Intent Quotes
469 quotes by 391 authors
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Kingdom praying and its efficacy is entirely a matter of the innermost heart's being totally open and honest before God. It is a matter of…
— Dallas Willard
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Thinking very often resembles napping, but the intent is different. --Stephanie Plum
— Janet Evanovich
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Let me assure you that my intent is not to offend or merely be provocative. I'm simply worried.
— Sam Harris
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What is to be gained if we are so intent in reaching out to the unchurched that we then unchurch the reached?
— David F. Wells
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Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherised upon a table; Let us…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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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…
— Charles Portis
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Remember, remember the Fifth of November, The Gunpowder Treason and Plot, I know of no reason Why the gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot. Guy…
— Alan Moore
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The journey is part of the experience - an expression of the seriousness of one's intent. One doesn't take the A train to Mecca.
— Anthony Bourdain
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October— You were sleeping so peacefully that I was loath to wake you. Duke Torquill, after demanding to know what I was doing in your…
— Mira Grant
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We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget,…
— Abraham Verghese
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If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe. If I wish…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen and he wondered for…
— Cormac McCarthy
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I am not really breaking any rules. Charlie said I could never take another step through the door again... I came in through the window...…
— Stephenie Meyer
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I stroked Eric's hair, tucking some behind his ear. His eyes on mine were intent, and I knew he was waiting for me to speak.…
— Charlaine Harris
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There was a very slight chance she might actually kill him that way, and if she did, she’d be brought up on charges. Unless, of…
— Nalini Singh
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Intent is guilt. Failure to successfully carry out the intent does not absolve the guilt.
— Terry Goodkind
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It is an occult law moreover, that no man can rise superior to his individual failings without lifting, be it ever so little, the whole…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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Conceal me what I am, and be my aid for such disguise as haply shall become the form of my intent.
— William Shakespeare
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It appeared clear to me - partly because of the lies that filled my history textbooks - that the intent of formal education was to…
— Timothy B. Tyson
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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…
— Suzanne Collins
Who Wrote These Intent Quotes
391 authors contributed a total of 469 Intent Quotes, led by these top contributors: