I Quotes
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“I learnt the verbs of will, and had my secret;
The code of night tapped on my tongue;
What had been one was many sounding minded.”
Source: The Poems of Dylan Thomas
“I learnt to distrust all physical concepts as the basis for a theory. Instead one should put one's trust in a mathematical scheme, even if the scheme does not appear at first sight to be connected with physics. One should concentrate on getting interesting mathematics.”
“I learnt to drive at around eleven years old. In an old jeep on a field in Colorado. There were lots of ditches. I could barely see over the steering wheel.”
“I learnt to love reading. And then I started scribbling stories, and I liked that even more.”
“I learnt to sing in Bengali, my mother tongue, then went on to sing in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati and every possible Indian language.”
“I learnt to stop fantasising about the perfect job or the perfect relationship because that can actually be an excuse for not living.”
“I learnt too late that what is most important to us is always most precious at the moment it occurs, and it is precious in its absolute immediacy and not as some vague confirmation of future directions; since the only certain fact, aside from death, is the flimsiness of everything.”
Source: Isabelle the Navigator
“I learnt very early in life that whenever there is a choice between peace of mind and piece of ass, go for the former.”
“I learnt, for the first time, the joys of substituting hard, disciplined study for the indulgence of day-dreaming.”
“I leave a lot open so I can fill it in later. If I don't have any ideas right away, I can fill it in later.”
“I leave a lot out when I tell the truth”
Source: The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel
“I leave a sad and bitter world; and if you remember me, and think of me as of one unjustly condemned, I am resigned to the fate awaiting me.”
Source: Frankenstein
“I leave a white and turbid wake;
pale waters, paler cheeks, where'er I sail. The envious billows sidelong
swell to whelm my track; let them; but first I pass. Yonder, by the
ever-brimming goblet's rim, the warm waves blush like wine. The gold brow
plumbs the blue. The diver sun --slow dived from noon, --goes down; my soul
mounts up! she wearies with her endless hill. Is, then, the crown too heavy
that I wear? this Iron Crown of Lombardy. Yet is it bright with many a gem; i, the wearer, see not its far flashings; but darkly feel that i wear that, that dazzlingly confounds. 'Tis iron --that I know--not gold. 'Tis split, too --that I feel; the jagged edge galls me so, my brain seems to beat against the solid metal; aye, steel skull, mine; the sort that needs no helmet in the most brain-battering fight!”
Source: Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“I leave at half-time; by then you can see which way it's going. If you ask me to name five of our team, I couldn't. There's that guy who scores goals - Taarabt. Routledge I've heard of. All bloody nice guys but I don't mix with them so I don't know them well. I don't go in the dressing room. They can walk out of the showers and I feel I've got an inferiority complex.”
“I leave before being left. I decide.”
“I leave behind this hurricane of f***ing lies”
Source: American Idiot
“I leave CNN with the utmost respect, love and admiration for the company and everyone who works here. This has been my family and shared endeavor for the past 27 years, and I am forever grateful and proud of all that we have accomplished.”
“I leave comparisons to history, claiming only that I have acted in every instance from a conscientious desire to do what was right, constitutional, within the law, and for the very best interests of the whole people. Failures have been errors of judgment, not of intent.”
“I leave every embarrassing, and seemingly ridiculous mistake, statement, and or post I've made out there for all to see. Look at how I've grown~”
“I leave everything to the young men. You've got to give youthful men authority and responsibility if you're going to build up an organization. Otherwise you'll always be the boss yourself and you won't leave anything behind you.”
“I leave for the guidance of other revolutionaries, who may tread the path which I have trod, this advice; never treat with the enemy, never to surrender to his mercy, but to fight to a finish.”
“I leave for the show at least an hour ahead, and I do some vocal warm-ups, and that's pretty much it.”
“I leave from where the apostle arrived.”
“I leave Hollywood, I go somewhere else and make some music, and then, when I have to go back to work, I try and take as much that I get from outside Hollywood back with me.”
“I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.”
Source: The Complete Works of Jane Austen: All novels, short stories, letters and poems
“I leave it to the faithful to burn each other's churches and mosques and synagogues, which they can be always relied upon to do”
Source: God is Not Great
“I leave it up to the government to make good decisions for Americans.”
“I leave my books and cross the grass toward them. Cardan half-turns and I shove him so hard that his back hits one of the trees. His eyes go wide.
'I don't know what you said to her, but don't you ever go near my sister again,' I tell him, my hand still on the front of his velvet doublet. 'You gave her your word.'
I can feel the eyes of all the other students on me. Everyone's breath is drawn.
For a moment, Cardan just stares at me with stupid, crow-black eyes. Then one corner of his mouth curls. 'Oh,' he says. 'You're going to regret doing that.'
I don't think he realises just how angry I am or how good it feels, for once, to give up on regrets.”
Source: The Cruel Prince
“I leave my character behind me.”
“I leave my circle tight in keep my family close.”
“I leave my heart on the court every night. I earn my keep.”
“I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home.”
“i leave my own life that is why am proud”
“I leave my parents here behind
And all my friends to love resigned
'Tis grief to go, but death to stay
Farewell -- I'm gone with love away.”
Source: The Hope of Liberty: Containing a Number of Poetical Pieces
“I leave no trace of wings in the air, but I am glad I have had my flight.”
Source: Poems
“I leave off mid-sentence, and then can finish it the next day with less anxiety expended than for a new thought.”
“I leave pansies, the symbolic flower of freethought, in memory of the Great Agnostic, Robert Ingersoll, who stood for equality, education, progress, free ideas and free lives, against the superstition and bigotry of religious dogma. We need men like him today more than ever. His writing still inspires us and challenges the 'better angels' of our nature, when people open their hearts and minds to his simple, honest humanity. Thank goodness he was here.”
“I leave salaried jobs at the earliest opportunity that require long unpaid hours to be worked.”
“I leave scientists mentally scarred, Triple Extra Large, Wild like rock stars who smash guitars.”
“I leave shreds of my soul on every experience.”
“I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain. One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night-filled mountain, in itself, forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”
“I leave the genre labeling to other people. I really do. If I were to think too hard about it, that would stifle you creatively. If you think too hard about who other people want you to be as an artist, it stops you from being who you want to be as an artist.”
“I leave the governor's office next week, and with it public life[which] has been on the whole a pleasant one. But for ten years and over my salaries have not equalled my expenses, and there has been a feeling of responsibility, a lack of independence, and a necessary neglect of my family and personal interests and comfort, which make the prospect of a change comfortable to think of.”
“I leave the hip thrusts to Michael Jackson.”
“I leave the human cockroaches to discuss their heroin and child pornography.”
“I leave the kitchen table to bathe, and to dress for church. If only my closet held on its shelves an array of faces I could wear rather than dresses, I would know which face to put on today. As for the dresses, I haven't a clue.”
Source: Orphans
“I leave the message that you can break away from the inheritance of murder, rape, evil, the greed of violence. That you have a choice, that the enemy is not insurmountable. That there is anyway some protective help in life.”
Source: White Witch in a Black Robe: A True Story About Criminal Mind Control
“I leave the politics at the office when I go out.”
“I leave the toilet seat up in homes of misandrists to affirm their beliefs.”
“I leave the world and its affairs to the young and energetic, and resign myself to their care, of whom I have endeavored to take care when young.”
Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson