I Quotes
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“I have never been able to conjure up (as some great Evangelical missionaries have) the appalling vision of the millions who are not only perishing but will inevitably perish. On the other hand... I am not and cannot be a universalist. Between these extremes I cherish and hope the majority of the human race will be be saved. And I have a solid biblical basis for this belief.”
“I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.”
“I have never been able to entertain a God-idea which was not integrally related to the fact of chipmunks, squirrels, hippopotamuses, galaxies, and light years.”
Source: Evocations of Grace: The Writings of Joseph Sittler on Ecology, Theology, and Ethics
“I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist.”
“I have never been able to let Iraq go. It is a part of me. Even under Saddam Hussein, even despite what the country went through, and despite how violent and tribal it can be, there is still a certain purity to the kindness of the population.”
“I have never been able to make out," I began, "why women are so shy about being caught reading poetry.
We men--lawyers, mechanics, or what not--may well feel ashamed. If we must read poetry, it should be at dead of night, within closed doors. But you women are so akin to poesy. The Creator Himself is a lyric poet, and Jayadeva must have practised the divine art seated at His feet.”
Source: The Home and the World
“I have never been able to
meet anyone without an accompaniment of painful
smiles, the buffoonery of defeat.”
Source: No Longer Human
“I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.”
Source: Nobel Prize Library
“I have never been able to resist a book about books.”
Source: Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
“I have never been able to see how a thirty-year old moron can vote more wisely than a fifteen-year old genius.”
Source: Starship Troopers
“I have never been able to see life as anything but a vast complicated practical joke, and it's better to laugh than cry.”
“I have never been able to see myself as fitting into one category, and I have never been able to limit my contact with people to one group of people.”
“I have never been able to sleep with anyone. I require a full-size bed so that I can lie in the middle of it and extend my arms spreadeagle on both sides without being obstructed.”
“I have never been able to soothe myself with the sugary delusions of religion; for these things stand convicted of the utmost absurdity in light of modern scientific knowledge.”
“I have never been able to think of the day as one of mourning; I have never quite been able to feel that half-masted flags were appropriate on Decoration Day. I have rather felt that the flag should be at the peak, because those whose dying we commemorate rejoiced in seeing it where their valor placed it. We honor them in a joyous, thankful, triumphant commemoration of what they did.”
Source: Public Papers and Addresses of Benjamin Harrison, Twenty-third President of the United States. March 4, 1889, to March 4, 1893
“I have never been able to understand anyone on this planet who lacks a need for knowledge. Is it not God's greatest gift to us all, this capacity to think, to wonder, to imagine?”
“I have never been able to understand how men can feel affection for individuals who are intent on massacring them in a variety of unpleasant ways, but it is an undeniable fact that they can and do. Witness the immortal verse of Mr. Kipling: "So 'ere's to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, at your 'home in the Soudan; You're a pore benighted 'eathen but a first-class fightin' man!" One can only accept this as another example of the peculiar emotional aberrations of the male sex.”
Source: The Last Camel Died at Noon
“I have never been able to understand the artist whose image never changes.”
Source: Lee Krasner
“I have never been able to understand the compelling phrase, 'keeping up with the Joneses.' It does not matter very much whether I keep up with Tom Jones or anybody else; what is important is to keep up with myself by making my today a little better than my yesterday.”
Source: Words to Live By: Short Readings of Daily Wisdom
“I have never been able to understand the complaint that a story is "depressing" because of its subject matter. What depresses me are stories that don't seem to know these things go on, or hide them in resolute chipperness; "witty stories," in which every problem is the occasion for a joke; "upbeat" stories that flog you with transcendence. Please. We're grown ups now.”
“I have never been able to understand why it is that just because I am unintelligible nobody understands me.”
“I have never been able to understand why perfectly sensible people waste time being wittily obscure instead of just saying what they want and going on about their business.”
Source: The Story of the Stone
“I have never been able to understand why pigeon-shooting at Hurlingham should be refined and polite, while a rat-killing match in Whitechapel is low.”
Source: T. H. Huxley on Education
“I have never been able to understand why the tax comes as such a body blow to many people since the rate on long-term capital gain is lower than on most likes of endeavor (tax policy indicated digging ditches is regarded as socially less desirable than shuffling stock certificates).”
“I have never been able to wear a hat. My hair is peculiar in that it grows so fast that any hat I put on instantly leaps from my head.”
“I have never been able to wear pajamas or creepy nightgowns; they disturb my sleep.”
“I have never been able to write with anything more than the left hand of my mind; the right hand has always been engaged in something to do with personal relationships. I don't complain, because I think my left hand's power, as much as it has, is due to its knowledge of what my right hand is doing.”
“I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in the present moment or the immediate future to think back.”
Source: Collected fiction
“I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in.”
“I have never been afraid of dying, I have only been afraid of not living fully.”
“I have never been afraid of making patriots; but I disdain and despise all their efforts.”
“I have never been afraid to tackle tough or controversial issues, but I have always done it with the intent to do what I was elected to do, and that is represent the interests of my constituents, the working people of Hawaii. I feel that we are facing some of the most difficult issues in recent history with regard to food security, a widening income gap, and the rapidly increasing rise of the cost of living in our State. I know that the office of Lieutenant Governor can do more to address these issues.”
“I have never been against new art as such; some of it is good, much is crap, most is somewhere in between.”
“I have never been allowed to be holy. I have never been forgiven for wanting”
Source: Holy Wild
“I have never been among those who think that it is better to be dead than to leave Rome. In fact, I have fled Rome many times in order to preserve my life.”
Source: The Temple of the Muses
“I have never been an ambitious person, and my participation in this industry is a fluke, but only male writers can afford to be coy and self-deprecating.”
“I have never been an idealist - that implies you aren't going to achieve something.”
“I have never been an innovator, a creative genius.”
Source: Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk
“I have never been any place where I was not first invited. And upon invitation, if I feel that there is potential for making some contribution to humanity, I will comply in spite of being tired.”
“I have never been as lonely as I was with you.”
Source: I Want To Know You When You’re Forty
“I have never been attracted to any kind of violence.”
“I have never been awake before.”
Source: Lucid Dreaming: A Concise Guide to Awakening in Your Dreams and in Your Life
“I have never been beautiful in cliche terms.”
“I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals.”
“I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals. Lady Luck has been good to me and I fancy she has been good to everyone. Only some people are dour, and when she gives them the come hither with her eyes, they look down or turn away and lift an eyebrow. But me, I give her the wink and away we go.”
“I have never been bribed as a Prime Minister.”
“I have never been brought up a Catholic - I mean, a Roman Catholic - we're all Catholics, aren't we? We're Protestant Catholics, whether we're from Methodist or Baptist or what.”
“I have never been called too pretty for anything. That would be a problem I could get used to.”
“I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained; this is free.”
“I have never been clever enough - or egotistical enough to spend 300 pages dipping into the sludge of my own subconscious.”