Quotes About Intent

I declare and protest in advance, that I do not intend, at this time at least; to be drawn or driven into the question of slavery, in either of its subdivisions or forms.

If you would beseech a blessing upon yourself, beware! lest without intent you invoke a curse upon a neighbor at the same time.

Then, why did I do this, you ask?' He stroked his chin, like an actor trying to look deep and thoughtful. 'The short answer is: hope.

Glory went to look in on her father. He lay on his right side, his face composed, intent on sleep. His hair had been brushed into a soft white cloud, like harmless aspiration, like a mist given off by the endless work of dreaming.

Don't confuse activity with action.

Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing.

Everything we do, we do for a reason.

By judicial conservative, I mean a judge who does not advance any political or policy preferences, but whose approach to constitutional and statutory interpretation involves fidelity to the text of the Constitution and adherence to the original understanding of that document or to the intent of its drafters.

Let your mind become a lens, thanks to the converging rays of attention; let your soul be all intent on whatever it is that is established in your mind as a dominant, wholly absorbing idea.

El que quiera el fin tiene que querer también los medios.

what he wants. And

Obrar por ignorancia y obrar con ignorancia no son lo mísmo.

Nature does nothing uselessly.

Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence.

Ningún hombre carga su mente con asuntos pequeños, salvo que tenga algún buen motivo para hacerlo.

The Father of Glory does not lurk behind His Son with sinister intent to do us ill, restrained only by the cruel and bloody sacrifice His Son has made! No, a thousand times no! The Father loves us in the love of the Son and the love of the Spirit (John 16:27).

Oh, many a shaft at random sent Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word at random spoken May soothe, or wound, a heart that's broken!

OK, I have to make sure we're on the same page here. Because I might mean one thing and she might mean, intending to start a Cordon Bleu course when I get back to England.

CHORUS: What canst thou plead? OEDIPUS: A plea of justice. CHORUS: How? OEDIPUS: I slew who else would me have slain; I slew without intent, A wretch, but innocent In the law's eye, I stand, without a stain.

Every path serves a purpose.

Clarify your purpose. What is the why behind everything you do? When we know this in life or design it is very empowering and the path is clear.

The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to live with purpose.

The purpose of a purpose is a purpose

Judge a man by what he tried, not by what he accomplished.