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“Yes, there are lots of individual exceptions. But no one has ever done a study about voting intention without ascertaining that the biggest determining factor is your income and your wealth.”

Done Individual Wealth Study Intention Income Factors Voting Exception

Author:Ken Livingstone

“Sex is the point of contact between man and nature, where morality and good intentions fall to primitive urges.”

Men Fall Sex Morality Intention Contact Urges Primitive Good Intentions Man And Nature

Book:Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

Source: Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

“The mind sins, not the body; if there is no intention, there is no blame.”

Ifs Mind Body Sin Blame Intention Sins Not

Author:Livy

“You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan.”

Ifs Men Way Writing Ends States Might Interesting Accepting Reader Intention Satan Relax Justify Controlled Passivity Passivity Is

Author:Ian Mcewan

“Just as the office worker dreams of murdering his hated boss and so is saved from really murdering him, so it is with the author; with his great dreams he helps his readers to survive, to avoid their worst intentions. And society, without realizing it respects and even exalts him, albeit with a kind of jealousy, fear and even repulsion, since few people want to discover the horrors that lurk in the depths of their souls. This is the highest mission of great literature, and there is no other.”

People Want Kind Book Soul Helping Dream Literature Realizing Worst Reader Horror Office Highest Intention Depth Workers Missions Saved Hated Boss Great Literature Repulsion

Author:Ernesto Sabato

“Caregiving requires the intention of love, caretaking requires the intention of fear. Not acting in anger when you are angry requires the intention of love.”

Acting Angry Intention Fear Not Caregiving Caretaking

Author:Gary Zukav

“My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.”

Technology Study Events Series Intention University Physics Unexpected Institute Massachusetts

Author:Sidney Altman

“In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign... Secondly, a just cause... Thirdly... a rightful intention.”

Firsts War Order Three Causes Peace Justice Powerful Authority Intention Sovereign Three Things Just War Medieval War

Author:Thomas Aquinas

“One thing I've learned: My intentions are clear in terms of quality.”

Term Quality Clear One Thing Intention I've Learned Things I've Learned

Author:Elizabeth Berkley

“The premise of 'Deadline' forced me to go against my own grain with a character determined to find all that is valuable in that time. I believe this is a story about redemption; how, even with the best intentions, it's sometimes found and sometimes not.”

Believe Sometimes Character Stories Found I Believe My Own Intention Valuable Determined Redemption Grain Premises Deadline Best Intentions

Author:Chris Crutcher

“I conceived from the outset a strong objection to Zionism. I considered it immoral that immigrants should come from abroad with the avowed intention of attaining to majority in the country and thus to dispossess the people whose country it had been since time immemorial.”

People Should Country Strong Majority Intention Immigrants Immoral Objections Zionism

Book:The Road To Mecca

Source: The Road To Mecca

“It's too late for me to get married before I'm famous. You never know people's intentions.”

People Knows Late Married Intention Too Late

Author:Carmelo Anthony

“An actor's job is about putting across the author's intention; I don't think of myself on the same level as a creator.”

Thinking Jobs Actors Levels Intention Creator

Author:Jane Asher

“I don't have any friends and don't have any intention of making any. People will stab you in the back, mistreat you, talk about me behind your back, steal from you. And they're not really your friends. They're only there because you're a celebrity or because they want to get something from you.”

People Want Behinds Intention Stealing Mistreat Behind Your Back

Author:Gary Coleman

“But the indisputable fact is, a huge percentage of Obama's voters are basically wards of the state. There are millions of them, and they have no intention of voting for anyone who might want them to ever go out and work for a living - 'no matter what.”

Want Matter States Facts Might Millions Huge No Matter What Intention Voting Voters Percentages

Author:Howie Carr

“I have no intention of being a potted plant, and just getting watered every so often.”

Plant Intention

Author:Richard Codey

“I'm very skeptical about the good intentions of Milosevic.”

Intention Skeptical Good Intentions

Author:Warren Christopher

“I'll tell you, there's no goodies and baddies in the world, there's just people with intentions that sometimes clash.”

People World Sometimes Intention Clash Baddies

Author:Rupert Friend

“I come from a very illustrious line of divorces. We love to get divorced in my family. My mother and father have been married four times each - eight ceremonies with the best of intentions.”

Has Beens Mother Father Lines Four Married My Family Intention Eight Divorce Ceremony Divorced Mother And Father

Author:Joshua Ferris

“If I ran the world, I would find a way to bring the wealth of human good intentions and corporate good intentions together - to activate them collectively into shared action against shared objectives that produces shared hard, tangible results.”

Ifs World Way Humans Hard Action Together Wealth Results Produce Intention Objectives Corporate Ran Tangible Good Intentions Activate

Author:Cindy Gallop

“Despite their good intentions, today's businesses are missing an opportunity to integrate social responsibility and day-to-day business objectives - to do good and make money simultaneously.”

Today Opportunity Social Responsibility Missing Intention Objectives Despite Making Money Day To Day Social Responsibility Good Intentions Integrating

Author:Cindy Gallop

“I have no intention of going back to France, except for yearly visits to meet my family.”

My Family Intention France

Author:Francois Gautier

“Comedy is similar to hockey... in only one way. You get a lot of credit for assists. So I try to serve whatever the intention is, be it the joke or the story or the scene or the moment or the kiss, even if it's not my joke or moment.”

Ifs Way Trying Moments Stories Comedy Scene Kissing Jokes Intention Credit One Way Hockey

Author:Johnny Galecki

“As soon as I finish one thing, there's always something else on the horizon I want to do. I don't have any intention of retiring from anything.”

Want One Thing Intention Horizon Retiring

Author:Marla Gibbs

“I suppose no man becomes a pocket hunter by first intention.”

Men Firsts Intention Pockets Hunters

Book:Stories from the Country of Lost Borders

Source: Stories from the Country of Lost Borders

“My intentions have been, and are always, to just really get behind what my ideas are musically and to just ride this thing out, cause it feels good, and I think for the most part it's good music. Even when it's not, I'd like to still search for something that could be even like a little bit mind-blowing or shocking to me.”

Thinking Feels Mind Littles Has Beens Stills Ideas Causes Bits Behinds Little Bit Intention Feel Good Shocking Mind Blowing

Author:Ryan Adams

“This is the patent-age of new inventions For killing bodies, and for saving souls, All propagated with the best intentions; Sir Humphrey Davy's lantern, by which coals Are safely mined for in the mode he mentions, Tombuctoo travels, voyages to the Poles, Are ways to benefit mankind, as true, Perhaps, as shooting them at Waterloo.”

Way Soul Body Age Science Mankind Benefits Intention Killing Invention Saving Shooting Coal Voyages Patents Lanterns Best Intentions Waterloo New Inventions Saving Souls

Author:Lord Byron

“Good intentions can be evil, both hands are full of grease. You know, sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace.”

Knows Men Sometimes Hands Evil Intention Satan Good Intentions Grease

Book:Lyrics 1962-2001. Testo inglese a fronte

Source: Lyrics 1962-2001. Testo inglese a fronte

“I can assure the Court that I have no intention and there is no risk of my reactivating the Megaupload.com website or establishing a similar Internet-based business during the period until the resolution of the extradition proceedings”

I Can Business Risk Internet Periods Court Intention Resolution Website Proceeding

Author:Kim Dotcom

“The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.”

Men Opportunity Luck Intention Busy Bother Too Busy Busy Life

Author:B. C. Forbes

“The qualities of creativity and genius are within you, awaiting your decision to match up with the power of intention.”

Motivational Decision Quality Creativity Genius Encouragement Intention Aspiration Within You Matching Power Of Intention

Author:Wayne Dyer

“I am not afraid; I was born to do this.”

“I revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I've finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a single sentence that closely resembles the sentence I first set down. I just find that I have to keep zapping and zapping the English language until it starts to behave in some way that vaguely matches my intentions.”

Way Firsts Language Novel Intention Sentences Finished Behave English Language Single Sentence

Author:Michael Cunningham

“The place where the system and people's intentions meet is the political arena.”

People Political Intention Arena

Author:Peter Garrett

“Are you motivated? Are you coherent? Is your intention aligned? Are your feet, tongue, heart and wallet congruent? That intention shines through.”

Heart Feet Shining Intention Tongue Motivated Wallets

Author:Peter Guber

“A gun can be dangerous. But a gun can protect you, you can hunt for food with it - you know, the tool itself is a tool. The intention of the party using the tool is a part of the process, right? You know: the knife cuts the steak, stabs the person, saves somebody from danger, cuts somebody out of a car.”

Knows Persons Process Party Cutting Dangerous Car Danger Protect Gun Tools Intention Knives Hunts Steak Protect You

Author:Peter Guber

“In today's roller-coaster economy, hyper-competitive, fear-based, flat and global world, convincing anyone to do anything at any time requires getting their attention, creating their intention and turning it to action.”

World Today Action Attention Economy Creating Intention Flats Convincing Roller Coaster Hyper Coasters

Author:Peter Guber

“I didn't try to cry my way out of Orlando. That was never my intention, or not what I did at all. And I understand everybody thought it was that way because of what was being put out there.”

Way Trying Cry Intention My Way Orlando

Author:Dwight Howard

“I wanted to do pretty much a purely boy story, yes. The girls are kind of the bad guys in 'Marble Season', although that wasn't my intention. It's also a world without adults.”

World Kind Stories Wanted Guy Girl Boys Adults Seasons Intention Bad Guys Marble

Author:Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

“My intentions with any of my music is to keep it futuristic and updated and be experimental and try new things.”

Trying Music Is Intention New Things Futuristic

Author:Mayer Hawthorne

“With acting, I've got a character to inhabit. You've got to think about your intentions and your directions. In modeling, even though there's an act to it, a good model is a good model. For me it's uncomfortable territory. You start to feel quite insecure about yourself. There's nothing between you and the camera, and it's just you.”

Thinking Feels Character Acting Models Cameras Intention Uncomfortable Territory About Yourself Insecure Modeling

Author:Max Irons

“Intention involves such a small fragment of our consciousness and of our mind and of our life.”

Mind Consciousness Our Lives Intention Fragments

Book:Jasper Johns: A Retrospective

Source: Jasper Johns: A Retrospective

“I don't know anyone in the public eye who has not made a mistake and said something in a manner that does not truly reflect their intentions.”

Knows Doe Made Said Eye Mistake Intention Made A Mistake Public Eye

Author:Jim Jeffords

“Please tell me you will remember, no matter how much I do wrong that I had the best of intentions all along.”

Matter Philosophy Remember Please Intention

Author:Travis Tritt

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