I Quotes
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“I have nothing to lose, only to live.”
“I have nothing to lose. Since I have penetrated through factual truth and the veil of all illusions.”
“I have nothing to lose, but something to gain.”
“I have nothing to lose. My personal casualty means nothing.”
“I have nothing to make me miserable," she said, getting calmer; "but can you understand that everything has become hateful, loathsome, coarse to me, and I myself most of all? You can't imagine what loathsome thoughts I have about everything." "Why, whatever loathsome thoughts can you have?" asked Dolly, smiling. "The most utterly loathsome and coarse; I can't tell you. It's not unhappiness, or low spirits, but much worse. As though everything that was good in me was all hidden away, and nothing was left but the most loathsome.”
Source: Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)
“I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering. You ask, what is our policy? I can say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us; to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be;
In “Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat,” his first speech as Prime Minister to the House of Commons May 13, 1940 quoted by Jeffrey R. Holland in “However Long and Hard the Road” BYU Devotional 18 Jan 1983”
“I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”
“I have nothing to offer you," he finally said in a guttural voice.
"Nothing."
Win's lips had turned dry. She moistened them, and tried to speak through a thrill of anxious trembling. "You have yourself," she whispered.
"You don't know me. You think you do, but you don't. The things I've done, the things I'm capable of--you and your family, all you know of life comes from books. If you understood anything--"
"Make me understand. Tell me what is so terrible that you must keep pushing me away."
He shook his head.
"Then stop torturing the both of us," she said unsteadily. "Leave me, or let me go."
"I can't," he snapped. "I can't, damn you." And before she could make a sound, he kissed her.”
Source: Seduce Me at Sunrise
“I have nothing to prove to anyone. I only play for myself.”
“I have nothing to prove, because I am already approved.”
Source: Crash the Chatterbox: Hearing God's Voice Above All Others
“I have nothing to prove. I just want to follow the music. I love making records. I love playing live. That's it. There's nothing outside of that. I look forward to the weirdness that's in front of us every day.”
“I have nothing to regret, to retract or take back . . . I can only say; God Save Ireland!”
“I have nothing to say about my childhood. It was a perfectly pleasant upbringing - it's not like it was unhappy or anything.”
“I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry.”
“I have nothing to say for myself, only that I have always tried to make this earth a little bit better”
“I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he's not careful.”
Source: Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition
“I have nothing to say to him [Ronald Reagan], because he is mad. He is foolish. He is an Israeli dog.”
“I have nothing to say, and I am saying it.”
“I have nothing to say. And I am saying it. That's poetry.”
“I have nothing to speak of but my self-and what can I say but what I feel.”
“I have nothing to tell except travellers' stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.”
“I have nothing, absolutely nothing against anyone who's homosexual. If that's their orientation, then I accept that. And I have no problem with someone who has other orientations.”
“I have nothing. My model is I have nothing figured out, and I'm starting with some little nugget and hoping that it will talk back to me enough to let it grow.”
“I have notice most writers wants your honest opinion but not your true honest opinion, therefore become upset. Sorry, I will always give my true honest opinion...”
“I have noticed a common denominator among my smart and successful single friends, who tend to over-analyze and underestimate the opposite sex far more than their peers.”
“I have noticed a marked improvement in FEMA and with the coordination of FEMA and the State agencies.”
“I have noticed a trend in premature deaths in the people that I know and the presence of streetlights outside of their homes.”
Source: Light Forensics
“I have noticed bakers with swelled hands, and painful, too; in fact the hands of all such workers become much thickened by the constant pressure of kneading the dough.”
Source: Diseases of Workers
“I have noticed before that there is a category of acquaintanceship that is not friendship or business or romance, but speculation, fascination.”
Source: Ordinary Love and Good Will
“I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.”
Source: Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays
“I have noticed generational humor exists as well. Since our frames of reference and cultural influences vary, there is a lot of room for misinterpretation and the potential to not "get it.”
Source: The Art of Connection: 8 Ways to Enrich Rapport & Kinship for Positive Impact
“I have noticed if I pull from fear or despair about the state of the world, I get tired, ineffective, afraid and sometimes mean-spirited.”
“I have noticed in every campaign that I have fought-that there is a key segment of time, somewhere between 13 and 15 minutes in which the battle is won or lost. I focus on that segment of time, and I win.”
“I have noticed one thing, whenever a doubt arises, there are two voices voicing two ways. Always. One has to choose. I have noticed another thing, whenever two voices shout, one tends to pick up the one which is closer to heart.”
Source: Life... Love... Kumbh...
“I have noticed over the past three years that most African Christians depend on their pastor or preachers for directions in life than their lecturers, politicians and nurses. That tells why most people refuse certain medical priorities with regards to their pastor's messages. I think if every pastor should have entrepreneurial knowledge coupled with spiritual integrity, Africa will shake!”
Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes
“I have noticed several times that people don't think I know how to behave even when I'm trying as hard as I can.”
“I have noticed that a lot of literary critics are bothered by the mixing of genres; indeed, some of them are so easily offended in this regard that they experience distress when faced with trifles like the use in a passage of fiction of concepts of theory (as if there were some fundamental difference between stories of people, animals, plants and objects on the one hand and stories of concepts on the other). What a torture it would be for them to read the island’s Book, in which it is common for a lyrical passage to give way to several pages of description related in chemical formulae!”
“I have noticed that after a time of deep sorrow the greatest comfort may come from a person you do not know well.”
Source: TO SEE YOU AGAIN: Stories
“I have noticed that agencies which are full of fun and ferment seem to create the best advertising. If you are not happy in advertising, for goodness sake find a job in which you would be happy. For as far as I know, we pass this way only once”
“I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation.”
Source: A Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition
“I have noticed that doing the sensible thing is only a good idea when the decision is quite small. For the life-changing things, you must risk it.”
“I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street.”
Source: Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays
“I have noticed that everyone who has ever tried to tell me that markets are efficient is poor.”
“I have noticed that if you look carefully at people's eyes the first five seconds they look at you, the truth of their feelings will shine through for just an instant before it flickers away.”
Source: The Secret Life of Bees
“I have noticed that in plays where the characters on stage laugh a great deal, the people out front laugh very little.”
Source: Penny Candy
“I have noticed that most men when they enter a barber shop and must wait their turn, drop into a chair and pick up a magazine. I simply sit down and pick up the thread of my sea wanderings, which began more than fifty years ago and is not quite ended. There is hardly a waiting room in the east that has not served as my cockpit, whether I was waiting to board a train or to see a dentist. And I am usually still trimming sheets when the train starts or drill begins to whine.”
“I have noticed that most times, the least that you give out is the best that someone really needs. So, don't always wait till you have something big to give before you do so! Someone's "big" is your "little"!”
Source: Daily Drive 365
“I have noticed that music, like solid matter, is essentially crystalline in structure.”
Source: The seven mysteries of life: an exploration in science & philosophy
“I have noticed that no sooner do people embark on a course of action which they do not find wholly satisfactory than they muster every argument to persuade others to imitate it.”
“I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.”