I Quotes
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“I have always found men who were funny, irresistible. It's rare that I ever based love on looks or superficial things, but it a guy made me laugh-and that didn't mean he had to be in comedy professionally - I was hooked.”
“I have always found my awareness of suffering more painful than the suffering itself.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition
“I have always found small mammals enough like ourselves to feel that I could understand what their lives would be like, and yet different enough to make it a sort of adventure and exploration to see what they were doing.”
Source: Science Study Series
“I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.”
“I have always found that Angels have the vanity to speak of themselves as the only wise.”
Source: Complete Essays: 1939-1956
“I have always found that each step we take in life is to be regretted - if we once begin to wonder how many other steps might have been possible.”
“I have always found that effort is most easily produced when performed for the benefit of something external to ourselves.”
Source: My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu
“I have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy.”
“I have always found that it is far more convenient to be rich rather than to be poor.”
Source: Burning Lamp
“I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.”
Source: The Lincoln treasury
“I have always found that my view of success has been iconoclastic: success to me is not about money or status or fame, its about finding a livelihood that brings me joy and self-sufficiency and a sense of contributing to the world.”
“I have always found that the man whose second thoughts are good is worth watching.”
“I have always found that the Trough periods of the human undulation provide excellent opportunity for all sensual temptations, particularly those of sex. This may surprise you, because, of course, there is more physical energy, and therefore more potential appetite, at the Peak periods; but you must remember that the powers of resistance are then also at their highest. The health and spirits which you... use in producing lust can also... be very easily used for work or play or thought or innocuous merriment. The attack has a much better chance of success when the man's whole inner world is drab and cold and empty. And it is also to be noted that the Trough sexuality is subtly different in quality from that of the Peak - much less likely to lead to... "being in love," much more easily drawn into perversions, much less... generous and imaginative and even spiritual... It is the same with other desires of the flesh. You are much more likely to make [a] man a sound drunkard by pressing drink on him as an anodyne when he is dull and weary... than... when he is happy...”
Source: The Screwtape Letters
“I have always found the female of the human species many times more difficult to understand than the male.”
Source: No Longer Human
“I have always found the man to be a spineless, venomous, bore. I have often hoped that he would contract some wasting disease which would expose him to lethal levels of humiliation.”
Source: Academ's Fury
“I have always found the suburbs very beautiful – the light, the change of seasons and so on. I am not so interested in the political dimensions of these things. I didn’t have any witticisms to land on suburbia. I was really just interested in how beautiful it was. I felt it was like a dreamscape and once I understood that was how I needed to approach it the dream started to expand in unusual ways.”
“I have always found the times when another person recognizes you to be strangely sad; I suspect the pathos of these moments is their rareness, the way they contrast with most daily encounters. That reminder that it can be different, that you need not go through your life unknown but that you probably still will--that is the part that's almost unbearable.”
“I have always found the word 'Europe' on the lips of those who wanted something from others which they dared not demand in their own names!”
“I have always found thick woods a little intimidating, for they are so secret and enclosed. You may seem alone but you are not, for there are always eyes watching you. All the wildlife of the woods, the insects, birds, and animals, are well aware of your presence no matter how softly you may tread, and they follow your every move although you cannot see them.”
Source: The Gardening Year
“I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.”
Source: The Isthmus Years
“I have always found writing pleasant and don't understand what people mean by 'throes of creation.'”
“I have always given it as my decided opinion that no nation had a right to intermeddle in the internal concerns of another; that every one had a right to form and adopt whatever government they liked best to live under themselves.”
Source: The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts; with a Life of the Author, Notes, and Illustrations
“I have always given respect to my opponents in cricket and in life and got back respect from them in cricket and in life.”
“I have always gone through public life and saying that with respect to political candidates, I always measure each candidate against what I think the country needs at that time, and I will vote for the person I think who is most qualified to serve the nation at that time.”
“I have always gone to nature, since I was a kid. I was brought up in the woods, I did not have lots of friends, so I spent lot of time alone. My mother always loved to live in the forest; she loved gardens, birds and nature and taught me a deep respect for that. She taught me about growing food and vegetables and to take care of animals. They also have feelings. So nature was always something sacred for me, the place I can go, meditate and pray. It's like a church in the nature for me.”
“I have always got medicine I want to give to people.”
“I have always gotten a thrill, a kick, from learning new things.”
“I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned.”
“I have always had a bad memory, as far back as I can remember.”
“I have always had a certain rhythmic approach to my work.”
“I have always had a certain song in my head, a certain chemistry of sounds.”
“I have always had a curious nature; I enjoy learning, but I dislike being taught.”
“I have always had a deep belief that every movie, every artistic expression, is political. Don't be fooled. Even ones that we wouldn't consider overtly political are political. When we spend time doing anything, whether it's distraction or whether it's something that we have to face, it is always political. That's my belief.”
“I have always had a deep love of fairytales and fairytale retellings. As well as the power to enchant and entertain, I believe that the old wonder tales can help us work through the deep internal conflicts that beset us all as we grow to adulthood.”
“I have always had a dread of becoming a passenger in life.”
“I have always had a dream to take part in an Olympic Games, and losing my leg didn't change anything.”
“I have always had a drive that pushed me to try for perfection, and golf is a game in which perfection stays just out of reach.”
“I Have Always Had A Facination With England, And Their History.”
“I have always had a good functioning in my artistic life, but I had problems mostly in my private life, I got very angry with my boyfriends and stuff...I would probably have good reasons to be angry but the volume would be too high, just getting to some level of wounding that perhaps was not appropriate to the actual offence committed.”
“I have always had a hard time revising my work as a journalist, which was never much of a problem. You always have editors as backstops. Their job is to perfect your story. Most of them want to be useful.”
“I have always had a hidden wish, a frustrated desire, to run a hotel.”
“I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.”
“I have always had a lot more trouble with my truths than with my deceits”
Source: The Quality of Mercy
“I have always had a love for American geography, and especially for the landscapes of the South. One of my pleasures has been to drive across it, with no one in the world knowing where I am, languidly absorbing the thoughts and memories of old moments, of people vanished now from my life.”
Source: The Courting of Marcus Dupree
“I have always had a mystical attitude toward inspiration. Thats my nature.”
“I have always had a need for attention but didn't plan to be a comic.”
“I have always had a particular antagonism for the military.”
“I have always had a passion for the beautiful. If the man in me is often a pessimist, the artist, on the contrary, is pre-eminently an optimist.”
Source: The Life of an Artist: Art and Nature
“I have always had a problem with my weight.”
“I have always had a relationship with clothes.”