#intent

I have to be very careful, however, because I have no intention of providing an excuse for this behavior. It's an attempt to explain how so many women come from backgrounds where the pressure to be a good mother is so severe that if they can't do it, something really snaps. ↗

— Caleb Carr

#backgrounds #because #behavior #careful #come

I believe all life has value, from conception to natural death. And I believe the intentional taking of human life, except to save lives, should be a capital offense, as it is in most states in America today. ↗

— Tom Coburn

#believe #capital #conception #death #except

But last year there were 540,000 people, roughly, detained coming across the border illegally. Forty-five thousand of them came from countries other than Mexico, demonstrating the fact that Mexico itself now is a pathway into the United States for people all around the world, and we don't know what their intentions are. ↗

— John Cornyn

#around #border #came #coming #countries

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

— Peter Drucker

#degenerate #good #good intentions #hard #hard work

Well, opera began with an intent to resuscitate Greek drama, that is, modern opera as we know it. ↗

— John Eaton

#drama #greek #intent #know #modern

I play characters. I don't think I really have a persona per se. I don't play the same guy every time. I show up, you don't know what I'm gonna do. I like it that way. I've intentionally tried to do it that way. I think that's what's interesting. ↗

— Laurence Fishburne

#every #every time #gonna #guy #i

Well, it's an adventure story, and a Bildungsroman, of course, but there was also the intention to describe a culture that had been seen in rather narrow terms. ↗

— John M. Ford

#also #been #course #culture #describe

I would say to young physicians that the more you intentionally improve the lives of the people in the community you serve the better your life will be and the greater your value will be to the community. ↗

— Samuel Wilson

#community #greater #i #improve #intentionally

I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I think it's a distraction. ↗

— Seth Godin

#because #distraction #early #hard #i

My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent. ↗

— Ulysses S. Grant

#errors #failures #intent #judgment