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I was perhaps a bit hasty but did have the full intention to retire,

That was really not the intention. Because we had done so well with mobilizing huge numbers for April 9, we didn't feel we needed a huge turnout. What we really wanted to do was provide an opportunity for folks to keep the momentum going forward.

Most of the customers we see at conferences seem to have older systems and no intention of upgrading to the hardware requirements they would need to do that. They tend to build outward with their own Windows boxes.

When I first envisioned 'Funny Games' in the mid-1990s, it was my intention to have an American audience watch the movie. It is a reaction to a certain American cinema, its violence, its naivety, the way American cinema toys with human beings. In many American films, violence is made consumable.

We're definitely going down there with the intention to win. If Duke is there, so be it.

We're careful about not announcing anything until we're reasonably certain it will come here. Our intention is to always take the minimum amount of risk to deliver what our subscribers are looking for.

We'll continue to operate as we've been operating. We've been issuing marriage licenses according to Massachusetts law. A couple would just simply have to state their intention to reside in Massachusetts for us to issue the license.

We put in a phone call and we had discussions. Nothing that I would say was ever close. . . . I can tell you we had no intention of parting with our core players.

We played like a champion team in this match, and it was always our intention to play well in the semi-finals to send a clear signal that we want to do the double. We are at home and we know the conditions well.

We must look at the role of Lake Maloney in the whole system in order to best manage and conserve water. We are doing what we can to combat drought, and our intention is to get water back into Lake Maloney in time for the holiday season, from Memorial Day through Labor Day.

We can win it again and that is our intention. We've been drawn in a difficult group but if you have ambitions to win the trophy you mustn't fear any team.

We have been the leader for 15 years, and I have no intention of backing down.

Well, I was fortunate enough to be able to self-fund to start, but I had no intention of self-funding forever, and so I needed a model that would be sustainable.

That's the intention - at least talking to their agents, it sounds like both would like to be back, and we'd like to have them both back.

That was their (the state's) request. That's not something we put on the table. We certainly recognize the value of that land. It's not our intention to make that part of the transaction.

I wasn´t expecting to come home to you, but now that you´re here, I have no intention of letting you leave." Patch :D (p. 295)

With Portlandia, I don't think our intention is always to find something funny. Sometimes the humor comes from taking something really seriously. We're okay with making somebody feel uncomfortable or uneasy.

We deeply respect all religions, including Islam, and it is important for me to tell you that the Danish people have no intention to offend Muslims.

I had no intention of anyone ever finding out what I had done.

We really have to assess the affect of the store closings on our headquarters operation. It is the intention to reduce corporate expenses.

We had no intention of bringing Dusty back when he was let go a year ago. I figured he'd enter the NFL draft, and that would be it.

We had no intention of it being a full-time band or of even touring. We just thought, let's make a cool, interesting record,

I like to think I opened doors for other women, although that wasn't my original intention.

We have intelligence that people are intending to conduct themselves in a riotous manner armed with various weapons - baseball bats, poles and the like - and it is my intention to keep those communities safe.

My intention... isn't to create controversy.

Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It's peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.

There is clearly an intention by the authorities to increase enforcement of IP rights through the police, and this is perhaps the top request of foreign industry over the last few years.

People will speculate about what they want, but that is not my intention.

The highest intention comes from love and compassion ... when our intentions come from a place of love and compassion then we have the power of the universe.

Optimism invites us to reach higher and become the fullest expression of our intentions

EVERYTHING that happens in the universe starts with an INTENTION

[Our self-image is] that gap between intention and effect

It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.

We've scored 51 goals in cup competitions this season. We're currently still in three of them and we've every intention of keeping it that way this weekend.

We have looked at a lot of players on trial an it is our intention to sign a new forward before the close of the transfer window.

There is interest in all of them, and closing is not the only option. Our intention is not to close any.

The question has been thrown up a lot. People have been hounding me. There is no doubt I'm coming back. I have no intention of leaving school.

We agreed on everything except for basically one item: if they were to annex past the railroad tracks. They said they had no intention of doing so, and if they had no intention of doing so, this wouldn't be problematic.

We're not expanding the recall. All the attorneys general's intention was, was to let consumers know there was this list of tires out there and that folks who have the tires do have some options,

We are confident that our revised proposal is fully in conformity with the ruling of the WTO arbitrators, ... It was always our intention that the level of protection would not change under our new import regime.

We are contributing to the world just by being willing to be ourselves.

We recognize that broad market adoption requires technologies to be standardized and available to the entire value chain in terms of product development. The intention is indeed to move into standard bodies.

We are going to submit a detailed explanation on what we have done thus far in the case and why we believe we think we have the authority to do so. The Attorney General has every intention of prosecuting this case.

We are optimistic about our intention to win 90 percent of the non-subsidized fuel oil market.

Stay aligned with your intentions and your good will find you.

The overall intention is to try to have mares reside longer in the state. That's where the greatest economic development is derived.

We are a club that is on the up and we have no intention of selling our best players.

We don't know if it was (Advanced Energy's) intention (from the beginning) to sell it, or what happened. I've heard that Advanced Plasma investors and management are trying to salvage the company. But I'm not really interested, just because of the way things went.

The date groupings are just another thing that's going to be hard for people to remember, that they have to come in whit in that time. So I mean the intention is good but I just don't think it's going to make a big impact.

There is in Albert Camus’ literary craftsmanship a seductive intelligence that could almost make a reader dismiss his philosophical intentions if he had not insisted on making them so clear.

We are moms full of intention. There is nothing more powerful on this planet than a mother full of intention,

In history, good intentions do not always make good consequences

Time and distance have a way of playing tricks with your best intentions.

The fact of the matter is we went after Iraq for oil. And the fact of the matter is that the United States has degraded our role as a great nation by attacking this nation that had no capacity to attack the United States and no intention of doing so, that didn't have anything to do with 9/11, didn't have weapons of mass destruction.

A single Mass offered for oneself during life may be worth more than a thousand celebrated for the same intention after death.

I have no intention of discussing my private life with anyone

You can't have intentions without consequences. The question is, who pays for the consequences? Saving fish from drowning. Same thing. Who’s saved? Who’s not?

What is a great life but a youthful intention carried out in maturity?

I moved to L.A. to write and direct. I had no intentions of being in front of the camera.

Direction, not intention determines your destination.

I don't mean this grandly, but it was never my intention to live in L.A. and do a big network show.

It was never my direct intention to do anything particularly medium-defying.

Is marriage for ever? I think you get married with the intention that it will be, but who knows?

All that counts in life is intention.

You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish - not sit intending on a chair.

If you can wiggle your toes with the mere flicker of an intention, why can't you reset your biological clock?

The power of intention is a critical factor in all areas of life. Simply by intending to create synchronicity in your life, you can nurture that result.

An intention synchronistically organizes its own fulfillment.

There is no art without intention.

There is no art when one does something without intention.

My intention is to do more films.

The assertion that it is the intention of the German Reich to coerce the Austrian State is absurd!

The intention manifests when the condition is appropriate.

The reality was my staff and I had every intention of coming back. We thought we had a pretty decent season for a young team.

We came here with the intention of not losing and we attained that objective so we can't quarrel. However, it was not the type of game I was expecting as both teams played as if they did not want to win and did not want to lose.

We believe the charges that have been made this morning are wrong. Competition is alive and well in New York. Our systems are up and running...Bell Atlantic has no intention of voluntarily cutting off its service. We have worked very hard in New York to make the system work.

We believe the community is best served by a locally owned newspaper. It's the family's intention to continue to own and operate the paper in that manner for years to come. There's no question that if the family was interested in doing anything other than continue to own and operate the paper, it wouldn't be saddling itself with this debt load.

We have confidence now going into the derby. We aim to play as well as possible and have every intention to win.

We put the tag on Jeff Backus with the intention of keeping him here not only in 2006, but beyond.

We don't want to eliminate anyone from playing ball. Our intention is to consolidate. If we don't do something now, (scheduling fields is) going to be a nightmare for us down the road.

We've been saying for the last month that it's our intention to be aggressive in this space. This is a fast-growing segment, and we've said we're going to compete across the board.

When I signed Heider I had no intention of playing him and Brian together because they are very alike. It was going to be one or the other.

There came a point sometime during high school when I started thinking about exploring acting as a career, but it was more of an intention than an actual decision. I was very interested in a lot of different subjects, but every time I envisioned myself actually pursuing one as a career, I always ended up thinking that I would rather be acting.

We're not just simply satisfied with being here. We going in with every intention of winning.

The big challenge is finding something new without changing completely what you've already done - going deeper into what you've already done and discovering new things while carrying out the same intention.

Part of being a conscious human being, is having an intention. And if you put an intention into whatever you do, it’s definitely going to be more satisfying in the end

For liberals, supposedly good intentions always trump results.

Our proximity keeps us honest. Our intentions keep us strangers.

You can have the best intentions in the world but if you do nothing, you are nothing.

We have no authority or intention to condemn property on the south side of the street. We have received some calls from people wanting to sell us property on the south side, but we told them we're not interested.

We have no intention and even less desire to enforce this name on everything.

We have no intention of blocking or degrading other services on our network. We are giving customers what they want, which is fast pipes at a low cost. Anyone who tries to take that away from consumers will be punished by the market.

We have no intention of doing what they seem to be trying to prevent. Right in our application we state very clearly we have no intention of opening branches.

We have no intention of duplicating those efforts. We get incredible content from our partners, but in this case, we are covering largely under-reported stories and bringing them to our audience.

We have no intention of executing them ever and will only keep them for as long as our demands are not attended to.

We have no intention of leaving and we intend to continue to provide the services that we're providing. It won't be easy, but we're staying.

We have no intention of leaving this building.

We have no intention of moving or trading Jason Taylor .

We have no intention of playing fast and loose with this document, with the OAU process, ... We only hope that this time around the other side really means what it says.

We have no intention of returning to the Pepsi Center. And we've told the Pepsi Center people that.