Intentions Quotes

It has never demonstrated any desire to provide humane treatment to captured Americans. If anything, the murders of Nicholas Berg and Daniel Pearl declare al Qaeda's intentions to kill even innocent civilian prisoners.

This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a presumption that, without relentless scrutiny, the government will misbehave.

Artists, no matter how good their intentions, are always slower than they think.

So many financial dreams are thwarted by the failure to act upon good intentions.

I think I can deceive people. I'm like, the nice, sweet girl when you meet me. And I don't have any bad intentions. But I'm a bad girl too.

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.

So to hope to be able to have peace, to be able to have justice and environmental balance, are consequences of our behavior, not just our intentions.

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

The intentions of record companies are not good, from the musician's perspective.

The place where the system and people's intentions meet is the political arena.

Kubrick never explained the ending to us, or what his intentions were. He didn't intend for it to be a predictable film.

Mr. Chamberlain desires to avert the threat to England's peace by making England, in alliance with Germany, stronger than her rivals and so to force them to renounce their hostile intentions against her.

The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour.

A key to the mentality of the left is that it judges itself by its best intentions, and judges its opponents - America chief among them - by their worst deeds.

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

Yeah, I really like being alive. But I definitely don't have any intentions as an artist.

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.

I think we're entering a very dangerous time. The West has set itself up, decided it's in charge, not for good intentions, not for the benefit of mankind.

Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions, present a condescending view not just of the religion but also of women living in Muslim majority countries, as if the desire for choice and happiness is the monopoly of women in the west.

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

I don't know anyone in the public eye who has not made a mistake and said something in a manner that does not truly reflect their intentions.

You have to think an awful lot about your motivations or people's behavioral intentions or what their body language can indicate or what's really going on or what makes people sometimes do, sometimes, the irrational things they do.

One thing I've learned: My intentions are clear in terms of quality.

I was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were.

There's such cultural rot taking place, such a disintegration throughout our culture. Values, morality, you name it. Standards have been relaxed, and people are not being held to them. People's intentions, if they're said to be good and honorable, that's all that matters.

It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.

It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

I didn't have evil intentions, but I guess I did have power.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.