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Quotes About Unintentional

The heart wants what it wants, Dolp. You don't plan on making your life complicated, it just happens,and you dont do it on purpose, and you don't do it to hurt people who love you. It just turns out that way sometimes.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Great discoveries are made accidentally less often than the populace likes to think. Commenting on how an accident led to the discovery of X-rays.
~ William Cecil Dampier
She hadn't meant to come so close in all that vastness.
~ Andrew Mark
So you're falling for her?" Hager said on the phone. Joe paced his living room, watching the sun sinking behind the mountains. "Yes. It wasn't intentional. I don't know when it happened.
~ Lindsay McKenna
We are confronted by the appearance of social institutions unintentionally created, vital for the welfare of society, which are not the result of reasoned planning
~ Carl Menger
A paz que é dos que não conhecem e esquecem sem querer.
~ Fernando Pessoa
James Reason reminds us, "Errors are largely unintentional. It is very difficult for management to control what people did not intend to do in the first place.
~ Robert Wachter
It's not her fault she got hit.
~ Lisa Scottoline
I seem to have accidentally got married, but it's only temporary.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
If anyone was sane here, he swore it was by accident.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
A veces es asombroso el daño que podemos causar sin proponérnoslo
~ Eduardo Sacheri
I blame the pencil. I hadn't meant to do it. I wasn't thinking. It just happened that way.
~ Edward Carey
I don't intentionally go: 'Ooh, what is provocative,' and try to do that. I just do stuff, and people go: 'Ooh, that's provocative.'
~ M.I.A.
I'm not in public life except by accident.
~ Jean Kennedy Smith
Sex appeal is not on purpose.
~ Heather Locklear
Paranormal reality shows are some of the best unintentional comedy in the history of recorded entertainment.
~ Wil Wheaton
ADVENTITIOUS  (ADVENTI'TIOUS)   adj.[adventitius, Lat.]That which advenes; accidental; supervenient; extrinsically added, not essentially inherent.
~ Samuel Johnson
You punched him by accident.
~ Sarah Dessen
You know," I said one day, smiling, "that you've given her the name of my doll?" "What doll?" "Tina, you don't remember?" She touched her forehead as if she had a headache, and said: "It's true, but I didn't do it on purpose." "She was a beautiful doll—I was attached to her." "My daughter is more beautiful.
~ Elena Ferrante
To be a nemesis, you have to actively try to destroy something, don't you? Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect.
~ Linus Torvalds
You could say I strengthened and shaped Goblin, unwittingly creating the monster that he is now.
~ Anne Rice
That's how it was." "How do you kill somebody accidentally?"
~ Sherman Alexie
I tell people that I've now done one decent thing in my life. Albeit inadvertently.
~ Larry David
Well, I'm the king of Foot in Mouth.
~ Elizabeth Bear