I Quotes
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“I know that sounds arrogant, but you can't not be special and have a 30-year career.”
“I know that sounds cliché, but mostly from my own experiences and things I see around me. We're all human beings, and a lot of the things I write about are pretty universal things.”
“I know that sounds contradictory - you're going on a journey, but once you know who your characters are, you become more disciplined and you film less and less.”
“I know that sounds ineffective and daunting, but it [throw hundreds of pages away] is actually my favorite part of the writing process.”
“I know that sounds really extreme, but if you just look at the history, you will find Harry Anslinger [first U.S. commissioner of the Bureau of Narcotics] going on about satanic swing and how reefer will make black people think they're as good as white people - which to him, obviously, was a very horrible outcome. This is the basis of our drug laws.”
“I know that sounds selfish, but you have to look at what it's doing to you personally - are you frustrated because of the way people perceive you, or are you happy enough about the things you've realized about yourself that you can tolerate the way people perceive you?”
“I know that sounds so circular, but for you, what you were made to do, is different than what I was made to do. But instead of spending all of our time having Bible studies about what we were made to do, go do stuff and you'll figure out what you were made to do, because you'll be great at some things and you'll be terrible at others.”
“I know that sounds weird, but it's hard to be scared or even angry at a guy in Spider-Man pajamas,"- Greg”
Source: A Quick Bite
“I know that Southern redhead type,” Bruno said, poking at his apple pie.”
Source: Strangers on a Train
“I know that speaking with parties, which I do, but not very often, is seen by many as a contamination.”
“I know that spinning sets me in a trance; it soothes me and charges my batteries at the same time. When times are tough I sit down to spin during the news-broadcasts, with therapeutic results.”
Source: Elizabeth Zimmermann's Knitter's Almanac: The Commemorative Edition
“I know that statistically, it has been proven that there is a tremendous amount of black on black crime within the inner cities.”
“I know that story, when you start a fight, the main idea is one to survive, one to be the victim and one to be the killer. This explains why FBI, CSI and DIA and other departments are here!”
“I know that stress on me mentally and physically will only help me improve not only as a human being but as a wrestler.”
“I know that strong trade unions and best supported by Labour Government actually protect worker's rights.”
“I know that success does not come at once, it is not a thing achieved overnight. It is the result of many, many, many years of working and trying to achieve goals.”
“I know that suffering gives us new perspectives and helps us to clarify our real value. I know that suffering has helped me to clarify my relationships ... Perhaps suffering stops us in our tracks and forces us to confront what is real within ourselves and in our environment.”
“I know that telling the story, there are certain events I want to skip, and certain events I want to hit. The time passing allows for - if you're really following people's lives, and this isn't a cartoon - someone gets pregnant, a child will be born, etc. You really don't want to be locked into "Every episode is a month later." The show is very intense to make. There's always going to be some downtime between seasons, and to me, it really helps to come back to the next season in the reality of that world, and have almost as much time passed in their lives as has passed in yours.”
“I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible.”
“I know that the arms of friendship are long enough to reach from the one end of the world to the other”
Source: Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays
“I know that the arts are important. I'm not denying that, but I can't associate myself with all the claptrap that goes on around it.”
“I know that the battle scenes, as well, are quite gory and quite strong. Battle was romantic, but it was far from being easy. It's nice, in both respects, to have that color and contrast.”
“I know that the Beatles were a big-deal music group that changed the way people thought about getting haircuts. They sang songs that were pretty good because you can still listen to the today and not get angry.”
Source: Short
“I know that the best journeys meet at the intersection of doing things differently, taking chances, and ultimately trusting”
Source: A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being
“I know that the Bible has been a central influence in [Elie Wiesel and Frank Moore Cross] lives - but in a very different way. In truth, you inhabit very different Biblical worlds.”
“I know that the Bible is a special kind of book, but I find it as seductive as any other. If I am not careful, I can begin to mistake the words on the page for the realities they describe. I can begin to love the dried ink marks on the page more than I love the encounters that gave rise to them.”
Source: Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith
“I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.”
Source: Report from part two
“I know that the black man's sick attitude toward the white woman is
a revolutionary sickness: it keeps him perpetually out of harmony with the
system that is oppressing him. Many whites flatter themselves with the idea that the Negro male's
lust and desire for the white dream girl is purely an esthetic attraction,
but nothing could be further from the truth. His motivation is often of such
a bloody, hateful, bitter, and malignant nature that whites would really
be hard pressed to find it flattering.”
Source: Target Zero: A Life in Writing
“I know that the blacks, take them half enlightened and ignorant, are more humane and merciful than the most enlightened and refined European that can be found in all the earth.”
Source: Walker's Appeal
“I know that the Communists are atheistic and godless, but I don't think that that's what's primarily the matter with them. What's primarily the matter with them is that they worship a false god. That's much more dangerous than when people don't believe anything; they may be confused, they may not have a sense of the meaning of life, but they're not dangerous.”
“I know that the creator will go, but his work survives. That is why to escape death, I attempt to bind my soul to my work.”
“I know that the day will come when
my sight of this earth shall be lost, and
life will take its leave in silence, drawing
the last curtain over my eyes.
Yet stars will watch at night, and
morning rise as before, and hours heave
like sea waves casting up pleasures
and pains.”
Source: Gitanjali
“I know that the day will come
when my sight of this earth shall be lost,
and life will take its leave in silence,
I will have departed quietly. where dreams dwell
but The breeze will still whisper through the trees,
A journey's end, a soul set free,
To embrace the unknown, eternally”
Source: THE VOICE OF HEART: SELECTED POEMS
“I know that the dream mind is irrational, but I like to think that if I hear something in a dream that's really good, then it's irrational... but it's not crazy.”
“I know that the emotional narrative will work in the end, and I just have to play each moment honestly even if the getting from A to B doesn't totally make sense initially.”
“I know that the fact that I am always searching for God, always struggling to discover the fullness of Love, always yearning for the complete truth, tells me that I have already been given a taste of God, of Love and of Truth. I can only look for something that I have, to some degree, already found. How can I search for beauty and truth unless that beauty and truth are already known to me in the depth of my heart? It seems that all of us human beings have deep inner memories of the paradise that we have lost.”
Source: Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World
“I know that the fact that I am candidate to my own succession in 2017 can be perceived to be a bad thing by some part of the public opinion outside Rwanda and I don't mind because I know that I am doing it for a good cause. It really doesn't matter to me that my name is associated to those critics as long as I know that I am doing the will of the people.”
“I know that the fantastic amount of profit that people want to make on anything is damaging. And that none of us seem able to resist it.”
“I know that the first person I kissed won't be nearly as important as the last person I kiss.”
Source: Sing You Home: A Novel
“I know that the gift that God gave me isn't gonna just wither up and die unless I let it die, so it's a matter of me having the faith that it's gonna come out. Whether or not the public's gonna like it is another story. But I think as long as I keep changing and sticking to what I really love - and the same goes for Steven and the other guys in the band - then people are gonna like it.”
“I know that the hard work got me here. And the day I stop working hard, this can all go away.”
“I know that the history of man is not his technical triumphs, his kills, his victories. It is a composite, a mosaic of a trillion pieces, the account of each man's accommodation with his conscience. This is the true history of the race.”
Source: The Last Castle
“I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.”
“I know that the human being and the fish can coexist peacefully.”
“I know that the human condition will be radically changed through technical means. Much of this change will be painful, monstrous and horrible. Most mutations are disgusting failures, most experiments are failures. I accept this and I don't find it frightening.”
“I know that the internet has helped a new world audience find me.”
“I know that the Kaiser incarnates all there is of brute force and of murder. And yet I would not, if I had the power, kill the Kaiser. I would do to him what Thomas Paine wanted to do to the king of England. He said, "Destroy the king, but save the man.”
“I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord's side.”
Source: Anecdotes and Stories of Abraham Lincoln
“I know that the materials found on the streets is rich and wonderful, but my experience is that the way I am accustomed to work, slowly planning my composition etc. is not suited for such work. By the time I have the composition or expression right, the picture is gone. I guess I want to do the impossible and therefore I do nothing.”
“I know that the molecules in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos. That makes me want to grab people on the street and say: ‘Have you HEARD THIS?”