Quotes About Intent

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.

Maybe that had been his plan all along, or maybe not. But one thing's for certain- now that I had said it, it was his plan.

Nature is the sum of all selfishness, forcing each and every species to viciously claw its way to survival by snuffing others in the suffocating mire of history. I endeavored to change all that. I have supplanted nature with something far better: mindful, thoughtful intent. The world is now a garden, glorious and florid. To call me unnatural is a high compliment. For am I not superior to nature?

Pero de cada buena intención sale un camino hacia el infierno.

They build their monuments as if their intent was never to finish them," the Spanish academic Polo de Ondegardo marveled in 1571.

The man had asked, Why do you want sheep? The wool? Meat? Monroe's answer had been, For the atmosphere.

Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by incompetence or overwork?

there's a point at which sufficient incompetence is malice.

In my experience, what is often missing between intent and action is the knowledge and the means to actually change the way we do business or make consumer decisions.

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

Sometimes our passion will motivate us to say things that can easily be misunderstood.

I don't think I am motivated enough to act just for the sake of acting.

Every action that we take has some motivation of either being selfish or altruistic. All that adds up.

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

No one does anything from a single motive.

The main thing in measuring integrity is someone's motive and intent, not how many records they sell. Our intent in Ministry was never to be big. We just wanted to make enough money to live and to buy a studio, which we have done in Austin.

It's the millenium, motives are incidental.

Intent and motivations are irrelevant," Thrawn said. "Judgment can focus only on actions.

Intent and motivations are irrelevant, Judgment can focus only on actions.

I know that. What's your point?

When I read a novel I am not only surrendering; I am allowing my mind to be occupied by a colonizer of uncertain intent

Whatever impresses you attracts you. Whatever you purse becomes your purpose.

First, truth is made up of information and facts, but it also includes God's original intent, which makes it the absolute standard by which you can measure everything else. Second, truth has already been predetermined—decided ahead of time—by God. And third, what is true of you on the inside needs to be true of you on the outside.

Every little movement has a meaning of its own.