Quotes About Deliberate

and this is a union which is formed, not of deliberate purpose, but because, in common with other animals and with plants, mankind have a natural desire to leave behind them an image of themselves)

She had a slow, deliberate way of walking -- as if she had once been startled into precipitate action and had regretted it. A Place in the Country

Use all the tools at your disposal. The language is infinitely flexible, and your use of it should be completely deliberate. Never forget the grotesque effect of the absolutely wrong words.

choosing his words very carefully, like someone slowly eating matza.

the creation of any sense of unity among a population of potentially disharmonious settlers almost always requires the deliberate agency of man.

He made of his sexuality an ethic; he expressed this ethic in works of literature. It is by this deliberate act that Sade attains a real originality.

Buy calmly and with meaning.

No, it wasn't an accident, I didn't say that. It was carefully planned, down to the tiniest mechanical and emotional detail. But it was a mistake.

The unpardonable sin is committed only by lost people, and then it is the sin of those who do not want to be saved and deliberately refuse salvation. There is no other unpardonable sin.

Ordinary exploration begins in the juiciest sort of indecision, in deliberate, then routine fits of absence of mind... Exploring requires the cloak of invisibility bicyclists and walkers take for granted.

What Hegel taught that intrigued the powerful then and now was that history could be deliberately managed by skillfully provoking crises out of public view and then demanding national unity to meet those crises — a disciplined unity under cover of which leadership privileges approached the absolute.

Beauty must be more than an accident.

In other words, it requires deliberate self-deception, including a constant effort to repress or block out unpleasant possibilities and 'negative' thoughts. The truly self-confident, or those who have in some way made their peace with the world and their destiny within it, do not need to expend effort censoring or otherwise controlling their thoughts.

This was not necessarily a deliberate effort to be offensive; it was normal for General Staff officers to be offensive.

Only recently, during the nineteenth century, and then only in Europe, do we meet forms of the state which have been created by a deliberate national feeling.

I've never been reckless - it's always calculated. I'm mischievous, but I'm calculated.

I'm a lot of things, but I'm not reckless.

I chose deliberately for Harry Bosch to age chronologically with the books.

it was an act of self-hypnosis, a deliberate drowning of consciousness by means of rhythmic noise.

Word-of-mouth marketing is the deliberate attempt to encourage and facilitate the transmission of such third-party communication.

The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.

The pirates left the boat in the Thames, next to the Palace of Westminster. They deliberately parked across two disabled spaces, because that kind of behaviour was pretty much the whole point of being a pirate.

I had given myself a sort of early retirement when I left the scene in 1985. All of the people in my family worked until they dropped, including my father. I decided to take a little time to enjoy life. I traveled, built my dream house, rescued a few dogs. My return to music, and acting, was deliberate, part of my musical arc.

I don't want to be known as someone who is deliberately trying to do things that are not commercial! That is not a good reputation to have when you're trying to be a working actor.