Quotes About Intention

Every day we need to decide what kind of legacy we want to leave. What kind of children do we want to raise? And what kind of relationship do we need to build with them?

Do you really think we'll ever-- I do, he said with certainty, not letting me finish. He leaned over and kissed my forehead. I know it, Sassenach, and so do you. You were meant to be a mother, and I surely dinna intend to let anyone else father your children.

I mean to take my time about it, aye?

If you can't look a line of dialogue in the face and say exactly why it's there—take it out or change it.

I felt deeply betrayed that the man I depended on as friend, protector, and lover intended to do such a thing to me. And my sense of self-preservation was quietly terrified at the thought of submitting myself to the mercies of someone who handled a fifteen-pound claymore as though it were a flywhisk.

You don't need to know the purpose as you write, but when you read over something you've written, you should be able to point to any given element—be that a line of dialogue, a descriptive phrase, a plot point—and say why it's there.

Don't let characters talk pointlessly—they only talk if there's something to say.

You do not think I would take ye without offering you marriage!

To create, to hoard, to send these things, these fragile documents, down through the years, with only the hope that they would survive and reach those for whom they were intended.

I felt sick when I thought of the end—but I really wanted to remember how. How it felt, and how I did it, so maybe I can do it again, with Roger.

Don't tell me you didn't think of that when you decided to come here.

buildings; clearly the intention was to nudge

Grey seized him by the shoulders, seeking to ease him back. "Henry, my dear. Do forgive me. I didn't mean—

I'm the kind of person who will set time aside to do something and then do everything but that thing.

I'll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics.

What I try to do, what I attempt to do, is say things that I mean at least at an emotional level.

We do not attract what we want, but what we are.

I wouldn't want my comedy show to hurt anybody. I'm not Donald Trump.

One thing I admire about the Eagles is they always seem to know what they want. They always seem to know why they want it. They always seem to want it at the same time.

The mind is the effect, not the cause.

I'm not trying to be efficient; I'm trying to be present.

Having a path to elected office was never the goal for me.

You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.

If you live your life habitually, just letting day after day flow on by, then you cannot say that you have genuinely lived your life.