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Quotes About Intent

A victory is useless unless it reflects your deepest wishes.
~ Frank Herbert
When is a gift not a gift?
~ Frank Herbert
Scratch a conservative and you find someone who prefers the past over any future. Scratch a liberal and find a closet aristocrat. It's true! Liberal governments always develop into aristocracies. The bureaucracies betray the true intent of people who form such governments. Right from the first, the little people who formed the governments which promised to equalize the social burdens found themselves suddenly in the hands of bureaucratic aristocracies.
~ Frank Herbert
Scratch a conservative and you find someone who prefers the past over any future. Scratch a liberal and find a closet aristocrat. It's true! Liberal governments always develop into aristocracies. The bureaucracies betray the true intent of people who form such governments.
~ Frank Herbert
Knowledge, you see, has no uses without purpose, but purpose is what builds enclosing walls.
~ Frank Herbert
It was one of those abrupt thought changes which so confounded Stilgar. He found himself temporarily dumb. Such words contained meaning, but their intent eluded him.
~ Frank Herbert
Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree. You have done violence to him, consumed his energy. Elaborate euphemisms may conceal your intent to kill, but behind any use of power over another the ultimate assumption remains: "I feed on your energy.
~ Frank Herbert
And what I really intended to say in the end remains unsaid.
~ Franz Kafka
Originalism says that when you consult the text, you give it the meaning it had when it was adopted, not some later modern meaning.
~ Antonin Scalia
The idea that we cause harm by doing what we perceive to be the right thing, that's another theme that interests me. Because most people don't intend to cause harm, they cause harm by doing the right thing - in their mind.
~ Andrew McCarthy
Quick and able as some participants were, the Movements were not and have never been intended for professional dancers.
~ Roger Lipsey
I had no particular purpose in mind, which was never a good way to do things.
~ Luke Davies
We do wrong, with all the best will in the world. And sometimes we do right without even knowing it.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
And why? Because
~ Malcolm Gladwell
It is my experience that if a person practices self discovery with intent, they will be successful. Success is an outer sign that they are channeling energy correctly.
~ Frederick Lenz
Powerful words come with powerful intent. Where you have passion, strength, courage, and determination you can accomplish anything!
~ K.L. Toth
Purpose is the reason something is designed, made, created, or exists.
~ Mensah Oteh
Each day should be founded on a purpose and work in harmony with the core reason for your life.
~ Mensah Oteh
Not everyone can decode a dream! Dreamers are those abled minds that can read the intent of the dream in terms of energy, frequency & vibration...!
~ Vishwanath S J
Begin each day with a promise to self to be grateful, be kind .be authentic your day will meet your intent ~bns
~ Bluenscottish
Figure out the WHY you want it and turn it into a desire and then and obsession!
~ Darren D.O. Connell
Manifestation is like a flower, you must put so much intent into its energy before you can sight its beauty.
~ Nikki Rowe
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
The best teacher lodges an intent not in the mind but in the heart.
~ Anne Michaels