I Quotes
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“I have spent my life in the study of military strength as a deterrent to war, and in the character of military armaments necessary to win a war. The study of the first of these questions is still profitable, but we are rapidly getting to the point that no war can be won.”
“I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.”
“I have spent my life knowing the importance of allowing people to tell you who they are instead of reducing them to labels.”
Source: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing.”
“I have spent my life resisting the desire to end it.”
“I have spent my life waiting for something to happen,’ she said. ‘And I have come to understand that nothing will. Or it already has, and I blinked during that moment and it's gone. I don't know which is worse — to have missed it or to know there is nothing to miss.’ Falling Angels”
“I have spent my life watching, not to see beyond the world, merely to see, great mystery, what is plainly before my eyes. I think the concept of transcendence is based on a misreading of creation. With all respect to heaven, the scene of the miracle is here, among us. The eternal as an idea is much less preposterous than time, and this very fact should seize our attention.”
“I have spent my spare time studying literature popular with young women of this planet. One should always study the battlefield." Sean glanced at him. "And?" "I suggest you give up now. According to my research, in a vampire-werewolf love triangle, the vampire always gets the girl.”
“I have spent my tenure in office - and, in fact, my adult lifetime - fighting for things that I care deeply about. And as anyone who knows me will tell you, I do not back down from tough fights.”
“I have spent my whole life preparing to be William Wallace’s wife. The choices I make are defined by the person I am.
“I am Mrs. William Victor Wallace. I am married to a federal felon whom I love unconditionally.
I hold my head high, I take pride in my life and I walk this world without regret.
I will be the perfect wife and my husband deserves nothing less.”
Source: The Fugitive's Doctor
“I have spent my whole life scared, frightened of things that could happen, might happen, might not happen, 50 years I spent like that. Finding myself awake at three in the morning. But you know what? Ever since my diagnosis, I sleep just fine.”
“I have spent my years since Princeton, while at law school and in my various professional jobs, not feeling completely a part of the worlds I inhabit. I am always looking over my shoulder wondering if I measure up.”
“I have spent myself on all kinds of things ... I have advanced much politically but I have written little and moreover have written it badly.”
“I have spent nights staring at the ceiling, overthinking life. Now I sleep knowing whatever comes, I will handle it.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“I have spent over 60 years bent over a guitar and to know that I wrote 70 compositions that masters have recorded, that makes me feel so good and full, and proud and thankful to the good Lord.”
“I have spent over a decade observing the government and concluded they are willfully incompetent in the health and safety of their citizens.”
“I have spent over half my life teaching love and brotherhood, and I feel that it is better to continue to try to teach or live equality and love than it would be to have hatred or prejudice. Everyone living together in peace and harmony and love - that’s the goal that we seek, and I think that the more people there are who reach that state of mind, the better we will all be.”
Source: My Story
“I have spent probably years of time waiting in studio lounges - waiting on a mix, waiting on my time to sing, waiting on, waiting on, waiting on. That's just the nature of life.”
“I have spent six years in prison, the last six years. Even if I was outside the prison, how much actual space was there for an investigative journalist to do his work in Iran? But I know one thing for sure: That we, the Iranian people, are much more in line of danger than the West.”
“I have spent so long erecting partitions around the part of me that writes - learning how to close the door on it when ordinary lfe intervenes, how to close the door on ordinary life when it's time to start writing again - that I'm not sure I could fit the two parts of me back together now.”
“I have spent some months in England, have seen an awful lot and learned little. England is not a land of science, there is only a widely practised dilettantism, the chemists are ashamed to call themselves chemists because the pharmacists, who are despised, have assumed this name.”
“I have spent the best years of my life giving people the lighter pleasures, helping them have a good time, and all I get is abuse, the existence of a hunted man.”
“I have spent the better part of my adult life standing up and fighting for working families.”
“I have spent the entirety of my life stitching together costumes to make Westerners feel at ease in my presence--a massive internal compendium of cultural references and jokes and shorthand and all these alternate means of saying, Don't worry, I'm not foreign, I'm like you--and suddenly I've run out of things to wear.”
Source: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
“I have spent the last 30 years forming the religious right. I write a letter every week and send a newspaper every month to 200,000 pastors who are broadly called evangelicals, bringing them up to date on what is happening in Washington, in the state capitals, in the culture, and what we need to do about it. And of course I'm criticized for it, and of course I have calculated the positives and the negatives, but I have long been at peace with what I do.”
“I have spent the last five months obsessively working on Outlaw.”
“I have spent the last week as a nearly full-time reader of platypusology.”
Source: Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History
“I have spent the past several years working so hard to just move on, and to try and build a life for myself.”
“I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was.”
“I have spent the whole day
trying not to—” His eyes darted to the door, which was ajar, likely realizing
how loudly he was talking. He dropped his voice to a near whisper. “Trying
not to be obvious about how fucking in love with you I am.”
“I have spent time discussing the American political system and current events in Taiwan with the junior diplomats, and they have repeatedly expressed their country's desire to avoid confrontation with China.”
“I have spent too long training myself to speak with an American accent, it's ingrained. I spend 16 hours a day on set speaking with an American accent. Now, when I try to speak with an Aussie accent, I just sound like a caricature of myself.”
“I have spent too much of my life opening doors for cats—I once calculated that, since the dawn of civilization, nine hundred and seventy-eight man-centuries have been used up that way. I could show you figures.”
Source: The Door Into Summer
“I have spent too much time with my eye glued to the viewfinder and ended up missing both the image of the mind and that on film.”
“I have spent weeks in the desert, forgetting to look at the moon, he says, as a married man may spend days never looking into the face of his wife. These are not sins of omission but signs of pre-occuopation.”
“I have spent years ... clinging to the understanding that I
was a defective biological unit ....
This may truly be a valuable
perspective for those who observe mental illness, but for
me, as a subject, this tree bore only dry and tasteless fruit ...
I have a chemical imbalance; I really didn't feel those
things.
I have a chemical imbalance; I didn't really experience
those things.
I have a chemical imbalance; I didn't really think
those things ...
Here is an insight! The entire human drama of love, suffering,
ecstasy, and joy, just chemistry.”
“I have spent years trying to make others feel special…I did everything to be enough for them, to be liked by them, to be seen by them, to be loved back by them, but somewhere in thinking too much about them, I forgot to think about myself.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“I have spent--or wasted--my life around motor racing: driving, promoting, and writing about what Ernest Hemingway once linked with mountain climbing and bull fighting as the only true sports. The rest, he sniffed, are merely games.”
“I have spied for you and lied for you, put myself in mortal danger for you. Everything was supposed to be to keep Lily Potter’s son safe. Now you tell me you have been raising him like a pig for slaughter —”
“I have spiritual beliefs that I could literally go out and make an entire comedy routine about, and tour as some sort of spiritual guru, but it kind of goes against that [as] I actually believe the things, so I'm always kind of caught in the middle.”
“I have spoken about what we can do as citizens, what we can do as a responsive citizenry, and this is where we have to shatter our complacency and become "active souls,"and be prepared to engage in aware - that personal struggle between our grief and our sorrow. But I don't think we have any choice.”
“I have spoken all over the world and I have great respect for Muslims, I have great respect for the African people, I have respect for the other races. Even back home in Lousiana, I'm called a racist, but I have respect for the Black people of my country and I want them to have their own life, too, and I want them to be able to pursue their own destiny and not be controlled, and not be damaged.”
“I have spoken honestly about being born into a home where there was discord and chaos. I saw my mom have a rough time with my dad being very controlling, which is why I push back whenever I feel like someone is trying to box me in. It makes me run for the hills.”
“I have spoken of a thousand points of light, of all the community organizations that are spread like stars throughout the Nation, doing good.”
Source: Inaugural Speeches from the Presidents of the United States - Complete Edition
“I have spoken of Jonah, and of the story of him and the whale. — A fit story for ridicule, if it was written to be believed; or of laughter, if it was intended to try what credulity could swallow; for, if it could swallow Jonah and the whale it could swallow anything.”
Source: The age of reason
“I have spoken so far only of the blissful visionary experience? But visionary experience is not always blissful. It's sometimes terrible. There is hell as well as heaven.”
“I have spoken to a whole group of millionaires, head executives at Microsoft. Boy did I chew those guys out.”
“I have spoken to Einstein and he admitted to me that his theory was in fact no different from the one of Parmenides.”
“I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore.”
“I have spoken to many people who have begun to live in presence, and they find many changes come into their lives. Sometimes these changes happen as inner realizations - "This is what I have to do" - or they arise from the external when something suddenly happens.”