I Quotes
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“I know there are people who don't like their audience or like the experience of being recognized or celebrated, but my audience has been very good - they don't bother me and when they do contact me it's usually on the nicest possible terms.”
“I know there are people who don't read fiction at all, and I find it hard to understand how they can bear to be inside the same head all the time.”
Source: The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel
“I know there are people, if I go into a market or a city for the first time, there are people that are there that just want to see the famous person, or the guy from 'Dumb and Dumber' or whatever movie they liked. And that's fine, it gets them in the door, but then it's my job to give them something different.”
“I know there are problems that I say to myself, If maybe I was a little more gifted I might have been able to solve. But that's not because I believe what I did was a mistake. It's that maybe it required the talents of a Lincoln.”
“I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits.”
“I know there are rumours concerning my 'breakup' with Brody Jenner. The truth is, we were never really together. We hung out, and he's a nice guy, but my heart was never in it. Anything further is just a cry for publicity.”
“I know there are some actors who are just brilliant at improvising and brilliant at just being in the moment and doing it there and then. I'm not one of those actors.”
“I know there are some Christians who believe that war and their participation in it are morally wrong. While I respect their views and must allow them to follow their consciences, I do not believe the Bible teaches pacifism.”
Source: Answers to 200 of life's most probing questions
“I know there are some heartless, greedy, selfish criminals who call themselves politicians, pastors, prophets or business people, who will steal money that is suppose to help in this corona virus. If you are that politician, pastor, prophet or business person, may you suffer with everything you have and will all your riches & wealth . May you never find happiness, joy & peace in your life, until you pay every cent that you stole from the people.”
“I know there are some labels that put out music for art's sake, but I don't know which ones.”
“I know there are some people in British Columbia who are still holding a vigil for '3rd Rock'.”
“I know there are some polls out there saying this man has a 32% approval rating. But guys like us, we don't pay attention to the polls. We know that polls are just a collection of statistics that reflect what people are thinking in reality. And reality has a well-known liberal bias.”
“I know there are some voices calling for a punitive deal that punishes Britain. That would be an act of calamitous self-harm for the countries of Europe, and it would not be the act of a friend.”
“I know there are supposedly happy people in this world. I never believed it, but I take it for granted. God knows, they're all on television.”
“I know there are things I did in education that will never be reversed. I have not done that in film yet because I have only been here for about nine months.”
“I know there are thousands of images of me.”
“I know there are women, like my best friends, who would have gotten out of there the minute their boyfriend gave them a gun to hide. But I didn't. I got to admit the truth. It turned me on.”
“I know there are writers who feel unhappy with domesticity and who even manufacture domestic turmoil in order to have something to write about. With me, though, the happier I feel, the better I write.”
“I know there are writers who get up every morning and sit by their typewriter or word processor or pad of paper and wait to write. I don't function that way. I go through a long period of gestation before I'm even ready to write.”
“I know there is a certain amount of negativity I have to deal with.”
“I know there is a God - I see the storm coming and I see his hand in it - if he has a place then I am ready - we see the hand.”
“I know there is a God because in Rwanda I shook hands with the devil. I have seen him, I have smelled him and I have touched him. I know the devil exists and therefore I know there is a God.”
“I know there is a God, for I have heard music.”
“I know there is a God, and that He hates injustice and slavery. I see the storm coming, and I know that his hand is in it. If He has a place and work for me - and I think He has - I believe I am ready.”
Source: The Lincoln encyclopedia: the spoken and written words of A. Lincoln arranged for ready reference
“I know there is a lot of concern I know about plans that Iran might have to develop nuclear weapons which arises from positions that Iran took in the past when in fact it did not disclose things to the IAEA… because they were hiding something. I can understand that.”
“I know there is a moment when sound slips down the torn lining of itself into silence, is carried unheard and secret in its own pocket. But the crimson birds could find no such escape, no means of slipping beyond themselves between the cracks of color and song to a white undiscovered silence.”
Source: The Edge of the Alphabet
“I know there is a moral to this story, but I don't know what it is.”
Source: The History of Love: A Novel
“I know there is a Supreme Being who rules the affairs of men and whose goodness and mercy have always followed the American people, and I know He will not turn from us now if we humbly and reverently seek His powerful aid.”
Source: Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids
“I know there is also the influence of television and being able to zap away so it is a weightier decision to go into the theater than it used to be. And probably attention spans are not as strong as they used to be, generally speaking.”
“I know there is an eye that watches all of us. There is a judgment that weighs everything we do. And before this great force, which is greater than any government I stand in awe and I kneel in respect and it is to this great judgment that I dedicate this next song...”
Source: Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen
“I know there is gender imbalance in the spec fic field, and it concerns me very much. We live in a gender-biased world. There have been some fascinating discussions and studies on this on the internet in recent years. There seem to be a lot of women writing spec fic and not as many getting published, or otherwise taken seriously. While it seems there is less overt bias against women writers compared to a few decades ago, there are still institutionalized biases, subtler biases that are harder to discern. I think these are serious issues that deserve examination by the community.”
“I know there is infinity beyond ourselves. I wonder if there is infinity within.”
“I know, there is loneliness.I know, there is betrayal. I know, there are promises unhonored, but that doesn't dampen my festive spirit...”
“I know there is much mystery, much question to what happened, and I must also say, many lies.”
“I know there is no danger that I will ever forget that people construct their own reality, that human beings are not led to the same version of events and of the world by the same physical evidence.”
“I know there is no straight road No straight road in this world Only a giant labyrinth Of intersecting crossroads”
“I know there is nothing to be gained in accumulating sticks with which to beat myself.”
Source: A Song Inside: A heartbreaking and uplifting memoir about love and loss
“I know there is one kind of cinema that exists in the world, that is good or bad cinema.”
“I know there is only one
Governor
Of
Deities.”
“I know there is pain when sawmills close and people lose jobs, but we have to make a choice. We need water and we need these forests.”
“I know there is poor and hideous suffering, and I've seen the hungry and the guns that go to war. I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks for early light dappled through leaves and the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on humid nights and the rivers that run and the stars that rise and the rain that falls and all the good things that a good God gives.”
“I know there is pressure to present a nice tidy story as regards 'apparent unprecedented warming in a thousand years or more in the proxy data' but in reality the situation is no quite so simple.”
“I know there is something out there and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad.”
“I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.”
“I know there isn't anything I can do that will please everybody. But if I have done according to my beliefs, I sleep very very well.”
“I know there isn't no beast—not with claws and all that, I mean—but I know there isn't no fear, either." Piggy paused. "Unless—" Ralph moved restlessly. "Unless what?" "Unless we get frightened of people.”
Source: Lord of the Flies
“I know there may be universes out there where I made different choices and they led me somewhere else, led me to someone else. And my heart breaks for every single version of me that didn't end up with you.”
Source: Maybe in Another Life
“I know there must be other navigable paths where either nothing happens, that night or later, or where, when the idea to just pull the curtain on most things and then on everything, just because crosses my mind, I let the moment pass, and I go to sleep like everyone else did on my street that night.”
Source: Wolf in White Van
“I know there must be something I should explore about that with my therapist.”
“I know there really is someone out there for everyone.”