(1293 quotes found)
“A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere the careless, the most stupid thinker”
David Hume
“We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Is your remarkably sexist drivel intentional, or just some horrible mistake?”
Yeardley Smith
“The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions.”
Robert Brault
“It is the intention for the Makars' Court to grow and develop as the Scottish national literary monument. This week's additions will take the number to 25 writers of national importance commemorated there.”
Ricky Henderson
“We have neither the pretension to solve all the problems of these deaf children nor the intention to sit down and feel sorry for these “poor” children, knowing that we could have made a difference in their lives.”
Jean-Claude Adzalla
“There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“It was the removing of a regime that was hostile, that clearly had the intention of constructing weapons systems.”
Stephen Harper
“To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy.”
Ronald Reagan
“You realize, monsieur, that I am not in love with you, that I have no intention of falling in love with you, and if I should through some unpredictable curse happen to fall in love with you, I'd run to the nearest cliff and jump off!”
Jeanette MacDonald
