I Quotes
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“I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death.”
“I am fundraising gold. Democrat donors hate me so much, they hear my name and they run to their checkbooks.”
“I am funny, but I'm not about funny...
I'm about peace & justice.”
“I am funny. No one else thinks I am funny. But I am funny.”
“I am furious about everything.”
“I am furious at all the letters to answer, when all I want to do is think and write poems. ... I long for open time, with no obligations except toward the inner world and what is going on there.”
Source: The Journals of May Sarton Volume One: Journal of a Solitude, Plant Dreaming Deep, and Recovering
“I am furious with you.” His words are harsh, but he pairs them with a soft kiss to my temple. When he draws back, he meets my eyes. “And I want you.” The hand on my face glides down to trace along my collarbone, drawing a shiver. “I hate that you have no faith in me.” Kiss on my shoulder. “And I want you. I hate that I can’t trust you.” Kiss on the corner of my mouth. “And I want you.” Again, he pulls back to stare at me. “I’m going to get mad sometimes. Knowing you, I’m going to get mad a lot—that doesn’t change how I feel about you.”
Source: Drown Me with Dreams
“I am further back, surrounded on all sides by wailing men, their faces shiny with tears. Uncle Al promised three dollars and a bottle of Canadian whiskey to the man who puts on the best show. You've never seen such grief-- even the dogs were howling.”
“I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.”
Source: Essays [tr. by Cotton
“I am fussy, about my diet and straining my voice. I know, sounds a bit over the top. But I'm not as bad as I used to be. These days I don't drink alcohol for five days before a show - very dehydrating for the vocal cords, and all that acid reflux. I used to ban it for a fortnight. Nightmare.”
“I am Gabrielle Anwar: mother, lover, daughter, sister, friend, and creator in the pursuit of happiness.”
“I am gagged and imprisoned. I can't even speak. I want to kick a football in a park with my son. Ordinary, banal life: my impossible dream.”
Source: Joseph Anton
“I am gaining in health slowly, and am quite cheerful in view of my approaching end, - being fully persuaded that I am worth inconceivably more to hang than any other purpose.”
Source: The Public Life of Capt. John Brown, with an Auto-biography of His Childhood and Youth
“I am gay on the outside, especially among my own folk (I count Poles my own); but inside something gnaws at me; some presentiment, anxiety, dreams - or sleeplessness - melancholy, indifference - desire for life, and the next instant, desire for death; some kind of sweet peace, some kind of numbness, absent-mindedness.”
Source: Chopin's Letters
“I am gay, and I'm very comfortable with it.”
“I am gay. I am a Jew. My mother lost over a dozen of her family to Hitler's anti-Semitism. Every time in Russia (and it is constantly) a gay teenager is forced into suicide, a lesbian 'correctively' raped, gay men and women beaten to death by neo-Nazi thugs while the Russian police stand idly by, the world is diminished and I for one, weep anew at seeing history repeat itself.”
“I am gay. I am proud. And God loves me without reservation.”
Source: STRANGER AT THE GATE
“I am gazing--
desires
unaware of destiny
frisk about my mindscape
like children.”
“I am geared towards communicating on a female level.”
“I am generalizing, of course, but in hip-hop, it's like you get this shine for using the word "pussy" a billion times, and I think that that's weirdly healthier than not doing it at all - even though I really hope it ends soon because, you know, how many decades can we do that?”
“I am generally ashamed to walk out in new clothes. And why am I ashamed? Is it because I don't want to embarrass the others who don't have new things? Or perhaps because a new coat makes you stand out, and you seem to be clothes and nothing else.”
“I am generally cast as the dependable, affable, loving, friend-wife-girlfriend.”
“I am generally way out of touch with trends, except now and then I am surprised to find myself leading one, like sympathetic vampires.”
“I am generous and about to make a multi-million dollar sacrifice to beautify my capital. It will cost me three to four years of wages, but I wish my life here on earth to leave many traces.”
“I am generous because I've been poor,
cautious because I've been naive,
strong because I've been afraid,
clever because I've been foolish,
mighty because I've been weak,
kind because I’ve been downtrodden,
cheerful because I’ve been miserable,
patient because I’ve been reckless,
modest because I’ve been humbled,
calm because I’ve been confused,
friendly because I’ve been ostracized,
noble because I’ve been dishonoured,
loyal because I’ve been betrayed,
confident because I’ve been nervous,
pleasant because I’ve been malicious,
chaste because I’ve been depraved,
principled because I’ve been unethical,
just because I’ve been persecuted,
and tolerant because I’ve been discriminated against.”
“I am gennerally understood tho I do not use that awkward squad of pointings called commas colons semicolons etc.”
“I am gentle with myself, knowing that I am doing the best I can with the knowledge and understanding I have”
“I am genuine, fun and passionate.”
“I am genuinely an Independent. I agree more often than not with Democrats on domestic policy. I agree more often than not with Republicans on foreign and defense policy. I'm an Independent.”
“I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'soul' genre. That spoke to me more than it did to my punk-rock friends. And punk spoke more to me than it did to my soul friends. I basically didn't fit comfortably in either world.”
“I am genuinely not an over-the-top kind of person about politics or anything else.”
“I am genuinely sorry for scientists of the younger generation who never knew Fisher personally. So long as you avoided a handful of subjects like inverse probability that would turn Fisher in the briefest possible moment from extreme urbanity into a boiling cauldron of wrath, you got by with little worse than a thick head from the port which he, like the Cambridge mathematician J. E. Littlewood, loved to drink in the evening. And on the credit side you gained a cherished memory of English spoken in a Shakespearean style and delivered in the manner of a Spanish grandee.”
“I am getting better at smiling when people expect it.”
Source: Speak
“I am getting desperately afraid of going to heaven for I have had the vision of the shame I shall suffer as I get my first glimpse of the Lord Jesus; His majesty, power, and marvellous love for me, who treated Him so meanly and shabbily on earth and acted as though I did Him a favour in serving Him! No wonder God shall have to wipe away the tears off all faces, for we shall be broken-hearted when we see the depth of His love and the shallowness of ours.”
“I am getting frustrated by the fact that we have been out of office for eight years. I desperately want to lead the Conservative Party to make quicker progress back into power.”
“I am getting more mature and can handle the pressure better.”
“I am getting much more political as I get older. It's the duty of any writer, in particular, not to stand back from the world.”
“I am getting nowhere with you and I can't let you go and I cant get through.”
“I am getting old and the sign of old age is that I begin to philosophize and ponder over problems which should not be my concern at all.”
Source: Speeches
“I am getting on in years, and I have a very extensive IMDB page, and I cannot keep track of my own credits.”
“I am getting sick of people. I am falling in love with things. They hold their tongues.”
Source: Folly as It Flies
“I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all.”
Source: Letters to Allen Ginsberg, 1953-1957
“I am getting some good offers still. Some nice things are coming my way just as they always have, so unless I lose my inspiration or there is too much drool to wipe, I will keep going.”
“I am getting tired of feeling disappointed. I am getting tired of other people trying to always take my kindness for weakness, I sure don't deserve it. I should assume responsibility and become cold to others and warm to myself. Some call it self loving, other selfishness... I call it respect. Why to give less that what is being given? Maybe I am way too much for you, maybe that is your biggest fear, to feel less.”
“I am getting to an age when I can only enjoy the last sport left. It is called hunting for your spectacles.”
“I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.”
“I am getting used to my voice not sounding like an apology, my hair looking like a thunder storm, my face resembling a calamity, my smile looking like jagged tombstones, my soul feeling like an abstract art.”
Source: 4 AM Conversations
“I am getting you a coffee machine. Your husband is a horrible person. He lies when he says hello. He cannot keep up with all the lies he tells. Everyone knows he is not to be trusted. Wake up Coffee machine on its way.”
“I am giddy, expectation whirls me round.
The imaginary relish is so sweet
That it enchants my sense.”
“I am gifted at blending myself into any given milieu—you've never seen such a typical California teenager as I was, nor such a dissolute and callous pre-med student—but somehow despite my efforts, I am never able to blend myself in entirely and remain in some respects quite distinct from my surroundings, in the same way that a green chameleon remains a distinct entity from the leaf upon which it sits, no matter how perfectly it has approximated the the subtleties of the particular shade.”
Source: The Secret History