Quotes About Unintentional

All of life is a meditation, most of it unintentional.

I ended up being a businessman unwittingly. I wanted to be an academic; I wanted to be like Einstein.

History is a record of effects the vast majority of which nobody intended to produce.

It went on and on; intentionally, unintentionally, it didn't matter. The end was the same: broken people left in pieces, lives fractured, love bludgeoned.

I came to photography by accident.

No matter what set she's been on over the last 12 years, my mother always finds a way to get in the way. Not in a bad way. Like, she once got caught on a law show I did called 'Philly' trying to take a picture - she was caught on-camera in the background. She does things like this.

I personally do not write highbrow music. If I do, it's by accident.

But when I did it (the triple-double), I didn't even know it until someone told me.

I had no idea that I was…destroying people.

It's also hard for people to contend with the difficult possibility that we are simply overadvanced fungi and bacteria hurtling through a galaxy in cold, meaningless space. But just because our existence may have arisen unintentionally and without purpose doesn't preclude meaning or purpose from emerging as a result of our interaction and collaboration. Meaning may not be a precondition for humanity as much as a by-product of it.

Acting happened to me incidentally, I never planned.

A lot of the evil in the world is actually not intentional. A lot of people in the financial system did a lot of damage without intending to.

He often did offend women without meaning to or even knowing how he'd managed.

not being either philosophers17 to understand the reason, or mathematicians enough to calculate the powers and to proportion the parts, very luckily by accident found what they sought for.

We didn't do any of it on purpose. We're just … not very good at things.

I didn't mean to be born.

Anybody can be very destructive in that position without at all meaning to be, and I know that I have been inadvertently destructive in the past for certain people on certain occasions.

In an effort to value and structure time, some of us unintentionally may be killing dreamtime.

No one intended to leave Martha alone that afternoon, but it happened that everyone was called away, for one reason or another.

If happiness is determined by expectations, then two pillars of our society – mass media and the advertising industry – may unwittingly be depleting the globe's reservoirs of contentment

There are of course also Jews who—intentionally or unintentionally—traffic in antisemitic stereotypes. When this seeps into the larger culture, it signals that it's okay for non-Jews to do likewise.

Mrs. Gerry was an outstanding figure here," the paper noted, "not because she tried to be, but because she couldn't help being.

You may be an unintentional avatar, but you are an avatar nonetheless.

His membership in the human race was entirely accidental and unsolicited.