Top 242 Intended Quotes

My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son, a clever little boy, to show me the road leading to Windsor.
Karl Philipp Moritz
I feel that the Second Amendment is the right to keep and bear arms for our citizenry. This not for someone who’s in the military. This is not for law enforcement. This is for us. And, in fact, when you read that Constitution and the Founding Fathers, they intended this to stop tyranny.
Sharron Angle
John Cusack and I have been friends since childhood, and the fact that we’re in so many films together is, no pun intended, serendipitous.
Jeremy Piven
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Galileo Galilei
My title is intended to suggest that the community of scientists is organized in a way which resembles certain features of a body politic and works according to economic principles similar to those by which the production of material goods is regulated.
Michael Polanyi
But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.
Charles Ives
I am not convinced the Clean Air Act was ever intended to regulate or classify as a dangerous pollutant something as basic and ubiquitous in our atmosphere as carbon dioxide.
Jim Webb
I have absolutely no sense of my success whatsoever, in fact, I only have a sense of not doing what I intended to do. I don’t know who I am.
Toyah Willcox
I’m sure we don’t read old paintings the way they were intended.
Robert Rauschenberg
What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that’s just not what the founders intended.
Barack Obama
I never intended to be a defense contractor in the firs

I never intended to be a defense contractor in the first place.
Erik Prince
Good intentions can often lead to unintended consequences. It is hard to imagine a law intended for the workforce known to Henry Ford can serve the needs of a workplace shaped by the innovations of Bill Gates.
Tim Walberg
‘The One-Eyed Man’ is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
When I wrote ‘Neuromancer’, I had a list in my head of all the things the future was assumed to be which it would not be in the book I was about to write. In a sense, I intended ‘Neuromancer’, among other things, to be a critique of all the aspects of science fiction that no longer satisfied me.
William Gibson
Social Security Number Cards by themselves were never intended to be personal identity documents because they cannot confirm that a person presenting a card is actually the person whose name appears on the card.
Ron Lewis
If God had intended us to fly, he’d have never given us railways.
Michael Flanders
We should transition away from carbon-based fuels, but that is not something that you can just flip a switch metaphorically, no pun intended, and start immediately like banning fracking. It’s a transition.
John Fetterman
You drift through life and let things happen to you, or go by design and say, ‘This is what I’m intended to do.’
Rick Warren
All camps are hard, that’s what they’re intended to be. They make you focus when you’re tired, when you don’t feel like doing things, and to see how long you can retain and pay attention.
Michael Strahan
You’re trying too hard to find a correlation here. You don’t know these people, you don’t know what they intended. You try to compile statistics and correlate them to a result that amounts to nothing more than speculation.
Marc Racicot
The English had hit upon a splendid joke. They intended to catch me or to bring me down.
Manfred von Richthofen
You should never get set over the ball and then aim your putter face. If you do it in that order, you can easily lose sight of your intended line. Instead, aim the face down your line first, then settle your body into position.
Ernie Els
Advertising was only meant to be a very small part of my life. I had intended that I would work extensively in journalism for about five or six years and then I’d become a writer.
Bryce Courtenay
If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.
John Henry Newman
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.
Garrison Keillor
Nowhere else in America is everyone really ready to get outta their minds. No pun intended, like my song. Vegas is that place.
Lil Jon
I never intended to become a professional pilot. But, as I became more curious about aircraft, and, well, not being John Travolta, I realized that the only way I was ever going to fly a jet is if I got a job.
Bruce Dickinson
I’d originally intended ‘Stand By Me’ for the Drifters.
Ben E. King
As an artist, you make music. And if you see people who don’t know how to market your music, you get involved in it. Otherwise, what you want to accomplish ‘gets lost in translation’ – no pun intended.
Jay-Z
The DREAM Act was intended to benefit illegal immigrants who were brought here as children, the most sympathetic subset among our large illegal immigrant population.
Jan C. Ting
Good argument is intended to persuade another.
Barry Eisler
Everything I’ve designed is intended not to match perfectly but to sit together in harmony, to add flair and personality to any room.
Matthew Williamson
Conservatives cannot deny that our Founders intended the judiciary as an equal and independent branch of government purposed to ensure the protection of every citizen’s rights.
Margaret Hoover
It was he who impressed, time and again, the necessity of singing as nature intended, and – I remember – he constantly warned, don’t let the public know that you work. So I went slowly. I never forced the voice.
Enrico Caruso
SFL Fitness is a new concept in Fitness Training with our exclusive gyms intended to provide MMA as the new mantra for fitness training, sports and self defense.
Raj Kundra
MAVNI was never intended to be utilized for the benefit of illegal aliens.
Paul Gosar
I needed to be accepted, not humored. I intended to act.
Gene Tierney
At the risk of being old-fartish, I like old-school wines that taste the way the winemaker intended, as opposed to organic and untreated ones with more bottle variation. If I want to take a risk, I’ll go bungee-jumping.
John Lanchester
I have a B.S. in Biology from MIT, an M.Sc. in Human Biology and a Ph.D. in Biological Anthropology from Oxford University, and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School. I never intended for so many degrees, but I enjoyed getting them all.
Pardis Sabeti
We want to detect malware, regardless of its source or purpose. Politics don’t even enter the discussion, nor should they. Any malware, even targeted, can get out of hand and cause ‘collateral damage’ to machines that aren’t the intended victim.
Mikko Hypponen
I have not intended to denigrate or hurt the beliefs of anyone through my art.
M. F. Husain
I often visit Maria Tatar's 'The Grimm Reader' for a co

I often visit Maria Tatar’s ‘The Grimm Reader’ for a cold dose of courage. Her translations come from the Brothers Grimm, whose now-famous collection of ‘Kinder- und Hausmarchen’ (‘Children’s and Household Tales’) was first published in 1812. The book was not intended for young readers.
Kate Bernheimer
The Bill of Rights was intended to secure freedom of speech – the freedom of speech of members of parliament to speak freely rather than be at threat of… the threat of an over powerful monarch at the time.
William Hague
Order rooted in and maintained and restored by fear, intimidation, brutality and incarceration is immoral and untenable. Justice is order’s intended soul mate. But serving justice is twice as hard as serving fear.
Jason Whitlock
I work very fast, keeping the ideas flowing but making sure they come out the way I intended.
Gavin Bryars
My gift to the Elton John Foundation is intended to emphasize that we support freedom of all people to live their lives peacefully, without interference from others.
Philip Anschutz
The Emergency Banking Act reached back in time to amend the Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917, which had originally been intended to criminalize economic intercourse between American citizens and declared enemies of the United States.
Thomas Woods
Having inched closer and accomplished some of my major goals in the sport of golf, no pun intended, why not work as hard as I can to attain those goals if I’m already feeling like I’m playing well and getting more and more comfortable.
Jordan Spieth
Saudi Arabia has supported Wahhabi madrasas in poor countries in Africa and Asia, exporting extremism and intolerance. Saudi Arabia also exports instability with its brutal war in Yemen, intended to check what it sees as Iranian influence.
Nicholas Kristof
Google Apps for Education is a suite of applications intended to be helpful to higher level educational institutions, but in the long run, I think Google has a role to play in helping to assemble relevant content for classroom use.
Vint Cerf
Without any intended hubris, I’ve lead a pretty exciting life. What I’ve tried to do in Mission Compromised is draw on those experiences to create a sense of excitement and realism within the story.
Oliver North
I never really intended to get into sports. It was my hobby and my passion, and I kind of lucked out.
Mina Kimes
Many developing nations have such severe debt and budget problems that the money given by developed nations will never be spent the way it is intended.
Richard Grenell
One of the frustrations of prison life, which is also one of its intended consequences, is that the prisoner is made ineffective. He is unable to be of much use. The aim is to render him powerless.
Hisham Matar
My parents are really well intended, and I think their way of dealing with things is denial and guilt. Nobody wanted to talk about it. But all I did was blame myself.
Teri Hatcher