I Quotes
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“I fondly remember my very first menage a trois. The other two didn't show up but I had a great time.”
Source: Great Failures of the Extremely Successful
“I fool around with guitar and I can fool around on piano. I don't really play either instrument although I can play a couple of songs on guitar. You don't really need to be able to play to compose. There are many composers and arrangers who work out of their heads.”
“I fooled around and fell in love.”
“I fooled around with Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams got pregnant.”
“I fooled some of the most brilliant people in journalism.”
Source: Burning Down My Masters' House: My Life at the New York Times
“I fooled you. I fooled you. I got pig iron. I got pig iron. I got all pig iron.”
“I, for example, quiet plainly and simply insist upon annihilation for myself. “No,” they say, “you must go on living, for without you there would be nothing. If everything on earth were reasonable, nothing would ever happen. Without you there would be no events, and it is necessary that there should be events.” Well, and so on I drudge with unwilling heart so that there be events, and bring about unreason by command. People think toute cette comedie is something serious, all there unquestionable intelligence notwithstanding. There lies there tragedy. Well, and they suffer, of course, but … al the same they live, they live in reality, not in fantasy; for suffering is also life. Without suffering what pleasure would there be in it? Everything would turn into one single, endless church service: much holy soaring, but rather boring. Well, and I? I suffer, but even so I do not live. I am the “x” in an indeterminate equation. I am one of life’s ghosts, who has lost all the ends and the beginnings, and even at last forgotten what to call myself. You are laughing . . . No, you are not laughing, you are angry again. You are eternally angry, you would like there to be nothing but intelligence, but I will tell you again that I would renounce all this empyrean existence, all these honours and ranks just in order to be able to take fleshy form in the person of a seven-pood merchant’s wife and set up candles to God in church.
‘So, you don’t believe in God either?’ Ivan said, smiling with hatred.
‘Well, how can I explain it to you, if you are serious, that is . . . ‘
‘Does God exist or not?’ Ivan barked, again with ferocious insistence.
‘Ah, so you are serious? My dear little dove, I swear to God I do not know, pour vous dire le grand mot.”
Source: The Brothers Karamazov
“I, for example, recently finished writing an article about the latest wave of “home-grown” Islamic suicide-murderers. It was impossible not to notice one thing that their profiles and Web sites had in common. All of them complained about the impossibility of finding a woman, or sometimes a woman of sufficient piety. Meanwhile their public propaganda was hot with disgust and indignation at the phenomenon of female inchastity. The connection between repression and orgasmically violent action appeared woefully evident.”
Source: Civilization and Its Discontents
“I, for instance, discovered little moments of happiness, or humor, within despair. I realized things weren't always one thing or another thing. It was sometimes both. And as soon as we notice all that space inside us, we have a new perspective. Yes, there is room for a lot of pain but there is room for other things too.”
Source: The Comfort Book
“I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they'll create their own program, and when the people create a program, you get action.”
“I, for one, do not believe the Universe should be this fragile, because it's where I keep all my stuff.”
Source: My Pants Are Haunted
“I for one do not negotiate with Hamas and believe it is a mistake to do so.”
“I for one don't need a supreme "sacred" arbiter in order to be a moral being.”
“I for one don't want to be ranked among idiots, felons, and minors any longer, for I am none of them.”
Source: The Portable Louisa May Alcott
“I for one have ceased to cling to life and to things; I have the feeling that everything is accidental, that one must break one's inner bonds with people and stand aside for all else.”
Source: An Interrupted Life: The Diaries, 1941-1943; and Letters from Westerbork
“I for one like chaos. Chaos looks good on me.”
Source: Uncommon Criminals
“I, for one, was outraged at the accused who trampled the trust of a child. I would never watch a priest take a minor upstairs to his bedroom, not for any reason! Nor would I ever cover for him. My anger was directed at the bishops, too, for their abysmal response.
It was like we were living in a house that had rotted up to the rafters. Where would we begin to make repairs? Should we just knock it down and start again? Or should we simply move far, far away?”
Source: A Saint and a Sinner: The Rise and Fall of a Beloved Catholic Priest
“I for one welcome our new android overlords.”
Source: Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
“I, for one. You’re welcome to your Sturm und Drang, darling—I’ll take someone who’s a bit easier to manage.”
“What is Sturm und Drang?”
“Ah…I see that I’ll have to introduce you to the finer points of German literature. It means passionate turmoil—literally translated, ‘storm and stress.’ ”
“Yes, well, there is nothing quite as exciting as a storm, is there?” Aline asked ruefully.
Adam grinned as he drew her to a nearby bench. “Only when one is viewing it from inside a nice, cozy house.”
Source: Again the Magic
“I for sure believe in miracles. For me, a miracle is seeing the world with light in your eyes. It's knowing there's always hope and possibility where none seems to exist. Many people are so closed to miracles that even when one is boldly staring them in the face, they label it coincidence or serendipity. I call it like I see it.”
Source: What I Know For Sure
“I forbid you from speaking aloud about your service to me. I forbid you from putting it into writing or into song. You will never tell anyone of the Roach. You will never tell anyone of any of my spies. You will never reveal their secrets, their meeting places, their safe houses. So long as I live, you will obey this.”
Source: The Cruel Prince
“I forbid you, agnostic, doubting thoughts, to destroy the house of my faith.”
“I force my eyes upward and look at Mia for the first time. She's still beautiful. Not in an obvious Vanessa LeGrande or Bryn Shraeder kind of way. In a quiet way that's always been devastating to me. Her hair, long and dark, is down now, swimming damply against her bare shoulders, which are still milky white and covered with the constellation of freckles that I used to kiss. The scar on her left shoulder, the one that used to be an angry red weld is silvery pink now. Almost like the latest rage in tattoo accessories. Almost pretty.”
Source: If I Stay
“I force myself to care about the music end by wrestling with it for years.”
“I force myself to get up and lock my eyes on the painting, my birthday gift. It’s the essence of everything I want to remember about us. I pick it up and imagine the stars shimmering over us and the brisk air on our skin. The way the cold dissipated when we touched and nothing else mattered, how perfect it was.”
Source: A Mark on My Soul
“I force myself to think of anything but the one thing that I'm actually always thinking about. And that is so exhausting that I sleep more than I ever have.”
Source: Counting by 7s
“I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.”
“I forced a smile. It was the one I'd been practicing all morning. It felt tight at the edges and brittle everywhere in between.”
Source: The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale
“I forced myself to breathe deeply; perhaps they would have vanished. Perhaps I'd been imagining them because Brae was gone and I was scared without him, and now that he was back I'd feel safe enough again that they would go away. Perhaps it was just paint or something and would have been washed out by the sea spray earlier. I breathed again, feeling much calmer and then, slowly, opened my eyes.”
Source: Fire
“I forced myself to go visit Asia four times a year.”
“I forced myself to picture the last moments. The penultimate breath. A final sigh. And yet. It was always followed by another.”
Source: The History of Love
“I forced myself to stop thinking about it. I went to the room in my brain where all my thoughts about Adam lived and disconnected the electricity and boarded up all the doors and windows, so nothing could get out.
Obviously it was very unsightly. There were bound to be complaints from the neighboring thoughts. But I had no choice.”
Source: Watermelon
“I forced you out of myself
and never said goodbye”
Source: you ate popcorn in my house of grief: transgenerational poetry
“I forcibly conjured memories of that lush world, but they had become bittersweet. I knew that those smiles would fade, those adventures would end. All days on Mirabilis led to Opera. To look at them was to look back on the path that had led to howling and skittering and sleepless nights. The ache to return to a time long gone was almost worse than fear.”
Source: To Be Taught, If Fortunate
“I foresaw at Florence that her quiet, uneventful childhood must end, and it has ended. I realised dimly enough that she might take some momentous steps. She has taken it. She has learned — you will let me talk freely, as I have begun freely — she has learned what it is to love: the greatest lesson, some people will tell you, that our earthly life provides.’ It was now time for him to wave his hat at the approaching trio. He did not omit to do so. ‘She has learned through you,’ and if his voice was still not clerical, it was now also sincere; ‘let it be your care that her knowledge is profitable to her.”
Source: A Room with a View
“I foresaw at Florence that her quiet, uneventful childhood must end, and it has ended. I realised dimly enough that she might take some momentous steps. She has taken it. She has learned — you will let me talk freely, as I have begun freely — she has learned what it is to love: the greatest lesson, some people will tell you, that our earthly life provides. She has learned through you.”
Source: A Room with a View
“I foresaw my life unfolding as an interminable stretch of nothingness and so I spent my years on Tinos floundering, feeling like a stand-in for myself, a proxy, as though my real self resided elsewhere, waiting to unite someday with this dimmer, more hollow self. I felt marooned. An exile in my own home”
Source: And the Mountains Echoed
“I foresee a great funeral contest over me.”
“I foresee a Liberal vote so massive and the number of Liberal MPs so great that we shall hold the initiative in the new Parliament.”
“I foresee a time when humans, instead of being homo sapiens, become Homo Luminous.”
Source: Adventures With A.I.: Age of Discovery
“I foresee death by culture shock.”
“I foresee great refinements in the field of short-pulse microwave signaling, whereby several simultaneous programs may occupy the same channel, in sequence, with incredibly swift electronic communication... Short waves will be generally used in the kitchen for roasting and baking, almost instantaneously...”
“I foresee it and yet I hardly ever carry it out as I foresee it. It transforms itself by the actual paint. I don't in fact know very often what the paint will do, and it does many things which are very much better than I could make it do.”
Source: Francis Bacon
“I foresee no possibility of venturing into themes showing a closer view of reality for a long time to come. The public itself will not have it. What it wants is a gun and a girl.”
“I foresee online gaming changing when there are good audio-visual links connecting the participants, thus approximating play in a face-to-face group.”
“I foresee that man will resign himself each day to more atrocious undertakings; soon there will be no one but warriors and brigands; I give them this counsel: The author of an atrocious undertaking ought to imagine that he has already accomplished it, ought to impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.”
Source: Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
“I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left...”
“I foresee that the Andersen and Fairy Tale fashion will not last; none of these things away from general nature do.”
Source: Memoirs and Letters of Charles Boner: With Letters of Mary Russell Mitford to Him During Ten Years
“I foresee the Chinese ruling the world. What are you going to do to stop it? No president of the United States will ever have enough power to stop the Chinese when they want to take over the world.”
“I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers.”