Intended Quotes - page 4

An optimist is somebody who thinks our various political and social systems, schools and churches, support groups and Boy Scout troops, jury trials and congressional committees, are on the up-and-up. That they are intended for the benefit of the members. The reality is that they are designed to keep everyone in line. (Jack McDevitt)
In most cases, to be reasonable means not to be obstinate, which in turn points to conformity with reality as it is. The principle of adjustment is taken for granted. When the idea of reason was conceived, it was intended to achieve more than the mere regulation of the relation between means and ends: it was regarded as the instrument for understanding the ends, for determining them. View quote
Max Horkheimer
My films are intended as polemical statements against the American 'barrel down' cinema and its dis-empowerment of the spectator. They are an appeal for a cinema of insistent questions instead of false (because too quick) answers, for clarifying distance in place of violating closeness, for provocation and dialogue instead of consumption and consensus. View quote
Michael Haneke
In every part of the universe we observe means adjusted with the nicest artifice to the ends which they are intended to produce; and in the mechanism of a plant, or animal body, admire how every thing is contrived for advancing the two great purposes of nature, the support of the individual, and the propagation of the species. View quote
Adam Smith
There is an odd synchronicity in the way parallel lives veer to touch one another, change direction, and then come close again and again until they connect and hold for whatever it was that fate intended to happen. View quote
Ann Rule
There is a gap between the knowledge, skills, or state of mind of the learner and what he is to learn, which it seems to me any teaching activity must seek to bridge if it is to deserve that label. Teaching activities must therefore take place at a level where the pupil can take on what it is intended he should learn. View quote
Paul Q. Hirst
What I see in the Bible, especially in the book of Psalms, which is a book of gratitude for the created world, is a recognition that all good things on Earth are God's, every good gift is from above. They are good if we recognize where they came from and if we treat them the way the Designer intended them to be treated. View quote
Philip Yancey
Our negative life situations are essential elements for us to fulfill our intended destiny. However, unless we possess the power of endurance to live through the dark of the night, we will not see the glory of daybreak. View quote
Chin-Ning Chu
Animals are indeed more ancient, more complex and in many ways more sophisticated than us. They are more perfect because they remain within Nature's fearful symmetry just as Nature intended. They should be respected and revered, but perhaps none more so than the elephant, the world's most emotionally human land mammal. View quote
Daphne Sheldrick
The 'Barnaby' books were always intended to be graphic novels. View quote
Janet Evanovich
Schools teach exactly what they are intended to teach and they do it well: how to be a good Egyptian and remain in your place in the pyramid. (John Taylor Gatto)
Surely, it's one of terrorism's intended effects, to literally stun our morale, to blow up strength and will along with buildings, and the reaction is hard to counter. View quote
Caroline Knapp
Perhaps this is how you know you're doing the thing you're intended to: No matter how slow or how slight your progress, you never feel that it's a waste of time. View quote
Curtis Sittenfeld
I never intended to become a run-of-the-mill person. View quote
Barbara Jordan
It was he who impressed, time and again, the necessity of singing as nature intended, and - I remember - he constantly warned, don't let the public know that you work. So I went slowly. I never forced the voice. View quote
Enrico Caruso
I wasn't the kind of student that Pratt was looking for. They wanted people who would work on something forever. I didn't want to work on any project forever. I intended to get things done. View quote
Jack Kirby
For more than forty years, the United States Congress has shamelessly used payroll taxes intended for Social Security to fund big government spending. View quote
Mike Pence
You've got to work with your mistakes until they look intended. Understand? View quote
Raymond Carver
Many a man is given what is intended for another, but no man is given another's fate. View quote
Sigrid Undset
An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a definite proposition... A contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of anything the other person says." No, it's not... View quote
Graham Chapman
Anime is intended to have ambiguous features. That's part of the art form. (M. Night Shyamalan)
What five members of the Supreme Court say the law is may be something vastly different from what Congress intended the law to be. View quote
Benjamin Franklin Fairless
I think the play actually became bigger than me. No pun intended. View quote
Camryn Manheim
As for 'Independence Day,' we never intended to do any films in that series beyond the first one. View quote
Dean Devlin
Initially I had intended to study medicine, but before going to University I had decided that I would be better suited to a career in which I could concentrate my activities and interests more on a single goal than appeared to be possible in my father's profession. View quote
Frederick Sanger