Intentions Quotes

701 quotes by 550 authors

For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions. — James Russell Lowell
Just make sure your intentions are not pretensions. — Emil Ludwig
One doesn't need to know the artist's private intentions. The work tells all. — Susan Sontag
Hell is full of good intentions. — Thomas Gray
People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive… — Ingmar Bergman
The contrast couldn't be clearer between the intentions and the hearts of those of us who care deeply about human rights and human liberty and… — George W. Bush
Many works of the past complete what they announce they are going to do, to our increasing boredom. Certain others plague me because I cannot… — Philip Guston
People change, not necessarily in negative ways. Sometimes goals and intentions in life aren't aligned. It's just choices we make in life. Otherwise, why aren't… — Kirstie Alley
A horrid alcoholic explosion scatters all my good intentions like bits of limbs and clothes over the doorsteps and into the saloon bars of the… — Dylan Thomas
There is no class of people so hard to manage in a state, as those whose intentions are honest, but whose consciences are bewitched. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Among some of the organized methods used to control the world is the thing known and called PROPAGANDA. Propaganda has done more to defeat the… — Marcus Garvey
The plea of good intentions is not one that can be allowed to have much weight in passing historical judgment upon a man whose wrong-headedness… — Theodore Roosevelt
My problem is not to reinforce or destroy any ideas anyone might have about me, how I do what I do, what my intentions are,… — El-P
The illusion for each soul is created by it intentions. Therefore, the illusion is alive at each moment with the most appropriate experiences that you… — Gary Zukav
Intentions are nice, but ultimately intentions don't really matter because they only exist inside you. — Kelly Williams Brown
Without courage, it doesn't matter how good the leader's intentions are. — Orrin Woodward
Justice for some people is an evil for others. Good intentions, kindness, and hope will not necessarily make people happy. — Gen Urobuchi
There's a road to hell that is paved with good intentions but it's a long route. The quicker path is paved with the kind of… — Mark Lawrence
The PS3 is not a game machine. We've never once called it a game machine...With the PS3, our intentions have been to create a machine… — Ken Kutaragi
Good intentions but bad results; bad results but lessons learned. There is a dark corner on every task beautiful and a beautiful corner on every… — Criss Jami

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