#intend

It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit. ↗

— Josh Billings

#committed #easier #intend #much #repent

I object to teaching of slogans intended to befog the mind, of whatever kind they may be. ↗

— Franz Boas

#intended #kind #may #mind #object

Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

#any #cannot #describe #disregard #human

The Iranian government intends to use the nuclear program for peaceful purposes, but must convince international public opinion of that. ↗

— Shirin Ebadi

#government #intends #international #iranian #must

We only get together when there's a good reason. Like, last summer, we didn't really intend to go out, but we thought the B-52's tour was a good opportunity. ↗

— Kathy Valentine

#get together #go #good #good opportunity #good reason

What does it mean for an actor to make a part his own? It means that he takes on what you had intended and starts to put in his own stuff so that it becomes something that could only happen if he played it. ↗

— James L. Brooks

#becomes #could #does #had #happen

As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was it intended to be a mere scene of unhappiness and sorrow. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#enjoyment #great #high #intended #mere

I think people must wonder how a white girl like me became a blues guitarist. The truth is, I never intended to do this for a living. ↗

— Bonnie Raitt

#blues #girl #guitarist #how #i

Contraceptives have a proven track record of enhancing the health of women and children, preventing unintended pregnancy, and reducing the need for abortion. ↗

— Louise Slaughter

#children #enhancing #health #need #pregnancy

It is often said that mankind needs a faith if the world is to be improved. In fact, unless the faith is vigilantly and regularly checked by a sense of man's fallibility, it is likely to make the world worse. From Torquemada to Robespierre and Hitler the men who have made mankind suffer the most have been inspired to do so have been inspired to do so by a strong faith; so strong that it led them to think their crimes were acts of virtue necessary to help them achieve their aim, which was to build some sort of an ideal kingdom on earth. ↗

— David Cecil

#evil #faith #fanaticism #fundamentalism #good-intentions