I Quotes
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“I have not taken a position on that nuclear option. My view is I'm not going to do anything until I come to that bridge. I'm not going to jump off the bridge until I come to it”
“I have not taken my good looks seriously from the beginning. When I would be teased by my friends about my looks, I would just make a self-deprecating remark and let it pass.”
“I have not the capability to give you my loyalty, nor do I have the vanity to appear as if I did.”
“I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.”
“I have not the least doubt that school developed in me nothing but what was evil and left the good untouched.”
“I have not the particular shining bauble or feather in my cap for crowds to gaze at or kneel to, but I have power and resolution for foes to tremble at.”
Source: The Letters and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell
“I have not the pleasure of understanding you.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“I have not the slightest confidence in 'spiritual manifestations.'”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“I have not the slightest doubt that the economic measures and the Socialist measures which one will find in countries of Eastern Europe, will become increasingly powerful against the uncoordinated, planless society in which the West is living at present.”
“I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind.”
Source: Selected writings: poetry and criticism
“I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English.”
“I have not the smallest doubt that, if we had a purely democratic government here, the effect would be the same. Either the poor would plunder the rich, and civilisation would perish; or order and property would be saved by a strong military government, and liberty would perish.”
“I have not the smallest molecule of faith in aerial navigation other than ballooning, or of the expectation of good results from any of the trials we heard of. So you will understand that I would not care to be a member of the Aeronautical Society.”
“I have not time to say any more, but to beg you will give my duty to the Queen, and let her know her army has had a glorious victory. MonsieurTallard and two other generals are in my coach, and I am following the rest.”
“I have not tired of the wilderness; rather I enjoy its beauty and the vagrant life I lead, more keenly all the time.”
“I have not tired of the wilderness; rather I enjoy its beauty and the vagrant life I lead, more keenly all the time. I prefer the saddle to the street car and the star sprinkled sky to a roof, the obscure and difficult trail, leading into the unknown, to any paved highway, and the deep peace of the wild to the discontent bred by cities.”
“I have not told the half of what I saw.”
“I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.”
“I have not tried to tell the people anything. I have shared my views with the people but I have not tried to lead or correct them, assuming they need correction.”
“I have not tried to write the history of that language, but rather the archaeology of that silence.”
“I have not visited America as of now. However, I would love to come to the United States, for two reasons. Firstly, I would like to pay a visit to Disneyland. Secondly, I would like to meet Bill Gates.”
“I have not walked away from Hollywood. I'm walking away from the way I personally did business in Hollywood. The budget of whatever movie I do needs to be efficient; it needs to consider what kind of resources we're using and how to be as responsible as possible.”
“I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly.”
Source: Sense and Sensibility:: A Novel. In Three Volumes
“I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent.”
“I have not wasted life, but life hath wasted me.”
“I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit”
“I have not watched the TV show. I do not generally watch TV sci-fi drama shows. They make me itch.”
“I have not watched WAGs World, I have not watched the BBC's Upstairs, Downstairs, either. It would be Downton Abbey, I think.”
“I have not wept since the death of my parents," said Luxa quietly. "But I am thought to be unnatural in this respect.”
Source: Gregor the Overlander Collection:
“I have not worked at all... Nothing seems worth putting down - I seem to have nothing to say - it appalls me but that is the way it is.”
Source: Georgia O'Keeffe, the Bermuda respite: October 28, 1994-January 27, 1995
“I have not written a perfect sentence, in the literary sense. It's a lot easier to throw a perfect pass than to write a perfect sentence, if that sentence is meant to perform more than a mechanical function.”
“I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.”
Source: The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings
“I have not yet begun to defile myself.”
“I have not yet begun to fight!”
“I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that this delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it. I remember, in the winter of our first experiments, just seven years ago, looking on snow with new eyes. There the snow lay around my doorstep — great heaps of protons quietly precessing in the earth's magnetic field. To see the world for a moment as something rich and strange is the private reward of many a discovery.”
“I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that the delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it.”
“I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that this delicate motion should reside in all the ordinary things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it. I remember, in the winter of our first experiments, just seven years ago, looking on snow with new eyes. There the snow lay around my doorstep - great heaps of protons quietly precessing in the earth’s magnetic field. To see the world for a moment as something rich and strange is the private reward of many a discovery.”
“I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the mass, or rather raising herself from above the mass, she grows ceaselessly and more than a man.”
Source: 101 Facts of life
“I have not, in general, much belief in the ability of woman as a creative artist. Unwritten lyrics, as [Ralph Waldo] Emerson said once when we conversed on this subject, should be her forte.”
“I have noted that persons with bad judgment are most insistent that we do what they think best.”
Source: Important Nonsense
“I have noted that, barring accidents, artists whose powers wear best and last longest are those who have trained themselves to work under adversity. Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness.”
“I have notes in my bathroom, yellow notes, and I stick 'em on the mirror, things that happened that were uplifting boosters for me. Notes that say, "Today is special, make today count." And then I have one note on the mirror in the middle that says, "Look at the other notes.”
“I have nothing
Of woman in me; now from head to foot
I am marble-constant.”
“I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D.”
“I have nothing against 3D films but I do not need to see them.”
“I have nothing against a community that is made up of people who are Polish, or who are Czechoslovakians, or who are French Canadians or who are blacks trying to maintain the ethnic purity of their neighborhoods. This is a natural inclination... Government should not break up a neighborhood on a numerical basis. As soon as the Government does, the white folks flee.”
“I have nothing against alсoнol, there is nothing I can do to tell people not to do it. I don't tell people not to, I just tell people to be wise about it. If you want to do it go ahead, if you don't go ahead. Nothing makes you cooler, nothing makes you lamer. You're just a normal person if you don't want to do it.”
“I have nothing against bombastic music, but when it comes to making albums, I'd prefer to make music that has a sort of vulnerable subtlety to it.”
“I have nothing against Bosniaks/Islam, but it is the desire to direct political processes that is completely unacceptable.”
“I have nothing against Canada. I think that Canadians might know the secret to all existence, but to us it just comes off as timid and kind and too nice, and it strikes us as lacking edge. Unless you are hijacking someone and going on a reality show with your eight kids and wearing a velour pink pantsuit, then you have no edge to us.”