Intention Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My intention is never to hurt anybody. I'm happy when people are having a good time.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Sometimes, some things have to settle, and you have to think about the intention of it.
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If design is the first signal of human intention.
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Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.
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I want to live in Paris for a couple of years. I'm dying to do the Josephine Baker story. I really want to be there and do it. It's certainly my intention to do it.
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No word is absolutely wrong or dirty or insulting. It all depends upon context and intention.
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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.
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Designing renders visible our hopes and dreams. It is the first signal of human intentions.
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Perhaps a great deed is belittled by an intention. And perhaps a small deed, by sincere intention, is made great.
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I have no intention of dying young and being some stinking rock'n'roll person.
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If you will let your dominant intention be to revise and improve the content of the story you tell every day of your life, it is our absolute promise to you that your life will become that ever-improving story.
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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.
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They started out with the best intentions, but they didn't want to be known as a poor town.
