Unintentional Quotes
23 quotes by 23 authors
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Indeed, among the lesser auxiliaries to success in love, an absence, the declining of an invitation to dinner, an unintentional, unconscious harshness are of more…
— Marcel Proust
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If by chance I seated myself to write, she very slyly, very tenderly, seeking protection and caresses, would softly take her place on my knee…
— Pierre Loti
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The inscrutability [of economics] is perhaps not unintentional. It gives endless employment to dialecticians who otherwise might become public charges or, at very worst, swindlers…
— Jack Vance
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We need to develop a better descriptive vocabulary for lying, a taxonomy, a way to distinguish intentional lies from unintentional ones, and a way to…
— Rivka Galchen
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It is never easy to demand the most from ourselves, from our lives, from our work. To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged…
— Audre Lorde
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Sometimes people hurt us unintentionally. We may view that they've hurt us intentionally and want revenge. But sometimes when we really look back again, we…
— Cindy Wright
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When the environment makes gender salient, there is a ripple effect on the mind. We start to think of ourselves in terms of our gender,…
— Cordelia Fine
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The history of the welfare state is the history of public enterprise pushing out private organization. The impact was largely unintentional, but natural and inevitable.…
— Doug Bandow
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The beauty of New York is unintentional; it arose independent of human design, like a stalagmite cavern.
— Milan Kundera
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Fear is ... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
— Karen Thompson Walker
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Why is an actor's unintentional giggling called a 'corpse'? It seems to me quite the opposite. It proves that he's very much alive, and can…
— Antony Sher
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Many say an art dealer running a museum is a 'conflict of interest.' But maybe the art world has lived an artificial or unintentional lie…
— Jerry Saltz
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To be a nemesis, you have to actively try to destroy something, don't you? Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be…
— Linus Torvalds
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Sanchez looked at me and we locked eyes a second too long. There was nothing I could do about it. The signal went out. A…
— Rick Riordan
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Standing, I turned to face my father. “It’s the same as the scent on Moore. It’s definitely a foreign cat, but it’s...more, somehow.†Ethan snickered…
— Rachel Vincent
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I try to be a careful person. Most of the time my carelessness is completely unintentional.
— David Levithan
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Unintentional comedy is comedy just the same.
— Willie Geist
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Back in the 1960s, the number of deaths each year from unintentional poisoning was 15 times greater than it is today.
— Hal Stratton
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Hmmm! Faith is the unintentional plan, with sole surety upon your commitments, which in true describes you and yourself tc n ks
— Sardar Hyder Abbas
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Inadvertently, you create a high volume of enemies by telling the truth.
— Andrew Cervantes
Who Wrote These Unintentional Quotes
23 authors contributed a total of 23 Unintentional Quotes as follows: