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Quotes About Unintentional

But people do plenty of harm when they didn't mean any. It happens all the time.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
I think that, too many times, business has been seen as acting in its narrow self-interest rather than, essentially, contributing more broadly to society. I think a lot of that is unintentional; I don't think that many managers are deliberately trying to be unethical or are not trying to be sensitive to social needs.
~ Michael Porter
The things he did on purpose were usually no different from the mistakes he made by accident.
~ Chuck Klosterman
Great, you ruined my life and you don't even remember it.
~ Claire Cook
Someone helps you out by accident, it's still help.
~ Colson Whitehead
The thing to note about accidental Pharisees is just that. They're accidental. They're like dinner at Denny's. No one plans to go there. You just end up there.
~ Larry Osborne
We don't plan on making our life complicated, it just happens, and we don't do it on purpose, and we don't do it to hurt people who love us. It just turns out that way sometimes.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
We don't plan on making our life complicated, it just happens. We don't do it on purpose, and we don't do it to hurt people who love us. It just turns out that way sometimes.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
I accidentally knew all the words.
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
I guess what happens is, if you get arrested in Town A (Philadelphia) and then Town B (San Francisco)-with a lot of publicity-then when you get to Town C they have to arrest you or what kind of shithouse town are they running? It's a pattern of unintentional harassment.
~ Lenny Bruce
I wanted to keep it from Jane's knowledge; but, unluckily, I had mentioned it before I was aware.
~ Jane Austen
sin querer obrar mal ni hacer infelices a los otros se puede errar y ocasionar desgracia. La carencia de reflexión o la escasa atención a los sentimientos ajenos, así como la falta de resolución, dan ese resultado.
~ Jane Austen
Any manual labor I've done was purely by mistake.
~ Mac McAnally
I am not very strategic by nature.
~ Shriya Pilgaonkar
what is the opposite of a mistake? And I realised there wasn't a word, in fact, precisely because a mistake always arises from best intentions that go awry. You can't set out to make a mistake. Mistakes happen – there's nothing we can do about them.
~ William Boyd
Aiyana could not possibly have known it, but she had just changed the course of human history.
~ Chris Mead
It was an accident," Deborah declared. "Yeah, the man she intended to hit ducked. I just happened to be behind him.
~ Tracie Peterson
Sometimes people do much wrong unintentionally, meaning for the best
~ Tracy Hickman
accidentally knocking
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Here come those I have done good to against my will
~ William Shakespeare
The beauty of New York is unintentional; it arose independent of human design, like a stalagmite cavern.
~ Milan Kundera
I try to be a careful person. Most of the time my carelessness is completely unintentional.
~ David Levithan
A lot happens by accident in poetry.
~ Howard Nemerov
For me, everything has always been an accident.
~ Craig Charles