Their Intentions Quotes
35 quotes by 31 authors
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Since the end of the nineteenth century, if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about their motives and their intentions in going to war.
— Robert Higgs
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Some have said we must not act until the threat is imminent. Since when have terrorists and tyrants announced their intentions, politely putting us on…
— George W. Bush
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Moral conduct includes every thing in which men are active and for which they are accountable. They are active in their desires, their affections, their…
— Nathanael Emmons
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We recognize that same-sex marriage makes some people deeply uncomfortable. However, inertia and apprehension are not legitimate bases for denying same-sex couples due process and…
— Henry Franklin Floyd
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History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.
— Ted Koppel
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But last year there were 540,000 people, roughly, detained coming across the border illegally. Forty-five thousand of them came from countries other than Mexico, demonstrating…
— John Cornyn
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In ancient times, those who wished to illuminate the world with virtue first brought order to their nations. Wishing to order well their nations, they…
— Confucius
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Artists, no matter how good their intentions, are always slower than they think.
— Mark Millar
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It appears that even the different parts of the same person do not converse among themselves, do not succeed in learning from each other what…
— Rebecca West
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Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions, present a condescending…
— Azar Nafisi
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People you are emotionally open to can drain your power level or raise it tremendously, depending on what their intentions are.
— Frederick Lenz
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I don't know anyone in the public eye who has not made a mistake and said something in a manner that does not truly reflect…
— Jim Jeffords
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Lord, you have cursed Cain and Cain’s children: thy will be done. You have allowed men’s hearts to be corrupted, that their intentions be rotten,…
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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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
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If everyone in the music business were brutally honest about what their intentions were then you could sort things out, but it's all smoke and…
— Noel Gallagher
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One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.
— Milton Friedman
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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
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This must be part of Mother Nature's master plan—making these boys so irresistibly cute, in such a naughty way, that the purity of their intentions…
— Rachel Cohn
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Jerome was sliding and climbing on top of me and it felt like it had the night before, like a crushing weight. So do boys…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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So do boys and men announce their intentions. They cover you like a sarcophagus lid. And call it love.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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