Quotes About Intent

I am serving the purpose for which I was designed, therefore I am satisfied with my existence.

Are hackers a threat? The degree of threat presented by any conduct, whether legal or illegal, depends on the actions and intent of the individual and the harm they cause.

Sometimes the path you're on is not as important as the direction you're heading.

Courting is a much sweeter term than 'dating'. It sounds like it has more intent, more like an agreement that two people enter into with a future in mind.

Besides, he would know that I did it on purpose. (Serenity) Honey, I assure you, that man won't think a thing. His mind will be on other matters. You could chop off his head and he wouldn't notice. (Kristen)

God's idea of a partnership places enormous responsibility on his image bearers and also means he wants us to participate in what he is doing here on earth and intends for us to do so, not as isolated individuals, but together.

So the purpose of the axiom "having is evidence of wanting" is not at all to blame anyone or to shame them for their experience

I was playing for keeps and he was playing for fun.

There's no need to clarify my finger snap," said Magnus. "The implication was clear in the snap itself.

who aimeth at the sky, Shoots higher than he that means a tree.

Perhaps that is the secret. It is not what we do, so much as why we do it.

Yours was the hand that threw him. You meant for him to die." His chains chinked softly. "I seldom fling children from towers to improve their health. Yes, I meant for him to die.

It's not what we do, so much as why we do it.

Desires must be simple and definite. They defeat their own purpose should they be too many, too confusing, or beyond a man's training to accomplish.

Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

The myths are not descriptions of things but expressions of a determination to act

adds a strong imperative to act upon what has happened, a continuing invitation in which the one who is healed is meant to participate. Jesus instructs the healed one to go forth with some special intent, made possible by the healing.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.

We talk on principle, but we act on interest.

It's so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to.

When people don't want to come, nothing will stop them.

All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they aim at the same end.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.