Quotes About Intention

Your health is essential to every member of our race. You are a woman. You are able to create life within you. You represent hope to every male who has no lifemate." "I have no intention of bringing a child into the world." There was complete silence.

I am not like Mikhail or Jacques or, it seems, you. I intend that her protection come above all else. Gregori's voice held an edge. Aidan grinned at him, laughter spilling from his golden eyes. I can only hope I have the chance to see you, Gregori, under the spell of your woman. You must promise that you will bring her to meet us one day. Not if I end up like you or Mikhail. I will not have my dangerous reputation destroyed in such a way.

I know quite well that I can appear insufferable and annoying. Worse than that, I know that I can appear insufferable and annoying without intending to do so. (An old definition of a gentleman: someone who is never rude except on purpose.)

The drops (polio vaccine) were designed,said these believers. Their intention and effect was genocidal. Nobody was to swallow them, or administer them to infants. Within months, polio was back...

La ironía puede ser espontánea, mientras que para el sarcasmo hace falta voluntad. El sarcasmo hay que crearlo.

When you sit, sit. When you breathe, breathe. When you eat, eat

You don't have to explain why a character pulled the kid from the freezing river, but there better be a pretty good reason why he held that kid under.

For her, choices were simple; either there was an action she could take to improve the situation, in which case she took it, or there was not, and everything else said on the subject was so much meaningless noise.

Don't speak flippantly or without though, for your words will have impact far beyond what you intend.

Start as you mean to go on.

Before long, you'll find yourself thinking of the list before you act, which will set the stage for making choices you can live with.

intentioned myth.

The most important attribute of a magician is knowledge." He paused, then looked at each of the novices who had spoken in turn. "Without it his strength is useless, he has nothing to be skilled or talented in, despite his best intentions.

What you give away in life always comes back to you in one way or other.

O LORD, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.

Few people read coffee-table photo books, and indeed they are not intended to be read. I find the text in these books is often surprisingly good, perhaps because the author--or more importantly, the editor--feels no need to pander.

But can I really will anything? At this moment I feel the pleasure of being stone, the sun warms me, the wind makes acceptable this adjustment of my body, I have no intention of ceasing to be a stone. Why? Because I like it. So then I too am slave to a passion, which advises me against wanting freely its opposite. However, willing, I could will. And yet I do not. How much freer am I than a stone?

Mystical additions and subtractions always come out the way you want.

La seule chose qu'on écrit pour soi, c'est la liste des courses. Elle sert à vous rappeler ce que vous devez acheter, et une fois vos achats accomplis, vous pouvez la jeter car elle ne sert plus à personne. Tout ce que vous écrivez d'autre, vous l'écrivez pour dire quelque chose à quelqu'un.

Between the unattainable intention of the author and the arguable intention of the reader, there is the transparent intention of the text, which refutes untenable interpretations.

Aut semel aut iterum medium generaliter esto

Después de pasarme dos años entre humanistas que recitaban fórmulas para convencer a la naturaleza de hacer cosas que no tenía la menor intención de hacer, recibí noticas de Italia: mis antiguos compañeros, o al menos algunos de ellos, se dedicaban a dispararle a la nuca a los que no estuviesen de acuerdo con ellos, para convencer a la gente de que hiciese cosas que no tenía la menor intención de hacer.

It was like that with many other events, and it took courage for the few, who would preserve the texture of the truth, not to let its fibers slip beneath the web of silence and collusion which people—often with the best of intentions—spun to sustain and protect one another.

Train yourself to say what you want to say and then stop.