I Quotes
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“I have never yet known what it was to separate esteem from love”
Source: Sense and Sensibility: The Jane Austen Illustrated Edition
“I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul.”
“I have never yet met anyone who did not think it was an agreeable sensation to cut tinfoil with scissors.”
“I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.”
Source: Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London, Relative to that Event: In a Letter Intended to Have Been Sent to a Gentleman in Paris
“I have never, ever focused on the negative of things. I always look at the positive.”
“I have never, ever sought validation from the arbiters of British poetic taste.”
“I have never, ever, EVER met anyone who's regretted following their heart.”
“I have never, for a single moment, been aware of pressure from anyone in television about how I dress, what my shape is or how I speak. I've always written my own scripts. I've always been the first to point out that I need to be fit. I need to look good.”
“I have never, for better or worse, thought about a 'career path' or anything like that.”
“I have never, God or whatever knows, prostrated myself to be famous, but I would meander through all the sewers of the world, through all degradations and humiliations, in order to paint. I have to do this. Until the last drop every vision that exists in my being must be purged; then it will be a pleasure for me to be rid of this damned torture”
Source: Max Beckmann
“I have never, honestly, thrown a chair in my life.”
“I have never, in 50 years, ever missed a deadline [as a journalist].”
“I have never, in all my life, been so odious as to regard myself as 'superior' to any living being, human or animal. I just walked alone - as I have always walked alone.”
Source: Taken Care Of: An Autobiography
“I have never, in all my life, not for one moment, been tempted toward religion of any kind. The fact is that I feel no spiritual void. I have my philosophy of life, which does not include any aspect of the supernatural and which I find totally satisfying. I am, in short, a rationalist and believe only that which reason tells me is so.”
Source: I, Asimov: A Memoir
“I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who always have been, and ever will be, the same. The same vices and the same follies have been the fruit of all ages, though sometimes under different names.”
Source: The works of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: including her correspondence, poems, and essays
“I have never, not once, gone on television and not received some email or tweet or comment about my hair. Without fail. Isn't that absurd? All it does is make me want to shape my bangs into a sort of middle finger-like sculpture.”
“I have never, not once, violated my public trust.”
“I have never, so far, in all the studies I have done, met a contradiction between what the human, experimental and natural sciences are telling us and the Islamic rules. In fact, the opposite is true: anything that is coming from the modern sciences is helping me better understand the text. It's not a contradiction. It's a relation.”
“I have nevertheless reached the age where life, for every man, is accepted defeat.”
Source: Memoirs of Hadrian
“I have new ideas every day, and I always want to take on new challenges.”
“I have new music coming out. I'm working on some television shows. I still do a tremendous amount of concerts. I'm doing my restaurant. I got a club coming in New York. The restaurant is called Doug E. The club is called Fresh.”
“I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo: your time has come - and gone. It's time for change in America.”
“I have news for you, there is no Superman (it’s up to us.)”
“I have newspapers coming to me and saying, 'Can we get in on the TARP?'.”
“I have nice ears. I have no lobes, which was disappointing for a while, but I've gotten over it and learned to love them. Being lobeless isn't the end of the world”
“I have nightmares about hell, where all I do is add up numbers and try to have conversations with people like you.”
Source: Vignette
“I have nightmares that I'm going to wake up, and everyone's driving a Prius and living in a condo, and we're all getting health insurance.”
“I have nine children... and one of them is an invalid. Her mother is obliged to take her away in the winter, and when one bird is off the nest, the other has to go on.”
“I have nine Grammy Awards. I wouldn't have that if I couldn't sing.”
“I have no ability to develop muscle tone. I could do situps all day and still look like a condom full of walnuts.”
“I have no absolute right to my wealth; it comes from my ancestors, my parents and from the billions of people who have worked before me to learn, to develop, to create the foundations and wealth of this planet. It is my turn to contribute to the progress of humanity. I will be grateful for anything I am paid in return.”
“I have no academic qualifications whatsoever.”
“I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it.”
Source: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
“I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life.”
“I have no admiration for culture. I have no reserve knowledge, no provisional knowledge. And everything that I learn, I learn for a particular task, and once it's done, I immediately forget it, so that if ten years later, I have to get involved with something close to or directly within the same subject, I would have to start again from zero, with some few exceptions.”
“I have no advice for anybody; except to, you know, be awake enough to see where you are at any given time, and how that is beautiful, and has poetry inside. Even places you hate.”
“I have no advice for anyone on how to live.”
“I have no affectation when I speak”
“I have no affinity for animals. I don’t hate animals and I would never hurt an animal; I just don’t actively care about them. When a coworker shows me cute pictures of her dog, I struggle to respond correctly, like an autistic person who has been taught to recognize human emotions from flash cards. In short, I am the worst.”
Source: Bossypants
“I have no agenda - just to be loved. Somebody said to me, 'Whenever somebody says your name, a smile comes to their face.' That's a great accolade. I strive to keep it that way.”
“I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I nor the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.”
“I have no agenda, nothing to control.”
“I have no agenda. I know what I love to do and that's my religion. That's what I recommend to everybody. I did not invent that very ancient idea: "Do what you love and you will never work in your life." It's the pure truth. I think it's also the goal of human existence to accumulate as much of that feeling as possible. You can find that concept in anywhere from yoga to Bible.”
“I have no allegiance to a corrupt government.”
“I have no allegiance to any religious institution, or to any academic institution, I don't even have allegiance to the truth, truth can go to hell for all I care - I only care about integration - absolute, indivisible, unbending, unflinching spirit of integration.”
Source: Sonnets From The Mountaintop
“i have no alms for God - He gives alms
to me - a pauper looking to her Master's
hand - i am well aware of charity”
Source: Sheer Bandages: A Fragile Offering: A person should not bury a talent-no matter how small.
“I have no ambition for what society says is important as far as things like money, and all that kind of stuff. What I am ambitious about is I want to be the best wrestler that I can possibly be, and I think there's some sort of mistake in generations, as far as what he thinks as far as our generation lacking ambition.”
“I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.”
Source: Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph
“I have no ambition to shine beyond my abilities.”
Source: The Correspondence of Washington Allston
“I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.”
Source: The Bertrams: Easyread Large Edition