Intended Quotes

832 Intended quotes by 682 unique authors

Destruction of the embryo in the mother's womb is a violation of the right to live which God has bestowed upon this nascent life. To… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
When the prophet, a complacent fat man, Arrived at the mountain-top He cried: "Woe to my knowledge! I intended to see good white lands And… — Stephen Crane
At last, Lady Evenstar, fairest in this world, and most beloved, my world is fading. Lo! we have gathered, and we have spent, and now… — J.R.R. Tolkien
He stepped off the pavement like a man jumping off a bridge, as calm as a swimmer with an ocean out below. Lucy had known… — Alice Hoffman
Crow paced back and forth, his form flickering like flame. “It’s been a thousand years, Alister. I never intended for anyone to find it, so… — Cinda Williams Chima
It was if the city knew about Percy's dream of Gaea. It knew that the earth goddess intended on razing all human civilization, and this… — Rick Riordan
It was also her nature that caused her letters to avoid emotional pitfalls and confine themselves to relating the events of her daily life in… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
But maybe happiness isn't in the choosing. Maybe it's in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended… — Lauren Oliver
It was a nasty look. It made me feel as if I were something the dog had brought in and intended to bury later on,… — P.G. Wodehouse
No poem is intended for the reader, no picture for the beholder, no symphony for the listener. — Walter Benjamin
Ultimately, it doesn't matter if the author intended a symbol to be there, because the job of reading is not to understand the authors intend.… — John Green
I have a tendency to want to understand everything people say and everything I hear, both at work and outside, even at a distance, even… — Javier MarÃas
They couldn’t have known that even this was a lie—that we never really choose, not entirely. We are always being pushed and squeezed down one… — Lauren Oliver
Hiding here, are you? That’s awkward.” “Why?” “Because I had intended to hide here myself.” “You may hide here with me, if you wish. — Cassandra Clare
Most people ended up, after only a couple of months, so far away from where they'd intended to go, stuck in some barbed underbrush of… — Marisha Pessl
I eyed Dimitri, recalling a shadow in my periphery back in the ballroom. "You followed when I jumped in front of Lissa, didn't you? Who… — Richelle Mead
She learned that an act intended to express love could have nothing to do with it. That her heart and her body were different things. — Jhumpa Lahiri
Perfect happiness, I believe, was never intended by the Deity to be the lot of one of his creatures in this world; but that he… — Thomas Jefferson
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego… — Galileo Galilei
It should not be believed that all beings exist for the sake of the existence of man. On the contrary, all the other beings too… — Maimonides
To wage war on misery and to struggle against injustice is to promote, along with improved conditions, the human and spiritual progress of all men,… — Pope Paul VI
The very strength that protects the heart from injury is the strength that prevents the heart from enlarging to its intended greatness within. The song… — Khalil Gibran
Because she favours solitude and indwelling, an artist can live a significantly more claustrophobic life that she had ever intended. — Eric Maisel
Trouble is another word for fate; what troubles us the most is what we are fated to one day face. What troubles us in youth… — Michael Meade
Does the evolutionary doctrine clash with religious faith? It does not. It is a blunder to mistake the Holy Scriptures for elementary textbooks of astronomy,… — Theodosius Dobzhansky

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