As Paul Tillich put it in a passage recently quoted on Andrew Sullivan's blog, "Do not seek for anything; do not perform anything; do not intend anything.
I didn't intend anything – the book was the result of instincts rather than plans.
And Mr Obama does not intend to do anything right now.
"As long as Sharon continues building the wall, this means he does not intend to do anything serious," Mr. Aburdeineh said.
Unfortunately, Mr. Bush's eagerness to doubt a connection between pollution and climate change indicates that he does not intend to do anything to prevent it.
"I definitely understand the concerns that people would feel after reading some of those things," he said, adding that he does not intend to do anything that would hurt the neighborhood.
But just a few weeks ago, the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, said that he would not allow a third intifada to break out, and that although he is a refugee from Safed, a city in northern Israel, he does not intend to return there as anything but a tourist.
He does not intend to retire.
She does not intend to move again.
Perhaps she meant that she doesn't intend to do anything except sign a piece of paper.
