Quotes About Intentions

In ordinary life, the action of a third party does not free the contractor from an obligation; but the advantage of making a contract with heaven is that intentions are valid currency.

The hardest task of a girl's life, nowadays, is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious.

Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's good deeds and then there's good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell.

You got your resolutions... We just got reservations.

Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.

My hatred is a thousand times more powerful than all your good intentions.

Believe it or not, we all want what's best. The root o' the world's ills is that no one can agree on what it is.

There aren't many good things don't have a splinter of selfishness in them somewhere, after all.

We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.

There are so many things I want to do! Some are personal. Some are professional.

Many Americans say they want to be organ donors, but they just don't get around to acting on their intentions. Helping these potential good Samaritans overcome their inertia could prolong thousands of lives a year.

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

In view of China's growing military strength and intentions, the best way to safeguard Asia's permanent peace and prosperity is to have all Asian countries join forces with other democratic countries in the world to form a global community of democracies.

It is a commonplace that the League of Nations is not yet-what its most enthusiastic protagonists intended it to be.

How far you are from understanding what my intentions are. May fruitful earth refuse to take my blood and the bright sky my spirit, if I ever betray you, if I let myself go free and leave you. I did the murder, too. I don't deny it.

He had seen me several times, and had intended to call on me long before, but a peculiar combination of circumstances had prevented it.

Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all aims, objectives and intentions.

In talking with affirmative-action administrators and with blacks and whites in general, I found that supporters of affirmative action focus on its good intentions and detractors emphasize its negative effects. It was virtually impossible to find people outside either camp.

You know you might know your intentions, but these are strangers who don't know you, never even met you in person. So you gotta hear each other out, and if you know those aren't your intentions and that's how it's being perceived, it's like why not make a change or alter it? For me, it was the name.

Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her - when, nine times out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her?

Bin Laden is remarkably eager for Americans to know why he doesn't like us, what he intends to do about it and then following up and doing something about it in terms of military actions.

My general philosophy of playing bad guys, which I've sort of done, you know, half the time is, you know, very few people who we view as bad guys get out of bed and think, 'What evil, terrible thing am I going to do today?' Most people see their motivations as justified - as, you know, justifying whatever they do.

una vida triste, llena de pequeñas mezquindades, algunas hechas sin ni siquiera mala intención.

A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.