Unintentionally Quotes

#1. One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.

Ben Okri

#2. When we suggest victims can stop rape, we also (however unintentionally) imply that rape is an inevitable aspect of life rather than an action deliberately carried out by a perpetrator.

Laura Bates

#3. There are little elements in a person's life, minor fibers that become unintentionally tangled with our personality. Sometimes it's a patent phrase, sometimes it's a perfume, sometimes it's a wristwatch.

Sloane Crosley

#4. Hence if man goes on selecting, and thus augmenting, any peculiarity, he will almost certainly modify unintentionally other parts of the structure, owing to the mysterious laws of correlation.

Charles Darwin

#5. Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude.

Oscar Wilde

#6. Parents who always whisper the word "sex" unintentionally tell their kids, "I don't want to talk about this. Get your answers elsewhere.

Michael Rittenhouse

#7. I don't have nothing to regret at all in the past, except that I might've unintentionally hurt somebody else or something.

Jimi Hendrix

#8. Unless we speak praise, we consistently speak poison. Unless we are intentional about giving God glory throughout the day, our days unintentionally give way to grumbling.

Ann Voskamp

#9. I think unintentionally I gravitate towards concepts and topics that hit home or are something real we can all relate to.

Seth Gordon

#10. I've always followed my father's advice: he told me, first to always keep my word and, second, to never insult anybody unintentionally. If I insult you, you can be goddamn sure I intend to. And, third, he told me not to go around looking for trouble.

John Wayne

#11. Small kindnesses often, unintentionally, produce the biggest payoffs.

Richard Paul Evans

#12. I also think the women's movement has unintentionally contributed to the dishonoring of motherhood. It happened because we made such a big deal about our right to go out into the world.

Marianne Williamson

#13. In art, one does not aim for simplicity; one achieves it unintentionally as one gets closer to the real meaning of things.

Constantin Brancusi

#14. I'm raising the question of whether focusing on the afterlife beyond history can unintentionally but tragically lead to the abandonment of this earth and this life.

Brian D. McLaren

#15. You don't unconditionally adore your friends every moment of every day. They can unintentionally hurt your feelings, or make you mad, or upset you by doing something you consider totally inappropriate. You take what they dish out because accepting they're not perfect is part of a true friendship.

Linda Welch

#16. Author Bruce Feiler believes the problem lies in the offer to "do anything." He writes that "while well meaning, this gesture unintentionally shifts the obligation to the aggrieved. Instead of offering 'anything,' just do something.

Sheryl Sandberg

#17. To quote Patrick Modiano, whom you you seem to like, in Villa Triste, 'There are mysterious beings, always the same, who watch over us at each crossroads in our lives.' Let's just say that, unintentionally, I have been one of those beings.

Antoine Laurain

#18. If there was no intentional walks, the guy would just walk him anyway, unintentionally intentionally walk him. You see a lot more of that than what meets the eye.

George Brett

#19. Most of the people who have verbally asserted that 'there is no master of pronounciation' have intentionally made a claim and unintentionally made their claim believable. (It is 'pro-nun-ciation' not 'pro-noun-ciation'.)

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#20. And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional.

Margaret Atwood

#21. Terrorism n.
Violence for political purposes or the politically motivated threat of violence which, either intentionally or unintentionally, challenges the state's monopoly on political violence.

Leslie Starr O'Hara

#22. I think there are times in a lot of people's pasts where they've unintentionally fallen in love with really damaged people. You go out with someone who's a mess so you can feel less of a mess.

Sharon Van Etten

#23. Until we embrace our mutual brokenness, our work with low-income people is likely to do more harm than good. I sometimes unintentionally reduce poor people to objects that I use to fulfill my own need to accomplish something. I am not okay, and you are not okay. But Jesus can fix us both.

Steve Corbett

#24. A Schwalling is when he does something unintentionally idiotic that makes him look stupid,

Michael Lewis

#25. Bigotry should never be sanctioned, whether intentionally or unintentionally.

Barry O'Farrell

#26. People are uncomfortable about disability, and so interactions can become unintentionally uncomfortable.

Stella Young

#27. It went on and on; intentionally, unintentionally, it didn't matter. The end was the same: broken people left in pieces, lives fractured, love bludgeoned.

Wendy Jones

#28. A gentleman is someone who never gives offense unintentionally.

Eva Brann

#29. 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

#30. A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

Oscar Wilde

#31. I have always seen myself as an athlete. Of course, I made the mistake of unintentionally opening the door to my private life by just a crack. I wouldn't do the same thing again. It has to be accepted that my private life is private, and if that isn't the case, I have to do something about it.

Oliver Kahn

#32. We are confronted by the appearance of social institutions unintentionally created, vital for the welfare of society, which are not the result of reasoned planning

Carl Menger

#33. People hurt each other. It happens to everyone. Intentionally, unintentionally, regretfully or not. It's a part of what we do as people. The beauty is that we have the ability to heal and forgive.

Adi Alsaid

#34. The numbers in Ohio as well as the rest of the nation make it clear that the African-American communities have been targeted and logic makes it clear that this did not happen coincidentally or unintentionally.

Mark Crutcher

#35. The importance of solitude is to help you to differentiate your own thoughts from those you have studied, read, heard, or unintentionally absorbed.

Tonya Sheridan

#36. Nobody should be a mystery intentionally. Unintentionally is mysterious enough.

Saul Bellow

#37. Companies, however
unintentionally, choke the motivation out of their employees.

Dan Ariely

#38. And there was shame in being human: the shame of knowing that twenty of the roughly thirty-five classified species of sea horse worldwide are threatened with extinction because they are killed "unintentionally" in seafood production.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#39. I was caught by him. I was absolutely, unintentionally ensnared. Held by the look in his cocoa brown eyes when he spoke, commanding me. I shivered at his words as if they were touches sliding down my spine.

Paloma Beck

#40. In its sacredness, families get together to (unintentionally?) celebrate one genocide (against Native Americans) by committing another (against turkeys).

Daniel Brook

#41. It's easy to explain away evil. We have a free choice, and our greatest blessing is also our greatest curse, because I don't always make good choices. Other people make bad choices. I make bad choices. And sometimes we hurt other people. Sometimes intentionally, sometimes unintentionally.

Rick Warren

#42. I had a couple of experiences as a kid with animals where I hurt them, kind of unintentionally, and when I saw that a human being can hurt an animal it really affected me. And my kids ... they became animal rights activists.

Sean Astin

#43. Intentionally, or unintentionally, Kat had spoken with her eyes; tenderly and lovingly conveying a message to Freya that her tongue wouldn't let her speak. It was glaringly obvious they both felt it. The words were not important. The pauses, gazes, and drawn out breaths were what mattered.

Kiki Archer

#44. I know I do not exaggerate, unconsciously and unintentionally, the scantiness of my resources and the difficulty of my life ... I know that, but for the mercy of God, I might easily have been, for any care that was taken of me, a little robber or a vagabond.

Charles Dickens

#45. A gentleman never offends unintentionally

Oscar Wilde

#46. Science, as it reaches the public mind, has both served to discredit and unintentionally reaffirmed mystical ideas.

Mitch Horowitz

#47. How much wrong have we done unintentionally, meaning the best

Tracy Hickman

#48. Around the world today we're seeing an incredible transformation, from what I would call a biocidal species, one that - whether we intentionally or unintentionally - have designed our systems to kill life, a lot of the time.

Jane Poynter

#49. Unintentional foreshadowing is unintentionally hilarious.

Sarah Wendell

#50. What brought us together was a love of nature, or, more specifically, of catching things and unintentionally killing them.

David Sedaris

#51. I don't think you should ever insult people unintentionally: if you're doing it, you ought to mean it.

Neil Gaiman

#52. What I believe is really good in the so-called documentary approach to photography is the addition of lyricism.[this quality] is usually produced unconsciously and even unintentionally and accidentally by the cameraman.

Walker Evans

#53. Though we may sometimes unintentionally bestow our beneficence on the unworthy, it does not take from the merit of the act. For charity doth not adopt the vices of its objects.

Henry Fielding

#54. The flipside is that when we're not counting our blessings, we can fall into the trap of unintentionally counting negative things.

Rhonda Byrne

#55. Thieves and liars kill indirectly, unintentionally, and with no other weapon than their tongues and malice.

A.E.H. Veenman

#56. Finally, you had to measure yourself by other people - there really was nothing else. every now and then, quite unintentionally, someone taught you something about yourself.

Ian McEwan

#57. Mr Flosky suddenly stopped: he found himself unintentionally trespassing within the limits of common sense.

Thomas Love Peacock

#58. His fingertips lightly and unintentionally grazed her face and her ears, and Debbie's don't-get-in-trouble self felt itself making room for her alert-alert-something-new-is-happening self.

Lynne Rae Perkins

#59. Love isn't about trusting you'll never hurt me. It's about being sure you'll never do it on purpose and forgiving you when you unintentionally do.

L.L. Kellogg

#60. Wounded parents often unintentionally inflict pain and suffering on their children and these childhood wounds causes a laundry list of maladaptive behaviors commonly called codependency. These habits restrict people to love-limiting relationships causing much unhappiness and distress.

David W. Earle

#61. Sometimes people do much wrong unintentionally, meaning for the best

Tracy Hickman

#62. I don't say anything unintentionally.

Dominic Monaghan

#63. I don't read much of what I write because I worry about unintentionally borrowing something.

Kelley Armstrong

#64. I'm Olivia Kaspen, and if I love something I rip it from my life. Not intentionally ... not unintentionally either.

Tarryn Fisher

#65. You'll find my leg under the coffee table.

John Green

#66. I find it tiring," he'd said.

Artephius

#67. I'm twenty-seven and as of writing this, I haven't had sex in two years, six months, three days, and two and a half hours. It's a situation that I wish upon no one.

Olive B. Persimmon

#68. I tapped my cup to his, grateful to have found Shaun, because for a minute there, I'd thought I was going to have to save myself. Instead, I'd wandered into the protective care of a sexy older man.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#69. I went to some classes. Vampire was in the Hair of Magical Magic Creatures. He looked all depressed because Draco had disappeared and he had used to be in love with Draco. He was sucking some blood from a Hufflepuff.

Tara Gilesbie