Intent Quotes

#1. Barack Obama seems intent on enrolling more people on food stamps. Mitt Romney's focus is going to be on generating more jobs that will make food-stamps unnecessary for them.

Mike Huckabee

#2. There were still choices to be made, decisions to reach, actions to take. Many of them. But in one ... single declaration of intent, we stepped across the threshold of war.

Diana Gabaldon

#3. MORPHEUS: I did not intend to hurt you,
THESSALY: And what if you did not? Intent and outcome are so rarely coincident.

Neil Gaiman

#4. The computer-simulated dreamworld of the Matrix trilogy is a technological version of Descartes's evil demon. In essence it represents the idea of a mind (the Architect) more powerful than our own that is intent on deceiving us whenever, and however, it sees fit.

William Irwin

#5. Paradise is to be the ultimate instrument, fulfilling God's desperate intent that we love each other.

Ruby Dee

#6. My intent was to gain experience for fiction I eventually hoped to write. But there's no question I was drawn in by the hope that journalism would be a creative, thrilling environment.

Tom Rachman

#7. The third point of reference is freedom of perception; it is intent; it is spirit; the somersault of thought into the miraculous; the act of reaching beyond our boundaries and touching the inconceivable.

Carlos Castaneda

#8. A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.

William Blake

#9. Our show is different, because it's not about law and order, it's about psychology, the intent of somebody.

Vincent D'Onofrio

#10. Charles was very intent to use his years as Prince of Wales to make his mark while he still had freedom of maneuver that he wouldn't have as King. The first subject he really went for was architecture. It made an impact.

Anthony Holden

#11. Even if just once, the inner intent spoils towards someone, as in 'I will put him in his place', it is a statement made with God as your witness, so how can it go to waste? There is no problem if the inner intent does not spoil. Everything will become silent. Everything will stop.

Dada Bhagwan

#12. Clever move. Using humour to deflate my murderous intent.

Nicholas Briggs

#13. Could an enemy really curse someone? Could the enemy affect reality by the deliberate mental intent of harming?

M.J. Mandoki

#14. When you have mass surveillance, it's impossible to meet the intent of the First Amendment because reporters can't talk to sources because sources are afraid to talk.

Pierre Omidyar

#15. It was my full intent as a teenager to smash capitalism and eat dumpster food.

Sophia Amoruso

#16. The crowds were just crying out, "Crucify him, crucify him" with unified rage and intent. And in the backdrop of this rejection of the Son of God, the New Testament Church was beginning to form and write letters to encourage each other in the faith.

Greg Gordon

#17. Like birds of passage, the instincts drift the soul adventurously beyond the horizon of sensible things, as if intent on convoying it to the mother country from whence it had flown.

Amos Bronson Alcott

#18. Because I was single, there was a chance I was a homosexual. Because I went to Syracuse, wherever that was, then I was probably a Communist. Or worse, a Liberal. Because I was from Memphis, I was a subversive intent on embarrassing Ford County.

John Grisham

#19. The extent to which we live from day to day, from week to week, intent on details and oblivious to larger presences, is a gauge of our impoverishment in time.

Robert Grudin

#20. Any set of decisions about design is inevitably influenced by cultural prejudice, no matter how intent an architect might be to avoid it.

Martin Filler

#21. Are hackers a threat? The degree of threat presented by any conduct, whether legal or illegal, depends on the actions and intent of the individual and the harm they cause.

Kevin Mitnick

#22. Have the STRENGTH to say "no" to the status quo.

Have the WILL to listen to the deepest desires of your heart.

Have the COURAGE to ACT on and live out your intent.

Richie Norton

#23. Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply.

Stephen Covey

#24. The desires you aspire to need strong chains of intent.

Steven Redhead

#25. Yet she could imagine him so - intent, focused on his goal, his woman. He'd guard his chosen mate, make her both fear and long for his attention. She shivered. He would be relentless in his pursuit, unmerciful in his victory.

Elizabeth Hoyt

#26. I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the race, and that no trumpeting of falsehood, however virtuous in intent, can be anything but vicious.

H.L. Mencken

#27. Intent is in the composer, interpretation is in the conductor, rendering is in the instrumentalist, perception is in the listener, sound is in the notes, and rhythm is in the intervals. Music is the harmonious relationship between them all. Relationship is beauty.

Dee Hock

#28. The only other white people we saw during the three days we stayed there were a German couple intent on taking pictures of their stuffed sheep in a variety of locations around the world.

Tynan

#29. His throat bobbled. His kiss that time was deep and thorough, unhurried and intent.
I let the dawn creep inside me, let it grow with each movement of his lips and brush of his tongue against mine. Tears pricked beneath my closed eyes.
It was the happiest moment of my life.

Sarah J. Maas

#30. Not that it would have diminished the gravity of what had occurred. But bomb was different. A bomb meant not only tragic incident, but an intent to kill. Disasters were scary, all right. Evil combined with disasters was terrifying.

Elif Shafak

#31. The arms are fair, When the intent of bearing them is just.

William Shakespeare

#32. It goes with a courageous intent to greet the universe as it really is, not to foist our emotional predispositions on it but to courageously accept what our explorations tell us.

Carl Sagan

#33. The cannon of the spirits says that intent is guilt. Failure to successfully carryout the intent does not absolve the guilt. ~ Cara Mordsith

Terry Goodkind

#34. He was weeping. Although 'weeping' really is to small a word for the activity the kind had undertaken. Tears were cascading from his eyes. A small puddle had formed at his feet. I am not exaggerating. The king, it seemed, was intent on crying himself a river.

Kate DiCamillo

#35. The one whose kashays, (inner anger, pride, deceit, greed) are gone is worthy of worship. The absence of inner intent of kashays is indeed Gnani!

Dada Bhagwan

#36. Love has an enormous spectrum of expression and impact. At the far end, it begins to unravel and move away from subjective experience and personal preference. It becomes pure intent, something that no longer tickles our desires, but fulfills the deeper needs of each circumstance we're in.

Darrell Calkins

#37. When I was a college student at Yale, I was studying physics and mathematics and was absolutely intent on becoming a theoretical physicist.

James Rothman

#38. The world has room for many people who are content to live as humans, but only for a relative few intent upon living as giants or as gods. Twelfth,

Wendell Berry

#39. One eminently orthodox Catholic divine laid it down that a confessor may fondle a nun's breasts, provided he does it without evil intent.

Bertrand Russell

#40. The reason the Democrats are so intent on passing a stem-cell bill is they're depending on the research to grow themselves a spine.

Will Durst

#41. Food critic and writer Waverley Root described the common American near beer as "such a wishy-washy, thin, ill-tasting, discouraging sort of slop that it might have been dreamed up by a Puritan Machiavelli with the intent of disgusting drinkers with genuine beer forever."[21]

Waverly Root

#42. The judge gave Michael permission to issue a statement. I think Jackson went way outside the bounds of the judge's intent. It will be interesting to see what the judge does tomorrow in court.

Catherine Crier

#43. The extent of the atonement is defined by the intent of the atonement.

Steve Lawson

#44. Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent.

Aldous Huxley

#45. Every writer must find a way of writing that tells the reader: This is me and no one else. The Voice can be idiosyncratic, but it cannot be obscure. It is a blend of style and content and intent and rhythm and pure personality.

Jeff Lindsay

#46. When the outside intent (other than the intent of Pure Soul, Parbhaav) stops, he attains enlightened bliss of the Self (samadhi).

Dada Bhagwan

#47. All in all, he thought it was a bad idea to get involved with the woman investigating his ex's possible suicide with intent to haunt.

Marybeth Niederkorn

#48. Alice once told me artistry does not reside in motivation but rather stems from showing up, with the intent to be honest. When I meet a dreamer with calluses I try to shut up and listen.

Michael Perry

#49. If you make an inner-intent to remain steady in a completely unsteady atmosphere, you will be able to remain steady. This is because steadiness is indeed the quality of your own Self-form. So then, what do You have do with what is unsteady?

Dada Bhagwan

#50. Sometimes, before you make any plans or resolutions, before you declare your heroic intent to persevere, you just have to cry.

Jaclyn Dolamore

#51. Anyone intent on moral clarity might want to find another book and, in fact, might not want to go anywhere near the enduring chasm of race in the United States.

Timothy B. Tyson

#52. There is a clear intent to keep Christian thinking out of the mainstream of the media and the nation's political life.

Erwin W. Lutzer

#53. Death have we hated, knowing not what it meant; Life we have loved, through green leaf and through sere, Though still the less we knew of its intent.

William Morris

#54. It's a different thing when you go into a studio and you record with the intent of going somewhere and you're marketing yourself for that direction.

Ben E. King

#55. The intemperately wrathful man is less obnoxious than the intemperately lustful one, while the immoderate pleasure-seeker, intent on dissimulation and camouflage, is unable to give or take a straight look in the eye.

Josef Pieper

#56. Well, let's go back to the original intent of Social Security. It is an insurance contract.

Chuck Hagel

#57. Thoreau once said if you see a man approach you with the obvious intent of doing you good, you should run for your life; it is hard to restrain the impulse in talking with social engineers.

William H. Whyte

#58. Perhaps a supreme form of charity may be exhibited by one who withholds judgment of another's acts or conduct, remembering that there is only one who can look into the heart and know the intent-and know the honest desires found therein.

H. Burke Peterson

#59. It will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system.

Charles Sanders Peirce

#60. Ane fals intent under ane fair pretence
Hes causit mony innocent for to de.
Grit folie is to gif over-sone credence
To all that speiks fairlie unto the.

Robert Henryson

#61. Punctuality was not Susan's strength. She always intended to be on time, but she seemed to have some kind of chronometric dyslexia, which thwarted her intent, nearly always.

Robert B. Parker

#62. Our natural state is trust
in ourselves
in others
until we learn differently
then we hurt as we try to unlearn it
until it dawns on our hearts that if we live and act with pure intent
we do not need trust.

Cathrine Lodoen

#63. I don't know how to stop it, there was never any intent to write a programming language [ ... ] I have absolutely no idea how to write a programming language, I just kept adding the next logical step on the way.

Rasmus Lerdorf

#64. Conceal me what I am, and be my aid for such disguise as haply shall become the form of my intent.

William Shakespeare

#65. The committee's work is not about whether or how we should pay reparations. That was never the intent nor will the payment of reparations be the outcome. This is an effort designed to involve the campus community in a discovery of the meaning of our past.

Ruth J. Simmons

#66. Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

Stephen R. Covey

#67. Even if one incurs a loss, he should expose this fact to the other person. This way the intent the other person does, will dispel the [negative] atoms and one will, become lighter himself. Otherwise suffering alone increases the mental burden.

Dada Bhagwan

#68. She was gentle and sedate as usual, but evidently absent and preoccupied. Her eyes rested on the dew lying on the grass in the garden, and her ears were intent upon the melancholy singing of the autumn insects. It was as if we were in a real romance.

Murasaki Shikibu

#69. If you have any idea for a poem, an exact grid of intent, you are on the wrong path, a dead-end alley, at the top of a cliff you haven't even climbed. This is a lesson that can only be learned by trial and error.

Mary Ruefle

#70. As long as there is (worldly) selfish interest, there is no unity. Unity is attained with the ultimate intent of the Self [the intent of attaining self-realization, liberation].

Dada Bhagwan

#71. The Daily Caller has obtained an advance copy of a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee report set to be released Tuesday morning that definitively proves malicious intent by the IRS to improperly block conservative groups that an IRS adviser deemed 'icky.'

Patrick Howley

#72. When intent is rooted in pure love, you dreams will grown and manifest faster than you could ever imagine.

Dawn Gluskin

#73. I thought about mistakes I had made in the past. I thought about when things went wrong. And I realized it was never an issue of intent, but of intensity. I was a good guy, recall.

Chris Lynch

#74. Once drawing the coach across the road, with the mutinous intent of taking it back to Blackheath. Reins and whip and coachman and guard, however, in combination, had read that article of war

Charles Dickens

#75. Tell me what to do, not how to do it.' Decentralize command and allow subordinates to operate freely within the framework of the commander's intent. Train them as a team. Develop trust, loyalty, initiative.

Nathaniel Fick

#76. Faked enthusiasm is worse than bad acting - it is bad acting with the intent to deceive.

Bo Bennett

#77. I have absolutley no limits on what I intent to create.

Wayne W. Dyer

#78. ...his open nostril quivered with intent.

Bram Stoker

#79. God's sacred intent for you and for me is nothing short of absolute abandonment to Jesus, entire separation from the pollution of the world, and ardent worship of our King with every breath we take.

Leslie Ludy

#80. If God came to save the world, why are so many of His professed followers intent on damning it?

Richard Paul Evans

#81. It is possible for one to receive all the glory of the world provided there is absolutely no ill intent, within him.

Dada Bhagwan

#82. Not if we blow it up, Gale says brusquely. His intent, his full intent, becomes clear. Gale has no interest in preserving the lives of those in the Nut. No interest in caging the pray for later use.
This is one of his death traps.

Suzanne Collins

#83. For me personally, I don't pray using words - it is just with my intent. Why do I need to pray with "words," to something external, when I know what I want?

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#84. Mindfulness is focusing on the present with intent, being in the present instead of allowing ourselves to be run on automatic pilot by our past-based default programming. Being

Steven Jay Fogel

#85. I consider myself foremost a novelist with the intent of crafting stories that people will remember.

Nicholas Sparks

#86. Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.

Carlos Castaneda

#87. Women's liberation has often been portrayed as a movement intent on encroaching upon or taking power and privilege away from men, as though in some dismal zero-sum game, only one gender at a time could be free and powerful.

Rebecca Solnit

#88. Take a strict view of their excrements, and, from the colour, the odour, the taste, the consistence, the crudeness or maturity of digestion, form a judgment of their thoughts and designs; because men are never so serious, thoughtful, and intent, as when they are at stool ...

Jonathan Swift

#89. Christmas is a response to bring mankind back, to restore some original intent that could never be even remotely restored by any effort of mankind regardless of how grand or majestic any such effort might be.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#90. Creativity is more than mere imagination. It is imagination inseparably coupled with both intent and effort.

Alex Faickney Osborn

#91. Clothe with life the weak intent, Let me be the thing I meant ...

John Greenleaf Whittier

#92. It is as if the first diviner of absinthe had been indeed a magician intent upon a combination of sacred drugs which should cleanse, fortify and perfume the human soul.

Aleister Crowley

#93. My intent is to tell the truth as I know it, realizing that what is true for me may be blasphemy for others.

Gerry Spence

#94. My intent, here, is to tell our story in a dramatically truthful way. While the facts may be less than accurate, please understand that the emotion is true. The intent is true. And, dramatically speaking, intention is everything.

Garth Stein

#95. When you assume negative intent, you're angry. If you take away that anger and assume positive intent, you will be amazed. Your emotional quotient goes up because you are no longer almost random in your response.

Indra Nooyi

#96. About 25 years ago, I took a bicycle across the United States. I soon found out that the greatest item of clothing was the trusty bandanna. There were dozens of uses for a bandanna - as a pot holder, a chain cleaner, a sun shield, a headband, a snot rag, a declaration of Kerouacian intent.

Colum McCann

#97. God aims first to renew man's darkened spirit by imparting life to it, because it is this spirit which God originally designed to receive His life and to commune with Him. God's intent after that is to work out from the spirit to permeate man's soul and body.

Watchman Nee

#98. Such was the case with most unhappy students; they avoided even one another, so intent on their own unhappiness they failed to notice the other lost souls around them.

Alice Hoffman

#99. No man voluntarily expresses his opinion without some intent to make a difference, and even if he does, he shouldn't.

Criss Jami

#100. Ten years was not enough. Stone should
not crumble after just a decade of neglect. The filth should not have piled up so quickly - not with so few inhabitants, most of whom were incapacitated. It was as if Elantris were intent on dying, a city committing suicide.

Brandon Sanderson