Intended Quotes

To love someone means to see him as God intended him. (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be. View quote
Oprah Winfrey
There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice. View quote
John Calvin
What God intended for you goes far beyond anything you can imagine. View quote
Oprah Winfrey
The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended. View quote
Robert Frost
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose. View quote
Garrison Keillor
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. View quote
Galileo Galilei
When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality. View quote
George William Russell
Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve. View quote
Karl Popper
It is a commonplace that the League of Nations is not yet-what its most enthusiastic protagonists intended it to be. (Hjalmar Branting)
The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified. View quote
John Updike
The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep. View quote
George Stephanopoulos
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish. View quote
W. H. Auden
Government was intended to suppress injustice, but its effect has been to embody and perpetuate it. View quote
William Godwin
A system is a plan or scheme of doctrines intended to develop a particular view. View quote
Albert Mackey
Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative. View quote
W. S. Gilbert
Through my art I have tried to explain my life and its meaning. I have also intended to help others to clarify their lives. View quote
Edvard Munch
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. View quote
Douglas Adams
Destiny is a lie. Destiny is justification for atrocity. It is the means by which murderers armour themselves against reprimand. It is a word intended to stand in place of ethics, denying all moral context. View quote
Steven Erikson
Your discovery of the contradiction caused me the greatest surprise and, I would almost say, consternation, since it has shaken the basis on which I intended to build my arithmetic. (Gottlob Frege)
Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed. View quote
Sydney Smith
Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment. View quote
Søren Kierkegaard
The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer. View quote
Alan Turing
I object to teaching of slogans intended to befog the mind, of whatever kind they may be. View quote
Franz Boas