Intention Quotes

Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.
Dalai Lama

Religion, May, Confusion

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy.
Ronald Reagan

Economy, Taken, Strongest

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Done, Gift, Giver

Our intention creates our reality.
Wayne Dyer

Reality, Creates

O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
T. S. Eliot

Heart, Lord, Excellent

A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.
Jonathan Swift

Lie, Words, Desire

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.
Charles Darwin

God, Living, Cannot

Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

May, Sense, Liberal

However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Great, Wisdom, Action

The intention to live as long as possible isn't one of the mind's best intentions, because quantity isn't the same as quality.
Deepak Chopra

Best, Live, Mind

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
John Burroughs

Greatest, Deed, Smallest

Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention.
E. Stanley Jones

Good, May, Wrong

I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words, I think, are very powerful and they convey an intention.
Drew Barrymore

Powerful, Words, Old

It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
Ansel Adams

May, Through, Meaning

The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.
Helen Garner

Nature, Rain, Again

No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.
Christopher Columbus

Fear, Service, Holy

Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Enemy, Hands, Soon

I knew I could only play Cyrano if he were Americanized. I had no intention of writing the script myself. I was afraid of it. You're playing with fire when you tamper with a classic. So I went looking for a writer. But it was such a personal idea, and anyone I would give it to would make it his own. It's hard to ask Neil Simon to write your idea.
Steve Martin

Writing, Hard, Fire

In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention.
Thomas Aquinas

War, Three, Order

When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
Otto von Bismarck

Means, Practice, Says

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.
Theodor Adorno

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
David Hume

Design, Stupid, Purpose

When we wrote the Constitution, the intention was to give the commander in chief the authority how to use the forces when you authorize him to be able to use the forces.
Joe Biden

Him, Give, Able

If it had been our intention to take Iraq, if it had been our intention to destroy the country, if it had been our intention to overrun the country, we could have done it unopposed.
Norman Schwarzkopf

Done, Country, Destroy

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.
Brian Eno

Honor, Hidden, Error

Emotionally, I was affected a lot by Rage Against the Machine, not specifically the literal intention of the words or what it was about, but the feel, the sound, those phrases that got me.
Fred Durst

Words, Against, Sound

It is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action.
Zachary Quinto

Life, Live, Integrity

And there's a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents - I mean, it's gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
Jerry Garcia

Parents, Mean, Kids

Let's get a couple of things straight. It hasn't been years and years since I made a movie. I'm not coming back from the dead - I've just had two kids! I have no intention of retiring, but I do think it's impossible to do movie after movie, because there aren't that many good films made.
Julia Roberts

Good, Made, Two

I think that it is our intention to deny cancer any control over us.
Elizabeth Edwards

Control, Cancer, Deny

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