I Quotes
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“I have yet to see someone attack Obama over his report card. A lot of people I talk to from both sides of the fence are like, 'Well, what about this economy? What about these incidents?' There are still no answers except time, but time is the answer for everything.”
“I have yet to see the Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO) publish a long term study of all summit workers at the very high altitude observatory that shows what illnesses and occupational diseases they have developed, and what they have died from since 1967 when it first opened.”
“I have yet to understand the ritual of sacrifice in monotheism; to a supposed Creator who has supposedly given us what we will be eventually sacrificing.
If I take a small mirror and reflect sunlight back to the sun, am I sacrificing to the sun?”
Source: The Human Consensus and The Ultimate Project Of Humanity
“I have you and even if we never meet or ever see each other, we have left our thumbprints in the thick, moist clay of each other's lives.”
“I have. You. For Life. Bonded. Not Bonded. Fuck the details. I just want to be with you, Clare.”
Source: She-Wolf
“I have you here, all around me. I sit in the Ice Garden to get a hint of this, this way that you make me feel. I felt it even before I knew who you were, and every time I think it could not possibly get any stronger, it does.”
“I have you here. Why shouldn’t I be pleased? (Stryker) I can think of a million reasons, starting with the fact that I want to kill you more than I want to breathe. As for the others, would you prefer them in order of importance or alphabetically? (Zephyra)”
Source: One Silent Night
“I have you with me, and I'm terrified you'll disappear.”
Source: Still Life
“I have you – a god of mixed heritage – on an expedition that could unleash the Destroyer from her hole. Arikos, another god, on the same team who is masquerading as a human. The demigod Solin, who I have to ride herd on constantly anyway, who gave them their permits. Megeara, a human who is sensitive and subjective to the voices of the gods. And the pissed-off goddess, Apollymi, who will do anything to be free, and once free wouldn’t hesitate to destroy every one of us. I can’t imagine why I’m concerned over this, can you? (ZT)”
“I have you. A lover and a friend. You are everything I need. You are the sun, the air I breathe. Without you, life wouldn't be the same. Please don't ever go away. And if you go, then don't forget to take me with you.”
“I have younger kids, and I adopted them late in life. They don't know these people [from Annie Hall] at all.”
“I have your back. I didn't mean only when it's easy. All the time.”
“I have your essence in my depths, and there, I save what remains. Much of you is still in me, tender and sleepless. Now they are, the wakeful buds of memories.”
“I have your word?” “You trust my word?” “You’re an idealistic fool. Of course.”
Source: The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned
“I have zero concerns about that. As violent as you are, and skilled with those daggers, I'm not even sure you could kill a fly. Don't think I didn't notice that you managed to wound three of them and never went for a kill shot.' He shoots a disapproving look my way.
'I've never killed anyone,' I whisper, like it's a secret.
'You're going to have to get over that. All we are after graduation are weapons, and it's best if we're honed before leaving the gates.”
Source: Fourth Wing
“I have zero desire to be in the limelight.”
“I have zero desire to bounce.”
Source: Been Here All Along
“I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don't think it's good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor. You're not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena, until I start selling my book. I'm going to emerge then submerge.”
“I have zero dollars,’ I said confidently.”
Source: Seaweed Pirates
“I have zero hand-eye coordination - zero - so I've never been good at softball, basketball, golf, things like that, but I'm really strong and I have really good endurance so I can go forever - I'm a tough girl.”
“I have zero interest in sports of any kind - professional, college or international.”
“I have zero interest in these Capitol people. They are only distractions from the food.”
Source: The Hunger Games Trilogy
“I have zero tolerance for intolerance - If you want me to acknowledge you as a human being, first learn to behave like a human being.”
Source: Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
“I have zero tolerance for people who don't come completely prepared. I expect contribution, I expect attendance, and I expect directors to take trips and visit the company's programs.”
“I have zero tolerance for the use of AI in any aspect of human creative endeavor. We can make a separate space for AI art, but AI trash passed as human art, is an abomination of creativity - for our imperfections bear the keynote of truth. Art is a testament to human struggle - remove the human, and it's art no more. Either you are an artist or you use AI, you cannot do both.”
Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
“I have, alas! Philosophy, Medicine, Jurisprudence too, And to my cost Theology, With ardent labor, studied through. And here I stand, with all my lore, Poor fool, no wiser than before.”
Source: Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)
“I have, and do sometimes, work with other media. But there is something about the physical activity and the directness of painting that I find fascinating. I am very attracted to the materiality of paintings and the visual phenomena of hue and value.”
“I have, as you know, the utmost respect for President Obama as a person.”
“I have, at times, been absorbed in my work to the point of complete self-oblivion. Once I worked for thirty-six hours without a break - to complete exhaustion; and while I was in the middle of it I didn't even notice.”
“I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro.”
“I have, by God’s grace, learned as a member of the Christian community what is the nature of God’s mercy, which does not leave me to overcome my sin by my own effort, so I have something to say to the fellow-sufferer who does not know where to look for hope. And what I have to say depends utterly on my willingness not to let go of that awareness of myself that reminds me where I start each day—not as a finished saint but as a needy person still struggling to grow.”
Source: Where God Happens: Discovering Christ in One Another
“I have, by long experience, found women to be like Telephus's spear: if one end kills, the other cures.”
Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author
“I have, despite all disillusionment, never, never allowed myself to feel like giving up. This is my message today; it is not worthy of a human being to give up.”
“I have, ever since the first day of my campaign, called for criminal justice reform.”
“I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.”
Source: Illustrations of the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians: With Letters and Notes Written During Eight Years of Travel and Adventure Among the Wildest and Most Remarkable Tribes Now Existing ; with 360 Engravings, from the Author's Original Paintings
“I have, for my own projected works and ideas, only the silliest and dewiest of hopes; no matter what, I am romantic enough or sentimental enough to wish to contribute something to life's fabric, to the world's beauty.... [S]imply to live does not justify existence, for life is a mere gesture on the surface of the earth, and death a return to that from which we had never been wholly separated; but oh to leave a trace, no matter how faint, of that brief gesture! For someone, some day, may find it beautiful!”
“I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis.”
“I have, I believe, the courage to doubt everything; I have, I believe, the courage to fight against everything; but I do not have the courage to acknowledge anything, the courage to possess, to own anything.”
“I have, I think, afforded every opportunity that could be reasonably expected, to judge of my credibility.”
Source: Awful disclosures of Maria Monk, a narrative of her sufferings in the Hotel Dieu nunnery at Montreal
“I have, I think, eight mentors. It's crazy, but I need them. They are all really important to me. They keep me grounded and advise me.”
“I have, in fact, no interest in life outside racing cars.”
“I have, in some ways, saved characters that have been marginalized by society by playing them - and having them still have dignity and still survive, still get through it.”
“I have, in the past, been attracted to really strong and dominant men. But on the other side, I have been attracted to very androgynous men. I don't typically fall for your average jock. I just like people that are a little atypical.”
“I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.”
Source: Edgar Allan Poe's Annotated Short Stories
“I have, my whole life, been healing the girl inside, the part of me that struggles about being a female in the world. That's why I write about the things I write about.”
“I have, of all the inglorious things, a malignant hemorrhoid. What color bracelet does one wear for that? And where does one wear it? And what slogan is apropos? Perhaps that slogan can be sewn in needlepoint around the ruffle on a cover for my embarrassing little doughnut buttocks pillow.”
Source: Holidays in Heck
“I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned”
Source: The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:
“I have, on the other hand, felt ill will from various people in the industry and the press.”
“I have, over the years brought an enormous number of plays to television starting obviously with Nicholas Nickelby and then things like Angels In America or in Wit with Emma Thompson and Mike Nichols. So, yes, I do find that very interesting and I'm sure that down the road there will be plays that I'll want to do that way.”
“I have, perhaps, a slave-like constitution which is too easily restrained by bonds; it then becomes rebellious and bursts out in a comic revolution.”
Source: Conversations with Saul Bellow