I Quotes
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“I have come," said a deep voice behind them. They turned and saw the Lion himself, so bright and real and strong that everything else began at once to look pale and shadowy compared with him.”
Source: The Chronicles of Narnia Vol IV: The Silver Chair
“I have commenced my auspicious reign and am in quiet possession of the Presidential Mansion... this winter I intend to do something in the way of entertaining that shall be the admiration and talk of all Washington world.”
“I have committed many sins in my life. But stealing money from the government, from the people, is not one of them.”
“I have committed many sins in my life. This precise sin-the sin against poets-is without absolution.”
Source: Loon Lake: A Novel
“I have committed my life to helping the poor, and I believe that if more companies followed Wal-Mart's lead in providing opportunity and savings to those who need it most, more Americans battling poverty would realize the American dream.”
“I have committed myself to developing your gift — but for you, Paige. Not for her.”
Source: The Bone Season
“I have committed myself to joy. I have come to realize that those who make space for joy, those who prefer nothing to joy, those who desire the utter reality, will most assuredly have it. We must not be afraid to announce it to refugees, slum dwellers, saddened prisoners, angry prophets. Now and then we must even announce it to ourselves. In this prison of now, in this cynical and sophisticated age, someone must believe in joy.”
“I have committed the worst of sins one can commit... I have not been happy.”
“I have committed to contribute in raising general public awareness, as well as inspiring broad, positive, committed action against illegal trade. It is an on-going and tough fight, but I believe that if we all join our hands, we can conquer!”
“I have compassion for even unpleasant people. Their souls are lost twice over. Once because of a lack in themselves, and another because that lack means others find it hard to love them.”
Source: Delicious Death
“I have compassion, I've told you people that over and over again. Enforcing the law overrides my compassion.”
“I have competed before empty stadiums a lot in my career.”
“I have complete artistic control, and I just do my best album every time and trust it to fate.”
“I have complete confidence in Secret Service. These guys and gals are unbelievably professional. They know what they’re doing and I basically do what they tell me to do. Now, sometimes I’m the first one to admit that it chafes a little bit being inside this bubble. It’s the hardest adjustment of being president, not being able to just take a walk.”
“I have complete confidence in the American people and our legal traditions and the prosecutors, the tough prosecutors from New York who specialize in terrorism.”
“I have complete faith in the American people's ability if they know and if they have leadership.”
“I have complete faith in the continued absurdity of whatever’s going on.”
“I have complete faith that the government will find another way to screw us over and keep us trapped in the Infected Zone.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“I have complete freedom, and there's no way to get pigeonholed or bored. What could be better than that?”
“I have completed a monument more lasting than brass.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)
“I have completed and uncompleted screenplays, but they both fall into the category of “unsold.” I've seen quite a few movies where the screenplays seemed to be in the “uncompleted” category yet still got sold and made into movies, so I generally refer too all screenplays as “sold” or “unsold.” But that's just my own filing system.”
“I have complicated feelings about nostalgia. I think that sometimes it can be dangerous. It can airbrush the truth, or fictionalize the truth, which leads to the worst kind of sentimentality. But I'm also a sentimental person who feels quite a bit of nostalgia.”
“I have composed several pieces which are performed outdoors, not only in the auditoria.”
“I have composed too much.”
“I have compromised down the line. I've disliked it intensely in the old days when you were trying to talk race relations and they would not allow you to talk about the legitimacies of race relations. In the old days, you didn't talk about black, you talked about Eskimo or American Indian, and the American Indian was assumed not to be a problem area.”
“I have conceived a higher opinion of the natural capacities of the black race than I had ever before entertained. Their apprehension seems as quick, their memory as strong, and their docility in every respect equal to that of white children.”
Source: A Benjamin Franklin Reader
“I have concluded that most PhD economists under appraise the power of the common-stock-based "wealth effect," under current extreme conditions... "Wealth effects" involve mathematical puzzles that are not nearly so well worked out as physics theories and never can be... What has happened in Japan over roughly the last ten years has shaken up academic economics, as it obviously should, creating strong worries about recession from "wealth effects" in reverse.”
“I have concluded that the more we seek the Lord, with a passion for His worthiness, the more we are gripped with our neediness. Adoration cultivates desperation.”
Source: Old Paths, New Power: Awakening Your Church through Prayer and the Ministry of the Word
“I have concluded that we are in a world made by rules created by an intelligence. Believe me, everything that we call chance today won’t make sense anymore. To me it is clear that we exist in a plan which is governed by rules that were created, shaped by a universal intelligence and not by chance.”
“I have concluded the evident existence of God, and that my existence depends entirely on God in all the moments of my life, that I do not think that the human spirit may know anything with greater evidence and certitude.”
“I have concluded through careful empirical analysis and much thought that somebody is looking out for me, keeping track of what I think about things, forgiving me when I do less than I ought. Giving me strength to shoot for more than I think I’m capable of. I believe they know everything that I do and think, and they still love me, and I’ve concluded, after careful consideration, that this person keeping score is me.”
“I have concluded unequivocally that the right person is Michael Gove and I am delighted to be endorsing his candidacy.”
“I have condemned any organizer of war, regardless of his rank or nationality.”
Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:
“I have condemned my kids to a lifetime of geographic illiteracy.”
“I have confidence in my campaign. I have assembled a great team that is going to beat George W. Bush, and any rumors to the contrary are completely erroneous.”
“I have confidence in people's basic common sense.”
“I have confidence in the driver, and in life. When you have confidence you don't worry so much. Trust fights fear.”
Source: Made in Nirvana: Love, friendship, experiments with drugs, but above all India and Buddhism
“I have confidence that God is with us in all things, both tender and tough”
Source: Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good: The New Mitford Novel
“I have confidence that the government of Luxembourg will not make any decision that frustrates this transaction.”
“I have confidence that the Unitarian Church will steadily grow and will help to sustain many of my fellow citizens in these important days that lie ahead of us.”
“I have confidence that we can form this kind of national community.”
“I have confidence that whatever I set in my mind will happen. Everything I strived for I reached.”
“I have confronted theoretical positions whose protagonists claim that what I take to be historically produced characteristics of what is specifically modern are in fact the timelessly necessary characteristics of all and any moral judgment, of all and any selfhood.”
Source: After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory
“I have confused ideas of deity, heavily influenced by mind-altering years of reading science fiction, that do not often trouble me, but one thing I know for certain, and have known since the age of five or six, is that I really can't stand the God of Abraham. In fact, I consider him to constitute the pattern to which every true asshole I have ever known in my life has pretty well conformed.”
“I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself”
“I have consciously not taken the role of a gangster, which has been offered to me far too many times.”
“I have consciously sought after those things which make for value, order, richness, spirit and wonder, even though I am often unable to verbalize what I feel when I perceive something beautiful. Sometimes it's a pang or a sensation; at other times it is an awareness of joy and security or pure pleasure. In any event, it is a moment to be celebrated. Beauty justifies itself. The fact that it is beyond definition means nothing.”
“I have consecrated my life to changing matter into spirit with the hope of one day seeing it all. Seeing in its total form, while wearing the mask, from the distance of death. And there, in the eternal destiny, to seek the face I had before the world was made.”
“I have consecrated my life to changing matter into spirit with the hope of someday seeing it all.”
Source: The bone house
“I have considered myself a mature actor.”