Intending Quotes
50 Intending quotes by 49 unique authors
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Like most things that happen with Sabbath, it happened all of a sudden. I was intending on doing some recording, but out of the blue,…
— Tony Iommi
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Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.
— Norm MacDonald
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To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off…
— Og Mandino
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The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he…
— Arthur Young
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Oh, they never lie. They dissemble, evade, prevaricate, confound, confuse, distract, obscure, subtly misrepresent and willfully misunderstand with what often appears to be a positively…
— Iain Banks
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When you look at some faces, you can see the turbulence of the infinite beginning to gather to the surface. This moment can open in…
— John O'Donohue
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Do not be deceived, Wormwood. Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our…
— C.S. Lewis
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You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must…
— E. M. Forster
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Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.
— Jane Austen
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The reality was that while they might have eternity, there was violence on the horizon. And in the present. She wasn't intending on ignoring it.…
— Melissa Marr
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You've reached Fantasia, where the undead live again every night," "For bar hours, press one. To make a party reservation, press two. To talk to…
— Charlaine Harris
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Skye kissed her forehead. "You saved my life." Katsa smiled. "You Lienid are very outward in your affection." "I'm going to name my firstborn child…
— Kristin Cashore
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You used to say. "Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness." Madness doubled is marriage I added when the caustic was cool, not…
— Anne Carson
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I do assure you, Sir, that I have no pretension whatever of that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man. I would…
— Jane Austen
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I steal into their dreams," he said. "I steal into their most shameful thoughts, I'm in every shiver, every spasm of their souls, I steal…
— Roberto Bolano
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Is there anyone’s life story you don’t want to know?” “Not really.” His expression was unexpectedly serious. “Because people make a story of their lives.…
— Michelle Sagara
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You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private property is already done away with for…
— Karl Marx
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My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would ask her child after school, So? Did you…
— Isidor Isaac Rabi
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Science ... has no consideration for ultimate purposes, any more than Nature has, but just as the latter occasionally achieves things of the greatest suitableness…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I suppose there must be idiots who dream of signing deals with publishers while fully intending to drink martinis in cool bars or ride around…
— Helen Garner
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I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic truth about markets that was foreign to the literature…
— Vernon L. Smith
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It may not be proper for me, perhaps, to let my feelings carry me further am therefore resigned to stop here, if sir, you think…
— Christopher Gadsden
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I don't have a problem with fame. I got into this business intending to be very successful, but I wanted it to be at my…
— Jason Patric
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I used to go on auditions, not intending to be funny, but people would laugh, and it would throw me. I think there's just something…
— Leslie Mann
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For which of us, intending to build a house, does not sit down first and count the cost? whether we may have enough to finish…
— Glen Rambharack
Who Wrote These Intending Quotes
49 authors contributed a total of 50 Intending Quotes, led by these top contributors: