I Quotes
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“I have always taken measures to fight corruption, to attract investment, to create a better context for investment in Greece.”
“I have always taken the view that one should never hold against a man anything he says after twelve o'clock at night or after a glass or two of anything.”
Source: Espresso Tales
“I have always taken the view that sometimes war may be justified, as police action can be justified, to protect the weak and vulnerable (a major preoccupation in scripture). But this is an old and difficult question and very wise people take different views.”
“I have always tempered my killing with respect for the game pursued. I see the animal not only as a target, but as a living creature with more freedom than I will ever have. I take that life if I can, with regret as well as joy, and with the sure knowledge that nature's way of fang and claw and starvation are a far crueler fate than I bestow.”
“I have always tended toward a lush prose style, but I take care to modulate it from story to story and to strip it down entirely when necessary.”
“I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions.”
Source: Siddhartha: An Indian Tale
“I have always thought and I still think that the Central Bank should act independently. Indeed, it does, you can take my word. I do not interfere in the decisions of the Central Bank and I do not give instructions to the Bank management or to its head.”
“I have always thought beach weddings are beautiful. A sunset ceremony with a beautiful sky, white drapes and fire lanterns.”
“I have always thought foreigners with their unusual skin colours, mad languages and ignorant customs absolutely hilarious, and I think it's a shame that in recent years its become unfashionable to poke fun at them. I certainly don't think they themselves ever minded it.”
“I have always thought it a matter of honour for every chess player to deserve the smile of fortune.”
“I have always thought it bad manners to let one's fingers stay too long in another man's snuffbox.”
Source: The Fair Fight
“I have always thought it curious that, while most scientists claim to eschew religion, it actually dominates their thoughts more than it does the clergy.”
Source: The universe: past and present reflections
“I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives to get.”
“I have always thought it rather interesting to follow the involuntary movements of fear in clever people. Fools coarsely display their cowardice in all its nakedness, but the others are able to cover it with a veil so delicate, so daintily woven with small plausible lies, that there is some pleasure to be found in contemplating this ingenious work of the human intelligence.”
Source: Recollections
“I have always thought it was a terrible shame that the women's movement didn't realise how much easier it was to reach people by making them laugh than by shaking a fist and saying, 'Don't you see how oppressed you are.”
“I have always thought it was important to maintain some connection for myself to what it takes to make a song work by myself, to put a song across to an audience by myself.”
“I have always thought it would be easier to redeem a man steeped in vice and crime than a greedy, narrow-minded, pitiless merchant.”
Source: Lyrical and Critical Essays
“I have always thought limousines make me dreadfully uncomfortable, just the way that suits do. When I wear a suit, I feel like ants and termites are crawling all over my body. It's really, really uncomfortable. People put themselves in a kind of prison. It's like the world of the embassies.”
“I have always thought music as a way out of the ordinary mundane obligations of life.”
“I have always thought of Christmas time... as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time.”
Source: A Christmas Carol
“I have always thought of government as a kind of organism with an insatiable appetite for money, whose natural state is to grow forever unless you do something to starve it.”
Source: An American Life: An Enhanced eBook with CBS Video: The Autobiography
“I have always thought of hope as a natural folly of youth that should be discarded as soon as possible.
It is inexplicable to me, and I did not know I was capable of surprising myself. Perhaps I liked him more than I realized. I should have known that I could not afford to.”
Source: If I Had Your Face
“I have always thought of music as a highway with many lanes.”
“I have always thought of myself as a Czechoslovak Catholic.”
“I have always thought of myself as a painter derailed by circumstance.”
“I have always thought of myself as a performer first and way down the line as a recording artist.”
“I have always thought of objectivity and impartiality as complex, messy concepts, tending to agree with BBC journalist Nick Robinsons view that impartiality is something to believe in and strive for but which you must accept you will almost certainly never quite achieve.”
Source: Interviewing Hitler: How George Ward Price Became the World's Most Famous Journalist
“I have always thought of our Service as an institution, more than any other bureau, engaged in a field essentially of morality--the aim of man to rise above himself, and to choose the option of quality rather than material superfluity.”
“I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself.”
“I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself. Every now and again, you write a poem that gives you self-respect and steadies your going a little bit farther out in the stream. At the same time, you have to conjure the next stepping stone because the stream, we hope, keeps flowing.”
“I have always thought of poetry as an act of celebration. Just by nature of writing a poem you are taking the time to dwell on whatever it is that you're writing about...you can be celebrating anger, you can be celebrating sorrow... you are spending the time to focus and observe and try to understand the various parts of being human.”
“I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.”
Source: Christopher Hampton Plays 1: Total Eclipse; The Philanthropist; Savages; Treats
“I have always thought of Walt Disney as my second father.”
“I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us. A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.”
Source: Dracula
“I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire for themselves, and secondly those who desire it for others. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”
“I have always thought that all philosophical debates are ultimately between the partisans of structure and the partisans of "goo.”
Source: The Essential Alan Watts
“I have always thought that being a good American is appreciating the world, not just your own country.”
“I have always thought that by observing things with a great deal of attention you eventually wrest some of their secrets from them, making them utter what they would most like to keep to themselves.”
Source: Paris
“I have always thought that clarity is a form of courtesy that the philosopher owes; moreover, this discipline of ours considers it more truly a matter of honor today than ever before to be open to all minds ... This is different from the individual sciences which increasingly [interpose] between the treasure of their discoveries and the curiosity of the profane the tremendous dragon of their closed terminology.”
“I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)
“I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism.”
“I have always thought that great artists were those who dared to confer the right of beauty on things so natural that people say on seeing them, "Why did I never realize before that that was beautiful too?”
Source: The Immoralist
“I have always thought that Heaven is a place for people who had had a good life, but that is not true. God is merciful and way too good to make it so. The Heaven is just a place for people who could not be really happy while living on Earth. I was once told that people who commit suicide are taken back on Earth to repeat life from the very beginning because if they did not like it once, it did not mean they would not like it the next time. But those who did not fit in on Earth at all, ended up here. Everyone comes to Heaven in their own way.”
“I have always thought that if I could turn back the pages of history and photograph one man, my choice would be Moses.”
Source: Portrait of Myself
“I have always thought that if something dreadful happened, I would be very brave, but when someone has a needle next to your eye, it’s different.”
Source: The Hired Girl
“I have always thought that if we began for one moment to say what we thought, society would collapse.”
“I have always thought that if women's hair posed so many problems, God would certainly have made us bald.”
Source: The Complete Persepolis
“I have always thought that if you can give viewers the sense of being there a story can be very compelling.”
“I have always thought that in revolutions, especially democratic revolutions, madmen, not those so called by courtesy, but genuine madmen, have played a very considerable political part. One thing is certain, and that is that a condition of semi-madness is not unbecoming at such times, and often even leads to success.”
Source: Recollections on the French Revolution
“I have always thought that Israel, as an independent and sovereign nation, had a right to defend itself.”