Intention
A stretching or bending of the mind toward of the mind toward an object; closeness of application; fixedness of attention; earnestness.
A determination to act in a certain way or to do a certain thing; purpose; design; as, an intention to go to New York.
The object toward which the thoughts are directed; end; aim.
The state of being strained. See Intension.
Any mental apprehension of an object.
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Intention Quotations
To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy.
Ronald Reagan
Our intention creates our reality.
Wayne Dyer
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
O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
T. S. Eliot
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
Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention.
Thomas Aquinas
The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
John Burroughs
A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
David Hume
No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.
Christopher Columbus
Intention Translations
intention in Afrikaans is plan
intention in Danish is hensigt
intention in Dutch is strekking, plan, doel, bedoeling
intention in French is intention, dgssein
intention in German is Absicht {f}
intention in Italian is proposito
intention in Latin is mens mentis
intention in Swedish is avsikt
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