Deliberately Quotes
459 Deliberately quotes by 387 unique authors
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By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately and well.
— Robert Bringhurst
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I don't know if there is actually more rain here in England, or if it was just that the rain seemed to be so deliberately…
— Maureen Johnson
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There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.
— Arundhati Roy
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Jeff is the annoying kind of Scrabble player who plays a lot of obscure two-letter words that shouldn't count but for whatever reason are considered…
— Bennett Madison
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately...
— Henry David Thoreau
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Whenever a negative thought concerning your personal power comes to mind, deliberately voice a positive thought to cancel it out.
— Norman Vincent Peale
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I don't suppose anybody ever deliberately listens to a watch or a clock. You don't have to. You can be oblivious to the sound for…
— William Faulkner
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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out a way…
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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The choreographer cannot deliberately make a ballet to appeal to an audience, he has to start from personal inspirations. He has to trust the ballet,…
— Unknown Author
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Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.
— John Gunther
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Or if the hypothesis were offered us of a world in which Messrs. Fourier's and Bellamy's and Morris's Utopias should all be outdone, and millions…
— William James
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I could never make a ballet by wrinkling my brow and concentrating. If you set out deliberately to make a masterpiece, how will you ever…
— George Balanchine
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The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.
— Arnold Bennett
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Anything is one of a million paths. Therefore, a warrior must always keep in mind that a path is only a path; if he feels…
— Carlos Castaneda
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Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a Communist.
— Alvin Dark
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I have never in my career embarked on a journey towards controversy. I have never deliberately set a flame.
— Amanda Palmer
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What is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way.
— Peter Doig
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WikiLeaks exposed corruption, war crimes, torture and cover-ups. It showed that we were lied to about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; that the U.S.…
— Jemima Khan
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Large areas of the Gulf have escaped being scraped by trawls, crushed by more than 40,000 miles of pipelines, or displaced by one of 50,000…
— Sylvia Earle
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I have for some time now been deeply troubled by the growing difficulties faced by Christian communities in various parts of the Middle East. It…
— Prince Charles
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Writing is a solitary profession; you are really alone when you write. Then the emotions become well shaped and distinct. But their transition into words…
— F. Sionil Jose
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Going to war is a serious matter. And it should be done very carefully and deliberately with clear national interests at stake before the United…
— Joe Pitts
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I love deliberately badly written books.
— Richard Price
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An Internet meme is a hijacking of the original idea. Instead of mutating by random change and spreading by a form of Darwinian selection, Internet…
— Richard Dawkins
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Since I grew up, I have never deliberately used any technique at all other than the physical shaping of my tale so that it more…
— Patrick O'Brian
Who Wrote These Deliberately Quotes
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