I Quotes
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“I now wear the memory of nothingness
a piece of white sail wrapped like second skin.”
Source: Life in Suspension: La Vie Suspendue
“I now wish that I had spent somewhat more of my life with verse. This is not because I fear having missed out on truths that are incapable of statement in prose. There are no such truths; there is nothing about death that Swinburne and Landor knew but Epicurus and Heidegger failed to grasp. Rather, it is because I would have lived more fully if I had been able to rattle off more old chestnuts — just as I would have if I had made more close friends.”
“I now withhold judgment, forgive freely, and see people and circumstances with love and compassion.”
Source: How to Live a Magnificent Life: Becoming the Living Expression of Higher Consciousness
“I now wonder whether what I felt was the love of friendship, in which like loves like and wants only the other's good, or love of concupiscence, in which one wants one's own good and the lacking wants only what completes it.”
Source: The Name of the Rose
“I now, more and more, appreciate when I'm in a group of good people and get to work in good movies and projects. I'm wildly grateful and appreciative.”
“I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.”
“I nudged myself closer to the ledge and closed my eyes and thought 'Oh what a life this is, why do we have to be born in the first place, and only so we can have our poor gentle flesh laid out to such impossible horrors as huge mountains and rock and empty space,' and with horror I remembered the famous Zen saying, 'When you get to the top of a mountain, keep climbing.' The saying made my hair stand on end; it had been such cute poetry sitting on Alvah's straw mats.”
“I nurse quiet neurotic suspicions that even the people who know me don't want to know me.”
Source: Show Them a Good Time
“I nurse the small fish on my plate. Cassius is already finished with his, always a man of appetites. I'm more practiced than he in the art of self-deprivation at the dinner table, doesn't feel so long ago that I was a knobby-kneed boy sitting at my grandmother's dinner table when she turned her long neck to me and peered down that Peregrine nose, and in a kindly manner, inquired if I intend to sleep out in the gutter instead of in my bed chamber, because by virtue of the fact that I'd eaten three whole tarts, I'd clearly abdicated being a man in favor of being a little pig.”
Source: Iron Gold
“I nursed a worthless, pint drinker for twelve years and when my lazy, life-sucking, daddy finally died, I swore to God with tears in my eyes I'd never marry one. And then I did.”
Source: The Help
“I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike.”
“I nurture daily my wellness.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“I nurture daily wellness.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“I nurture my close relationships like priceless lamps. That's part of why the job itself is inherently difficult and kind of a paradox, because you're out there touring and traveling and going a million miles a minute, but the things that are keeping you steady and stable can be really hard to nurture when you're going fast, and your relationships, which are the number one thing that help me through.”
“I nurture preservation while time listens patiently to the drones and demands of destiny’s desire”
Source: A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being
“I nurtured my dinomania with documentaries, delighted in the dino-themed B movies I brought home from the video store, and tore up my grandparents' backyard in my search of a perfect Triceratops nest. Never mind that the classic three-horned dinosaur never roamed central New Jersey, or that the few dinosaur fossils found in the state were mostly scraps of skeletons that had been washed out into the Cretaceous Atlantic. My fossil hunter's intuition told me there just had to be a dinosaur underneath the topsoil, and I kept excavating my pit. That is, until I got the hatchet out of my grandfather's toolshed and tried to cut down a sapling that was in my way. My parents bolted out of the house and put a stop to my excavation. Apparently, I hadn't filled out the proper permits before I started my dig.”
Source: My Beloved Brontosaurus: On the Road with Old Bones, New Science, and Our Favorite Dinosaurs
“I obey my own commands about as often as others do.”
“I obeyed, but my crime was that I did not look obedient.”
“I object to a legal approach when settling questions of science or scientific behavior.”
Source: Challenges
“I object to being called a chess genius because I consider myself to be an all around genius who just happens to play chess, which is rather different. A piece of garbage like Kasparov might be called a chess genius, but he's like an idiot savant. Outside of chess he knows nothing.”
“I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy and wise in spite of themselves.”
“I object to every single thing you just said.”
Source: Fangirl
“I object to fishing tournaments less for what they do to fish than what they do to fishermen.”
“I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.”
“I object to publishers: the one service they have done me is to teach me to do without them. They combine commercial rascality with artistic touchiness and pettishness, without being either good business men or fine judges of literature.”
“I object to religion in science classrooms not because it's religion but because it's not science.”
“I object to teaching of slogans intended to befog the mind, of whatever kind they may be”
Source: Anthropology and Modern Life
“I object to that remark very strongly! - The Magician's Nephew”
“I object to the hypersexualization of all the superheroines. Most of them have been hypersexualized, but especially to Wonder Woman, because she is an icon. She is up there with Superman and Batman. And she is the one who is the big influence on women. Women who don't read comics still know who Wonder Woman is.”
“I object to the word “love” altogether. It has been vulgarised. Let us talk about compatibility. Now, I should say that, no doubt, and speaking scientifically, there is one particular woman supremely fitted to each man. I put aside consideration of circumstances; we know that circumstances will disturb any degree of abstract fitness. But in the nature of things there must be one woman whose nature is specially well adapted to harmonise with mine, or with yours. If there were any means of discovering this woman in each case, then I have no doubt it would be worth a man’s utmost effort to do so, and any amount of erotic jubilation would be reasonable when the discovery was made. But the thing is impossible, and, what’s more, we know what ridiculous fallibility people display when they imagine they have found the best substitute for that indiscoverable. This is what makes me impatient with sentimental talk about marriage. An educated man mustn’t play so into the hands of ironic destiny. Let him think he wants to marry a woman; but don’t let him exaggerate his feelings or idealise their nature.”
Source: New Grub Street
“I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.”
Source: Gandhi: Selected Political Writings
“I object to you using words like squander and pork. What is pork in one part of the country is an essential project in another part.”
“I object. I object to any killing at all. You know, it's terrible what happened and I think retaliation definitely makes sense and it's definitely one option. But, personally, I prefer peace. You know, maybe I'm just being ignorant and shortsighted, you know, it's true I'm not running the government, I'm not running the United States. I just don't think that killing people is a good way to remedy people dying. Martin Luther King Jr. said that you can murder a murderer but you can never murder murder itself.”
“I obliterate myself pouring out life, beyond all known limits of literature, only to be blamed for my himalayan immensity, by the religious of hate and nationals of bigotry.”
Source: Sonnets From The Mountaintop
“I observe a lot of you drunk people. What I do is I just let myself go there and fully commit to that drunk thing, not that I've ever done that myself. I've had a lot of practice. Let's be honest.”
“I observe a lot. I see a lot around me.”
“I observe and remain silent.”
“I observe but do not second-guess others’ thoughts”
Source: A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being
“I observe everything around me and when something hits me and it's funny, that's what I talk about. I'm a more observational kind of comic.”
“I observe many people who say they are meditating, but I sure don't see them meditating. They sit and touch a lot of people, places and things psychically, but they sure don't meditate.”
“I observe my thoughts and entertain only those that empower me.”
“I observe myself and I come to know others.”
Source: The Book of the Simple Way of Laotze: A New Translation from the Text of the Tao-teh-king
“I observe myself and thus understand the others.”
“I observe out of the corner of my eye that the man with the notebook is walking towards me and obviously intends to introduce himself. Why do human beings have to talk, I find myself wondering. Is it really necessary for us to make these noises?”
Source: Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization
“I observe something.
When the angel of the Lord appeared to Cornelius, he also appeared to Peter. The two parties involved.
Cornelius stared at him in fear. “What is it, Lord?” he asked.
The angel answered, “Your prayers and gifts to the poor have come up as a memorial offering before God. Now send men to Joppa to bring back a man named Simon who is called Peter. He is staying with Simon the tanner, whose house is by the sea.”
Then the angel appeared to Peter... While Peter was still thinking about the vision, the Spirit said to him, “Simon, three men are looking for you. So get up and go downstairs. Do not hesitate to go with them, for I have sent them.”
Again, when the angel of the Lord appeared to Saul on his way to Damascus, he also appeared to Ananias
As the angel of the Lord appeared to Saul, “Who are you, Lord?” Saul asked.
“I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,” he replied. “Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”
Then the angel of the Lord also appeared to Ananias and told him, “Go to the house of Judas on Straight Street and ask for a man from Tarsus named Saul, for he is praying.
In a vision he has seen a man named Ananias come and place his hands on him to restore his sight.”
When the angel of the Lord appeared to Mary, the mother of Jesus, he also appeared to Joseph.
And the angel said to her "Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.
And when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be.
And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God.
And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name Jesus." and the angel also told her about her cousin, saying "behold, thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren"
The angel then appeared to Joseph saying "Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit."
Again, after the angel had told Mary about her cousin, the angel appeared to Zechariah, the husband of Mary's cousin saying:
"Fear not, Zachariah: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elizabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John."
Indeed God is not an author of confusion”
“I observe that many abusive netizens and insidious individuals kidnap the truth. Their hatred and calumny spread, feeding disinformations like daily toxic bread, feeding fallaciousness to the unread.
~ Angelica Hopes, K.H. Trilogy”
“I observe that more evolved souls are now reincarnating as women. Women find it easier to meditate and easier to develop their psychic abilities.”
“I observe that there are two entirely different theories according to which individual men seek to get on in the world. One theory leads a man to pull down everybody around him in order to climb up on them to a higher place. The other leads a man to help everybody around him in order that he may go up with them.”
“I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.”
Source: The works of John Donne: Dean of Saint Paul's, 1621-1631
“I observe the world and the people surrounding me.”