Intended Quotes
832 Intended quotes by 682 unique authors
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There's an old saying in the days of slavery, there are those slaves who lived on the plantation, and there were those slaves who lived…
— Harry Belafonte
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I think the play actually became bigger than me. No pun intended.
— Camryn Manheim
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This law represents a cornerstone in a structure which is being built but is by no means completed--a structure intended to lessen the force of…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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There's a lot of me in Captain Jack and there's a lot of Captain Jack in me. And there is no pun intended.
— John Barrowman
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I used to be Amish. I had to stay a lot with my grandparents or aunts and uncles who are Amish, so I was sort…
— Verne Troyer
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A new kind of award has been added -- the deathbed award. It is not an award of any kind. Either the recipient has not…
— Marlene Dietrich
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When I was 14 I told my mother I intended to be in the House of Commons in the morning, in court in the afternoon…
— Helen McCrory
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It would be very difficult to explain why the universe should have begun in just this way, except as the act of a God who…
— Stephen Hawking
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Our Constitution, which was intended to limit government power and abuse, has failed,
— Ron Paul
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Weird Weekends set out to discover the genuinely odd in the most ordinary setting. To me, it's almost a privilege to be welcomed into these…
— Louis Theroux
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Animals are indeed more ancient, more complex and in many ways more sophisticated than us. They are more perfect because they remain within Nature’s fearful…
— Daphne Sheldrick
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The harsh, unyielding reality of having to compromise your ideals bit by bit, day by day, just to achieve a few little victories in the…
— Simon R. Green
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My thesis [is] that in order to design a tool, we must make our best efforts to understand the larger social and physical context within…
— Bill Buxton
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I never intended to be a run-of-the-mill person.
— Barbara Jordan
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We are, all of us, molded and remolded by those who have loved us, and though that love may pass, we remain none the less…
— Francois Mauriac
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The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the…
— John Updike
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A man who lives with intentions is bound to feel frustration. A man who lives with expectations is bound to feel frustrated because existence has…
— Rajneesh
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The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.
— William Gibson
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The monopoly of a single bank is certainly an evil. The multiplication of them was intended to cure it; but it multiplied an influence of…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I love when people get songs wrong. I love when people take something from a song that's totally not what I intended!
— Richard Marx
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It is very certain that [the commerce clause] grew out of the abuse of the power by the importing States in taxing the non-importing, and…
— James Madison
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Reconciliation is a special budget procedure to change entitlement and tax laws. It cannot be filibustered and requires only a simple majority in the Senate…
— Jeff Miller
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Dr Johnson said, the inscription should have been in Latin, as every thing intended to be universal and permanent, should be.
— James Boswell
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The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be rooted out; not any particular manifestation of that principle. The…
— John Stuart Mill
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