Quotes About Intent

She is of the strangest beauty and the darkest courage, and when she walks with intent the earth trembles beneath her feet.

If I am going to do something outside of Lady Antebellum, it's got to make a statement. Otherwise, why do it?

If everything in my career has to be made into an autobiography, then there will be people who might think that I am trying to make a statement. But I don't want to do that.

Me wanting to play in Israel is not me making a statement about what's going on there.

To resolve the climate crisis, good will, statements of intent are not enough. We are at breaking point.

You have to stay in the moment. Stay focused. Know what you're going to do.

The will is never free - it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car - it can't steer.

Perfect happiness I believe was never intended by the deity to be the lot of any one of his creatures in this world; but that he has very much put in our power the nearness of our approaches to it, is what I as stedfastly believe.

O let us look to our ends in obedience; it is possible the action may be right, and not the heart.

Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan.

If you don't visualize what you want to accomplish, then you won't accomplish anything.

Nobody does anything for one reason.

To do no evil is good, to intend none better.

You cannot classify a whole group of people based upon their religion and determine their intent. That's not fair. It's not American.

I think I started out trying to be very objective about the flow of the play.

When you sign your letter of intent to go to college you kind of sign away, and understand that you have certain rules and obligations that you have that normal students don't have... it's part of the process, being apart of the university and what you represent.

Obstruction of justice requires a corrupt intent.

It is obvious that when I shot him I intended to kill him.

Imitation is the best form of flattery; people generally understand that my comedy is not intended to hurt anybody. Occasionally, an actor might take exception, but they should just understand that it is all done in good humour.

This OCCUPIED amendment, this constitutional amendment, would overturn Citizens United. It would make clear that corporations aren't people, that they - the framers of the Constitution never intended to give constitutional rights to corporations, the ones that we enjoy and cherish.

Very serious, very serious. You can't get in without a reason.

it is always what we want, not what we have, that claims our attention.

But when it comes to human beings, the only type of cause that matters is final cause, the purpose. What a person had in mind. Once you understand what people really want, you can't hate them anymore. You can fear them, but you can't hate them, because you can always find the same desires in your own heart.

It isn't what he did, Mrs. Wiggin. It's why.