Top 242 Intended Quotes

I never intended to set out and be a singer-songwriter. I just sort of became one because I put out my own record.
Jenny Lewis
Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended.
Arthur Smith
People don’t always read things the way they are intended.
Kenneth Cole
Seth Green, he and I are trying to figure out how this all came about. Because we don’t remember what came first, the chicken or the egg, no pun intended. But I don’t remember what came first, ‘Robot Chicken’ or our friendship, because we’ve known each other for so long.
Katee Sackhoff
I wish you to inform the Court that my absence, though deliberate, is not intended in any way to be disrespectful. Nor is it prompted by any fear of the punishment which might be inflicted on me.
Bram Fischer
It’s clear that the laws intended to allow victims to have their cases heard – including our civil rights laws, our criminal laws and our civil justice laws – too often have the opposite effect. These laws are clearly rooted in a false assumption that those in power can do no wrong.
Cal Cunningham
I followed the footsteps of Scarface, Willie D, Bushwick Bill, Big Pokey, Lil Keke, Fat Pat, Big Moe, and Slim Thug. Those are the people who I was following behind, not the white rappers who came before me. No disrespect intended, I just didn’t follow that lane, I followed this one.
Paul Wall
I object to teaching of slogans intended to befog the mind, of whatever kind they may be.
Franz Boas
Sci-Hub always intended to be legal, and advocated for the copyright law to be repealed or changed, so that it will not prohibit the development of science.
Alexandra Elbakyan
Imitation is the best form of flattery; people generally understand that my comedy is not intended to hurt anybody. Occasionally, an actor might take exception, but they should just understand that it is all done in good humour.
Vivek
If shooting exploding targets use only in intended use containers.
Dan Bilzerian
If poverty and underdevelopment are primarily consequences of poor institutions, then by weakening those institutions or stunting their development, large aid flows do exactly the opposite of what they are intended to do.
Angus Deaton
Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature.
Wilhelm Dilthey
Anthemic rock music is inherently fascist – anything intended to move huge masses of people is politically offensive to me.
Donald Fagen
You aren’t your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family… your anything. You’re a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.
Wayne Dyer
However, as the Eastern churches have always maintained, through Christ creation is intended eventually to share in the life of God, the life of divine nature.
John Polkinghorne
I found my luck in Leipzig. We achieved the goal of playing internationally much faster than we had intended. There are certainly worse destinies than being coach of such a team.
Ralph Hasenhuttl
McGee was intended as a one episode role.

McGee was intended as a one episode role.
Sean Murray
Sometimes the wrong thing is said or things don’t come out the way they were intended.
Camille Grammer
The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
George Stephanopoulos
I always wanted to be an actor. It sort of prevented that whole – I never had any of that kind of angsty period old and doing musicals at camp and community theater and plays at school; it was just always what I most enjoyed and always what I intended to pursue.
Joshua Malina
What I’m doing is not really based on a definite identification or a definition of what it is. It’s intended to be open to interpretation.
Reggie Watts
I’d say that the whole ‘sitting on the Iron Throne’ experience is intended to be a novelty for people who don’t have that many encounters with thrones in their day to day lives.
John Bradley-West
As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but which were all too much loaded with finery and ornaments, to make on me at least, the intended impression.
Karl Philipp Moritz
There’s so much content online but so little respect for it. You could watch something for 20 minutes and switch to watch something else, which is not how a movie or series was intended to be watched.
Nag Ashwin
The absence of women within STEM programs is not only progressive, it is persistent – despite more than 20 years of programs intended to encourage the participation of girls and women.
Hope Jahren
The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer.
Alan Turing
I like to capture the spirit of what the writers intended but find my own nuances. That comes from jazz – the invention and freeness within a structure.
Brian Stokes Mitchell
I would bring the government back to what it was intended to be – a plain economical government.
James K. Polk
My intended audience was everybody. I just want to make cartoons for human beings.
John Kricfalusi
I never really wanted to write a book in the first place. Never intended to do such. I feel like I wasted a lot of my life, so I didn’t feel like it was worthy of a book.
Scarface
What the Founding Fathers created in the Constitution is the most magnificent government on the face of the Earth, and the reason is this: because it was intended to preserve the American society and the American spirit, not to transform it or destroy it.
Mark Levin
I don’t think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.
Joel Osteen
The myth is that IP rights are as important as our rights in castles, cars, and corn oil. IP is supposedly intended to encourage inventors and the investment needed to bring their products to the clinic and marketplace.
John Sulston
My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
Abbas Kiarostami
The work of the CSSF and Prosperity Fund is guided by the National Security Council. As chair of the National Security Council Sub-Committee that oversees both funds, I am working to ensure that they are accountable and measurable against their intended objectives.
David Lidington
The person who thinks I worship the devil and kill animals is just as important as someone who makes an interpretation that’s closer to what I intended.
Marilyn Manson
That’s what I do and I enjoy even the hateful moments of a relationship where two people or four people come together to make a bigger mess than originally intended.
Josh Silver
Before Disney, I did other shows so I was aware of the business. They’re all the same in that they’re a professional environment. The only difference between a Disney show and other network shows are in the age of the actors you’re working with and the age of the intended audience.
David Henrie
Food should be raw, just the way God intended it!
Carol Alt
A true servant of God will never teach a false doctrine. He will never deny new revelation. He never will tell you that the canon of scripture is full, or that the New Testament is the last revelation ever intended to be given to man.
Orson Pratt
I had always intended to make a living out of playing blues. But I never admitted it to myself. I don’t suppose I could have given a logical reason for it ever becoming possible to do so.
Alexis Korner
If I had intended for ‘Minecraft’ to end up on consoles, I wouldn’t have developed the game in Java. The decision to port the game to consoles came from a combination of player requests, a desire to play around with the brand on different platforms, and some interesting business deals.
Markus Persson
My grill is intended to be discreet. It’s there because I enjoy jewelry.
Jill Scott
You know, I thought seeing Aretha Franklin last year was amazing, and I didn’t think anyone can top that. But if someone can, John Legend would be the man. In my mind, he’s a legend, no pun intended.
Michelle McCool
The music you play, it’s never intended for other people, so it’s quite amazing dealing with stuff now, because obviously any tracks I write, a lot of folks are going to hear. It definitely plays on my mind quite a lot.
Ben Howard
So many people view the war on drugs as a failure, as something that was perhaps intended and carried out with good intentions but very badly executed.
Denise Dresser
Obviously I struck gold with ‘Deadwood.’ No pun intended.
Jim Beaver
It's really interesting to me how all of us can experie

It’s really interesting to me how all of us can experience the exact same event, and yet come away with wildly disparate interpretations of what happened. We each have totally different ideas of what was said, what was intended, and what really took place.
Marya Hornbacher
Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth – look at the dying man’s struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.
Soren Kierkegaard
The ‘Barnaby’ books were always intended to be graphic novels.
Janet Evanovich
Of course, we knew that this meant an attack on the union. The bosses intended gradually to get rid of us, employing in our place child labor and raw immigrant girls who would work for next to nothing.
Rose Schneiderman
If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates.
Howard Zinn
Last year the National Sorry Day Committee consulted with stolen generations people in every State and Territory, and concluded that programmes set up in response to the Bringing Them Home Report are reaching only a small fraction of those they are intended to help.
Malcolm Fraser
My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.
Hilary Mantel
Every great Labour government has been elected with a compelling national story about the condition of Britain and how they intended to change it to meet the challenges of the day in the interests of the common good.
Wes Streeting