#intention

One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the research of gangs in New York City, seems to have allowed crime figures at the time, like Luciano, Capone, Torrio and Rothstein, to organize to become more powerful, which pulled all the way through until the '70s. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#become #becoming #capone #city #crime

But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions. ↗

— Joey Skaggs

#first-hand #how #i #intentions #interpreted

Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity. ↗

— Kate Smith

#analysis #automatically #composer #ensures #intelligent

I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice. ↗

— Casey Stengel

#dangerous #during #even #got #hitter

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#good intentions #had #intentions #money #only

If there was no intentional walks, the guy would just walk him anyway, unintentionally intentionally walk him. You see a lot more of that than what meets the eye. ↗

— George Brett

#eye #guy #him #intentional #intentionally

So we knew their intentions were to strike in the United States. We also knew from other sources of dozens of examples of where the notion of using planes as weapons was discussed. ↗

— Richard Ben-Veniste

#discussed #dozens #examples #intentions #knew

My father taught me that you can you read a hundred books on wisdom and write a hundred books on wisdom, but unless you apply what you learned then its only words on a page. Life is not lived with intentions but action. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#wisdom #life

Atlas smirked. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#paraphrased #unintentional-humor #humor

People as a rule do mean much more than they understand. ↗

— Glenway Wescott

#humor #intention #wisdom #humor