217 Quotes About Intentions
- Author Flannery O'Connor
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...what they have to say about themselves makes me think that there is a lot of ill-directed good in them.
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- Author Steven Redhead
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Maintain a clear focus irrespective of the intentions of others to change the dynamics.
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- Author Seanan McGuire
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She was trying to do something good and she fucked up, which is basically the story of humanity’s time on this planet—we’re always trying to do something good, and we’re always fucking up.
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- Author Seanan McGuire
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Sometimes, good intentions do more damage than all the wicked plots in all the world.
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- Author Madeleine Ryan
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There's always an expectation that we aren't actually saying what we mean. Like, ever. It's assumed that our true intentions are hidden behind all of these curves, and blurs, and lies, and deceptions, and other people are supposed to do all of the workings out. So when we actually say something, it's presumed that we aren't actually saying it, and that we must be saying something else.
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- Author Charles F. Glassman
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When your intentions are pure, the right things will happen for the right reasons, at precisely the right time. So, get ready, be aware, but be patient.
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- Author Ehsan Sehgal
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Thoughts and intentions, whether ugly or lovely that occupy, and dominate only the mind, establish nothing until that turn into a practical shape and definition; thus, fall not under liability.
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- Author Ehsan Sehgal
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Never expect that where most people and the media are the liars and the cheaters, there will be any fair and honest leader elected by such people. They all remain to game the system for gaining their awkward intentions.
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- Author Shanthi Sekaran
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And good intentions? These scared him the most: people with good intentions tended not to question themselves. And people who didn't question themselves, in the scientific world and beyond, were the ones to watch out for.
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