(513 quotes found)
“For those who intend to discover and to understand, not to indulge in conjectures and soothsaying, and rather than contrive imitation and fabulous worlds plan to look deep into the nature of the real world and to dissect it -- for them everything must be sought in things themselves.”
Francis Bacon
“I intended to give you some advice, but now I remember how much is left from last year unused”
George Harris
“Politics is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another. Then you do neither what you said nor what you intended.”
Saddam Hussein
“I don't intend to speculate on the N-type until I have formal, official confirmation of this.”
Debby Reynolds
“It is obvious that when I shot him I intended to kill him.”
Ruth Ellis
“I intend to make Georgia howl."”
William Tecumseh Sherman
“As we intend to hold our council at the Huron village, that is near the British, we may probably make them a visit. Should they offer us any presents of goods, we will not take them; but should they offer us powder and the tomahawk, we will take the powder and refuse the tomahawk.”
Tecumseh
“For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? / Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him, / Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.”
Bible
“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it”
Winston Churchill
“Your description should include detailed directions on how to execute the prank, its intended response, and any props necessary to pulling it off. Keep it clean -- the focus of the contest is good humor and fun.”
Valerie Pontbriand
