Intentions Quotes

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.

So we knew their intentions were to strike in the United States. We also knew from other sources of dozens of examples of where the notion of using planes as weapons was discussed.

With a film, I do my best to understand the author's intentions and try to bring the characters to life.

Ringer is the perfect balance of what audiences want ot see me do. It's Cruel Intentions meets Buffy.

It's a pragmatist's business, comedy. Start off with good intentions and references to the Pompidou Centre and you end up with boiled sweets and a pantomime cow.

The most difficult thing is the organization of people and the expression of your intentions. It's very easy to have a picture in your head and to imagine that you've told everybody about what you need.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

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

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well.

It strikes me there's a bunch of people in power who have really strong intentions of running the world and adjusting the world to exactly how they see it.

Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention.

I think England has served me very well. I like living in London for the reasons I gave. I have absolutely no intentions of cutting those ties. There is absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly not, so that I can have a swimming pool and a palm tree.

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

Since the end of the nineteenth century, if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about their motives and their intentions in going to war.

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.