Famous quotes containing the word intending:
“My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would ask her child after school: So? Did you learn anything today? But not my mother. “Izzy,” she would say, “did you ask a good question today?” That difference—asking good questions—made me become a scientist.”
—Isidor Isaac Rabi (20th century)
“For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not first sit down and estimate the cost, to see whether he has enough to complete it?”
—Bible: New Testament, Luke 14:28.
“For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?”
—Bible: New Testament Jesus, in Luke, 14:28.