Intention Quotes

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The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and… — Helen Garner
Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
I've tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated… — Alberto Giacometti
My hatred is a thousand times more powerful than all your good intentions. — Jim Goad
I learned early on in teaching how easy it is to hurt a young person and that's never my intention. — Tim Gunn
Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only… — Robin G. Collingwood
No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for… — Christopher Columbus
I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the… — Charles Darwin
One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart. — John Dewey
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. — Peter Drucker
Emotionally, I was affected a lot by Rage Against the Machine, not specifically the literal intention of the words or what it was about, but… — Fred Durst
Everybody loves the underdog, and then they take an underdog and make him a hero and they hate him. But as long as they can… — Fred Durst
Our intention creates our reality. — Wayne Dyer
Sometimes you say things with a smile with the precise intention of making it clear that you are not being serious, and are only kidding.… — Umberto Eco
I think that it is our intention to deny cancer any control over us. — Elizabeth Edwards
O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Honor thy error as a hidden intention. — Brian Eno
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. — Epictetus
My intention... isn't to create controversy. — Brett Favre
It definitely wasn't like, 'Hey, I'm going to steal that, and nobody's going to know.' The original 'T.R.O.Y.' came out in 1992, and it was… — Lupe Fiasco

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