Every medium by which people communicate can be subject to exploitation by those with illegal intentions. Nevertheless, this is no reason to hand Big Brother the keys to unlock our e-mail diaries, open our ATM records, read our medical records, or translate our international communications.
A parent's best intentions are no substitute for attention.
My intentions with any of my music is to keep it futuristic and updated and be experimental and try new things.
Mothers and fathers do really crazy things with the best of intentions.
I have intentions as a writer, but people - when they're listening to a track - will take from it what they interpret.
It's too late for me to get married before I'm famous. You never know people's intentions.
Listen carefully to me. Despite popular belief to the contrary, there is absolutely no power in intention. . . There is no difference in the person who intends to do things differently and the one who never thinks about it in the first place. Have you ever considered how often we judge ourselves by out intentions while we judge others by their actions? Yet intention without action is an insult to those who expect the best from you.
With rock music, the amount of power that you can generate, the intensity behind the intentions of your lyrics that you can really reflect through rock music - you can't do that in jazz. You can't do that with classical.
He uses common sense to judge not the intentions of an action but its consequences.
Make sure your intentions are not only for yourself, but also for the common good.
There's a deep-freeze of sorts for all good intentions - a place that you store your plans to make changes in your life when you know you're not going to make them at all.
God is able to transform the hostile intentions of wicked people into blessings for His people.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Restaurants want to be judged on their intentions - not the results.
If you charge off with some political agenda that is not informed by clarity, you are going to end up with business as usual. The road to hell is paved with good intentions but it is not paved with clarity.
Uncomfortable thoughts must be got rid of by good intentions for the future.
There are no secrets about the world of nature. There are secrets about the thoughts and intentions of men.
My camera, my intentions stopped no man from falling. Nor did they aid him after he had fallen. It could be said that photographs be damned for they bind no wounds. Yet, I reasoned, if my photographs could cause compassionate horror within the viewer, they might also prod the conscience of that viewer into taking action.
Like all truly pure souls she [Chantal] quickly resigned herself to past faults, thought only of how to repair whatever harm they had done. "Of all my daughters, you are certainly the least bothered by scruples of conscience," Abbé Chevance used to say. . . . Even sin, once the will is detached and no longer nourishes it, withers and dies sterile. It is in the secret of intentions, like in a decomposing humus, in the dark forest of future sins, unpardoned sins, half dead, half living, that new poisons are distilled.
The intention to live as long as possible isn't one of the mind's best intentions, because quantity isn't the same as quality.