True Intent Quotes

#1. My true intent is all for your delight.

Nick Cave

#2. Why is Earth Day, today, also Lenin's birthday? Coincidence? Or does it signal the true intent of the national and worldwide environmental movement?

Alan Caruba

#3. Every quote is like a Picasso. The meaning is different for each person and half the admirers miss the true intent and twisted humor of it all.

Shannon L. Alder

#4. As pressure grows to ease the financial burden on social security, pressure will also grow to eliminate the elderly and infirm to 'free up' more money for the 'fit' and those who contribute more than they take from society.

Cal Thomas

#5. I call it relief, though it was only the relief that a snap brings to a strain or the burst of a thunderstorm to a day of suffocation. It was at least change, and it came with a rush.

Henry James

#6. When we listen with the intent to understand others, rather than with the intent to reply, we begin true communication and relationship building. Opportunities to then speak openly and to be understood come much more naturally and easily.

Stephen Covey

#7. Lying is a deliberate choice to mislead a target without giving any notification of the intent to do so. There are two major forms of lying: concealment, leaving out true information; and falsification, or presenting false information as if it were true.

Paul Ekman

#8. Our mission goes beyond commerce, it goes beyond technology. Our intent is to preserve music's importance in our lives, music is the language of love, of laughter, of heartbreak, of mystery. It's the world's true, true, without question, universal language.

Alicia Keys

#9. Did you hear the nonsensical prattle spewing from her pie-hole?

Tucker Max

#10. A foe to God ne'er was true friend to man, Some sinister intent taints all he does.

Edward Young

#11. Where government is impossible, politics is impossible.

Bernard Crick

#12. A responsible Warrior is one who has proved able to observe and to learn.

Paulo Coelho

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. It's also true, however, that having conquered the regional writer ghetto, I am now intent on conquering the nationalist writer ghetto and moving out into the world more.

Rick Moody

#16. People will put up with being terrified but no one will tolerate being bored.

James Kennedy

#17. While intent is the seed of manifestation, action is the water that nourishes the seed. Your actions must reflect your goals in order to achieve true success.

Steve Maraboli

#18. We are bound in every world, my lady.

Rosamund Hodge

#19. I have known some horses and a good many more pigs who I believe harbored evil intent in their hearts. I will go further and say all cats are wicked, though often useful. Who has not seen Satan in their sly faces?

Charles Portis

#20. Looks can't hide your true identity. It's the eyes that give you away ... the soul behind them. The intent. The Shadows.

Vicki Pettersson

#21. Growing up means learning to dig beneath surface behavior and discern the true motives of others, and to respond to intent, not behavior.

Ramon Stevens

#22. As you know, I have over the years written critically about the U.N. I have consistently stressed in my writings that American leadership is critical to the success of the U.N., an effective U.N., one that is true to the original intent of its charter's framers.

John Bolton

#23. Gnostics, in general, are not trying to delineate a set of beliefs. The intent is to inspire the sacred quest for true gnosis and to provide keys through which true gnosis might be acquired.

Tau Malachi

#24. Departure from the literal aspect, rather than mechanical exactness, is the code of the true artist. However, departures are the result of studied intent rather than inability.

Edgar Alwin Payne

#25. A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.

Douglas MacArthur

#26. God's relationship with man does not work in a way in which man stumbles and then God has to drop what he is doing in order to lift him up; rather, man stumbles so that God can lift him up. Hence it is utterly impossible to truly diminish his glory.

Criss Jami

#27. The first distinction among men, and the first consideration that gave one precedence over another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty.

Michel De Montaigne

#28. Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality.

John M. Ford