personal intentions Quotes

I've never in my life said I didn't want to have children. I did and I do and I will!

Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.

People are not the way they are primarily in order to annoy me.

My problem is not to reinforce or destroy any ideas anyone might have about me, how I do what I do, what my intentions are, the way that I do it. My only job as far as I can see is to do the music that I want to do. All those other things are completely out of my control.

Where [a]can you trust your own thoughts and your own intentions? Everywhere, hopefully, but it isn't always that easy. Sometimes, you have to help yourself along.

As a human race, we have good people and bad people, and everyone has agendas.

We need to conceive of ourselves as "agents" impelled by self-generated intentions.

Like stories, people have individual lives, and are all caught up in this murky thing. All of them have the best intentions. In that sense, you could just as easily tell the same story from another character's perspective. Maybe that's a good idea for a TV series.

I wondered if it was really because he cared about me, or if now I was just another challenge.

I wouldn't say I do that much extreme sport - maybe one day.

Innumerable times a whole Christian community has broken down because it had sprung from a wish dream… Every human wish dream that is injected into the Christian community is a hindrance to genuine community and must be banished if genuine community is to survive. He who loves his dream of a community more than the Christian community itself becomes a destroyer of the latter, even though his personal intentions may be ever so honest and earnest and sacrificial.

We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.