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Quotes About Intention

Sometimes a spouse, in trying to relieve a partner's distress, accomplishes just the opposite.
~ AARON T. BECK
and what might be intended as simple curiosity may feel like a demand for a confession.
~ Abdulrazak Gurnah
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny. From "Cutting for Stone
~ Abraham Verghese
Forgive me," she says now. "For what?" "For everything. Sometimes we can wound each other in ways we don't intend.
~ Abraham Verghese
What I know now is she wanted something else for me. For me to wake each morning and recognise my own flesh, for this one thing she made—me—to remain how she intended, for one of us to make it out unscathed
~ Ada Limón
Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
~ Adam Clarke
It is, in other words, the King James Bible's exact contemporary, the product of precisely the same cultural moment, produced from precisely the same court culture, with precisely the same intention of celebrating and in a certain sense 'housing' James I and his dream of majesty. Can Hatfield House, then, be read as a companion to the Bible whose genesis is so close to its own?
~ Adam Nicolson
Tie my handlebars to the stars so I stay on track & if my intentions stray I'll wrench them away,then I'll take my leave & I won't even look back
~ Adam Young
Become What You Eat
~ Adamo Macri
Yo, por mi parte, no pienso tan austeramente como usted; me limito a actuar de la misma manera en que usted piensa.
~ Adelbert von Chamisso
In the unfixables of our lives we are invited to keep company with Jesus and take a risk that God's intentions toward us are good. Day after day this is what Jesus did. It is called trust. He calls us: 'Keep company with me and you'll learn to live freely and lightly" (Matthew 11:30, MSG)
~ Adele Ahlberg Calhoun
In the unfixables of our lives we are invited to keep company with Jesus and take a risk that God's intentions toward us are good.
~ Adele Ahlberg Calhoun
When you leave here, don't forget why you came.
~ Adlai Stevenson
Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.
~ Adolf Hitler
If you cannot recognize the signs of Hitlerian Power, if you do not know how to counter their efforts, if you remain confused and uncertain as your opponent makes his moves, step by step with decisiveness and intention, and your inaction allows him to come closer to power, then you have already lost and they have won, for they know the rules of the game and you do not.
~ Adolf Hitler
Avane Srimannarayana' is the result of three years of hardwork and dedication which went into its making. We have made it very passionately, and for me, I am satisfied with the fact that we were able to make the film as we intended to do it in the first place.
~ Rakshit Shetty
Create your future from your future not your past.
~ Werner Erhard
If you go about life the right way and you're good to other people that will show and will payoff in the long run.
~ Eve Torres
We will not have peace by afterthought.
~ Norman Cousins
Everything we do is infused with the energy in which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we are peaceful, life will be peaceful.
~ Marianne Williamson
Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will.
~ G. Stanley Hall
I think everyone's intentions are to become a performer at first. But by the time I was in high school and college, I discovered that I liked writing and that I was probably a little better at it.
~ Tina Fey
Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe