Intentions Quotes

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Because I'm just a giving person spiritually, I feel that if your intentions are to use or abuse or take advantage of, then you might… — Angie Stone
I'm delirious with joy. It proves that if you confront the universe with good intentions in your heart, it will reflect that and reward your… — J. Michael Straczynski
With rock music, the amount of power that you can generate, the intensity behind the intentions of your lyrics that you can really reflect through… — Serj Tankian
No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well. — Margaret Thatcher
One of the things I find very difficult about theatre is the repetition - that something can slide away from your original intentions. — Ben Whishaw
It has never demonstrated any desire to provide humane treatment to captured Americans. If anything, the murders of Nicholas Berg and Daniel Pearl declare al… — John Yoo
I think we're entering a very dangerous time. The West has set itself up, decided it's in charge, not for good intentions, not for the… — Thom Yorke
How often we recall with regret that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with… — Mark Twain
I've never had any intentions about anything. That's why I am where I am today, which is neither here nor there, in a literal sense. — Edward Gorey
I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions. — Augusten Burroughs
If God permits virtue to be persecuted on earth, it is not for us to question his intentions. It may be that his rewards are… — Marquis de Sade
One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results. — Milton Friedman
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 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
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
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
What we can and should change is ourselves: our impatience, our egoism (including intellectual egoism), our sense of injury, our lack of love and forbearance.… — Hermann Hesse

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