Quotes About Intent

The problem with unintended consequences isn't with the consequences, it's with the unintended. Just because you didn't' intend for something to happen doesn't mean you didn't want it to.

I want to do it as quickly as I can, for reasons," answered Diantha.

He was a man whose calmness reflected his confidence that he meant whatever he did-- which is different... from confidence that whatever he did was right.

Never confuse movement with action.

To be bitter is to attribute intent and personality to the formless, infinite, unchanging and unchangeable void. We drift on a chartless, resistless sea. Let us sing when we can, and forget the rest..

There are reasons for everything we do.

every word, every sentence, has three possible meanings: what the speaker intends it to mean, what the hearer understands it to mean, and what it is commonly understood to mean.

Children at play, birds of prey," Lucien said, closing out his register, "and dogs may chase anything that moves. But in general, we are not pursued because we run; we run because we are pursued. Someone wanted something from this girl --love, money, her body, her mind. Find out what pursued your friend, and you find your friend.

James Gordon Bennett said he aimed to be, "serious in my aims but full of frolic in my means.

I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.

How does anyone think that 'attempted murder' counts the same as actual murder? They shouldn't even call it 'attempted': that's just a way to flatter failure.

He caught her arm. "I'm sorry," he whispered. His blue eyes were intent upon hers. "For I will love you the rest of my life.

So the intent was clearly focused: friendship, laughter, food.

Turning something into a ritual eliminates the question, Why am I doing this?

That no one could know for sure in those early days what the delegates really had in mind—or even had said—did nothing to stop those in favor and those opposed from issuing definitive judgments as to the intent of the framers and its effect on the nation.

The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well.

There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally. As nearly as we can, we must put ourselves in the place of those who uttered the words, and try to divine how they would have dealt with the unforeseen situation; and, evidence of what they would have done, they are by no means final.

There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally. ... As nearly as we can, we must put ourselves in the place of those who uttered the words, and try to divine how they would have dealt with the unforeseen situation; and, although their words are by far the most decisive evidence of what they would have done, they are by no means final.

As far as I could tell, people didn't do things because they were good or evil. They did things because they could not think of what else to do

Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose.

I do not wish to avoid the walk. The distance is nothing when one has a motive.

The distance is nothing when one has a motive;

if you have the intent to really change your orientation, then the atmosphere will automatically be created in which desired changes occur. End

There was no God there was only what you wanted.