I Quotes
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“I am as confounded by dogs as I am indebted to them.”
Source: A Celebration of Dogs
“I am as conservative as anyone running in this [president's] race, but I am a conservative that can win. That's a big deal.”
“I am as constant as a northern star”
“I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.”
“I am as devoted to adventure now as then, and that’s never going to stop.”
Source: The Princess Bride
“I am as drunk as a lord, but then, I am one, so what does it matter ?”
“I am as far from a hypochondriac as you could ever be.”
“I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue.”
Source: Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
“I am as fond of colorful language as anyone, but I try not to inflict it upon strangers. I suspect many people sense they should have better manners, and need only a nudge. In high school, I was addressed for the first time in my life as "Mister Ebert" by Stanley Hynes, an English teacher, and his formality transformed his classroom into a place where a certain courtliness prevailed.”
“I am as free as nature first made man,
Ere the base laws of servitude began,
When wild in woods the noble savage ran.”
“I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.”
“I am as great as the thoughts I conceive. I am as great as the Universe I perceive. I am as great as the love of my heart. I am as great as the God in my Soul.”
“I am as happy here as I have ever been in my life: Ted and I take a long walk each day up to the moors (It’s generally rainy, or at least overcast) and never have I loved country so! All you can see us dark hills of heather stretching toward the horizon, as if you were striding on top of the world; last night at sunset the horizontal light turned us both luminous pink as we hiked in waterproof boots in the wuthering free wind, starting up rabbits that flicked away with a white flag of tail, staring back at the black-faced, gray furred moor sheep that graze, apparently wild, and with their curling horns looking like primeval yellow-eyed druid monsters. I never thought I could like any country as well as the ocean, but these moors are really even better, with the great luminous emerald lights changing always, and the animals and wildness. Read “Wuthering Heights” again here, and really felt it this time more than ever.
--from a letter to her mother Aurelia Schober Plath, written on 11 September 1956”
Source: Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume I: 1940-1956
“I am as I am. Not the first beauty, but the greatest.”
Source: Aphrodite in Pieces
“I am as I am, And so is a stone; Them that don't like me, Must leave me alone.”
“I am as I am. The world is as it is. Whether I am content with that has very little to do with it.”
“I am as if paralysed: over there in the chamber the gas people and we are supposed to sing!”
Source: The Last Jew of Treblinka
“I am as innocent regarding any conspiracy as any of you gentlemen in the room.”
“I am, as it were, the created creating—a paradox, for all its rhetorical trappings, at the beating heart of our shared human journey, and one I invite you to struggle with just as I have while, day in and day out, word by word and line by line, constructing a fictitious autobiography for myself in these pages.”
Source: Beginner's Luke
“I am as knowledgeable as Socrates; I know nothing.”
“I am as mad as he, if sad and merry madness equal be.”
Source: Twelfth Night
“I am as much interested in the smallest detail as in the whole structure.”
Source: Buildings and Projects: 1921-1961
“I am as much what I am because of what I still don't have as I am because of what I have had and what I might still have one day.”
“I am as non-accepting of medical quackery and unscientific approaches as anybody else. I've grown up as a card-carrying scientist, and I know the power of science to answer questions, and for many questions I don't know of anything better than scientific approaches to answer them.”
“I am as nowhere as I can be
Could you add some somewhere to me?”
“I am as old as the mountains
Abd as ugly as the rough terrain”
“I am as omnivorous as it's possible to be. I always say there's nothing I won't eat and nothing I won't wear.”
“I am as one
Who doth attempt some lofty mountain's height,
And having gained what to the upcast eye
The summit's point appear'd, astonished sees
Its cloudy top, majestic and enlarged,
Towering aloft, as distant as before.”
“I am as one who is left alone at a banquet, the lights dead and the flowers faded.”
“I am as passionate about the England team as anyone.”
“I am as prompt as a clock, if I only know the day a thing is wantedotherwise I am a natural procrastinaturalist.”
Source: Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 6: 1874-1875
“I am as resilient as the steel that was once made here, and I am a fighter, in every sense of the word. We all are.”
“I am as restless a traveller in my own land as a wintering whooper swan.”
Source: The Company of Swans
“I am as sex-positive as the next perverted bisexual liberal, but I don't think sex-positivity should be solely the domain of any political party or that it means policing others' sexuality or judging it. There's no "better than" or "less than," if that makes sense.”
“I am as silent as death. Do this: Go to your bedroom. Your nice, safe, warm bedroom that is not a glass coffin behind a morgue door. Lie down on your bed not made of ice. Stick your fingers in your ears. Do you hear that? The pulse of life from your heart, the slow in-and-out from your lungs? Even when you are silent, even when you block out all noise, your body is still a cacophony of life. Mine is not. It is the silence that drives me mad. The silence that drives the nightmares to me. Because what if I am dead? How can someone without a beating heart, without breathing lungs live like I do? I must be dead. And this is my greatest fear: After 301 years, when they pull my glass coffin from this morgue, and they let my body thaw like chicken meat on the kitchen counter, I will be just like I am now. I will spend all of eternity trapped in my dead body. There is nothing beyond this. I will be locked within myself forever. And I want to scream. I want to throw open my eyes wake up and not be alone with myself anymore, but I can't. I can't.”
Source: Across the Universe
“I am as successful as I make up my mind to be”
Source: The Present Moment: 365 Daily Affirmations
“I am as sure as I am of the fact of Christ's reign, that a comprehensive and centralised system of national education, separated from religion, as is now commonly proposed, will prove the most appalling enginery for the propagation of anti-Christian and atheistic unbelief and of anti-social nihilistic ethics, social and political, which this sin-rent world has ever seen.”
“I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God. God is nearer to me than I am to myself; my existence depends on the nearness and the presence of God.”
Source: Meister Eckhart's Sermons
“I am as true as truth's simplicity,
And simpler than the infancy of truth.”
“I am as vast as God; there is nothing in the world
O Miracle: that can shut me up in myself.”
“I am as vigilant as a cat to steal cream.”
“I am as vulnerable and fragile as it is possible to be. I am shredded to the core. I am at the point where I am stripped bare.”
“I am as willing to serve now as in the beginning in any capacity and at any post where I can do good. The lower the position, the more suitable to my ability and the more agreeable to my feelings.”
“I am as wrapped up in her as a vine that clings to a tree seeking for sustenance. She's tied me to her for eternity. She's my home. She's my reason for being. To win and hold her heart is my only purpose.”
“I am as you say a "skeleton" and i have been for quite a while”
“I am asexual. A-sexual. I read somewhere, maybe on Facebook, where somebody said something like, "I heard Bradford was gay, but then I heard he was bi." Then somebody wrote, "No, I heard he was asexual." And then somebody said, "That's bullshit - he totally hit on my friend after a show."”
“I am asham'd that women are so simple To offer war where they should kneel for peace.”
“I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next.”
Source: Cosmopolis: A Novel
“I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. But I will spend the rest of my life in this living space writing these notes, this journal, recording my acts and reflections, finding some honor, some worth at the bottom of things. I want ten thousand pages that will stop the world.”
Source: Cosmopolis: A Novel
“I am ashamed of a human race that can continue to allow the sordid ambitions of politicized groups who genuinely feel that right is on their side, and can therefore instigate such atrocities in the name of their own sense of right and wrong.”