Intended Quotes
832 Intended quotes by 682 unique authors
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To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally…
— George Santayana
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My grill is intended to be discreet. It's there because I enjoy jewelry.
— Jill Scott
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Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.
— Sydney Smith
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If it came to a magic genie, I would ask him for two extra wishes. One would be that no one would have to live…
— Mattie Stepanek
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God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity.
— Billy Sunday
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The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for…
— Leo Tolstoy
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
— Ted Turner
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For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were…
— Alice Walker
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No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights…
— Noah Webster
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What God intended for you goes far beyond anything you can imagine.
— Oprah Winfrey
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The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.
— Oprah Winfrey
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What I see in the Bible, especially in the book of Psalms, which is a book of gratitude for the created world, is a recognition…
— Philip Yancey
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If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates.
— Howard Zinn
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By divine design, men and women are intended to progress together toward perfection and a fulness of glory. Because of their distinctive temperaments and capacities,…
— David A. Bednar
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It's interesting when you read the life of Christ how much of his time he spent healing the sick. There must have been a reason…
— Francis Collins
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. . . for when women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is…
— Louisa May Alcott
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An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a definite proposition... A contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of anything the other…
— Graham Chapman
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God surely did not create us, and cause us to live, with the sole end of wishing always to die. I believe, in my heart,…
— Charlotte Bronte
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One thing is clear: The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly half of everything they earn to the government.
— Ron Paul
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Perhaps this is how you know you're doing the thing you're intended to: No matter how slow or how slight your progress, you never feel…
— Curtis Sittenfeld
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I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected;…
— Charlotte Bronte
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So this was how secrets got started, I thought to myself. People constructed them little by little. I had not intended to keep May Kasahara…
— Haruki Murakami
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It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin - music, sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I mean intended to…
— William S. Burroughs
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The participation if women in some armies in the world is in reality only symbolic. The talk about the role of Zionist women in fighting…
— Saddam Hussein
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