I Quotes
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“I gave myself permission to care, because there are a lot of people in this world who are afraid of caring, or afraid of showing that they care because it's uncool. It's uncool to have passion. It's so much easier to lose when you've shown everyone how much you don't care if you win or lose. It's much harder to lose when you show that you care, but, you'll never win, unless you also stand to lose. Don't be afraid of your passion.”
“I gave myself permission to feel and experience all of my emotions. In order to do that, I had to stop being afraid to feel. In order to do that, I taught myself to believe that no matter what I felt or what happened when I felt it, I would be okay.”
“i gave myself permission to freak out. smiled like an idiot, made an embarrassing screeching sound through my teeth, flapped my hands like tiny little chicken wings, the works.
mr. britton responded by doing pretty much the exact same thing.
we were only human, you know.”
“I gave myself to her, but she sold me to fulfill her appetite for adventurous lust.”
“I gave myself to my children. It happens to some women.”
“I gave myself to you sooner than I ever did to any man, I swear to you; and do you know why? Because when you saw me spitting blood you took my hand; because you wept; because you are the only human being who has ever pitied me. I am going to say a mad thing to you: I once had a little dog who looked at me with a sad look when I coughed; that is the only creature I ever loved. When he died I cried more than when my mother died. It is true that for twelve years of her life she used to beat me. Well, I loved you all at once, as much as my dog. If men knew what they can have for a tear, they would be better loved and we should be less ruinous to them.”
Source: La dame aux camélias
“I gave myself to you sooner than I ever did to any man, I swear to you; and do you know why? Because when you saw me spitting blood you took my hand; because you wept; because you are the only human being who has ever pitied me. I am going to say a mad thing to you: I once had a little dog who looked at me with a sad look when I coughed; that is the only creature I ever loved. When he died I cried more than when my mother died. It is true that for twelve years of her life she used to beat me. Well, I loved you all at once, as much as my dog. If men knew what they can have for a tear, they would be better loved and we should be less ruinous to them.
Fils, Alexandre Dumas. Camille (p. 94). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.”
“I gave myself two months to book a job. One month later I was cast on 'Modern Family.'”
“I gave no prescriptions,
And those who have taken my moods for prophecies
Mistake the matter.”
Source: The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems, 1940-2001
“I gave one permaculture course in Botswana, and now my students are out in the bloody desert in Namibia teaching Bushmen - whose language nobody can speak - to be very good permaculture people.”
“I gave out stars whenever an appropriate situation presented itself.”
“I gave people the benefit of the doubt, thinking, so many people that appear very calm and even boring must have all these wild emotions and crazy ideas.”
“I gave someone a perverse argument not so long ago about why advertising is better than movies. You want to hear it? Movies operate from a really disingenuous premise, that people are heroes. I know a lot of people and have had an opportunity over the years to observe them. Are they heroes...? Let's put it this way. Advertising tries something simpler and more believable: Products as heroes. I guess the idea is: When all else fails, put your faith in conditioner.”
“I gave the album [You're Under Arrest] to Quincy Jones and he loved "D Train". We couldn't call it "D Train"; it's called "MDI/Something's On Your Mind/MD2". That's on the album.”
“I gave the best and all my life to a girdled tree. It was live oak, and was good for any purpose, except for blossom and fruit, and I am not willing for Belle to be content with anything less than the whole of a man's heart.
[Varina Davis, Letter to a friend, advising against his daughter Belle marrying a widower]”
Source: The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
“I gave the graduation speech at my high school. Not because I was valedictorian but because the grade voted for me to do it. And I gave a slightly contentious speech. I was a little critical of the administration. But for a long time it said on Wikipedia that I took my balls out and exposed myself to the crowd.”
“I gave the mouse a hole, and she is become my heire.
[I gave the mouse a hole, and she is become my heir.]”
“I gave the prescribed Metropolitan Police "first greeting". "Oi!" I said "What do you think you're doing?”
Source: Midnight Riot
“I gave thee what could not be heard
What had not been given before
The beat of my heart I gave !”
“I gave them a fair warning”
“I gave them all the truth and none of the honesty.”
Source: Let The Great World Spin
“I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death”
“I gave three quiet cheers for Minnesota. In Seattle a dusty inch of anything white and chilly means the city lapses into full-on panic mode, as if each falling flake crashes to earth with its own individual baggie of used hypodermic needles. It’s ridiculous.”
Source: Bloodshot
“I gave three years of my life to take care of my dying mother who had Alzheimer's disease. Being there for her every need for three years might have looked codependent but it wasn't because it was what I wanted to do.”
“I gave to pink, the nerve of the red, a neon pink, an unreal pink.”
“I gave up a lot of things in exchange for my success.”
“I gave up accounting. I went in for about six months writing ad copy. I was fired from that, and then another guy and I did a kind of poor man's Bob and Ray kind of syndicated radio show. Then I decided to stick it out and see what happened. I'd give it a year, a year became two years, and then two years became three years, and then along came the record album.”
“I gave up all for Christ, and what have I found? Everything in Christ.”
“I gave up before birth.”
Source: The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989
“I gave up being a conventional person a long time ago. Things have been so much more exciting since I did.”
“I gave up caring about anything, and all the problems disappeared.”
Source: Short stories
“I gave up caring about anything, and all the problems disappeared. And it was after that that I found out the truth . I learnt the truth last November on the third of November, to be precise and I remember every instant since.”
Source: Short stories
“I gave up Christianity at about 14. Came back to it when getting on for 30. Not an emotional conversion; almost purely philosophical. I didn't want to. I'm not in the least a religious type. I want to be let alone, to feel I'm my own master; but since the facts seemed to be just the opposite, I had to give in.”
“I gave up coffee. It's almost worse than giving up a lover.”
“I gave up drinking, and the next time I saw Bonny at a party, she was mad at me about that too, and went off and made out all night with Chip Neminech, the tackle who demonstrated that not only is there no I in team, there’s no Q, either. I suppose, given that my mother was a girl, I shouldn’t have been surprised that some of them could get pretty weird.”
Source: Tales of the Madman Underground
“I gave up drinking before my twentieth birthday. I haven’t touched the stuff since. And I’ve discovered that not everyone who does horrible things is a horrible person.”
Source: The Fifteenth of June
“I gave up drinking coffee for you. I swapped pizza for produce and this is what I get in return?”
“I gave up drinking lots of whiskey and began to practice yoga and meditation. As a result I am not dead.”
“I gave up drinking once -- it was the worst afternoon of my entire life.”
“I gave up hoping...But, still, I would think of him, I would cherish his image in my mind, and treasure every word, look and gesture that memory could retain.”
“I gave up hypnotic treatment for this very reason, because I did not want to impose my will on others. I wanted the healing processes to grow out of the patient’s own personality, not from suggestions by me that would have only a passing effect. My aim was to protect and preserve my patient’s dignity and freedom, so that he could live his life according to his own wishes. In this exchange with Freud, it dawned on me for the first time that before we construct general theories about man and his psyche we should learn a lot more about the real human being we have to deal with.”
Source: Man and His Symbols: A Popular Presentation of the Essential Ideas of Jungian Psychology with Over 500 Illustrations
“I gave up language for a while, and I started painting.And then I only listened to Miles Davis and other instrumental music to see how it felt to be without words.”
“I gave up living as a person, so that you can have a humane and conscientious world to live in - and in return I ask nothing from you, except that you live as a whole human being.”
“I gave up lots of things I love doing: writing, and business, and playing the piano and so on.”
“I gave up many times but I never quit.”
“I gave up meat when I was twelve. & One day I was cutting up a chicken for my mom, and I hit a tumor with the knife. There was pus and blood all over the place. That was enough for me.”
“I gave up medicine. So I'll give up fashion. . . I could be a colorist of spaceships.”
“I gave up music criticism because of the increasingly obvious conflict of interest. I couldn't say anything bad about the records when I might be meeting that person's manager backstage an hour later.”
“I gave up my base in popular culture when I left the Tonight Show.”
“I gave up my childhood for a career.”