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Kubrick never explained the ending to us, or what his intentions were. He didn't intend for it to be a predictable film.

- Keir Dullea

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

- Joey Skaggs

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

- Barack Obama

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

With a film, I do my best to understand the author's intentions and try to bring the characters to life.

- Bruce Beresford

A key to the mentality of the left is that it judges itself by its best intentions, and judges its opponents - America chief among them - by their worst deeds.

- David Horowitz

I think we're entering a very dangerous time. The West has set itself up, decided it's in charge, not for good intentions, not for the benefit of mankind.

- Thom Yorke

The most difficult thing is the organization of people and the expression of your intentions. It's very easy to have a picture in your head and to imagine that you've told everybody about what you need.

- Neil Jordan

Let them be reassured, it has never been one of our intentions to ban religion in society, but solely to protect the national education system from any conspicuous display of religious affiliation.

- Jean-Pierre Raffarin

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

- Mohandas Gandhi

All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.

- Reinhold Niebuhr

Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.

- E. Stanley Jones

I love being irreverent. But I hate being irrelevant. I love being irreverent because at the end of the day your actions belie your intentions.

- Esai Morales

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

- Ted Koppel

Naming a transition team varies with the intentions of the candidate; some candidates have been careful to name a transition team as much as a year in advance.

- Richard V. Allen

I had, before I went to college, I had taken a few years off after high school and really had, I guess in those days, I had no intentions of going to college.

- Duane G. Carey

I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions.

- George Byron

Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation.

- E. Stanley Jones

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

Since the end of the nineteenth century, if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about their motives and their intentions in going to war.

- Robert Higgs