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Quotes About Intention

the miracles were not intended to authenticate the teaching of Jesus, but to surround His life with a guard of honour."20
~ Albert Schweitzer
Gutes tun will überlegt und gelernt sein.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Uno puede hacer de todos los sitios el sitio que uno desea si uno se concentra.
~ Alberto Fuguet
As your brain is upgraded, you will discover that you can let go of your fixation on what you think is absolutely vital to your safety and happiness and essential for your survival. As you release your old, fear-based approach to life, you will find you have more faith in your ability to handle uncertainty. You will gain a sense of living in a world that is safe and welcoming, and a universe that supports your intentions and what you value as truly important.
~ Alberto Villoldo
Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
~ Aldous Huxley
Love is the law, love under will.
~ Aleister Crowley
Minut može biti isto što i ceo život, ako se doživi usredsre?eno, ako se gleda pažljivo kako promi?u ku?e i prolaznici, ako se zna da se u?inilo ono što se želelo.
~ Aleksandar Tišma
Era una delle sue massime questa, che, per riuscire a far del bene alla gente, la prima cosa, nella maggior parte de' casi, è di non metterli a parte del disegno.
~ Alessandro Manzoni
Persuaso che la vita non è già destinata ad essere un peso per molti,e una festa per alcuni, ma per tutti un impegno, del quale ognuno renderà conto, cominciò da fanciullo a pensare come potesse render la sua utile e santa.
~ Alessandro Manzoni
My death will be caused by morphine, which I have deliberately taken with suicidal intent.
~ Alex Campbell
The challenge is not to act automatically. It's to find an action that is not automatic. From painting, to breathing, to talking, to fucking. To falling in love...
~ Alex Garland
If there should happen to be an irreconcilable variance between the two, that which has the superior obligation and validity ought, of course, to be preferred; or in other words, the Constitution ought to be preferred to the statute; the intention of the People to the intention of their agents.
~ Alexander Hamilton
destitute as it is even of the merit of plausibility, must have originated in an intention to deceive the people, too palpable to be obscured by sophistry, too atrocious to be palliated by hypocrisy.
~ Alexander Hamilton
Seek to be the man that you are least likely to be, and aim at a comprehensive development of 'all righteousness and goodness and truth.
~ Alexander MacLaren
Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be, In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend; And if the means be just, the conduct true, Applause, in spite of trivial faults, is due.
~ Alexander Pope
In ev'ry work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend; And if the means be just, the conduct true, Applause, in spite of trivial faults, is due.
~ Alexander Pope
The natural dependence of man upon the world was intended to be transformed constantly into communion with God in whom is all life.
~ Alexander Schmemann
The only life worth living is the one we take responsibility for choosing.
~ Alexandra Stoddard
The thoughtful little things we do each day have an accumulated effect on all our tomorrows.
~ Alexandra Stoddard
However we think about these [long-term] goals, we ought to think about them a lot. They ought to be our touchstone, if only to keep us from being sucked into the quicksand of daily life.
~ Alfie Kohn
Just because a child's action may have a negative effect on you doesn't mean that was the child's intention.
~ Alfie Kohn
I never want to waste a frame. I always look and see what I've got.
~ Pamela Adlon
Superfund was passed with the good intention of cleaning up America's toxic waste sites.
~ Fred Thompson
I don't like to change things too much. I think pretty hard about things before I jump in, and once I do, I feel, 'All right, I don't want to waste the energy of buying, selling this, going on Consumer Reports, test driving, buying, selling a house.' I feel life is to be lived.
~ Greg Fitzsimmons