Top 100 Intend To Do Quotes
#1. I intend to do the Penn & Teller show until they pry my cheesy magic wand from my cold dead fingers.
Penn Jillette
#2. Well, I need a job. Something that'll leave me the free time I want."
"I like the way you arrange your life. What do you intend to do with this free time?"
"I intend to use it." I didn't like the implication of this. Why should he need his time free and I be questioned?
Saul Bellow
#3. I became a poet at the age of sixteen. I did not intend to do it. It was not my fault.
Margaret Atwood
#4. Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to do with you. Before you tell your life what truths and values you have decided to live up to, let your life tell you what truths you embody, what values you represent.
Parker J. Palmer
#5. Human beings are mercifully so constituted as to be able to conceal from themselves what they intend to do until they are well into the doing of it.
Rebecca West
#6. No matter who you are or what you intend to do, you should not exceed the boundaries of the rule of law.
Li Keqiang
#7. I enjoy playing real human beings after playing a lot of larger than life characters. I love playing true to life characters and that is what I intend to do for the majority of my career.
Michael Jai White
#8. And to fight this beast of wrong is what I intend to do. To do otherwise is to sidestp this rabid injustice.
John-Talmage Mathis
#9. Our past is not the thing that matters so much in this world as what we intend to do with the future.
Shoghi Effendi
#10. I would like to do more feature work. I intend to do that. To be really honest, it's an economic thing because when you make a film that doesn't make what it cost back, it's very difficult to get back in the ring.
Roman Coppola
#11. Stop thinking of what you intend to do. Stop thinking of what you have just done. Then, stop thinking that you have stopped thinking of those things. Then you will find the Now, the time that stretches eternal, and is really the only time there is.
Robin Hobb
#12. Begin somewhere. You cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.
Liz Smith
#13. But I have a conscience and a religious faith, and I know that our liberties were not won without suffering, and may be lost again through our cowardice. I intend to do my duty to my
country.
Upton Sinclair
#14. I intend to do what I can, working with my congressional colleagues, Republicans and Democrats, to help bring about the changes to the practices and institutions of our democracy that they want and deserve.
John McCain
#15. Our manifesto to the British people promised to finish the job of police reform. And that is exactly what I intend to do.
Theresa May
#16. The real leaders intend to do definitely that good task for which a pretender has provoked them by saying that it can't be done, but the good number of pretenders tend to do only that job for which a real leader has cautioned them by showing the things that should not be done.
Anuj
#17. They can't foresee what we intend to do next. This is why they lose their nerve. They can't cross the zone of silence they herd us into. A zone bordered on their side by the distant din of their false accusations, and on our side by our silent final intentions.
John Berger
#18. And everybody will have what they never yet have had, a certain amount of that priceless boon, leisure
leisure to sit down and look at themselves, and inquire what it is they really mean, and really want, and really intend to do with their lives.
Elizabeth Von Arnim
#19. Is she worth all that pain?" he asked me, smiling.
"Definitely," I said, still reeling from the events of the day.
"But I don't deserve her."
"Then be somebody who does."
"That's what I intend to do.
Carolee Dean
#20. What I intend to do is uphold a standard of intellectual seriousness on the right. [These books] should be written in a way that they are serious, soberly argued, well researched, and make a respectable case-agree or disagree.
Adam Bellow
#21. Why don't I give you a preview of what I intend to do in order to wake you up.
Samantha Young
#22. Doing politics in a democracy costs money for campaigning and getting our message across and that's what we intend to do.
Hazel Blears
#23. And I have finally realized that, you know, it's not a given that my lifespan will accommodate my writing aspirations. It could be that it would take me 12 more books at six years each to get it - which means I would have to live to be 126. Which I fully intend to do, of course.
George Saunders
#24. Whenever I attempt to do something, I intend to do it well and give it all I have. And that includes knocking you up.
Katie Ashley
#25. I also wanted to ask you if we can talk to the Erudite you're keeping safe here," I say. "I know they're hidden, but I need access to them."
"And what do you intend to do?" she says.
"Shoot them," I say, rolling my eyes.
"That isn't funny.
Veronica Roth
#26. The older I get, the more I realize I'm becoming people's role models and that's freaky to me. That's not what you intend to do when you set out to be a musician, to be a little 14-year-old's role model.
Ingrid Michaelson
#27. I intend to do the same with him that I'd do for you or any other man in this brigade.
Michael Punke
#28. I've heard about brothers making films, but I've never heard about whole families making films like this. We didn't intend to do it; it wasn't something that we planned - it just gradually happened.
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
#29. There are so many books I want to read. Difficult books. That's what I intend to do and what I'm longing for.
Ingmar Bergman
#30. Anything great that has been accomplished in the history of humanity has started with one small thought. We all have those thoughts; few people do anything with theirs, however. What do you intend to do with yours?
Ernie J Zelinski
#31. For me, it's about being a star, being a superstar, and not just winning a world title but becoming the best-ever British fighter this country has ever had. That's what I am, and that's what I intend to do.
Tyson Fury
#32. Rather than wait to be discovered, discover yourself. Whatever it is that you intend to do later, start doing it now, get good at it, and show people what you've done. Actions speak louder than words.
Steve-O
#34. I have commenced my auspicious reign and am in quiet possession of the Presidential Mansion ... this winter I intend to do something in the way of entertaining that shall be the admiration and talk of all Washington world.
Julia Gardiner Tyler
#35. Don't change on me. Don't extort me unless you intend to do it forever.
Tupac Shakur
#36. You can't build your dream by what you're going to do or planning to do or intend to do. You only build your dream by building it.
Jeff Olson
#37. The world seems to belong to those who reach out and grab it with both hands. It belongs to those who do something rather than just wish and hope and plan and pray, and intend to do something someday, when everything is just right.
Brian Tracy
#38. I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.
Euripides
#39. But what I intend to do, the day after Hillary Clinton is elected president of the United States, is to do everything I can to make sure she goes forward as progressively as she can.
Bernie Sanders
#40. We do not know what we intend to do until the intention itself arises. To understand this is to realize that we are not the authors of our thoughts and actions in the way that people generally suppose.
Sam Harris
#41. Use anger to emotionalize whatever thing you intend to do in life - being a painter, a poet or a photographer
Gordon Parks
#42. How rare to stare into the face of death ...
Something I never intend to do again.
Ichabod
#43. I can offer you no consolation, my friend," said he; "your disaster is irreparable. What do you intend to do?
Mary Shelley
#44. Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#45. If I'm elected president, let me tell you about my first day in office. The first thing I intend to do is to rescind every illegal and unconstitutional executive action taken by Barack Obama.
Ted Cruz
#46. You know, if I ruled the world, which I fully intend to do one day by the way, first thing I'd do ...
David Nicholls
#47. I have not drawn a very rosy picture of the magician. I did not intend to do so. To the novice entering the life and promising himself ease, indolence, and wealth, I should say, Don't!
Alexander Herrmann
#48. You can't just sit around and watch life pass you by. You have to keep dreaming. Sonny taught me that, and I intend to do him proud.
Cher
#49. 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
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. Great leaders state out loud what they intend to do and in doing so, they get things done.
Simon Sinek
#60. James Reason reminds us, "Errors are largely unintentional. It is very difficult for management to control what people did not intend to do in the first place.
Robert Wachter
#61. I myself am a builder and get totally excited about building Yahoo! as a brand and building it into a bigger and better company. That's what I intend to do.
Terry Semel
#62. In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#63. Before, I was makin' you my business. Things are different once I sleep with a woman, make her come and intend to do it again. Now you just are my business.
Kristen Ashley
#64. How good would a Good Samaritan be, if a Good Samaritan would only intend to do good?
John Janzen
#65. Unless I was delirious from my injury, we had just been captured by vampires.
Who were they, and what did they intend to do with the rest of us?
Suzannah Daniels
#66. The more vulgar apologists for U.S. and Israeli crimes solemnly explain that, while Arabs purposely kill civilians, the U.S. and Israel, being democratic societies, do not intend to do so. Their
Noam Chomsky
#67. Master the craft. Write lots, even if you never intend to do anything with it. Don't delete old, unpublished, or partial manuscripts. There are lots of occasions where you may be able to use some of that work. If the writing is strong, save it for later.
Eric Matheny
#68. I don't know"
"When a man says that, it usually means, "No, I won't but from time to time, I'll toy with the idea, so I can pretend i eventually intend to do it.
Robin Hobb
#69. For women, we intend to do something in a noble and missionary spirit ... We mean to appeal to their intellects ... and we hereby announce ourselves as determined and bigoted feminists.
Frank Crowninshield
#70. We are going to be a government of no surprises and no excuses; a government which keeps its commitments and a government which is straight and candid with the Australian people and that's what we intend to do.
Tony Abbott
#71. There is a certain solid use in fools. It is not so much that they rush in where angels fear to tread, but rather that they let out what devils intend to do.
G.K. Chesterton
#72. We didn't intend to hurt each other, and we don't have time to do so. Life is too short to blame others. It's now the past. I hope that everybody will do well in the long run.
Jay Park
#73. Nobodys life ever goes according to plan.
So why do we keep on planning?
Because that's how we know who we are. By what we intend to be. By what we try to become.
And fail.
I don't say 'fail'. I saw we aim and miss. But we still hit something.
Orson Scott Card
#74. We do not intend to part from the Americans and we do not intend to be satellites. I am sure they do not want us to be so. The stronger we are, the better partners we shall be; and I feel certain that as the months pass we shall draw continually closer together with mutual confidence and respect.
Harold Macmillan
#75. I do not intend for 'honor, courage, and commitment' to be just words; I expect them to frame the way that we live and act.
Charles C. Krulak
#76. I do identify with St. Patrick, not just in name. He drove the snakes out of Ireland. I intend to drive the snakes out of the State House.
Deval Patrick
#77. I don't necessarily intend to publish posthumously, but I do like to write for myself.
J.D. Salinger
#78. In this book I do not intend to give a blow-by-blow description of a sex bout: I find them inartistic, clinical and unpoetic. The circumstances that lead up to sex I find more interesting.
Charlie Chaplin
#79. Will you stand up an fight? he wondered bitterly. Or do you intend to remain on your knees for ever?
Paul Stewart
#80. The most effective intention is a desire for a conscious contact with your soul, a deeper connection to your Self. This is the most powerful purpose to intend every time you meditate, pray, or do any spiritual practice.
Derek Rydall
#81. Each movie is different because each audience is different. You're not dictated by what they tell you to do. You're more dictated by seeing symptoms of things you didn't intend, and how you can fix those symptoms.
Jon M. Chu
#82. You have my implicit forgiveness, you know, even when you're driving me crazy." . . .
"Jamie."
"Charlotte."
"Do come home soon. It won't be London without you."
"You never knew me in London."
"I know. I intend to fix that.
Brittany Cavallaro
#83. If you do not intend to kill anybody, if you make every effort to not kill and injure anybody, that's all you really can do. You can't stop somebody from walking into a situation, and we really can't be too overly preoccupied with this.
Paul Watson
#84. What's really sad is that a lot of very talented people are being forced to do things that are very embarrassing and I don't intend to be one of them.
Boy George
#85. The most unhappy of all men is the man who cannot tell what he is going to do, who has got no work cut-out for him in the world, and does not go into it. For work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind,honest work, which you intend getting done.
Thomas Carlyle
#86. In my experience, people who are truly compassionate rarely use the word "compassion." Those who do talk compassion generally intend to be compassionate with your money, not their own. It's wrong for someone to confiscate your money, give it to someone else, and call that 'compassion'.
Harry Browne
#87. I do not intend to dispute in any way the need for defence cuts and the need for government spending cuts in general. I do not share a not in my backyard approach to government spending reductions.
Stephen Harper
#88. History shows that no enemy remains hostile forever, nor do friends remain friendly forever. For that reason, we intend to have normal relations with all.
Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa
#89. How far, O rich, do you extend your senseless avarice? Do you intend to be the sole inhabitants of the earth? Why do you drive out the fellow sharers of nature, and claim it all for yourselves? The earth was made for all, rich and poor, in common. Why do you rich claim it as your exclusive right?
Ambrose
#90. I know, interference is one of the very few things that is apparently against the rules. I do not intend to interfere, I intend to learn his systems so I can stop having to constantly manage so much of the circus.
Erin Morgenstern
#91. If you intend to insist on justice in order to live a successful and happy life, you will not do so in this lifetime, on this planet.
Maxwell Maltz
#92. I do not intend to tip-toe through life, but to arrive safely at death.
Christina Aguilera
#93. I have never paid for fornication, and I don't intend to begin with you. When you come to me, and come to me you shall, you shall do so of your own accord and wholly free of all commerce and custom.
Hope C. Tarr
#94. Let each one of us say, 'I am an American. I intend to stay an American. I will do my best to wipe from my heart hate, rancor and political prejudice. I will sustain my government. And, through good days or bad, I will try to serve my country.'
Stephen Vincent Benet
#95. We fail to be disciples only because we do not decide to be. We do not intend to be disciples. It is the power of the decision and the intention over our life that is missing. We should apprentice ourselves to Jesus in a solemn moment, and we should let those around us know that we have done so.
Dallas Willard
#96. Blay thought of the text that he didn't intend to ignore. "You suck." "Yes, I do, don't I." Qhuinn licked his lips. "And you like me to.
J.R. Ward
#97. How long do you intend for us to wait? Obviously you're not perfect, but--"
"'Not perfect' is having a bald spot or pockmarks. My problems are a bit more significant than that.
Lisa Kleypas
#98. You are a tasty little mouse I think, Lizzy Walters. I've yet to decide if I shall eat you or let you go, but whatever I do, I intend to play with you first. Not tonight though, I'm afraid. I've matters to attend to and must be on my way.
Judith James
#99. Your personal brand must exude who you are, what you stand for, specifies your target market, what value you intend to add to them and the unique offering through which you will do that.
Archibald Marwizi
#100. The only thing that I can do is hold a mirror in front of men and women, in front of the viewer in the theater, to reflect. There is nothing but reflection that I could intend to offer the viewer of the film.
Abbas Kiarostami
