I Quotes
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“I no longer prepare food or drink with more than one ingredient.”
“I no longer protect myself from the world I grew up in. Rather, today I try to protect the feelings I have for that world, the emotional space where my desire to write first took hold, and still grows.”
“I no longer pursue happiness, for it alludes me in every occasion. It is as if I'm trying to find something that is invisible, and sometimes I can't help to wonder if I'm the only one who it is oblivious to”
“I no longer really ever like to be pitched. Instead, I prefer to engage in a relationship as part of learning the other person.”
“I no longer really have faith in the album anymore. I no longer have faith in the song.”
“I no longer represent any organized religion. I'm not Catholic. I'm not Christian. I'm saying this because I have to be an outsider for Christ.”
“I no longer run barefoot.”
“I no longer saw the tattoos covering an inmate's face, or his threatening snarl. I saw his armor, and I knew that he, too, was buried under the debris of fear and pain that I had been, that we all are. And when I reached out to him with a sense of compassion, eventually he was able to meet me with the one thing we all have in common: grace.”
Source: A Redemptive Path Forward: From Incarceration to a Life of Activism
“I no longer say nice things about yoga. I was doing yoga so long before everybody else.”
“I no longer scramble blindly through hardship. I no longer emerge from a bad time feeling relieved just to have survived. Instead of despairing, I try to find the lesson within the experience.”
“I no longer see Descartes' statement as arbitrary. It is representative of our culture's narcissism. This narcissism leads to a disturbing disrespect for direct experience and a negation of the body.”
Source: The Derrick Jensen Reader: Writings on Environmental Revolution
“I no longer see the visions of myself getting hurt. This time, he is on the floor. I’m standing tall and confident as I grasp a knife tightly in my hand and stab Richard over and over until he looks like the inside of my favorite cherry pies. Red and gushy and delicious.”
Source: Bloody Fingers & Red Lipstick
“I no longer sought skill, flexibility, strength, endurance, muscle tone, and quick responsiveness as means of imposing my will on the instrument, but rather of keeping an open and unrestricted pathway for the creative impulse to play its music straight from the preconscious depths beneath and beyond me.”
“I no longer take any of the prescriptions from my doctors. The bulk of the prescriptions made me sicker, not better. I had seen numerous doctors in the previous two decades for my progressive deterioration in health. None of them prescribed Hawaii! On reflection, none of them were competent in diagnosing the root cause of my deteriorating health and prescribing the correct treatment. My story with the medical profession is common.”
Source: Magee’s Disease
“I no longer take pleasure in perishable food or in the delights of this world. I want only God's bread, which is the Flesh of Jesus Christ, formed of the seed of David, and for drink I crave His Blood which is love that cannot perish.”
“I no longer teach law. But when I did I advised my students that they should never accept a case if it meant that by doing so you couldn't sleep at night.”
“I no longer teach meditation, only software design.”
“I no longer think in terms of, Ooh, this is a great role and what is it going to do for - actually, I've never really thought about what something is going to do for my career.”
“I no longer think love is a guarantee of victory or of happily ever after. But I think it's a reason to fight for those things. I know my attempt to save Jacks could end in a fiery explosion, but I'd rather go up in flames with him than watch while he burns.”
Source: A Curse for True Love
“I no longer think she's just being nice. She's being kind. Which is much more a sign of character than mere niceness. Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.”
Source: Every Day
“I no longer think that learning how to manage people, especially subordinates, is the most important for executives to learn. I am teaching above all else, how to manage oneself.”
“I no longer thought about the fire under us and the endless cold above us, nor about how thin this crust is which divides the fiery porridge from outer space. I only felt that the night was dark and full of life, of snails and moths, of growing plants, and I knew that there were trout and frogs in the brook. Sometimes the frogs here croak all night long, in a great chorus.
There are bats and owls, and deer roam the neighboring forests.
The flowers have closed. From the hospital there was not a sound. All was silence.
Then a great golden tone rose through the night, and it was followed by new tones. The nightingale had begun, and now filled the world with its abnormal voice.”
Source: Kruttårnet
“I no longer trusted the sun. I kept half an eye on it, night and day. I told myself that the sun would not go full rogue on us and send a pulse to suck our atmosphere away, but I had a hard time believing it....”
Source: If Darkness Takes Us
“I no longer try to be right; I choose to be happy.”
“I no longer want it all, just some comfort and some sex and some minor love.”
“I no longer want to be anything except what who I am. Who what am I? My answer: I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything who's being-in-the-world affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I've gone which would not have happened if I had come. Nor am I particularly exceptional in this matter; each "I", every one of the now-six-hundred-million-plus of us, contains a similar multitude. I repeat for the last time: to understand me, you'll have to swallow a world.”
Source: Midnight’s Children
“I no longer want to be rich because I am rich.”
“I no longer want to live in an apartment furnished with forklifts and backhoes.”
Source: The Size of Thoughts: Essays and Other Lumber
“I no longer want to see others as humans. I want to learn to see others as brothers, sisters, mothers, & fathers.”
“I no longer want to walk on worn soles.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“I no longer wanted to satisfy myself. I really want to connect with the world and make my music mean something to people.”
“I no longer wish to look at dead things.”
Source: Watchmen
“I no longer worry about being a brilliant conversationalist. I simply try to be a good listener. I notice that people who do that are usually welcome wherever they go”
Source: How I Raised Myself From Failure
“I no more believe in the God of the Jews than I believe in any God.”
“I no more count my wasted tears;
Nor can I hear the echo of their fall;
No more do I mourn my lonely years;
This hour is blessed and this is certainly my call.”
“I nod and wave to my enemies like Miss America, pausing to blow kisses at the worst of them as I work my way across the cafeteria with a plate loaded with horridly healthy food.”
Source: Crushed
“I nod anyway because honestly, if I'm gonna die, I want to die having said yes to her as many times as I can.”
Source: You Should See Me in a Crown
“I nod because I do understand. About owing. About hating it. I understand that if Thresh wins, he'll have to go back and face a district that has already broken all the rules to thank me, and he is breaking the rules to thank me, too. And I understand that for the moment, Thresh is not going to smash in my skull.”
Source: The Hunger Games
“I nod, checking the chamber of the gun before loading and cocking it. I holster it alongside the other pistol Jack gave me. I briefly think about grabbing even more weaponry, but if two pistols aren’t going to be enough to keep me safe, I don’t know what will do the job.", Celestra Caine in FADE by Kailin Gow”
Source: Fever
“I nod in the darkness. He embraces me and before long he's fast asleep, a man with clear consiense and an open heart. I stay awake, listening to his breath and thinking of the webs we weave.”
Source: The Theater of Dusk
“I nod like I'm not at all unnerved by this new cold side to him. Not cruel like his father. Not warm like the husband who sought me out on quiet nights. Something in between. This Linden has never woven his fingers through mine, never chosen me from a line of weary Gathered girls, never said he loved me in a myriad of coloured lights. We are nothing to each other.”
Source: Sever
“I nod like I’m listening,like we’re communicating, and she never knows the difference.”
Source: The Impossible Knife of Memory
“I nod seriously, "Supes."
"You're mocking me."
"A little bit."
"People say supes!"
"What people?"
"I can't believe you're shaming me right now. I'm very sensitive about my use of cool vernacular."
"Then we're good. Because you haven't used any." I flash a grin.”
Source: All Things New
“I nod to a passing stranger, and the stranger nods back, and two human beings go off, feeling a little less anonymous.”
“I nod, because I do understand. I'm just not sure how to go about divorcing myself from the evil I've already accepted.”
Source: Identical
“I nod, thinking of how difficult marriage can be, how much effort is required to sustain a feeling between two people - a feeling that you can't imagine will ever fade in the beginning when everything comes so easily. I think of how each person in a marriage owes it to the other to find individual happiness, even in a shared life. That is the only real way to grow together, instead of apart.”
Source: Heart of the Matter: A Novel
“I nod. Young love is not always forever. I know.”
Source: All the Truth That's In Me
“I nodded again, but I knew I would not grow up to drive a bulldozer. It would be awful to be dirty all day like these men. I didn't say it, but at best I would keep one in the backyard, like a goat.”
Source: A Wolf at the Table
“I nodded and made a notation on my legal pad. It read Got you, motherfucker.”
Source: The Gods of Guilt
“I nodded and pulled out of his hold, instantly feeling chilled at the loss of his nearness and my throat aching from the urge to weep. But I forced myself to walk away, leaving him alone on the terrace with a broken shell and all my futile longings for what might have been.”
Source: Between the Wild Branches