I Quotes
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“I have never belonged wholeheartedly to a country, a state, nor to a circle of friends, nor even to my own family. When I was still a rather precocious young man, I already realized most vividly the futility of the hopes and aspirations that most men pursue throughout their lives. Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.”
“I have never belonged wholeheartedly to country or State, to my circle of friends or even to my own family... Such isolation is sometimes bitter, but I do not regret being cut off from the understanding and sympathy of other men. I lose something by it,to be sure, but I am compensated for it in being rendered independent of the customs, opinions and prejudices of others, and am not tempted to rest my peace of mind upon such shifting foundations.”
Source: The fight against war
“I have never bought into the idea that blood is thicker than water. Love and respect are meant to be earned from our children, our spouses, our families, and our friends.”
Source: Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina
“I have never bought myself a computer or a phone, but guys in my life have bought them for me, for whatever reason. So now I have them.”
“I have never cared about setting world records, or filling my boat with fish, or, for that matter, even catching fish. I go for the experience of spending six hours in the arms of the ocean, never thinking of a single thing except chasing fish.”
“I have never cared about the money."
He scoffed. "The only people dumb enough to say that are people who never been poor.”
Source: Inheritance
“I have never cared enough about money to worry about spending it, and have been fortunate to make enough to be spoiled rotten.”
Source: My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic
“I have never cared for castles or a crown that grips too tight,
Let the night sky be my starry roof and the moon my only light,
My heart was born a Hero,
My storm-bound sword won't rest,
I left this harbour long ago on a never-ending quest.
I am off to the horizon,
Where the wild wind blows the foam,
Come get lost with me, love,
And the sea shall be our home.”
Source: How to Break a Dragon's Heart
“I have never cared much for people. Most of them are cowards, conformists, muddleheads, moneygrubbers, and they infect each other.”
Source: Rituals
“I have never cared too much what people say. What I am interested in is what they do.”
“I have never cared very deeply about the actual taste of my work. Let its essential odor satisfy my mind and senses, and I am content. I rarely judge by the grosser test of actual gustation ... in cooking, to create a masterpiece for the nose alone - that is exquisite, that is Art!”
“I have never cared very much for personal prizes. A person does not become a freedom fighter in the hope of winning awards.”
“I have never ceased to be fascinated by feminine beauty. In a man, beauty, if it exists, is usually simple; a complete harmony of physical qualities and behaviour all acting together as a whole. The slightest flaw causes it to disappear. In women, beauty is more complex. Often, in my experience, the impression of beauty is created by a single aspect of a woman and from that aspect beauty appears to spread outward through every part of them, rendering them beautiful in their entirety. Sometimes such beauty comes from a smile. Sometimes from a lovely pair of eyes. Sometimes from an attitude, or a form of movement, or a sentiment of goodness or happiness which reveals itself in a single expression. Sometimes it is the curve of a body from which beauty spreads, sometimes a tone of skin, or a river of glossy hair that catches the light and seems to shine like silk. Yet were that aspect removed and not replaced by something else, so too would the beauty it had brought to light disappear. Less often, beauty comes from several sources in the same person, all working together to increase the impression of overall beauty. If one of these aspects were to disappear, unlike a man, the woman would remain beautiful, though changed.”
Source: The Erotic Notebooks
“I have never ceased to rejoice that God has appointed me to such an office.”
Source: Dr. Livingstone's Cambridge lectures: together with a prefatory letter
“I have never changed. I feel as young as I always did and remain close friends with Gerhard Schröder.”
“I have never claimed to do the right kind of things and make politically correct statements.”
“I have never coasted down a hill of frozen rain.”
“I have never come across a technology that doesn't change. This is inevitable. You have to adapt your systems as technology develops.”
“I have never come across someone who could inspire more respect than the Greek philosophers.”
“I have never come away from you without reflecting that the Spirit of God and His holy workings reside in you.”
Source: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents
“I have never come to know God, to see God, to believe in God through doing science. He's not the conclusion of some sort of process of my personal scientific investigation.”
“I have never compared myself to anyone, but it's hard to resist him!!”
“I have never compromised on fundamentals. I've always believed in focusing on creating value and not valuation.”
“I have never concealed the fact and said it before the court in 1938 that I came from an anti-Semitic past and tradition... I ask only that you look at my life historically and take it as history. I believe that from 1933 I truly represented the Lutheran-Christian outlook on the Jewish question - as I revealed before the court - but that I returned home after eight years' imprisonment as a completely different person.”
“I have never conceived that having been in public life required me to belie my sentiments, or to conceal them. Opinion and the just maintenance of it shall never be a crime in my view, nor bring injury on the individual. I never will by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance. I never had an opinion in politics or religion which I was afraid to own; a reserve on these subjects might have procured me more esteem from some people, but less from myself.”
“I have never consciously exploited the fact that I am a woman. I wouldn't dare try that even if I knew how to. I have too much respect for my male colleagues to think they would be particualrly impressed.”
“I have never considered it my business to disabuse someone of a belief that makes life tolerable for them.”
“I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.”
“I have never considered myself a poet. Therefore, I am not a rival of anyone, and I do not consider anybody my rival.”
“I have never considered myself a prodigy. Others have used that term, but I never bought in to it.”
“I have never considered myself a writer in exile because I grew up outside of my own country, because my father was a diplomat. Therefore, I grew up in Brazil, Chile, Argentina, the United States, I studied in Switzerland - so I've always had perspective on my country - I am thankful for that.”
“I have never considered myself an economist.”
“I have never cooked a meal in my life and always end up paying for dozens of people to eat with me.”
“I have never counted on someone to take care of my emotions for me.”
Source: Made to Make It
“I have never created anything in my life that did not make me feel, at some point or another, like I was the guy who just walked into a fancy ball wearing a homemade lobster costume. But you must stubbornly walk into that room, regardless, and you must hold your head high. You made it; you get to put it out there. Never apologize for it, never explain it away, never be ashamed of it. You did your best with what you knew, and you worked with what you had, in the time that you were given. You were invited, and you showed up, and you simply cannot do more that that. They might throw you out - but then again, they might not. They probably won't throw you out, actually. The ballroom is often more welcoming and supportive than you could ever imagine. Somebody might even think you're brilliant and marvelous. You might end up dancing with royalty. Or you might just end up having to dance alone in the corner of the castle with your big, ungainly red foam claws waving in the empty air. that's fine, too. Sometimes it's like that. What you absolutely must not do is turn around and walk out. Otherwise, you will miss the party, and that would be a pity, because - please believe me - we did not come all this great distance, and make all this great effort, only to miss the party at the last moment.”
Source: Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
“I have never deceived anyone, for I have never belonged to anyone. My independence was all my wealth: I have known no other happiness.”
“I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.”
“I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but all the rest has been rather a muddle and a disappointment. Compared to Doctor Who, it has been an outrageous failure really - it's so boring.”
“I have never described this to you before, not so much, I don't think, from lack of truthfulness as that, just naturally, one is not going to explain to people at large that from time to time one vomits up a small rabbit.”
“I have never designed a language for its own sake.”
“I have never desired any woman as I desire you... and I shall not rest until you're mine.”
Source: Fetters of Hate
“I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.”
“I have never directed. But I think I could. I have thought about it. I'm a bit long in the tooth to start.”
“I have never discovered that the nude could be studied in any way except the way I have adopted. All the muscles must be pointed out. To do this all the drapery must be removed.”
“I have never discussed a player contract with an agent and I like to think I never will.”
“I have never done a package tour in my life. It appeals in a way, but then I remind myself that you can't control the other people with you, which could turn out to be ghastly.”
“I have never done a stroke of work in my life.”
“I have never done a thriller, and it will just be really fun for me to heave and pant and run and climb and break windows and scream every once in a while”
“I have never done any other job. I have sung in bands since I was 15. I left school completely unqualified. I have no other training.”
“I have never done anything 'useful'. No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to the amenity of the world... Judged by all practical standards, the value of my mathematical life is nil; and outside mathematics it is trivial anyhow. I have just one chance of escaping a verdict of complete triviality, that I may be judged to have created something worth creating. And that I have created something is undeniable: the question is about its value.”