I Quotes
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“I must like my profession, since I can hardly distinguish myself from it.”
“I must live by myself alone; but I know well that God is nearer to me than others in my art, so I will walk fearlessly with him.”
“I must live in my own excrement, breathe in my own poisonous sticky fumes. Yet I am a human being! I still am. Does no one think of that?”
“I must look past my capabilities and see God's possibilities”
“I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.”
“I must love and be loved. I must feel that my dear and chosen friends are happier through me. When I have wandered out of myself in my endeavour to shed pleasure around, I must again return laden with the gathered sweets on which I feed and live. Permit this to be, unblamed—permit a heart whose sufferings have been, and are, so many and so bitter, to reap what joy it can from the necessity it feels to be sympathized with—to love.”
Source: The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck: A Romance
“I must love big novels, because that's what I've written. It takes a while before you begin to breathe the air the characters breathe.”
“I must make a choice every time I speak a sentence in English. I try to choose the happier way of saying things, so that my own words will not weigh me down like stones.”
Source: Otherland: City of Golden Shadow
“I must make MAGICK the essential factor in the life of ALL. In presenting this book to the world, I must then explain and justify my position by formulating a definition of MAGICK and setting forth its main principles in such a way that ALL may understand instantly that their souls, their lives, in every relation with every other human being and every circumstance, depend upon MAGICK and the right comprehension and right application thereof.”
Source: Magick: In Theory and Practice
“I must never equate the degree of pain as evidencing the incorrectness of a decision, for if I do I will default on some of the most critical decisions I should have ever made.”
“I must not be selfless: develop a sense of self. A solidness that can't be attacked.”
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“I must not bend great things to suit myself. Rather, I must bend myself to suit great things. For to do anything else is to trade the exuberance of living for the poverty of existence.”
“I must not fall asleep in the middle of my life. Out of the blankness that surrounds me I must pluck the incident after incident after incident whose little explosions keep me going.”
Source: In the Heart of the Country: A Novel
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
Source: Heretics Of Dune: The Fifth Dune Novel
“I must not imagine what is ‘not’ as a means of escaping what ‘is’. Rather, I must understand what ‘is’ and imagine how I can make it what it is ‘not’.”
“I must not, like the quietists, reduce all religion to a denial of any specific action, despising all other means, since what makes perfection is God's order, and the means he ordains is best for the soul.”
Source: The Sacrament of the Present Moment
“I must not mix champage, whiskey, and gin. (Repeated fifty times to fill column.)”
“I must not quarrel with the will
Of highest dispensation, which herein,
Haply had ends above my reach to know.”
Source: Milton's Samson Agonistes and Lycidas: With Numerous Illustrative Notes, Etc., Adapted for Use in Training Colleges and Schools
“I must not reflect on what I’m doing. Rather, I must do one of the most difficult things imaginable and reflect on ‘why’ I’m doing it.”
“I must not refrain from saying that India can gain more by waiving the right of punishment.”
Source: Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace
“I must not say what I truly think, or you will tell me I flatter you-but I can only speak what I feel-and very often I cannot even do that when the feeling is very deep.”
“I must not serve a distant neighbour at the expense of the nearest.”
Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi
“I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.”
Source: The Letters of John and Abigail Adams
“I must observe that which I speak of before I speak of it, otherwise I claim an understanding that I don’t have with words that convey an ignorance that I do.”
“I must of woke up this morning with a bug up my ass, I think I'll just haul off and belt the next jerk that I pass.”
“I must offer a word of warning to believers. Often the work of the Lord may tempt us away from communion with Him. A full schedule or preaching, counseling, and travel can erode the strength of the mightiest servant of the Lord. Public prayer will never make up for closet communion.”
Source: The Autobiography of George Müller
“I must only warn you of one thing. You have become a different person in the course of these years. For this is what the art of archery means: a profound and far-reaching contest of the archer with himself. Perhaps you have hardly noticed it yet, but you will feel it very strongly when you meet your friends and acquaintances again in your own country: things will no longer harmonize as before. You will see with other eyes and measure with other measures. It has happened to me too, and it happens to all who are touched by the spirit of this art.”
“I must oppose any attempt that Negroes may make to do to others what has been done to them. . . . I know the spiritual wasteland to which that road leads . . . whoever debases others is debasing himself.”
“I must oppose the use of federal funds for a policy of killing infants.”
“I must pack my short lifer full of interesting events and creative activity. Philosophy and aesthetic contemplation are not enough. I intend to do everything possible to broaden my experiences and allow myself to reach the fullest development. Then, and before physical deterioration obtrudes, I shall go on some last wilderness trip to a place I have known and loved. I shall not return.”
Source: Everett Ruess, a vagabond for beauty
“I must perish in this deplorable folly. Thus, thus, and not otherwise, shall I be lost. I dread the events of the future, not in themselves, but in their results. I shudder at the thought of any, even the most trivial, incident, which may operate upon this intolerable agitation of soul. I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect-in terror. In this unnerved-in this pitiable condition-I feel that the period will sooner or later arrive when I must abandon life and reason together, in some struggle with the grim phantasm, FEAR.”
Source: 18 Best Stories by Edgar Allan Poe
“I must persevere through all that causes me pain and move beyond the memories that constantly haunt me. I concentrate on smiling, ensuring the smile on my lips never fades, even though the pain occasionally resurfaces to remind me that things will never be the same.”
“I must personally say that I do question the sincerity and nonviolent intentions of some civil rights leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Mr. James Farmer, and others, who are known to have left wing associations.”
“I must place on record my regret that the human race ever learned to fly.”
“I must play my role, great or small - that is humility, without self-importance, without self-indulgence.”
“I must play the instrument I've got.”
Source: Herzog
“I must point out - Sarah Jessica Parker is not a diva - she's one of these pop culture characters that everybody likes.”
“I must pour out my heart in the language which his Spirit gives me; and more than that, I must trust in the Spirit to speak the unutterable groanings of my spirit, when my lips cannot actually express all the emotions of my heart.”
Source: The Sermon on the Mount
“I must pray with great earnest that God grants me the ability to imagine Who He is, as I am barely able to imagine who I am.”
“I must proceed to my next mystery and for the moment forget this one completely.”
Source: The Message To The Planet
“I must protest that I would never seek foreign conflicts just to go over domestic difficulties; that would be frivolous. I was speaking of conflicts that we could not avoid, even though we do not seek them.”
“I must purchase this eunuch from You," she said to Ptah-nem-hotep, Who smiled agreeably. "Are they not delightful?" He asked, and looked at the dark bodies of these five slaves with the same love I had seen my great-grandfather give to a team of matched horses or twin bulls, and indeed, since the slave wore nothing, one could see not only their plump and muscular haunches, but the shiny stump where their testicles had been and this gave them a nice resemblance to geldings.”
Source: ANCIENT EVENINGS
“I must react selectively, contrarily, arbitrarily, perversely, and always with intensity directly from the subject.”
“I must read Dickens, Tolstoy, Hardy, Dostoevsky, Maupassant and Galsworthy. I must read Lawrence, Woolf and Joyce. I must listen to music, read more, and learn more about modern and ancient. I must read Kant, Freud, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Aristotle, Sophocles — I must become a fountain of knowledge. I must go home soon.”
“I must read. I must read. I must read.”
Source: Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves
“I must really confess right here, the attraction was purely physical.”
“I must rebel against the idea that millions of Indians, who were Hindus, the other day, changed their nationality on adopting Islam as their religion.”
Source: India of My Dreams
“I must reclaim my good life and I must return to my good works.”
“I must recognize Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm (the Brothers Grimm), German philologists and folktale collectors. Their beautiful collections of tales bore tidings of reworked childhood fantasies that enriched my very young soul. Pridian reflections would be incomplete without mentioning their heart-racing tales of which RUMPELSTILTSKIN has always remained my favourite.”
“I must refuse to believe that the Germans contemplate with equanimity the evacuation of cities like London for fear of destruction to be wrought by man's inhuman ingenuity.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi