attempt to… — Eric Andre Copy Share Image
The possession of a quantity of plants, however good the plants may be themselves and however ample their number, does not make… — Gertrude Jekyll Copy Share Image
A man sees only what concerns him… How much more, then, it requires different intentions of the eye and of the mind… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think I've made mistakes, but not regrets, in regards to allowing the wrong people in at times, because you never know… — Harnaam Kaur Copy Share Image
That worries me an awful lot. If people misunderstand our intentions [in Black Snake Moan], especially regarding my character, then they're essentially… — Christina Ricci Copy Share Image
My style of songwriting is influenced by cinema. I'm a frustrated filmmaker. A fan once said to me, 'Girl, you make me… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
Confuse the enemy. Keep him in the dark on your intentions. Sometimes what seems a victory isn't really a victory and sometimes… — Vo Nguyen Giap Copy Share Image
'Funny Games' was conceived as a provocation. My other films are different. If people feel my other films are, or respond to… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
When we make our art a practice, when we make our workspace sacred and enter it daily with respect and high intention,… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
You can talk all you want about having a clear purpose and strategy for your life, but ultimately this means nothing if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Set the intention to be as present and as engaged as you can be with each person you interact with. See them.… — Jodi Chapman Copy Share Image
I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically,… — Laura Linney Copy Share Image
The just man having a firm grasp of his intentions, neither the heated passions of his fellow men ordaining something awful, nor… — Horace Copy Share Image
Where do you draw the line between a humble man who knows his own weaknesses but tries to act out virtues he… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Refined policy ever has been the parent of confusion, and ever will be so as long as the world endures. Plain good… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The naive is what is or appears to be natural, individual, or classical to the point of irony or to the point… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
My intention was to create a work of art which would transcend the visible, which cannot be perceived except in stages, with… — Yaacov Agam Copy Share Image
Fear is a psychic tyrant that has no intention of letting its slave go free. It will say whatever it needs to… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
For me, making a lot of dramas on one side it's a different sort of challenge, and on the other, it's not… — James Mangold Copy Share Image
Censorship, I believe, is the most dangerous enemy to all human communication, and piety of intention is probably the most dangerous, the… — Chuck Jones Copy Share Image
Because I'm just a giving person spiritually, I feel that if your intentions are to use or abuse or take advantage of,… — Angie Stone Copy Share Image
![“Mounting those red stairs [in Cannes] is something I've done with a very different intention many times. So it's interesting any time you witness those shifts of perspective. The beach scenes were also fun. It felt very strange and very theatrical to kind of commandeer it and have La Mer booming…” quote by Willem Dafoe](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/66b/willem-dafoe-4486_beach_mounting-those-red-stairs-in-cannes-is-s_175324.jpg)
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