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Quotes About Intention

We touch people with our minds, with our words, and with our bodies. I have always sensed that we are at all times healers or destroyers. There is no middle ground. (A.R.E.
~ Kevin J. Todeschi
Though controversial, there are examples even in the ancient manuscripts, the Bible, perhaps overlooked by the casual reader, which show that things did not always come to pass as they were predicted by some of the most well-known prophetic voices. To understand the dynamics of these prophetic predictions properly, you must understand that God's actions are not always His original intentions.
~ Kim Clement
You had this all planned, didn't you?' I accused. 'Thought you could come in here and seduce me like you do everyone else?' It wasn't as if I could be angry, lying atop him as I was, but I tried.
~ Kim Harrison
Al had tried to kill me. Okay, he'd tried to kill me a couple of times, but this last time I think he'd really meant it.
~ Kim Harrison
Yes, well, it's not, like I want to marry you he said.
~ Kim Harrison
One acts, and thus finds out what one has decided to do.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Every decision inflects an intention, and intentionality is one of the hard problems in determining if there is any such thing as AI, strong or weak. Can an artificial intelligence form an intention?
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
While I had no intention of hooking up with him, I still wanted him to want to hook up with me. It was the principle of the thing, after all.
~ Kimberly Raye
On the stage do not run for the sake of running, or suffer for the sake of suffering. Don't act "in general", for the sake of action; always act with a purpose.
~ Konstantin Stanislavsky
Mariketa: Stalking me, Mr MacRieve? Bowen: No' likely, witch. I only stalk what I want to catch.
~ Kresley Cole
Kosmina adored her new "foulmouthed but well-intentioned uncle." Because, as she put it, "Perhaps we aren't meant to understand him. Perhaps he's as much a puzzle as he is a puzzle master." Hear, hear, Kosmina. But I'm still sending your ass to Louisiana.
~ Kresley Cole
but there is no doubt they intend to kill us as dead as possible in a short time. - said the Wizard As dead as poss'ble would be pretty dead, wouldn't it? asked Dorothy. from Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz
~ L. Frank Baum
The reason most people are bad is because they do not try to be good. Now, the Nome King had never tried to be good, so he was very bad indeed.
~ L. Frank Baum
There is no doubt they intend to kill us as dead as possible in a short time. said the Wizard As dead as poss'ble would be pretty dead, wouldn't it? asked Dorothy.
~ L. Frank Baum
The reason most people are bad is because they do not try to be good. L. Frank Baum, The Emerald City of Oz, 1910
~ L. Frank Baum
Thoughts should be restrained in the same way as your oil, and only applied when necessary, and for a good purpose. If used carefully, thoughts are good things to have.
~ L. Frank Baum
And I am resolved never to speak again without taking time to think carefully on what I am going to say, for I realize that speech without thought is dangerous
~ L. Frank Baum
Decide today to design and build the ideal relationship in your life. It's up to you.
~ Brian Tracy
God does not care what good you did, but why you did it. He does not grade the fruit but probes the core and tests the root.
~ Angelus Silesius
Anyone who says he knows God's intention is showing a lot of very human ego.
~ Michael Crichton, Next
Faith gives new light to the soul, but it does not put our eyes out; and what God hathgivenusinournature could never be intended as a snare to Religion, or engage us to believe a lie.
~ Jeremy Taylor
If you know what life really wants, and if you know what you really want, you can begin to create the relationship.
~ Darrell Calkins
We intend to leave it without further discussion. We respect this request by the government of Uzbekistan
~ Daniel Fried
Don't expect people to respect you for what you are "planning" to do.
~ Henry Ford