#intent

Exactly what the powers of hell feed on: the best instincts in man. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#hell #human-nature #instinct #nature

Nobody sane wants to disappoint himself intentionally. ↗

— Toba Beta

#sanity #unintentional #sanity

If it had been our intention to take Iraq, if it had been our intention to destroy the country, if it had been our intention to overrun the country, we could have done it unopposed. ↗

— Norman Schwarzkopf

#could #country #destroy #done #had

Naming a transition team varies with the intentions of the candidate; some candidates have been careful to name a transition team as much as a year in advance. ↗

— Richard V. Allen

#been #candidate #candidates #careful #intentions

In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#cause #first #intention #just #necessary

A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them. ↗

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

#attention #because #effort #expended #fulfill

Make no mistake about it: once a band has signed a letter of intent, they will either eventually sign a contract that suits the label or they will be destroyed. ↗

— Steve Albini

#band #contract #destroyed #either #eventually

My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ↗

— Sidney Altman

#events #institute #intention #led #massachusetts

We talked a lot about The Best Intentions and how we could shoot certain scenes in different ways with slightly different bits of dialogue and information, so that later on, we could cut the piece more easily and it would still feel complete, even though it was shorter. ↗

— Bille August

#best #best intentions #bits #certain #complete

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#bodies #cannot #created #express #feeding