Unintentional Quotes

23 quotes by 23 authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The beauty of New York is unintentional; it arose independent of human design, like a stalagmite cavern. — Milan Kundera
Fear is ... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do. — Karen Thompson Walker
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
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
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
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
Standing, I turned to face my father. â€œItâ€™s the same as the scent on Moore. Itâ€™s definitely a foreign cat, but itâ€™s...more, somehow.â€ Ethan snickered… — Rachel Vincent
I try to be a careful person. Most of the time my carelessness is completely unintentional. — David Levithan
Unintentional comedy is comedy just the same. — Willie Geist
Back in the 1960s, the number of deaths each year from unintentional poisoning was 15 times greater than it is today. — Hal Stratton
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
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: