I Quotes
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“I have always hated biography, and more especially, autobiography. If biography, the writer invariably finds it necessary to plaster the subject with praises, flattery and adulation and to invest him with all the Christian graces. If autobiography, the same plan is followed, but the writer apologizes for it.”
Source: The Rest of My Life
“I have always hated bowling, and I don't mind admitting it.”
Source: Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness
“I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics.”
“I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics. So forgive me. But I am passionate about this country. I am equally passionate about the potential of the people who live here.”
“I have always hated crowds. I like deserts, prisons, and monasteries. I have discovered, too, that there are fewer idiots at 3000 meters above sea level than down below.”
“I have always hated flying. I mainly pass the time writing letters. I am very old school and I still keep many correspondences the old-fashioned way, via post.”
“I have always hated flying. The idea of it is an affront to nature. People are meant to stay on the ground.”
Source: The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy
“I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.”
Source: Mathematics, queen and servant of science
“I have always hated nightclubs, and don't like loud music.”
“I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist.”
Source: The Portable Abraham Lincoln
“I have always hated that damn James Bond. I'd like to kill him.”
“I have always hated the cinema.”
“I have always hated war and am by nature and philosophy a pacifist, but it is the English who are forcing war on us, and the first principle of war is to kill the enemy.”
“I have always heard that uber-successful people who write books about how to become uber-successful all have one thing in common: They all meditate every day. I consider yoga my meditation.”
“I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.”
Source: Don Quixote
“I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.”
Source: Out of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography: Postscript 1932-1949 by Everett Skillings
“I have always held that it is only when one sees one's own mistakes with a convex lens, and does just the reverse in the case of others, that one is able to arrive at a just relative estimate of the two.”
Source: Gandhi: An Autobiography
“I have always held the conviction that American citizens should keep as much of their hard-earned money as possible.”
“I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.”
Source: The woman in white
“I have always held the religion of Muhammad in high estimation because of its wonderful vitality. It is the only religion which appears to me to possess that assimilating capability to the changing phase of existence which can make itself appeal to every age... I have studied him - the wonderful man, and in my opinion far from being an Anti-Christ he must be called the Saviour of Humanity.”
“I have always held the view that decisive force should be used in addressing a military conflict. The reason is simple: Why wouldn't you, if you could?”
“I have always hoped that those reading my articles or my books enjoyed them as much as I loved writing them.”
Source: Imperealisity: The New World
“I have always idolized eccentric people.”
Source: From the murks of the sultry abyss
“I have always imagined myself as becoming everything in life from a carpenter to a professor or an astronaut juggling with the seven skies, thinking high on moon, and resting under the shade of meteors. This wishful thinking in life creates a paradigm of being high on career. It sets you on a different stratum of ideas; you can’t anticipate low stuff in your life while cruising through wishfully accepted wisdom. A thought process that makes you mad, stupid, ecstatic, provides intelligent taste buds, but once perceived as such, sets your dopamine rush low and puts you in depression. On the one side you know that to become what you want to aspire needs all the knowledge and wisdom that may come through understanding of the world around us, and for that good work one million books and thousand libraries should fall on you. How much tea is needed to soothe the nerves of your brain to achieve the wisdom?”
“I have always imagined that closing a book is like pausing a film midframe, the characters frozen in their halted worlds, breath held, waiting for the reader to return and bring it all back to life – like a prince’s kiss in a fairy tale.” – Ashlyn Greer”
“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
“I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, 'A free field and no favor.'”
Source: Addresses, Messages and Speeches, 1897-
“I have always insisted on the need for local self-government for Russia, but I never opposed this model to Western democracy. On the contrary, I have tried to convince my fellow citizens by citing the examples of highly effective local self-government systems in Switzerland and New England, both of which I saw first-hand.”
“I have always intended to live forever; but not until now, to live now.”
Source: Three Books
“I have always kept a stack of library books next to my bed as a lifeline. If I ever woke in the middle of the night too scared to move or too sad to roll over, the books were my saviors.”
Source: The F-It List
“I have always kept ducks, even as a child, and the colours of their plumage, in particular the dark green and snow white, seemed to me the only possible answer to the questions that are on my mind.”
Source: The Rings of Saturn
“I have always kept journals. It’s helped me name and express the emotions I didn’t feel I could express elsewhere.”
“I have always kept my heart prisoner
behind the bars of my rib cage
where it is in a 30" x 26" cell
while the rest of the world lives well,
wild and free
to let their hearts weather against
the harsh conditions,
going numb to the cold,
and becoming indifferent
to the constant climate change
that happens with time and age.
My heart has never been that exposed;
I have not let it be.
Every time my heart is up and ready for release,
I let it out into the world only briefly—
try to get it back into civilian life—
but it ends up right back in the pen,
because it is not true that I have ever let it
wear on my sleeve...
...it's too damn good for that.”
Source: Ink Blot in a Poet's Bloodstream
“I have always kept my personal relationships pretty private, whether it's intimate or my family or friends - at least in videos. It's always been something that I've sworn off from sharing online.”
“I have always kept notebooks and I go back to them over and over. They are my compost pile of ideas.”
“I have always kept one end in view, namely ... to conduct a well-regulated church music to the honour of God.”
“I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life.”
“I have always known a thing before it happens.”
Source: The Joy Luck Club
“I have always known that at last I would take this road, but yesterday I did not know that it would be today.”
“I have always known that I wanted to work with youth through the arts and I believe the arts can help young people cope with hardship.”
“I have always known that it comes from deep within myself. I always knew what sound I wanted, and how I wanted to play. I knew everything, it just had to be developed.”
“I have always known that the best of the Saracens could out-Christian many of us Christians.”
Source: The Leper Of Saint Giles
“I have always known that there were spellbinding evil parts for women. For one thing, I was taken at an early age to see Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Never mind the Protestant work ethic of the dwarfs. Never mind the tedious housework-is-virtuous motif. Never mind the fact that Snow White is a vampire -- anyone who lies in a glass coffin without decaying and then comes to life again must be. The truth is that I was paralysed by the scene in which the evil queen drinks the magic potion and changes her shape. What power, what untold possibilities!”
Source: Curious Pursuits: Occasional Writing
“I have always known that writing fiction had little effect on the world; that if it did, young men would not have gone to war after The Iliad.”
Source: Broken Vessels: Essays
“I have always known that, because God so miraculously rescued me that he would also use me. God always uses the unqualified to fulfill his commission. This ensures that no man can take credit. God likes those of us that are pulled from the depths of sin and anoints us to do the same for others. We are those who have the testimony that begins with.... "If it had not been for Jesus!"”
“I have always known there is a difference between loneliness and aloneness. I am alone, but my father is lonely. And if I had to choose one, I would rather be alone.”
Source: Crash Test Love
“I have always known what I wanted, and that was beauty... in every form.”
“I have always laid it down as a maxim -and found it justified by experience -that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex -but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other.”
“I have always learned to distinguish the important from the urgent.”
“I have always let the lack of Indian actors in the industry drive me, not hold me back. I remember an agent in L.A. telling me a few years ago that an Indian actor wouldn't ever make it in Hollywood, but my ethnicity has helped me.”