Quotes About Intentions

Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally inclined to take more than it was intended they should have.

To me, words convey feelings, and feelings are just vibrations that we feel, so words are never as authentic as what feelings are and what intentions are.

Leo," Amelia asked suspiciously, "what are you planning to do to her?" "Why do you always insist on asking questions when you know you won't like the answers?" "Because, being an optimist," she said tartly, "I always hope I'm wrong." - Amelia & Leo

Es mi prometida ahora. Y la llevaré de vuelta cuando me plazca. —Entendido. —Los labios de Cam se retorcieron—. ¿Tienes intención de casarte con ella pronto, espero? —Pronto no —dijo Kev—. Inmediatamente.

This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.

Forgiveness is a tricky thing, in the way that apologies can be. Are you apologizing because it makes you feel better or because it will make the other person feel better? Are you sorry for what you've done or are you simply trying to placate the other person who believes you should be sorry for the thing you feel completely justified in having done? Who is the apology for?

I need his address. Sean went brows up. His address. Yes, please. You going to show him a good time? he asked. Because darlin', he sure could use it. I'm on it, she said and then realized what he'd meant, which was not what she'd meant. Wait, that's not-- Oh, it's way too late, Sean said, laughing his ass off.

I may have had good reasons. I may have had the best of intentions. But intentions aren't enough, no matter how good they are. Intentions can lead you to a place where you're able to make a choice. It's the choice that counts.

Intentions count for far less than the consequences of the actions born from them.

With pure hearts and good intentions," he answered. "Our strength shall be the strength of ten.

And... this plague. What does it do? I asked. It changes that which ought not change, she said quietly. It destroys a father's love for his family by twisting it into maniacal ambition. It distorts and corrupts the good intentions of agents of mortal law into violence and death. It erodes the sensible fear that keeps the weakly talented sorcerer from reaching out for more power, no matter how terrible the cost.

I just now know that you can only meet a man at the level of his intentions.

It is a way of talking that tends to preclude further discussion, which may well be its intention: the public life of liberal Hollywood comprises a kind of dictatorship of good intentions, a social contract in which actual and irreconcilable disagreement is as taboo as failure or bad teeth, a climate devoid of irony.

Peter loves to make promises. He has the best intentions of keeping them. It makes it worse, somehow, that he doesn't know how to. He thinks he's a nice boy, that's the worst part.

Bad is not an absolute, but a relative term. Ask the robber who used the cash he stole to feed his infant; the rapist who was sexually abused as a child; the kidnapper who truly believed he was saving a life. And just because you break the law doesn't mean you have intentionally crossed the line into evil. Sometimes the line creeps up on you, and before you know it, you're standing on the other side.

One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.

People can twist your words and intentions to mean something completely different, if so, let God be your judge, not them.

My intentions aren't bad, but I gotta realize being selfish isn't worth breaking a good girls heart.

Sometimes when a girl acts like she's not interested in you, it might be that she's testing you to see how bad you really want her.

Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.

Where your mind goes, your actions follow. Whatever you think about will dictate your behavior, your attitude, and ultimately your direction in life.

human beings can make: an excuse. Whoever said the road to Hell was paved with good intentions had gotten it all wrong. If you looked more closely, you could see that the road to Hell was paved with excuses.

God save us from people who mean well.

Assume that the new elite were clearly and simply to proclaim its intentions which are to supplant the old elite; no one would come to its assistance, it would be defeated before having fought a battle. On the contrary, it appears to be asking nothing for itself, well knowing that without asking anything in advance it will obtain what it wants as a consequence of its victory.