I Quotes
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“I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is emulation; nor the musician's, which is fantastical; nor the courtier's, which is proud; not the soldier's which is ambitious; nor the lawyer's, which is politic; nor the lady's, which is nice; nor the lover's, which is all these: but it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels, which, by often rumination, wraps me in a most humorous sadness.”
Source: Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)
“I have neither time nor disposition to enter into discussion with the Friend, and end this occasion by suggesting for her consideration the question whether, if it be true that the Lord has appointed me to do the work she has indicated, it is not probable that he would have communicated knowledge of the fact to me as well as to her.”
Source: The Table Talk of Abraham Lincoln
“I have Netflix, but I don't watch television.”
“I have never accepted what many people have kindly said - namely that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless, and as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it.”
“I have never acknowledged the difference between serious music and light music. There is only good music and bad music.”
“I have never acted he has never been cast in a romantic lead or has been cast opposite a female love interest in any movie he starred in.”
“I have never acted in one and I'm not at all interested to do so either.”
“I have never actually watched 'Glee.' I have heard it is just fantastic.”
“I have never admired a woman for being good and I have never admired a woman for being bad. I have, however, admired other women, for believing in themselves.”
“I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)
“I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.”
Source: George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion
“I have never advised the destruction of life, but of property, yes.”
“I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.”
“I have never advocated war except as means of peace, so seek peace, but prepare for war. Because war... War never changes. War is like winter and winter is coming.”
“I have never agreed with my other self wholly. The truth of the matter seems to lie between us.”
Source: The New Frontier and Sand and Foam
“I have never agreed with President Bush's argument regarding the axis of evil. Unfortunately, fundamentalists in Iran have used this as an excuse to brand us as allies of Mr. Bush.”
“I have never allowed anti-Russian rhetoric in Ukrainian policy toward such a strategic partner like Russia. This is the first point. I never went against the interests of the Ukrainian state and the Ukrainian people.”
“I have never altered my feelings towards individuals, as men or as women, whether they believe as I do or not. Can you live as neighbors with me? I can with you; and it is no particular concern of mine whether you believe with me or not.”
“I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.”
“I have never as yet gone a step to see a literary lion; but I would go a considerable way to see Emerson, this pioneer in the moral forests of the New World, who applies his axe to the roots of the old trees to hew them down and to open the paths for new planting.”
Source: America of the Fifties: Letters of Fredrika Bremer
“I have never asked a bookseller for a book recommendation. Disclosing desires and expectations to a stranger whose only connection to me is, in abstract, the book, seems too much like Catholic confession, if only a more intellectualized version of it.”
Source: Lost Children Archive
“I have never asked a prime minister for anything.”
“I have never asked to be the highest-paid coach in football. I have never asked to be paid like a Super Bowl-winning coach. I have never asked for more power.”
“I have never aspired to be the greatest cook, but rather the greatest at inspiring others to cook. I believe the best way to do that is to make cooking approachable to all - with unpretentious recipes and delicious results, people are hooked. I hope my cookbooks are the ones covered in chocolate fingerprints with oil splatters and crinkled pages. The ones that never make it onto the bookshelf in the living room as they are tucked safely in the kitchen.”
“I have never been a believer that nice clothes should only be for people with money.”
“I have never been a celibate. If people believe so, that is their foolishness.”
“I have never been a child prodigy. When I think back to my childhood, I can not discern any sign of future success. My only real talent couldn't be found in any curriculum: whistling.”
“I have never been a communicant.”
“I have never been a critic of science fiction as a whole.”
“I have never been a different person onstage than I am off.”
“I have never been a fan of bond funds. Unlike a direct investment in an individual bond that you can hold to maturity and be assured you will get your principal back (assuming no default), a fund has no finite maturity date and most funds are actively traded.”
“I have never been a fan of science fiction. For me, fiction has to explore the combinatorial possibilities of people interacting under the constraints imposed by our biology and history. When an author is free to suspend the constraints, it's tennis without a net.”
“I have never been a fashionista or someone who puts a lot of thought into what I wear, and I dress to be as comfortable as I possibly can.”
“I have never been a girlie girl and have always been a boys' girl with an equal amount of friends who were boys and girls.”
“I have never been a good son, I'll never be a good partner, and definitely not a good parent, for I am a martyr - I am a martyr for humanity.”
Source: Bulldozer on Duty
“I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.”
“I have never been a physically engaged person. Like, I was not an athletic kid. I was the kid who came up with a thousand excuses not to take a gym class. Even now, if I could, I would do all my work from bed.”
“I have never been a professional model; I have had some modeling sessions.”
“I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.”
“I have never been a shooter.”
“I have never been a social lion; I was misidentified as one because I have a very attractive second wife.”
“I have never been a superstar and never believed in it.”
“I have never been a very brave man," Uncle Moses said.
"Nor I," Zalmann added.
Eva smiled at them. "You are brave enough.”
Source: Holocaust
“I have never been a victim of home intrusion. I have never been raped. It is not a reenactment of such a trauma but a preoccupation with the threat of it, with the problem and necessity of refusing without ever saying no.”
Source: Girlhood
“I have never been able to be so allured by the prospect of advantages or so terrified by misfortunes, swayed by honours or fettered by affection, nay not even so smitten by the fear of death, as to enter upon marriage.”
“I have never been able to believe that human affairs were serious matters. I had no idea where the serious might lie, except that it was not in all this I saw around me - which seemed to me merely an amusing game, or tiresome. There are really efforts and convictions I have never been able to understand. I always looked with amazement, and a certain suspicion, on those strange creatures who died for money, fell into despair over the loss of a 'position,' or sacrificed themselves with a high and mighty manner for the prosperity of their family. I could better understand that friend who had made up his mind to stop smoking and through sheer will power had succeeded. One morning he opened the paper, read that the first H-Bomb had been exploded, learned about its wonderful effects, and hastened to a tobacco shop.”
Source: The fall
“I have never been able to carry out any work coolly. On the contrary it is done, so to speak, with my own blood.”
“I have never been able to carry out any work coolly. On the contrary it is done, so to speak, with my own blood. Anyone who looks at my works must be able to sense that.”
“I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.”
Source: The portable Thomas Jefferson
“I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others... An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.... Power is not alluring to pure minds and is not with them the primary principle of contest.”