#intent

For me, writing a novel is like having a dream. Writing a novel lets me intentionally dream while I'm still awake. I can continue yesterday's dream today, something you can't normally do in everyday life. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#continue #dream #everyday #everyday life #having

All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#human #intentions #much #seems #sin

Even if you actually have the good intent to do something creative or special with your life, it's hard. I mean, look at the number of people who actually get the opportunity. ↗

— Katy Perry

#creative #even #get #good #hard

John Carpenter created the idea of Halloween, so his vision remains the most focused and intelligently directed of the series. The directors that have followed have kept the original intent of the concept. ↗

— Donald Pleasence

#concept #created #directed #directors #focused

My point is cutting spending shouldn't be reliant on the debt limit though. It's something we have to do. The good news for America is, leaders in both parties, the president, believe that we have to have significant deficit reduction. So the intent is there. And I think what America is going to demand is that our leaders come together. ↗

— David Plouffe

#believe #both #come #cutting #debt

Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#american cinema #certain #cinema #intention #me

I believe things happen that can't be explained, but so many people seem intent on explaining them. Everyone has an answer for them. Either aliens or things from the spirit world. ↗

— Harold Ramis

#believe #either #everyone #explained #explaining

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. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#am #cannot #confident #done #either

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. ↗

— Neil Jordan

#cult thing #difficult #difficult thing #easy #everybody

I said in October of 2008 that there was no proof that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction or had the intention or capability of attacking the United States. Here we are. Almost 4,700 troops died, tens of thousands injured, over a million Iraqis dead. It will cost $5 trillion in the end for the war. ↗

— Dennis Kucinich

#attacking #capability #cost #dead #destruction