I Quotes
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“I had endured six years of frustration so I think winning it all meant more to me than most of the others on the team.”
“I had enjoyed life in Paris, and, taking all things into consideration, enjoyed it wholesomely.”
Source: The Essential Writings of James Weldon Johnson
“I had enormous self-image, problems and very low self-esteem, which I hid behind obsessive writing and performing. It's exactly what I do now except I enjoy it now. I'm not driven like I was in my twenties. I was driven to get through life very quickly.”
“I had enough brain to live a stupid life.”
“I had enough time being single to know I have no regrets about being married!”
“I had enough trouble not falling down when the ground was dry; it might be safer for me to go back to bed now.”
“I had entered a world that no one with an evolved sense of joie de vivre would touch with a barge pole - it's called "Joining the Property Market" and it trumps war for stress!”
Source: Latest Accessory
“I had envisioned doing comedy since childhood. For sure.”
“I had Eondel teach me," Raoden said. "Back when I was trying to find ways to prove that my father's laws were foolish. Eondel chose fencing becausehe thought it would be most useful to me, as a politician. I never figured I'd end up using it to keep my wife from slicing me to pieces.”
“I had escaped from my prior partisan mind-set (reject first, ask rhetorical questions later) and began to think about liberal and conservative policies as manifestations of deeply conflicting but equally heartfelt visions of the good society. It felt good to be released from partisan anger. And once I was no longer angry, I was no longer committed to reaching the conclusion that righteous anger demands: we are right, they are wrong. I was able to explore new moral matrices, each one supported by its own intellectual traditions. It felt like a kind of awakening.”
“I had eventually come to understand that friendship was a delicate, gradual process that mustn’t be rushed or seized upon but allowed and encouraged to take its course over time. I pictured it as a butterfly, simultaneously beautiful and fragile, that once afloat belonged to the air and any attempt to grab at it would only destroy it.”
Source: Born On A Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant
“I had every reason to quit, but you were the reason I wanted it all again.”
“I had every right to accept Lady Raiford's invitation," she said stubbornly. "A-and I won't leave, no matter what you say to me!"
"Then I will."
"All right!" To her amazement, an urge to taunt him overcame her, and she added, "If you have so little control over yourself that you find it necessary to run away from me."
His face was wiped clean of all expression, but she could sense the fury that blazed within him. "They say God protects fools and children- for your sake I hope it's true.”
Source: Dreaming of You
“I had everything I need to get me killed.”
“I had everything I'd hoped for, but I wasn't being myself. So I decided to be honest about who I was. It was strange: The people who loved me for being funny suddenly didn't like me for being... me.”
“I had everything working my way, strong as a bull. And still I ignored the rules of the game of life.”
“I had evidently disturbed the bird from its perch which, on closer inspection, turned out to be something called the Bentinck Fountain. It had clearly seen glories greater than the poor laurels tossed its way now. Once it had been cherished as an effecting feature of a grand estate. Now it stood apologetically by the side of the road, its empty trough sticking out like a beggar's imploring hand.”
Source: At Night: A Journey Round Britain from Dusk Till Dawn
“I had examined myself pretty thoroughly and discovered that I was unfit for military service.”
Source: Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition
“I had excellent opportunity to intoxicate myself with the solemn splendor of the brilliant church festivals. As was only natural, the abbot seemed to me, as the village priest had once seemed to my father, the highest and most desirable ideal.”
Source: Mein Kampf
“I had expectations of what my adult life might look like. It was going to be sophisticated and full of adventure. I'd meet interesting people and do interesting things, and I'd be hot and happy. It certainly did not involve me lying on my living room floor on a Tuesday evening with a slightly stale bag of chips and a pile of tissues because listening to "Marjorie" makes me miss my Nana and I can't stop crying. But I also can't stop listening to it.”
Source: Daydream
“I had expected to be playing in the reserves and, all going well, that I might get a chance in the first team towards the end of the season. But it has all happened much faster than I could ever have thought.”
“I had experience with PTSD myself; probably that's why I felt so close to the soldiers and the testimony. Also, because I had experienced this myself, I wanted to make a really physical and carnal film.”
“I Had Experienced Lust Many Times Before..I Had Experienced Desires Before..But This Was Beyond That..This Was Like A Headon Collision..This Was Like Being Pulled Up In A Tornado, And This Was Like The Feeling Of Taking A Bungee Jump In An Unknown Valley!!”
“I had experienced unconditional love, I lost it, I started searching for it again . . . and then, I found it had been within me all along.”
Source: The Lifetimes of a Journey: My Amazing Journey of Coming Alive and the Power of Unconditional Self-Love
“I had experiences along the way that helped me to realize that letting go was the way that worked for me to find something that I, personally, as a reader, love to read.”
“I had explained that a woman's asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person's demanding equality in the Ku Klux Klan”
“I had extensively toured the south west Florida hurricane Ian disaster zone when I lived there.”
“I had extra thick light sabers because mine kept getting bent. I'd be halfway through a fight and it would be like 'Oops, sorry! Mine's bent again!”
“I had extraordinary dreams, and an ordinary mind.”
Source: Upgrade
“I had failed more times than I could count. I had turned from Him both intentionally and unintentionally. Yet He kept coming at me, saying, “I’m not giving up on you. Your failures will never define you, nor will your successes. You are not hopeless, nor will you ever be, because I am with you. I will not leave you nor forsake you. I will not let you slip from my hands. You can ignore me, you can defy me, you can be unfaithful, but nothing will deter my love for you.”
Source: Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose
“I had failed to make a gift of myself to God.”
Source: The Spiral Staircase
“I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
David”
“I had faith in the concept and the theory that all Americans are endowed with the right to a fair trial and I would be fairly judged and fairly tried.”
“I had faith, and if I had faith I couldn't worry.”
“I had fallen in love with a young man... and we were planning to get married. And then he died of subacute bacterial endocarditis... Two years later with the advent of penicillin, he would have been saved. It reinforced in my mind the importance of scientific discovery...”
“I had fallen in love with California.”
“I had fallen in love with her long before our first kiss, though. I loved her more than I had ever loved anyone before that moment. I think I loved her more than I've ever loved anyone after that moment.
I think I still might.”
Source: It Starts with Us
“I had fallen in love. What I mean is: I had begun to recognize, to isolate the signs of one of those from the others, in fact I waited for these signs I had begun to recognize, I sought them, responded to those signs I awaited with other signs I made myself, or rather it was I who aroused them, these signs from her, which I answered with other signs of my own . . .”
Source: The Complete Cosmicomics
“I had fallen into despair
did this bother him”
Source: The Last Usable Hour
“I had fallen into the pages of the book. Time stood still and I lost sense of my surroundings. Siddharth’s words were all that I was aware of. They were a drum beat in my being. A part of me understood instinctively then that the purpose of this adventure had been to bring me to this book. I did not doubt for a moment that it was addressed to anyone but me, and it was not only because it bore my name on the title page. The surreal dream, the kidnapping, the rescue, my saviour’s easy familiarity … It all seemed to fall into place somehow. I sensed this book held all my answers.
Even so, the words in the book frightened me like nothing had ever done before. Anu and Sabi were laughing, their heads bent together over a page. I tried to say something but my voice was stuck in my throat. I felt like a hook was being pulled through my heart. I tried to breathe. Then, out of sheer habit formed over fifteen years of my life, I did what came naturally to me when I was scared, upset or unhappy. I turned to the book in my lap and began to read.”
Source: The Reengineers
“I had fallen out of my secure world, precipitated beyond the territories I had only begun to control so skillfully. What a foolish step to take. What an insane move to make.”
Source: Rules of the Wild: A Novel of Africa
“I had fallen too far. I was in love with Rush Finlay.”
Source: Fallen Too Far: A Rosemary Beach Novel
“I had feared that if I opened the floodgates I would drown. But as the waves crashed over me, I was not consumed, I was swept up, washed, my soul blanketed with blessed relief.”
Source: A Different Blue
“I had feared that love would make me vulnerable. Instead I felt empowered.”
Source: Die For Me: Number 1 in series
“I had feared this end, wondered where I would go from it, from the moment I first stepped on this footpath in the desert. But I found I was not afraid of reaching it now. I was happy. I hadn't found every answer for where I was going, but I now had all I needed to take these next steps. I knew I would do what I needed to become a writer now.”
Source: Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
“I had felt an outrageous amount of jealousy, even though I know that jealousy is simply love and hate at the same time.”
Source: Royals
“I had felt for a long time, that if I was ever told to get up so a white person could sit, that I would refuse to do so.”
“I had felt guilty but honored. Genevieve liked me best. We were close,closer than with anyone else. The bracelets were proof. How cheaply I was bought then, with just a bracelet made out of string.”
Source: P.S. I Still Love You
“I had felt the shot coming; I hadn't realized the bow was loaded with this very quarrel, perfectly calibrated to hit him hardest. What part of me had been studying him, stockpiling knowledge as ammunition?”
“I had felt uncomfortable as a woman my whole life.”