Original Intent Quotes

#1. Do you believe this is simply trickle-down Machiavellianism in much the same way that Communism trickled down as an aberration of its original intent?

Larisa Alexandrovna

#2. In accord with his original intent, the heavenly Father has in fact prepared an individualized kingdom for every person, from the outset of creation.

Dallas Willard

#3. It's an honor to have been part of something so core to so many lives. The show has evolved beyond it's original intent and form and has transcended ... itself!

Christopher Knight

#4. Yeah, you know, you like it to come on like gangbusters, but you get into passages that are very interesting and subtle, and sometimes your original intent changes quite a bit.

Roy Lichtenstein

#5. Well, let's go back to the original intent of Social Security. It is an insurance contract.

Chuck Hagel

#6. Christmas is a response to bring mankind back, to restore some original intent that could never be even remotely restored by any effort of mankind regardless of how grand or majestic any such effort might be.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#7. Accidents often produce the best solutions ... only you can recognize the difference between an accident and your original intent.

Jennifer Morla

#8. We have a tremendous lack of knowledge of how far we have gotten away from the Constitution of the United States. Democrats and Republicans alike have taken us away from the original intent. You see, I believe in this document as our founding fathers intended it.

Paul Broun

#9. The curse that was laid upon Eve
her desire would be for her husband, and her pain in childbirth would be greatly multiplied
even shows us how patriarchy, subordination, and pain are part of the Fall. They were never God's original intent; they are a consequence of sin.

Sarah Bessey

#10. John Carpenter created the idea of Halloween, so his vision remains the most focused and intelligently directed of the series. The directors that have followed have kept the original intent of the concept.

Donald Pleasence

#11. My original intent was to write a horror story about someone who loses his mind and slowly begins to unravel. The story, as I envisioned it, would evoke horror within the context of psychological decay, entropy.

Jupiter Cutter

#12. From my experience, the only thing you can do is take what's written on the page and try, through your own curiosity and investigation, to make it your own and honor what the original intent was.

Colin Farrell

#13. As you know, I have over the years written critically about the U.N. I have consistently stressed in my writings that American leadership is critical to the success of the U.N., an effective U.N., one that is true to the original intent of its charter's framers.

John Bolton

#14. One difference between the Bible and the Constitution is that we can still talk to the author of the Bible to discover original intent.

Ron Brackin

#15. will try to find the original intent of the biblical rule or teaching and follow that to the letter.

A. J. Jacobs

#16. The original intent of laws was to get the masses of people to accept the limitations superimposed upon them as being the result of their own misbehavior.

Jacque Fresco

#17. There were people who occupied telephone booths as though they had rented them for the day.

Ursula Curtiss

#18. Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.

Frederick Buechner

#19. All leadership is appreciative leadership. It's the capacity to see the best in the world around us, in our colleagues, and in the groups we are trying to lead.

David Cooperrider

#20. Life is a mere waiting room in which we spend time before entering into the void.

Pitigrilli

#21. Words, then, are born of worlds. But they also take us places we can't go: Constantinople and Mars, Valhalla, the Planet of the Apes. Language comes from what we've seen, touched, loved, lost. And it uses knowable things to give us glimpses of what's not. The Word, after all, is God.

Alena Graedon

#22. Maybe I'm an elitist, but I don't feel like I am.

Kim Deal

#23. You can guilt yourself into doing anything short-term, but the change will last only as long as the guilt (or fear) does.

Rick Warren

#24. But when interpreted correctly - paying attention to the original context, considering the literary genre, thinking through authorial intent - the Bible is never wrong in what it affirms and must never be marginalized as anything less than the last word on everything it teaches.

Kevin DeYoung

#25. greatest leader is the one who would be just as content as a servant.

J.L. Lyon

#26. This condition is humanity at its most raw, its most vulnerable. It is frightening, but viewed in a different way, it is incredibly beautiful. What is left is the essence of self. The inside is the outside. And don't worry. You'll wear it well.

Bruce H. Kramer

#27. We've hit the hot guy mother lode," I whispered reverently when they were about five feet from our table. "Welcome to my nightmare," Elvira muttered.

Kristen Ashley

#28. There's nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, 'I didn't do it right'.

Lily Tomlin

#29. While tearing apart a bird with fat fingers,

George R R Martin