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Quotes About Intent

I can airmail the golf ball, but sometimes I don't put the right address on it.
~ Jim Dent
And what's the point of doing something just to do it?
~ Jim Loehr
S" is for Single-mindedness.
~ Jim Stovall
Doing is doing. Does it mean that it doesn't matter if it's magic or not, anything you do has power and consequences and affects other people?
~ Jo Walton
The theater audience is the ultimate teacher, instructing the actor on the degree to which he has executed both the author's and the director's intent.
~ Joan Fontaine
Horse: Wood like you were sporting usually implies the opposite. Unless it was for me? If that's the case, I'm genuinely flattered. No judgements.
~ Joanna Wylde
You see so many earnest characters in movies all the time, everyone has a purpose.
~ Joaquin Phoenix
A man doesn't put on a mask unless he's got some dark work in mind.
~ Joe Abercrombie
It is most important what we do in life, not necessarily how our deeds began.
~ Ann Howard Creel
You don't really believe I intend harm, do you?" If he intended to marry her, she considered that great harm indeed. But Flora the housemaid couldn't say that. Bill rose and gave himself a good shake before he trotted forward to investigate the stranger's boots. Bite him, Bill. Lord Lyle clicked his elegant fingers. And Bill, the rotten traitor, yipped in delight and rolled over to offer his pink belly for a scratch. "Nice
~ Anna Campbell
She had not yet decided whether to use her power for good...or for evil.
~ Anne Taintor
They said words they did not mean, and their conversations seemed to follow all kinds of rules—rules that no one has ever explained to Oscar.
~ Anne Ursu
The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.
~ Annie Dillard
It's so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to.
~ Annie Gottlier
Not everybody's actions are based on ideas. Some people's actions are based on profit.
~ Pavel Durov
We build programs with points in mind.
~ Scott Moir
When I started this project, I was a young architect. I was very apprehensive about any changes to the design. Whether I wanted to or not, I learned that you can accept some changes to its form without compromising its intent. But it's a leap of faith that I didn't want to make initially - to put it mildly.
~ Michael Arad
You can't promise to win a game, but you can want to win a game.
~ Samuel Eto'o
I find myself apologising for not being a proper actor. I never intended to be involved in the film industry and still do feel that, with the exception of a couple of brief skirmishes with the film industry.
~ Tilda Swinton
My understanding of first-degree murder is that premeditation needs to be proven.
~ Henry Rollins
I don't know what it means, but I didn't mean it.
~ Evelyn Waugh
Whenever Ida pointed celery at him, she meant business.
~ Fannie Flagg
ella todo son fines y propósitos.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Ya sabes lo que es un «motivo» en el sentido que recibe la palabra en este contexto: es la razón que tienes o al menos crees tener para hacer algo
~ Fernando Savater