I Quotes
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“I have known no experience more distressing than the discovery that Negroes didn't love me. Unutterable loneliness claimed me. I felt without roots, like a man without a country.”
Source: The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian’s Stand in Time of Transition
“I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect, either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.”
“I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day to day affairs that they had no time for friend making.”
“I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day-to-day affairs that they had no time for friend-making.... They may flatter themselves that their unrelaxing concentration on business constitutes patriotism of the highest order. They may tell themselves that the existing emergency will pass, and that they can then adopt different, more sociable, more friendly habits. [But] such a day is little likely to come for such individuals.”
“I have known nothing the last thirty years save the struggle for human rights on this continent. If it had been a class of men whowere disfranchised and denied their legal rights, I believe I should have devoted my life precisely as I have done in behalf of my own sex.”
“I have known only one way of carrying on missionary work, viz., by personal example and discussion with searchers for knowledge.”
Source: My Experiments With Truth: An Autobiography
“I have known Ori Kam for several years and have always regarded him as an extraordinarily talented young mucisian.”
“I have known people throughout my years of playing where maybe they had a gig, but then lost the gig because they didn't really move forward with them.”
“I have known persons without a friend--never any one without some virtue. The virtues of the former conspired with their vices to make the whole world their enemies.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“I have known Secretary [Hillary] Clinton for 25 years and respect her very much.”
“I have known several persons of great fame for wisdom in public affairs and councils governed by foolish servants. I have known great ministers, distinguished for wit and learning, who preferred none but dunces. I have known men of valor cowards to their wives. I have known men of cunning perpetually cheated. I knew three ministers who would exactly compute and settle the accounts of a kingdom, wholly ignorant of their own economy.”
“I have known some good men who have been so addicted to their study, that they have thought the last day of the week sufficient to prepare for their ministry, though they employ all the rest of the week in other studies. But your business is to trade with your spiritual abilities. ... A man may preach a very good sermon, who is otherwise himself; but he will never make a good minister of Jesus Christ, whose mind and heart are not always in the work. Spiritual gifts will require continual ruminating on the things of the Gospel in our minds.”
“I have known some grim bells, with not a single joyous note in the whole peal, so forced to hurry for a human festival, with their harshness made light of, as though the Bishop of Hereford had again been forced to dance in his boots by a merry highwayman.”
Source: The Essential Alice Meynell Collection
“I have known some horses and a good many more pigs who I believe harbored evil intent in their hearts. I will go further and say all cats are wicked, though often useful. Who has not seen Satan in their sly faces?”
Source: True Grit
“I have known some magnificent young people who died very young but had wonderful lives and inspired many people by their short existence.”
“I have known some men possessed of good qualities which were very serviceable to others, but useless to themselves; like a sun-dial on the front of a house, to inform the neighbours and passengers, but not the owner within.”
Source: The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: Carefully Selected; with a Biography of the Author
“I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.”
“I have known some wonderful men.”
“I have known sorrow - therefore I
May laugh with you, O friend, more merrily
Than those who never sorrowed upon earth
And know not laughter's worth.
I have known laughter - therefore I
May sorrow with you far more tenderly
Than those who never guess how sad a thing
Seems merriment to one heart's suffering.”
“I have known sorrow and learned to aid the wretched.”
“I have known such joys the likes of which might have inspired a Homer or a Shakespeare.”
“I have known Tarell Alvin McCraney for ten years but the involvement with Moonlight came more with Barry Jenkins, the director. He was a fan of the show I did called The Knick. He was also with Plan B Entertainment, who produced Selma. That is how I got involved.”
“I have known Tavis Smiley since the 1980s, when we both worked at the same radio station in Los Angeles. He is smart, and he is a gentleman who has accorded me great respect both on and off the air.”
“I have known that I wanted to be a designer since I was 8 years old.”
“I have known the fruits of strikes. The bitter and the sweet. Hunger and music.”
“I have known the Indians intimately - known them in their private relations - I think I understand the Indian character pretty well.”
Source: General George Crook: His Autobiography
“I have known the joy and pain of friendship. I have served and been served. I have made some good enemies for which I am not a bit sorry. I have loved unselfishly, and I have fondled hatred with the red-hot tongs of Hell. That's living.”
Source: Dust tracks on a road
“I have known the silence of the stars and of the sea.
And the silence of the city when it pauses,
And the silence of a man and a maid,
And the silence for which music alone finds the word.”
Source: Songs and Satires
“I have known the spirit of my soul through the trials and temptations.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“I have known Trent Lott for 20 years, ... I don't believe he's racist. But he must proactively send a message to his colleagues in the Senate and the American people that he is absolutely opposed to any segregation in any form and racism in any form and discrimination in any form.”
“I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.”
“I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language behave for them.”
“i have known you
since the beginning
of time
the one
i have loved always
in spirit.
only just discovered
in person.”
“I have laboured carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate human actions, but to understand them.”
Source: Spinoza: Political Treatise
“I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.”
Source: The Complete Angler ; Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation; Being a Discourse on Rivers, Ponds, Fish and Fishing. With Lives and Notes
“I have laid my cheek upon the earth and felt it my mother's bosom.”
Source: My Life and Some Letters
“I have laid sorrow to sleep;Love sleeps.She who oft made me weepNow weeps.”
Source: Amoris Victima, 1897: Amoris Victimia -Sic- 1940 0
“I have laid the stick that connects people together. Now it is up to you, your generation and the generations to come, to build upon that stick a bridge that will ensure the free sharing of information and teaching between the two peoples until the day we become united again as a single people, as we were once before; before men separated us with their imaginary political boundaries of today's Polynesia and Micronesia.”
“I have late night conversations with the moon; he tells me about the sun, and I tell him about you.”
Source: Skin, Bones, and Too Much Love
“I have late onset ADHD. I take on too much and end up spinning plates, but its entertaining, and it helps you make quick connections if youre a comedian, if you have a brain that can dance around too much.”
“I have lately obtained the opinion of a number of Chief Constables, who declare with almost complete unanimity that the recent great increase in juvenile delinquency is, to a considerable extent, due to demoralising cinematograph films.”
“i have laughed
more than daffodils
and cried more than June.”
“I have laughed more than most folks and I have cried just as much. I have lived hard at times, not so hard at others, and even let some days plumb get away from me. But who has not done the same? I have give and I have took. I have had a good run.
The smell of lilacs, cold spring water in my mouth on a hot summer day, the colors of fall, the sound of falling snow.
And what of the greatest of all? What of Love? Oh, I have knowed love. . .”
Source: My Old True Love
“I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated)
“I have laughter and amazement, not search results. I have unexpected longings, not hierarchical ratings.”
“I have layer upon layer of thoughts in my head and the bottom one has nothing to grip on to.”
Source: Like sant som jeg er virkelig
“I have learn'd Poppy that people come an' go. Only Jesus is your true friend. And even He had Judas. Git rid of your Judas. Like your sister. Marc has lost his mind. Buying one gift for her an' anoth'r for Cherie. That boy bet'r git himself home. There's ain't no blessing in sin, I tell ya. The devil roams, he prowls Poppy and a man's heart is fertile territory.”
“I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets: "Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now!"”
“I have learned a great deal from novels. Some of it is even true.”
Source: Brother Odd: An Odd Thomas Novel
“I have learned a great deal from other Witches, Wiccans, Odinists, Voodoo and Hoodou practitioners, Druids and many others who consider themselves Pagan. The one common thread is that every single person has been nonjudgmental. Isn't this what it's all about, acceptance? Are we not here to design our own spiritual path? --Icinia”
Source: Out of the Broom Closet: 50 True Stories of Witches Who Found and Embraced the Craft