Top 161 Deliberately Quotes

You know, we have a fiscal train wreck before us. And unless we act, and act deliberately, we’re not going to enable our kids to have what we have. It’s plain and simple as that.
Eric Cantor
I think I present an overwhelming case that these five justices were up to no good, and they deliberately set out to hand the election to George Bush.
Vincent Bugliosi
I love deliberately badly written books.
Richard Prince
History is littered with examples of objects and inventions with a power beyond their professed purpose. Sometimes it’s deliberately and maliciously factored into their design, but at other times, it’s a result of thoughtless omissions.
Hannah Fry
Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.
Al Franken
I have always tried to work according to what affects me, to a script that I like because it touches me in some way, without deliberately pursuing a commercial career or a particular image.
Alan Bates
The problem is neutrality ends in poverty, neutrality ends in choices that hurt people’s lives. This administration is deliberately telling organizations that are there to help young girls make good choices, not to tell them what the good choice is. That is absolutely unconscionable.
Rick Santorum
We have been fed so many false narratives, many of them racialized to deliberately feed a racist agenda. It’s important to address and dig into that wherever you can.
Rhiannon Giddens
I couldn’t understand why my productivity went down when I had deliberately made more time available to write. Then I realized it was because I wasn’t flying as much.
Simon Sinek
I never deliberately set out to shock, but when people don’t walk out of my plays I think there is something wrong.
John Osborne
Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to be the average person.
William Inge
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
Tony Robbins
I had become mean and stupid and deliberately hurtful because that is what is expected of restaurant critics. Of critics in general.
Giles Coren
Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.
Evelyn Underhill
I deliberately never read about films before I see them.
Andrea Arnold
New Orleans is a place where people are deliberately undereducated so that they can be a labour class – the economy there is tourism, and one of the only outlets that black males have traditionally been allowed is to play jazz music, y’know?
Christian Scott
Terrorism has once again shown it is prepared deliberately to stop at nothing in creating human victims. An end must be put to this. As never before, it is vital to unite forces of the entire world community against terror.
Vladimir Putin
Some kids would deliberately knock shoulders with me while passing by. Students from other classes would then put trash all over my seat, and the kids in my class would try to clean it up for me.
Park Bo-young
It is disappointing and embarrassing to the science profession that some Nobel Laureates would deliberately use their well deserved scientific reputations and hold themselves out as experts in other fields.
David Douglass
I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was.
Maya Lin
Take life slowly and deliberately, making sure to acknowledge the people who have helped you succeed along the way.
Ted Levine
I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearan

I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia’s appearances to the reader’s imagination.
Mary Wesley
I would say that I quite consciously rely on my obsessions in all my work, that I deliberately set up an obsessional frame of mind. In a paradoxical way, this leaves one free of the subject of the obsession.
J. G. Ballard
I studied for my degree in London and consequently ended up spending five years away from Cornwall. I deliberately moved away from the coast to experience a different way of life.
John Dyer
What is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way.
Peter Doig
In most recent times, as the West started being hostile to us, we deliberately declared a Look East policy.
Robert Mugabe
Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn’t, it is of no use.
Carlos Castaneda
When I ate slowly and deliberately, giving myself time to consider whether I actually wanted that next bite, I often discovered that I didn’t.
Ruth Reichl
I have deliberately stung myself with a small section of box jelly tentacle, and it felt like being burned by a steam iron. Larger stings can lead to cardiac arrest, and mind-blowing pain.
Steve Backshall
For most of my life, I deliberately led a private life in the public eye.
Chelsea Clinton
I have deliberately tried to do a variety of roles during my career so that people aren’t bored of me. I also believe I have never prompted my directors or my audience to say that I have let them down with my performance. Maybe that’s what has worked for me.
Biju Menon
Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?
George Sand
I sometimes lose my calm for a moment, but only when I notice that an opponent is deliberately trying to injure me.
Franck Ribery
For most of my life, I did deliberately lead a private life and inadvertently led a public life.
Chelsea Clinton
I deliberately decided to write a kind of guide to leather bars for straight people, for people not into leather, so that people could see what it was all about.
Thom Gunn
The fact that I’m sober isn’t really public knowledge, decidedly and deliberately.
Frances Bean Cobain
One must be deliberately ignoring reality to pretend that our asylum process is not being abused.
Dan Crenshaw
I always find it extremely hard to remember the act of beginning. I almost deliberately forget it.
Julia Leigh
I think of myself as a musician and not a celebrity. Celebrity status is something you have to deliberately pursue – I couldn’t imagine myself seeking that.
Natalie Merchant
The infrastructure of the US is a long-term suspension of disbelief that such things won’t be exploded deliberately by people who don’t create anything.
Dave Winer
Some MPs, some very senior civil servants and others, are basically conspiring – and I use the word deliberately – in order to try and prevent us from leaving the E.U. They have never accepted the verdict of the British people in the referendum.
Mark Francois
I wouldn’t ever set out to hurt anyone deliberately unless it was, you know, important – like a league game or something.
Dick Butkus
We were very deliberately not playing 12-bar structures, blues structures, which rock musicians turned into such a cliche. We tried to… listen to the rhythms within ourselves and take the normal words we used every day in our normal thoughts, which girls hadn’t written about before.
Viv Albertine
I deliberately decided not to go on Twitter. I’ve read about how much stress it can cause. I don’t think it’s healthy.
David Jason
I’ve deliberately tried to calm myself down because eventually I want to be a good role model to my kids.
Robbie Williams
Many of the ethnic and other parochial tensions that have tended to create insecurity and outright conflict, time and time again, are largely as a result of failure to deliberately undertake nation-building efforts.
Yemi Osinbajo
Right now, it’s really about my fans knowing that whatever I believed spiritually at the time is what I believed. I just wouldn’t deliberately lie to them just to save my image.
Brandy Norwood
I have been frequently accused of deliberately twisting subject matter to my point of view. Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference. Opinion often consists of a kind of criticism. But criticism can come out of love.
Robert Frank
We deliberately used elements from Brazilian music and from African and Asian music. Now people can hear that but then it sounded so abstract, they couldn’t hear it.
Arto Lindsay
Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write a book so when the reader gets to the end of the chapter, he or she must turn one more page.
Sidney Sheldon
I don’t believe for a second ‘X Factor’ would deliberately put someone through who wasn’t mentally stable.
Caroline Flack
At this time I had complete confidence in Russian policy and believed that the Western Allies deliberately allowed Germany and Russia to fight each other to death.
Klaus Fuchs
I often deliberately overwhelm my players. If I give th

I often deliberately overwhelm my players. If I give them 10 things a day and they learn four of them, I’m happier than if I stick to the learning theory where the goal is a maximum of five things per day and then they only remember two.
Julian Nagelsmann
On ‘The Chase,’ I don’t know what questions are going to appear, so they deliberately try and catch me out.
Bradley Walsh
It’s hard enough to celebrate being Asian in normal times. But now, when the whole world is kind of coming down, with all this rhetoric and people getting attacked on the street, you really need to deliberately try to celebrate Asian-ness.
Simu Liu
The decision to use only the name Christo was made deliberately when we were young because it is difficult for one artist to get established and we wanted to put all the chances on our side.
Christo
Whenever I see a new film, I deliberately tune down several ‘dials’ in my mind – critical faculties associated with logic, plotting, science – just so I can retain some ability to enjoy a flick in the spirit it’s offered.
David Brin
North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.
Barbara Demick