Intention Quotes
1516 quotes by 1109 authors
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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…
— Liberty Hyde Bailey
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It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the…
— Ansel Adams
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I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
— Douglas Adams
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I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words, I think, are…
— Drew Barrymore
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Although it was created with the best of intentions, the federal government's Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program has become one of the worst and most…
— Bob Beauprez
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We run around so much - with the best intentions: I want to save the rain forest. I've gotta clean up the oceans. I've gotta…
— Ed Begley, Jr.
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In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
— Henri Bergson
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It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.
— Chuck Berry
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When we wrote the Constitution, the intention was to give the commander in chief the authority how to use the forces when you authorize him…
— Joe Biden
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When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
— Otto von Bismarck
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The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.
— Theodor Adorno
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All that counts in life is intention.
— Andrea Bocelli
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A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
— Rita Mae Brown
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My intention in making a comment about the importance of breastfeeding has nothing to do with the law. It comes from my passion and beliefs…
— Gisele Bundchen
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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
— John Burroughs
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If everyone is to be made responsible for everything they do, you must extend responsibility beyond the level of conscious intention.
— William S. Burroughs
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I have never wavered from my intention to advance the cause of diversity in new and more effective ways.
— Jeb Bush
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This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.
— Lord Byron
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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…
— Albert Camus
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I have to be very careful, however, because I have no intention of providing an excuse for this behavior. It's an attempt to explain how…
— Caleb Carr
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