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Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent.

Aldous Huxley

Any behavior that would rise to the level of willful criminal intent.

Carla Blanton

Our intent is to comply with the director [of the FMCS], We've been asked not to do that. We were asked to show up for talks Sept. 4. We'll comply in full.

Matt Bates

To me, cheating implies intent. I think she was just careless. I feel strongly I did the right thing.

Michael Bamberger

(The official) called it hitting from behind, game DQ. He said it was intent to injure. He said it was head into the boards, I don't know.

Dennis Martin

The intent is to make a young man better.

Jeff Montgomery

We're not clear that there's any connection (to Tuesday's attacks). We know there's an intent by the terrorist organizations to carry out terrorist bombings and terrorist attacks.

Gil Kleiman

It really limits the ability of the city to improve parks. We don't think that was the intent of the original amendment.

Bob Woods

Father's hot-button issue is donor intent. Foundations are too often taken in a radical direction.

Jack Templeton

It's a great feeling of exuberance and celebration. Let it happen. For everyone's intent, it's going to be a positive thing.

Steve Simmerman

The test is the intent of the parties, ... And the intent of the parties in this case was always to treat it as a multiparty dwelling.

Daniel White

This organization caters not by intent, but by attraction of white collar professionals.

Art Wurster

Your honor, this is a tragic accident, and one of the saddest stories that the court will ever hear. But it did not involve criminal intent.

James O'shea

The intent here is to end homelessness.

Philip Mangano

I don't believe that intent is a requirement to find a criminal violation of this law. I believe that it is the act that creates the violation.

Larry Leake

My intent is going to be to rescue those neighborhoods.

Tony Domenech

It's something that we need. And if we can afford it, I think there is a serious intent to move forward.

Lo Iacono

We're never going to replace the radiologist, and that's not the intent.

John Garber

That was our theme from the get-go. There was no criminal intent to defraud.

Hugh Keefe

We came to the Indianapolis area with the intent of eventually opening three or four locations.

Jeff Chandler

We think that threats become evident when a capability to invade is coupled with an intent to invade.

Akira Chiba

They seem to be very intent on completing their rehabilitation and being productive citizens down the road.

Fred Ruby

Initially, our intent was to develop them for use in developing countries, and then it became clear that there was also some interest in them here in the U.S..

Victoria Jennings

He has no recollection of the events and says now that he had no intent to do anything like that.

James Longwell

He was intent in seeing the property conserved.

Kevin Essington

The intent is to take everybody back to New Orleans.

Charles Zewe

It's not good enough if your intent is to win, and I'm in this race to win.

Jass Stewart

It wasn't the intent of term limits to make things run smoothly at the Capitol. It was the intent to make things run smoothly in citizens' lives.

Pat Anderson

Nobody said there is the intent to exercise a veto.

Kypros Chrysostomides

The stones that Critics hurl with Harsh Intent, A Man may use to build a Monument.

Arthur Guiterman

That was my intent. We weren't going to come out and start flinging balls all over the lot. We're not going to put it on him to win the game, particularly early in the game.

Al Borges

Bottom line, the issues of premeditation and intent are going to be the issues in this case.

Jon Mcmullen

By deciding there was no intent it's pretty clear in the instructions that we were given if there's no intent it's not a death penalty situation.

Greg Haddock

However, it is clear there is a misperception about our intent.

Joe Laymon

Art therapy is about the creation and the discussion of the intent of the client. It's a different way of sharing. No matter how healthy, verbal expression is the hardest thing to do.

Kelly Roberts

Our intent is not vindictiveness. Something has to be done.

Gary Hopper

The intent was to scare the dickens out of the folks and make (the amendments) look as bad as possible.

Buck Wood

We're playing with technicalities, and the intent of what we tried to do is not there.

Denise Layne

It's my intent to grant some relief to the government.

James Ware

This is not showing good faith, if the intent is to drag it out.

Lisa Hurd

If the officials back or approve (a) deal, the chances are better than ever that he or she will get a campaign contribution after the fact. If I were intent on looking for big campaign contributors, this might be a valuable catalog.

Terry Francke

As I've said before, I think criminal intent was lacking.

David Larsen

Unfortunately, there are a lot of weapons kids have access to. It wasn't any intent - it was an accident.

Alfonza Whitaker

We have made design adjustments with the intent of avoiding the shrine. We are pretty confident we will be able to avoid it.

Joe Agnello

It's like an act of murder; you play with intent to commit something.

Duke Ellington

It certainly was and always has been our intent to do everything to be noticed.

John Yost

It is never my intent to insult or demean anyone — and I understand how some of my remarks may have offended some in attendance and if you feel they did, then I am deeply sorry.

Morgan Spurlock

There was no dialogue. There is no intent, The question is, what companies are willing to be acquired?

Ramalinga Raju

I know his intent of the speech is that we all work together. And I know we will.

Kathleen Walsh

It's pretty obvious that the intent of the government is to detain more and more people and to expedite their removal.

Cheryl Little

Our intent is to inform (acting Gov. Codey) that there is a great voting bloc that are for marriage of one man to one woman.

David Ireland

Our intent is with an active construction site like this, we want (pedestrians) to go around.

Tom Kelleher

That's not a badge of honor I enjoy, ... I never had malicious intent. I was never trying to hurt anyone or damage anything.

Kevin Mitnick

It is probably one of the saddest stories a court will ever hear, but it did not involve any criminal intent.

James O'shea

The intent of the plan is to determine where Lewisville should put its attention in terms of tourism.

James Kunke

Arson isn't usually done with intent of committing arson, ... but to conceal other acts of criminal behavior.

Doug Williams

It was a declaration of intent.

Amir Salem

It does not appear that a lot of people got together in advance, but I do believe that some people started the day, with intent to cause mayhem.

David Shaw

This case is not about intent to kill. The evidence will not support a charge of murder. It is an accident that turned fatal.

Angela Warner Sims

He had the intent to shoot and a flight plan set up in advance.

Kit Carson

They have to prove his intent.

Bob Carpenter

Our intent is to continue to seek ratification of the compact.

Vince Sollitto

Their intent is to trample our Constitution. Their goal is not our domestic tranquility, it is our destruction. If it's a war the anarchists want, then damn it, it will start here.

Jim Gilchrist

That was the council's intent, four of the five of us.

Frank Fisher

The whole intent is to make the public aware that the City of Abbotsford and its constituents haven't forgotten.

Mary Reeves

These are techniques to scare people, to weaken their intent.

Hector Lopez

It was not our intent to make him the highest-paid player ever (in his category). It just evolved to that because this is no ordinary player.

Joe Urbon

We're not backing into squat. We're going to Clay with the intent of beating them. I don't want anyone saying we backed into anything.

Rick Breed

Exposing their evil intent when it introduced the concept of globalization and a borderless world.

Mahathir Mohamad

Our whole intent was to wear them down. They played well, considering.

Irving Clay

We always had the intent to use that feature.

Bruce Beese

I can't believe it was a random thing. It was with intent, it was too brutal.

Julie Helin

The basic intent of the guidelines has not changed from the first version. We've also changed language where comments indicated that the original language had been misunderstood.

Jennifer Stephens

The intent with the booster station is to provide adequate pressure for this development and the 15 homes.

Rob Digiorgio

It helps a lot of people and that is my intent.

Mike Florak

We have not been issuing licenses to out-of-state couples without their intent to move here.

Doug Johnstone

There was, and is, no intent to endorse a particular vendor.

Julia Huff

Although our intent was to use any revenue generated from the program to fund AMA public health campaigns, in the form executed, the agreement was a mistake.

Thomas Reardon

We support the intent but we may have some problems with the details.

Dan Michaelis

It's our intent to give him a fair trial. It is also our intent to file to seek capital punishment. We will file that document tomorrow.

Bill Douglas

His intent is to stop the extradition and have me charged under Canadian law in a Canadian courtroom.

Marc Emery

We have signed a letter of intent (to study a sale).

David Harpole

It's my intent to protest this move.

Doug Boyd

I am far more encouraged as a career service professional now than in 2000 by the number of employers that have expressed the intent to hire more graduates.

Guy Davis

The intent is there, but implementation is lacking.

Kiran Karnik

The Internet is fast becoming a transaction medium in addition to a content medium. Our intent is to make AltaVista the leading guide for both information and e-commerce.

Rod Schrock

It just really depends on what the level of [suicidal] intent is. It's hard to put a template on them all.

David Chamberlin

The intent on doing this was to try to get around the faddish diets. The theme is based on behavior, nutrition and physical activity.

Robert Eckel

The intent is to slow [drivers] to 25 mph.

Mick Monken

Right now we have to establish willful intent. We're trying to see what fits the case.

Chet Johnson

He had no specific intent to kill Mr. Graham. He was going over there to have sex.

Peter Berger

It runs counter to the intent of the Endangered Species Act.

Jamie Rappaport Clark

We need to come out and play with more focus and more of an intent. If we do that, this team is very capable.

Jon Fixler

Quite frankly, I don't see any criminal intent. Businesses fail all the time.

David Larsen

Our intent is that this will drive an increased attention to the importance of safe driving and that we'll see a change in driving behavior, both on military installations and off.

John Seibert

I love my job. Learning is intent with emotions.

Carrie Zaitz

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

Buddha

We are cooperating with the spirit and the intent of the law. We are not coming down with a huge hammer.

Judy Pardonnet

Generally, traffic tickets don't generate a revocation of a diversion. It all depends on the circumstances of what happened and the intent.

Jerry Little

A truth that's told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent.

William Blake

There is a clear intent in our mind that they intended to do a home invasion. And during processing they indicated that they intended to do a home invasion.

Mark Jackley

The agency's intent is to have this as guidance and to reflect our thinking about what constitutes whole grains.

Barbara Schneeman

I can't make a determination as to what the intent was, but the purchases were close enough together that we interpreted it to be subject to the bid law.

John Norris

The intent of the board is to certainly stay in the city of Waynesboro with our retail presence. We always hope to be in Waynesboro.

Brent Frank

It was our intent to make people laugh. We try to give people a great story to tell.

Charlie Todd

It defeated the intent of the legislation, ... There is no access to the edge of the lake. We have to go through the same legislative process again.

Brian Wallace

The stab itself doesn't show anything about murderous intent.

Marcus Topel

Although Mr. Limbaugh stated today that his comments had no racist intent whatsoever, we have communicated to Mr. Limbaugh that his comments were insensitive and inappropriate.

Dave Nagle

The intent of the flight is to thank them. It seems a little weird that they're so thankful.

Chris Sullivan

My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.

Ulysses S. Grant

Creating some humor, creating some fun to energize people was our intent.

Ted Molter

We are thankful to hear the intent of the Administration of President Bush to extend the humanitarian program TPS soon to expire for thousands of Central Americans.

Jose Lagos

Community divisiveness was the intent from the beginning.

Greg Beck

Its intent is to buy us time without holding up development.

Jim Shelton

Their intent was to soften the blow, but, you know, the fact is it was not the truth.

Bill Vernon

Next year is year five and then we'll just announce that we'll extend it five more years. That's what the intent is.

Graham Fraser

The key to forgery is if you have permission, there is no forgery. There was never an intent to defraud anybody.

Jere Reneer

We'll go back (to the table) with the same intent we always have, which is to negotiate on behalf of our members.

Leslie Porras

I think you'll see the implementation very shortly, and I think it will be a very firm implementation of the Syrian Accountability Act and the intent behind it.

William Burns

The intent is for this to be a clear and concise message.

Bill Powell

It's disappointing, it's wrongheaded but it's what we expected because this is their intent and they're following through.

Patti Thompson

There is no intent to sneak a pay raise back in.

Steve Miskin

The intent of the trip was to prove what we could do at our age and we weren't going to give up.

Donald Lewis

Our intent is to get the most qualified team in the project.

Jim Simpson

Drug problems are commonplace in every school. This is just my intent to step things up.

Matt Weller

I don't think they had any ill intent, ... They're very sorry this has all happened.

Terrance Gainer

The intent had been to provide them with $1 million each. There was not as much in (the budget) as initially thought. We're going to be able to correct it with a floor amendment tomorrow.

Sen. Rosalyn Baker

My intent was to criticize myself and my frustration with my inability to get the job done of late.

Seth Mcclung

It's not our intent to create a large traffic way down there.

Chris Houston

It should be fun. That was the intent from the start.

Brad Bankston

You start with the intent, and you build the building around that intent.

James Koster

As far as I'm concerned, this guy murdered my husband as much as if he had the controls in his hands and flown the plane into the building, which is what his intent was.

Christie Coombs

It's evolved into something different than the original intent.

Gary Peterson

These were five fatal blows with murderous intent ... Self defense has no basis in this case.

Peter Chapman

I don't think their intent is to just get the building and let it sit there.

Teri Kelly

There was no animosity, no arguing, nothing that would indicate ill-will between these parties. No intent.

Alfonza Whitaker

There was a fear that this could be used as a vehicle to raise taxes in the county. That was never the intent.

Sen. Brooks Mccabe

I don't think there was any malice or intent in the forethought. But I don't accept or approve of the content. ... I don't think they were reflective of the organization.

Charles Whitcomb

'Alias' sold [in syndication] for $175,000 an episode; 'Criminal Intent' sold for 1,100 percent more. Do the math.

Dick Wolf

This lady had no intent to harm anyone, or put anyone in any kind of fear. She's under a lot of duress and it's sad.

Noah Geary

Our overriding goal is to unite the intent of the Hyde Park historic district design guidelines with our development vision.

David Wasserman

There is an element of intent here, and that's what Moe Williams didn't have.

Joe Friedberg

I think their intent is to grow their company as our intent is to grow our company.

Joe Hodas

It is our intent to holistically reach the youth of this community.

Barbara Harvey

I knew it was wrong. I did not have the intent to violate the law, but I knew it was wrong.

Elie Nakouzi

Spores were delivered with criminal intent.

Ellen Borakove

In adults who commit serious and heinous crimes, we see some psychopaths who are evil people with evil intent and actually enjoy a degree of pleasure from committing serious crimes, ... We don't see this in children. Children very rarely are evil or bad.

Edward Hyman

I never meant to imply U.S. forces acted with ill intent when U.S. forces accidentally killed journalists, and I apologize to anyone who thought I said or believed otherwise.

Eason Jordan