I Quotes
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“I am not myself in any degree ashamed of having changed my opinions.”
Source: Bertrand Russell's Best
“I am not myself. It was a common enough form of words. It was what people said of themselves at such times as these. Perhaps it was not so much out of the ordinary. But the words were not right, not for this. It was a worse thing than becoming someone else, a more awful thing. There was a lack, when he sought himself, an incompleteness. He reached inward and found absences. He felt it when he tried to right himself, stumbling on a skewed board; the heft gone at his centre. Derelict—that was the word. He was derelict, or would be soon. He would stand day and night in the unseen weather, sheltering nothing living.”
Source: The Maker of Swans
“I am not myself; I am the potential of myself.”
“I am not naive enough to settle for anything less than a reasonable valuation of my worth.”
“I am not naturally that thin, so I had to go through everything from using drugs to diet pills to laxatives to fasting. Those were my main ways of controlling my weight.”
“I am not nearly so interested in what monkey man was derived from as I am in what kind of monkey he is to become.”
“I am not normal. I never will be.”
Source: How to Tame a Beast in Seven Days
“I am not normally a betting person, but I say that putting your money on the American people is about as close to a sure bet as you are going to get.”
“I am not nostalgic for the past. And for me, being a museum curator was a childhood dream.”
“I am not Nostradamus.Nor would I want to be. I'm convinced being able to tell the future is the worst superpower. I'd rather be invisible and being invisible never ends well. Just read H. G. Wells!”
“I am not not an I, secret wick, I do nothing, light myself, burn.”
Source: Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness
“I am not nothing in the sense of emptiness, but I am the creative nothing, the nothing out of which I myself as creator create everything.”
Source: The Ego and Its Own
“I am not now
That which I have been.”
Source: CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE
“I am not now, and never have been, a girlfriend of Henry Kissinger.”
“I am not now, nor I have ever been, relevant.”
“I am not now, nor will I ever be, a candidate for offensive coordinator of Iowa.”
“I am not obsessing.
I am just sitting here
perforating this post-it
with a push-pin.”
Source: Lucky Wreck
“I am not obsessive about anything except my health.”
“I am not of age to marry, so there will be no such thing. Tonight is about celebrating our victory.”
“I am not of that feather, to shake off my friend when he must need me”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare: in twenty-one volumes, with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators, to which are added notes
“I am not of the impression that an overwhelming amount Hip Hop artists are super savvy on Broadway and it's goings-on, but who knows.”
“I am not of the opinion generally entertained in this country [England], that man lives by Greek and Latin alone; that is, by knowing a great many words of two dead languages, which nobody living knows perfectly, and which are of no use in the common intercourse of life. Useful knowledge, in my opinion, consists of modern languages, history, and geography; some Latin may be thrown into the bargain, in compliance with custom, and for closet amusement.”
“I am not of the opinion that all the arts shall be crushed to earth and perish through the Gospel, as some bigoted persons pretend, but would willingly see them all, and especially music, servants of Him who gave and created them.”
“I am not of Virginia blood; she is of mine.”
Source: The Passing of the Armies: An Account of the Final Campaign of the Army of the Potomac, Based Upon Personal Reminiscences of the Fifth Army Corps
“I am not offering this is a critique of the internet, its just that there are a lot of factors involved. It does offer plenty of possibilities. It also has, it can have, a cheapening effect and I think both exist and I think its true of everything. You could say that about the printing press.”
“I am not officially involved now in the direction of the Teen Challenge ministry, but I rejoice that God permits me to be the father of these ministries.”
“I am not okay.
I am not okay.
I am not okay.”
Source: The Cruel Prince
“I am not okay with you attempting to fix a girl who is already broken beyond any sense of repair, Caspian Marks. It is not your job to repair what you have not broken. It is not your job to take time out of your life, your very meaningful life, all to help a girl who has never asked for it. You are always trying to rescue me like some damsel in distress when I do not want to be saved. I refuse to take away from you living your life, when I am already letting mine slip out of my hands, willingly. Let me go, Caspian Marks. You have to let me be.”
Source: Counting Stars
“I am not old, I am not young,
I'm possibilities unsung.
I am paradox made flesh,
heartbeat born of cosmic hum.”
Source: Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot
“I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age.”
Source: Tale of Two Cities
“I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.”
Source: Faust
“I am not on a mission that involves preaching doomsday. Yes, there are definitely a lot of pollution-based problems in the world. And, yes, we most certainly need to change our consumption and production ways radically in order to stop ongoing climate change, inequality, and mindless consumption. But I think that one of the many reasons this “turning things around” is so hard is that the way we are being told to change things is lecture-based and fear driven.”
Source: Anti-trend, Resilient Design and the Art of Sustainable Living
“I am not on Facebook and on Twitter because the purpose of my life is to avoid messages. I receive too many messages from the world, and so I try to avoid that.”
“I am not on Facebook. I'm not on Instagram. I only use Twitter, which I wish I didn't.”
“I am not on sale; I am Love, just feel it and open the door of your heart; in that way, Love enters your Soul as I have done for You.”
“I am not on sale; I am LOVE, just feel that and open the door of your heart that way LOVE enters into SOUL, as I have done for YOU.”
“I am not on tumblr. I can barely spell tumblr. However, there does seem to be someone on tumblr (who copied my reddit user name) who is apparently trying to impersonate me. I like the idea that people are pretending to be me. I spend most of my time pretending not to be me.”
“I am not one for half measures or half-hearted efforts.”
“I am not one of the great composers. All the great have produced enormously. There is everything in their work - the best and the worst, but there is always quantity. But I have written relatively little.”
“I am not one of the great journalists of my time.”
“I am not one of the new media experts working all the time with my computers and the PowerPoint's and things of that sort. So, I'm an old fashioned still in this regard but these are the moment where I really can be creative, if I am, to be left alone with just a book and piece of paper and to be thinking.”
“I am not one of the people who believe that the main reason why a chap becomes a bookmaker is because he is too scared to steal and too heavy to become a jockey.”
“I am not one of these guys who works job after job after job.”
“I am not one of these people that believes that Russia is doomed, or somehow, you know, inevitably disposed to act according to its worst traditions. But all the more reason, therefore, to resist their aggression and take it seriously.”
“I am not one of those actors who believes he has to live the part he is playing. I can turn it on and off.”
“I am not one of those actors who dwells on the histrionics and the subtext and future text of the character. I deal with the scenes that I'm doing at that specific time, because if I do that, they play in more of a real way.”
“I am not one of those actresses who loves acting.”
“I am not one of those artists who is cemented in one way. I am able to, you know, make the happy, jovial, lighthearted music too. We need that in life too. So it's like that to me.”
“I am not one of those churlish authors, who do so enwrap their works in the mystic fogs of scientific jargon, that a man must be as wise as themselves to understand their writings; on the contrary, my pages, though abounding with sound wisdom and profound erudition, shall be written with such pleasant and urbane perspicuity, that there shall not even be found a country justice, an outward alderman, or a member of congress, provided he can read with tolerable fluency, but shall both understand and profit by my labours.”
Source: A History of New York
“I am not one of those guys who pretends not to enjoy his own work.”