Intent Quotes

The greatest impediments to changes in our traditional roles seem to lie not in the visible world of conscious intent, but in the murky realm of the unconscious mind.

What is the quality of your intent?

I believe things happen that can't be explained, but so many people seem intent on explaining them. Everyone has an answer for them. Either aliens or things from the spirit world.

There was never sufficient evidence presented at my trial to support a finding of intent to kill.

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

We are at war with enemies that still have the intent to do further damage to Americans at home and abroad.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

Job was astonished at seeing Almighty God so intent on doing good to us that He seems to have nothing more at heart than to love us and to induce us to love Him in return.

The pressure makes me more intent about each shot. Pressure on the last few holes makes me play better.

I didn't know what to do with myself. I wasn't excited by the teaching of the school. If they'd been intent on really teaching you things, I would have been a little more attentive.

The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

My point is cutting spending shouldn't be reliant on the debt limit though. It's something we have to do. The good news for America is, leaders in both parties, the president, believe that we have to have significant deficit reduction. So the intent is there. And I think what America is going to demand is that our leaders come together.

A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.

It's like an act of murder; you play with intent to commit something.

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

I, for one, begin with intent. There is no question that, Saddam Hussein had intent to do harm to the Western alliance and to the United States of America.

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

And if citizens of New Orleans who are really contemplating coming back heard that we're really intent upon making the place secure again - regardless of whether the levees held or not - then I think a rebuilding process would really take shape.

Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name.

Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize.

I believe that the Framers of the Constitution made their intent clear when they wrote the First Amendment. I believe they wanted to keep the new government from endorsing one religion over another, not erase the public consciousness or common faith.

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

Rarely have elected leaders been so intent on defying the public will.

Well, opera began with an intent to resuscitate Greek drama, that is, modern opera as we know it.

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

Go on, then, and let your intent be seriousness.

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.

Any decision to use lethal force against a United States citizen - even one intent on murdering Americans and who has become an operational leader of al-Qaida in a foreign land - is among the gravest that government leaders can face.

If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser.

In America, they shoot budgets and schedules, and they don't shoot films any more. There's more opportunity in Europe to make films that at least have a purity of intent.