Unintentional Quotes

“We were in ways I can’t seem to grasp. We moved like fluid, scattering our love throughout each other. We moved along, out of our eyes and through our veins. It was unintentionally and in turn, unconditionally.”

“There are 2 kinds of artists, essentially: those who want to make something popular, and those who want to make something dignified. But then there is still that rare hybrid case, and perhaps by that unintentional stroke of genius, in which one's work uncontrollably becomes both popular and dignified yet beyond its time.”

“Finally he steeled himself to read the final rule again. He had been trained since earliest childhood, since his earliest learning of language, never to lie. It was an integral part of the learning of precise speech. Once, when he had been a Four, he had said, just prior to the midday meal at school, “I’m starving.” Immediately he had been taken aside for a brief private lesson in language precision. He was not starving, it was pointed out. He was hungry. No one in the community was starving, had ever been starving, would ever be starving. To say “starving” was to speak a lie. An unintentioned lie, of course. But the reason for precision of language was to ensure that unintentional lies were never uttered. Did he understand that? they asked him. And he had.”

“All of life is a meditation, most of it unintentional.”

“A true gentlemen is one who is never unintentionally rude.”

“Gentleman: one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.”

“A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.”

“Man does not commit sin in unintentional deed,but he might be the only one that could justify it.”

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

“One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity.”