#intent

Sometimes during a ballet I'll look around and see all these rows of intent faces, concentrating on this beautiful thing up on the stage. ↗

— Robert Caro

#ballet #beautiful #beautiful thing #concentrating #during

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

No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service. ↗

— Christopher Columbus

#fear #his #holy #intention #just

Stories, as much as we like to talk about them, retrospectively, as emanations of theme or worldview or intention, occur primarily as technical objects when they're being written. Or at least they do for me. They're the result of thousands of decisions made at speed during revision. ↗

— George Saunders

#being #decisions #during #intention #least

While I have made errors that I deeply regret, I have never, ever done so with the intent of subverting the law or of benefiting myself. ↗

— Kevin Shelley

#deeply #done #errors #ever #i

When I made my way across childhood to the tinny AM radio, it was dark. Lights out. I listened intently. More intently than I ever had before. Something was speaking to my unformed-ness like a long lost friend. Something that I had never met but forgotten nonetheless. I was 'realizing' that music was 'different' from other things in life. ↗

— Jane Siberry

#am #before #childhood #dark #different

It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also. ↗

— Robert Southey

#been #good #good intentions #heaven #hell

There are a lot of movies I'd like to throw away. That's not to say that I went in with that attitude. Any film I ever started, I went in with all the hope and best intentions in the world, but some films just don't work. ↗

— Kiefer Sutherland

#attitude #away #best #best intentions #ever

A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#deceive #desire #does #false #indirect

I intentionally aided them by being there and blocking an avenue of escape for the victims. ↗

— Robert Iler

#avenue #being #being there #blocking #escape