Quotes About Intent

You show by where you go and by the use of your time what's most important.

his open nostril quivered with intent.

he never tells a truth, but with an intent that you should take it for a lye; nor a lye, but with the design that you should take it for a truth...

That is not it at all, That is not what I meant, at all.

We must remember that what a writer does to people is not necessarily what he intends to do. It may be only what people are capable of having done to them.

Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table; Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, The muttering retreats Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells: Streets that follow like a tedious argument Of insidious intent To lead you to an overwhelming question ... Oh, do not ask, "What is it?" Let us go and make our visit.

Would it have been worthwhile If one settling a pillow by her head should say: That is not what I meant at all That is not it at all

The towers seemed all alive in this moment, like serpents risen on their tails, pitilessly intent. Who, with their antique hatreds, would they venemously bite and devour tonight?

Well, if you wake up intending to murder someone at two o'clock, you hardly think what you're going to feed the corpse for dinner.

There are things the artist intends, and things the viewer sees, and what the viewer sees isn't always what the artist intends. Isn't always apparent upon first viewing.

It is not that you do wrong by design, but that you should never do right by mistake.

So why do males and females mate?" Rina asked, distracting Califa from a rather disturbing revelation. "Sometimes for children, of course," Califa began stalling. Rina gave her the look that comment deserved.; if children were the intent of every mating that occurred, the entire system would be overrun with them.

The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather in what he longs to attain.

This is what I'm for. This moment.", FADE by Kailin Gow

There's always someone who's going to interpret my material as racist, but it's not. Racism comes from intent and power. A racist will tell a joke about a group of people only when they're not in the room. I'll talk about a group of people only when they're in the room.

Unser Wille will oft, weil er muss

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If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants

If he's like any other man I've ever met, it's not my smile he's going to be looking at.

At that moment, as I looked this man in the eye, I was reminded of Hanlon's razor, a philosophical notion that states one should never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. It occurred to me just then that, conversely, one ought never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by malice.

I hate to interrupt the feasting," Vanessa said, "but we did come here for a purpose. Let's try to focus on something besides sweet fat and salty fat for the next little while.

Vin, Vin. Why can't you see? This isn't about good or evil. Morality doesn't even enter into it. Good men will kill as quickly for what they want as evil men—only the things they want are different.

It's not what you do; it's why you do it that makes the difference.

Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?