Intention Quotes
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Spare me therefore, your good intentions, your inner sensitivities, your unarticulated and unexpressed love. And spare me also these tedious psycho-historians which, by exposing the goodness inside the bad man, and the evil in the good-invariably establish a vulgar and perverse egalitarianism, as if the arrangement of what is outside and what inside makes no moral difference.
Willard Gaylin
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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 intend to accomplish - not sit intending on a chair.
E. M. Forster
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Certain corpuscles, denominated Christmas Books, with the ostensible intention of swelling the tide of exhilaration, or other expansive emotions, incident upon the exodus of the old and the inauguration of the New Year.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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There is such pleasure in long-term marriage that I really would hate to be my age and not have had a long-term marriage. Remember, sustaining a pleasurable, long-term marriage takes effort, deliberateness and an intention to learn about one another. In other words, marriage is for grown-ups.
Cokie Roberts
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Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.
William Law
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I don't feel any obligation to make my intentions for a song accessible to a listener or an audience. I'm not interested in conveying anything to them so much as what's best for me.
J. Tillman
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The ocean was waiting with grand and bitter provocations, as if it invited you to think how deep it was, how much colder than your blood or saltier, or to outguess it, to tell which were its feints or passes and which its real intentions, meaning business.
Saul Bellow
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Dont throw yourself out on another’s whim. People change, as do intentions and as a result, consequences. Live for yourself - Love those around you, but realize that they’ve got their own agendas.
Alex Gaskarth All Time Low
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My intention is never to hurt anybody. I'm happy when people are having a good time.
Adam Sandler
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No word is absolutely wrong or dirty or insulting. It all depends upon context and intention.
Janet Jackson
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I have no intention of dying young and being some stinking rock'n'roll person.
Courtney Love
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Just the same way I'd say a prayer before going onstage, taking that even further and using the drum to inspire people. And using that as a vehicle for the intention.
Rick Allen Def Leppard
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Sometimes, some things have to settle, and you have to think about the intention of it.
Edgar Wright
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MTV was completely unaware of it. It was not my intention that it go as far as it did. I apologize to anyone offended - including the audience, MTV, CBS and the NFL.
Janet Jackson
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We get so many kids telling us that they've taken up the violin or cello. It's really special, and it wasn't really our intention in the beginning.
Grace Chatto
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A single Mass offered for oneself during life may be worth more than a thousand celebrated for the same intention after death.
Anselm of Canterbury
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If design is the first signal of human intention.
William McDonough
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Until you commit your goals to paper, you have intentions that are seeds without soil.
Brian Tracy
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Designing renders visible our hopes and dreams. It is the first signal of human intentions.
William McDonough
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It's my intention to make something stand outside the realm of album art, but it also feels comfortable to me to be in it. It's tricky and definitely a requires striking a delicate balance.
John Baizley Baroness
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My original interests and intentions in guitar playing were primarily created on quality of tone, for instance, the way the instrument could be made to echo or simulate the human voice.
Eric Clapton Blind Faith
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Take five minutes to centre yourself in the morning...set your intention every day...if you don't have five minutes, you don't deserve to have the life of your dreams.
Oprah Winfrey
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My tribulations are so great, my life so disturbed by the plans daily invented to further the King's wicked intention, the surprises which the King gives me, with certain persons of his council, are so mortal, and my treatment is what God knows, that it is enough to shorten ten lives, much more mine.
Catherine of Aragon
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I have a problem asking shareholders to vote for someone who has no intention of serving a full term. If I thought the search would take more than a year, that would be another situation.
J. M. Roberts