I Quotes
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“I have done things that haunt me at night so you can sleep in peace.
I have been away from my family for a long time so you can be safe with yours.
I have sacrificed a lot in my life so you can live in freedom.
I have done these things because I raised my right hand and took an oath to defend my country against all enemies, foreign and domestic, so you didn’t have to.
I will live by this oath until the day I die because I am, and always will be, a”
“I have done things that haunt me at night so you can sleep in peace. I have been away from my family for a long time so you can be safe with yours. I have sacrificed a lot in my life so you can live in freedom. I have done these things because I raised my right hand and took an oath to defend my country against all enemies, foreign and domestic, so you didn’t have to. I will live by this oath until the day I die because I am, and always will be, a Veteran.”
“I have done this—made the sad prince laugh. Made his grieving parents smile. None but me. Think you only kings have power? Stand on a stage and hold the hearts of men in your hands. Make them laugh with a gesture, cry with a word. Make them love you. And you will know what power is.”
Source: Revolution
“I have done very little in my life except go to school and work for the CIA. Intellectually I think I did everything I could. Emotionally you always think you should have something more.”
“I have done well out of TV, but not well enough to buy football clubs. I'm not sure it's ever a way to make money.”
“I have done what I could do in life, and if I could not do better, I did not deserve it. In vain I have tried to step beyond what bound me.”
“I have done what people do, my life makes a reasonable showing. Can I go back to my books now?”
Source: Ruined By Reading: A Life in Books
“I have done what they expected of me. I have curtsied for my Queen and made my debut. This is what I have anticipated eagerly for years. So why do I feel so unsatisfied? Everyone is merry. They haven't a care in the world. And perhaps that is it. How terrible it is to have no cares, no longings. I do not fit. I feel too deeply and want too much.”
Source: The Sweet Far Thing
“I have done whole projects with Scoop Deville, I like to basically work with a single producer. I always just worked on a bunch of songs, and then put them together, whether it was an EP or another project. None of them were mixtapes where I was rapping over other peoples beats.”
“I have done zero SEO on my websites and online platforms, but I still rank well on them because of the fact that I focused on content, providing value, answering questions.”
“I have done, I hope to say I've done things to help make a difference while I'm on this earth. Are animal issues most important to me? Absolutely. I have an affinity with them, but I also care about children and the elderly and always say that the rest of everybody else can fend for themselves because we're in a age where we can. And we're all able to do so.”
“I have done, this year, what I said I would: overcome my fear of facing a blank page day after day, acknowledging myself, in my deepest emotions, a writer, come what may.”
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
“I have doubtless erred more or less in politics, but a crime I never committed.”
“I have doubts! I have such doubts!”
Source: Doubt (movie tie-in edition)
“I have dozens of loyal fans! Baker's dozens! …they come in thirteens.”
“I have drafts about your neck on my lips like a library has shelves. It was all in vain and you were all in my veins.”
“I have drawn a very close bond to all the military people.”
“I have drawn all my life, I don't know how to live without drawing.”
“I have drawn from the well of language many a thought which I do not have and which I could not put into words.”
“I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish”
“I have drawn my whole life. My parents were in the tapestry restoration business, and as a young girl, I would draw in the missing parts of the tapestry that needed to be re-woven. My ability to draw made me indispensable to my parents.”
“I have drawn people's attention to the fact that art is a mirage. A mirage, just like the oasis that appears in the desert. It is very beautiful, until the moment when you die of thirst, obviously. But we do not die of thirst in the field of art. The mirage has substance.”
“I have drawn things since I was 6. All that I made before the age of 65 is not worth counting. At 73 I began to understand the true construction of animals, plants, trees, birds, fishes, and insects. At 90 I will enter into the secret of things. At 110, everything - every dot, every dash - will live. To all of you who are going to live as long as I do, I promise to keep my word. I am writing this in my old age, I used to call myself Hokusai, but today I sign myself 'The Old Man Mad About Drawing.'”
“I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.”
Source: Wuthering Heights: The Wild and Wanton Edition
“I have dreamed much and have done very little.”
Source: The Correspondence of George Sand and Gustave Flaubert: Collected Letters of the Most Influential French Authors
“I have dreamed of our bed as if it were a shore where we would be washed up, not this striped mattress we must cover with sheets. [from "After an Absence"]”
“I have dreamed something entirely pretend with my eyes wide open. The sweet wonder of it makes me smile. I believe in the emotions implanted by dreams, for they are not pretend, and they will never cease to bloom.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“I have dreams inside of me, and I have a chance to make them true.”
“I have dreams of being a producer, being behind a camera, eating seven tacos for every meal, and making movies that affect people the way they affect me. I don't even need to be in them.”
“I have dreamt in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind. And this is one: I'm going to tell it - but take care not to smile at any part of it.”
Source: Wuthering Heights
“I have dreamt in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind. And this is one: I'm going to tell it - but take care not to smile at any part of it.”
Source: Wuthering Heights
“I have drifted away from thinking about these philanthropic things. And it was only as the wealth got large enough and Melinda and I had talked about the view that wealth wasn't something that would be good to just pass to the children.”
“I have drive, for sure. You have to. It's a tough business; there are a lot of actresses and not a lot of great roles. I don't want to complain because I'm so grateful.”
“I have drowned in my languor; struck by the waves of stillness in the sea of absolute solitude.”
“I have drunk ale from the Country of the Young / And weep because I know all things now.”
Source: The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition
“I have drunk and seen the spider.”
Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare In Plain and Simple English
“I have drunk of the wine of life at last, I have known the thing best worth knowing, I have been warmed through and through, never to grow quite cold again till the end.”
Source: Beyond the Age of Innocence
“I have drunk the elixir of revolution, what good is alcohol for me!”
Source: Revolution Indomable
“I have drunk the night
and swallowed the stars.
I am dancing with abandon
and singing with rapture.
There is not a thing I do not love.
There is not a person I have not forgiven.
I feel a universe of love.
I feel a universe of light.
Tonight, I am with old friends
and we are returning home.
The moon is our witness.”
“I have drunk you and my thirst survives
But now I know the flavor of the cosmos”
Source: Alcools
“I have drunken deep of joy,
And I will taste no other wine tonight.”
“I have dual citizenship, it just so happens I live in America.”
“I have dual citizenship; I would be happy to go to England. I would be very happy to go to America.”
“I have dumped a girl over the phone. It's terrible, isn't it? We got into an argument during a phone call, so I basically said, 'I don't wanna be with you anymore,' and she cried. I saw her after that and it was a bit awkward.”
“I have dwelt at length with this poem because it epitomizes and transforms much eighteenth-century criticism of Spenser and because, like any other imitation, it acts as an implicit criticism of the original. The Minstrel takes up major themes in mid-century poetics and criticism - speculative interest in origins, natural descriptions, humble life, the supernatural, education, political corruption - and merges them, awkwardly it must be said - into something recalling a Spenserian romance. The celebrity of Beattie's poem has more to do with its intellectual than its poetic achievements. The Minstrel demonstated that romance could take on the serious social business hitherto treated in epic and georgic, epistle and satire; it proved to an age obsessed with originality that a poet might imitate wihout copying, and emulate Spenser in a way that avoided objections to archaism, allegory, and the use of stanzas in a long poem. Beattie did all these things but did them imperfectly. For the next fifty years, romantic Spenserians would retain beattie's doctrines while refining his poetics.”
Source: Edmund Spenser: A Reception History
“I have dwelt ever in realms apart from the visible world; spending my youth and adolescence in ancient and little-known books, and in roaming the fields and groves of the region near my ancestral home. I do not think that what I read in these books or saw in these fields and groves was exactly what other boys read and saw there; but of this I must say little, since detailed speech would but confirm those cruel slanders upon my intellect which I sometimes overhear from the whispers of the stealthy attendants around me.”
Source: The Road to Madness
“I have earned every cent. And in all of my years of public life I have never obstructed justice.”
“I have earned hundreds of thousands of pounds, but I can't seem to get to grips with money.”
“I have earned my disillusionment.”
“I have earned the money and changed the nappies!”