I Quotes
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“I had not fooled myself with false hope. I was a goddess, and he a mortal, and both of us were imprisoned. But I pressed his face into my mind, as seals are pressed in wax, so I could carry it with me.”
Source: Circe
“I had not fooled myself with false hope. I was a goddess, and he was a mortal, and both of us were imprisoned. But I pressed his face into my mind, as seals are pressed in wax, so I could carry it with me.”
Source: Circe
“I had not found a new religion but I had found a new faith.”
Source: Mutant Message Down Under
“I had not given a thought to what a difference it can make when you treat another person with simple respect and dignity, the same respect and dignity you want for yourself. That is so simple, yet so few seem able to do it.”
Source: Day of Tears
“I had not gone to New York to be a model, and I hadn’t. I’d gone there for life and sex and cruelty. Not something you learn in community college.”
Source: Veronica
“I had not had any drugs for 5 years but then I relapsed again. I have also smoked nearly everything. Every day it was a battle to recover, which I fought for my son and myself.”
“I had not, if truth be told, thought to wonder whether indeed a single lover might ever bring a full, rounded, complete satisfaction of all I had craved for a long time past, and that I imagined all lovers must crave.”
Source: The Erotic Notebooks
“I had not intended to love him: the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; ...”
Source: Jane Eyre
“I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously revived, great and strong! He made me love him without looking at me.”
Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“I had not learned anything about Huntley that would
have alerted me to what he was. I had no reason, as an 11-year-old girl, to be wary of him. No one said, ‘This guy likes to have sex with young girls.”
Source: Hailey's Story
“I had not learned that peace galls men, how they gather impatient rage against it as it continues, how even while they pray the powers for peace, they work against it and make certain it will be broken and give way to battle, slaughter, rape, and wast. Of all the greater powers the one I fear the most is the one I cannot worship, the one who walks the boundary, the one who sets the ram on the ewe, and the bull on the heifer, the sword in the farmer's hand. . .”
“I had not liked him. I had struggled against him and for him, I had cursed him and thanked him, despised him and admired him. I hated his religion and its cold disapproving gaze, its malevolence that cloaked itself in pretended kindness, and its allegiance to a god who would drain the joy from the world by naming it sin, but Alfred’s religion had made him a good man and a good king. And Alfred’s joyless soul had proved a rock against which the Danes had broken themselves. Time and again they had attacked, and time and again Alfred had out-thought them, and Wessex grew ever stronger and richer and all that was because of Alfred. We think of kings as privileged men who rule over us and have the freedom to make, break and flaunt the law, but Alfred was never above the law he loved to make. He saw his life as a duty to his god and to the people of Wessex and I have never seen a better king, and I doubt my sons, grandsons and their children’s children will ever see a better one. I never liked him, but I have never stopped admiring him. He was my king and all that I now have I owe to him. The food that I eat, the hall where I live and the swords of my men, all started with Alfred, who hated me at times, loved me at times, and was generous with me. He was a gold-giver.”
Source: Death of Kings
“I had not met Tina Fey before I auditioned for 30 Rock. Some people think were old friends from Second City days. I had always been a fan of Tinas. But I actually never planned on being in a sitcom.”
“I had not noticed how the humblest, and at the same time most balanced and capacious, minds praised most, while the cranks, misfits, and malcontents praised least. The good critics found something to praise in many imperfect works; the bad ones continually narrowed the list of books we might be allowed to read. The healthy and unaffected man, even if luxuriously brought up and widely experienced in good cookery, could praise a very modest meal: the dyspeptic and the snob found fault with all. Except where intolerably adverse circumstances interfere, praise almost seems to be inner health made audible.”
Source: Reflections on the Psalms
“I had not picked up a tennis racket in 15 years, so I tried.”
“I had not put into
words, yet—the worst thing,
but I thought that I could say it, if I said it
word by word.”
Source: Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems
“I had not read George Eliot, so read a few. I felt ashamed I hadn't read "Middlemarch" before.”
“I had not remembered
how deep he held himself inside
himself”
Source: Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems
“I had not said the words attributed to me. Even if I had said them, they weren't defamatory. Even if they were, it was a private conversation. Also—not that I am admitting I said them—they are true.”
Source: The Curious Case of the Talking Mongoose
“I had not seen "Pride and Prejudice," till I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book. And what did I find? An accurate daguerreotyped portrait of a common-place face; a carefully fenced, highly cultivated garden, with neat borders and delicate flowers; but no glance of a bright, vivid physiognomy, no open country, no fresh air, no blue hill, no bonny beck. I should hardly like to live with her ladies and gentlemen, in their elegant but confined houses.”
“I had not seen that until - and when it first came out I was told. I had not seen or been aware of all of that physical evidence. And when I saw it, I was horrified. It was so astounding to me to see that there was that much evidence.”
“I had not spent a ton of time around animals as a kid.”
“I had not starred in an independent film and it's about a woman who owned a hair salon.”
“I had not taken a bath in a year nor changed my clothes or removed them except to stick a needle every hour in the fibrous grey wooden flesh of heroin addiction. I did absolutely nothing.”
“I had not the least idea of a gamekeeper's occupation being so dangerous - there had never been such a person employed on the Longbourn estate - and just as I had spent half the previous night wondering about Peter, I spent half the next one worrying about him.”
Source: Mary Bennet
“I had not then learned the philosophy which teaches that he who would attempt enterprises of great command, must begin his government by laying its foundations in his own breast, in control of his own passions & that he who would survey the world must first sound the depth & shallows of his own character.”
“I had not thought about this, but it was true. There was no black and white. Someone who had been good her entire life could, in fact, do something evil. Ania was just as capable of committing murder, under the right circumstances, as any monster.”
Source: The Storyteller
“I had not thought of this regular decrease of gravity, namely that it is as the inverse square of the distance; this is a new and highly remarkable property of gravity.”
“I had not thought of violets of late,
The wild, shy kind that springs beneath you feet
In wistful April days.”
“I had not thought that I was doing wrong; I had never taken so many things into consideration.”
“I had not to this time subsisted, but that I was supported by your frequent courtesies and favours.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of Massinger and Ford. With an Introduction, by Hartley Coleridge
“I had not yet acquired the experience which gives modesty.”
Source: The Life of an Artist: Art and Nature
“I had not yet gotten into the world of light. But I felt as one who, standing outside, could knock against the wall and hear an answering knock from within.”
Source: The reminiscences of an astronomer
“I had not yet learned that we make our own destiny, it springs from within us. It is not the outward events but what we allow ourselves to make of them that count.”
Source: Mrs. de Winter
“I had nothing and I was still changed. Like a costume, my numbness was taken away. Then hunger was added.”
“I had nothing growing up, but I always wanted to be 'sexy,' even before I knew what the word was.”
“I had nothing to contribute. I played no part. I was on the edge.
Different.
Alone.
Everything around me, grey.
It was the same old feeling, back again.
I was in the middle of the group but I might as well have been a million miles away from these people.”
Source: Stag
“I had nothing to do with death panels. I thought it was a horrible phrase about end of life. I didn't think it was accurate, and I was - I've always been opposed to it. The reason why I stood behind that phrase "death tax" for so many years is because the only time that you could pay that tax, the only time, is on the death of a relative. And that's what makes it a death tax. You have to be accurate.”
“I had nothing to fear from my father. Except his disappointment. Which was no small thing.”
Source: Escape
“I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.”
Source: On the Road
“I had nothing to prove and everything to lose. But it didn’t take love to sacrifice something of yourself for someone else. It just took desperation.”
Source: Give the Dark My Love
“I had nothing to say, not because I hadn't lived, but because I wasn't prepared to say anything true about who I was.”
“I had nothing to say to these strangers, whoever or whatever they were.”
Source: The Answers
“I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.”
Source: Ham On Rye
“I had noticed the onset of sickness that was consistent with sleep disorders and B12 deficiency during working extreme nights shifts at very high altitude atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii.”
“I had now also got to deal with the fate of my horses and my dogs... In the end I decided to give them to my friends.
I rode in to Nairobi on my favourite horse, Rouge, going very slowly and looking round to the North, and the South. It was a very strange thing to Rouge, I thought, to be going in by the Nairobi road, and not to be coming back. I installed him, with some trouble, in the horse-van of the Naivasha train, I stood in the van and felt, for the last time, his silky muzzle against my hands and my face. I will not let thee go, Rouge, except thou bless me. We had found together the riding-path down to the river amongst the Native shambas and huts, on the steep slippery descent he had walked as nimbly as a mule, and in the brown running river-water I had seen my own head and his close together. May you now, in a valley of clouds, eat carnations to the right and stock to the left.”
Source: Out of Africa
“I had now made about 45 pictures, but what had I become? I knew all too well: a phallic symbol. All over the world I was, as a name and personality, equated with sex.”
“I had now officially secured my front row seat on the train to Hell. Choo choo”
“I had observed people whose identity crises around race seemed analogous to other people's identity crises around gender.”
“I had observed similar problems in numerous poor performing high altitude workers I had supervised to the ill health that I displayed at age 48.”