I Quotes
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“I occasionally got called the Rush Limbaugh of Indiana, but most people knew that my style was different.”
“I occasionally laugh and tell him that his imperturbability is worth three hundred milligrams of lithium a day to me, and it is probably true.”
Source: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
“I occasionally meet people and they say, 'Oh, I was born to Discreet Music'... They always have very weird eyes, those people.”
“I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven.”
“I occasionally swank a little because people like it; a modest man is such a nuisance.”
“I occasionally try my luck at dry-fly casting on a Hampshire chalk stream." The earl glanced at Merritt and smiled reminiscently. "My daughter has accompanied me a time or two. She has excellent aptitude but little interest."
"I lose patience with the fish," Merritt said. "They take too long to make up their minds. I prefer going shooting with you-- it takes far less effort."
"Are you a good shot?" Keir asked.
"I'm not bad," she said modestly.
"She's the best shot in the family," Lillian said. "It drives her brothers mad.”
Source: Devil in Disguise
“I occasionally watch provocative videos.”
“I occasionally wonder if the entire Universe is nothing more than a snow-globe on the living room mantle of a space alien.”
Source: Cosmic Queries: StarTalk's Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We're Going
“I occupy much of my time in theological studies for which I have a natural inclination.”
“I ofen looked up at the sky an' assed meself the question - what is the stars, what is the stars?”
Source: Juno and the Paycock and the Plough and the Stars
“I offer a better way for America with ideas that actually work, a reformed tax code that rewards free enterprise instead of just enterprising lobbyists. A reformed health care system that operates by free choice instead of by force and doesn't leave you answering to cold, clueless bureaucrats. A commitment to a renewed commitment to building a 21st Century military and giving our veterans the care that they were promised and the care that they earned.”
“I offer a bunch of pansies, not a wreath of immortelles. I don't want everlasting flowers and I don't want to offer them to anyone else. A flower passes, and that is perhaps the best of it… don’t nail the pansy down. You won't keep it any better if you do.”
“I offer a duo of free-range
monosyllabics: one being “wow” and the other being
“cool,” often said in sequence, spoken without drawl.
Take them, leave them, or show me to the Dewer’s--”
“I offer a genuine insight into how you can, and should, be a rational, science-believing human being and at the same time know that you are also an immortal spiritual being, a spark of God. I propose a worldview that offers a way out of the hate and fear-driven violence engulfing the planet.”
“I offer a kiss, my bed, my body. And then, for my own trick, I disappear.”
Source: Illusions
“I offer early Christianity as a case-study to show that the phenomena that we group under "religion(s)" comprise a somewhat artificial category, and that "religions" are not "all the same."”
“I offer Emily half of my hit of acid- Love Saves the Day. It's my second or third time tripping, Emily's first, and she's understandably trepid. Awake all night, at one point I find her touching her reflection in a cruelly lit dorm bathroom, asking if she'll ever be the same. I kiss her then for the first time and whisper, No.”
Source: Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
“I offer gentle understanding to myself. I position myself in love, not fear. I look behind me with forgiveness. I look forward with festive anticipation. I embrace this holy moment and assert, "Now. This moment is the moment to love, the moment to serve, the moment to seize the legacy instead of the small. Now. Now I will live large, love boldly, reach to the edges of my unfurled heart and fully enrolled hope."”
“I offer her that kernel of myself that I have saved, somehow - the central heart that deals not in words, traffics not with dreams and is untouched by time, by joy, by adversities.”
Source: Cuentos completos
“I offer images-I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached-like the Doors, right? But we can only open the doors-we can't drag people through.”
“I offer my body and soul to you and Cameron till death parts us!”
Source: A Mating Dance
“I offer my expertise and experience for hire in order to help a group of people reach the summit.”
“I offer my heart, entrust my soul and give my life to you.”
Source: Spy Glass
“I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them”
“I offer myself as a leader to the people of this country because I think they're looking for solutions, not lawyers arguing over laws or entertainers throwing out sound bites that draw media attention. We need to solve the problem.”
“I offer myself awfully
abyss frost
I offer myself
you frighten me
I offer myself
I don't give a fuck”
Source: The Galloping Hour: French Poems
“I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.”
“I offer something very different from the lifelong career politicians who have worked their way up to run for higher office or those who can parachute in with checks for $5 million or $10 million, and that seems to be the definition of credible or legitimate. I'm rejecting that premise.”
“I offer this advice without fee; it is included in the price of this book.”
Source: A Far Cry from Kensington
“I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings.”
“I offer you salvation this day; the door of mercy is not yet shut, there does yet remain a sacrifice for sin, for all that will accept of the Lord Jesus Christ. He will embrace you in the arms of His love.”
Source: Seventy-five Sermons on Various Important Subjects: In this Complete Collection is Included the Eighteen Sermons Taken in Short Hand by Mr. Gurney. And to which is Now Added, a Sermon of the Character, Preaching, &c. of the Rev. Mr. Whitefield
“I offer you the possibilities of immortality, a pathway that leads beyond the known and the unknown, few follow it.”
“I offer you the remedy of Free Love as an antidote for enforced lust, and the world will have to take it before the disease can be cured.”
“I offer you what I have my Poverty”
“I offer you your life, friend, and recommend you take it.”
Source: Hagridden
“I offered change. I offered a better way to deal with their pain, but that terrified them. They were static, and that was their weakness. My strength was the opposite; my strength was that I could change.”
Source: Cytonic
“I offered my love wrapped in words, But she knew she could do much better than just words. And now she is in love again, Undressed in the arms of another man…”
Source: Narcissistic Romanticism
“I offered to pee on him, but they said no”
“I offered up a special prayer, a prayer which came with tears and anguish, that some way would open up for me to use what talents I possessed for my fellow workers, for the poor.”
“I offered you a choice, and you took it."
I shot him what I hoped was a truly scathing glare. "Some choice. I was dying. Some drunk shot me from a pickup. Why wouldn't I have just woken up with gonorrhea like every other girl of loose moral fiber?”
Source: Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs
“I officially designated every US ambassador on earth to be my personal human rights representative, and to have the embassy be a haven for people who suffered from abuse by their own government.”
“I often accompanied my father. I really liked riding with him on his bicycle on Saturdays. He was very fond of fishing. I don’t think I liked fishing. I mean, you had to sit quietly and still, but I enjoyed the ride. And it was fun, it was fun. I mean, as I say, you didn’t go around lugging a deep sense of resentment. We knew, yes, we were deprived. It wasn’t the same thing for white kids, but it was as full a life as you could make it. I mean, we made toys for ourselves with wires, making cars, and you really were exploding with joy!”
“I often arrive at quite sensible ideas and judgements, on the spur of the moment. It is when I stop to think that I become foolish.”
Source: Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1
“I often ask myself about the moment I'll die
It's inevitable, something I can't defy
I would die a death the same as the rest, forced to comply
Darkness will cover my eyes, until I'm blind
Meanwhile, I find myself under the pressures of life
Why should I comply with society's compromise?
Give up my passions and drives just to survive?
They want me to work until I die,
and waste away on this dreary glide.”
“I often ask myself, 'Who would Jesus vote for?' Then I start to think that he wouldn't vote at all; however, it would not be out of apathy or disinterest, but out of perfection and light. As a miracle worker, I think he would, by the power of God's teachings, the perseverance and the truth, influence in a modern sense whoever is put into office how to best serve his fellow men. One, like his skeptics, may find that impractical. But there is a message in that no man in power can slow the momentum of the will of God, and the miracles of his teachings will be forever victorious.”
“I often ask myself: "What would Theodore Roosevelt do?" One can never know, of course. The ultimate contribution of consequential leaders is often their capacity to reframe issues in novel ways. That said, his leadership engaged, at a foundational level, whether the American "national character" would accept decline and mediocrity, or would go all-in for leadership and excellence. Amid the myriad of otherwise disconnected issues before us, that choice is emerging yet again.”
“I often ask people if they would like to give their organs when they pass on, and they say "Well, I'm not so sure, I don't know." And I said, "Well, would you accept one if you needed one?" "Well, yeah, sure." And I say "Well, there you go - where do you get them from?".”
“I often ask students: 'Is this what you would show Tom Ford?' and they say: 'No, we'd have done more work' or 'We'd have dressed better.' So I say: 'Why don't you do that here?'”
“I often ask to what place I am running, for if I am unable to identify that place it is likely that I am running in a circle of the most circular sort.”
“I often begin movies with music in my head; it's a very important dimension to me. Not just the music itself, but how to use music in film: when and how and subtlety. I don't like to be too sweet in my stories, and I like the abrasive clang, the contrasting of sounds and cultures.”