#intent

Our intent will not be to create gridlock. Oh, except maybe from time to time. ↗

— Bob Dole

#except #from time to time #intent #maybe #oh

He's so busy looking inside people to find the good that he misses the knife they're holding in their hand. ↗

— Alexandra Bracken

#business

I, for one, begin with intent. There is no question that, Saddam Hussein had intent to do harm to the Western alliance and to the United States of America. ↗

— Tommy Franks

#america #begin #had #harm #hussein

My hatred is a thousand times more powerful than all your good intentions. ↗

— Jim Goad

#good intentions #hatred #intentions #more #powerful

Some months ago, while I was preparing a new work, I told a young cinema executive my intention of including in a soundtrack two themes from Bach. But when he asked me which has been the last hit from that Bach?, then I knew that I had no longer place in cinema. ↗

— Maurice Jarre

#asked #bach #been #cinema #executive

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. ↗

— Buddha

#burned #coal #else #gets #grasping

The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly. ↗

— Haniel Long

#accosted #disposed #drama #friendly #him

Families are the tie that reminds us of yesterday, provide strength and support today, and give us hope for tomorrow. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, or well-managed, can provide what our families provide. ↗

— Bill Owens

#give #government #hope #how #matter

The remarks about my reaching the age of Social Security and coming to the end of the road, they jolted me. And that was good. Because I sure as hell had no intention of just sitting around for the rest of my life. So I'd whip out the paints and really go to it. ↗

— Norman Rockwell

#age #around #because #coming #end

I've been on the road for fifteen years and I had no intent to stop. ↗

— Bon Scott

#fifteen #had #i #intent #road