Quotes About Intention

Don't do nothing, just because you can't do everything. pg. 144

After all, a man is only what he has decided to do, or not to do.

That is the principal thing-not to remain with the dream, with the intention, with the being-in-the-mood, but always forcibly to convert it all into things.

And that was when she had one single, awful realization. It's not a doll. And against all her best intentions, she began to scream and couldn't stop.

Don't do it for the sake of doing it, but don't wait for a fantasy, either.

End justifies the means

Although experience has taught me to trust my feelings, I did not go inside to stand guard near her. She had asked me to wait on the bench. I had no intention of crossing her. Like most men, I find it mortifying to be ass-kicked by a woman who doesn't even weigh 110 pounds after Thanksgiving dinner.

In twenty-one years, I have not considered changing to Todd. The bizarre course of my life suggests that Odd is more suited to me, whether it was conferred by my parents with intention or fate.

Perhaps they thought they could bring to this valley only those things they loved, leaving behind all ugliness. We are not, however, a species that can choose the baggage with which it must travel. In spite of our best intentions, we always find that we have brought along a suitcase or two of darkness, and misery.

In order to put a curse on someone and be absolutely certain that it would bring about the desired calamity, a Bocor required an icon of the intended victim.

But no lie, regardless of how well intended, could deceive in telepathic communication

But no lie, regardless of how well intended, could deceive in telepathic communication, because the truth of the sender's motives was inextricably bound up in the emotions that were transmitted with the words.

She isn't a survivalist, but she intends to survive.

Now, as she turns away from the water, intending to go to the house to have a glass of wine

I didn't want him to think I was all that young, meaning too young for Sharona

You can only be in one place at a time, odd one. So it's imperative that you be in the right place for the right reason

Poets are excellent students of blizzards and salt and broken statuary, but they are always elsewhere for the test. Any intention in the writing of poetry besides the aim to make a poem, of engaging the materials, SHOULD be disappointed. If the poet does not have the chutzpah to jeopardize habituated assumptions and practices, what will be produced will be sleep without dream, a copy of a copy of a copy.

Let me see if I have this straight. You were going to move out, although you didn't want to. Is that right?" She nodded. "Why?" "Because I wanted you to ask me to stay." "Ah, I understand now. You do one thing, hoping I'll respond by asking you to do the opposite." She shrugged, realizing how silly it sounded in the cold light of reason. "I… guess so.

Wish it, believe it, and it will be so.

There is a rule I live by: People begin as they mean to continue.

and held on to it. "Because I'm not looking for a wife

You have to see fate as a design, a pattern, and the will as the knife, the blade, the thing slicing through the fabric...

What you put out into the world will always come back for you.

We measure morality by what happens. Not what is intended.