Intention Quotes

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We all wear some disguise, make some professions, use some artifice, to set ourselves off as being better than we are; and yet it is… — William Hazlitt
It appears that even the different parts of the same person do not converse among themselves, do not succeed in learning from each other what… — Rebecca West
What higher obligation does a President have than to explain his intentions to the people and persuade them that the direction he wishes to go… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Do not dare to live without some clear intention toward which your living shall be bent. Mean to be something with all your might. — Phillips Brooks
A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked... . We as black people, we as people, we as… — Nikki Giovanni
It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale and… — Brendan Gill
We want a president who is as much like an American tourist as possible. Someone with the same goofy grin, the same innocent intentions, the… — Florence King
It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the… — Don DeLillo
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… — Mary MacLane
Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions, present a condescending… — Azar Nafisi
When I resigned, I put the U.S. Government on notice that I'm going to stick to policy issues, that I have no intention of going… — Scott Ritter
Stories, as much as we like to talk about them, retrospectively, as emanations of theme or worldview or intention, occur primarily as technical objects when… — George Saunders
We fret about words, we writers. Words mean. Words point. They are arrows. Arrows stuck in the rough hide of reality. And the more portentous,… — Susan Sontag
People you are emotionally open to can drain your power level or raise it tremendously, depending on what their intentions are. — Frederick Lenz
Your intention for a book is never the same as the reception. — Neil Strauss
Initially I was very drawn to the Tao Te Ching, the Taoist philosophy. It was helping me deal with the balance of these external and… — Joshua Waitzkin
You know what's weird, I just write to write, with no intention, I just write. — Tommy Lee
The eye is the window of the soul; even an animal looks for a man's intentions right into his eyes. — Hiram Powers
Judgment consists not in seeing through deceptions and evil intentions, but in being able to awaken the decency dormant in every person. — Eric Hoffer
Prayer is always acceptable to God when dictated by the heart, for the intention is everything in his sight; and the prayer of the heart… — Allan Kardec

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