Quotes About Intent

This machine or creature or some combination of both that can manipulate molecules, that can store energy where it will, that can hide the bulk of its intent and its machinations from us. That lives with angels within it and with the vestiges of its own terroir, the hints of its homeland, to which it can never return because it no longer exists.

Sometimes serendipity is just intention, unmasked.

This proclamation of intent and entitlement is not something you can do just once and then expect miracles; it's something you must do daily, forever.

I pause here for a moment to explain exactly what I mean when I say that word, just so people can decide right away how offended they need to get.

Yet she could imagine him so—intent, focused on his goal, his woman. He'd guard his chosen mate, make her both fear and long for his attention. She shivered. He would be relentless in his pursuit, unmerciful in his victory.

The earl slowly pivoted to face her, the crunching of his boots in the gravel drive loud in the stillness. They stood only a few feet distant. He took a step, his beautiful, heavy-lidded eyes intent on her face.

it's important not to take offense unless offense is meant.

Discipline says, "You need to change this behavior, and this will help you do so." It's all about intent and the result. "All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness" (Heb. 12:11).

Whatever his mood—whether it was gay and breezy, or dark with rage—he had one pervading characteristic: he was purposeful.

The size of action has no value but its aim.

The promoters of emancipation were not bent on promoting a revolution so much as they were intent on snuffing one out – a backward-looking, aristocratic revolution – in order to put the South back on the track it should have been on from the beginning of the republic.

The no-first-use policy for nuclear weapons was a well thought out stand... We don't intend to reverse it.

Our founders never intended us to have a professional political class.

In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

I seem to be failing in my intention to be as boring as I possibly can be for self-protection.

When you assume negative intent, you're angry. If you take away that anger and assume positive intent, you will be amazed. Your emotional quotient goes up because you are no longer almost random in your response.

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

Men don't come up to you to just talk. We come up to you with a plan. We're looking across the room at you, and we don't care about your hopes and dreams. We don't care about what your future holds. We saw something we wanted.

To act is to anchor in an imminent future, so imminent it becomes almost tangible; to act is to feel you are consubstantial with that future.

I]f we feel that creation does not express purpose, it is impossible to find an authorization for purpose in our own lives.

I've come to know that what we want in life is the greatest indication of who we really are.

As long as you remember the whys, the hows will take care of themselves.

Sometimes our cruelest acts come not from meaning to do wrong but from not trying hard enough not to.