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Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Life, Respect, Matter

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.
Robert Frost

Life, Family, Greatest

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Galileo Galilei

God, Same, Sense

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.
Theodore Roosevelt

Moment, Become, Action

What God intended for you goes far beyond anything you can imagine.
Oprah Winfrey

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
Douglas Adams

May, Gone, Ended

The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.
Oprah Winfrey

Person, Whole, Alive

I don't think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.
Joel Osteen

What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.
Barack Obama

Power, Two, Worry

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

Struggle, Woman, Giving

I will not comment on or confirm what are alleged to be stolen State Department cables. But I can say that the United States deeply regrets the disclosure of any information that was intended to be confidential, including private discussions between counterparts or our diplomats' personal assessments and observations.
Hillary Clinton

Between, Personal, State

In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Thought, Said, Consider

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Love, God, Someone

Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.
Karl Popper

Problem, Possible, Nor

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.
Leo Tolstoy

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.
John Ruskin

Work, Men, Perfect

Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.
Samuel Butler

Men, Best, Training

The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Great, Happen, Goal

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.
Garrison Keillor

Nature, Everything, Cats

There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.
John Calvin

Color, Grass, Rejoice

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.
Alice Walker

Time, Long, Thought

To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful.
George Santayana

Successful, Two, Another

In the Bhagavad Gita, there is no long discussion, nothing elaborate. The main reason for this is that everything stated in the Gita is meant to be tested in the life of every man; it is intended to be verified in practice.
Vinoba Bhave

Life, Long, Nothing

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

Important, Someone, Person

God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity.
Billy Sunday

God, Devil, Walk

Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can't make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands.
Christopher Hitchens

Life, Dead, Show

Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference.
Karl Von Clausewitz

Thinking, Rules, Principles

Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.
John Stuart Mill

Happiness, Pain, Wrong

I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
Lady Gaga

Experience, Religious, Ball

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
W. H. Auden

Art, Food, Media

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