Intending Quotes

50 Intending quotes by 49 unique authors

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
Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny. — Norm MacDonald
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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