Quotes About Intent

I don't know why I get away with some things. But I'm not a misogynistic, racist person. Yet I do find those jokes funny, so I say them. And I try to say everything kind of in a good spirit.

No blur of inexactness, no cloud of vagueness, is allowable in good writing; from the first seeing to the last putting down, there must be steady lucidity and uncompromise of purpose.

I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.

I fully intend to make amends and get back to being a good mother, wife, daughter, and friend.

Today, no matter where I am going, no matter what I am doing, it is my dominant intent to be good to me.

A good many of the special words of business seem designed more to express the user's dreams than to express a precise meaning.

The essence of good and evil is a certain disposition of the will.

There's nothing more dangerous than than someone trying to act for the greater good.

One should never send soldiers on a mission based on just good will and good intent. Unfortunately, that can mean one has to stand by and watch human rights abuses take place.

Certainly some things that are very good can sometimes be used in a bad way.

The government now has license to transfer property from those with fewer resources to those with more. The Founders cannot have intended this perverse result.

I call this book The Intent to Live because great actors don't seem to be acting, they seem to be actually living.

I don't feel, 'I've made a great film'; I feel I've made what I set out to make.

All men have happiness as their object: there are no exceptions. However different the means they employ they aim at the same end.

Your purpose is your why.

If you are doing things in order to be happy...you're doing them in the wrong order.

We don't come here for our health.

Throughout history, even the harshest and most shameful measures are regularly accompanied by professions of noble intent - and rhetoric about bestowing freedom and independence.

I only knew what was in my mind, and I wished to express it clearly

We hope there is a sense of purpose in everything.

I am, I hope, never offensive by accident.

Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.

Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

Fine. Okay. I killed her. But I didn't mean to. And I didn't kill her, kill her.""Oh, I see. As long as you didn't kill her, kill her, then that's okay.