I Quotes
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“I do not wish to quarrel with any man or nation. I do not wish to split hairs, to make fine distinctions, or set myself up as better than my neighbors. I seek rather, I may say, even an excuse for conforming to the laws of the land. I am but too ready to conform to them.”
Source: Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
“I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.”
Source: Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I do not wish to shed a drop of blood, but 'I must fight the course.' Tis all that's left to me.”
“I do not wish to talk about myself because I hold very deeply the belief that what is important is the work, not the person.”
“I do not wish to waste any more of my one precious life than is strictly necessary debunking the crypto-Darwinian pseudoscience that all women really want is
to be held down and humped thoroughly until they stop lying about the pay gap and start making Christian babies.”
Source: Sexual Revolution: Modern Fascism and the Feminist Fightback
“I do not wish to waste my youth over apprehensions and pretenses and I wish to take it on.”
Source: Ritualistic Murder
“I do not wish upon anyone a descent into hell. But if your life has to be turned inside out in order for you to know yourself--if the shadow of a shaman crosses your path and you turn and follow it down--I pray that you use its force wisely. I hope that you take the ultimate responsibility for your actions and that you consecrate any destruction to the rebuilding of your higher self and a more radiant life.”
“I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.”
“I do not wish you much happiness--it would bore you; I do not wish you trouble either; but, following the people's philosophy, I will simply repeat: 'Live more' and try somehow not to be too bored; this useless wish I am adding on my own.”
“I do not wish you to act from these truths; no, still and always act from your feelings; only meditate often on these truths that sometime or other they may become your feelings.”
Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria
“I do not wonder at a snowflake, a shell, a summer landscape, or the glory of the stars; but at the necessity of beauty under which the universe lies.”
Source: Nature - Conduct of Life
“I do not wonder that British youth is in revolt against the morbid doctrine that nothing matters but the equal sharing of miseries; that what used to be called the submerged tenth can only be rescued by bringing the other nine-tenths down to their le.”
“I do not wonder that, where the monastick life is permitted, every order finds votaries, and every monastery inhabitants. Men will submit to any rule, by which they may be exempted from the tyranny of caprice and of chance. They are glad to supply by external authority their own want of constancy and resolution, and court the government of others, when long experience has convinced them of their own inability to govern themselves.”
Source: Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales
“I do not work within the confines of any realm. I work in the unique moment of duration.”
Source: Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings
“I do not worry about corrupt corporate controlled governments ignoring climate change and global warming, as I know that Mother Nature will ultimately win the battle at the expense of over seven billion people on planet Earth.”
“I do not worry or even think of spelling, grammar, paragraphing, or punctuation (except periods) at this point. . .In the early throes of an idea there is for me only grammar of the mind, which is a flow of thought, as natural and precise as the flow of a river to the sea.”
“I do not worship a DEAD and buried Christ at Calvary. I worship a ressurected and LIVING Christ in Heaven! Jesus Christ is alive.”
“I do not worship matter, I worship the God of matter, who became matter for my sake and deigned to inhabit matter, who worked out my salvation through matter. I will not cease from honoring that matter which works for my salvation. I venerate it, though not as God.”
“I do not worship matter; I worship the Creator of matter who became matter for my sake.”
“I do not worship the devil. But magic does intrigue me. Magic of all kinds. I bought Crowley's house to go up and write in. The thing is, I just never get up that way. Friends live there now.”
“I do not write about love
as if I have invented it.
I write about love
because thoughts of you
inspire self-forgetfulness.
And because writing about you
gives birth to a star.
These stars sit inside me
where there was once
darkness.”
“I do not write about nice people. I am not nice people.”
“I do not write because I am good at it. And I do not bleed ink from my pen seeking honor from others. I do not plead with the written word to explain me because I feel a need to be explained; I remain undefined.
I do not speak of love to find love and it is not my purpose to touch the hearts of women or cause angst in the souls of men. It is not my aim to replace your philosophy with mine or give you something new to ponder.
I simply do it for the peace I find when I see things in my mind and set them free...”
“I do not write dark books. I write candles. I write fire.”
“I do not write experimental music. My experimenting is done before I make the music. Afterwards it is the listener who must experiment.”
“I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The Masses’. Both abstractions, so dear to the demagogue, I disbelieve in. I write for myself and for my friends, and I write to ease the passing of time.”
Source: In memory of Borges
“I do not write for an audience”
“I do not write for the public. You are my public and I hope to convert you.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)
“I do not write for the reader to come, but for him who is here, short of reading the text on my shoulder.”
“I do not write for this generation. I am writing for other ages. If this could read me, they would burn my books, the work of my whole life. On the other hand, the generation which interprets these writings will be an educated generation; they will understand me and say: Not all were asleep in the nighttime of our grandparents.”
“I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?”
Source: Mary Chesnut's Diary
“I do not write poetry; I take words and dip them in feelings.”
“I do not write to you, but of you,/because the paper that we write on/is our perishable skin.”
Source: A Body Made of You
“I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite.”
“I do not write, I build.”
“I do not yearn for the cloud for I am not the rain. I am the sheer cloud itself, without whose presence there is no existence of rain.”
Source: विप्लवी [Biplavi]
“I do not yearn to be their equal. In my heart, I yearn to best them.”
Source: The Cruel Prince
“I do not yet know if I will find a Romney presidency more acceptable on foreign policy. But I do know that I must oppose the most recent statements made by Mitt Romney in which he says he, as president, could take us to war unilaterally with Iran, without any approval from Congress.”
“I do not yet know of a man who became a leader as a result of having undergone a leadership course.”
Source: The Wit & Wisdom of Lee Kuan Yew
“I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll from the sea. I am entranced by the mystery of them and absorbed by their variety and kinds. Everywhere, they are visible yet everywhere occult.”
“I do not yet want to form a hypothesis to test, because as soon as you make a hypothesis, you become prejudiced. Your mind slides into a groove, and once it is in that groove, has difficulty noticing anything outside of it. During this time, my sense must be sharp; that is the main thing - to be sharp, yet open.”
“I do not, as a rule, do encores. When I have finished playing, I have indeed finished playing. I have nothing left; there has been no reserve.”
“I do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore.”
Source: Dracula
“I do not, like the Fundamentalists, believe that creation stopped six thousand years ago after a week of hard work. Creation is going on all the time.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“I do not, right now in this moment today, want to be married. After entertaining proposals, researching the cost of a wedding, and looking at friends who are married, I realized that if I do get married one day, I want it to be in the right situation with the right person.”
“I do not," I felt oddly appalled by her statement. "I'm an excellent liar. Ask my dentist. He swears I floss regularly.”
Source: Second Grave on the Left
“I do not... look very feminine. Diana, Princess of Wales is feminine... I am... femi-none.”
Source: How to Be a Woman
“I do note that photography, a despised medium to work in, is full of empty phonies and worthless commercial people. That presents quite a challenge to the man who can take delight in being in a very difficult, disdained medium.”
“I do note with interest that old women in my books become young women on the covers... this is discrimination against the chronologically gifted.”
“I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul.”