Intentions Quotes

701 quotes by 550 authors

We carry around in our heads these pictures of what our lives are supposed to look like, painted by the brush of out intentions. It's… — Richard Paul Evans
There were no men in this painting, but it was about men, the kind who caused women to fall. I did not ascribe any intentions… — Margaret Atwood
And yet, sometimes facts are no more than pitiful consequences, because guilt does not reside in our acts but in the intentions that give rise… — SÃ¡ndor MÃ¡rai
And that, I suppose, is what I'd been trying to tell my mother that day: that her faith in justice and rationality was misplaced, that… — Barack Obama
You donâ€™t make art out of good intentions. — Gustave Flaubert
Words are not that important when you recognize intentions. — Isabel Allende
He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and yet he never succeeded at anything,… — Charles Baudelaire
...humans are not defined by their limitations, but by the intentions that I have for them; not by what they seem to be, but by… — William P. Young
You can plan all you want to. You can lie in your morning bed and fill whole notebooks with schemes and intentions. But within a… — Wallace Stegner
Life is progressive, no matter what our intentions. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I took all the blame. I admitted mistakes I hadn't made, intentions I'd never had. Whenever she turned cold and hard, I begged her to… — Bernhard Schlink
It means we're looking one way, while following another. We're for one side and also the other. We mean what we say, but our intentions… — Amy Tan
Being in love is something like poetry. Certainly, you can analyze and expound its various senses and intentions, but there is always something left over,… — Muriel Spark
You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must… — E. M. Forster
Her cake is a failure, but she is loved anyway. She is loved, she thinks, in more or less the way the gifts will be… — Michael Cunningham
I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became. It is for… — Franz Kafka
I don't want anyone writing in to point out that I spend too much money on books, many of which I will never read. I… — Nick Hornby
What really matters is that we should all of us realize that we are guilty of inhumanity. The horror of this realization should shakes us… — Albert Schweitzer
Wishes cannot be summoned up or kept away at will. They come from deeper within us than good or bad intentions. And they spring up… — Michael Ende
Trivers, pursuing his theory of the emotions to its logical conclusion, notes that in a world of walking lie detectors the best strategy is to… — Steven Pinker

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