Quotes About Intent

He who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion.

I say that to my colleagues, by the way, in the internal Cabinet meetings, I say, 'Look, I want to be very clear about what I want.' I just - I don't want a peace process, I want a peace result.

I see what's behind everything the director wants to do.

The kids are the ones that have a clarity about what they want. They don't have any wisdom, but they do have a clear understanding about what they want to have happen.

The author knows just what he wants to illustrate and how he would like it to be done.

Pinterest may have more travel intent data than any other site, so many people are pinning where they want to be.

Win or lose, people know what you want to do.

Nothing else counts except what you want.

Where is the good will in the thought, I was going to throw this in the garbage, do you want to wear it?

The pot-thrower in the hut behind the shop, hands and forearms slick with clay, dreaming, yes, of the years in which a life took shape, when each press of a fingertip sent a deep track across a once smooth surface, changing the future, reshaping the past, and was this not as much chance as design? For all that intent could score a path, that the ripples sent up and down and outward could be surmised by decades of experience, was the outcome ever truly predictable?

Intelligence was incomplete—perhaps it always would be—it was flawed. It could not distinguish its own lies from its own truths. Upon the scale of the self, they often weighed the same. Mistakes and malice were arguments of intent alone, not effect.

Steering is for people who know where they're going.

divert the discussion from its main intent and fasten upon some statement of mine which lacks a hair's-breadth of the truth and, under this hair, hide the fault of another which is as big as a ship's cable.

I've never intended to be controversial, but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.

Belief is magic, Lily. Add your will to mine.

I thought I could make a weapon out of you. It was not my desire to make you a force for the good particularly, just a force for effect.

There was something about the swagger in her walk that alerted him. What was Sofia's agenda?

The enormous towers of the the house seemed to loom over Lily with oppressive intent. She'd never liked it here, not even when she and Owen, as children, had been obsessed with grubbing around old ruins. She wanted to tell Emma how much she hated it, but for some stupid reason, didn't want to say anything like that when the house could hear her.

When you want someone to notice you, there's one fail-safe way of making sure that they do: by plastering pictures of yourself across social media. Your motive might seem obvious, but so what?

Well, let's go back to the original intent of Social Security. It is an insurance contract.

I believe the only way we'll be able to solve infant mortality - and other huge social problems - is by designing solutions for those with the greatest intent to carry it out.

Our show is different, because it's not about law and order, it's about psychology, the intent of somebody.

Gossip is when you have a malice of intent or mindless, third-party conversation to someone about someone, something you haven't said to that someone.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.