intent Quotes

“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.”

“Intentions always look better on paper than in reality.”

“I understood what innocent intent had brought me to, and ... waded out beyond my depth.”

“The First Great Cause and Mover of all above When first He made that fairest chain of love, Great was the consequence and high the intent.”

“It is when people do wrong things wilfully that they are the more likely to do them again.”

“All his life, Randal was able to remember that scene in its every last detail, the torch making a ragged core of light in the heart of the crowding gloom, and in it, the intent faces of the two men, and their intent hands, and between them, on the magpie-chequer of the board, the two armies of fantastic shapes that marched and pranced and wavered to and fro...”

″...it’s not so much what you do, as what you mean.”