Deliberate Act Quotes

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

In history, nothing happens by accident. If it happened, you can bet someone planned it.

Every intentional act is a magical act.

There's no cultural revolution by mistake.

The kind of accidents you prefer to call...accidents.

It is ridiculous to say that Sacco and Vanzetti are being railroaded to the chair. The situation is much worse than that. This is a thing done cold-bloodedly and with deliberation. But care and deliberation do not guarantee justice.

I was shot in the wrist when I was a kid. Deliberately.

He was saying that the end of the world wasn't an accident; it was a joke.

A photograph is not an accident - it is a concept.

That was all Rose, and Rose knew what she was doing. Her main thing was story.

What I propose, therefore, is very simple: it is nothing more than to think what we are doing

I wrote the text of the resignation. I cannot say with precision when, but at the most two weeks before. I wrote it in Latin because something so important you do in Latin. Furthermore, Latin is a language in which I know well how to write in a more appropriate way.

Euthanasia is a grave violation of the law of God, since it is the deliberate and morally unacceptable killing of a human person.

Let no act be done without purpose.

It's safer to do nothing and know why you doing it, than to do something and don't know why you do it.

I still think, perhaps I'm a bit old fashioned - that truth matters. I think truth matters particularly when it concerns an event of such horrendous quality. Holocaust was the worst, probably the worst massacre, if you'd like to call it that, in the world's history - considering the scale of it and the fact that it was done deliberately during wartime.

Walking through the city streets... Is it by mistake or design?

It is not that you do wrong by design, but that you should never do right by mistake.

There is no art when one does something without intention.

The power of a handwritten letter is greater than ever. It's personal and deliberate and means more than an e-mail or text ever will. It has a unique scent. It requires deciphering. But, most important, it's flawed.

Why, in such a case, should the performer essay any sort of considered approach at all?

'Tusk' was clearly a line in the sand that I drew.

I believe he died this way on purpose. I believe he wanted no chilling moments, no one to witness his last breath and be haunted by it, the way he had been haunted by his mother's death-notice telegram or by his father's corpse in the city morgue.

To my mind, an adventure is something a person willingly undertakes.

It is when people do wrong things wilfully that they are the more likely to do them again.