Intention Quotes

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When I look out the window, I exhale a prayer of thanks for the color green, for my children's safety, for the simple acts of… — Barbara Kingsolver
We have no intention of ignoring or appeasing history's latest gang of fanatics trying to murder their way to power. — Dick Cheney
Assuredly there is but one way in which to achieve what is not merely difficult but utterly against human nature: to love those who hate… — John Calvin
He uses common sense to judge not the intentions of an action but its consequences. — Paulo Coelho
You can have the best intentions in the world but if you do nothing, you are nothing. — Corey Taylor
Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions. — Fernando Pessoa
I would say here something that was heard from an ecclesiastic of the most eminent degree: The intention of the Holy Spirit is to teach… — Galileo Galilei
In view of Chinas growing military strength and intentions, the best way to safeguard Asias permanent peace and prosperity is to have all Asian countries… — Jim Costa
My intention is not to replace one set of general rules by another such set: my intention is, rather, to convince the reader that all… — Paul Feyerabend
I have no intention of lingering through a season, just to have a chance to be an alternate on a relay. I don't want that. — Carl Lewis
I must personally say that I do question the sincerity and nonviolent intentions of some civil rights leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,… — Jerry Falwell
Censorship, I believe, is the most dangerous enemy to all human communication, and piety of intention is probably the most dangerous, the most virulent and… — Chuck Jones
If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism â€” at least in the sense of this work â€” is… — Ludwig Feuerbach
I cannot emphasize enough how wrongheaded this is. Withholding criticism and ignoring differences are racism in its purest form. Yet these cultural experts fail to… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Innumerable times a whole Christian community has broken down because it had sprung from a wish dreamâ€¦ Every human wish dream that is injected into… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
A person does not...stand motionless and clear before our eyes with his merits, his defects, his plans, his intentions with regard to ourself exposed on… — Marcel Proust
I didn't have evil intentions, but I guess I did have power. — Harmon Killebrew
The photographer's intentions do not determine the meaning of a photograph, which will have its own career, blown by the whims and loyalties of the… — Susan Sontag
It becomes 'one's own' only when the speaker populates it with his own intentions, his own accent, when he appropriates the word, adapting it to… — Mikhail Bakhtin
The word in language is half someone elseâ€™sâ€¦ it exists in other peopleâ€™s mouths, in other peopleâ€™s contexts, serving other peopleâ€™s intentions: it is from… — Mikhail Bakhtin

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