Quotes About Intent

articulated, it is better to go forward without an aim than loiter without an aim, and with surety much better than to retreat without an aim.

the mist felt oddly purposeful, as though it were on its way to an appointment.

You need to aim, to achieve.

They were flawed and cruel, but there was no intent to kill. Not within the meaning of the law. And the law's all we have to hold things together.

Everybody is ambitious. The question is whether he is ambitious to be or ambitious to do.

Whilst there are problems with Article 50, it is the statement of intent that is important.

I see genres as generating sets of rules or conventions that are only interesting when they are subverted or used to disguise the author's intent. My own way of doing this is to attempt a sort of whimsical alchemy, whereby seemingly incompatible genres are brought into unlikely partnerships.

I kind of muddled through 'Pride & Prejudice,' but with 'Atonement,' I knew what I was doing. That makes it sound like I had no doubt. I had doubts - I didn't know whether it would work. But I knew exactly what I wanted to try to do.

The privileged Victorians who did most to improve the lives of the poor were not ashamed of their pious intent: they were superiors seeking to help inferiors.

I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize!

I really like to have a bit of direction, you know?

I think a lot of times my comments get misconstrued as disrespectful and it's not.

The embrace of a new technology by ordinary people leads inevitably to its embrace by people of malign intent.

On signing day, my mom brought me the national letter of intent to Arkansas. I should feel like I'm making the right decision. You get that many people telling you that. I had been dreaming about it. I signed 'No' where I was supposed to sign my name and put an exclamation point.

The intent is to shatter cohesion, produce paralysis, and bring about collapse of the adversary by generating confusion, disorder, panic, and chaos.

This means that they understand their commander's overall intent and they know their job is to do whatever is necessary to fulfill that intent.

Well, at least now you admit you did it on purpose." "A target that small, it had to be on purpose or I would have missed." Nolasco dropped the smirk. "You won't last six months in burglary." "I agree," she said. "I told you six years ago. I intend to take your job." THE END

It looked as if a night of dark intentWas coming, and not only a night, an age.Someone had better be prepared for rage.There would be more than ocean-water brokenBefore God's last Put out the Light was spoken.

A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view.

He drank as though his beer was medicine, without pleasure, intent on the result.

The game can't have been created as a means of driving Ledwell to suicide, because – well, why would it? The game was surely done out of love for the cartoon.

The innocence of the intention abates nothing of the mischief of the example.

He observed himself performing an act of kindness toward Franklin, which he explained to himself by constructing the most plausible story—that he did so willfully, because he liked Franklin after all.

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.