I Quotes
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“I have respect for what other people believe. What I believe in my own life is that it's a search for how I can do things better, whether it's being a better man or a better father or finding ways for myself to improve.”
“I have respected women from the beginning of my life.”
“I have respectfully declined the president's invitation to the White House today.”
“I have retired but only in body. Spiritually, I still feel able.”
“I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.”
“I have returned many times to honour the valiant men who died...every man who set foot on Omaha Beach was a hero.”
“I have returned to the chamber I slept in and found it smaller than I remember. The fields are beautiful, yet not quite as I recalled them. And I am troubled, for I wonder now if I am to be a stranger in my own home.'
Dallben shook his head. 'No, that you shall never be. But it is not Caer Dallben which has grown smaller. You have grown bigger. That is the way of it.”
Source: The Book of Three
“I have reveled in my littleness and irresponsibility. It has relieved me of the harassing desire to live, I feel content to live dangerously, indifferent to my fate; I have discovered I am a fly, that we are all flies, that nothing matters. It’s a great load off my life, for I don’t mind being such a micro-organism—to me the honour is sufficient of belonging to the universe—such a great universe, so grand a scheme of things. Not even Death can rob me of that honour. For nothing can alter the fact that I have lived; I have been I, if for ever so short a time. And when I am dead, the matter which composes my body is indestructible—and eternal, so that come what may to my “Soul,” my dust will always be going on, each separate atom of me playing its separate part—I shall still have some sort of a finger in the Pie. When I am dead, you can boil me, burn me, drown me, scatter me—but you cannot destroy me: my little atoms would merely deride such heavy vengeance. Death can do no more than kill you.”
Source: The Journal of a Disappointed Man
“I have reverentially lifted up my eyes to Him who liveth for ever and ever, and said, O my Father, hast Thou by the very constitution of her nature forbid Thy child to seek Thee in the fair forms of truth? And, can her soul be sullied by the knowledge that awfully calls her to Thee?”
Source: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
“I have reviewed literally hundreds of dotcoms in my drive to bring Boomer Esiason Foundation onto the Internet, and have selected ClickThings as a partner because of the advanced technology it offers small business, and its understanding of the entrepreneurial spirit of the small business community.”
“I have rewritten — often several times — every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers.”
Source: Strong opinions
“I have ridden with the Wild Hunt. I have carved a clear path of freedom among the stars and outrun the wind. And now I am asked to walk upon earth again.”
“I have risen to a body not yet born, existing like a light around a body through which the body moves like a sliding moon.”
“I have risked everything to tell the truth. Tell the truth”
“I have rituals for cleaning out resentments, disappointments, heartbreak, depression and for work. One of the things I do is go over old stuff if I have been unable to write for a while.”
“I have rock climbed but not in awhile. Love all sports, reading, cooking, some carpentry, gardening.”
“I have romanticised you to the point where the knives you pressed into my skin began to look like cupids arrows.”
Source: Beyond the Pale
“I have rooted myself into this quiet place where I don’t need much to get by. I need my visions. I need my books. I need new thoughts and lessons, from older souls, bars, whisky, libraries; different ones in different towns. I need my music. I need my songs. I need the safety of somewhere to rest my head at night, when my eyes get heavy. And I need space. Lots of space. To run, and sing, and change around in any way I please—outer or inner—and I need to love. I need the space to love ideas and thoughts; creations and people—anywhere I can find—and I need the peace of mind to understand it.”
“I have royalty in my blood as a black woman.”
“I have rubbed, knocked and brushed up against a thousand windows, trying to get an image.”
“I have rules about eating, exercising and rules about staying positive. And these rules are sacred to me.”
“I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.”
“I have rules for life, but not for love. If I think too hard about a relationship, I'll talk myself out of it”
“I have run engineering since day one at Oracle, and I still run engineering. I hold meetings every week with the database team, the middle ware team, the applications team. I run engineering and I will do that until the board throws me out of there.”
“I have run large organizations, I know what it takes to create a healthy business climate, and I have more experience than Jerry Brown doing that. So it'll be a stark contrast, a career politician vs. someone who has met a payroll, gotten a return on investment, knows how to use technology to do more with less”
“I have run out of lives. I have been everything. And yet I always end up back here. There is always something that stops my enjoyment. Always. I feel ungrateful.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“I have run two Olympic 'A' standard times over the past 12 months and with the time I ran at the African Championships last week I know my speed and fitness are constantly improving so that I will peak in time for the Olympics.”
“I have Russian, German, Spanish, Italian, French and Ethiopian blood in my veins.”
“I have sacrificed everything in my life that I consider precious to advance the political career of my husband.”
“I have sacrificed for the Republic all that man holds dear - my wife, my children, my liberty, my life.”
“I have sacrificed my freedom and risked my life in order to expose the danger of nuclear weapons which threatens this whole region. I acted on behalf of all citizens and all of humanity.”
“I have sacrificed my head in his holy court, who had taken me out of ignorance and darkness. From the one who was lost to the light and enlightenment, with his one sight of love I had cut off the head of my ego in total submission.”
Source: The Inward Journey
“I have sacrificed my life for my love and I have sacrificed my love for Liverpool.”
Source: Red-White Love: The Love of Liverpool FC
“I have said a lot in the past and now I think it is best that I do not comment on what I think when I look at President Bush!”
“I have said all along that I would know when it would be time to step down and now is that time. I want to thank Temple University, its fans and community for allowing me to do what I love for so long. It has never been a job for me, but a passion.”
“I have said all along that I would know when it would be time to step down, and now is that time.”
“I have said as much as that the aim of art was to destroy the curse of labour by making work the pleasurable satisfaction of our impulse towards energy, and giving to that energy hope of producing something worth its exercise.”
Source: The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris
“I have said at least once a week my whole adult life that there is an absolute disjunction between our Father's love and our deserving. Still, when I see this same disjunction between human parents and children, it always irritates me a little. (I know you will be and I hope you are an excellent man, and I will love you absolutely if you are not.)”
Source: Gilead
“I have said before I think it would be really good to have a woman in the final two but that's a matter for the parliamentary party.”
“I have said before metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.”
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“I have said before that one of these days, someone will read the Bible for the first time, believe it, and act on it with a daring, simple faith. Then we long-time believers will bow in shame crying, 'Lord, help our unbelief.”
Source: Revival Praying: An Urgent and Powerful Message for the Family of Christ
“I have said before, and I shall say again, that I write this book for love of your love.”
“I have said: "Blow out the lamp! Day is here!" And you keep saying: "Give me a lamp so I can find the day.”
Source: Dune Messiah
“I have said consistently both in my papers and in my speeches - which you heard in the primary campaign - that I will continue to phase out the Capital Stock and Franchise tax.”
“I have said consistently in my 16-and-a-half years in the parliament, I have always supported the party room's decision and the party room is the ultimate authority on these matters. I don't expect that to change.”
“I have said countless times that unless you are delivering a product and service that is really needed and unless you are doing it really well, you don't stick around for 80 years.”
“I have said democracy and freedom do not work too well if you are hungry, if you are starving.”
“I have said explicitly from day one when I announced this policy in, I believe, November of 2011, that I and our government oppose the idea of banning the wearing of the niqab in public.”
“I have said for a long time that I thought the president would be best served if the attorney general resigned so I think it's the right thing to do.”
“I have said for many years
that the only real difference between a philosophy
and a religion
is one or more gods...
I am learning more and more--
as I did when studying eastern religions in my twenties--
how powerful prayer can be,
and I don't mean because one god answers anyone's prayers.
It is the place it puts us in.
Focus.
Reflection.
Vertical communication.
Surrender (to the powers that be
and those that may or may not be).
And so:
Hope.”