Quotes About Unintentional

Bewildering that you could harm a child without even knowing, thinking all the while you were being careful, conscientious. But it was a terrible feeling. More terrible than having

This country seems able to do more by accident than any other country can do on purpose.—Employee at Bechtel-McCone B-29 modification plant, Birmingham, Alabama, 1943

I accidentally make innuendos all the time without even realising. I'm middle-aged, in that sense.

Every job I've ever gotten has been an accident. All the jobs I actually go after, I don't get.

In fact, we or someone else can become terrifying, even while we are trying to save the day by insisting others be more egalitarian and conscious. Often such well-meaning, group consciousness bringers are unaware of how they push others about. Any one of us can unwittingly hurt others simply by being unaware of the powers we have and how we use them. If we are not careful, the very attempt to raise consciousness can simply recycle the very abusive behavior we hope to correct.

Because Helen Clarke was ungraceful by nature, she managed to make the simple act of moving into a room and sitting down a complex ballet for three people; before Constance had quite finished speaking Helen Clarke jostled Mrs. Wright and sent Mrs. Wright sideways like a careening croquet ball off into the far corner of the room where she sat abruptly and clearly without intention upon a small and uncomfortable chair.

Tod Donald rarely did anything voluntarily, or with planning, or even with intent acknowledged to himself; he found himself doing one thing, and then he found himself doing another, and that, as he saw it, was the way one lived along, never deciding, never helping.

We are cruel enough without meaning to be.

Trump is an amazing comedy writer without realizing it.

Can't people do hurtful things, sometimes, and not even know they're doing them?

Can't people do hurtful things, sometimes, and not even know they're doing them?

I try to be a careful person. Most of the time my carelessness is completely unintentional.

But giving in to the fear of feeling and working to capacity is a luxury only the unintentional can afford, and the unintentional are those who do not wish to guide their own destinies.

The law of the sin offering reminds us that we can do harm unintentionally, and this can have consequences, both physical and psychological. The best way of putting things right is to make a sacrifice: to do something that costs us something.

Something to happen, something that got bigger than they were, something that had unintentionally major consequences. Ripples. That interests me.

I think we need to be very careful if we want to do things like further modify our atmosphere. And similarly, I think we need to be very worried about unintentional modification, which is basically what's been going on.

It is unintentional that I will do less films, it just happened that way. Like in 2000, I had a line of films signed but it all went for a toss. The films never got made... It just happens.

Nature is being kind without knowing it, as nature can be cruel without knowing it.

A lot of times you get credit for stuff in your movies you didn't intend to be there.

If I commit an error I do it without bad intention.

He did so innocently, without intention or design.

What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for--and to do it so unconsciously.

Around the world today we're seeing an incredible transformation, from what I would call a biocidal species, one that - whether we intentionally or unintentionally - have designed our systems to kill life, a lot of the time.

Those who do wrong unintentionally are in need of instruction, not punishment.