#intentions

The test of a belief is not exclusively in the belief itself, but also in the intentions and actions of those who embrace it. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

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So many financial dreams are thwarted by the failure to act upon good intentions. ↗

— Suze Orman

#dreams #failure #financial #good #good intentions

History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions. ↗

— Ted Koppel

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The hardest task in a girl's life is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious. ↗

— Helen Rowland

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One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the research of gangs in New York City, seems to have allowed crime figures at the time, like Luciano, Capone, Torrio and Rothstein, to organize to become more powerful, which pulled all the way through until the '70s. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

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You have to think an awful lot about your motivations or people's behavioral intentions or what their body language can indicate or what's really going on or what makes people sometimes do, sometimes, the irrational things they do. ↗

— Ron Silver

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I think I can deceive people. I'm like, the nice, sweet girl when you meet me. And I don't have any bad intentions. But I'm a bad girl too. ↗

— Alicia Silverstone

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But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions. ↗

— Joey Skaggs

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Because I'm just a giving person spiritually, I feel that if your intentions are to use or abuse or take advantage of, then you might get what you get in the meantime, but there's still a price to pay. ↗

— Angie Stone

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No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

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