#intention

He wanted to be a lawyer, couldn't afford it, so he started dealing to go to college - good intention. ↗

— John Leguizamo

#college #dealing #go #good #intention

I feel like saying we need to all calm down a little. Let's take the time to breathe. I have no intention of allowing myself be distracted. ↗

— Pauline Marois

#breathe #calm #calm down #distracted #down

A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself. ↗

— Roberto Burle Marx

#aesthetic #also #artist #color #complex

In Oxford before the war, I had, with this interest in mind, written a short textbook entitled, An Introduction to Economic Analysis and Policy. It was now my intention to rewrite this work. ↗

— James Meade

#before #economic #entitled #had #i

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

My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation. ↗

— Maurice Ravel

#chance #clear #composition #equation #found

When I resigned, I put the U.S. Government on notice that I'm going to stick to policy issues, that I have no intention of going out and blowing the cover off of the intelligence operations, that those are truly sensitive and they should not be exposed. ↗

— Scott Ritter

#cover #exposed #going #government #i

It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so. ↗

— Henry Fielding

#ironic #wise-words #design

I hurt myself deeply, though at the time I had no idea how deeply. I should have learned many things from that experience, but when I look back on it, all I gained was one single, undeniable fact. That ultimately I am a person who can do evil. I never consciously tried to hurt anyone, yet good intentions notwithstanding, when necessity demanded, I could become completely self-centred, even cruel. I was the kind of person who could, using some plausible excuse, inflict on a person I cared for a wound that would never heal. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#evil #good-intentions #hurt #looking-back #self-centered

Everyone lies to themselves, but many people do it with good intentions. They want to believe what they tell themselves, it is oftentimes the best possible version of reality for them. Although it may not be accurate, it is a mural of their desires, aspirations, optimism and passion. These people usually either need time or a new experience to discover the truth. People who lie to themselves for different reasons are oftentimes trying to avoid something or escape blame for things they have done. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#humanity #intentions #lies #people #truth