Quotes About Intent

The New Frontier I speak of is not a set of promises -- it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intent to ask of them.

The New Frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises—it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them.

Clothe with life the weak intent, Let me be the thing I meant ...

If God were intent on making his revelation correspond to science, we have to ask which science. We

The reason of a resolution is more to be considered than the resolution itself.

How good would a Good Samaritan be, if a Good Samaritan would only intend to do good?

Every organization was built for a purpose. We haven't built any organization just for the sake of its mere existence.

What is your agenda, Don Sebastien? What is it you want of me? Of New Amsterdam?

The Dragon's direct, forward gaze was as intent as any predator's, and meeting it made Vincent very aware that he was small and-mostly-quite soft-fleshed.

As blatant a declaration of intent as a wolf could make without a challenge snarled.

The news of Will's escape was enough to grant Kit new strength of intent. He'll come for me. He won't leave me here. He knew it, with the same calm certainty with which he'd known that he could not leave Will to take his own place in Hell.

She smiled, and I couldn't tell if she was fairly to take my meaning or failing to take my meaning on purpose, or just didn't consider it the insult I had intended it to be. Actually she looked like she was taking it as a compliment, and I wished I'd kept my mouth shut.

if it doesn't matter what you do, then how do you choose what to do?

Believe me I don't want to set the world on fire I just want to start a flame in your heart

I think the damned souls in hell must spend half their time wondering what it was that they really meant to do.

If someone means well, but does ill, the ill is still done—and the consequences still exist. Besides, if intent forgives wrong, then any wrongdoer can claim good intent.

For it is beautiful only to do the thing we are meant for

Oh, replied his patient, with no malice aforethought, he told me to come and see you.

Tell me you have a plan." He swore when Colt didn't answer right away.

Rarely have elected leaders been so intent on defying the public will.

We have learned from history that change is never easy, that it usually doesn't look pretty, especially in today's politically-charged environment where intent and actions can readily be misconstrued and judged.

I have no grand scheme.

I don't have too much of a grand plan.

Who are you writing this for? For a commercial reason, or because you want to make great art and give it to your fans?