I Quotes
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“I have not missed anything in terms of learning or being informed by not watching cable news. That's not the way it's supposed to be. The news is supposed to be telling you what you don't know. But it hasn't been that in I don't know how long.”
“I have not moved out of the comedian's box into the news box. The news box is moving towards me.”
“I have not much faith in women in fiction.... Women are so horribly subjective and they have such scorn for the healthy commonplace. When a woman writes a story of adventure, a stout sea tale, a manly battle yarn, anything without wine, women, and love, then I will begin to hope for something great from them, not before.”
Source: Willa Cather
“I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that.”
Source: Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings
“I have not much patience with a certain class of Christians nowadays who will hear anybody preach so long as they can say, 'He is very clever, a fine preacher, a man of genius, a born orator.' Is cleverness to make false doctrine palatable? Why, sirs, to me the ability of a man who preaches error is my sorrow rather than my admiration.”
“I have not observed mens honesty to increase with their riches.”
Source: Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness
“I have not often seen much dignity in the process by which we die.”
Source: How We Die
“I have not once felt a thing for the male sex, I was only interested in the fairer sex. Mine.”
“I have not only Arms but a large proportion of Armourers to make.”
“I have not only found good health, but perfect health; I have found a new state of being, a potentiality of life; a sense of lightness and cleanness and joyfulness, such as I did not know could exist in the human body.”
Source: The Fasting Cure
“I have not only labored solely for the benefit of others (receiving for myself a miserable pittance), but have been forced to model my thoughts at the will of men whose imbecility was evident to all but themselves”
Source: The collected letters of Edgar Allan Poe
“I have not permitted myself to be ignorant of any martial art that exists. Why? Such ignorance is a disgrace to someone who follows the path of the martial arts.”
“I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in this connection, of a story of an old Dutch farmer, who remarked to a companion once that "it was not best to swap horses when crossing streams."”
“I have not personally suffered from the deprivations, the bitterness and sorrow which bring so many men and women to a realisation of social injustice.”
Source: My Own Story: Top Biography
“I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because, in order to pray aright, we must understand what we are praying for.”
Source: On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters
“I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.”
“I have not practiced saxophone since 1980. I mean, not one note. I do not pick it up in my house, and that's the end of it.”
“I have not professionally dealt in truth. Many when they come to die have spent all the truth that was in them, and enter the next world as paupers. I have saved up enough to make an astonishment there.”
Source: Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review
“I have not proved that the universe is, in fact, a digital computer and that it's capable of performing universal computation, but it's plausible that it is.”
“I have not quite come to terms with the brevity that people crave as they dash through life, flitting from one thing to another. ~ “Vindication Across Time”
Source: Vindication Across Time
“I have not really experienced any significant conflict with anyone in regard to my choice to be vegan, although going out to eat is hard sometimes.”
“I have not revoked this law, nor will I, for it is everlasting, and those who will enter into my glory must obey the conditions thereof; Even so Amen.”
“I have not said your values are wrong. But neither are they right. They are simply judgments. Assessments. Decisions. For the most part, they are decisions made not by you, but by someone else. Your parents, perhaps. Your religion. Your teachers, historians, politicians.”
Source: The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue
“I have not seen "Batman v Superman," unfortunately. It hasn't been on the plane, as I've been flying a lot.”
“I have not seen a film as powerful, surreal, and frightening in at least a decade unprecedented in the history of cinema.”
“I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it.”
Source: The Analects
“I have not seen Al Gore's movie.”
“I have not seen any Christian sparrow or Muslim lion or Jewish elephant! Animals are lucky as they have not yet invented the religion!”
“I have not seen anyone assume that all the citizens of New York are guilty of murder, violence, robbery, perjury, or writing proprietary software.”
“I have not seen Bly since the day I left it, and I daresay that to my older and more informed eyes it would now appear sufficiently contracted. But as my little conductress, with her hair of gold and her frock of blue, danced before me round corners and pattered down passages, I had the view of a castle of romance inhabited by a rosy sprite, such a place as would somehow, for diversion of the young idea, take all color out of storybooks and fairytales. Wasn’t it just a storybook over which I had fallen adoze and adream? No; it was a big, ugly, antique, but convenient house, embodying a few features of a building still older, half-replaced and half-utilized, in which I had the fancy of our being almost as lost as a handful of passengers in a great drifting ship. Well, I was, strangely, at the helm!”
Source: The Turn of the Screw
“I have not seen one who loves virtue as he loves beauty.”
Source: The Analects
“I have not seen proven proof that [climate change] is entirely man-made.”
“I have not seen that standardised tests make the profession less attractive, though some principals respond to them in a way that drives the best teachers out of their schools (by over-emphasising test prep in the school curriculum for example). On the other hand, great teachers want benchmarks to measure progress and tests can help with that.”
“I have not seen the Himalayas. But I have seen Sheikh Mujib. In personality and in courage, this man is the Himalayas. I have thus had the experience of witnessing the Himalayas.”
“I have not seen the National League enough to know.”
“I have not slept one wink.”
Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
“I have not slept. Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream: The Genius and the mortal instruments Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.”
“I have not so great a struggle with my vices, great and numerous as they are, as I have with my impatience. My efforts are not absolutely useless; yet I have never been able to conquer this ferocious wild beast.”
“I have not sought during my life to amass wealth and to adorn my body, but I have sought to adorn my soul with the jewels of wisdom, patience, and above all with a love of liberty.”
“I have not spent years in therapy; I tried therapy in my mid-twenties, and it did not go very well. I just thought, 'This is so not for me. I would rather talk to one of my girlfriends.' I'm not at a point in my life when I'm analyzing too much. I have young children, and I'm just pretty much crazed.”
“I have not spoken in three years: not since I left boot camp. It has been three years of a senseless war, and though the reasons for it are clear, and though we will continue to fight until we are ordered to stop--and probably for a while after that--none of us can remember the hate that led us here. We are simply fighting to survive the war. It is a strange place to be at fifteen, bereft of hope and very nearly of your humanity. But that is where I am nonetheless.”
Source: Song For Night
“I have not stopped growing. I am not dying.”
“I have not stopped loving her, nor my parabatai; love does not stop when someone dies.”
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
“I have not stopped loving that which is sacred in this world.”
Source: Notebooks, 1951-1959
“I have not suffered a lot for Christ, but I want to tell you that those times that I have suffered and I knew it was for Jesus, have been some of the happiest times of my entire life.”
“I have not suggested that the emergence of language is instantaneous. Rather, that the rewiring of the brain enabling an infinite array of structured expressions was in effect instantaneous. I have never heard of an alternative to this suggestion.”
“I have not suggested there's a connection between Iraq and 9/11, but there's clearly an established Iraqi track record with terror.”
“I have not suggested there's a connection between Iraq and 9/11.”
“I have not supported same-sex marriage. I have supported civil partnerships and contractual relationships.”
“I have not survived against all odds. I have not lived to tell. I have not witnessed the extraordinary. This is my story.”
Source: Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life