Top 100 Intend Quotes
#1. Oral history is a recipe for complete misrepresentation because almost no one tells the truth, even when they intend to.
Niall Ferguson
#2. If you are normal, I intend to be a freak for the rest of my life
Vivian Stanshall
#3. For me, writing a novel is like solving a puzzle. But I don't intend my novels as puzzles. I intend them as invitations to dance.
Mohsin Hamid
#4. Don't ask to borrow unless you intend to repay them.
Mark Romagna
#5. Naturally, there's got to be a limit for I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.
Isaac Asimov
#6. Because every family is a distinct cultural unit, it is good that our methods differ. God did not intend for us to walk in lockstep with one another. We ought to rejoice in a common commitment to biblical principles and in the variety of methods God's people employ.
Nancy Wilson
#7. I didn't intend 'Hector' to be a self-help book when I first started writing. I wrote it as a little tale about a psychiatrist, like me, who sets off around the world in order to discover the vital ingredients for happiness.
Francois Lelord
#8. One of the important principles I live by is the idea that you have to contemplate yourself as surrounded by the conditions you intend to produce.
Wayne Dyer
#9. Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.
Plato
#10. I figure life's a gift and I don't intend on wasting it. You don't know what hand your gonna get dealt next. You learn to take life as it comes at you.. to make each day count.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#11. We intend to keep the lines of communication open with the Defense Department so we can help our border law enforcement agencies navigate the equipment application process.
Henry Cuellar
#12. If you want to be holy then you must give time to God and not just intend to.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#13. TELL THE WORLD WHAT YOU INTEND TO DO, BUT FIRST SHOW IT.This is the equivalent of saying deeds, and not words, are what count most.
Napoleon Hill
#15. I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years.
Mackenzie Astin
#16. We tell applicants, 'If you don't intend to be here for life, you needn't apply.'
S. Truett Cathy
#17. A common pickpocket trick is for the operator to carry a shawl or overcoat carelessly over the left arm, and to take a seat on the right side of the person they intend to rob in a streetcar or other vehicle.
Harry Houdini
#18. Whom the gods do not intend to destroy, they first make mad with poetry.
Irving Layton
#19. I intend to do a large painting of the cliff at Etretat, although it is terribly bold of me to do so after Courbet has painted it so admirably, but I will try to do it in a different way ...
Claude Monet
#20. With the help of dedicated Americans from our party, every party, and no party at all, I intend to mount that stairway to preach peace for our nation and world.
Theodore C. Sorensen
#21. Philosophers often appear to intend to want to get answers about humans that we can't get about insects, and that's too much, yaknow?
Noam Chomsky
#22. You have destroyed the work which you began; what is it that you intend? Do you dare to break your promise? I have endured toil and misery; I
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
#23. And said the Guide, 'One am I who descends
Down with this living man from cliff to cliff,
And I intend to show Hell unto him.
Dante Alighieri
#24. Are you seeing anyone romantically?" he inquired.
"No, I'm not," she replied.
"Good. Please keep it that way. Because I intend to ask you to marry me.
Mitch Albom
#25. Icarus."
"Hmm?"
"I don't have a hidden agenda. Nor do I intend to use you or mislead you with my charm."
Despite herself, she smiled, glancing at him. His face was studiously neutral.
"The day you act charming, I'll know something is wrong.
Dru Pagliassotti
#26. People who intend only to serve public interest are led by invisible hand to private interest which was no part of their intention.
Milton Friedman
#27. I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
[Letter to J. Beauchamp Jones, August 8, 1839]
Edgar Allan Poe
#28. I don't intend to stop showing a little cleavage. Nor do I intend to stop flashing a little thigh.
Judith Viorst
#29. The conservation movement is a breeding ground of Communists and other subversives. We intend to clean them out, even if it means rounding up every bird watcher in the country.
John N. Mitchell
#30. I intend to dedicate my remaining time as president of the NRA to ensure that the Second Amendment is safe from Al Gore and all those who threaten it.
Charlton Heston
#31. We don't intend to always keep this necessarily African oriented. Originally I had hoped to have African American Indian of this area, and the Appalachian of this area, but at the same time, just as we have the Haitian room, we will always have room for another exhibit.
Katherine Dunham
#32. After adding trillions to the debt on big-government policies most Americans didn't ask for and which we couldn't afford, Democratic leaders say they need more money, which they intend to take from small business, even though small businesses create the majority of new jobs.
Mitch McConnell
#33. But no one can predict of a certainty what will happen. And none of it will change how I intend to spend the rest of my life. I will live it on my terms. And you ... you can have all of me or nothing. I won't be an invalid any longer. Not even if it means losing you.
Lisa Kleypas
#34. Just because we're adults doesn't mean we should grow up! The world's a playground for us, Melody, and I for one intend to play!
S.R. Crawford
#35. I want that glib and oily art to speak and purpose not, since what I well intend, I'll do't before I speak.
William Shakespeare
#36. If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?
John Cleese
#37. Name the book that made the biggest impression on you. I bet you read it before you hit puberty. In the time I've got left, I intend to write artistic books - for kids - because they're still open to new ideas.
Gary Paulsen
#38. I have a voice. It's one of my gifts. I intend to use it on behalf of the children that UNICEF seeks to aid.
Laurence Fishburne
#39. What use is it to us to hear it said of a man that he has thrown off the yoke that he does not believe there is a God to watch over his actions, that he reckons himself the sole master of his behavior, and that he does not intend to give an account of it to anyone but himself?
Blaise Pascal
#40. I've learned that if I stay busy, especially by helping others, I don't think about my pain. In an odd way, my pain is its own therapy. I intend to go on until I can't go anymore.
Don Piper
#41. In mythology, lightning represents either the loss of ignorance or punishment for those who overstep their bounds. I used two bolts since we intend to do both.
Joelle Charbonneau
#42. The Philippines has vast minerals that are still untapped. It has one of the world's largest deposits of gold, nickel, copper and chromite. Through responsible mining, we intend to generate more revenues from the extraction of these resources.
Benigno Aquino III
#43. I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine.
Neil Armstrong
#44. I do not have the answers and as a woman I do not intend to play my own thoughts over the truth. I can clearly state the problems and tell you that I suffer from them.
Lynette Fromme
#45. I'll try just putting one foot in front of the other, and walk a step at a time without rushing. So I can burn the path into my memory while I can still see it. So that when all this is over, I can find my way back. Because I intend to come back. Hopefully with all of us together.
Yukako Kabei
#46. Democrats are making it clear that they intend to use our economic crisis to rush through their longtime liberal goals without public scrutiny or debate ... This will increase burdens on taxpayers and take a significant step toward socialized medicine.
Jim DeMint
#47. Don't live through the moment - live in the moment! Always intend your life!
Thato Gaboitsiwe
#48. It is possible in medicine, even when you intend to do good, to do harm instead. That is why science thrives on actively encouraging criticism rather than stifling it.
Richard Dawkins
#49. Mikhail stretched out on the bed, his head in her lap. "You are going to turn my well-ordered world upside down, are you not?"
She tunneled her fingers in his hair, enjoying the feel of its silky thickness against the bare skin of her hips and thighs. "I certainly intend to do my best.
Christine Feehan
#50. The Germany I was enthused with was more old fashioned and kind of romantic. I just got there, and the next thing you know, I had this huge gilded album. It was kind of an amazing experience because I didn't intend it to be that way.
Rufus Wainwright
#51. I'm not a big guy. I'm not a menacing guy. I'm not an intimidating guy. I may look that way, but just spend two seconds talking to me, and you know that's not who I am - not as a person, as a character. It's not who I intend to be.
Dave Bautista
#54. Before, being a model, it was just a job, and I was making fun of it. But today, I take my career more seriously. The fact that a reader may buy an Armani item because she'd seen it on me in a magazine is very important to me. So much so that I intend to launch my own label.
Milla Jovovich
#55. Never take more out of life, than you intend to give back.
Robert M. Hensel
#56. We're not lawbreakers, we're law-abiding, and intend to stay that way.
Panayiotis Zavos
#57. Laugh it up, asshole. But she who laughs last laughs longest, and I intend to belly roll tonight ~Tabitha
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#58. I always take Scotch whiskey at night as a preventive of toothache. I have never had the toothache; and what is more, I never intend to have it.
Mark Twain
#59. Bernard and I intend doing a lot with our lives and that includes actively helping other people. But how can we tell you our plans when we haven't finished making them yet?
Shelley Duvall
#60. Because I want you to know that your're the most beautiful girl I've ever seen. And I thought I should introduce myself. I mean, we should get to know each other. Since you're the girl I intend to marry.
~Mark Gianni
Lurlene McDaniel
#61. The first suit I enjoyed was a Dior suit that I got given. I've never worn anything that fitted that closely - it was akin to 'Oh my God, I had no idea that a suit didn't have to be this wide.' But I do intend to get one made some day.
Jamie Cullum
#62. I can't breathe. I'm joing the Rational Dress Society the very moment we are back in London,and I fully intend to leave their pamphlets under Mother's pillow and tucked into her corsets.
Alyxandra Harvey
#63. But these threats do not move or alarm me, and for the best of all possible reasons; I do not believe that the gentlemen who make these threats intend to leave their places on this floor - nor, if they should, would the country suffer any loss. The
Cydnor Bailey Tompkins
#64. My pictures had and have secret lives, and so there were things I did not tell, a lot of stuff I did not say back then which I'm saying now ... I intend to continue allowing forms of secret life to paintings I'm working on right now because it excites me to do that ...
R. B. Kitaj
#65. I intend to make love to you. Fast and furious the first time. Slow and sensual the second." He smiled against her neck. "Gentleman that I am, I'll let ye decide on how ye want the third.
Vonnie Davis
#66. To do no evil is good, to intend none better.
Claudius
#67. I have no idea, but I intend to retain a cautiously positive approach to the situation.
Dan Abnett
#68. I'm not going anywhere, Maddie. You mean everything to me-you saved me from the darkness and brought me to the light. And I can't imagine a future without you in it. I intend on spending the rest of my life with you.
Katie Ashley
#69. I absolutely intend to return every penny given to me by my Democratic colleagues and Democratic leaders.
Rodney Alexander
#70. Even if nothing awaits you in the dark, Tal wondered, what if your line is baited, and you keep pulling in things you do not intend?
Matt Holgate
#71. Act as if what you intend to manifest in life is already a reality. Eliminate thoughts of conditions, limitations, or the possibility of it not manifesting. If left undisturbed in your mind and in the mind of intention simultaneously, it will germinate in the physical world.
Wayne Dyer
#72. Whatever you put your attention to gets energy from you and grows. Remove the attention and it dies. Be conscious and deliberate in this. Intention goes along with attention. What you intend and give attention to begins to become.
David Gikandi
#73. I started out as a novelist and wrote several novels before deciding to publish one, and I fully intend to go back to the form.
Pankaj Mishra
#74. No, indeed!" she cried, all indignation. "I have no notion of asking people to perform services for me which I can do perfectly well for myself. I do not intend to go, in the space of one hour, from the helplessness of enchantment to another sort of helplessness!" pg. 761
Susanna Clarke
#75. Know what they say about abominations," Caldenia said. "We make the worst enemies." "Was that a threat?"" Dagorkun's eyes narrowed. "A warning." Caldenia folded her hands on her lap. "There is only one time to make threats: when you intend to negotiate. I do not.
Ilona Andrews
#76. When I first started writing, I used to listen to music all the time because it would make time pass more quickly. And then I started to wonder if the music wasn't affecting my writing in ways that I didn't necessarily intend.
Gabrielle Zevin
#78. From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
Groucho Marx
#79. I'm simply saying that our deepest thoughts, desires and preoccupations manifest themselves in art, whether we intend them to or not. That's what art is for; it's not cerebral, it's emotional.
Simon Pegg
#80. I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.
Louisa May Alcott
#81. It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.
Henry Ward Beecher
#82. I intend to put an end to the rumors of the darling Princess Selene once and for all.
Marissa Meyer
#83. The idea that we cause harm by doing what we perceive to be the right thing, that's another theme that interests me. Because most people don't intend to cause harm, they cause harm by doing the right thing - in their mind.
Andrew McCarthy
#84. I'm a tough old broad from Brooklyn. I intend to go on acting until I'm ninety, and they won't need to paste my face with make-up.
Barbara Stanwyck
#85. I intend more of a kinship with silent films than more modern film. I like the old cinema. My films are more of a hybrid - a different style of filmmaking to what I call talking head movies. Some people don't get it. Especially the more academic types.
George Lucas
#86. It ain't bragging if you've done it. There's nothing wrong with being proud of doing something well. In fact, if you intend to do something creative for a living, it's absolutely essential.
[check for wording] Proper pride says, "I'm good at this." Improper pride says, "I'm better than you.
James A. Owen
#87. Yeah, right. Life is a soul-sucking test that you either survive or you fail. Personally, I think failure blows, so I intend to survive and laugh my ass off at all the losers. (Nick)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#88. A goal is not the same as a desire, and this is an important distinction to make. You can have a desire you don't intend to act on. But you can't have a goal you don't intend to act on.
Old Tom Morris
#89. Overcome your barriers, intend the best, and be patient. You will enjoy more balance, more growth, more income, and more fun!
Jack Canfield
#90. Inevitably, considerations of God in what otherwise intend to be mass entertainments come down to the same thing they come down to in any context, which is a consideration of humanity.
Steve Erickson
#91. I could be a bit of a pain in the arse. Since I've come out of my cancer, I must say I intend to be even more of a pain in the arse.
Harold Pinter
#92. Do you intend to get any closer or is arm's length the new black?
Jennifer DeLucy
#93. The US does not involve itself in what is happening in the world's largest democracy, nor does it intend to do so.
John McCain
#94. I intend to end the something for nothing culture
David Cameron
#95. Unless you intend your wife to be a true missionary, not merely a wife, home-maker, and friend, do not join us.
Hudson Taylor
#96. People all over this country are shouting at each other. And what we need to do is bring people together to work on the agreement where there is broad consensus and that's what I intend to do.
Bernie Sanders
#97. We declare our right on this earth ... to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary.
Malcolm X
#98. The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history.
Nancy Pelosi
#99. There are flying grandfathers. But I intend to be an orbiting grandfather.
Wernher Von Braun
#100. Do you know what social justice is? Do you know what social reform is? I didn't either, but reform and social justice are what I intend to do.
Silvio Santos
