#intention

There are days when I intentionally don't write. For instance, I never write when I'm traveling, because travel is a situation where I can learn more by looking and listening than by working. ↗

— Thomas Perry

#days #i #i can #instance #intentionally

Might I be ridiculous? Might my career in music be laughable? Yeah, that's possible, but that's certainly not my intention. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#certainly #i #intention #laughable #might

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

Let them be reassured, it has never been one of our intentions to ban religion in society, but solely to protect the national education system from any conspicuous display of religious affiliation. ↗

— Jean-Pierre Raffarin

#any #ban #been #conspicuous #display

Any agreement that you have isn't going to be based on North Korea's intentions or trust. ↗

— Mitchell Reiss

#any #based #going #intentions #korea

The smallest deed is better than the grandest intention. ↗

— Roger Nash Baldwin

#deed #grandest #intention #smallest #than

Mr. Chamberlain desires to avert the threat to England's peace by making England, in alliance with Germany, stronger than her rivals and so to force them to renounce their hostile intentions against her. ↗

— Bernhard von Bulow

#alliance #avert #chamberlain #desires #england

I didn't have evil intentions, but I guess I did have power. ↗

— Harmon Killebrew

#evil #guess #i #intentions #power

Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer. ↗

— Len Deighton

#book #even #intention #politicians #professional

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#did #dissolution #economy #i #intention