Quotes About Intent

For, as far as these important diplomats are concerned, to look at you in a certain way is intended to convey to you not that they have seen you but that they have not, and that they have some serious matter

There is nothing like desire for preventing the thing one says from bearing any resemblance to what one has in one's mind.

All our efforts must be directed towards an end, or we will act in vain. If it is not the right end, we will fail utterly.

Even the smallest thing should be done with reference to an end.

There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.

when we disconnect emotionally and refuse to recognize our own feelings, our Adult abandons our Inner Child. However, when we recognize our feelings and are willing to experience them, we have chosen the intent to love and to learn about ourselves. Then our Adult is connected with our Inner Child. The

I like to know what I'm celebrating before I put on a party hat.

Vegan food is soul food in its truest form. Soul food means to feed the soul. And, to me, your soul is your intent. If your intent is pure, you are pure.

More and more Chinese intend to embrace freedom of speech and human rights as their birthright, not some imported American privilege.

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.

If I were to insult people and mean it, that wouldn't be funny.

If the wrong man uses the right means, the right means work in the wrong way.

Never hesitate to do things that are good, but never mistake that good things are solely to your own purposes.

Everything I have done, am doing, and will do I was supposed to.

Why do men chase women they have no intention of marrying? For the same reason dogs chase cars they have no intention of driving.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

The awkward moment when you're just being nice and the person thinks you're flirting with them.

What you're doing is not important. What is really important is the state of mind from which you do it. Performance

The span between life as we intend it and life as we receive it is vast. Our true purpose is worked out in that gap. It is fashioned in the crucible of interruptions.

The most powerful music is music with purpose.

Their objective is to get to the outskirts of Baghdad. So be it.

The Yankees are only interested in one thing, and I have no idea what that is.

I don't sit down to write a funny story. Every single thing I sit down to write is meant to be sad.

Present opportunities are neglected, and attainable good is slighted, by minds busied in extensive ranges and intent upon future advantages.