Quotes About Intent

The inescapable lesson of history is that any power given to the state – even when well meaning in intent – will ultimately be abused by the state. Like freedom, non-freedom does not arrive ready-made. It grows, and no soil should ever be made ready for its sowing.

What you feel is not yours. You need not own it. Creatures like these breed the fear in you as we fatten a buffalo calf, and with similar intent.

No intento tejer una historia; estoy tratando de contar la verdad.

A charm has only as much power as one puts into it./ I wear it because it is such a pretty thing./ And the person who gave it to me/ cared enough for my protection:/ a reason greater than any faith.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?

The purpose of man is in action not thought.

No man means evil but the devil, and we shall know him by his horns.

No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.

We bow our heads before Thee, and we laud, And magnify thy name Almighty God! But man is thy most awful instrument, In working out a pure intent.

Unto the man of yearning thought And aspiration, to do nought Is in itself almost an act.

A gentleman is a man who is only rude when he intends to be.

We can generally read a man's purpose towards us in his manner, if his purposes are of much moment to us.

The stones that critics hurl with harsh intent, a man may use to build his monument.

The modern man thinks that everything ought to be done for the sake of something else, and never for its own sake.

You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.

And that is how we intend to destroy the enemy!" The superior shakes his head wearily. "Young man, the Soviets are our adversary. The Navy is the enemy.

A foe to God ne'er was true friend to man, Some sinister intent taints all he does.

Ek gret effect men write in place lite; Th'entente is al, and nat the lettres space.

American authors or scientists are prone to consider the wealthy businessman as a barbarian, as a man exclusively intent upon making money.

No man that has ever lived has done a thing to please God--primarily. It was done to please himself, then God next.

There is nothing on which men are commonly more intent than on making a way for their opinions.

The trouble with men is that they are mean-they may mean, but they don't move.

It makes no odds where a man goes or stays, if he is only about his business.