I Quotes
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“I have long held that there are two fundamental views of children: That they are pets who can talk, or that they are small people who do not yet know very much. The wrong one is winning.”
“I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it.”
Source: 101 Facts of life
“I have long known that it is part of God's plan for me to spend a little time with each of the most stupid people on earth.”
“I have long left the notion of guessing the mind of God.”
Source: Samuel Adams
“I have long observed that the act of writing is viewed, by some, as an elite and otherworldly act, all the more so if a person isn't paid for what she writes.”
“I have long profited from Adele Ahlberg Calhoun's gifts in the field of spiritual development, and I am delighted that she has compiled her experience with spiritual disciplines into book form. I highly recommend it and I look forward to using it as a resource at our church.”
“I have long recognized a link between fitness and mental health and I think we need to encourage young people to take part in sports and team activities because we know it has such positive results.”
“I have long said there are three distinct groups under the GOP's tent: theological warriors, who want to impose their social views on the rest of society; Tea Party zealots, who say with a straight face that they want the government to get out of their Medicare; and remnants of the pro-business moderates.”
“I have long served virtue, And never ta'en wages of her.”
“I have long since abandoned the notion that higher education is essential to either success or happiness. Hothouses of learning do not always grow anything edible.”
“I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.”
“I have long since decided if you wait for the perfect time to write, you'll never write. There is no time that isn't flawed somehow.”
“I have long since given up dealing with people who hold idiotic opinions as if they had arrived at them through thinking about them.”
“I have long stopped attempting to define what is right. For I have found that the quietly seductive nature of my own biases in combination with the pettiness of that which is culturally vogue can handily take that which is patently ‘wrong’ and make it appear gloriously ‘right.’ And I have found it infinitely easier to let God define all of that for me.”
“I have long suspected that the power of speech is not a power at all, but a mere form of hysteria from which the living that really know the truth never suffer because they do not fear life or death as we do and can afford to be calm and silent. The frailest flower that blooms knows that it will rise from the dead in the next season's sun, breathe, feel again the dew and rain. Therefore these little ones make no such tragedy as we do of death.”
“I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly - or ever - gaze up and see the wonder and glory of a dark night sky filled with countless stars loses a sense of their fundamental connectedness to the universe.”
“I have long thought that his [Rupert Murdoch's] social philosophy was contained in his cartoon show, The Simpsons: all politicians and public officials are crooks, and the masses are a vast lumpen proletariat of deluded and exploitable blowhards.”
“I have long ties to the women's community.”
“I have long trusted dreams as prophetic visions. I do not mean that they foretell the future, only that they illuminate the present, when my eyes are closed, so that I may see clearly.”
Source: Even a Stone Can be a Teacher: Learning and Growing from the Experiences of Everyday Life
“I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride.”
“I have long-range plans, but you always have to wait for business to catch up with you. It's a matter of contracts and meetings catching up with your ideas of what you want to accomplish in life.”
“I have looked at public opinion polls in France in the late 1940s and early 1950s during the height of Marshall Plan aid. They had a very negative attitude towards the United States then. There were negative attitudes towards the United States because of Vietnam. There were negative attitudes about the United States when Reagan wanted to deploy intermediate range ballistic missiles. I don't think the president should base his foreign policy on American public opinion polls, let alone foreign public opinion polls.”
“I have looked at so many photographs, I can not see them anymore.”
“I have looked back on portraits of our ancestors. Gabriel Lightwood was notably smoking. It is rumored that one Consul agreed with everything my great-great aunt Felicia Lightwood ever said, because when she spoke all he heard was ‘Foxy foxy foxy.’ If you break up with Alec, you will not
only be losing one stone cold fox, but a family of foxes. I will pass down the word to my children’s children. No Lightwood is ever going to so much as wink at you in a bar. Think about that. Think about being Lightwoodless and lonely five hundred years from now, in a sad and chilly nightclub on the moon.”
Source: The Voicemail of Magnus Bane
“I have looked back on situations and thought that I could have handled a few differently and probably better.”
“I have looked deep inside myself, trying to detect something that might be there. But just as our consciousness is a maze, so too is our body. Everywhere you turn there’s darkness, and a blind spot. Everywhere you find silent hints, everywhere a surprise is waiting for you.”
Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
“I have looked farther into space than ever a human being did before me.”
“I have looked for the center of the art scene. I went to Paris as a student. I lived in Venice, California.”
Source: Notes
“I have looked further into space than ever human being did before me. I have observed stars of which the light, it can be proved, must take two million years to reach the earth.
[Having identified Uranus (1781), the first planet discovered since antiquity.]”
“I have looked further into space than ever human being did before me. I have observed stars of which the light, it can be proved, must take two million years to reach the earth.”
“I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.”
“I have looked into most philosophical systems and I have seen that none will work without God.”
“I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.”
“I have looked many men in the eye. Some I deemed villains, liars, and beasts. Others, more trustworthy than clergy. A binary discussion, assigning simply black or white, is a stunted reading of these individuals, the death of, "Why?" The color black is an unintelligible void and white, an incoherent scream, each lacking the constructive facts shrouded in the other. Only through shades of each is there an understanding of reality, any conception of an image. And so, I've sought them, these violent shades of gray.
From JR Hazard, introduction to Of Empire and Illusion”
Source: Of Empire and Illusion: Or the Manuscript as it Sat August 27, 1987
“I have looked on scenery as a strange and on scenery more grand, but on scenery at once so strange and so grand I have never looked and probably never shall again.”
“I have looked to the Steinway piano since I was three, not only as my ideal choice of an instrument. But, as a responsive and ever reliable friend.”
“I have looked upon all the universe has to hold of horror,and even the skies of spring and flowers of summer must ever afterward be poison to me.”
Source: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre: The Best of H. P. Lovecraft
“I have looked warily at anthropologists ever since the day when I went to hear a great Greek scholar lecture on the Iliad, and listened for an hour to talk about bull-roarers and leopard-societies.”
Source: Modes and Morals
“I have lost 18 kg. Now if I lose anymore weight, I will vanish.”
“I have lost a brother and a best friend. The world has lost one of the greatest actors of all time.”
“I have lost a little bit of flexibility, but the doctors say with any kind of torn ligament it is not uncommon for the injury to take 16 months to be 100 percent healed.”
“I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now--only that place where the books are kept.”
“I have lost and loved and won and cried myself to the person I am today.”
“I have lost control over everything, even the places in my head.”
Source: The Girl on the Train
“I have lost count of the amount of times I have slept at the airport gate for the first flight of the day.”
“I have lost count of the number of police officers that have blatantly harassed me over the years!”
“I have lost everything that could make me love life and now death smiles at me like a nursemaid to the child she will rock to sleep.”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
“I have lost everything, and I am so poor now that I really cannot afford to let anything worry me.”
“I have lost everything, Han thought. Then he corrected himself. Every time I think I’ve lost everything, I find there’s still something else to lose.”
“I have lost everything. Lost everything. Everything. - William Herondale”