I Quotes
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“I have to bite my lip not to screen every foul name I know at the fire starter. What are they thinking? A fire lit just at nightfall would have been one thing. Those who battled at the Cornucopia, with their superior strength and surplus of supplies, they couldn't possibly have been near enough to spot the flames then. But now, when they've probably been combining the woods for hours looking for victims. You might as well be waving a flag and shouting, "Come and get me!"
And here I am a stone's throw from the biggest idiot in the Games. Strapped in a tree.”
Source: The Hunger Games
“I have to bring to your notice a terrifying reality: with the development of nuclear weapons Man has acquired, for the first time in history, the technical means to destroy the whole of civilization in a single act.”
Source: A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat
“I have to brush my teeth before I go on stage otherwise I don't feel smart enough.”
“I have to build my own boat this time. It's a big sea out there, and I have a pretty small boat. I have a lot of belief in it.”
“I have to care and I have to be honest and have the courage to be vulnerable. If that happens, then that's the best I can do. To just be a puppet for the audience is not very courageous. Just to do whatever they say they want - because a lot of times people will hear something new that they hadn't heard before and get turned on by a new experience and will want to hear more of that.”
“I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.”
“I have to change to stay the same.”
Source: Willem de Kooning, 1904-1997: Content as a Glimpse
“I have to choose my words carefully because I don't want to sound like one of those who goes on about how things were better in my day.”
“I have to choose songs that represent my personality.”
“I have to chose my words carefully.”
“I have to come first, because then everyone benefits.”
“I have to come out of the closet of the third person and speak in a more direct way.”
“I have to come to realize that God does not want to punish us, but rather, to fulfill our lives. God created us, loves us and wants to help us to realize our potential so that we can be useful to others.”
“I have to come to terms with the paternalism of American business. Companies are expected to take on so many social responsibilities which are the province of the state in Europe.”
“I have to concentrate more intently when people speak. I always have to position myself on their right side so that I can hear out of my left ear. I sometimes get a crick in my neck from listening. But I don't there's too much else.”
“I have to concentrate on my son. That's why I have lovers right now and not a boyfriend. I don't want my son to start calling somebody Daddy unless that person's gonna stay.”
“I have to conclude that fiction is better at 'the truth' than a factual record.”
Source: The Golden Notebook
“I have to conclude, oh, the best people are all somebody other than my own race. So that's difficult. How do we interpret the Bible? Should we stress things like justice and that God is somebody who cares about equality of all people? Or is he a God of love and a God who's there to give me an afterlife?”
“I have to confess here that I am a useless cook.”
“I have to confess I can't have the holiday season without "Hard Candy Christmas". For some reason, it makes me think of the sticky ribbon candy bowl my mid-western grandma always had.”
“I have to confess I'm not a huge comics fan in the wider sense of comics as an art form.”
“I have to confess that a strong contributing factor was that I had just taken what was probably the first acid ever made, given to me by a guy called Johnny Fellows, who had just returned from America.”
“I have to confess that I don't read much of what is written about me.”
“I have to confess that I had gambled on my soul and lost it with heroic insouciance and lightness of touch. The soul is so impalpable, so often useless, and sometimes such a nuisance, that I felt no more emotion on losing it than if, on a stroll, I had mislaid my visiting card.”
“I have to confess that I have so rarely experienced triumph that I cannot claim to know it well enough to judge, but it seems to be at best a momentary joy followed instantly by sadness, and, then, of necessity, by wariness.”
“I have to confess that I'm in a constant state of evolution in terms of the way I feel about it. When I was doing early pieces, I wasn't exactly in love with the idea of building the stuff. I could do it because I had the skills, but I really did it because I couldn't find anyone else to build it for me.”
“I have to confess that, in the years I have spent as a schoolteacher, I have learned much more from my students than they have from me. While that will surely sound like a feigned humility, it isn't feigned, and it isn't humility either.”
Source: The Gift of Fire
“I have to confess that it's crossed my mind that you could not be a Republican and a Christian.”
“I have to consider my greatest accomplishments winning the Olympics because everything that Ive done after that is really because of the Olympics.”
“I have to consider the honour of my house.'
'Honour?' Jaikie queried.
'Yes, honour,' said Ashie severely. 'Have you anything to say against it?'
'N-o-o. But it’s an awkward word and apt to obscure reason.'
'It is a very real thing, which you English do not understand.'
'We understand it well enough, but we are shy of talking about it.”
Source: The House of the Four Winds
“I have to constantly tell my personnel staff, 'Hey guys, we're still a good staff even though we're allowing good players to go play for other people,'”
“I have to continue to be a great leader and contribute in any way that I can, and get guys to follow suit. That's how you turn a team around.”
“I have to convince myself I know what I'm doing.”
“I have to convince myself that this is not a pointless life, even the body is telling me so.”
“I have to create a circle of reading for myself: Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lao-Tzu, Buddha, Pascal, The New Testament. This is also necessary for all people.”
Source: A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se
“I have to create in India a macroeconomic environment where the employment in aggregate can go up at a handsome rate. Once that happens, people losing jobs in one sector will not mean that they will become perpetually unemployed. From one sector, they can move on to other sectors.”
“I have to create opportunities for myself. But the thing I really have learned is that you gain nothing from sitting around waiting for the phone to ring - you have to do it for yourself.”
“i have to cross the river of extreme awkwardness in order to get to the paradise on the other side.”
Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson
“I have to deal with being famous. Sometimes I have to tell people I don't do autographs, thank you very much. At certain places, I refuse to have my photograph taken.”
“I have to deal with seven ex-stray dogs, and one ex-stray cat. One dog is nearing nineteen years old. Before I go to teach, he likes for me to tell him bedtime stories.”
“I have to deal with some dumb folks. It's a real drag.”
“I have to decide whether I'm just laying down a groove, kind of a bed and canvas for the lyrics and music to live on, or trying to illustrate something in the lyrics.”
“I have to declare in all candor that no one interested in being published in our time can afford to be so naive as to believe that a book will make it merely because it's good.”
Source: How To Be Your Own Literary Agent: An Insider's Guide to Getting Your Book Published
“I have to defend my husband.”
“I have to defend myself because if I don’t, I am going to be a target for everyone to push around.”
Source: Teachers Just Don't Understand Bullying Hurts
“I have to deplore the systematic manner in which the literature of Europe has continued to put out of sight our obligations to the Muhammadans. Surely they cannot be much longer hidden. Injustice founded on religious rancour and national conceit cannot be perpetuated forever. The Arab has left his intellectual impress on Europe. He has indelibly written it on the heavens as any one may see who reads the names of the stars on a common celestial globe.”
“I have to detach myself completely from aspirations. I hardly ever listen to music anymore because it arouses all of this yearning in me”
“I have to determine for myself, and not for other men. I don’t blame them, or think I am better than they; their circumstances are different. I would never choose to withdraw myself from the labour and common burden of the world; but I do choose to withdraw myself from the push and the scramble for money and position. Any man is at liberty to call me a fool, and say that mankind are benefited by the push and the scramble in the long-run. But I care for the people who live now and will not be living when the long-run comes. As it is, I prefer going shares with the unlucky.”
Source: Felix Holt: The Radical
“I have to determine whether the joy of craplets is worth preserving.”
“I have to die. If it is now, well then I die now; if later, then now I will take my lunch, since the hour for lunch has arrived - and dying I will tend to later.”