Quotes About Intent

Yeah, you know, you like it to come on like gangbusters, but you get into passages that are very interesting and subtle, and sometimes your original intent changes quite a bit.

I never finished the 'Large Glass' because, after working on it for eight years, I probably got interested in something else; also, I was tired. It may be that, subconsciously, I never intended to finish it because the word 'finish' implies an acceptance of traditional methods and all the paraphernalia that accompany them.

I can sleep fine at night knowing that even though my honesty might not translate very diplomatically, the words I speak have good intent, and I live my life with great integrity.

I am convinced that I never wrong anyone intentionally...

Bad people live that they may eat and drink, whereas good people eat and drink that they may live.

People write or speak sentences in order to produce an effect, and the success of a sentence is measured by the degree to which the desired effect has been achieved.

Belli bir hedefi olmayan her hayat bir hatad?r.

and there's no point in a life lived aimlessly.

Dear designer of questionable intent, Please send me a photo of yourself. Please be wearing the knitted pants that you designed. It's not that I don't believe that there is anyone out there thing enough to wear horizontally stripped trousers knit from chunky wool, it's just that I would like to know whether you are deliberately cruel or whether you are the one woman these would look really great on.

It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it.

Tomorrow I see change, a chance to build a new. Built on spirit intent of heart, and ideals based on truth.

Nobody ever completely means what they say. Even when they think they're telling the truth, there's always something hidden behind their words.

Decision and purpose directed actions define destination.

An accident I could live with. All that time I was waiting, knowing that somebody had to die for me to live, I was getting myself ready to accept it as an accident. With an accident it's like it was fated or something. But a murder… that comes with evil intent attached. It's not happenstance. It means that I'm the benefactor of an act of evil, Doctor, and that's why it's different now.

He needs to know why he's doing what he's doing.

Remember, Sarah, any plan is better than no plan.

When all the projections of intent and strategy twist and turn back on you, tracking team blood, 'sorry' just won't cover it. There's nothing so embarrassing as when things go wrong in a war.

Ignorance allows people to disregard the consequences of their actions. And sometimes it leads to consequences even they did not intend.

I and many other senators, Republican and Democrat, have expressed our sincere and long-held intent that Congress must approve any nuclear deal with Iran for months.

A mob is not, as is so often said, mindless. A mob is single-minded.

It's not my intent to write definitive history. 'Dead Wake' isn't a definitive history of the sinking of the Lusitania. It's my account.

Or-but this more rarely happened-she would be convulsed with a rage of grief, and sob out her love for her mother, in broken words, and seem intent on proving that she had a heart, by breaking it.

An act of love always tends towards two things; to the good that one wills, and to the person for whom one wills it.

know where he was heading. "A lot of times