“The intention of being married is the vow, right? You want to put everything into it to make it a success.” WantMarriedIntentionVowBeing Married Author:Gwen Stefani
“I studied physics at Princeton when I was a college student, and my initial intention was to major in it but to also be a writer. What I discovered, because it was a very high-powered physics program with its own fusion reactor, was that to keep up with my fellow students in that program I would need to dedicate myself to math and physics all the time and let writing go. And I couldn't let writing go, so I let physics go and became a science fan and a storyteller.” NeedsWritingFansStudentsCollegeMajorsProgramFellowsIntentionMathPhysicsStorytellerInitialsFusionCollege StudentsPrinceton Author:Jon Spaihts
“The multiverse as a real physical construct within physics overlapping with a more mystical understanding of many possible worlds - the notion of there being a root down at the quantum level between intention and reality, between consciousness and existence - it's not a matter of trying to explain the mystery of magic away with a pat mechanism of a pseudoscience, it's just a matter of trying to ground it in a domain.” WorldTryingRealMatterRealityUnderstandingLevelsExistenceConsciousnessMagicMysteryRootsIntentionNotionPhysicsMechanismQuantumMysticalConstructsDomainPseudoscienceMultiverseOverlapping Author:Jon Spaihts
“I have no intention of being vice president. I have said it clearly.” SaidPresidentIntentionVicesVice President Author:Marco Rubio
“If you're lucky, you can keep the vehicle healthy and responsive over the years. If you're lucky, your own intentions have very little to do with this.” IfsYearsLittlesHealthyLuckyIntentionVehicleLucky You Author:Leonard Cohen
“The nature of what we're doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic. There's no way that you can make it happen by intention alone. It's something that you have to sort of allow it to happen, and you have to allow for it to happen.” WayHappensIntentionMake It Happen Author:Jerry Garcia
“I do an early morning meditation from 4am to 6am, a yoga class from 6am to 7am and then set an intention to feel joyful and energetic in my body and loving and compassionate in my heart. For the rest of the day, I just go with the flow.” FeelsHeartBodyClassMorningMeditationMy HeartYogaFlowIntentionCompassionateJoyfulEnergeticEarly Morning Author:Deepak Chopra
“I have intentions as a writer, but people - when they're listening to a track - will take from it what they interpret.” PeopleListeningIntentionTrack Author:Kate Bush
“A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.” GrowsEffortAttentionAmbitionGardenLaborPlantIntentionPatientThriveGardeningGood IntentionsGardening And GodInspirational GardeningPlanting A GardenPlants Growing Author:Liberty Hyde Bailey
“When you are in touch with your body and heart, it allows you to then be in the world and act with intention and clarity and kindness.” WorldHeartBodyKindnessIntentionYour BodyClarity Author:Tara Brach
“Just come into stillness. Have your intention be to relax with the breath. That will begin to set in motion a habit that will start to train the mind.” MindHabitBreathsTrainIntentionRelaxStillness Author:Tara Brach
“Offer some gesture of kindness to yourself. Sometimes it's just a message, to say: "It's okay. You're going to be okay. We've been through this before." The intention is reassurance, that you are not alone and you can do this. It is the most powerful way to come out of what I call the "trance of unworthiness."” WaySometimesCan DoPowerfulKindnessOffersMessagesOkayIntentionMost PowerfulGesturesNot AloneReassuranceTrance Author:Tara Brach
“The white man is going to keep you integration-minded Negroes cooped up here in America, and when you discover that the white man is a trickster, a devil, that he has no intentions of integrating, then you Negroes will run wild.” MenRunningAmericaWhiteDevilIntentionIntegrationWhite ManIntegratingTricksters Author:Malcolm X
“I came up with more money, took all the footage, got a great editor and made this film [Dream of Life]. But I really didn't go into it with the intention of making a movie.” MadeDreamFilmIntentionEditorsMore Money Author:Steven Sebring
“For now ACID Kreationz has only one body and that's me. I have intentions of hiring persons when I am through with university. For now it is only me but off and on I contract sound producers and other persons when the need arises.” NeedsPersonsBodySoundIntentionUniversityAriseProducersContractsAcidHiring Author:St. Lucia
“Who are we to say that that was an odd way to do it? I don't think that it is God's purpose to make his intention absolutely obvious to us.” ThinkingWayPurposeIntentionObviousOdd Author:Richard Dawkins
“The southern white Baptists now want to integrate with the black Baptist church. I say that would be the end of it. In the first place, most white southern Baptists can't preach, their intentions are not that good and we make a different joyful noise unto the Lord than white people. When we say, "Lord Jesus, personal savior", we may not mean the same thing as what they mean.” PeopleWantFirstsMayMeanDifferentEndsWould BeJesusBlackChurchWhiteLordIntentionNoiseSouthernSaviorJoyfulBaptistsIntegratingSouthern Baptist Author:John Henrik Clarke
“My experience is that our intelligence officials try to do the right thing, but even with good intentions, sometimes they make mistakes. Sometimes they can be overzealous.” TryingSometimesMistakeIntentionRight ThingOfficialsMaking MistakesGood IntentionsOverzealous Author:Barack Obama
“The UKIP voter is 60 percent male, 40 percent female. Is 65 percent older than 55 and 35 percent younger than 55. It's not hard to work out. Some have been Labor. Some have been Tories. The most difficult thing is previous voting intention, because they're coming from across the board.” Has BeensHardDifficultPercentFemaleLaborIntentionMalesWork OutBoardsVotingVotersDifficult ThingsUkip Author:Nigel Farage
“The intention is to make people laugh, to make people happy. It's unselfish, it's in the service of others, and as a comedian you are making yourself vulnerable in order to make others happy. And it has a transformative power.” PeopleOrderLaughingIntentionVulnerableComedianMaking People LaughUnselfishMaking People HappyMake Others Happy Author:Margaret Cho
“I've taken my knocks here and there, but I believe my intentions are good. Doesn't mean everything I do is perfectly executed or I don't make mistakes. Of course I do.” BelieveMeanCoursesI BelieveMistakeTakenIntentionMaking MistakesHere And There Author:Susan Rice
“The tragedy is what - given the 'right circumstances,' - normal decent folks, like you and me, will do. This is what makes me worry whenever looking on the road that Israel entered and shows no intention of leaving.” ShowsGivenWorryLike YouCircumstancesNormalTragedyIntentionLeavingFolksIsraelDecent Author:Zygmunt Bauman
“My intention was never to write a "trans novel" - which is perhaps an effective strategy for writing a trans novel.” WritingNovelStrategyIntentionTrans Author:Vivek Shraya
“My interest in language is steadfast, but I think each project and its accompanying intentions dictate how language must be used.” ThinkingUsedLanguageInterestProjectsIntentionSteadfast Author:Vivek Shraya
“I tend to focus less on genre as a starting point and more on idea or intention and let the idea dictate genre.” IdeasFocusIntentionStartingGenreStarting Point Author:Vivek Shraya
“People in my inner circle of loved ones - we're tight and I've never misjudged someone as far as I know; I can feel someone's intentions, I know their intentions before they probably are honest enough with themselves to know it, so that's my strength.” PeopleKnowsFeelsI CanEnoughHonestIntentionCirclesLoved Ones Author:Eva Mendes
“Donald Trump has every intention to repeal the Affordable Care Act, as much because it's known as Obamacare [as because he wants] to try and deconstruct the legacy of President Obama. But that has implications that mean women who were accessing family planning and contraception as a preventative service with no co-pay will lose access to that coverage. We [will] only see an exacerbation of the things we were engaged in trying to prevent - like unplanned pregnancy and the need for abortion, which creates a societal dilemma.” WantNeedsTryingMeanCarePresidentLosesPayKnownTrumpIntentionAccessPlanningLegacyEngagedAbortionPregnancyPresident ObamaImplicationsDilemmaObamacareAffordableCoverageContraceptionFamily PlanningAffordable Care ActUnplanned Pregnancy Author:Willie Parker
“It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.” StillsDoneEnoughRealityActionEnergyIntentionOperationsGood EnoughNot Good Enough Author:Walt Kelly
“Some trans people thought that in claiming that gender is performative that I was saying that it is all a fiction, and that a person's felt sense of gender was therefore "unreal." That was never my intention. I sought to expand our sense of what gender realities could be. But I think I needed to pay more attention to what people feel, how the primary experience of the body is registered, and the quite urgent and legitimate demand to have those aspects of sex recognized and supported.” PeopleThinkingFeelsPersonsBodyRealitySexFeltPayAttentionFictionNeededDemandAspectIntentionGenderPrimariesUrgentUnrealTrans Author:Judith Butler
“The international repercussions were shattering to some extent - there is no intention to repeat operations of such kind in the future.[Viktor] Yanukovych's electoral victory clearly demonstrated that there are no pro-Russian politicians in the Ukraine, just Ukrainian politicians.” KindVictoryPoliticianIntentionInternationalOperationsRepeatsUkraineRepercussionsShatteringUkrainian Author:Garry Kasparov
“The photo-journalist and the photo-poet are both important. The problem is to separate the major objectives of the various groups and not to attribute qualities and intentions where they do not belong.” ImportantProblemQualityGroupsPoetMajorsIntentionVariousObjectivesJournalistAttributes Author:Ansel Adams
“You know why I love Chicago? Because this is just like Baltimore. Like, you can't go to Baltimore and be fake. They gonna point you right out, like, "Nah, you fake, go ahead outta here." They're going to chew you up and spit you out if you're fake. And if you come to Chicago, you can't be fake, in terms of the love and the concern. You gotta be real. Your good intentions - people want to feel that. We don't get enough of that.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantFeelsRealEnoughTermLike YouConcernIntentionFakeChicagoBeing RealSpitGood IntentionsBaltimore Author:Felicia Pearson
“When Nixon declared the war on cancer, he had no army. He had no tools. He had no anything, except good intentions.” WarToolsArmyIntentionCancerGood Intentions Author:Joe Biden
“It's a fascinating culture [the South in the Civil War period] and so rife with comedic possibilities. And not in a way that...I have no intention of making fun of re-enactors. I think it's more just a celebration of their passion and enthusiasm, which is so infectious and maybe at times a little misguided.” ThinkingWayLittlesWarCulturePassionFunPossibilityPeriodsIntentionSouthEnthusiasmCivil WarFascinatingCelebrationComedicMisguided Author:Ed Helms
“Actually, not because of anyone's intention but just because of some sociological and some other things that have happened over 25, 30 years, the parties have sorted themselves out much more ideologically, which has some benefits and some costs.” YearsPartyHappenedCostBenefitsIntentionSociological Author:William Kristol
“I think what's dangerous [about comedy] is that you're coming into the room announcing your intentions.” ThinkingRoomsComedyDangerousIntentionAnnouncing Author:Adam McKay
“I would not be happy if I could not become a monk. They call it the beginner's mind - the deep intention, the deepest desire that a person may have. And I can say that until this day, this beginner's mind is still alive in me.” IfsMindMayPersonsStillsI CanDesireAliveIntentionIf I CouldThis DayMonkBeginners Author:Nhat Hanh
“The way, applicable in our non-revolutionary societies, to prepare for the time when everyone will read, is to pose problems in the most radical and intransigent manner. This is what Alain Badiou has just done in Almagestes, where he puts language on trial with an intention of cleansing, of catharsis.” WayDoneProblemLanguageIntentionTrialsRadicalRevolutionaryCleansingCatharsis Author:Jean-Paul Sartre
“You have a lot of suspicion from the neighbors of Afghanistan about U.S. intentions. Iran is already, to some extent, trying to undermine the U.S. in Afghanistan. Russia is now becoming increasingly nervous about a more permanent U.S. presence in Central Asia. And China is not keen that the U.S. should be so close to its borders over a long period of time. Certainly, if the U.S. is going to be there for a long time, it's going to exacerbate regional tensions.” IfsShouldTryingLongBecomingPeriodsLong TimeIntentionChinaNeighborRussiaNervousPermanentBordersTensionIranAfghanistanSuspicionAsiaLong Periods Of TimeCentral Asia Author:Ahmed Rashid
“I placed myself in amongst the animal kingdom so that I would be able to confront myself actually. It did not start out as the intention to serve and protect the lives of the innocent within the animal kingdom. I wanted to test myself, to see if I was able to overcome the dire situation that I was headed toward. By this of course I mention the fact that I was an alcoholic and drug addict before I left to live in the wild.” IfsFactsWould BeAbleWantedCoursesLeftAnimalSituationDrugProtectTestsOvercomingIntentionKingdomsInnocentAddictAlcoholicsDrug AddictAnimal Kingdom Author:Timothy Treadwell
“Now I don't have to explain to the world about India's position. The world is unanimously appreciating India's position. And the world is seeing that Pakistan is finding it difficult to respond. If we had become an obstacle, then we would have had to explain to the world that we are not that obstacle. Now we don't have to explain to the world. The world knows our intentions. Like on the issue of terrorism, the world never bought India's theory on terrorism. They would sometime dismiss it by saying that it's your law and order problem.” IfsKnowsWorldProblemLawOrderDifficultIssuesSeeingPositionTheoryFindingsAppreciateIndiaIntentionObstaclesTerrorismPakistanLaw And Order Author:Narendra Modi
“The left has done a very admirably good job of demonizing the private sector, where what happens? Cheating, lying, dishonesty, destroying the planet, killing customers, starving people. And they've positioned themselves, of course, as the great compassionate last hope. They're the ones who truly care. We're not supposed to examine the results of their efforts, which are always dismal and always fail. We're supposed to examine their good intentions.” PeopleDoneHappensCareJobsLastsLyingCoursesLeftResultsEffortFailingPlanetsIntentionKillingCustomersCheatingDestroyingCompassionateGood JobStarvingDishonestyGood IntentionsPrivate Sector Author:Rush Limbaugh
“["Faggot"] is a great word! The whole thing about language is, it's supposed to be broadcasting your intentions. These are my intentions and these words broadcast my feelings. If all of a sudden you have forbidden words that doesn't make the intent any better. It's just appeasing sensitive people.” PeopleIfsWholeFeelingsLanguageIntentionSupposed To BeSensitiveForbiddenBroadcasting Author:Joe Rogan
“Veganism gives people an actual chance to DO SOMETHING instead of adding more cement (good intentions) to pave that road to Hell.” PeopleGivingChanceHellIntentionVeganismGood IntentionsCement Author:Gary Yourofsky
“You can have the best of intentions and think you're doing the right thing but you fall down when you're going against your own instinct.” ThinkingFallIntentionInstinctRight ThingFalling DownDoing The Right Thing Author:Nelly Furtado
“I would be quite content if I myself could be rated fifty-fifty in merits and demerits. But one thing I can say for myself: I have had a clear conscience all my life. Please mark my words: I have made quite a few mistakes, and I have my own share of responsibility for some of the mistakes made by Comrade Mao Zedong. But it can be said that I made my mistake with good intentions. There is nobody who doesn't make mistakes.” IfsMadeSaidI CanWould BeMy OwnMistakeResponsibilityClearOne ThingSharePleaseConscienceMarkIntentionMeritFiftyMaking MistakesGood IntentionsComradeMy MistakesMaoClear Conscience Author:Deng Xiaoping
“You are the antithesis of a racist if you're white and you want to be black and you go out and do everything you can to identify as black, how in the world can they condemn that? That's not fraud. That's good intentions. And as we know, as we've learned, we are supposed to examine the good intentions and not the nature of the evidence.” IfsKnowsWorldWantBlackWhiteEvidenceIntentionRacistFraudGood IntentionsAntithesis Author:Rush Limbaugh
“That worries me an awful lot. If people misunderstand our intentions [in Black Snake Moan], especially regarding my character, then they're essentially exploiting an already exploited and abused woman. So it's a huge concern for me.” PeopleIfsCharacterBlackWorryHugeConcernIntentionAwfulSnakesAbused WomenBlack Snake Moan Author:Christina Ricci
“It's easy to record songs. Anyone can make a track on garage band. I've been on the search to find that incredibly authentic place of sound and intention that only I can bring. Everyone has their own expression. I'm still on that quest and I hope to always be.” StillsI CanSongEasySoundRecordsExpressionBandIntentionTrackQuestsGarage Author:Grace Kelly