I Quotes
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“I entered into this darkness where, ever since, I plunge deeper every hour and lose myself a little more.”
Source: The Impossible: A Story of Rats followed by Dianus and by The Oresteia
“I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt."
[As quoted in Pol Neveux's introduction, Guy De Maupassant: A Study]”
Source: Original Short Stories — Volume 02
“I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.”
Source: Guy de Maupassant – The Complete Works: Short Stories, Novels, Plays, Poetry, Memoirs and more: Original Versions of the Novels and Stories in French, An Interactive Bilingual Edition with Literary Essays on Maupassant by Tolstoy, Joseph Conrad and Henry James
“I entered my old home like a thief in the night. I was there to steal the life of its heir. I set my feet on the richly polished wood floor on which generations of Frankensteins had trod. My soaked skirts dripped a steady puddle of water that would damage the wood if left unmopped. As a child, I would have cleaned it immediately, wishing to leave no trace of myself and no opening for censure.
I leaned over and wrung my hair all over the floor.”
Source: The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein
“I entered politics in 1967; since then, continuously, I am getting elected... Fortunately I never lost the elections.”
“I entered politics out of a desire to serve, but I have always really wanted to achieve things in the private sector as well. As a father and a husband, that is my primary obligation, and that will always continue, whether I am in the Senate or out of the Senate.”
“I entered Princeton University as a graduate student in 1959, when the Department of Mathematics was housed in the old Fine Hall. This legendary facility was marvellous in stimulating interaction among the graduate students and between the graduate students and the faculty. The faculty offered few formal courses, and essentially none of them were at the beginning graduate level. Instead the students were expected to learn the necessary background material by reading books and papers and by organising seminars among themselves. It was a stimulating environment but not an easy one for a student like me, who had come with only a spotty background. Fortunately I had an excellent group of classmates, and in retrospect I think the "Princeton method" of that period was quite effective.”
“I entered the church, without fear this time, for it was now my house too. I offered prayers to Christ, who is alive. Then I raced down the hill on the left and raced up the hill on the right—to offer thanks to Lord Krishna for having put Jesus of Nazareth, whose humanity I found so compelling, in my way.”
Source: Life of Pi
“I entered the classroom with the conviction that it was crucial for me and every other student to be an active participant, not a passive consumer...education as the practice of freedom.... education that connects the will to know with the will to become. Learning is a place where paradise can be created.”
“I entered the Communist Party because its cause was just and I will leave it when it ceases to be just.”
“I entered the cosmetics industry because I wanted more women to use cosmetics made with safe, healthful ingredients.”
“I entered the diocesan seminary. I liked the Dominicans, and I had Dominican friends. But then I chose the Society of Jesus, which I knew well because the seminary was entrusted to the Jesuits. Three things in particular struck me about the Society: the missionary spirit, community and discipline.”
Source: My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change
“I entered the film industry sprinting, but not for long.”
“I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college, then went to medical school. I've never had any formal training in writing. So what I know about writing, I know from my own instincts, and whatever the narrative voice is in my own head.”
“I entered the narrow foyer smelling of beeswax, shadows, and ghosts.”
Source: Spirit Guide
“I entered the Physics Department in 1950, receiving a Master's degree in 1953 and a Ph.D. in 1956. It is difficult to convey the sense of excitement that pervaded the Department at that time.”
“I entered the picture in the eleventh hour as a guide to the exit of his life. I navigated as best I could the role of end-of-life shepherd—a journey that I had never taken before. I have to forgive myself for what I did not know. And I have to forgive him for the times that he felt unequipped to deal with the unknown.”
Source: A Chance to Say Goodbye: Reflections on Losing a Parent
“I entered the water as naked as when my mother bore me. When I first touched the cold water I felt a shudder go through me, then the shudder was transformed into a sensation of wakefulness.”
“I entered the work force cleaning breast pumps at a pharmacy! It was a part-time gig while I was at school... no interview required.”
“I entered this business before I had focus and purpose in my life. I was very unhappy, very unhealthy, and when I sat down for an interview, I didn't know why. I felt like I didn't have anything to share. It was a very empty time.”
“I entered this career having no background or connection to acting.”
“I entered this ring Randy Orton, Legend Killer. When all was said and done, I left as Randy Orton, Legend.”
“I entered this world not wanting
to come. I'll leave it not
wanting to go. All this while,
when it seemed there were two doors,
there was only one--this
passing through.”
“I entered what I can only describe as an alternate universe, and experienced timelessness for myself, first-hand. There was no refuting the immortality of the soul for me ever again after that.”
“I entertain a private suspicion that physical sports were much more really effective and beneficent when they were not taken quite so seriously. One of the first essentials of sport being healthy is that it should be delightful; it is rapidly becoming a false religion with austerities and prostrations.”
“I entertain for a living and I role-play for a living and I can’t help but continue to do it.”
“I entertain for a living, and I entertain.”
“I entertain myself with a never-ending daisy chain of crushes to fritter away my time and excess emotion. They pass through my hands as markers of moments in my life, almost indistinguishable from each other but valuable to me for the holding. I like my mind to be crowded with furniture, not empty with echoing footsteps.”
Source: Nothing but My Body
“I entertain no doubts as to the truths of the tranfinites, which I recognized with God's help and which, in their diversity, I have studied for more than twenty years; every year, and almost every day brings me further in this science.”
“I entertain those who entertain me.”
“I entertain those who entertain me. I take good care of those who take good care of me.”
“I entirely agree that a historian ought to be precise in detail; but unless you take all the characters and circumstances into account, you are reckoning without the facts. The proportions and relations of things are just as much facts as the things themselves.”
“I entirely appreciate loyalty to one"s friends, but loyalty to the cause of justice and honor stands above it.”
Source: Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia
“I entirely approve the measures proposed by you in relation to the Marines who are lately captives in Tripoli. Therefore execute them.”
“I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution. And if that is not the guide in expounding it, there may be no security.”
Source: James Madison's
“I entrain myself (when I remember to)
by tuning in to higher frequencies
in the ether, in my soul, everywhere I go,
always accessible, always helpful
for obtaining a higher perspective
in a matter of minutes.”
“I entreat fresh visions from the painters. Be lavish with your vermilion to portray the mountains in the spring.”
“I ENTREAT THEE TO LET THY DIVINE EYES REST UPON A VAST NUMBER OF LITTLE SOULS, I ENTREAT THEE TO CHOOSE, IN THIS WORLD, A LEGION OF LITTLE VICTIMS OF THY LOVE.”
Source: Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux
“I entreat you to leave your work at home to the many who are ready to undertake it, and to come forth yourselves to reap this field now white to the harvest.”
“I entrench myself in my books equally against sorrow and the weather.”
Source: The Indicator and the Companion: A Miscellany for the Fields and Fire-side
“I entrust this Twenty-second World Day of the Sick to the intercession of Mary. I ask her to help the sick to bear their sufferings in fellowship with Jesus Christ and to support all those who care for them. To all the ill, and to all the health-care workers and volunteers who assist them, I cordially impart my Apostolic Blessing.”
“I envelop her. Even when Daria is growling like an injured animal in my ear. Even when the sea glass necklace, her see glass necklace, burns a hole in my back pocket, right next to her pompom string, demanding to go back to its rightful owner. Even when a scream rips from her throat, and I need to cover it with my palm. I hold her.”
Source: Pretty Reckless
“I envied it; not the idea of having so much money that you could throw it away, but the thought of growing up in a world where someone cared so much about your happiness and so little about what you accomplished in life.”
Source: Werewolves: Book One: Bitten, Stolen and Beginnings
“I envied Lesley her unshakable optimism. She always looked on the bright side of things. If they Had a bright side.”
Source: Ruby Red
“I envied these women I saw before me, their beauty still intact. Life has its revenge of life. Untimely death is the secret of eternal youth.”
“I envied those who could believe in a God and I distrusted them. I felt they were keeping their courage up with a fable of the changeless and the permanent. Death was far more certain than God, and with death there would be no longer the possibility of love dying.”
Source: The Collected Edition: The quiet American
“I envied those who had succeeded in learning the game of humiliating others.”
Source: Jadu
“I envied women with signature hair-dos, signature perfumes, signature sign-offs. Novelists who tell Vogue Magazine: “I can’t live without my Smythson notebook, Pomegranate Noir cologne by Jo Malone and Frette sheets”. In the grip of madness, materialism begins to look like an admirable belief system.”
Source: Your Voice in My Head
“I envisage the prinicles of the Earth Charter to be a new form of the ten commandments. They lay the foundation for a sustainable global earth community.”
“I envisaged a perfect detective’s assistant. She’d have long, wavy blonde hair, a short skirt, and curves in all the right places. She’d have a genius IQ, know how to hack and code, and be available at all hours. Now, make her into a robot. Sadly, I mentally removed her body, leaving a phone app.”
Source: Tiger and the Robot