INTENTION, n. The mind’s sense of the prevalence of one set of influences over another set; an effect whose cause is the imminence, immediate or remote, of the performance of an involuntary act.

protect” you from dangers, which are usually, imaginary.

We’re careful about not announcing anything until we’re reasonably certain it will come here. Our intention is to always take the minimum amount of risk to deliver what our subscribers are looking for.

no current intention to make an offer for Manchester United.

We have no intention of leaving the euro. In no way will we experiment with the future of our country.

Is it a weakness not being able to hate? Or is it preparation for what is inevitable, the ability only to love.

He came prepared to play. He fulfilled the author’s intention. It’s his movie. He’s the man in it.

I think that basically (my intention) was to make him move, have him run, so that he felt he was going to get worn out. His level dropped in the third and fourth sets.

Every ‘no’ is a ‘yes’ to something.

We welcome the European Union’s intention to assume the lion’s share of the financial burden and, given the U.S. role in the military campaign, this is an appropriate division of labor,

It goes down, with the intention the program will become self-sustaining.

Abstaining from sex is a small fraction of the chastity process. Your intentions are just as important as the act of sex itself”The Ultimate Guide to Chastity

Believing in negative thoughts is the single greatest obstruction to success.

Most people just ‘hope’ to meet their targets, while few have clear and strong intention hence they achieve it.

Logic in all its infinite potential, is the most dangerous of vices. For one can always find some form of logic to justify his action, and rest comfortably in the assurance, that what he did...

Every frame and every scene has to have an intention.

Name your intention.

Nothing was or is farther from my intentions, than to enlist myself as the champion of a fixed opinion, where I have only expressed doubt.

We are optimistic about our intention to win 90 percent of the non-subsidized fuel oil market.

Life’s journey is peppered with many bumps and pitfalls. If we make mountains out of each one, we will get nowhere.

Going in the company of negative people is just like having thick muddy soil underfoot… They will only draw you back if you don’t tear them off! Move out of your current disposal with the...

You realize, monsieur, that I am not in love with you, that I have no intention of falling in love with you, and if I should through some unpredictable curse happen to fall in love...

It is unfortunate that Martin Selig came into the picture. He has no intention of saving the building. That was clear when we met with him.

To win or lose often depends on set parameters. Expand the bounds of what is possible, and you may come out the true winner, outside the confines of its defining.

I have no intention of retiring; I can’t imagine not doing stand-up. That’s where I started and where I’ll be.

Maskini mwenye pesa nyingi ni tajiri bahili. Tajiri mwenye mifuko iliyotoboka ni tajiri badhiri.

Expression is a function of intention and intention emanates from your thought faculty.

Powerful words come with powerful intent. Where you have passion, strength, courage, and determination you can accomplish anything!

The smallest of action is better than the greatest of intentions.

My intention to vote for Judge Roberts tomorrow should in no way be construed as a weather vane for how I might vote on the next nominee, … In the past I have not hesitated...

The way I see it, our natural human instinct is to fight or flee that which we perceive to be dangerous. Although this mechanism evolved to protect us, it serves as the single greatest limiting...

It is our intention to request live witnesses. We think that’s the highest and best evidence, and that will be our firm request.

Miki-san… do you truly want that person’s dream to come true? Or is it that you want to be that person’s savior for making that dream come true? If you’re going to fulfill someone else’s...

It is, of course, not only impossible for readers to know the intention of most, if not all, writers, but an author himself may think he is writing one thing while he is in fact...

Your dream is only possible through a clear intention and patience.

Although to our automatic brain, change always means potential danger. In order to calm that brain, it means embracing change so to turn on the light in our mind and open the door to our...

To change any behavior we have to slow down and act intentionally rather than from habit and impulse.

The intention (of an artist) is (the same as a scientist)…to discover and reveal what is unsuspected but significant in life.

What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.

Time is an illusion, only the keepers of the illusion are real, and the reality they have spun, keeps us, until we set upon the path of the dream.

The idea was that we should take every animal in and give it our all with the intention of releasing it. But that was probably flawed.

Toa msaada katika jamii iliyosaidia kukulea ulipokuwa mdogo.

no intention of interfering in inter-confessional relations.

We either live with intention or exist by default.

It’s been my intention to be ordained,

The tiniest of actions is always better than the boldest of intentions,

Some say if you want success surround yourself with successful people. I say if you want true and lasting success surround yourself with people of integrity.

…the basic stuff of the universe, at its core, is looking like a kind of pure energy that is malleable to human intention and expectation in a way that defies our old mechanistic model of...

People as a rule do mean much more than they understand.

If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism — at least in the sense of this work — is the secret of religion itself; that religion itself, not indeed...