Quotes About Intentions

You don't make art out of good intentions.

There are two types of serial killers.Those who want to get caught and those who really want to get caught

Those who still believe the United Nations is a human rights organization with the best of intentions are kidding themselves.

Now, the United Nations is an organization that I believe was founded with good intentions. As a matter of fact, a prominent Tennessean named Cordell Hull was very involved with it.

No one would argue that it's in the United States' interest to have independent knowledge of the plans and intentions of foreign countries. But we need to think about where to draw the line on these kind of operations so we're not always attacking our allies, the people we trust, the people we need to rely on, and to have them in turn rely on us.

President Obama's first term in office has been better for intentions than for actual changes in planning and policy. I do believe, and he has several things to this effect, that he would like to provide universal preschool or at least far more preschool for our children.

I never start anything with a really overt, political, or even exactly artistic mission statement.

I would never bring in a player to make a statement.

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.

People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives

The things we do or want without reasons, and without requiring reasons - the things that define what is a reason for us and what is not-are the starting points of our skepticism. 

If a man be the enemy of another from mistake and prejudice, as in the case of religious opinions, and sometimes in politics, that man is different to an enemy at heart with a criminal intention; and it is incumbent upon as, and it contributes also to our own tranquillity, that we

His heart's in the right place, but his tongue's an affliction.

Camila had intended to be perfunctory and if possible impudent, but now she was struck for the first time with the dignity of the old woman. The mercer's daughter could carry herself at times with all the distinction of the Montemayors and when she was drunk she wore the grandeur of Hecuba.

We can't be responsible for other people's reactions to us, Lakshmi," she said. "We can only make sure our intentions are good.

Nice seeing you, Eddie. We must have lunch sometime.' I've always found it curious how many people, when they are clearly in an unrivalled physical and mental state to arrange a lunch or drink, don't do so, but merely say that they should.

To do no evil is good, to intend none better.

Even with the best intentions, you can have a nuclear war, a nuclear holocaust, through miscalculation, through accidents.

I don't care about the stats. That's not my No. 1 objective.

Our worth is always determined by our deeds, not by our good intentions, however noble.

The essential question is not, How busy are you?' but 'What are you busy at?' 'Are you doing what fulfills you?

God takes note of His creatures' true intentions. The Lord favors a man who intends to fast during Ramadan over a man who fasts because he can't find food to eat anyway. Because one of them means it, while the other one doesn't.

Intentions come in two forms," he said: "THAT WHICH OUR HEART INTENDS and THAT WHICH OUR WORDS INTEND

He was the most dangerous of men, because, in his actions, he saw only good. He saw himself as a hero.