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Quotes About Intended

Many if not most of the interpretive mistakes in biblicism, I think, come in the form of texts having perlocutionary effects on biblicist readers that were not intended by the biblical authors or perhaps the God who inspired them.
~ Christian Smith
Quality assurance (QA) refers to planned and systematic production processes that provide confidence in a product's suitability for its intended purpose.
~ Christina Hattingh
Later I learned to improve my forecasting—if necessary by asking the visitor in advance what subjects he intended to raise with Nixon. In
~ Henry Kissinger
Any irony intended proved words wasted, for they were drowned in Isabella's rapacity.
~ Leonie Frieda
The concept of fair value accounting is correct and useful, but the application during periods of crisis is problematic. It's another one of those unintended consequences of making a rule that's supposed to be good that turns out the other way.
~ Stephen A. Schwarzman
I shall have less cause to regret the carrying my intended purpose into effect, foreseeing that you may immediately fill with advantage, the vacancy which will presently happen.
~ Henry Laurens
We designed a car that is for daily commutes and that you charge every day. The less you use the gasoline engine, the better mpg. Essentially, the Karma can achieve dramatic savings and low CO2 output when used as intended, as a daily commuter.
~ Henrik Fisker
It was an accident," Deborah declared. "Yeah, the man she intended to hit ducked. I just happened to be behind him.
~ Tracie Peterson
An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a definite proposition... A contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of anything the other person says." No, it's not.
~ Graham Chapman
Don't listen to me. Advice so rarely finds its inteded audience. It's like the sword in the stone — you leave it there, maybe someday someone finds it useful. Sorry, people — we're driving through lativia and I can't reach for my state of mind. 1. Thoughts are made of water and water always finds a way. 2. If you can't dodge the water, run.
~ Dave Eggers
Death is hungry and Destruction is determined and it does not like its intended victims to get away.
~ David Almond
characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any apparent similarity to real persons is not intended by the author and is either a coincidence or
~ David Foster Wallace
A virtuous expediency, then, seems the highest desirable or attainable earthly excellence for the mass of men, and is the only earthly excellence that their Creator intended for them.
~ Herman Melville
I hold that if the Almighty had ever made a set of men that should do all the eating and none of the work, he would have made them with mouths only and no hands, and if he had ever made another class that he intended should do all the work and none of the eating, he would have made them without mouths and with all hands.
~ Unknown
The documents show that the military designated people it killed in targeted strikes as EKIA, "enemy killed in action," even if they were not the intended targets of the strike. Unless
~ Jeremy Scahill
All pain we experience is intended to move us closer to the goal of being holy as He is holy.
~ Jerry Bridges
Art is a human act, a generous contribution, something that might not work, and it is intended to change the recipient for the better, often causing a connection to happen.
~ Seth Godin
This submission is a restraint of liberty, but could be of no effect as to the good intended, unless it were general; nor general, unless it were natural.
~ Algernon Sidney
Macedonian or Bactrian Greeks were most usually intended is not
~ V?lm?ki
Curiously, the darkness seemed to have something to do with Harriet, Ron's intended, and I thought for a time that it was simply the reality of Harriet's arrival that had dramatized the passing of time: we had been talking about it and now suddenly it was here — just as Brenda's departure would be here before we knew it.
~ Philip Roth
Call it fate, call it synchronicity: you never know what your actions are going to lead to, or the possibilities they can cause. There is a ripple effect to every action you take, intended or not.
~ Unknown
Call it fate, call it synchronicity: you never know what your actions are going to lead to, or the possibilities they can cause. There is a ripple effect to every action you take, intended or not. I walked out of his office feeling better than I had in months.
~ Unknown
I hate the phrase 'No pun intended.' It's pointless.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.
~ Unknown