Intention Quotes

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I had learned a little about writing from Soldier's Pay - how to approach language, words: not with seriousness so much as an essayist does,… — William Faulkner
Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
...intentions, good or bad, are not enough. There's luck or fate or something else that takes over... — John Steinbeck
The primary thing when you take a sword in your hands is your intention to cut the enemy, whatever the means. Whenever you parry, hit,… — Miyamoto Musashi
There is always a gap between intention and action.. — Paulo Coelho
So this was how secrets got started, I thought to myself. People constructed them little by little. I had not intended to keep May Kasahara… — Haruki Murakami
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to… — Hunter S. Thompson
Just as anyone who listens to the muse will hear, you can write out of your own intention or out of inspiration. There is such… — Joseph Campbell
We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. — George Orwell
How many more times do we have to come to terms with death before we find safety?" he asked. He waited a few minutes, but… — Ishmael Beah
The intentions of a tool are what it does. A hammer intends to strike, a vise intends to hold fast, a lever intends to lift.… — Philip Pullman
Prayer is a relationship; half the job is mine. If I want transformation, but can't even be bothered to articulate what, exactly, I'm aiming for,… — Elizabeth Gilbert
The Second Rule is that the greatest harm can result from the best intentions. It sounds a paradox, but kindness and good intentions can be… — Terry Goodkind
Intention, good or bad, is not enough. — John Steinbeck
You can't have intentions without consequences. The question is, who pays for the consequences? Saving fish from drowning. Same thing. Whoâ€™s saved? Whoâ€™s not? — Amy Tan
I must hold in balance the sense of the futility of effort and the sense of the necessity to struggle; the conviction of the inevitability… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
That which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our… — Garth Stein
The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation. — Sigmund Freud
Every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage, indeed,… — Adam Smith
The participation if women in some armies in the world is in reality only symbolic. The talk about the role of Zionist women in fighting… — Saddam Hussein

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