Quotes with intention-something

Quotes 81 till 100 of 1811.

  • Boris Pasternak A candle burned on the table, a candle burned... he whispered to himself — the beginning of something confused, formless; he hoped that it would take shape of itself. But nothing more came to him.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Brunello Cucinelli A cashmere knit is like a book. It is something to save and go back to time after time. It is the feeling of an embrace.
    Brunello Cucinelli
    Italian designer and businessman
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don't get something smooth, but irregularities at a smaller scale.
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Douglas Adams A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2012) 690
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Victor Hugo A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • John Major A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it.
    John Major
    British politician (1943 - )
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  • Richard Dawkins A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Tony Benn A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world.
    Tony Benn
    British Labor politician (1925 - 2014)
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  • Seneca A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Emily Brontë A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.
    Emily Brontë
    British writer, poet (1818 - 1848)
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  • Wilson Mizner A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something.
    Wilson Mizner
    American Author (1876 - 1933)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Alexander Smith A great man is the man who does something for the first time.
    Alexander Smith
    Scottish Poet, Author (1829 - 1867)
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  • Joseph Campbell A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
    Joseph Campbell
    American mythologist (1904 - 1987)
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  • Abraham Polonsky A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead.
    Abraham Polonsky
    American film director, screenwriter and novelist (1910 - 1999)
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  • Blake Anderson A lot of my music that I like puts energy in your body or makes you want to dance or break something or just go mosh or jump around.
    Blake Anderson
    American actor, comedian and producer (1984 - )
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  • Bob Dylan A lot of people don't have much food on their table
    But they got a lot of forks and knives
    And they gotta cut something
    Bob Dylan (1962)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Bernard Goldberg A lot of people who voted for Barack Obama expected and were led to expect something new in politics: a new tone of political discourse in Washington. And I think - I think they're disappointed, because Barack Obama is not a new kind of politician. In fact, he's an old Chicago politician.
    Bernard Goldberg
    American author and journalist (1945 - )
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  • Ben Schnetzer A lot of times, when you're seeing something that you've done, you're thinking about the experience you had making it, not about the experience of the product.
    Ben Schnetzer
    American actor (1990 - )
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  • Jean Rostand A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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