#tended

There are occasions when I've pretended to be in a firefight, and then there are people who have really been in a firefight. Clearly it's absolutely ridiculous, and even disrespectful, to suggest that I understand what that is. ↗

— Christian Bale

#been #clearly #disrespectful #even #i

Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#ambition #become #career #certainly #course

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

— Douglas Adams

#go #gone #i #i may not #i think

Because interrogations are intended to coerce confessions, interrogators feel themselves justified in using their coercive means. Consistency regarding the technique is not important; inducing anxiety and fear is the point. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#because #coerce #coercive #confessions #consistency

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

#consumed #dish #entertainment #food #forgotten

IRAs are intended for retirement. ↗

— Max Baucus

#retirement

A lot of people that embark on spiritual endeavors tended to, especially in the '60s and '70s, they tended to give up what they had before and cut themselves off from their lives, previous life as it were. But, I don't think that one should do that. ↗

— Dave Davies

#cut #embark #endeavors #especially #give

I object to teaching of slogans intended to befog the mind, of whatever kind they may be. ↗

— Franz Boas

#intended #kind #may #mind #object

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#i #only #pretend #pretended #therefore

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#extended #money #none #purchase #rarely