#intend

I believe that detente was having almost the opposite effect of what was intended. What was intended was to sort of end the contest for power and to stop Soviet expansion, especially by military means and the military build-up, the military contest. ↗

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

#believe #build-up #contest #detente #effect

To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead. ↗

— Og Mandino

#always #better #better life #day #dead

The person who thinks I worship the devil and kill animals is just as important as someone who makes an interpretation that's closer to what I intended. ↗

— Marilyn Manson

#devil #i #important #intended #interpretation

I'm still no good at ball-and-stick games. If I go play golf with the guys, it's intended to be a joke. ↗

— Neil Peart

#go #golf #good #guys #i

I think people must wonder how a white girl like me became a blues guitarist. The truth is, I never intended to do this for a living. ↗

— Bonnie Raitt

#blues #girl #guitarist #how #i

One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time. ↗

— Gioachino Rossini

#certainly #first #hear #hearing #i

The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man. ↗

— Arthur Young

#intending #know #lack #machinery #machines

I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy - worse than Vietnam, not in the number who died, but in terms of its unintended consequences and its reverberation throughout the region. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#am #american #american foreign policy #consequences #died

Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#ambition #become #career #certainly #course

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#go #gone #i #i may not #i think