I Quotes
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“I have never done anything except write, but I don't possess the vocation or talents of a narrator, have no knowledge at all of the laws of dramatic composition, and if I have embarked upon this enterprise it is because I trust in the light shed by how much I have read in my life.”
“I have never done anything in my life except try to make myself ill when I had my health and try to make myself well when I had lost it. I have been equally and thoroughly successful in both, and today in that particular I enjoy perfect health, which I wish I could ruin again; but age prevents me.”
Source: History of My Life, Volumes III & IV
“I have never done jewelry before so, of course, I had an idea in mind, but I needed it to be feasible and I don't really know about the materials, like what's possible, what's not possible.”
“I have never doped … I have competed as an endurance athlete for 25 years with no spike in performance, passed more than 500 drug tests and never failed one.”
“I have never doped. I can say it again, but I've said it for seven years.”
“I have never doubted that religious phenomena are only to be understood on the pattern of the individual neurotic symptoms familiar to us.”
Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud
“I have never doubted the importance of melody. I like melody very much, and I consider it the most important element in music, and I labour many years on the improvement of its quality in my compositions.”
“I have never dreamt of contesting the Church her right to remain faithful to herself, meaning to the commandments that come from Doctrine... but that she expects to impose these commandments upon me who do not have the good fortune of being a believer, trying to pour them into civil law in a way that they become obligatory even to us non-believers, is it right? To me it doesn't seem so.”
“I have never earned one penny from any pharmaceutical company. I will never accept one penny from them either. Ever.”
“I have never encountered a winner that held hate towards something.”
“I have never encountered scientists who admit the simple truth:
Our scientific achievements have repeatedly jeopardized humanity.”
“I have never enjoyed an experience that begins at five A.M.”
“I have never even had a sip of alcohol, never have done drugs. The hardest thing I have ever done would be Pepsi.”
“I have never even idly thought for a single passing second that it might make my life nicer to have a small rude incontinent person follow me around screaming and making me buy them stuff for the rest of my life.”
Source: We Learn Nothing
“I have never, ever been so happy to see a house.”
Source: Let It Snow
“I have never ever Googled myself, in fact I think the Christian right prohibits such things.”
“I have never examined the subject of humor until now. I am surprised to find how much ground it covers. I have got its divisions and frontiers down on a piece of paper. I find it defined as a production of the brain, as the power of the brain to produce something humorous, and the capacity of percieving humor.”
Source: Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims and other salutary platform opinions
“I have never expected anything from my work but the satisfaction I could get from it by the very fact of painting and saying what I couldn't say otherwise.”
Source: The Letters of Frida Kahlo: Cartas Apasionadas
“I have never experienced a sorrow that was not relieved by an hour of reading.”
“I have never experienced a stressful feeling that wasn't caused by attaching to an untrue thought. Behind every uncomfortable feeling, there's a thought that isn't true for us.”
“I have never experienced another human being. I have experienced my impressions of them.”
Source: The Widow's Son
“I have never experienced being a failure for being kind. Performing acts of kindness always reminds me of what I am – a human being.”
Source: Mindfulness in 8 Days: How to find inner peace in a world of stress and anxiety
“I have never experienced being madly in love the way most people seem to have been, although it is not something I would miss. Instead I have had an enormous ability to love my children and my grandchildren and my great grandchildren.”
“I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was unable to see the subject clearly because I came from white, middle-class privilege.”
“I have never experienced true love, a caring and supportive partner or at least a career. All I’m left with are my books and my song lyrics!”
“I have never fallen in love with my own voice, but I've always had an attraction for it.”
“I have never farted in front of a guy I fancied before - I was so embarrassed!.”
“I have never favored a Social Security retirement age of 70 nor do I favor one of 68.”
“I have never feared that the revolution would be engendered by the universities; but that at them a whole generation of revolutionaries must be formed, unless the evil is restrained, seems to me certain.... The greatest and consequently most urgent evil now is the press.... All journals, pamphlets in Germany must be under a censorship.”
“I have never felt a placard and a poem are in any way similar.”
“I have never felt any connection with my family. There isI must say simplysomething in me that is not in my family. That was not visible in my father or mother. I do not know its origin.”
“I have never felt any ethnic connection between the Greeks and me other than how hairy I am.”
“I have never felt any pain that I can remember.”
“I have never felt any rest in sleep. For a few seconds I am numbed, then a new life begins, freed from the conditions of time and space, and doubtless similar to that state which awaits us after death. Who knows if there is not some link between those two existences and if it is not possible for the soul to unite them now?”
“I have never felt at any point in my life, good or bad, any ill will ever from the man or woman on the street.”
“I have never felt at ease in language. I did not grow up among books or among people who read them. I heard words emerge from mouths but didn't get the hang of how people hung the things out as if on lines to get their gripes and recreational distempers yowlingly known.”
“I have never felt bereft of anything.”
“I have never felt brutalized as an actor. Many actors do, some times, but I've never had that experience. If I'm not happy with the balance, I just won't work with that person again.”
“I have never felt closer to God than when he has tears running down his face. I don't delight in this, but by this, I know that I am seen […]
And when God bears witness to our suffering, it is not for his consumption or to demonstrate something. My gramma used to wonder what this all was teaching her, a rhetoric she absorbed from the church. But it seems cruel to believe that God would require grief to make a truth known. I refuse to believe we need to dissect our pain in search of purpose. Sometimes shit is just shit. It's okay to say so.
I think when God bears witness to our lament, we discover that we are not calling out to a teacher but inviting God as a nurturer—a mother who hears her child crying in the night.
She wakes, rises, and comes to the place where we lie. She rushes her holy warmth against our flesh and says, I'm here.”
Source: This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
“I have never felt comfortable around people who talk about their feelings for Jesus, or any other deity for that matter, because they are usually none too bright... Or maybe "stupid" is a better way of saying it; but I have never seen much point in getting heavy with either stupid people or Jesus freaks, just as long as they don't bother me. In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone. They will not inherit the earth, but then neither will I.”
Source: The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time
“I have never felt in tune with the whole rock industry.”
“I have never felt like I was creating anything. For me, writing is like walking through a desert and all at once, poking up through the hardpan, I see the top of a chimney. I know there's a house under there, and I'm pretty sure that I can dig it up if I want. That's how I feel. It's like the stories are already there. What they pay me for is the leap of faith that says: "If I sit down and do this, everything will come out OK.”
“I have never felt like I was creating anything. For me, writing is like walking through a desert and all at once, poking up through the hardpan, I see the top of a chimney. I know there's a house under there, and I'm pretty sure that I can dig it up if I want. That's how I feel. It's like the stories are already there. What they pay me for is the leap of faith that says: 'If I sit down and do this, everything will come out okay.'”
“I have never felt more alive than when I watched my children delight in something, never more alive than when I have watched a great artist perform, and never richer than when I have scored a big check to fight AIDS.”
“I have never felt more confident in myself, more clear on who I am as a woman. But I am constantly thinking about my own health and making sure that I'm eating right and getting exercise and watching the aches and pains. I want to be this really fly 80-90-year old.”
“I have never felt myself to be ageing: on the contrary, I have always had the strange sensation as time passes that I am getting not older but younger. My body feels as though it has innocence as its destination. This is not, of course, a physical reality – I view the proof in the mirror with increasing puzzlement – but it is perhaps a psychological one that conscripts the body into its workings. It is as though I was born imprisoned in a block of stone from which it has been both a necessity and an obligation to free myself. The feeling of incarceration in what was pre-existing and inflexible works well enough, I suppose, as a paradigm for the contemporary woman’s struggle towards personal liberty. She might feel it politically, socially, linguistically, emotionally; I happen to have felt it physically. I am not free yet, by any means. It is laborious and slow, chipping away at that block. There would be a temptation to give up, were the feelings of claustrophobia and confinement less intense.”
Source: Coventry: Essays
“I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.”
“I have never felt so lonely as on a golf course in the midst of a championship with thousands of people around, especially when things began to go wrong and the crowds started wandering away.”
“I have never felt so much good female energy around me. I find that I can't take my eyes off them. I'm 99 percent sure I will leave this movie a lesbian.”
“I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.”
Source: Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945