#intent

I went back to graduate school with the clear intention that what I wanted to do with my life was to improve societies, and the way to do that was to find out what made economies work the way they did or fail to work. ↗

— Douglass North

#clear #did #economies #fail #find

You can pour holy oil and holy water on a thug until you have emptied buckets of both; but at the end he will be a consecrated thug, but a thug all the same unless interior intentions and a disciplined man are present. ↗

— William H. O'Connell

#buckets #consecrated #disciplined #emptied #end

I used some vivid language that, if I could take it back, I'd take it back. It's not my intention to be personally critical of the President or of anyone else. ↗

— Paul O'Neill

#back #could #critical #else #i

Our intention is to give people, however you might stylize it, a tax cut or a pay raise. ↗

— Paul O'Neill

#give #however #intention #might #our

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. ↗

— Barack Obama

#actions #around #best #best intentions #country

How many wives have been forced by the death of well-intentioned but too protective husbands to face reality late in life, bewildered and frightened because they were strangers to it! ↗

— Hortense Odlum

#been #bewildered #death #face #face reality

When you're fighting with a stunt person, your intent is to miss. ↗

— Victoria Pratt

#intent #miss #person #stunt #you

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. ↗

— Godfrey Reggio

#balance #behavior #consequences #environmental #hope

Let's get a couple of things straight. It hasn't been years and years since I made a movie. I'm not coming back from the dead - I've just had two kids! I have no intention of retiring, but I do think it's impossible to do movie after movie, because there aren't that many good films made. ↗

— Julia Roberts

#back #because #been #coming #couple

In the end, a small section of the crowd, maybe 2,000 to 3,000, turned against me. And that was it. Inside the club they know your best intentions, but the minority shout louder than the rest. ↗

— Bryan Robson

#best #best intentions #club #crowd #end