142 Intent Quotes

Every program has two purposes: The one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't.

Towards the avoidance of a piece of verbal confusion: What is intended to be actively destroyed must first of all have been firmly grasped; what crumbles away crumbles away, but cannot be destroyed.

If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.

If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that his opinion is against fighting.

Let us distinguish between acting intentionally and acting deliberately or on purpose, as far as this can be done by attending to what language can teach us.

My aim in helping the patient was not to cause death. My aim was to end suffering. It's got to be decriminalized.

The growth of one blesses all. I am commited to grow in love. All that I touch, I leave in love. I move through this world consciously and creatively.

There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally. ... As nearly as we can, we must put ourselves in the place of those who uttered the words, and try to divine how they would have dealt with the unforeseen situation; and, although their words are by far the most decisive evidence of what they would have done, they are by no means final.

The primary thing when you take a sword in your hands is your intention to cut the enemy, whatever the means. Whenever you parry, hit, spring, strike or touch the enemy's cutting sword, you must cut the enemy in the same movement. It is essential to attain this. If you think only of hitting, springing, striking or touching the enemy, you will not be able actually to cut him.

If you look at the world with parted lips and a pure heart, and will the good, won't that make a true and beautiful poem? One's heart tells one that it will; and one's heart is wrong. There is no direct road to Parnassus.

When you cook it should be an act of love. To put a frozen bag in the microwave for your child is an act of hate.

I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.

The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.

It seems to me certain that more people are killed out of righteous stupidity than out of wickedness.

Forgive me, giver, if I destroy the gift. It is so nearly what would please me I cannot but perfect it.

The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity, Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew, The conscious stone to beauty grew.

What did Doctor Doom really want? He wanted to rule the world. Now, think about this. You could walk across the street against a traffic light and get a summons for jaywalking, but you could walk up to a police officer and say 'I want to rule the world,' and there's nothing he can do about it, that is not a crime. Anybody can want to rule the world. So, even though he was the Fantastic Four's greatest menace, in my mind, he was never a criminal!

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

The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts: but who can tell the mischief which the very virtuous do?

The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done.

The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding. On the whole men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance which fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill. There can be no true goodness, nor true love, without the utmost clear-sightedness.

I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of first introducing it into minds which were ignorant of its charms.

If I gave it all up immediately, I'd lose my immortality. I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.

Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect.

I think it's a problem that people are considered immoral if they're not religious. That's just not true. This might earn me some enemies, but in some ways they may be even more moral. If you do something for a religious reason, you do it because you'll be rewarded in an afterlife or in this world. That's not quite as good as something you do for purely generous reasons.

No-one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well.

Chance and chance alone has a message for us... Only chance can speak to us.

It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving.

Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.

Having heard, or more probably read somewhere, in the days when I thought I would be well advised to educate myself, or amuse myself, or stupefy myself, or kill time, that when a man in a forest thinks he is going forward in a straight line, in reality he is going in a circle, I did my best to go in a circle, hoping in this way to go in a straight line. For I stopped being half-witted and became sly, whenever I took the trouble: and if I did not go in a rigorously straight line, with my system of going in a circle, at least I did not go in a circle, and that was something.

Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating truth.

I wrote a few children's books...not on purpose.

Himmler hated Poles and Slavs and was quite capable of not only making such a statement but of putting it into practice if given the opportunity.

Ikke tusend ord sig prenter, som en gernings spor.

I don't like to think of him as the 'Doctor of Death', I think of him as a liberator.

I knew Richard [Wright] and I loved him. [...] I was not attacking him; I was trying to clarify something for myself.

Now listen here, I ain't talking 'bout no revolution and I' not talkin' about no demonstrations.

We never made love in a bag. People probably imagined that we were making love. It was just, all of us are in a bag, you know. The point was the outline of the bag, you know, the movement of the bag, how much we see of a person, you know. But, inside, there might be a lot going on. Or maybe nothing's going on.

(after playing 'Scream Like an Angel' by Brilliant) - How do these people know what an angel screams like? Answer me that. On one side of a paper only.

Clearly, I like to poke fun.

Like every writer, he measured the virtues of other writers by their performance, and asked that they measure him by what he conjectured or planned.

Your 'accidents,' I once noticed, have ways of untangling your enemies that are the green envy of mature and careful strategists. Far too consistent for chance, I concluded it had to be unconscious will.

Service is no mushroom growth. It presupposes the will first and then experience.

I don't think that Mr [Jarvis] Cocker truly understood what I was doing. It wasn't like I was saying 'I am Jesus', I was just drawing some parallels between Christ and me, like maybe I was sent here to spread the good news through dancing. I wouldn't say I have a messiah complex. ~From a statement released after Cocker nearly interrupted his performance of Earth Song during the 1996 Britt Awards.

Whenever you cross swords with an enemy you must not think of cutting him either strongly or weakly; just think of cutting and killing him. Be intent solely on killing the enemy. Do not try to cut strongly and, of course, do not think of cutting weakly. You should only be concerned with killing the enemy.

The parties, Fascist, or other, which bring about dictatorship want dictatorship. But John Smith who insists on certain policies which produce war does not want war. The first is the result of conscious intention duly carried into effect. The second is the result of an intention which miscarries, miscarries because of certain current errors and fallacies.

When you strike, your aim will be deadly. These people came for entertainment, but they're your targets; you will pierce them to the hearts.

No matter what they say they all intend to live Except the suicides? They intended to live, too. Suicide is a desperate attempt to get rid of unbearable agony.

Either she was a perfect actress or she was oblivious.

What does it matter if, by following my heart, I also fulfill someone else's plan?

How could you tell, when utter honesty and cynical manipulation would each account completely for the things she said and did?

Was he simply too tired to care what he said?

Was this a flirtatious conversation for it's own sake? Or did he unconsciously mean something by it?

I know you never wanted it this way. I can see, I can see. ~ 'Man In Uniform'

La facon de donner vaut mieux que ce qu'on donne.

For the prevision is allied Unto the thing so signified; Or say, the foresight that awaits Is the same Genius that creates.

You were planned for God's pleasure.

I prefer to evaluate a film on the basis of what it intends to do, not on what I think it should have done.

I did issue a statement saying that I thought it was inappropriate, and perhaps Mr. Limbaugh didn't mean it, but he should not have said it.

At no moment do I know what I'm talking about, nor of whom, nor of where, nor how, nor why, but I could employ fifty wretches for this sinister operation and still be short of the fifty-first, to close the circuit, that I know, without knowing what it means.

'The vehicles of human politics seem to run off course, but the site of the accident turns out to have been the intended destination.' [16]

So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lies.

How a good meaning May be corrupted by a misconstruction.

I feel like a mongoose, stalking its prey.

With the possible exception of What's Up, Tiger Lily (1966), the schlocky Japanese spy movie to which he attached his own, sidesplitting English soundtrack, no Woody Allen movie has ever been more or less serious than another of his works. He's always been serious. It's the audiences who have been frivolous. In Zelig he reassures us that he can still be funny and moving without making the sort of insistent filmic references in which he delights but which can be infuriating to others. Zelig is a nearly perfect - and perfectly original - Woody Allen comedy.

Don't get me right, I'm just asking!

Before I leave, make sure everybody HEARD/Know I meant, EVERY MOTHERF**KIN WORD When we ride on our enemies

We cannot absolutely know that all these exact adaptations are the result of preconcert. But when we see a lot of framed timbers, different portions of which we know have been gotten out at different times and places, and by different workmen - Stephen, Franklin, Roger, and James, for instance - and when we see these timbers joined together, and see they exactly matte the frame of a house or a mill, all the tenons and mortices exactly fitting, and all the lengths and proportions of the different l pieces exactly adapted to their respective places, and not a piece too many or too few, - not omitting even scaffolding - or, if a single piece be lacking, we see the place in the frame exactly fitted and prepared yet to bring such piece in - in such a case we find it impossible not to believe that Stephen and Franklin and Roger and James all understood one another from the beginning and all worked upon a common plan or draft drawn up before the first blow was struck.

Vote Guy Fawkes - The Only Man Ever To Enter Parliament With Honest Intentions

Naturally! That is the whole point of robbery: to acquire the victim's valuables! - Long Liam the Barber

That's me insane to the root Not insane. Driven by a sense of purpose that is frightening

He fears his own murderous heart so much that he won't let himself think of his whole plan openly

Wanting to is the whole lesson; all the rest is practice

Am I a liar, or is he mistaken? I am the only fit judge of what is in my heart, I think

She knew exactly what she had done to him. And yet she couldn't quite believe that she was jerking him around

You as stupid as they come. Of course, I say this with your best interests at heart. Most people are stupid. I don't hold it against them

Please open your mind to the possibility that I might be an honest man who was himself deceived

Doon is the devil, isn't he? Was. He's dead now. At least, he promised me that he'd die But was he? The devil? Satan. The adversary. The enemy of the plan of god. The undoer. The destroyer. Yes. He definitely was. But he meant well

Let me then ask your next question: Well, why is this a leak investigation that doesn't result in a charge? I've been trying to think about how to explain this, so let me try. I know baseball analogies are the fad these days. Let me try something. If you saw a baseball game and you saw a pitcher wind up and throw a fastball and hit a batter right smack in the head, and it really, really hurt them, you'd want to know why the pitcher did that. And you'd wonder whether or not the person just reared back and decided, 'I've got bad blood with this batter. He hit two home runs off me. I'm just going to hit him in the head as hard as I can.' You also might wonder whether or not the pitcher just let go of the ball or his foot slipped, and he had no idea to throw the ball anywhere near the batter's head. And there's lots of shades of gray in between. You might learn that you wanted to hit the batter in the back and it hit him in the head because he moved. You might want to throw it under his chin, but it ended up hitting him on the head. And what you'd want to do is have as much information as you could. You'd want to know: What happened in the dugout? Was this guy complaining about the person he threw at? Did he talk to anyone else? What was he thinking? How does he react? All those things you'd want to know. And then you'd make a decision as to whether this person should be banned from baseball, whether they should be suspended, whether you should do nothing at all and just say, 'Hey, the person threw a bad pitch. Get over it.' In this case, it's a lot more serious than baseball. And the damage wasn't to one person. It wasn't just Valerie Wilson. It was done to all of us. And as you sit back, you want to learn: Why was this information going out? Why were people taking this information about Valerie Wilson and giving it to reporters? Why did Mr. Libby say what he did? Why did he tell Judith Miller three times? Why did he tell the press secretary on Monday? Why did he tell Mr. Cooper? And was this something where he intended to cause whatever damage was caused? Or did they intend to do something else and where are the shades of gray? And what we have when someone charges obstruction of justice, the umpire gets sand thrown in his eyes. He's trying to figure what happened and somebody blocked their view.

...it is widely but wrongly believed that Beavis and Butt-Head celebrates its characters, and applauds their sublime lack of values, taste and intelligence. I've never thought so. I believe Mike Judge would rather die than share a taxi ride to the airport with his characters--that for him, B&B function like Dilbert's co-workers in the Scott Adams universe. They are a target for his anger against the rising tide of stupidity.

'I want a divorce!'

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens you can bet it was planned that way.

Quantas intencoes viciosas ha assim que embarcam, a meio caminho, numa frase inocente e pura! Chega a fazer suspeitar que a mentira e muita vez tao involuntaria como a transpiracao.

'I am simply stating a fact and it was not meant to be racist' - reaction to subsequent calls for an apology.

Intent is not a thought, or an object, or a wish. Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated. It operates in spite of the warrior's indulgence. Intent is what makes him invulnerable. Intent is what sends a shaman through a wall, through space, to infinity.

Whenever a warrior decides to do something, he must go all the way, but he must take responsibility for what he does. No matter what he does, he must know first why he is doing it, and then he must proceed with his actions without having doubts or remorse about them.

Anything can happen someday, even that an act conforming to honour and honesty can end up, at the end of the line, as a good political decision.

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

There is no art when one does something without intention.

You never can tell when you do an act Just what the result will be; But with every deed you are sowing a seed, Though the harvest you may not see. Each kindly act is an acorn dropped In God's productive soil; You may not know, yet the tree shall grow And shelter the brows that toil. You never can tell what your thoughts will do In bringing you hate or love; For thoughts are things, and their airy wings Are swifter than carrier doves. They follow the law of the universe- Each thing must create its kind; And they speed o'er the track to bring you back Whatever went out from your mind.

Faithful to the word given and the idea had. / All else is up to God!

L'homme croit souvent se conduire lorsqu'il est conduit; et pendant que par son esprit il tend a un but, son coeur l'entraine insensiblement a un autre.