Intended Quotes
832 Intended quotes by 682 unique authors
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Every book is three books, after all; the one the writer intended, the one the reader expected, and the one that casts its shadow when…
— John M. Ford
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At one point I intended to write precursor and sequel novels, about the establishment of the Web and its next evolution, but I am very…
— John M. Ford
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If God had not intended that Women shou'd use their Reason, He wou'd not have given them any, 'for He does nothing in vain.
— Mary Astell
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Drone strikes, Albert Camus would argue, are not just meant to kill. They are programmed to terrorize. In this regard, whether the missile strikes its…
— Unknown Author
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Here's a secret. Many novelists, if they are pressed and if they are being honest, will admit that the finished book is a rather rough…
— Michael Cunningham
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In some century to come, when the school children will whistle popular tunes in quarter-tones--when the diatonic scale will be as obsolete as the pentatonic…
— Charles Ives
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I had never intended to be on the show more than three years, regardless of how successful it was. I had other things I wanted…
— Unknown Author
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When we kill animals to eat them they end up killing us because their flesh...was never intended for human beings, who are naturally herbivores.
— William C. Roberts
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Railroad carriages are pulled at the enormous speed of fifteen miles per hour by engines which, in addition to endangering life and limb of passengers,…
— Martin Van Buren
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I had intended to have gone into Africa incognito. But the fact that a white man, even an American, was about to enter Africa was…
— Henry Morton Stanley
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Our restlessness in this world seems to indicate that we are intended for a better. We have all of us a longing after happiness; and…
— Robert Southey
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People who have intended and loved what is evil in the world intend and love what is evil in the other life, and then they…
— Emanuel Swedenborg
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If you could envision the type of person God intended you to be, you would rise up and never be the same again.
— Sean Covey
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How many men ever went to a barbecue and would let one man take off the table what's intended for 9/10th of the people to…
— Huey Long
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The screwball's an unnatural pitch. Nature never intended a man to turn his hand like that throwing rocks at a bear.
— Carl Hubbell
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What five members of the Supreme Court say the law is may be something vastly different from what Congress intended the law to be.
— Benjamin Franklin Fairless
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We must let go of those things that don’t serve us. In order to receive the blessings intended for us, we have to make room…
— Clifton Anderson
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There is a prayer intended to give strength to people faced with circumstances they don’t want to accept. The power of the prayer comes from…
— Mary Alice
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My parents are really well intended, and I think their way of dealing with things is denial and guilt. Nobody wanted to talk about it.…
— Teri Hatcher
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The audience too should be respected by being presented with a film as they remember it, and for those who have not seen it, as…
— George Stevens
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