Quotes starting with I Page 1975

“I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.”

Trying Has Beens Despair Experiments Obliged Scottish

Source: The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb

“I have been trying for a long time to understand God. Now I have made friends with him. To love him truly you must love change, and you must love a joke, these being the true inclinations of his own heart.”

Trying Heart Long Has Beens Made Long Time Jokes Inclination

Author:Isak Dinesen

Source: Seven Gothic Tales

“I have been trying to create a campaign to have our country make an apology for slavery, for the way that blacks were treated before the Civil War and after the Civil War.”

Way Trying Has Beens War Country Slavery Campaigns Treated Our Country Civil War Apology

Author:Kirk Douglas

“I have been trying to find out exactly when listeners and performers decided that applause between movements would not be allowed, but nobody seems to have been willing to admit that they were the culprit.”

Trying Has Beens Seems Movement Willing Decided Performers Listeners Applause Culprit

Author:Emanuel Ax

“I have been trying to get the hang of not being proud but instead turning that into thankfulness. Really whatever we have to be proud about, it is something given to us by the Lord.”

Trying Has Beens Given Lord Proud Be Proud Thankfulness

Author:Mary Engelbreit

“I have been trying to heal my body from surgeries over the last five years - from my broken leg, tonsillectomy, wisdom teeth, eagle syndrome and hip. Needless to say, it's been a very painful process.”

Trying Years Has Beens Body Lasts Process Five Broken Painful Legs Heal Teeth Hips Five Years Surgery Eagles Syndromes Last Five Years Broken Leg

Author:John Michael Montgomery

“I have been trying to lose weight for the last two-three months and it has gone really well. In the last 6-12 months I have been in the best form in quite a while.”

Trying Wells Has Beens Two Lasts Form Three Loses Gone Months Weight Three Months Lose Weight

Author:Shane Warne

“I have been trying to make the reader believe that we actually are, at present, creatures whose character must be, in some respects, a horror to God, as it is, when we really see it, a horror to ourselves. This I believe to be a fact: and I notice that the holier a man is, the more fully he is aware of that fact.”

Men Trying Believe Has Beens Character Facts I Believe Reader Horror Creatures This I Believe

Author:C. S. Lewis

“I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the young laboratory worker, it would be this-never neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening. It may be-usually is, in fact-a false alarm that leads to nothing, but may on the other hand be the clue provided by fate to lead you to some important advance.”

“I have been trying to think of the earth as a kind of organism, but it is no go. I cannot think of it this way. It is too big, too complex, with too many working parts lacking visible connections. The other night, driving through a hilly, wooded part of southern New England, I wondered about this. If not like an organism, what is it like, what is it most like? Then, satisfactorily for that moment, it came to me: it is most like a single cell”

Ifs Thinking Way Trying Kind Has Beens Moments Bigs Earth Night Connections England Complexes Driving Cells Visible That Moment Southern Organisms Lacking New England

Author:Lewis Thomas

Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

“I have been trying, for some time now, to find dignity in my loneliness. I have been finding this hard to do. It is easier, of course, to find dignity in one's solitude. Loneliness is solitude with a problem.”

Trying Has Beens Hard Problem Courses Loneliness Easier Solitude Findings Dignity

Author:Maggie Nelson

Source: Bluets

“I have been typecast in my career, although the type changes with the decades.”

Has Beens Careers Type Decades

Author:Paul Hirsch

“I have been unable to live an uncommitted or suspended life. I have not hesitated to declare my affiliation with an extremely unpopular cause.”

Has Beens Causes Suspended Affiliation Uncommitted

Author:Edward Said

Source: Paradoxical Citizenship: Edward Said

“I have been unbearable but I have never been unloved. I have felt alone but I have never been alone and I've been forgiven for the unforgiveable things I have done.”

Love Relationships Loneliness Acceptance Forgiveness Self Acceptance Realisation

Author:Meg Mason

Source: Sorrow and Bliss

“I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life.”

Has Beens Disagreeable Larger Than Life Uncompromising

Author:Bette Davis

“I have been under assault by the liberal media in the United States.”

Has Beens States United United States Media Assault Liberal Media

Author:Aaron Klein

“I have been under considerable pressure to buy at least a laptop computer. I have always turned the suggestions down for the reason that I have never done creative work on a typewriter. There is to me a lack of empathy.”

Has Beens Reason Done Creative Computer Empathy Pressure Suggestions Typewriters Creative Work Laptops Lack Of Empathy Laptop Computers

Author:Winston Graham

“I have been under the influence- of boggling information over the years.”

Thinking Information Thought

Author:Natasha Tsakos

“I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer.”

Has Beens My Own Cancer Mortality Cancer Survivor

Author:Jodi Rell

“I have been unsure, from the start, what the Occupy movement was all about, although I did suspect that it was just fatuous, anti-enterprise, left-wingery.”

Has Beens Left Movement Enterprise Suspects Unsure Occupy Movement

Author:Nigel Farage

“I have been unusually blessed in that I've been allowed to pursue two strands of a career that both delight me and seem to please the public.”

Has Beens Two Seems Careers Please Blessed Delight Pursue Strands

Author:Michael Palin

“I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.”

Knows Life Has Beens Leadership Know How Tough Competition Imagination And Dreams Magic Kingdom Epcot Tough Competition

Author:Walt Disney

“I have been up to my head just with calling people, I call about 50 to 100 people a day.”

People Has Beens Calling

Author:Richard Simmons

“I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving.”

Has Beens War Seems Able Army Congress Starving Tobacco Aggravation Peanuts

Author:Robert E. Lee

“I have been uplifted by the extraordinary power of the American heart - by those armies of compassion, who are willing to cross town or cross the globe to minister to those they've never met and will never see again.”

Heart Has Beens Compassion Willing Mets Crosses Army Towns Extraordinary Ministers Globes

Author:Bob Dole

“I have been urging the leaders to listen to the aspirations and challenges of their own people, and engage in dialogue and take very bold measures. Normally, to their regret, these measures and bold reforms come too late, too little.”

People Littles Has Beens Challenges Leader Regret Late Dialogue Reform Aspiration Too Late

Author:Ban Ki-moon

“I have been used for a purpose, and there will be a certain tragic occurrence happening if you don't take my testimony and somehow vindicate me so my people don't suffer because of what I have done.”

People Ifs Has Beens Done Used Purpose Certain Suffering Happenings Tragic Testimony

Author:Jack Ruby

“I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy. "Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what is strong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away.”

Ifs May Has Beens Said Used Strong Fine Healthy Affection Convinced Inclination Sonnet Stout Darcy Healthy Love

Author:Jane Austen

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love.”

Love Romance Poetry

Author:Jane Austen

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“I have been used to the gratification of believing myself to earn every blessing that I enjoyed. I have valued myself on honourable toils and just rewards. Like other great men under reverses, I must endeavour to subdue my mind to my fortune. I must learn to brook being happier than I deserve.”

Love Life Romance

Author:Jane Austen

Source: Persuasion

“I have been using delay and reverberation since the middle 1960s. I use them to make what is almost inaudible to the ear, audible. I do not use them to play loudly but to make the higher harmonics heard.”

Has Beens Play Use Heard Middle Higher Ears Delay 1960s Reverberation

Author:Bill Dixon

“I have been using the art of photography to research the ways in which the pictorial strategies of the Nineteenth Century color the way in which the American landscape is apprehended by today's viewers.”

Way Has Beens Art Today Century Color Photography Research Strategy Photographer Landscape Viewers Nineteenth Century Pictorial American Landscape

Author:John Pfahl

“I have been using the computer as a work aid since the mid-90's. It is extraordinarily well suited to how I think and work and has transformed my practice. Nearly everything I have done in the past 15 years would have been impossible without it. I use the computer for drawing, composing and colour planning everything, from postage stamps to paintings to architectural-scale installations.”

“I have been using the Lipo Target Massager (not every day) and the Detox Oil. Recently my husband noticed that the cellulite on my thighs had decreased. For a man to notice anything there has to be quite a big difference - so it works really well.”

Men Wells Has Beens Bigs Differences Husband Oil Target My Husband Thighs Cellulite

Author:Charmaine

“I have been using the word 'other' as though it were self-explanatory, yet who the 'other' is must always be something of a mystery. It is a mystery at an immediate level in the sense that no person is entirely knowable.”

Persons Has Beens Self Levels Mystery

Author:Stephanie Dowrick

“I have been vain since birth.”

Has Beens Birth Vain

Author:Wallace Shawn

“I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.”

People Years Has Beens Birth Expected Vanity Vain

Author:Wallace Shawn

“I have been vegetarian for twelve years. And I have never been seriously ill. Vegetarian food strengthens the immune system. I think that meat makes you sick.”

Thinking Years Has Beens Animal Sick Ill Meat Vegetarian Twelve Immune Immune System Vegetarian Food

Author:Bryan Adams

“I have been very afraid of writing about other cultures and countries. I've been worried about getting the research wrong. I ask a lot of questions. I try to visit the area. If I'm not able to do that, I search out people from that country who live elsewhere and ask questions.”

People Ifs Writing Trying Has Beens Country Able Culture Asks Research Areas Worried Elsewhere Other Cultures

Author:Uwem Akpan

“I have been very careful to put forward new ideas - on tackling inequality, extending democratic reform and the green agenda, because I think these are all absolutely fundamental to a successful next period of office for Labour”

Thinking Has Beens Ideas Next Successful Periods Office Fundamentals Green Democratic Careful Inequality Reform Labour Agendas New Ideas Extending Tackling

Author:Peter Hain

“I have been very clear about the necessity for doing whatever is required to move the VA into the 21st century.”

Has Beens Moving Clear Century 21st Century

Author:Hillary Clinton

“I have been very clear to everybody that just because I'm getting married does not mean I call myself a straight.”

Mean Doe Has Beens Clear Married Getting Married

Author:Anne Heche

“I have been very consistent over the course of my entire life. I have always fought for the same values and principles.”

Has Beens Values Courses Principles Consistent

Author:Hillary Clinton

“I have been very fortunate in [the entertainment] business, and I am very grateful for that. I wish the same for everyone out there, especially everyone who dares to dream.”

Has Beens Dream Wish Ambition Grateful Dare Entertainment Fortunate Dare To Dream Entertainment Business

Author:Jorja Fox

“I have been very fortunate in my life. I think I have an angel that is always with me. Good projects always come to me.”

Thinking Has Beens Projects Angel Fortunate

Author:Kate del Castillo

“I have been very fortunate in that I'm not doing all network shows or all cable shows, television has really become a year-round process in the way that it's made.”

Way Years Has Beens Made Shows Process Television Rounds Fortunate Cables

Author:Bear McCreary

“I have been very fortunate in worldly matters; many men have worked much harder, and not succeeded half so well; but I never could have done what I have done, without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one object at a time, no matter how quickly its successor should come upon its heels, which I then formed.”

Men Should Wells Has Beens Matter Done Order Half Objects Habit Words Of Wisdom Determination Harder Fortunate Heels Worldly Diligence Successors Punctuality

Author:Charles Dickens

Source: The Personal History of David Copperfield ... With Frontispiece by H. K. Browne

“I have been very fortunate to be a part of tours with other artists that have exposed me to new places that I've never been before. Once you discover something beautiful, you just want to keep coming back.”

Want Has Beens Beautiful Artist Fortunate Exposed Coming Back Something Beautiful New Places Beautiful You

Author:Sara Bareilles

“I have been very fortunate to be successful in business, and I believe that it is right that people who have this type of wealth should give something back into society.”

People Giving Should Believe Has Beens I Believe Wealth Successful Type Fortunate Being Successful

Author:Alisher Usmanov

“I have been very fortunate to have been able to make a living from what I love to do best - performing and singing for people.”

People Has Beens Able Singing Fortunate Performing

Author:Tony Bennett

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