A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.
Jonathan Swift

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
David Hume

According to recent opinion polls, a large majority of Iraqis believe that the U.S. military has no intention to leave Iraq, and that it would stay even is asked by the Iraqi government to leave.
John Conyers

All that counts in life is intention.
Andrea Bocelli

And there's a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents - I mean, it's gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
Jerry Garcia

Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.
Adolf Hitler

Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer.
Len Deighton

Apparently, there's this whole set of disgruntled people but obviously it's not my intention to offend anyone by changing the style of music that I've done.
Jonny Lang

Close to the Edge, Red, One of a kind, Discipline, Earthworks, The Sound of Surprise, all seem to me to be albums that captured the essence of the intention.
Bill Bruford

Eileen Ford wanted me to fix my nose and my teeth. I said, Sure, great, but I really had no intention to.
Lauren Hutton

He wanted to be a lawyer, couldn't afford it, so he started dealing to go to college - good intention.
John Leguizamo

He would catapult you forward, and that was his intention with the Jazz Messengers. He would take young people with a potential and help them develop a voice as a player and as a writer.
Benny Green

However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

However, intention needn't enter in, and if a reader sees things in a religious way, and the work is dogmatically acceptable, then I don't see why it should not be interpreted in that way, as well as in others.
James Schuyler

I am 1,000 percent for Tom Eagleton and I have no intention of dropping him from the ticket.
George McGovern

I am not surprised that they show no intention to follow in my footsteps, although if I had a second chance myself, I would certainly try to repeat my present career.
Richard Ernst

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.
Charles Darwin

I certainly had no intention of playing a man.
Fiona Shaw

I had no intention of being an actor. I was quite good at it. I was pretty capable at other things but never any good at anything.
Sean Bean