Quotes About Intention

Even those in the "functional adult" camp with relatively mild addictive tendencies often find that despite their best efforts and intentions, dark patterns repeat in their lives.

Was it a threat, or a well-meant warning?

Gabriel: You're not going to do anything stupid, are you? Tamsin: You mean intentionally?

If you think finding the right place just happens, you've got another think.

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.

I had in no way intended to risk my life. I just wanted to turn the sound down and smooth all of my sharp corners.

He who has got rid of the disease 'Tomorrow' has the possibility to attain what he is here for.

The only way to get everything you want in life is to be very clever about what you want.

His bark is worse than his bite.

Thinking like ethical people, dressing like ethical people, decorating our homes like ethical people makes not a damn of difference unless we also behave like ethical people.

Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do.

Any act can be a prayer, if done as well as we are able.

But what a man can do and what a man will do are two different things, he knew.

There is a long league's worth of difference between willful and stupid. - Tywin Lannister

A lie is not so bad if it is kindly meant. If only she believed them...

Weigh every word before you speak it.

Never draw your sword unless you mean to use it.

My lord father used to say a man should never draw his sword unless he means to use it.

Never draw a gun on a man unless you intend to kill him. And believe me, if you do intend to kill him he will already know it. Then he will feel the cold breath of the tomb.

Sometimes, words have consequences you don't intend them to mean.

If God had really intended men to fly, he'd make it easier to get to the airport.

A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

Sir Richard sighed. "Rid yourself of the notion that I cherish any villainous designs upon your person," he said. "I imagine I might well be your father. How old are you?" "I am turned seventeen." "Well, I am nearly thirty," said Sir Richard. Miss Creed worked this out. "You couldn't possibly be my father!" "I am far too drunk to solve arithmetical problems. Let it suffice that I have not the slightest intention of making love to you.

I enjoyed studying costume, learning about the corsetry and the historical context of fashion. I never had any real intention of being a costume designer.