Quotes About Intention

How could you determine a man's intention if you didn't speak his language or share his beliefs? She'd happily embarked on a study of ancient Egyptian religion but had no curiosity about Islam, which seemed an amalgam of oddities and borrowings. She felt with conviction what she'd written home more than once--that Egypt would be an exquisite country if not for the Egyptians who lived there.

The good or ill of a man lies within his own will.

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All public elements of a design together make up its interface, and the name of each of those elements presents an opportunity to reveal the intention of the design.

Factoring the constraint into its own method allows us to give it an intention-revealing name that makes the constraint explicit in our design. It is now a named thing we can discuss.

Every work of art falls short of what the artist envisioned. It is precisely that gap between their intention and their execution that opens up the door for the next work.

Jesus did not only communicate ideas and concepts and rules and principles for living. He lived. And by living with his disciples, he showed them what life was supposed to look like, what God had intended it to look like. It was not merely intellectual or merely spiritual. It was all these things together; it was something more. Bonhoeffer aimed to model the Christian life for his students. This led him to the idea that, to be a Christian, one must live with Christians.

Perhaps even more important in the Bonhoeffer family was acting upon what one said one believed. One must not only think clearly but must prove one's thoughts in action. If one was unprepared to live out what one claimed to believe, perhaps one didn't believe what one claimed after all!

He knew that, if left to do as he liked, he might fritter away the rest of his life, just as he'd frittered away so many years already. He knew that he didn't want to go back to where he had been before, and he would take whatever steps were necessary to ensure that he continued on the new path he was now on.

Being a Christian is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.

Platão havia chegado a compreender algo que os modernos reformadores e revolucionários políticos são incapazes de compreender: que uma reforma não pode ser realizada por um líder bem intencionado que recrute os seus seguidores entre as mesmas pessoas cuja confusão moral é a fonte da desordem.

The focus on problems, whether wicked or tame, as the primary justifiable trigger for taking action in human affairs has limited our ability to frame change as an outcome of intention and purpose.

Of course I mean it. I don't talk for the pleasure of hearing my own voice.

Tailgrabber] looked up at the others, fixing them with a stare that she hoped carried every last drop of the hatred she had been saving up in her heart for herself.

believe StarClan exists, but I don't know that their intentions are good, or that we always benefit from their 'guidance

If I'd wanted you dead five minutes ago, you'd have died five minutes ago.

Good men's prayers are carried by the angelic mail; but many men's prayers evidently go by the demoniac route. They are never so bad as after they have prayed.

A marriage, she thought, had to have a reason for being.

Love is an action, never simply a feeling.

You've got to understand , Angel, a man like me looks at a women like you and it's inevitable thatIm going to screw things up ".

I resolved that if the heavens were going to pour liquid on my head, I would pour much more down my throat.

The designer had probably been going for Turkish Bath but had hit Czech Porn Shoot instead.

an intention that radiates out of you. It's humility and gratitude. It's about living inside the notes, and between them, and understanding that each of those notes may mean a completely different thing to each person in an audience. Once it leaves your fingertips or your lips, it's no longer yours. Maybe it never was.

Why Don't you aim more to the right?