Intentness Quotes

#1. To abdicate from the rule of reason and substitute for it an authentication of belief by the intentness and degree of conviction with which we hold it can be perilous and destructive. Religious beliefs give a spurious spiritual dimension to tribal enmities.

Peter Medawar

#2. The luminary was a golden-haired, beaming, mild-eyed, God-like creature, gazing down in the vigour and intentness of youth upon an earth that was brimming with interest for him.

Thomas Hardy

#3. And the will therein lieth, which dieth not. Who knoweth the mysteries of the will, with its vigor? For God is but a great will pervading all things by nature of its intentness, Man doth not yield himself to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will.

Joseph Glanvill

#4. I made promises. I intend to keep them.

Meredith Wild

#5. Hot dogs are like strippers, really. Nobody wants to know the backstory. We don't want to think about how they came to be in their present form of employment. "Well, when I was twelve, my stepfather.." "Not interested! Put some mustard on that.

Jim Gaffigan

#6. All of us write wish fulfillment.

Lee Child

#7. Not to be a republican at 20 is proof of want of heart; to be one at 30 is proof of want of head.

Francois Guizot

#8. I fart in your general direction.

Graham Chapman

#9. We now live in a world where the only thing to have is success, but failure is marvelous. It's fertiliser, it's like living fertiliser, because you're forced on yourself.

Rupert Everett

#10. It's a shame, but every time I get something scientific in the script, I read up to find out what I'm talking about - but then I'm on to the next script and it's forgotten.

Jim Parsons

#11. I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs.

James Herriot

#12. Become important to others.

Jon Jones

#13. The victory is when I realize that I can't do it on my own.

Nick Vujicic

#14. I am producing sounds that people are not used to hearing from the harp.

Joanna Newsom

#15. He smiled, thinking that for just an instant, it was easy to imagine they were still married, both of them on the same team, both of them still in love.
Except, of course, that they weren't.

Nicholas Sparks

#16. When you start talking about the known knowns and the unknown unknowns, you're thrown into a crazy meta-level discussion. Do I know what I know, do I know what I don't know, do I know what I don't know I don't know. It becomes a strange, Lewis Carroll - like nursery rhyme.

Errol Morris

#17. There is no bad light. There is spectacular light and difficult light. It's up to you to use the light you have.

Jay Maisel