I Quotes
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“I am afraid, too.”
That is not what I expected him to say. “Why are you afraid?”
“The same reasons you are, I imagine. I worry you will hate me and we will struggle again. I worry about the kit we will make. I worry if anything happens to it, it will destroy what we have again.” He kisses my cheek. “But I do know that I am more afraid of not trying.”
Source: Barbarian's Hope
“I am afraid, Torvald, I do not exactly know what religion is. ... When I am away from all this, and am alone, I will look into that matter too. I will see if what the clergyman said is true, or at all events if it is true for me.”
Source: A Doll's House
“I am afraid we are little better than straws upon the water; we may flatter ourselves that we swim, when the current carries us along.”
Source: The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes
“I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.”
“I am afraid! It is not starving I fear, or talking to people, or even being alone. But I cannot bear to be useless and ineffectual. There must be some meaning to me, if not to my life; there must surely be some purpose that has my name written on it. If this is not so, if I am deceiving myself about this too, then why should I want to become real? What reason have I to live anywhere?”
Source: A fine and private place: The last unicorn
“I am afraid, ... that health begins, after seventy, and often long before, to have a meaning different from that which it had at thirty. But it is culpable to murmur at the established order of the creation, as it is vain to oppose it. He that lives, must grow old; and he that would rather grow old than die, has God to thank for the infirmities of old age.”
“I am afraid. I am not solid, but hollow. I feel behind my eyes a numb, paralyzed cavern, a pit of hell, a mimicking nothingness.”
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
“I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.”
Source: Flowers for Algernon: One Act
“I am, after all, an adult, a grown man, a useful human being, even though I lost the career that made me all these things. I won't make that mistake again.”
Source: Gone Girl
“I am after painting reality impressed on the mind so hard that it returns as a dream, but I am not after painting dreams as such, or fantasy.”
Source: George Tooker
“I am again called upon by the voice of my country to execute the functions of its Chief Magistrate.”
Source: The Writings of George Washington: pt. IV. Letters official and private, from the beginning of his presidency to the end of his life: (v. 10) May, 1789-November, 1794. (v. 11) November, 1794-December, 1799
“I am against abortion; I think that life is sacred and we should take a position of being against abortion. I think it is wrong to take human life. I think that human life starts at conception.”
“I am against all machines. It's no wonder that so many Americans go on dope when they have no other cultural stimulus than a television.”
“I am against all war.”
“I am against any pact with the Nationalists because I am against pacts in principle.”
“I am against anybody who uses violence to make their points.”
“I am against censorship in any form. I think anybody should be able to make any movie he or she wants and let the public decide. If it's disgusting and they don't want to see it, they won't go. I believe in the audience.”
“I am against censorship. I prefer the chaos of uncontrollable communication of all sorts to selective banning of certain materials. I do not think human beings can be trusted to be above politics and to promote the common good. One group's common good is another group's evil.”
Source: What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong
“I am against changing my body to become better. I am not against implants, I have a lot of girlfriends who have them, but the implants look good on them. I am never gonna get them, once I have kids they are gonna get bigger anyway.”
“I am against conversion (to Buddhism). In my speech at UN, the first thing I said was that I am for conversion, but not from one organised religion to another, but from misery to happiness, from bondage to liberation.”
“I am against great themes and great subjects... You can't film an idea. The camera is an instrument for recording physical impact.”
Source: Jean Renoir: essays, conversations, and reviews
“I am against justice … whenever it is carried out by a mob.”
“I am against limitations like perspective. Perspective is illusion, it's the opposite of presence, and art is presence.”
“I am against lying, but just because someone asks a question does not mean you have to answer it.”
“I am against making golf courses obsolete, going to the national Open and playing half the holes with a one-iron.”
“I am against market fundamentalism. I think this propaganda that government involvement is always bad has been very successful - but also very harmful to our society.”
“I am against marriage, and I don't give a fig for society.”
“I am against nationalism, and I am against patriotism. They are both the dark side. It is time not simply to redefine a kinder-and-gentler patriotism, but to sweep away the notion and acknowledge it as morally, politically, and intellectually bankrupt. It is time to scrap patriotism.”
Source: Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim Our Humanity
“I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.”
“I am against nuclear weapons, regardless of whether they are in the hands of Iran or Israel or any Western country. But obviously some states are allowed to have weapons of mass destruction while others are not.”
“I am against people reaping where they have not sown. But we have a saying that if you want to eat a toad you should look for a fat and juicy one.”
Source: No Longer at Ease
“I am against performance-enhancing drugs. I have never taken them and I never will take them.”
“I am against professional astronomers ruining their workers health and careers.”
“I am against Prohibition because it has set the cause of temperence back twenty years; because it has substituted an ineffective campaign of force for an effective campaign of education; because it has replaced comparatively uninjurious light wines and beers with the worst kind of hard liquor and bad liquor; because it has increased drinking not only among men but has extended drinking to women and even children.”
Source: William Randolph Hearst: a portrait in his own words
“I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.”
“I am against resources being controlled by corporations, but that doesn't mean I want them controlled by the state.”
“I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions. The most important dichotomy that I make for a society is between those who support democracy and human rights, and those who oppose it. In a totalitarian state, the state views any act of an individual to be political in nature. For example, the clothing that a person wears in a modern state is a private affair whereas in the Islamic Republic all women are forced to wear the hijab (Islamic attire). When women push their headscarf back an inch or two, this is interpreted to be a political act.”
“I am against slavery simply because I dislike slaves.”
Source: Mencken Chrestomathy
“I am against the death penalty.”
“I am against the fact that a settler minority should impose an entire system of values on an indigenous people.”
“I am against the florists and floristry! Let the flowers not be the toys of our pleasures!”
“I am against the idea of the end, that everything culminates in paradise or judgment.”
“I am against the Islamisation of France!”
“I am against the line and all its consequences: contours, forms, composition. All paintings of whatever sort, figurative or abstract, seem to me like prison windows in which the lines, precisely are the bars.”
Source: Yves Klein: Long Live the Immaterial
“I am against the notion of style in itself”
“I am against the rush to medicalize our children and young people to present as the opposite sex when they are confused or when other conditions such as autism are misattributed as trans.”
Source: The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology
“I am against the war, but I do support our white troops. No, I'm kidding, I'm kidding. I'm not a Republican. I'm not a member of the party of inclusion. Wonderful, tolerant, rational human beings they are.”
“I am against the whole cliche of the moment.”
“I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.”
“I am against war, against violence, against violent revolution, for peaceful settlement of differences, for nonviolent but nevertheless radical changes. Change is needed, and violence will not really change anything: at most it will only transfer power from one set of bull-headed authorities to another.”