Intent Quotes
469 quotes by 391 authors
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Gossip is when you have a malice of intent or mindless, third-party conversation to someone about someone, something you haven't said to that someone.
— Iyanla Vanzant
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Where destruction is the motive, unity is dangerous. For example, if I have evil intent and I galvanize that evil intent with many others, the…
— Ravi Zacharias
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Hip-hop has globalized a conception of blackness that has had a political impact, whether or not it had a political intent.
— Michael Eric Dyson
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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
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Read the heart and not the letter for the pen cannot draw near the good intent.
— Michelangelo
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To be bitter is to attribute intent and personality to the formless, infinite, unchanging and unchangeable void. We drift on a chartless, resistless sea. Let…
— H P Lovecraft
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I have absolutley no limits on what I intent to create.
— Wayne Dyer
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You are here on earth for a divine purpose. It is not to be endlessly entertained or to be constantly in full pursuit of pleasure.…
— Richard G. Scott
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An extraterrestrial being, newly arrived on Earth - scrutinizing what we mainly present to our children in television, radio, movies, newspapers, magazines, the comics, and…
— Carl Sagan
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Now the melancholy of God protect thee, and the tailor make thy doublet of changable taffata, for thy mind is a very opal. I would…
— William Shakespeare
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We Christian writers must paint evil with the blackest of brushes, not to sow fear, but to call out the monsters to be scattered by…
— Ted Dekker
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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…
— Kate DiCamillo
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Conversation: A fair for the display of the minor mental commodities, each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own wares to observe…
— Ambrose Bierce
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And then there came the pounding of another drum, as if another giant were coming yards behind him, and each giant, intent on his own…
— Anne Rice
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It seems an insult to the night to speak of purpose and intent, when this common moment is so brimming full of blessed design tranquility.…
— Anne Rice
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I have set off and found that there is no end to even the simplest journey of the mind. I begin, and straight away a…
— Jeanette Winterson
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External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than…
— Charles Dickens
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My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent…
— Zora Neale Hurston
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There is a place within each of us where we cannot hide from the truth, where virtue sits as judge. To admit the truth of…
— R A Salvatore
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Modern man has transformed himself into a commodity; he experiences his life energy as an investment with which he should make the highest profit, considering…
— Erich Fromm
Who Wrote These Intent Quotes
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