Intentions

Famous quotes containing the word intentions:

“The hardest task of a girl’s life, nowadays, is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious.”
—Helen Rowland (1875–1950)

“A man sees only what concerns him.... How much more, then, it requires different intentions of the eye and of the mind to attend to different departments of knowledge! How differently the poet and the naturalist look at objects!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)