Intended Quotes
832 quotes by 709 authors
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What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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When I died my hair red the first time, I felt as if it was what nature intended. I have been accused of being a…
— Amy Adams
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I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
— Douglas Adams
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Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.
— Jacques Barzun
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Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to…
— Jacques Barzun
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In the Bhagavad Gita, there is no long discussion, nothing elaborate. The main reason for this is that everything stated in the Gita is meant…
— Vinoba Bhave
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I find it difficult to judge myself, but people say that I have become a bit more socially acceptable over the years in terms of…
— Jo Brand
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It had all the earmarks of a CIA operation; the bomb killed everybody in the room except the intended target!
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to…
— Samuel Butler
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Software constraints are only confining if you use them for what they're intended to be used for.
— David Byrne
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There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.
— John Calvin
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When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely.
— Truman Capote
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If we were meant to read for enjoyment, would God have created television? Read as it was intended - for exercise. The more you read,…
— Steve Carell
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The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in…
— Raymond Chandler
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I try never to focus on the radio, just find great songs, find emotion and just write the best songs you can. I think when…
— Gary Allan
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My music has to do with beauty, and it's intended to, if not lift the spirits, then be a kind of a balm to the…
— Nick Cave
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Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can…
— William Ellery Channing
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In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference.
— Carl von Clausewitz
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I will not comment on or confirm what are alleged to be stolen State Department cables. But I can say that the United States deeply…
— Hillary Clinton
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