I Quotes
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“I don’t mean you disregard every rule of your community. I don’t go around naked, for example. I don’t run through red lights. The little things, I can obey. But the big things—how we think, what we value—those you must choose yourself. You can’t let anyone—or any society determine those for you.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“I don t mind a reasonable amount of trouble.”
Source: The Maltese Falcon
“I don't mind admitting that I, too, have watched Hilton undergoing the sexual act. I phrase it as crudely as that because it was one of the least erotic such sequences I have ever seen. She seemed to know what was expected of her and to manifest some hard-won expertise, but I could almost have believed that she was drugged. At no point did her facial expression match even the simulacrum of lovemaking.”
“I don't mind being a bitch to bitches. It is orgasmically satisfying! And dumb bitches? You don't even exist in my universe.
-Emit Eht”
Source: Emit Eht
“I don't mind being a team player. I'm just tired of being the soccer ball.”
Source: Horse Latitudes
“I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity.”
“I don't mind being one-handed,' Cardan interjects. 'But if you're going to restrain both of my hands, then you'll have to pour the wine directly in to my mouth.”
Source: The Cruel Prince
“I don't mind getting a job, but You need to understand that I have an 80 foot motor yacht on my Vision board.”
“I don't mind getting older; it's a privilege denied to so many!”
Source: The Cancer Survivors Club: A collection of inspirational and uplifting stories
“I don't mind getting older; it's a privilege denied to so many! - Chris Geiger”
Source: Bad Cells
“I don't mind if you want to keep it. But... why did you?"
Keir shrugged. "'Tis no' my way to take a feeling apart and examine the workings of it."
Merritt tilted her head, regarding him intently. "Did you want it as a trophy, perhaps? To remind you someday of a conquest you once made?"
Keir's smile vanished. He didn't think she really believed that, but the suggestion- the very idea of it- filled him with indignation. "No. I'm no' a brute who would think of you as a thing to be won."
Seeming to realize he was genuinely offended, Merritt said hastily, "Oh, I didn't mean to imply-"
"I may have rough ways, but I know how to be gentle with a woman-"
"Yes. Of course. I shouldn't have put it that way-"
"-and as for needing a reminder-" Keir's indignation deepened into outrage. "Do you think me so shallow-pated I'd need reminding of a woman I once held in my arms? How could I forget you? The most-"
He was interrupted as Merritt took his face in her hands and kissed him again. There was more he'd meant to say, but her mouth was too luscious to resist.”
Source: Devil in Disguise
“I don't mind inappropriate thoughts every now and then. So please, share yours with me." He met her eyes and she blushed, then grinned and stole his breath. If her thoughts were anything like his, he was more than happy to hear them.
"It was nothing. I was just wondering if you get many complaints in the bedroom even though I'm sure you don't." Though her eyes held amusement, she broke eye contact and looked away.
"How would you know what women think after they leave my bed?" He wondered with his own quiet smile.
It was true, he never met a woman, he couldn't please and he knew she would be no different.”
Source: Jingle My Snowballs
“I don’t mind losing
in this game of love,
if it means You
will be the winner.”
“I don't mind mistakes," I shot back. "I mind the uncertainty. Most of the time I can't tell what's going on.”
Source: The One
“I don’t mind my friends calling me “Thornes,” but the fact of people calling me “Prickly Thornes” draws the line.”
Source: The White Sirens
“I don't mind not knowing. It doesn't scare me.”
“I don't mind nothing happening in a book, but nothing happening in a phony way--characters saying things people never say, doing jobs that don't fit, the whole works--is simply asking too much of a reader. Something happening in a phony way must beat nothing happening in a phony way every time, right? I mean, you could prove that, mathematically, in an equation, and you can't often apply science to literature.”
Source: The Polysyllabic Spree
“I don't mind people talking about me behind my back. It means they know me, and I'm out in front.”
Source: Who's Minding the Store?
“I don't mind running with turtles.
From book: stuff I think about
By Sondra Faye”
“I don’t mind sharing, but he’s really too small to fit into my stuff, and Valen’s are a little too tight. Maybe now he’ll have some that fit just right. Fucking Goldilocks.”
Source: Twilight Terrors
“I don't mind taking orders from them as has the right to give them," she said, "but take orders from that ridiculous bird I will not.”
Source: The Sea of Adventure
“I don't mind that you call me by that name. I actually really like it. It was the name you always used in all of my dreams of you, and it is the name of my previous self," she admitted. "But, please don't say those three special words to me, unless they are really meant for me..."
-Risa to Renji, Chapter 29”
Source: Remembered
“I don't mind the term functional medicine -- I suppose it's better than dysfunctional medicine.”
Source: EAT! Empower Adjust Triumph!
“I don't mind walking the tight rope. Something strong is holding it”
“I don’t mind wasting my time on you, because time was never the problem. But what I regret is wasting my emotions, opening up with you, letting you come close to me, and sharing my deepest feelings with you. And more than anything, showing you a part of who I really am.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“I don't mind what you call yourself, so long as your heart is being true to you.”
“I don’t mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated. I don’t mind being told to stand on my own feet, not to cling, be all that I am capable of doing, but I am going to be pursued, fucked, possessed by the will of a male at his time, his bidding.” …Anias Nin”
Source: SINFULLICIOUS
“I don’t mind writing philosophical thoughts. If I don’t want to die like one.”
“I don't mind you in my head. I refuse to be embarrassed for thinking the truth. You have to know how good-looking you are. Fortunately for you, you seem to have brains and humor to go with your looks.”
Source: Toxic Game
“I don’t mind you pouring lemonade or whatever on us, but as soon as you hit a woman, I get mad. And that’s one show you don’t want the curtains to go up on.”
Source: The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen
“I don't mind your calling me a clog, if only we were fastened together."
"But I do mind you calling me a donkey," he replied.”
Source: Wives and Daughters
“I don't mined being lied to, but what ever you do never betray me”
“I don't miss my name and I haven't bothered to replace it. I miss your name. I'm sorry but I have forgotten it, too. I don't look for it on the walls. The thought that I might read it and pass it by, just to go on to the next name is terrible. Like meeting you in another life and failing to recognize you.”
Source: It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
“I don't miss you. I miss the person I used to be,
before I let you break me.”
“I don't miss you, I miss who I thought you were.”
“I don't move the stars for just anyone.”
Source: Hope Quest: Book 1: Blackbird
“I don’t much care for all this talk of God washing away all my dirt. I like a bit of grit around the edges. It gives me character and does a passable job of faking depth, from a distance.”
Source: Flies to Wanton Boys
“I don't much like to do housework, you know.”
“I don’t naturally look like this. I have to feed in order to have the power to hold it.”
“Feed on what exactly?” Please don’t say blood, please don’t say blood, she whispered in her mind.
“Death,” Trajan answered. Anya didn’t know if that was better or worse.”
Source: Cry of the Firebird
“I don’t necessarily bemoan tragedy. Rather, what I bemoan is our seemingly inbred refusal to be accountable to the choices we’ve made that have caused those tragedies.”
“I don't necessarily love rotting bodies, but there's a texture to a rotting body that is unbelievable. Have you ever seen a little rotted animal? I love looking at those things, just as much as I like to look at a close-up of some tree bark, or a small bug, or a cup of coffee, or a piece of pie. You get in close and the textures are wonderful.”
Source: Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity
“I don't necessarily respect other people's religions, or any religion. But the people—I respect them, and I give them the honor they deserve, whatever they believe.”
Source: The Steerswoman
“I don’t necessarily sit around inviting life to knock me down, but when it does I don’t wait around for an invitation to stand back up either.”
“I don’t need a big house to raise a family, I only need you.”
Alex smiled, kissing her on the forehead. “Well, why didn’t you tell me that to start with? We could have saved a lot of money,” he teased.”
Source: Taking chances
“I don't need a big organization, a big title, or even a big name to make big moves that will impact the lives of others in a positive way. Because I've got a big GOD who assigned me to make a big difference in the lives of others. Romans 8:28.”
“I don't need a ceremony or a ring for you to be my husband. I've already vowed myself to you many times over. I love you with all my heart, and I'll stay by your side in this world, and wait for you in the next if I have to."
-Wraith to Fang, Chapter 33”
Source: Revived
“I don't need a consensus to trust my gut. I don't need applause to know I crushed it. And I sure as hell don't need validation to know I'm valuable.”
Source: The Daily Doyenne: 30 Days to Unapologetic Power
“I don’t need a date. Last time I went to a dance I didn’t have a date and I was totally fine. I just danced with a balloon.”
Source: The It-Girl
“I don't need a day to celebrate as world photography day. As a photographer for me every day is photography day.”
“I don't need a fancy title to do what is right. And title or not, I am a young woman in an old man's world. The only way I'll ever gain respect is if I take it, something none of you here would understand.”
Source: Across the Great Ocean: Awakening