Quotes About Intent

She stood in our cramped little bathroom, a bag of cosmetics in hand. Putting on her makeup while asking if we should buy a couch meant she'd already made up her mind that we were going to IKEA today, and asking me if we ought to go was her way of saying "Get your shoes on." It's dizzying, all the versions of meanings available to the listener.

People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time—even when hard at work.

Even the least of our activities ought to have some end in view.

Even when the gods stood on the side of righteousness, they were concerned with the act more than with the intent.

Let no act be done without a purpose

If you don't have a consistent goal in life, you can't live it in a consistent way.

When it allows its action and impulse to be without a purpose, to be random and disconnected: even the smallest things ought to be directed toward a goal.

Whatsoever he said, all men believed him that as he spake, so he thought, and whatsoever he did, that he did it with a good intent.

concerned with the act more than with the intent.

Things gravitate toward what they were intended for.

that no one does the wrong thing deliberately;

Whatsoever is, was made for something: as a horse, a vine. Why wonderest thou? The sun itself will say of itself, I was made for something; and so hath every god its proper function. What then were thou made for? to disport and delight thyself? See how even common sense and reason cannot brook it.

Foolish are those who…have no aim to which they can direct every impulse and, indeed, every thought.

The phrase "kingdom of God" (and such similar reverential phrases as "kingdom of heaven") denoted, not a place where God ruled, but rather the fact that God ruled—or, rather, that he soon would rule, because he certainly was not doing so at present in the way he intended to do.

That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before.

At the outset Verna had not intended to kill anyone.

In the gap between desire and enactment, noun and verb, intention and infliction, want and have, compassion begins.

Always remember I never do anything without reason and I never give anything without expecting something in return. I always get paid.

A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind.

Our intent will not be to create gridlock. Oh, except maybe from time to time.

We can make the trains run on time but if they are not going where we want them to go, why bother?

The more closely we see ourselves being watched by our enemies, the more time intent we should be to avoid their slanders.

I'm happy, and I intend to stay that way! I was born happy, I love people, I have a trusting nature, and I'd like everyone else to be happy too. Your

It seems an insult to the night to speak of purpose and intent, when this common moment is so brimming full of blessed design tranquility. All things follow their course.