Top 52 Quotes About Unintentional
#1. James Reason reminds us, "Errors are largely unintentional. It is very difficult for management to control what people did not intend to do in the first place.
Robert Wachter
#2. People use rewards expecting to gain the benefit of increasing another person's motivation and behavior, but in so doing, they often incur the unintentional and hidden cost of undermining that person's intrinsic motivation toward the activity.
Daniel H. Pink
#3. Man does not commit sin in unintentional deed,
but he might be the only one that could justify it.
Toba Beta
#4. I have hurt people. It was unintentional, but nevertheless, there was damage done.
John Rocker
#5. You may be an unintentional avatar, but you are an avatar nonetheless.
Jeff VanderMeer
#6. This was unintentional."
It became something more without noticing. Without realizing. "Am I a mistake - "
"No, myshka. You're just the unexpected, beautiful thing in my life.
Krista Ritchie
#7. Lips parted, soul entered,
blood rushed through veins,
unconditional and unintentional it was.
Upasana Banerjee
#8. Indeed, among the lesser auxiliaries to success in love, an absence, the declining of an invitation to dinner, an unintentional, unconscious harshness are of more service than all the cosmetics and fine clothes in the world.
Marcel Proust
#9. An unintentional life accepts everything and does nothing. An intentional life embraces only the things that will add to the mission of significance.
John C. Maxwell
#10. Crooked thinking, unintentional or not, always favors evil.
Dallas Willard
#11. I try to be a careful person. Most of the time my carelessness is completely unintentional.
David Levithan
#12. You were most entertaining," Zayne replied. "That was unintentional," Eliza muttered.
Jen Turano
#13. Sanchez looked at me and we locked eyes a second too long. There was nothing I could do about it. The signal went out. A moment of clear, silent hostility passed between us as hotly charged and unintentional as a thousand-volt arc through a squirrel.
Rick Riordan
#14. Nothing I write ever has a moral. If it seems to a reader that there is one, that is unintentional.
Louise Erdrich
#15. To be a nemesis, you have to actively try to destroy something, don't you? Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect.
Linus Torvalds
#16. That's the beautiful thing about love ... it's unintentional, and it can happen when we least expect it,
Lisa De Jong
#17. Fear is ... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
Karen Thompson Walker
#18. All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies.
George Bernard Shaw
#19. Hamas hides among unwitting civilians, who have no way of controlling its activities. This fact does not give Israel the right to kill innocent non-combatants, not even unintentionally. Besides, murder is not 'unintentional' when you know it is inevitable.
Ilana Mercer
#20. Drifting away from faith tends to start with the small things, the unintentional things, the seemingly insignificant moments of discontentment.
Kasey Van Norman
#21. In St. Petersburg, the most abstract and intentional city on the entire globe. (Cities and be intentional or unintentional.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#22. ...Perhaps New York's unintentional beauty is much richer and more varied than the excessively strict and composed beauty of human design. But it's not our European beauty. It's an alien world.
Milan Kundera
#23. Of course, no lyrics are ever unintentional, but I think bands like Wolf Parade and the Arcade Fire have a tendency to touch on big themes without really following through on them or tying them in to a particular logic.
Dan Bejar
#24. Standing, I turned to face my father. "It's the same as the scent on Moore. It's definitely a foreign cat, but it's ... more, somehow." Ethan snickered at my unintentional pun, but I ignored him.
Rachel Vincent
#25. The inscrutability [of economics] is perhaps not unintentional. It gives endless employment to dialecticians who otherwise might become public charges or, at very worst, swindlers and tricksters.
Jack Vance
#26. Unintentional comedy is comedy just the same.
Willie Geist
#27. The beauty of New York is unintentional; it arose independent of human design, like a stalagmite cavern.
Milan Kundera
#28. All the world's misfortunes stemmed from the countless untruths, both deliberate and unintentional, which people told because of haste or carelessness.
Michael Ende
#29. The history of imitation of the older literature, particularly abroad, has among other advantages this one, that the important concepts of unintentional parody and passive wit can be deduced from it most easily and comprehensively.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
#30. anthrapologize FW 151.7 v. Express regret or apologize for the science of man or anthropology. So many mistakes, unintentional and sometimes not, have been made in the study of human origins and development, especially racial, along with customs and beliefs, that some apologies are needed.
Bill Cole Cliett
#31. Why is an actor's unintentional giggling called a 'corpse'? It seems to me quite the opposite. It proves that he's very much alive, and can still tell how silly this all is: him dressed up as someone else speaking words written by a third party.
Antony Sher
#32. Appropriate action means to advance your own goals, without unintentional harm to anyone else.
Steven Brust
#33. I'm not a very intentional writer. I try to be as unintentional as possible. What I basically try to do is invite the zeitgeist in to tea.
William Gibson
#34. Unintentional foreshadowing is unintentionally hilarious.
Sarah Wendell
#35. As far as inner action is concerned, we are only rarely truly self-determined persons, for the major part of our conscious mental activity rather is an automatic, unintentional form of behavior on the subpersonal level.
Thomas Metzinger
#36. In most cases, it's slight and often unintentional gaps in integrity that hold leaders, their employees, and their companies back. Despite their potential, these leaders harm their employees and themselves.
Travis Bradberry
#37. In his Interview in Les Nouvelles, Mosaddegh gave an unintentional insight into his own marriage at this stage when he described Iranian women as "more mother than wife." (p37)
Christopher De Bellaigue
#38. Back in the 1960s, the number of deaths each year from unintentional poisoning was 15 times greater than it is today.
Hal Stratton
#39. If by chance I seated myself to write, she very slyly, very tenderly, seeking protection and caresses, would softly take her place on my knee and follow the comings and goings of my pen - sometimes effacing, with an unintentional stroke of her paw, lines of whose tenor she disapproved.
Pierre Loti
#40. (Jesus speaking) An awful lot of what is done in my name has nothing to do with me and is often, even if unintentional, very contrary to my purposes.
Wm. Paul Young
#41. Many say an art dealer running a museum is a 'conflict of interest.' But maybe the art world has lived an artificial or unintentional lie all of these years when it comes to conflicts of interest.
Jerry Saltz
#42. Hitting the first molecules of the upper atmosphere created friction that merely warmed the rod. The lower it fell, the more the heat built, until the entire length of the rod glowed red then yellow, and, finally, a brilliant white.
Clive Cussler
#43. A friendliness, as of dwarfs shaking hands, was in the air...
E. M. Forster
#44. Let me tell you something, I have never stated this, but you idiots refer to me as some moroon, I have a aster and a lwa degree. I simply cannot take the bar because of my stupid past in my 20's. You people do not want to go up against m on education because most of you will lose badly.
Larry Sinclair
#45. After a long analysis of Robson's suicide, we concluded that it could only be considered philosophical in an arithmetical sense of the term: he, being about to cause an increase of one in the human population, had decided it was his ethical duty to keep the planet's numbers constant.
Julian Barnes
#46. ObamaCare is, really, I think the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery - and it is slavery, in a way, because it is making all of us subservient to the government. It was never about health care; it was about control.
Ben Carson
#48. And often Lisa thought bitterly of the ideas she had held on "college life" before coming to Denton, ideas and images culled from a hundred magazine stories and as many movies. Where were the convertibles, the secret bottles of liquor, the gay young men and their wild girl friends?
Grace Metalious
#49. Nobody sane wants to disappoint himself intentionally.
Toba Beta
#51. Remember the Wizard Archer's drill arrows that rescued the entombed miners? Well, we're drilling holes in your swiss cheese building to rescue you from a costly boner!
Robert Bernstein
#52. I'm sorry, anal sex," Beavers continued, embarrassed by her slip of the tongue.
Dale Carpenter
