I Quotes
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“I must reject fluids and ethers of all kinds, magnetical, electrical, and universal, to whatever quintessential thinness they may be treble distilled, and as it were super-substantiated.”
Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions
“I must reluctantly observe that two causes, the abbreviation of time, and the failure of hope, will always tinge with a browner shade the evening of life.”
Source: Memoirs of My Life
“I must remain a child and pupil of the Catechism, and am glad so to remain.”
Source: The Large Cathechism of Martin Luther
“I must remain always, both in principle + actively, interested in everything. Taking all of knowledge as my province.”
Source: As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
“I must remark that what I mean by our religion working upon the nations outside of India comprises only the principles, the background, the foundation upon which that religion is built.”
Source: Lectures from Colombo to Almora
“I must remember that a good friend is a new world.”
Source: The letters of Oscar Wilde
“I must remember to be troublesome now and again, else you are going to be impossible to live with. And by what magic did you find the gown and the horse?"
"Scottish fairy magic." His grin widened.
"Do you mean that fairies are real in Scotland?”
Source: His Stolen Bride
“I must remember to forgive myself. Because there's an awful lot of gray to work with. No one can live in the light all the time."-A Great and Terrible Beauty”
“I must remind myself that I'm probably as much a stranger to them as they are to me.”
Source: How Yellow Fades
“I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.”
Source: Twilight of Empire: Memoirs of Prime Minister Clement Attlee
“I must remind you that our credulity is not to be measured by the truth of the things we believe. When men believed that the earthwas flat, they were not credulous: they were using their common sense, and, if asked to prove that the earth was flat, would have said simply, "Look at it." Those who refuse to believe that it is round are exercising a wholesome skepticism.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“I must remind you that starving a child is violence. Suppressing a culture is violence. Neglecting school children is violence. Punishing a mother and her family is violence. Discrimination against a working man is violence. Ghetto housing is violence. Ignoring medical need is violence. Contempt for poverty is violence.”
“I must reorganize the environment of man by which then greater numbers of men can prosper.”
“I must repay the gratitude given by pretties.. I want to give even more happiness that I have received all these while”
“I must represent France, and I want to be elegant, and I want the French people to be proud of me.”
“I must respect the opinions of others even if I disagree with them.”
“I must return to Katanga because it is my responsibility to help the Katangese peoples.”
“I must return to my freedom which I now realise is something so essential that it makes my love for you seem like death.”
Source: The Green Knight
“I must return to the mountains-to Yosemite. I am told that the winter storms there will not be easily borne, but I am bewitched, enchanted, and tomorrow I must start for the great temple to listen to the winter songs and sermons preached and sung only there.”
Source: John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings
“I must say a few words about memory. It is full of holes. If you were to lay it out upon a table, it would resemble a scrap of lace. I am a lover of history . . . [but] history has one flaw. It is a subjective art, no less so than poetry or music. . . . The historian writes a truth. The memoirist writes a truth. The novelist writes a truth. And so on. My mother, we both know, wrote a truth in The 19th Wife– a truth that corresponded to her memory and desires. It is not the truth, certainly not. But a truth, yes . . . Her book is a fact. It remains so, even if it is snowflaked with holes.”
“I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent.”
Source: Life of Pi
“I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.”
Source: Life of Pi
“I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unnerving ease. It begins in your mind, always ... so you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don't, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you.”
Source: Life of Pi
“I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unerring ease. It begins in your mind, always. One moment you are feeling calm, self-possessed, happy. Then fear, disguised in the garb of mild-mannered doubt, slips into your mind like a spy.”
Source: Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition
“I must say also that it's never worked to my disadvantage that I have long, blond hair.”
“I must say also, that we are not talking just about foreign investors.”
“I must say as to what I have seen of Texas it is the garden spot of the world. The best land and the best prospects for health I ever saw, and I do believe it is a fortune to any man to come here. There is a world of country here to settle.”
“I must say Bernard Shaw is greatly improved by music.”
“I must say, cowboy, I'm impressed. I was worried you could only handle eight seconds at a time.”
Source: Chasing Trouble
“I must say I am not pleased to have to arrange the Senate schedule around the availability of Senators who are running for President.”
“I must say I can appreciate it when males are very male. Like Harrison [Ford], for instance. He's pretty butch. I guess I prefer butch to terribly fey.”
“I must say, I’d like to know where you get your information, boy; more knowledgeable than half the staff, you are.”
Source: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
“I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book. ANOTHER VERSION I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. ANOTHER VERSION I find television very educational. Every time someone turns it on, I go in the other room and read a book.”
“I must say I'm not 100% fluent in Sign Language, but I am working on it!”
“I must say I'm not very fond of oratory that's so full of energy it hasn't any room for facts.”
Source: Arrowsmith: Elmer Gantry ; Dodsworth
“I must say I'm surprised by how skeptical of the [Barack] Obama administration The Nation has been.”
“I must say I've rarely been described as 'diplomat.”
“I must say it's the one thing about growing old I don't mind. The eternal craving for female flesh has finally left me in peace.”
Source: The Mark of the Assassin
“I must say it's pretty dreary living in the American Age - unless you're an American of course. Perhaps all our children will be Americans.”
Source: John Osborne Plays 1: Look Back in Anger; Epitaph for George Dillon; The World of Paul Slickey; Dejavu
“I must say Ive always composed music from the point of view of the performers.”
“I must say one thing about southern down-home brewed coffee with chicory. If you have worms, you'll never have them again.”
Source: The Sea Hunters: True Adventures with Famous Shipwrecks
“I must say Steven Spielberg was great to me, and I loved working with him. He called me up on the phone and was like, "I want you to be in this movie - 1941. There are a couple of parts. You can take whichever one you want. One of them is a main character who is involved in everything, and there's another character who has his own storyline and goes off on his own. He's probably the funnier, more unique character." I said, "Well let me do that second one."”
“I must say that "Give Peace a Chance" has always seemed to me to be sensible advice.”
Source: Memoirs
“I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us.”
“I must say that I am not very genteel and I feel that gentility has a stranglehold: the neatness, the wonderful tidiness, which is so evident everywhere in England is perhaps more dangerous than it would appear on the surface.”
“I must say that I have rarely seen a community come together in order to meet a common need in a manner as beautiful as that of a handful of birds at a feeder.”
“I must say that I have seen Americans make great and real sacrifices to the public welfare; and have noticed a hundred instances in which they hardly ever failed to lend faithful support to one another.”
Source: Democracy in America
“I must say that in my own mind, I think what's important is for us, as a society, to radically reduce the consumption of meat. This is more important than some fraction of us become moral saints and become vegetarians so it would be much better if we would reduce meat consumption by three quarters of each of us as an individuals would only eat one-quarter as much meat as we do now then that half of the population should become vegetarian. We should see this as a collective challenge rather than an issue about individual, moral period.”
“I must say that part of our national wealth is not only the nation's people but those people who lead them.”
“I must say that the biggest lesson you can learn in life, or teach your children, is that life is not castles in the skies, happily ever after. The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth. We're all built with illusions. And they break.”