Intention Quotes

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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
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
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. — Douglas Adams
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
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
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.
In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour. — Henri Bergson
It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest. — Chuck Berry
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
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
The joke of our time is the suicide of intention. — Theodor Adorno
All that counts in life is intention. — Andrea Bocelli
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
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
The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention. — John Burroughs
If everyone is to be made responsible for everything they do, you must extend responsibility beyond the level of conscious intention. — William S. Burroughs
I have never wavered from my intention to advance the cause of diversity in new and more effective ways. — Jeb Bush
This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions. — Lord Byron
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
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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