Intentions Quotes
701 quotes by 550 authors
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One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions, rather than their results. We all know a famous road that…
— Milton Friedman
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We shall act with good intentions, but at times we will be wrong. When we are, let us admit it and try to right the…
— Joe Paterno
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The U.S. State Department has a consistent record of error in the assessment of Asian situations and judging Red Chinese intentions.
— Ferdinand Marcos
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Even with the best intentions, you can have a nuclear war, a nuclear holocaust, through miscalculation, through accidents.
— Mohamed ElBaradei
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We engineered activity out of our lives in the name of convenience. We created foods that put fried, fatty, sweet, and salty ahead of fresh,…
— Tom Rath
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I might be one of the most flamboyant characters New Zealand has ever seen, but my intentions are good, and I would like to see…
— Kim Dotcom
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To suggest that organic vegetables, which cost far more than conventional produce, can feed billions of people in parts of the world without roads or…
— Michael Specter
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Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
— Noam Chomsky
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Your intentions are your nonphysical causes that set energy into motion. They create a multitude of effects and, therefore, determine the experiences of your life.…
— Gary Zukav
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The more aware of your intentions and your experiences you become, the more you will be able to connect the two, and the more you…
— Gary Zukav
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Anytime I have communicated with college-going people, fresh out of college, looking for a job - money is very important, that is just so important.…
— Nimrat Kaur
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Good intentions can often lead to unintended consequences. It is hard to imagine a law intended for the workforce known to Henry Ford can serve…
— Tim Walberg
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Democratic institutions are based on a reality of human nature: that those with power, however benign or even noble their intentions, will do what they…
— Rebecca MacKinnon
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I know politics and politicians are hated, but I still believe in goodness of a heart that has selfless intentions. With the grace of God,…
— Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
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You have to see if the batsman is coming out, if he is staying back, what his grip is like, to gauge his intentions. A…
— Harbhajan Singh
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I am quite sure that from America will come the greatest help for the cause of peace, and I consider it my duty to inform…
— Bertha von Suttner
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Hardships of early human life favored the evolution of certain cognitive tools, among them the ability to infer the presence of organisms that might do…
— Robin Marantz Henig
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Good intentions often get muddled with very complex execution. The last time the government tried to make taxes easier, it created a 1040 EZ form…
— Brad D. Smith
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Critics, at least generally, want to regard works of fiction as independent entities, whose virtues and failures must be reckoned apart from the circumstances of…
— Paul Di Filippo
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I had all the intentions of being the next Eddie Murphy.
— Unknown Author
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