Fiction intended to please, should resemble truth as much as possible.
If they [liberals] didn't believe we were mean spirited they couldn't stay liberal. They have to believe they mean better than us, but we don't have to believe that we mean better than them. We have to believe that we do better than them. We measure morality by what happens not what is intended.
I think what is great is that if anything that I do is interesting to somebody else, then I really don't think it matters at all what I had originally intended.
I am certain that the good Lord never intended grapes to be made into grape jelly.
He had found many years ago before that if you kept very quiet people filled in the silences themselves,offering more information than they had originally intended to give.
Economics is concerned with what emerges, not what anyone intended.
Our society lacks a feedback loop for controlling technology: a way to gauge intended effects from actual effects later on
I don't think we use television the way we should or the way the inventors intended.
I realize that some people will not believe that a child of little more than ten years is capable of having such feelings. My story is not intended for them. I am telling it to those who have a better knowledge of man. The adult who has learned to translate a part of his feelings into thoughts notices the absence of these thoughts in a child, and therefore comes to believe that the child lacks these experiences, too. Yet rarely in my life have I felt and suffered as deeply as at that time.
Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization, never intended. . . to take in the whole sick population. May we hope that the day will come. . . when every poor sick person will have the opportunity of a share in a district sick-nurse at home.
God knows why - no pun intended - but every time I write a song, I feel a need to touch on religion.
My writing just kind of exists out there in the air-it's all sort of intended as spoken, or sung, word. So, to commit them to the page. . . that way was kind of intimidating to me, yet intriguing, to try to reflect the rhythms and connotations and emotions that you can deliver, speaking-wise, on a page.
A true proposition is a proposition belief which would never lead to such disappointment so long as the proposition is not understood otherwise than it was intended.
Recreation is intended to the mind as whetting is to the scythe, to sharpen the edge of it, which otherwise would grow dull and blunt,--as good no scythe as no edge.
But cheer up - we could be selling tobacco. It's not like software kills people if used as intended
The screwball's an unnatural pitch. Nature never intended a man to turn his hand like that throwing rocks at a bear.
In America our public schools are intended to be religiously neutral. Our teachers and schools are neither to endorse nor to inhibit religion. I believe this is a very good thing.
What does it mean for an actor to make a part his own? It means that he takes on what you had intended and starts to put in his own stuff so that it becomes something that could only happen if he played it.
His administration apparently means to define itself as a television program instead of a government. . . I don't know if it can please both its sponsors and its intended audience.
Crow paced back and forth, his form flickering like flame. "It's been a thousand years, Alister. I never intended for anyone to find it, so it's very well protected. One little misstep, and you and my line will be history. " "Since when are you so concerned about your line?" Han said. Crow stared at him for a long moment. "Since I found out I had one.