Quotes of: Deliberately Keyword

I wouldn't ever set out to hurt anyone deliberately unless it was, you know, important - like a league game or something.

Dick Butkus

Amin managed to invite both the US and Soviet ambassadors to his palace at the very same time and then deliberately kept them together in his waiting room.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

The writers of the French enlightenment had deliberately used blasphemy as a weapon, refusing to accept the power of the Church to set limiting points on thought.

Salman Rushdie

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.

Bertrand Russell

Each of my books is different. Deliberately... I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.

Chinua Achebe

It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.

Yusef Komunyakaa

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

I am not a performer but occasionally I deliberately work in a public context. Some sculptures need the movement of people around them to work.

Andy Goldsworthy

Many people think all I do is some random engineering work in between caving expeditions. It's been far more deliberate than that.

William Stone

A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.

Calvin and Hobbes: There's Treasure Everywhere

No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.

The Complete Essays

You have the choice of deliberately directing your thinking, or allowing other forces to dictate your desires and attitudes.

Drawing On The Powers Of Heaven

There are a lot of things I want," I say quietly and deliberately. "But I think I will keep what I have.

Gilded Ashes

I have deliberately kept singing because I have to at my age. If I stopped for even a year my voice would slowly deteriorate until it's not there at all. That's a fact about getting to my age.

Roger Daltrey

Writing is a solitary profession; you are really alone when you write. Then the emotions become well shaped and distinct. But their transition into words must be done deliberately and with rigid artistry.

F. Sionil Jose

People are always angry at America. They're absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger is always directed at America and never at Americans.

P. J. O'Rourke

I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.

Madeleine L'Engle

When we eat together, when we set out to do so deliberately, life is better, no matter what your circumstances.

Ad Hoc at Home

I had never encountered a being who deliberately perpetuated fraud against himself.

To Kill a Mockingbird

Slowly, deliberately, the dog turned from the black wolf and walked toward the man. He was a dog, and dogs chose men.

Snow Dog

Bel Air, I am convinced, was laid out by some diabolic sadist who deliberately decided not to use a compass or a surveyor.

Memoirs Of A Mangy Lover