Quotes About Intent

Grant smiled-slowly, deliberately. Insolently? Gennie wasn't sure, but her heart rose to her throat and stuck there. However he smiled, whatever his intent, it added a wicked, irresistible charm to his face. She thought it was a smile a barbarian might have given his woman before he tossed her over his shoulder and took her into some dark cave.

There's magick in cooking, Breen, as you put your intent into it, and your work, and your love as well.

because I plan to marry you for your money. It's the nosy

thought of it. She didn't have a clear idea what she intended to do, but the one thing she

God overrules the evil intent of humans to accomplish His ultimate good.

It doesn't matter what you can do if you don't know why you're doing it.

The things he did on purpose were usually no different from the mistakes he made by accident.

It's amazing what a woman will read into it if you by accident say, I love you. Ten times out of ten, a guy means I love this.

It's amazing what a woman will read into if you by accident, say I love you. Ten times out of ten, a guy means I love this.

Sometimes the work emerged out of intent—the desire to make a specific thing. But just as often, what she created was not of her design, but, rather, was like archaeology: It was more of an uncovering, as if the artist's job was simply to find what the material was trying to hide. And then wrestle it to the surface, so that all could see. Or, in her case, cut the trapped spirit free.

Each of us may have a different process for committing to our likeness. But what is universal is that your intent must be to answer this question: who do I truly want to become?

So intent was Frank upon solving the puzzle of Lemarchand's box that he didn't hear the great bell begin to ring.

If I examine a painting through a microscope I shall learn about the texture of the paint, but nothing about the artists intention in painting the picture

He who has a strong enough why will find the how.

Oh, do not scowl at me, reader, I do not intend to convey the impression that I did not manage to be happy.

The most important distinction between aggression and assertion is its intent. During assertion, we move ourselves toward another; during aggression, we move ourselves against another.

The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for.

If you don't know where you're going, you will probably end up somewhere else.

I want to make my mark,' he says. But what target, I wonder, are you going to hit?

And we, as human beings, are capable of creating positive changes in our lives through intent."14

The embrace of a new technology by ordinary people leads inevitably to its embrace by people of malign intent.

She did not greatly alter in appearance. The plain dark dresses, akin to mourning dresses, which she and her child wore, were as neat and as well attended to as the brighter clothes of happy days. She lost her colour, and the old and intent expression was a constant, not an occasional, thing; otherwise, she remained very pretty and comely.

Actuated by no personal motives, but moved only by high and great constitutional considerations; which I will not attempt to explain, for they are really beneath the comprehension of those who have not made themselves masters, as I have, of the intricate and arduous study of politics; I would rather keep my seat, and intend doing so.

Each spoke in her own language; neither understood the other's words; both were very watchful, and intent to deduce from look and manner, what the unintelligible words meant.