Quotes About Intention

You can't just pluck your honour off a bush You didn't plant.

I am not the target. I am the archer. My shafts are tipped with truth and they stick deep.

If you want to be holy then you must give time to God and not just intend to.

You only hit a straight ball by accident. The ball is going to move right or left every time you hit it, so you had better make it go one way or the other.

Every time we fix something that broken, whether it's a car engine or a broken heart, that an act of magic. And what makes it magic is that we choose to create or help, just as we can choose to harm.

I don't think they knew exactly where they were going with the character, but they lay those stories out ahead of time, so they had some idea where they wanted it to go.

So on May 1, 1987, at Gary's invitation, I agreed to see him one last time - to confront him face-to-face about his sincerity and with the intention of ending our brief relationship.

Figure out where you're going before you go there: he was told that a long time ago.

We don't have enough time to premeditate our actions.

Believe me, those great death bed speeches are written ahead of time.

2+2=5 wasn't intentional. I thought you carry a 1 every time there are two 2's in an equation. I'm not stupid, the mathematicians is stupid

Most of the time, stuff doesn't just happen to us-we make it happen by what we do and the way we are.

There's a realization that you have to do something but you just can't do it all the time.

I'm just taking it one day at a time. Actually, that's a total lie. I always think about what's in front of me.

I think you've got to take your time and make sure you're making choices that are smart for you.

I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.

I always take Scotch whiskey at night as a preventive of toothache. I have never had the toothache; and what is more, I never intend to have it.

Jane Austen makes me detest all her characters, without reserve. Is that her intention? It is not believable. Then is it her purpose to make the reader detest her characters up to the middle of the book and like them in the rest of the chapters? That could be. That would be high art. It would be worthwhile, too. Some day I might examine the other end of her books and see.

If a person offends you, and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures; simply watch your chance and hit him with a brick.

Well, I couldn't see no gain in going wherein she become going, so I made up my thoughts I wouldn't try for it.  But I in no way said so, because it would handiest make trouble, and wouldn't do no exact.

The Character of Man Concerning Man—he is too large a subject to be treated as a whole; so I will merely discuss a detail or two of him at this time. I desire to contemplate him from this point of view—this premiss: that he was not made for any useful purpose, for the reason that he hasn't served any; that he was most likely not even made intentionally; and that his working himself up out of the oyster bed to his present position was probably

La promesa de no hacer una cosa es el medio más seguro del mundo para tener ganas de hacerla.

You know sometimes you go into something thinking you're going to make all the difference. You're going to save the situation. Make it right. But that was too much for me.

Make sure you live,' she said. 'As decent as you can. I know you'll make mistakes, but sometimes you're meant to, okay?