I Quotes
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“I am not ashamed to admit that in the games against Barcelona I spent a lot of the time just hoping he would take up positions as far away from me as possible. Elusive is the word that immediately springs to mind when I think about Messi's style of play. You think you have an eye on him and then - blink - he has gone, only to reappear somewhere else in space, with the ball.”
“I am not ashamed to be a Christian, and I am glad to know that the President of the United States is a Christian, for without the help of the Almighty I do not think he could rightly judge in ruling so many people. I have advised all of my people who are not Christians, to study that religion, because it seems to me the best religion in enabling one to live right.”
Source: My Life: The Autobiography of Geronimo
“I am not ashamed to be seen with people who are different from me.”
“I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.”
“I am not ashamed to reply to you in my mother tongue, however imperfectly, and am glad to be able to show that my fatherland means more to me than anything else”
“I am not ashamed to say that I am the son of a washerwoman.”
“I am not ashamed to use the word class. I will also plead guilty to another charge. The charge is that people belonging to my class think they're better than other people. You're damn right we're better. We're better because we do not shirk our obligations either to ourselves or to others. . . .we live by our lights, we die by our lights, and whoever the high gods may be, we'll look them in the eye without apology.”
Source: The Moviegoer
“I am not asking anyone to accept Christianity if his best reasoning tells him that the weight of the evidence is against it.”
“I am not asking anyone to take the fun out of childhood. As we all know, treats are one of the best parts of being a kid. Instead, the goal here is to empower parents instead of undermining them as they try to make healthier choices for their families.”
“I am not asking for 60 months to sit and enjoy power, but to be the Chowkidaar of the country.”
“I am not asking for government censorship or any other kind of censorship. I am asking whether a kind of censorship already exists when the news that forty million Americans receive each night is determined by a handful of men responsible only to their corporate employers and filtered through a handful of commentators who admit to their own set of biases.”
Source: The Impudent Snobs: Agnew Vs. the Intellectual Establishment
“I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it's urgency.”
“I am not asking whether you know things about Him but do you know God, are you enjoying God, is God the centre of your life, the soul of your being, the source of your greatest joy? He is meant to be.”
Source: Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Cures
“I am not asking you as a white person to see yourself as an enslaver. I'm asking you as an American to see all of the freedoms that you enjoy and see how they are rooted in things that the country you belong to condoned or actively participated in the past.”
“I am not asking you to walk away from your path, but you cannot stop me from changing mine to be near you!”
Source: Girl Over God: The Novel
“I am not aspiring to be a senior bureaucrat. It would limit my freedom.”
“I am not at all a chocoholic. I would rather eat anchovy toast.”
“I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That's one of the things you learn not to know.”
“I am not at all computer literate in real life. I haven't yet found a reason to be. Once I find a reason why I need to be on the Internet, then I will be.”
“I am not at all concerned with appearing to be consistent. In my pursuit after Truth I have discarded many ideas and learnt many new things.”
Source: All Men Are Brothers
“I am not at all convinced that human emissions of CO2 are adding to global warming.... I remain to be convinced about the theory of anthropogenic global warming.”
“I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.”
Source: The Happy Prince and Other Stories
“I am not at all for a feminism which is entirely separatist, which would say, "this domain is purely for women." I don't believe that at all.”
“I am not at all in a humour for writing; I must write on till I am.”
“I am not at all in favor of hard work for its own sake; many people who work very hard indeed produce terrible things, and should most certainly not be encouraged.”
Source: Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay
“I am not at all sure we could ever reach a peace agreement with the Palestinians' present leadership. We shall have to wait for the next generation. The most we could expect is, perhaps, another interim agreement. A Palestinian state? A permanent settlement? I do not see that happening in the coming years.”
“I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for.”
“I am not at home in myself. I am my own stranger.”
Source: Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters
“I am not attempting to preserve culture, or record actual events or stories. Instead I bow my head in gratitude to those storytellers who have gone before and paved a way for me play in their stomping grounds. Doubtless those who want to be offended, will - allowing me to make them happy, too, which pleases me as much as it pleases them.”
“I am not attracted to those politicians who are short on vision and only want to make money. I like those who have vision.”
“I am not attracted to writers by style. What style do Dickens, Grass, and Vonnegut have in common? How silly! I am attracted to what makes them angry, what makes them passionate, what outrages them, what they applaud and find sympathetic in human beings and what they detest about human beings, too. They are writers of great emotional range.”
“I am not attracting you to me. I am guiding you home - Soul Map”
Source: Coming Home
“I am not averse to politics, but that does not mean that I am going to join politics.”
“I am not aware of any other mental or medical condition in which a kid or young adult self-diagnoses themselves after social media and internet engagement, undergoes no objective testing, and then receives irreversible medication and surgery upon demand”
Source: The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology
“I am not aware of any specific provision that mandates any tightening of lending to small business other than a requirement that people who lend and then sell that loan be prepared to take a part of the risk. And I'm proud of that.”
“I am not aware of anything below my neck. I live completely in my head.”
“I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.”
Source: The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill
“I am not aware that I have deserved any notoriey, and I have no taste for its buzz.”
“I am not aware that payment, or even favors, however gracious, bind any man's soul and conscience in questions of highest morality and highest importance.”
Source: Works
“I am not aware, however, that patients suffering from traumatic neurosis are much occupied in their waking lives with memories of their accident. Perhaps they are more concerned with not thinking of it.”
Source: Beyond the Pleasure Principle
“I am not backing down on medical marijuana; I am doubling down.”
“I am not bad, thank you. But don't worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.”
“I am not bald - my head is just a solar panel for a sex machine.”
“I am not beautiful and I am sarcastic and I believe I am better than most in this town and that is why I am a thirty-six-year-old orphan with no husband and why no man in Spring City has ever even held my hand.”
Source: We Love You, Charlie Freeman
“I am not beautiful, so I don't know why I'm making myself ugly. But the mustache stays.”
“I am not beautiful. My mother once called me an ugly duckling. But,listed separately, I have a few good features.”
“I am not behind success.
I have done.
Found GOD.”
“I am not being facetious when I say that the real enemies in this country are the Pentagon and its pals in big business.”
Source: Bella!: Ms. Abzug Goes to Washington
“I am not being negative, I am simply being factual when I say Kevin Rudd is the best friend the people smugglers have ever had”
“I am not being obtuse. You are being paranoid.”
Source: Excession