Top 35 Great Intentions Quotes

#1. Most people who get into power in the western world start with great intentions, but slowly they all become entrapped and hung by their own petard.

David A. Stewart

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#2. As hard as you try to write a good script and you have great intentions, this alchemy has to occur.

Carlton Cuse

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#3. It's like in politics: You can have great intentions for the world, but if you're not a good speaker and if you're not the sort of person that people can intimately link with, then it makes it very easy to say, "Well, they're not a nice person."

Tom Felton

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#4. America, you are full of nothing but bad ideas. Great intentions but awful ideas.

Kiera Cass

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#5. Sometimes I read about someone saying with great authority that animals have no intentions and no feelings, and I wonder, 'Doesn't this guy have a dog?'

Frans De Waal

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#6. There was actually a time when people wanted to give Hitler the benefit of the doubt as to his intentions (in 1935, Winston Churchill thought it possible that Hitler might "go down in history as the man who restored honour and peace of mind to the Great Germanic nation").

Russell Shorto

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#7. I run probably 35-40 miles a week, and I think 80 per cent of your body is what you eat. The biggest part is just eating well.

Matthew Morrison

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#8. Jacki Smith is a masterful artist of magickal candles. I've enjoyed her blend of strong magickal intentions and great smelling scents in her products. To have her wisdom in a book is a treasure!

Christopher Penczak

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#9. Our country represents nothing but peaceful intentions toward all the earth, but it ought not to fail to maintain such a military force as comports with the dignity and security of a great people.

Calvin Coolidge

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#10. Love renders all our plans and all our intentions a great big gamble.

Henry Theophilus Finck

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#11. The arbitrary division of one's life into weeks and days and hours seemed, on the whole, useless. There was but one day for the men, and that was pay day, and one for the women, and that was rent day. As for the children, every day was theirs, just as it should be in every corner of the world.

Alice Hegan Rice

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#12. I'm a great mother because of my intentions on being a great mother; I'm a good friend because I'm loyal; I'm a good daughter because I've hopefully made my mother proud; I'm a great human being because I accept that there's a spiritual being underneath it all. I've always been a woman of faith.

Lauren London

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#13. Americans tend not to distinguish between political rhetoric and real intentions, which can lead to great misunderstanding.

Hooman Majd

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#14. We must be pure. I do not speak merely of the purity of the senses. We must observe great purity in our will, in our intentions, in all our actions.

Peter Julian Eymard

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#15. But people may do great good accidentally, though with evil intentions - conversely people may do great evil though having the best of intentions.

Michael Moorcock

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#16. One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.

Milton Friedman

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#17. When at the consecration the priest moves into the mode of first-person quotation, he is not speaking in his own person but in the person of Jesus - and that's why those words change the elements.

Robert E. Barron

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#18. I like that Pilates compromises the mind and body. It's not just about being able to run around the block a few times. It's about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It's about being balanced.

Aimee Mullins

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#19. The results of the Great Society experiments started coming in and began showing that, for all its good intentions, the War on Poverty was causing irreparable damage to the very communities it was designed to help.

Charles Krauthammer

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#20. All the great evils which men cause to each other because of certain intentions, desires, opinions, or religious principles, are likewise due to non-existence, because they originate in ignorance, which is absence of wisdom.

Maimonides

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#21. Illiada by Homer is one of the great stories in literature. And I thought its themes really resonated today, whether that was my projection or Homer's intentions. It didn't seem like we had come very far.

Brad Pitt

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#22. Our intentions tend to be much more real to us than our actions, and this can lead to a great deal of misunderstanding with other people, to whom our actions tend to be much more real than our intentions.

E.F. Schumacher

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#23. A great deal of it is personal. But the persona is, I guess, the out of body experience that takes place. Because I'm not conscious of what the outcome is going to be, I'm only conscious of my intentions, do you know what I'm saying? And even my intentions were simple initially.

Cee Lo Green

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#24. Every noble action is selfish. Some selfish actions are nobler than others. But they are all selfish. And as such there can be no action purely noble anyway. Even the nobility in God's great philosophical intentions is bounded by his vanity.

Kedar Joshi

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#25. There's so many great things that come with being successful. The one thing that is weird is trying to figure out whose intentions are in the right place, and who is really on your team.

Donald Faison

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#26. Whenever I watch someone doing something, even if it doesn't turn out so great, I at least admire their intentions and stuff.

Robert Downey Jr.

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#27. great animators carefully craft the movements that elicit an emotional response, convincing us that these characters have feelings, emotions, intentions.

Ed Catmull

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#28. New Dealers always seemed to be comparing actual capitalism with ideal government. They judged capitalism by its apparent effects and government by its announced intentions

Jim Powell

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#29. Hoc age ['do this'] is the great rule, whether you are serious or merry; whether ... learning science or duty from a folio, or floating on the Thames. Intentions must be gathered from acts.

Samuel Johnson

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#30. Star Wars was great at the beginning and crap at the end while Star Trek has always been interesting, and the difference is in the writing, and the thematic intentions.

William Monahan

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#31. Most pornographic images are simply too repulsive.

Volkmar Sigusch

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#32. As individuals, as families, as neighbors, as members of one community, people of all races and political views are usually decent, kind, compassionate. But in large corporations or governments, when great power accumulates in their hands, some become monsters even with good intentions.

Dean Koontz

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#33. May our hearts be filled with great love for one another.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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#34. A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.

George William Curtis

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#35. Left to itself, a heart will run riot with sin. But if a heart responds to the ministry of the Word, there can be fruit and beauty.

Warren W. Wiersbe

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