Quotes About Intention

At the time of death, whatever you have focused on the most will determine your next life.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

The new frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises-it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them. It appeals to their pride, not their pocketbook-it holds out the promise of more sacrifice instead of more security.

Neither boy ever intended to speak about the events at the cliff that day. But of course their mothers eventually worked the truth out of them. Mothers always do.

It is possible, of course...to want to do two different things at the same time. Then it just becomes a choice of knowing which one you want most.

And when there's no point to something, the best idea is not to do it.

Deeds, not words shall speak me.

Her reign was of only five days continuance, for Mary, having succeeded by false promises in obtaining the crown, speedily commenced the execution of her avowed intention of extirpating and burning every protestant. She was crowned at Westminister in the usual form, and her elevation was the signal for the commencement of the bloody persecution which followed.

Coincidence is just the word we use when we have not yet discovered the cause. . . . It's an illusion of the human mind, a way of saying, 'I don't know why this happened this way, and I have no intention of finding out.

For so long as we condone injustice by a small but powerful group, we condone the destruction of all social stability, all real peace, all trust in man's good intentions toward his fellow man.

for so long as we condone injustice by a small but powerful group, we condone the destruction of all social stability, all real peace, all trust in man's good intentions toward his fellow man.

He asked me to pour him some whiskey and announced flatly his intention to nap.

If ads are about selling things, they are not only about selling things; their images can carry symbolic meanings, transmit messages, and create moods in ways that cannot be reduced to the conscious intentions of their creators and cannot be wholly controllable and predictable in their efffects.

Ghosts may also exist because we will them to exist.

And help us, this and every day, to live more nearly as we pray.

Help us, this and every day, to live more nearly as we pray.

skidding v. intr. the practice of making offhand comments that sound sarcastic but are actually sincere and deeply felt.

When any such declaration of God's intention is produced, it will be our duty to believe God intends it so; but till that be done, our author must show us some better warrant, before we shall be obliged to receive him as the authentic revealer of God's intentions.

We are created for something more serious than just a day-to-day survival.

Barrett crumpled the plastic from his sandwich. "I'd never hurt her intentionally." Right, Chess thought. But people rarely hurt each other intentionally.

Everything in this life has a purpose, there are no mistakes, no coincidences.

Was I unjust, Caroline? but his mention of secresy instantly filled my mind with a supposition that his words wore one form, and his intentions another. I warned him to depart. I told him, I despised concealment; that I had ever scorned to separate my wishes from my acts, or my actions from my words. I said, his caution pointed out my duty. I bade him, as I then thought a final adieu.

Be careful what you name a thing.

I realized I was mirroring her, and intentionally broke the pattern by setting the mug down.