I Quotes
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“I have been writing about Hillary Clinton, I just actually looked this up, since 1998 when she was busy standing by when Suha Arafat was launching anti-Semitic tirades against Israel and the Jews.”
“I have been writing for 50 years and readers still read my first book from when I was in the Marine Corps.”
“I have been writing in spurts, bit by bit. It is incredibly difficult. Everything is corroded, broken, dismantled; everything is covered with hardened layers of accumulated insensitivity, deafness, entrenched routine. It is disgusting.”
“I have been writing JavaScript for 8 years now, and I have never once found need to use an uber function. The super idea is fairly important in the classical pattern, but it appears to be unnecessary in the prototypal and functional patterns. I now see my early attempts to support the classical model in JavaScript as a mistake.”
“I have been writing mainly fiction. Occasionally there will be a song that hangs around the truth a little more than the rest, but even with those I end up fudging the facts just to keep it from going stale.”
“I have been writing my heart out all my life, but only getting a living out of it now.... ... it's not a question of the merit of art, but a question of spontaneity and sincerity and joy I say. I would like everybody in the world to tell his full life confession and tell it his own way and then we'd have something to read in our old age.”
“I have been writing now for over a week. I find it cleansing, refreshing; it is good for me.” (p.531)”
“I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.”
“I have been writing songs since I was 9 years old, so writing has and always will be my first love and passion.”
“I have been writing. Even when I intend not to write, I find myself writing. I'm currently in a place where I should be putting together the fifth book, but then more poems are coming. It's exciting and somewhat daunting. You know how we are when a new book of poems is at last coming together - all frenzy, distraction, and bounty? It's as if I've turned into summer itself.”
“I have been wrong and Simon Magus has been right.”
Source: The Magus Covenant
“I have been wrong to hide my temper so completely. All this time I have been inadvertently teaching my girls that goodness is the absence of faults. An unattainable goal that can only lead to a lifetime of discouragement. Effortless virtue is a fairy tale, so far as I can tell. The honor is in the struggle.”
Source: Marmee
“I have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.”
“I have been young, but now am old. I have spent a whole life-time in battling against infidelity with the weapons of apologetic science; but I have become ever more and more convinced that the way to the heart does not lie through the head; and that the only way to the conversion of the head lies through a converted heart which already tastes the living fruits of the gospel.”
“I have been younger in October
than in all the months of spring.”
“I have been, all my life, what is known as a conservationist. It seems clear beyond possibility of argument that any given generation of men can have only a lease, not ownership, of the earth; and one essential term of the lease is that the earth be handed down on to the next generation with unimpaired potentialities. This is the conservationist's concern.”
“I have been, am, in his service; I have seen his generosity and goodness; and I will never betray him-not for all the gold in the world. I have come from a village where they don't eat that kind of bread.”
Source: Around the world in eighty days/Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours (bilingual edition/édition bilingue)
“I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.”
“I have been, as the phrase is, liberally educated, and am fit for nothing.”
Source: Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'eighty: Easyread Large Edition
“I have been, earlier in my life, a lazy writer. I'd spend three hours at the gym to avoid writing, or I'd just find other distractions - reading, doing laundry, talking on the phone, etc. But suddenly I was like a laser beam: I was relentlessly focused, sometimes to the detriment of other things.”
“I have been, or seemed, hard with everyone because I was carried away by a sort of brutality born of my distrust in myself and my ill-humor. I have felt so badly equipped, so soft, in spite of the fact that my attitude towards art seemed to me so just. I was disgusted with everyone, and especially myself.”
“I have been....moved to wonder whether my job is a job or a racket, whether economists, and particularly economic theorists, may not be in the position that Cicero, citing Cato, ascribed to the augurs of Rome-that they should cover their faces or burst into laugher when they met on the street.”
“I have before me a newspaper slip on which a writer expresses the opinion that no one should be allowed to possess more than one million dollars' worth of property.”
Source: What Social Classes Owe to Each Other
“I have before me God's Word which cannot fail, nor can the gates of hell prevail against it; thereby will I remain, though the whole world be against me.”
Source: The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt
“I have before seen other countries, in the same manner, give themselves to you when you are about to leave them.”
Source: Out of Africa
“I have before suggested that a genuine blackguard is never without a pocket-handkerchief.”
Source: The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition
“I have begun a new book, on purpose that I might have room enough to explain the nature of the perplexities in which my uncle Toby was involved, from the many discourses and interrogations about the siege of Namur, where he received his wound.”
Source: The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
“I have begun drafting a memorandum for the prosecuting authorities, together with all evidence necessary to establish not only the existence of numerous specific instances of scientific or economic fraud in relation to the official "global warming" storyline but also the connections between these instances, and the overall scheme of deception that the individual artifices appear calculated to reinforce.”
“I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.”
Source: The Booker T. Washington Reader
“I have begun in old age to understand...that we seldom if ever realize how generous we are to ourselves, and just how stingy with others.”
“I have begun my own quiet war. Simple. Sure. I am the one who leaves the table like a man, without putting back the chair or picking up the plate.”
“I have begun several times many things, and I have often succeeded at last.”
Source: Memorials of Lord Beaconsfield Reprinted Fron: With a Portrait
“I have begun to feel that there is a tendency in 20th Century science to forget that there will be a 21st Century science, and indeed a 30th Century science, from which vantage points our knowledge of the universe may appear quite different than it does to us. We suffer, perhaps, from temporal provincialism, a form of arrogance that has always irritated posterity.”
“I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.”
Source: Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse
“I have begun to publicly declare that the only thing that will enable the poor to emerge from poverty is a decent job. And the primary creators of decent jobs are businesspeople who believe deeply in the free-enterprise system.”
Source: Charity Detox: What Charity Would Look Like If We Cared About Results
“I have begun to regard everything as more of a process so that the sense of right and wrong diminishes in my psyche. That's been healthy for me and makes everything so much more fun. If something does not quite work out as expected or planned, I simply look for what did work, what I learned from the situation, and really try to keep it moving forward.”
“I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.”
“I have begun writing what I have said I'd never write, a memoir ("I am not my own subject," I used to say with icy superiority).”
Source: The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000
“I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim.”
“I have being saved by the grace of God.
I am a child of God.
The Lord's great favour and mighty power is upon me.”
“I have beliefs, of course, like everyone-but I don't always believe in them.”
Source: Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates
“I have believed for a long time that human nature is a reciprocity of what is inside the skin and what is outside: that it is definitely not "rolled up inside us" but our way of being one with our fellows and our world. I call this field theory.”
“I have believed for many years that Oscar Peterson is not only the greatest pianist in jazz today, but the greatest it has ever known.”
“I have believed in the biographies I have written. I truly can tell you that they have influenced our society politically, culturally, socially.”
“I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.”
Source: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays
“I have bemoaned people who say they feel old, but I now realize it is perfectly possible for anyone to feel old. All they need to do is become a teacher.”
Source: How to Stop Time
“I have benefited greatly from criticism, and at no time have I suffered a lack thereof.”
“I have better manners than to ask such personal questions unless it’s going to print.”
Source: Lady Be Good: The Life and Times of Dorothy Hale
“I have better use for my brain than to poison it with alcohol. To put alcohol in the human brain is like putting sand in the bearings of an engine.”
“I have big everything on the bottom but I love my legs. You've got to love what's yours.”