#intention

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

— Glenway Wescott

#humor #intention #wisdom #humor

[Dad] So your intentions were good. That's what matters. [Anthony] But isn't, like, the road to hell paved with good intentions? Yeah, well, so's the road to heaven. And if you spend too much time thinking about where those good intentions are taking you, you know where you end up? Jersey? I was thinking 'nowhere,' but you get the point. ↗

— Neal Shusterman

#intentions #sayings #humor

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottages princes’ palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#good-intentions #goodness #men

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#acts #almighty #alone #before #god

In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#consequently #correct #find #humiliate #intention

It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest. ↗

— Chuck Berry

#earnest #how #intentions #learn #much

There was absolutely no intention of splitting up. We had so many great ideas to use on the new album. John Paul Jones was incredible, coming to the studio each day with new instruments to play. ↗

— John Bonham

#album #coming #day #each #great

I have no intention of resigning, and confidently expect to resume official duties within three months. ↗

— Frederick William Borden

#duties #expect #i #intention #months

I am interested in the study of music and the discipline of music and the experience of music and music as a esoteric mechanism to continue my real intentions. ↗

— Anthony Braxton

#continue #discipline #esoteric #experience #i

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