Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

A painting that doesn't shock isn't worth painting.

— Marcel Duchamp

The premeditation of death is the premeditation of liberty; he who has learnt to die has forgot to serve.

— Michel de Montaigne

Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know what I'm going to paint until I paint it, so it's almost…

— William S. Burroughs

These are all cases of proved or presumptive baloney. A deception arises, sometimes innocently but collaboratively, sometimes with cynical premeditation. Usually the victim is…

— Carl Sagan

“Nothing I do is natural, realistic, organic or accidental. I'm never spontaneous, I'm completely premeditated.”

— Nuno Roque

“Who tries to sabotage my time and priority in life can never understand the sensible, best choices of my heart.”

— Angelica Hopes

My understanding of first-degree murder is that premeditation needs to be proven.

— Henry Rollins

We are living in the era of premeditation and the perfect crime. Our criminals are no longer helpless children who could plead love as…

— Albert Camus

In the course of history, all empires have been created with premeditation, by an effort often sustained over several generations. Every power has been…

— Andre Malraux

For me, the sketchbooks are more like a secret and wholly spontaneous jeu d'esprit and some of them I like as much as anything…

— Robert Motherwell

“How merciful a thing is man's ignorance of his immediate future! What a ghastly, paralysing thing it would have been if all those present…

— Mervyn Peake

It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us.…

— Seneca the Younger

[The lion] began to contemplate me with a kind of quiet premeditation, like that of a slow-witted man fondling an unaccustomed thought.

— Beryl Markham

“Anyone you can fool isn't worth loving.”

— Alexander Maksik

If a job isn't worth dreaming about, it isn't worth having.

— Deborah Gregory