Intended Quotes
832 Intended quotes by 682 unique authors
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But things were different now. I finally had my head -pun intended- on straight.
— Meg Cabot
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The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
— James A. Baldwin
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Not every puzzle is intended to be solved. Some are in place to test your limits. Others are, in fact, not puzzles at all...
— Vera Nazarian
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Okay, yeah, he staggered back and fell into the condiments. Big deal. There wasn't any blood. I didn't even get him in the face. He…
— Meg Cabot
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Our negative life situations are essential elements for us to fulfill our intended destiny. However, unless we possess the power of endurance to live through…
— Chin-Ning Chu
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He had found many years ago before that if you kept very quiet people filled in the silences themselves,offering more information than they had originally…
— Martina Cole
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As to the mouth, it delights at times in laughter; it is disposed to impart all that the brain conceives; though I daresay it would…
— Charlotte Bronte
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I realize that some people will not believe that a child of little more than ten years is capable of having such feelings. My story…
— Hermann Hesse
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What was beauty unless you intended to use it, like a hammer, or a key? It was just something for other people to use and…
— Janet Fitch
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We hasten to alienate the very fates we intended to woo.
— Vladimir Nabokov
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My new 9mm didn’t fit my hand as well as my old one, but it was rapidly becoming a familiar weight. At first I’d decided…
— Karen Chance
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The Wrong we have Done, Thought, or Intended Will wreak its Vengeance on Our SOULS.
— Carl Jung
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If we will walk humbly with our God, He will lead us by the hand to exactly who and what we need, to those people,…
— Matthew Kelly
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Write without pay until someone offers pay. If nobody offers within three years, the candidate may look upon this as a sign that sawing wood…
— Mark Twain
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If you think of this world as a place simply intended for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place…
— C.S. Lewis
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I only mean to say that I have a feeling that it never was intended I should live long. I'm not like the rest of…
— Louisa May Alcott
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Once, Turner had himself lashed to the mast of a ship for several hours, during a furious storm, so that he could later paint the…
— David Markson
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The Librarian considered matters for a while. So…a dwarf and a troll. He preferred both species to humans. For one thing, neither of them were…
— Terry Pratchett
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He knew that he was the stuff of which fanatics and madmen are made and that he had turned his destiny as if with his…
— Flannery O'Connor
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Later on Lady Maccon was to describe that particular day as the worst of her life. She had neither the soul nor the romanticism to…
— Gail Carriger
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I ask to be made beautiful like the trees are beautiful, each growing according to a unique plan. Lop off a limb and and the…
— Julia Cameron
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One of the mistakes many of us make is that we feel sorry for ourselves, or for others, thinking that life should be fair, or…
— Richard Carlson
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We are not made for the mountains, for sunrises, or for the other beautiful attractions in life - those are simply intended to be moments…
— Oswald Chambers
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Entrepreneurship rests on a theory of economy and society. The theory sees change as normal and indeed as healthy. And it sees the major task…
— Peter Drucker
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This is what I do know: A lie, however well-intended, can't prepare you for reality or change the world... To tell the truth is to…
— Mira Grant
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