I Quotes
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“I am not a 'democrat' only because 'humility' and equality are spiritual principles corrupted by the attempt to mechanize and formalize them, with the result that we get not universal smallness and humility, but universal greatness and pride, till some Orc gets hold of a ring of power--and then we get and are getting slavery.”
Source: The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
“I am not a bad person. I am a good person who has lived in a bad time." Alex's grandfather..Everything is Illuminated”
“I am not a bat. ~Rephaim”
“I am not a believer in large salaries. I hold that every man should be paid for personal production. Our big men at Bethlehem seldom get salaries of over one hundred dollars a week; but all of them receive bonuses computed entirely on the efficiencies and the economies registered in their departments.”
Source: Succeeding With What You Have
“I am not a believer in love at first sight. For love, in its truest form, is not the thing
of starry-eyed or star-crossed lovers, it is far more organic, requiring nurturing and time
to fully bloom, and, as such, seen best not in its callow youth but in its wrinkled maturity.
Like all living things, love, too, struggles against hardship, and in the process sheds
its fatuous skin to expose one composed of more than just a storm of emotion–one of loyalty
and divine friendship. Agape. And though it may be temporarily blinded by adversity,
it never gives in or up, holding tight to lofty ideals that transcend this earth and
time–while its counterfeit simply concludes it was mistaken and quickly runs off to
find the next real thing.”
Source: The Letter
“I am not a believer in religious rituals. I was brought up in the Arya Samaj environment which taught us to shun rituals. Puja, of course, but simple, elegant and brief.”
“I am not a believer of the law of attraction (though I do not deny the possibilities of it to be true), but I firmly believe in the ability of making choices, the ability to take conscious decisions.”
Source: Change Your Beliefs To Change Your Reality
“I am not a believer, not an atheist, not an agnostic. I am still awake at night, asking how? I am more content with the question than I would be with an answer.”
“I am NOT a belly dancer. I have never been one, and never will be. What I do is not what Hollywood vulgarly calls 'belly dance', but it's art. I have traveled the world to prove that my dance is not a dance of the belly but a refined, artistic dance full of tradition, of dreaming and beauty. Oriental dance is primarily an expressive dance; in that resides the beauty.”
“I am not a bibliophile but a humanophile: I look for rare human beings.”
Source: A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney
“I am not a big 'Hunger Games' fan.”
“I am not a big crier. But I'd say it was after the Mendes fight. It was not because of the fight as such. It was everything leading up to it. It had been such a tough time. When I did my knee, I had some very dark times. Life is all about ups and downs and I'd say there had been a lot of downs, but I got through it, I won and after the fight, I was standing in the shower and I was crying, just letting it all go.”
“I am not a big fan of positive thinking. The term suggests that there is something negative that you have to counteract by being positive. That is an artificial duality.”
“I am not a big fan of the term "metaverse". As probably everybody knows by now, the word comes from a dystopian cyberpunk novel filled with Mafia, drug dealers, mercenaries, and economic collapse. Not really the rainbows, butterflies, and unicorns virtual world narrative some anarcho-capitalists are trying to feed us.”
“I am not a big fan of the word "metaverse." The term comes from a highly dystopic cyberpunk novel from the '90s. The book is filled with Mafia, drug dealers, mercenaries, and an economic collapse. Not really the rainbows, butterflies, and unicorns narrative most anarcho-capitalists are feeding us...”
“I am not a big technology person. I don't go on the Internet really much at all. Drawing is like a zen thing; it's private, which in this day and age is harder to come by.”
“I am not a bit afraid of Siegfried Sassoon. That man can think. I am afraid only of people who cannot think.”
“I am not a black artist, I am an artist.”
“I am not a bloody ghoda running a race that you give me a tag. I am competitive, and the reason for that is that I want to do the best films.”
“I am not a book collector, and I am not fussy about particular editions. As long as the words are there I don't mind.”
“I am not a Books warm, but I like Books too much.”
“I am not a born writer, but I was born a writer.”
“I am not a boy, not a girl, I am not gay, not straight, I am not a drag queen, not a transsexual - I am just me, Jackie.”
“I am not a British isolationist. I don't just want a better deal for Britain. I want a better deal for Europe too.”
“I am not a broken heart,
and I am not your fault.”
Source: You're Doing Just Fine
“I am not a broken heart.
I am not collarbones or drunken letters never sent. I am not the way I leave or left or didn’t know how to handle anything,
at any time,
and I am not your fault.”
“I am not a businessman. I am a business, man.”
“I am not a capitalist soldier; I am a proletarian revolutionist. I do not belong to the regular army of the plutocracy, but to the irregular army of the people. I refuse to obey any command to fight from the ruling class, but I will not wait to be commanded to fight for the working class. I am opposed to every war but one; I am for that war with heart and soul, and that is the world-wide war of social revolution. In that war I am prepared to fight in any way the ruling class may make necessary, even to the barricades.”
“I am not a career woman, and I would never have become one in normal life, because I am not ambitious enough for that.”
“I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance.”
Source: Lanterns & Lances
“I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded.”
“I am not a certified idiot—" "Lack of certification hardly proves intelligence," Will muttered.”
Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess
“I am not a cheat and never have been.”
“I am not a chef. I am not even a trained or professional cook. My qualification is as an eater.”
Source: Eating: Vintage Minis
“I am not a chess historian - I myself am a piece of chess history, which no one can avoid. I will not write about myself, but I am sure that someone will write.”
“I am not a child to be fought over.'
Nesta's pulse pounded throughout her body, 'Do you not remember the war? What we encountered? Do you not remember the Cauldron kidnapping you, bringing you into the heart of Hybern's camp?'
'I do,' Elain said coldly. 'And I remember Feyre rescuing me.'
Roaring erupted in Nesta's head.
For a heartbeat, it appeared that Elain might say something to soften the words. But Nesta cut her off, seething at the pity about to be thrown her way. 'Look who decided to grow claws after all,' she crooned. 'Maybe you've become interesting at last, Elain.'
Nesta saw the blow land, like a physical impact, in Elain's face, her posture. No one spoke, though shadows gathered in the corners of the room, like snakes preparing to strike.
Elain's eyes brightened with pain. Something imploded in Nesta's chest at that expression. She opened her mouth, as if it could somehow be undone. But Elain said, 'I went into the Cauldron, too, you know. And it captured me. And yet somehow all you think of is what my trauma did to you.”
Source: A Court of Silver Flames
“I am not a child, I think for myself. No man can think for me.”
“I am not a Christian artist, I am an artist who is a Christian.”
“I am not a Christian because God changed my life; I am a Christian because of my convictions about who Jesus Christ is.”
“I am not a Christian or a Jew or a Mohammedan, a Mormon, Polygamist, Homosexual, Anarchist or Boxer. . . . I do not believe that, in order to be religious in the good and genuine sense of the word, one has to ruin one's love life and has to become rigid and shrunken in body and soul. I know that what you call "God" actually exists, but in a different way from what you think: as the primal cosmic energy in the universe, as your love in your body, as your honesty and your feeling of nature in you and around you.”
Source: Listen, Little Man!: A Document from the Archives of the Orgone Institute
“I am not a climatologist, but I don't think any of the other witnesses are either. I do work in the related field of atomic, molecular and optical physics. I have spent my professional life studying the interactions of visible and infrared radiation with gases - one of the main physical phenomena behind the greenhouse effect. I have published over 200 papers in peer reviewed scientific journals.”
“I am not a clone of Sarah Palin. I have my own thoughts.”
“I am not a collector of deserts!”
“I am not a commercial industry creator. I don't believe in making art to make money.”
“I am not a committed pacifist. I would not hold that it is under all imaginable circumstances wrong to use violence, even though use of violence is in some sense unjust. I believe that one has to estimate relative justices. But the use of violence and the creation of some degree of injustice can only be justified on the basis of the claim and the assessment-which always ought to be undertaken very, very seriously and with a good deal of scepticism that this violence is being exercised because a more just result is going to be achieved.”
“I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement, but we do not have to say that we are anticommunists just to fawn on foreign powers.”
“I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.”
“I am not a communist first and an individualist second. I am an individualist first, and I don't mean this in the shallow, purely egotistical sense of self-interest and everyone else be damned. I mean this in the true sense of enlightenment, recovery of personality, and the full development of personality.”
“I am not a complete idiot, but whether from weakness or laziness have no talent for thinking. I know only how to reflect: I am a mirror. Logic does not exist for me. I float on the waves of art and life and never really know how to distinguish what belongs to the one or the other or what is common to both. Life unfolds for me like a theatre presenting a sequence of somewhat unreal sentiments; while the things of art are real to me and go straight to my heart.”
“I am not a complete vegetarian. I eat only animals that have died in their sleep.”