I Quotes
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“I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals.”
“I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals: for instance, I hate the tribe of lawyers, but I love Counsellor Such-a-one, and Judge Such-a-one: so with physicians - I will not speak of my own trade - soldiers, English, Scotch, French, and the rest. But principally I hate and detest that animal called man, although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth. This is the system upon which I have governed myself many years, but do not tell.”
Source: Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal
“I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself”
“I have ever judged of the religion of others by their lives. For it is in our lives, and not from our works, that our religion must be read.”
Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin. Reports and opinions while Secretary of State
“I have ever judged of the religion of others by their lives... But this does not satisfy the priesthood. They must have a positive, a declared assent to all of their interested absurdities. My opinion is that there would never have been an infidel, if there had never been a priest.”
“I have ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with my heels as high or higher than my head.”
Source: Works: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy; with Notes, Notices, Etc
“I have ever regarded the freedom of religious opinions and worship as equally belonging to every sect.”
Source: 1816-1828: 1816-1828
“I have ever thought so superstitiously of wit, that I fear I have committed idolatry against wisdom.”
Source: John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition
“I have every expectation that cancer will become known as the disease of human evolution trying and failing to adapt to a significantly changed environment.”
“I have every expectation that if switched mode power supplies, radioactive household smoke detectors, radio frequency (RF) transmitters and satellites were banned, Autism would recede into a very rare disease.”
“I have every expectation that mirrored buildings will be regarded as an architectural cock-up in the future.”
“I have every expectation that naturopathic doctors that recommend supplements will take over from expensive conventional healthcare that relies on costly pharmaceutical prescriptions.”
“I have every expectation that self diagnosis by the internet and medical books will decimate the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries.”
“I have every expectation that the internet will replace much of the expensive and poorly performing healthcare system.”
“I have every expectation that the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) atop Mauna Kea will be remembered by historians as the biggest disaster to ever hit astronomy.”
“I have every iPod that's been made ˘ that's how sick I am. I carry anything and everything I possibly would want to listen to. I have a lot of jazz. I adore Ralph Towner, Leo Kottke. I've always been a big Oscar Peterson fan. I've branched out a little bit more in rock-and-roll, but that's maybe because I'm 50 years old and I can now listen to Steely Dan again without shame. I adore the Grateful Dead. Creedence Clearwater Revival. Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young. All that's been fun to get back into. But I'm no longer interested in the Doobie Brothers.”
“I have every magazine known to mankind. I just love home decor and travel magazines, and I'm inspired to go visit places I've never been. That's what I really want to do - travel.”
“I have every power over me.”
“I have every reason to be happy.”
“I have every reason to be sad, but I don't have any reason to mourn. People grieve when things end. Nothing has ended tonight. One of us has simply gone ahead as we always knew it would have to be.”
Source: Before Ever After
“I have every reason to believe that an individual man or woman fluent in several tongues seduces, possesses, remembers differently according to his or her use of the relevant language.”
Source: My Unwritten Books
“I have every respect for your deductions, but you are wrong, completely and absolutely, and without any doubt. – The Muskrat”
Source: Finn Family Moomintroll
“I have every right to go out tonight and fuck anyone I like, little girl. What I'm telling you is that I don't want to fuck anyone else.”
Source: A Jade's Trick
“I have every right to know how my taxes are spent, how every single penny of it is spent. I have the right to know that.”
“I have every single Ferrari that came out. I have all the Mercedes they came out with, all the Jaguars they came out with, all the Porsches they came out with.”
“I have every sympathy for writers. It's a mystery to me what they do. I can edit. I can cross out and say, 'I'm not saying that' or, 'How about we move this to here? Wouldn't that make that bit of the story better?' But where any of it comes from is beyond me. I will never write a play or a novel.”
“I have everything and I have nothing. Sometimes I feel like the loneliest man on the planet. All this stuff and no one to share it with. And then when women come along, I wonder if they like the stuff more than me.”
“I have everything I could ever want here, Adelina,” he finally says. “You’ve handed me what feels like the world’s riches, a palace, a life of luxury.” He draws closer. “I get to be at your side. What more do I need?”
Source: The Midnight Star
“I have everything I had twenty years ago, only it's all a little bit lower.”
“I have everything I need and almost everything I want but, what I want, I don't really need.”
“I have everything I need and I get everything I want.”
“I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now - unless I am letting my consciousness be dominated by demands and expectations based on the dead past or the imagined future.”
“I have everything I thought was important and nothing that really is.
-Lily Francone”
Source: Beatrice Munson
“I have everything I want. The fame. The stardom. I’ve reached success others can only fantasize about. I see my name and face on beauty products. It’s a dream! The spotlight, I mean. I’m afraid this marriage is falling apart and hasn’t been working for years. I suspect all the women he’s been with. Too many to name. But if I bring it up, he gets mad and even denies it. And if I leave now…I could lose everything I’ve worked for. He made my fortune. He can take it away. For now, I will just pose and smile. But I hate to admit, something is still missing.”
Source: The Ring Does Not Fit
“I have everything in boxes. Thousands of those tapes. I've saved everything.”
“I have everything in my house organized to an unnecessary T, and I love it! The only downside: I have no excuses for losing my to-do lists.”
“I have everything in the world that is necessary to happiness, good faith, good friends and all the work I can possibly do. I think God's greatest blessing to the human race was when He sent man forth into the world to earn his bread by the sweat of his face. I believe in toil, in the dignity of labor, but I also believe in adequate compensation for that toil.”
“I have everything in the world that is necessary to happiness--good faith, good friends, and all the work I can possibly do.”
“I have everything that I could possibly want in life, from a gorgeous granddaughter and a wonderful wife, brilliant students, the best job anyone could hope for, and about half of my hair. Not the half I would have kept, but no one consulted me.”
“I have everything you’ve been searching for in a woman, but I won’t be confined to a list of boxes. I’m too much, too unique, to be reduced to a checklist.”
“I have evolved my own exercises, for the muscles I wish to keep firm, and I know they are right for me because I can feel them putting the proper muscles into play as I exercise.”
“I have evolved to where I don't think the death penalty is effective.”
“I have exactly as much rhythm as you think I have.”
“I have examined all of the known superstitions of the world and i do not find our superstitions of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all founded on fables and mythology. Christianity has made one-half of the world fools and the other half Hypocrites”
“I have examined all religions, and the result is that the Bible is the best book in the world.”
“I have examined all religions, as well as my narrow sphere, my straightened means, and my busy life, would allow; and the result is that the Bible is the best Book in the world. It contains more philosophy than all the libraries I have seen.”
“I have examined the death penalty under each of its two aspects: as a direct action, and as an indirect one. What does it come down to? Nothing but something horrible and useless, nothing but a way of shedding blood that is called a crime when an individual commits it, but is sadly called "justice" when society brings it about. Make no mistake, you lawmakers and judges, in the eyes of God as in those of conscience, what is a crime when individuals do it is no less an offense when society commits the deed.”
“I have examples of people who find their way back later on in life, in their 30's, 40's, it can happen in your 50's, I'm sure it can. It's not really a science. It's maybe more of an art.”
“I have excellent relationships with Jewish organizations and participate every year in a Hanukkah celebration with my family. There haven't been any anti-Semitic tendencies in my team for a long time.”
“I have excessive energy, tremendous energy. I have a sense of people. I can feel them, pretty much so, in a short time. I'm not afraid of death. I'm just not afraid of anything.”