What do you want to be when you grow up?
I would like to be a pilot, but my health is not good enough.
I want to go / I would like to go to Italy.
I have a great desire / longing to take a trip on the Nile.
You can go if you wish / want.
She has set her heart on studying archaeology / She wants above all else to study archaeology.
[infml] I mean / intend / propose to make him confess, come what may.
Please let me know your intentions / what your plans are / what you have in mind.
Do you think she really intended / meant to encourage him? - Yes, she had every intention of leading him on.
My intention / What I have in mind is to / I am planning to merge the two companies.
His aim is to / his object is to build a factory here.
My sole aim / purpose is to better the workers' lot.
I have no intention of dismissing you.

[infml] - nieformalnie