Intent Quotes
469 quotes by 391 authors
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It must always be remembered that you can never do right until you are first free to do wrong; since the doing of a thing…
— Victoria Woodhull
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I've been on the road for fifteen years and I had no intent to stop.
— Bon Scott
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Nowhere else in the world do the laws on firearms become the playthings of politicians and lobbyists intent on manufacturing cultural conflict. Nowhere else do…
— E. J. Dionne
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I leave comparisons to history, claiming only that I have acted in every instance from a conscientious desire to do what was right, constitutional, within…
— Ulysses S. Grant
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The practice of soulful travel is to discover the overlapping point between history and everyday life, the way to find the essence of every place,…
— Phil Cousineau
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If we want to build the Iraqis' confidence about our intentions in their country, if we want to stop adding fuel to the fire of…
— John Conyers
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I came to office with one deliberate intent: to change Britain from a dependent to a self-reliant society -- from a give-it-to-me, to a do-it-yourself…
— Margaret Thatcher
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Let your alignment (with Well-Being) be first and foremost, and let everything else be secondary. And not only will you have an eternally joyous journey,…
— Esther Hicks
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It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the…
— Bill Brandt
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Faked enthusiasm is worse than bad acting - it is bad acting with the intent to deceive
— Unknown Author
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A liberal education will impart an awareness of the amazing and precious complexity of human relationships. Since those relationships are violated more often out of…
— Sidney Hook
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I wonder how appropriate it is to try to 'argue someone into the kingdom.' Many apologists hotly deny any such charge, but I don't believe…
— Robert M. Price
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A monarch should be ever intent on conquest, lest his neighbours rise in arms against him.
— Akbar
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The fact is that we have been consistent in a predictable 60-year commitment to national security, while our friends and former enemies - by intent…
— Victor Davis Hanson
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Teachers and students (leadership and people), co-intent on reality, are both Subjects, not only in the task of unveiling that reality, and thereby coming to…
— Paulo Freire
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Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of students, with the ideological intent (often not perceived by educators) of indoctrinating them to adapt…
— Paulo Freire
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Without a doubt the sense of beauty does not lie determined in the concreteness of an individual beautiful thing or person. Rather its purpose is…
— Alexander Lernet-Holenia
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What distinguishes genocide from murder, and even from acts of political murder that claim as many victims, is the intent. The crime is wanting to…
— Philip Gourevitch
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When you assume negative intent, youre angry. If you take away that anger and assume positive intent, you will be amazed. Your emotional quotient goes…
— Indra Nooyi
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I was intent on doing something productive and on being everything my parents taught me to be. Their values were clear: do good work; don't…
— Ruth Simmons
Who Wrote These Intent Quotes
391 authors contributed a total of 469 Intent Quotes, led by these top contributors: