Top 165 Intent Quotes

You need to be intent on reducing size, scope, and influence of government.

Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that will spur the artist to new heights if it does not cripple him or her.

I don’t go on social media with a mercenary intent to promote. That’s just wrong. I go to learn, to listen, to have fun, to find people who love what I love and who introduce me to new things. That’s where the joy is: in the interactions.

That scene in ‘The Purge’ where my kids, Mary’s kids, are in danger was really crazy for me, because I suddenly… I have my methods as an actor, so I went to the place of ‘If somebody came near my children, with bad intent?’

The way I look at it is that once you create a piece of art, and it’s out in the world, there’s nothing you can do about it. People can use it the way they want to. There’s nothing you can do about it. All you can hope for is that people that are using it are using it with the best intent.

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 capacity to destroy is immense. Where goodness is the motive, unity is phenomenal and actually has some good issues to it.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion.

John Carpenter created the idea of Halloween, so his vision remains the most focused and intelligently directed of the series. The directors that have followed have kept the original intent of the concept.

As a young girl, I was too intent on getting to London and drama school and out of east Yorkshire to think about winning Oscars. I did win a Bafta once, and was so unprepared for it I jabbered on for a minute – a minute too long.

I do not know who there is among us that can claim to know God’s purpose and God’s intent.

It’s said that once you win an election, that you win political capital, and that’s kind of my intent, is to spend political capital on the Gulf Coast, among other areas.

When you sign your letter of intent to go to college you kind of sign away, and understand that you have certain rules and obligations that you have that normal students don’t have… it’s part of the process, being apart of the university and what you represent.

Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people’s faces – surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling – when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age.

Clintons lie with facility, intent, and design.

The intent of Slayer’s musical and lyrical content has always been selfish. We feel very strongly about the importance of staying true to ourselves.

I hate to sound like someone twice my age talking about these comics today and all that, but it’s as though their intent or goal on stage seems to be to see how uncomfortable they can make the audience, or how viciously they can savage their subjects.

Well, let’s go back to the original intent of Social Security. It is an insurance contract.

Whilst there are problems with Article 50, it is the statement of intent that is important.

If everyone’s ready for a shot to start, except for one actor who’s intent on getting to the bottom of their soul, it can be a bit annoying.

Any societal platform needs a bold steward, willing to hold the moral compass and risk failure. A system steward must persist as a positive catalyst that continuously creates opportunities and sustains the grammar of the intent.

My wife knows me as Vermin. My mother knows me as Vermin. For all intent and purposes, that’s my name.

Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn’t listen to other people, that they couldn’t hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize.

I’d been on ‘SVU’ before and I’d been on ‘Criminal Intent,’ but I wasn’t a follower. Like, my mom watches every episode, even before I was on it.

In every human society, there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the height of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this effort and to diffuse their influence universally and equally.

Barack Obama seems intent on enrolling more people on food stamps. Mitt Romney’s focus is going to be on generating more jobs that will make food-stamps unnecessary for them.

The virtual choir would never replace live music or a real choir, but the same sort of focus and intent and esprit de corps is evident in both, and at the end of the day it seems to me a genuine artistic expression.

I never in a million years thought I would be the person to go to for self-esteem; that was not my intent. But I happen to love beauty, I love the way people look, and I love making women look beautiful.

I am not here concerned with intent, but with scientific standards, especially the ability to tell the difference between a fact, an opinion, a hypothesis, and a hole in the ground.

It’s not that I set out to say, ‘I’m going be the first assistant coach in the NBA.’ That really – it was never my intent. It just kind of happened very naturally.

The Second Amendment is, of course, very much part of the American fabric. But the intent of the founders was that the amendment protected the rights of citizens to bear arms in a militia for their collective self-defense.

There was never sufficient evidence presented at my trial to support a finding of intent to kill.

I hate when people don’t hear the actual words out of your mouth or even the intent of it. They just hear something completely different.

Are hackers a threat? The degree of threat presented by any conduct, whether legal or illegal, depends on the actions and intent of the individual and the harm they cause.

The pressure makes me more intent about each shot. Pressure on the last few holes makes me play better.

There is something exciting when you see people who are very formal talking with each other, and there is a sense that they have chosen to be that way. There is something masked that is more interesting to me than just people who are intent on displaying their uniqueness or whatever.

I respect the system out there in Hollywood, I really do, but I’m very intent on art versus commerce. I want to do it all – film, TV and theatre – if it’s the right job.

I think we have been unnecessarily maligned with a desire or a wish or intent on our part to try to defraud anybody. We haven’t.

I usually say something if I hear someone I know saying something I think is racist with malicious intent.

In terms of writing about horses, I fell backwards into that. I was intent on getting a Ph.D., becoming a professor, and writing on history but I got sick 14 years ago when I was 19. Getting sick derailed that plan completely.

If you’re billed as a comedian, people will accept anything you say as light-hearted and not with intent behind it.

Our intent of how we’re going to play doesn’t change.

We have a tremendous lack of knowledge of how far we have gotten away from the Constitution of the United States. Democrats and Republicans alike have taken us away from the original intent. You see, I believe in this document as our founding fathers intended it.

I believe things happen that can’t be explained, but so many people seem intent on explaining them. Everyone has an answer for them. Either aliens or things from the spirit world.

Documentaries for me always felt kind of limiting. I wanted to go bigger. And I also love actors, and I love performance. So feature filmmaking was always the intent.

For me, whether I have money or not, it is far more important that there is an intent behind a cause that’s pure and can change the lives of certain people. If that’s there, then you will be able to get all the resources required.

The privileged Victorians who did most to improve the lives of the poor were not ashamed of their pious intent: they were superiors seeking to help inferiors.

Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose – or, if there are several, at least one of them – is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.

Hillary Clinton was rejected soundly by America, but instead of changing course, the Democrats and their media allies are intent on telling Americans just how terrible they are for embracing Donald Trump.

I went to the Capitol and came to court specifically to draw attention to the problems of the world that directly affect my state of mind and my physical body and to offer a way to clean up the world. This is my intent.

A person’s current personality of love, hatred, jealousy, rage or a murderous intent and so on is formed upon genetic elements, education, the environment and a family a person grows in.

I believe that the Framers of the Constitution made their intent clear when they wrote the First Amendment. I believe they wanted to keep the new government from endorsing one religion over another, not erase the public consciousness or common faith.