I Quotes
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“I gravitate toward the larger worldview questions such as, Why are we here? What are we supposed to be doing? What does it mean to know another person? To love someone? Of course, those questions are sort of in the background as I'm playing with language in the foreground, but those are the informing questions.”
“I gravitate toward the law, I think, certainly more times than not, because it's our best mechanism for legislating human behavior, and morality, and ethics.”
“I gravitate toward the team thing. I'm not a golfer - I much prefer basketball.”
“I gravitate toward women.”
“I gravitate towards anything that feels challenging to me, that feels like it's gonna be saying something a bit different and new to the audience, and anything that moves me. I do movies that I would want to see, so I don't necessarily gravitate towards any genre in particular. I just try and do the best work I can and also try to keep the audience guessing.”
“I gravitate towards anything that has a grain of comedy to it.”
“I gravitate towards dark comedy, because I'm a huge fan of dark comedy. I always think the most painful thing that you can laugh at is the best.”
“I gravitate towards gravitas.”
“I gravitate towards happy music. I love the Beach Boys.”
“I gravitate towards peace, and away from chaos.”
Source: 99 Quotes and Affirmations For Self-Love & Personal Development
“I gravitate towards places where humans have been and are no more, to the edge of man's influence, where the elements are taking over or covering man's traces.”
“I gravitate towards sort of broken characters who try to be better people.”
“I gravitate towards the utopian potentials of digital space (post race, post gender, post human etc.), but understand that people live in real bodies that experience real consequences based on how they are gendered, sexed, raced and classed.”
“I gravitated to acting out of a mixture of instinct, naivete and opportunity.”
“I gravitated toward being a funny guy. I liked the radio comedians. I lived in the Golden Age of radio, and the Golden Age of television came along when I was still in my early teens.”
“I gravitated towards a patriarch so young predictably
I was resigned to spend my life within a maze of misery
A boy and a girl befriended me
We're bonded through despondency
I stayed so long but finally
I fled to save my sanity”
“I great difficulty having any respect for a religion that has so little confidence in the truth of its beliefs that it feels reduced to using threats in order to propagate those beliefs.”
“I greatly admire GE, their utterly ruthlessly focused management, to get the cost out and get this integration done.’ Okay, we may make a few mistakes along the way but we are not going to waste any time.' They make decisions; they are incredibly disciplined and focused.”
“I greatly admired Gypsy [Rose Lee] for being able to rise above her circumstances; I was terrified of her; I thought she was generous; I thought she was brilliant; I thought she was cruel.”
“I greatly admired him as a teacher I didn't teach the same way as Josef Albers at all.”
“I greatly doubt whether the men who become pirate chiefs are those who are filled with retrospective terror of their fathers, or whether Napoleon , at Austerlitz, really felt that he was getting even with Madame Mère. I know nothing of the mother of Attila , but I rather suspect that she spoilt the little darling, who subsequently found the world irritating because it sometimes resisted his whims.”
Source: Power: A New Social Analysis
“I greatly enjoyed Tom Reiss's The Orientalist, for its mingled scholarship and sleuthing, and for so elegantly solving the puzzle of one of the Twentieth Century's most mysterious writers.”
“I greatly fear some of America's greatest and most dangerous enemies are such as think themselves her best friends.”
“I greatly fear that the universities, unless they teach the Holy Scriptures diligently and impress them on the young students, are wide gates to hell.”
Source: Three Treatises
“I greet every new day with the words, 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.' That's the state of mind that directs me, fulfills me, and sends me out into the world with a gift to share. It's a blessing that I have learned over a lifetime - to experience the presence of Spirit in most of my waking moments. It's a feeling of contentment and satisfaction, of peace and love.”
“I greet you all in the name of peace, democracy and freedom for all.”
“I greet you from Smyrna together with the Churches of God present here with me. They comfort me in every way, both in body and soul. My chains, which I carry about on me for Jesus Christ, begging that I may happily make my way to God, exhort you: persevere in your concord and in you community prayers.”
“I greet you from the other side of sorrow and despair, with a love so vast and shattered it will reach you everywhere.”
“I greet you in the name of the Living God," the woman in pink says.”
Source: Wisdom from Women in the Bible: Giants of the Faith Speak into Our Lives
“I greet you. Not quite as the world sends greetings, but with profound esteem and with the prayer that for you now and forever, the day breaks, and the shadows flee away.”
“I greeted the past and it smiled. I called to the future and my voice still lingers.”
“I grew a love for helpless, defenseless things. People would give me lions and jaguars. I had cheetahs, monkeys.”
“I grew apart from a lot of people. No hate, we just don't relate anymore.”
“I grew comfortable enough [in the Oval Office] to put my feet up or sit on the desk ...”
Source: A Promised Land
“I grew convinced that truth, sincerity and integrity in dealings between man and man were of the utmost importance to the felicity of life, and I formed written resolutions . . . to practice them ever while I lived.”
Source: Benjamin Franklin: his Autobiography, with a narrative of his public life and services by H. H. Weld
“I grew during segregation in an all-black segregated neighborhood with segregated schools, etcetera. I was raised by a great father, my hero, who I much admired. So, I never really had anxiety in the way that someone like Obama would have. When he walks down the street alone, since no one knows who his mother is, they're just going to see him as a black guy.”
“I grew in a community where I saw the process of how one becomes a drug dealer or a gang banger or a stick-up kid. There's a series of events that happen. People don't just wake up and decide they wanna be that.”
“I grew in the inner city, listening to Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway, James Brown, The Commodores - lots of soul music.”
“I grew into it. It grew into me. It and I blurred at the edges, became one amorphous, seeping, crawling thing.”
Source: Madness: A Bipolar Life
“I grew intoxicated with my own eloquence.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)
“I grew my beard out a little bit just to show that indeed I am a man.”
“I grew my mustache when I was nineteen in order to look older. I never shaved it off even though it overran its usefulness many, many years ago. Once you get started in television, people associate you with your physical appearance - and that includes the mustache. So I can't shave it off now. If I did, I'd have to answer too much mail.”
“I grew out my armpit hair for the summer. It turns out my natural hair colour isn't blonde.”
“I grew really fast. It's true I went from 5'6'' to 6'1'' in six months in 8th grade. By the end of 8th grade, I was 6'1''. Everyone was freaking out.”
“I grew six inches in a year.”
“I grew so depressed from the lack of support that I considered quitting. No one understood me.”
“I grew taller that day. Or maybe it was that my soul, rose-petal voice size, trying to make enoughroom to hold him within it”
Source: The Last Tale of the Flower Bride
“I grew tense but hopeful when his eyes turned to my lips. I knew what that meant. Every woman did. However selfish and grossly out of place it was, I was okay with one kiss, more curious than frightened to discover what it is like to kiss a Reaper who could drain my life. Perhaps my motivation was to ridicule Fate by kissing the lips of Death himself. Or maybe I was cold, tired, and downright horny.”
Source: The Reaper's Kiss
“I grew tired of religion some time not long after birth. I believe in people, I believe in humans, I believe in a car, but I don't believe something I can't have absolutely no evidence of for millenniums. And it's funny, people think analysis or psychiatry is mad, and they go to church.”
“I grew to love August Bennett. In the small moments we shared.
He wanted to protect me, and I wanted to protect him, but I was afraid of the truth. That we were not safe, that none of us were safe.”