Intended Quotes

832 Intended quotes by 682 unique authors

Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists. — J. G. Ballard
But I cannot bring myself to believe that I was intended for a musician, because it seems so small a business in comparison with other… — Sidney Lanier
The negative cost of Lewis and Clark entering the Garden of Eden is that later expeditions regardless of what they were intended to do, later… — William Least Heat-Moon
Music can be used against us as much as it can be used for us. Muzak can put a whole nation to sleep, whereas a… — Holly Near
The [Jewish] Sabbath was not intended to be simply a desert of prohibitions, but rather an oasis for moral restoration and seemly pleasure-one was to… — Israel Shenker
I was in school, but I wasn't into school. I wasn't doing what I wanted to be doing in school, which was film studies. That… — Dylan O'Brien
I understood that 'The Yellow Birds' would be a peculiar representation of the experience of being at war. I intended it to be so. — Kevin Powers
John Cusack and I have been friends since childhood, and the fact that we're in so many films together is, no pun intended, serendipitous. — Jeremy Piven
However, as the Eastern churches have always maintained, through Christ creation is intended eventually to share in the life of God, the life of divine… — John Polkinghorne
My title is intended to suggest that the community of scientists is organized in a way which resembles certain features of a body politic and… — Michael Polanyi
My claim is simply that the literary approach is one necessary way to read and interpret the Bible, an approach that has been unjustifiably neglected.… — Leland Ryken
I never intended being a business person I wanted to be a fashion designer. — Anna Sui
Initially I had intended to study medicine, but before going to University I had decided that I would be better suited to a career in… — Frederick Sanger
The Amish like to live a very plain lifestyle, the way they think God intended. It sort of brings you back to, like, 'Little House… — Verne Troyer
Cartoons are not real drawings, because they are drawings intended to be read. — Chris Ware
"Very" is the most useless word in the English language and can always come out. More than useless, it is treacherous because it invariably weakens… — Florence King
I wanted to play a TV detective because it's a rite of passage; I wanted to experience every area of acting. I haven't done comedy… — Olivia Williams
For me, the most difficult thing is that I am learning melodies on guitar from some songs whose melodies were not meant to be played… — Dweezil Zappa
What does it mean for an actor to make a part his own? It means that he takes on what you had intended and starts… — James L. Brooks
Airline food is not intended for human consumption. It's intended as a form of in-flight entertainment, wherein the object is to guess what it is,… — Dave Barry
It is not healthy to be thinking all the time. Thinking is intended for acquiring knowledge or applying it. It is not essential living. — Ernest Wood
We are told that Sin consists in acting contrary to God's commands, but we are also told that God is omnipotent. If He is, nothing… — Bertrand Russell
Performance for another in no way signals the inferiority of the performer to the one for whom the performance is intended. — Sandra Bartky
To our knowledge, life exists on only one planet, Earth. If something bad happens, it's gone. I think we should establish life on another planet-Mars… — Elon Musk
Life's experiences are intended to make you eventually face yourself. Face reality! — Harold Sherman

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