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• 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
• 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