Quotes About Deliberate

One of the emotional affordances of digital communication is that one can always hide behind deliberated nonchalance.

He prefers a deliberate performance that can be made to seem spontaneous.

Perhaps it was an accident, I told myself. Perhaps he didn't mean to expose himself to me deliberately. But then again, wasn't he the very same person who told our class that there were no accidents or coincidences? That every action we make creates a ripple in the universe which meant that all actions are interconnected?

I very rarely play the piano at home. Deliberately, so that when I do play it, I love it.

Do whatever it takes to keep your gaze on [God]. Memorize Scripture. Sing hymns. Read biographies of great people. Ponder the testimonies of faithful Christians... Make the deliberate decision to set your hope on Him.

His words never rushed but were selected, chewed over, released into the air as if the best choice possible had been made.

Cursed? I offered, my voice croaky because of my unshed tears. It isn't cursed. John said deliberately, rearranging the chain around my neck, if you're wearing it. It's blessed.

The only magic that's left in the world right now is the magic that we make ourselves, deliberately. You're not going to stumble over enchantment by chance. You have to be open to it, looking for it, and when you first think you might have glimpsed it, you have to will it into your life with every machination available to you.

When some misfortune threatens, consider seriously and deliberately what is the very worst that could possibly happen. Having looked this possible misfortune in the face, give yourself sound reasons for thinking that after all it would be no such very terrible disaster. Such reasons always exist, since at the worst nothing that happens to oneself has any cosmic importance.

The man who has no tincture of philosophy goes through life imprisoned in the prejudices derived from common sense, from the habitual beliefs of his age or his nation, and from convictions which have grown up in his mind without the co-operation or consent of his deliberate reason.

Nothing happens in cricket, ever. Even the highlights resemble a freeze frame.

Negative things, and they were all deliberate and I'm not going to say who they were but I know who they were and it was in the business, and that's not a good sign.

American history has never seen a party so unified in perpetuating a massive fraud. This isn't the action of a rogue president like Watergate but a deliberate, calculated decision for a major governing party of the most powerful nation in the history of the world to join hands and deny what they know is true: that Donald Trump is a threat to the country.

American history has never seen a party so unified in perpetuating a massive fraud. This isn't the action of a rogue president like Watergate but a deliberate, calculated decision for a major governing party of the most powerful nation in the history of the world to join hands and deny what they know is true: that Donald Trump is a threat to the country. At

One must distinguish between naïve and deliberate Camp. Pure Camp is always naive. Camp which knows itself to be Camp (camping) is usually less satisfying.

You mean to say he became mad deliberately?' ...Nothing is more likely,' said the duke.

I do think there is a link between the accidental art the sciences produce and the deliberate art the artist creates, but I can't help feeling that the innocence of the accidental art of science has a power and curious beauty that artists are hard-pressed to match.

I'm instinctively cautious because I'm an academic.

The league has to be sensitive about what crosses the line and what doesn't. It's tough to determine what is a legal hit and what isn't a legal hit, and if someone was deliberately trying to hurt someone or not. A certain integrity, though, has to be maintained.

We either live with intention or exist by default.

Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots.

Agape love is selfless love . . . the love God wants us to have isn't just an emotion but a conscious act of the will—a deliberate decision on our part to put others ahead of ourselves. This is the kind of love God has for us.

Life is sacred and given to us by God; for that reason we must never condone the deliberate, unnatural taking of life.

I changed my writing style deliberately. My first two novels were written in a very self-consciously literary way. After I embraced gay subject matter, which was then new, I didn't want to stand in its way. I wanted to make the style as transparent as possible so I could get on with it and tell the story, which was inherently interesting.