I Quotes
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“I have never really liked this city. It was forced on me against my will by ambitious parents in search of greater opportunities and better lives. That’s why everyone comes here, to this seductive monument to self-advancement or at the very least, self-preservation. It’s a city that doesn’t take risks. Men wear boxy suit jackets over golf shirts tucked into khakis. Women wear sensible skirts, pantsuits and pumps. They all pull roller backpacks behind them because of subway ads enumerating the signs and evils of scoliosis as they walk to big-box buildings made of similarly colored sandstone. You can’t get lost here because there’s nothing to lose yourself in. These avenues, at least downtown, are not built for wanderers, and these monuments are constructed to inspire awe not contemplation. But things have changed if only to protect the desire to remain the same. The streets have more barricades because the streets have more impromptu protesters, a dismal lot with their posterboard signs and hoarse-voiced chants against the monster in power and his minions. There are more armored vehicles now and more police officers in tactical gear and body armor wielding large black guns. It’s a brave new world wrapped around the old one to make it great again.”
Source: Speak No Evil
“I have never really lived with anyone in my adult years. I just read my sports ticker. And 50 Shades of Grey.”
“I have never really thought of him as a person, either.... A guy whose strings were broken, who didn’t feel the root of his leaves of grass connected to the field, a guy who was cracked. Like me.”
“I have never really thought of myself as a writer about religion. And I think one of the things that happened to me as a result of all that is that I think it did for some people, many people, obscure the kind of writer that I actually am.”
“I have never really understood our gene-father's obsession with martial glory. It always seemed to me more efficient to simply eradicate our foes from orbit. Pound the earth flat and build over the ashes.
And if they dig in?
There are ways. Saboteurs, chemical weapons - there are hundreds of ways of dismantling a world and its population that do not involve orbital insertions and glorious advances into the teeth of enemy fire. Perhaps I overestimate the intelligence of our species. Perhaps we are little more than psychopathic apes, driven to fashion clubs and smash out the brains of our closest neighbours.
And here I thought you were the clever one. I figured that out the day of my culling, when my family forced my cousins and me to fight for the honour of joining the Third. War as you describe it would be little more than pest control. What is there for the gods to feed on? Where is the desire for victory, the savagery, the hope and despair? Where is the entertainment?
I believe you have made my point for me.
No, you are not listening. On my pilgrimage, I learned much. Win or lose, the gods feast on our deeds. A man pets a stray, and his small pleasure in the kindness of the act feeds Slaanesh. A woman strikes her crying child, and that awful moment of elation she feels feeds Khorne. A Munitorum drone considers suicide. Nurgle grows fat on his despair. A merciful strategist devises a plan for bloodless victory, and Tzeentch is content. The Word Bearers believe the gods crave worship. But the gods care for nothing save filling their bellies with our sorrows. Intentionally or not, we are all meat for the beast. Even you, Fabius.”
Source: Fabius Bile: The Omnibus
“I have never received a heavenly dispatch. Rather, I have found that divine guidance often comes as a result of taking steps of faith. And God not only has His will, but He also has His timing for each and every situation. The Bible tells us, 'He has made everything beautiful in its time'”
“I have never received a telephone call that justified the excitement and fuss of the electronics involved. If I can't see somebody I love, for instance, such as a daughter, or a son, I would rather receive a letter.”
Source: Sons come and go, mothers hang in forever
“I have never received full credit from the SPLA [Sudanese People's Liberation Army], because the men are very sexist and feel that I'm acting out of place, bringing too much attention to myself - but for the funeral of our leader John Garang, they had me write the poem "Chol Apieth" to eulogize him, and that was their way of acknowledging my contributions.”
“I have never refused to talk to any authorities or give them any information I had.”
“I have never regarded any man as my superior, either in my life outside or inside prison.”
“I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.”
“I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.”
“I have never regretted erring on the side of withholding information.”
“I have never regretted my silence. As for my speech, I have regretted it over and over again.”
“I have never regretted our foolhardiness. Of course, we made mistakes, endless mistakes, but at least they were our own, just as the garden was our own.”
Source: We Made a Garden
“I have never regretted Paradise Lost since I discovered that it contained no eggs-and-bacon.”
Source: Busman's Honeymoon
“I have never relied on anyone else for money since I graduated, and that made me feel grown up.”
“I have never resisted the lord in my life, and I never will. But I'm not so hungry for dialogue with him that I have to make up his part as well as my own.”
“I have never retired - I have averaged 40 working weeks a year since 1933.”
“I have never returned to this lost paradise. Sometimes I am struck with the sudden desire to go to the Gare de l'Est, board the Orient Express, and retrace the route between Innsbruck and Plumeshof. As I so often saw other more or less close friends of the Welser family do, I fantasize about showing up without warning in the pretty meadow surrounded by fir trees and making the climb to the house while thinking only of Aunt Heidi, who has long since gone the to join her two older sons and their father in heaven. I would concentrate on her so strongly that I would eventually see her again on the doorstep, hastily drying her flour-covered hands in her apron; her opal eyes would brighten when she saw me. She would spread her arms while joyfully shouting: "Franziska!" and I would run to her calling back, "Aunt Heidi, Aunt Heidi!" Kurt's contagious laughter would echo in the distance. Lilo, smiling, would be hanging out the laundry. A lifetime of love would still be stretching out before them. A delicious aroma of pancakes would be drifting in the air ... The large earthenware oven, the eiderdown quilts, the painted wooden chairs with a little heart carved in them like the shutters ... nothing would have changed.”
Source: The Despair of Monkeys and Other Trifles: A Memoir by Françoise Hardy
“I have never returned to this lost paradise. Sometimes I am struck with the sudden desire to go to the Gare de lest, board the Orient Express, and retrace the route between Innsbruck and Plumeshof. As I so often saw other more or less close friends of the Welser family do, I fantasize about showing up without warning in the pretty meadow surrounded by fir trees and making the climb to the house while thinking only of Aunt Heidi, who has long since gone the to join her two older sons and their father in heaven. I would concentrate on her so strongly that I would eventually see her again on the doorstep, hastily drying her flour-covered hands in her apron; her opal eyes would brighten when she saw me. She would spread her arms while joyfully shouting: "Franziska!" and I would run to her calling back, "Aunt Heidi, Aunt Heidi!" Kurt's Kurt's contagious laughter would echo in the distance. Lilo, smiling, would be hanging out the laundry. A lifetime of love would still be stretching out before them. A delicious aroma of pancakes would be drifting in the air ... The large earthenware oven, the eiderdown quilts, the painted wooden chairs with a little heart carved in them like the shutters ... nothing would have changed.”
Source: The Despair of Monkeys and Other Trifles: A Memoir by Françoise Hardy
“I have never said a negative thing about anybody, even when the whole world was saying I was gay because Renée Zellweger cited fraud.”
“I have never said authoritarians are pathological”
“I have never said that human society ought to be aristocratic, but a great deal more than that. What I have said, and still believe with ever-increasing conviction, is that human society is always, whether it will or no, aristocratic by its very essence, to the extreme that it is a society in the measure that it is aristocratic, and ceases to be such when it ceases to be aristocratic. Of course I am speaking now of society and not of the State.”
Source: the Revolt of the Masses
“I have never said that love is destroyed by marriage. How can marriage destroy love? Yes, it is destroyed in marriage, but it is destroyed by you, not by marriage. It is destroyed by the partners. How can marriage destroy love? It is you who destroy it, because you don't know what love is. You simply pretend to know, you simply hope that you know, you dream that you know, but you don't know what love is. Love has to be learned; it is the greatest art there is.”
“I have never said that people “should” engage in armed attacks on the United States, but that such attacks are a natural and unavoidable consequence of unlawful U.S. policy.”
“I have never said that the terrorists' interpretation of Islam is the accurate or correct one. But I have pointed out that the terrorists portray themselves quite successfully among Muslims as the exponents of true and pure Islam, and moderates have mounted no successful response as yet.”
“I have never said this to anyone before.” Leo’s voice was like ragged velvet. “But the idea of you with child is the most insanely arousing thing I’ve ever imagined. Your belly all swollen, your breasts heavy, the funny little way you would walk … I would worship you. I would take care of your every need. And everyone would know that I’d made you that way, that you belonged to me.”
“I have never said, as is sometimes believed, or even suggested that lower-class children should not learn the so-called educated norm of the Portuguese language of Brazil. What I have said is that the problems of language always involve ideological questions and, along with them, questions of power.”
Source: Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those who Dare Teach
“I have never searched for happiness. Who wants happiness? I have searched for pleasure.”
Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray
“I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily”
“I have never seen . . . so slippery, so disgusting a candidate.”
“I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.”
“I have never seen a beautiful painting of a beautiful woman. But you can take an ugly woman and make a beautiful painting of her. It is the painting itself that should be beautiful.”
“I have never seen a child scolded for following his father’s instruction, nor have I seen a child beaten for identifying with his father.
I made the gods beautiful, I made the worship of the ancestors attractive. I built. I was scorned. I was called names. I choose my native gods and honor my ancestors.
I shall never be put to shame. I shall never regret my efforts. I shall not be put to shame. Ase”
“I have never seen a film being as influenced by the incidents during its making as Highway. The adventures of our north Indian road journey has many stories to tell.”
“I have never seen a food writer mention this, but all shrimp imported into the United States must first be washed in chlorine bleach to kill bugs. What this does for the taste, I do not know, but I think we should be told.”
Source: The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World and what We Eat
“I have never seen a game's graphics look so sharp and clean. The sound design for the game is also unique on the Xbox. The memory on this system allowed us to provide the user with 5.1 Dolby surround sound for home theatre owners.”
“I have never seen a generation of people so eager for a paycheck, but lazy to work for earnings. A people that will complain about the realities they rightly have power to change, but choose to ignore. And, worse a culture of bickering for what could be, when in reality, is.
It is my hope that the future will be more intelligent, focused and ready for action, just as those that see what can be changed, but have no power to make the change, TODAY for a better TOMORROW!!”
“I have never seen a generous man go bankrupt.”
“I have never seen a ghost, no. Or I've buried it deep in my subconscious.”
“I have never seen a good organization where the standards weren't high.”
“I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.”
Source: Montaigne's Essays in Three Books: With Notes and Quotations. And an Account of the Author's Life. With a Short Character of the Author and Translator
“I have never seen a hero bring forth light until they have triumphed over their own darkness.”
Source: The Candleberry Chronicles: The Burning Candle
“I have never seen a major trial which lacked significant perjury, and I have yet to see that perjury punished.”
“I have never seen a man as fond of virtue as of women.”
“I have never seen a
man break the way he did. And he broke. Set half the damn Covenant on fire. If his brother hadn’t
showed up when he had, I’m positive that he would’ve stayed in the burning building. Is that what you
wanted to know? Did it make you feel better, Alexandria?”
Source: Sentinel
“I have never seen a man lost who was on a straight path.”
“I have never seen a Man who has conveyed both hatred and love in the same breadth with great intensity and respect these emotions deserve!”
“I have never seen a market unfold in other than an Elliott Wave pattern.”