I Quotes
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“I have only the vaguest memory of a life before fear. Every morning when I wake up there is one blissful second before I took around the room and remember my daily terrors.”
Source: Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
“I have only to be true to the highest I know - success or failure is in the hand of God.”
“I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer - its dust and lowering skies.”
“I have only to contemplate myself; man comes from nothing, passes through time, and disappears forever in the bosom of God. He is seen but for a moment wandering on the verge of two abysses, and then is lost.
If man were wholly ignorant of himself he would have no poetry in him, for one cannot describe what one does not conceive. If he saw himself clearly, his imagination would remain idle and would have nothing to add to the picture. But the nature of man is sufficiently revealed for him to know something of himself and sufficiently veiled to leave much impenetrable darkness, a darkness in which he ever gropes, forever in vain, trying to understand himself.”
Source: Democracy in America
“I have only to glance over my shoulder for all those years to drop away and I see it behind me again, the ravine, rising all green and black through the saplings, a picture that will never leave me.”
Source: The Secret History
“I have only to speak for myself; to speak for freedom for myself; to determine for freedom for myself; and in doing so, I speak and determine for the freedom of every slave on every plantation, and for the fugitives on my right hand.”
“I have only touched one other computer at my friend Marissa's house, and found the experience disconcerting. There was something sinister about the green letters and numbers that flashed on the screen as the computer booted up, and I hated the way Marissa stopped answering questions or noticing me the second it was turned on.”
Source: Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
“I have only two men out of my company and 20 out of some other company. We need support, but it is almost suicide to try to get it here as we are swept by machine gun fire and a constant barrage is on us. I have no one on my left and only a few on my right. I will hold.”
“I have only two regrets:
I didn't shoot Henry Clay and I didn't hang John C. Calhoun.”
“I have only two rules which I regard as principles of conduct. The first is: Have no rules. The second is: Be independent of the opinion of others.”
“I have only you now,” he added. “Let’s go together . . . I’ve come to you. We’re cursed together, so let’s go together!”
Source: Crime and Punishment
“I have opened all the doors in my head. I have opened all the pores in my body. But only the tide rolls in.”
Source: The Women's Room
“I have opened newspapers and read incredible lies.”
“I have opened up an account With God's Heart-Bank. Therefore, I see nowhere The battering waves of poverty-thoughts.”
“I have opinions about the differences between Memphis barbecue and Texas barbecue. Put me in the kitchen and you'll see how Southern I can be.”
“I have opinions of my own - strong opinions - but I don't always agree with them.”
“I have opinions on everything. I'm a stubborn old mule. The biggest problem is keeping my mouth shut.”
“I have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking free from the Communist influence.”
“I have optimism and am incredibly hopeful for the future. I often say to friends, it's always darkest before the dawn, and lets be frank there's a lot of darkness out there right now, at least at a macro level. But once you drill down through that I think there's so much light, or at least the chance for it to erupt and illuminate the dark.”
“I have options, I can be whoever I want to be!”
“I have orders not to come back until I'm a thousand percent.”
“I have osteoarthritis, which especially affects my knees.”
“I have other fish to fry.”
Source: Don Quixote
“I have other obligations now - the show, my family, my life... though I know that without my sobriety I wouldn't have any of those things.”
“I have other projects to do. I try not to let that documentation interfere with my present day.”
“I have other stories just as mysterious, just as beautiful, just as sacred, but it seems good to stop here and wonder if it is possible for us to begin to let go of our expectations about the shape in which healing may arrive, to trust the treatment plan lying dormant and waiting within our people, to cultivate a gradually gathering stillness so that, in the safety of the space between, healing pathways have the possibility of revealing themselves.”
Source: The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships
“I have other tastes besides comedy. I love comedy. I adore it, but I love dramatic movies just as much.”
“I have outgrown so much, I think at some point we all do ~ we reach a stage in our life where we are forced to make a change, forced to cut friendships, relationships, jobs and places we once called home. At the time, it all feels a little overwhelming nothing stays the same and you have to learn your footing again but I can reassure you once you create the path you wish to walk along, what you left behind won't even matter.”
“I have outlasted all desire, My dreams and I have grown apart; My grief alone is left entire, The gleamings of an empty heart. The storms of ruthless dispensation Have struck my flowery garland numb, I live in lonely desolation And wonder when my end will come. Thus on a naked tree-limb, blasted By tardy winter's whistling chill, A single leaf which has outlasted Its season will be trembling still.”
“I have outlived a few of the kids that I grew up with in Knowsley Village, Liverpool, UK. Two dropped dead at eighteen years of age from heart attacks! They lived across the road from each other and played together. I wonder if it was some exposure that was common to them? Curiously, an entire family of three ladies all got breast cancer just round the corner from them, it killed my friend! A little further up the road another friend dropped dead of brain cancer in her thirties. Always seemed like far too much premature death in such a small area.”
“I have outlived most of my more athletic contemporaries who jogged, golfed and squashed themselves into coronary occlusion.”
“I have outlived my father, a boy doesn't become a man until his father dies, and I have reached the grand climacteric, and I have built an empire of it, erasing the dead. I have become my father's son.”
“I have outlived that care that curries public favour or dreads the public frown…let the hand of law strike me down if it will, but I ask that my story be heard and considered.”
“I have over 150 or 200 records recorded. We have so many EP's and LP's. It's just picking the best records to put the best possible album together.”
“I have over 2 million followers now on Google Plus.”
“I have over 5000 costumes, and the furniture and memorabilia that goes with them.”
“I have over a hundred clocks. I've got fancy clocks and clocks from all over the world that people made for me.”
“I have over and over again explained that the purpose of the Boy Scout and Girl Guide Movement is to build men and women as citizens endowed with the three H's namely, Health, Happiness and Helpfulness. The man or woman who succeeds in developing these three attributes has secured the main steps to success this Life.”
“I have over five thousand costumes and props and cars, and I have a twenty-five thousand square foot warehouse full of memorabilia.”
“I have overlived the generation with which mutual labors & perils begat mutual confidence and influence.”
Source: The portable Thomas Jefferson
“I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.”
“I have owned and played a Steinway all my life. It's the best Beethoven piano. The best Chopin piano. And the best Ray Charles piano. I like it, too.”
“I have packed myself into silence so deeply and for so long that I can never unpack myself using words. When I speak, I only pack myself a little differently.”
“I have paid as much as $300 a night to throw up into a sink shaped like a seashell.”
“I have paid taxes every year, a lot of taxes.”
“I have pain; there is no arguing against sense, but I have peace, I have peace.”
“I have pains in my hearts, they have taken my appetite.”
“I have painted and drawn bulls for some time because of their density and all the symbolism they carry.”
“I have painted enough to have a lot of respect for mediocre painters. It's really hard.”
“I have painted portraits that to me are almost photographic. I remember hesitating to show the paintings, they looked so real to me. But they have passed into the world as abstractions - no one seeing what they are.”
Source: Georgia O'Keeffe, Works on Paper: Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe