I Quotes
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“I am not questioning God's power! It is God who gave us reason and circumspection! It is God we serve by exercising prudence!”
Source: Angels & Demons
“I am not questioning your honor, I am denying its existence.”
“I AM NOT QUICK,
NOT STRONG AS A BRICK,
ME NEVER HAPPINESS PICK,
IN MY DECISION I STICK,
PEOPLE TRY TO TRICK,
BUT MY HEART IS THICK.”
“I AM NOT QUILTY!---and I AM NOT GOING TO PLEAD GUILTY---WHEN I DID NOT DO IT!!!”
“I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.”
Source: Upstate: Records and Recollections of Northern New York
“I am not quite comfortable with people identifying themselves as my fans. You know nothing about me. You have just seen me perform in a film. How can you be my fan? If I have to tell you honestly, I want an audience and not fans.”
“I am not quite myself, I think.But who here is quite himself? And yet there is a way in which we are all more ourselves than ever, I suppose.”
Source: The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel
“I am not quite sure how writing changes things, but I know that it does. It is indirect-like the trails of earthworms aerating the earth. It is not always deliberate-like the tails of glowing dust dragged by comets.”
Source: What Do Women Want?: Bread, Roses, Sex, Power
“I am not quite sure what the advantage is in having a few more dollars to spend if the air is too dirty to breathe, the water too polluted to drink, the commuters are losing out in the struggle to get in and out of the city, the streets are filthy, and the schools so bad that the young perhaps wisely stay away, and the hoodlums roll citizens for some of the dollars they saved in the tax cut.”
“I am not quite sure where home is right now. I do have places in London and Milan, and a house in Spain. I guess I would say home is where my mother is, and she lives in Spain.”
“I am not racist by color, caste, creed, or religion. I am racist by avoiding someone who interferes with my personal matter”
“I am not racked with self-loathing. Some issues of guilt and shame, but I'm a pretty good guy.”
“I am not read well, but when I do read, I read well.”
“I am not ready to back away from my views.”
“I am not ready to die,
But I am learning to trust death
As I have trusted life.
I am moving
Toward a new freedom”
Source: Selected poems
“I am not ready to die, / But I am learning to trust death / As I have trusted life.”
Source: May Sarton: A Self-Portrait
“I am not ready to fit into the mould of commercial cinema.”
“I am not ready to think of him as either insane or evil, to consider in full how I could love and have a child with such a person. I am not ready to think about anything, except ways in which this may still be averted.”
Source: Split: A Memoir of Divorce
“I am not really a writer. I am just someone who is haunted, and I will write the hauntings down.”
“I am not really breaking any rules. Charlie said I could never take another step through the door again... I came in through the window... Still, the intent was clear," said Edward.”
“I am not really certain how original my contribution to music is as I am obviously an amateur.”
“I am not really doing anything for you. I am doing it for my own sake. I am doing it since that will give me real peace. I am doing it because I will be happy. It really has got nothing to do with you”
Source: the red diary
“I am not really doing research, just trying to cultivate myself.”
“I am not really inclined to think there is any very effective regulation of the derivative securities markets that would be useful. People who go into it essentially ought to know what risks they're taking and I don't see any useful regulation.”
“I am not really interested in the comic book movies for example. They send me very violent scripts that don't interest me. One I was sent involved me playing a woman, a mother and wife who gets killed, shot in the stomach. It was a thriller and it did not excite me at all. So I turned it down.”
“I am not really much interested in talking to adults, although I suppose practically every mother in the kingdom knows my name and my books. It's their children I love.”
“I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City.”
“I am not really sure how I got interested in medicine.”
“I am not really thinking, I am just, working with the music. And people have asked me, why don't you say more, or why do you not have singers, or why don't you sing? I think it's because, if I would have words for what I am doing, I I could write. But I really don't. It's a whole different thing. And I think it's one of the beauty of instrumental music is that it can be background. It can be what people call "easy listening." But it's really one of those things where it's as much as you are willing to give it.”
“I am not really wicked. Love me, and you will see!”
Source: The Phantom of the Opera: Horror and Romance
“I am not receiving orders from Ariel Sharon.”
“I am not reclusive. I just have a private life.”
“I am not recommending "popular" literature which aims at the lowest.”
“I am not red or blue. I am red, white and blue. Those are the same colors in my body (my heart, blood and veins). I am only human, and the human race is the only race in which I am an active participant - mind, body and soul.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.”
“I am not reinventing myself. I am going through the layers and revealing myself. I am on a journey, an adventure that's constantly changing shape.”
“I am not religious in the dogmatic sense... I neither believe nor disbelieve in anything.”
“I am not religious, but I am a pious man... A religious man has a definite religion. He says "God is there" or "God is there," "God is there." "Your god is not my god, and that's all." But the pious man, he just looks out with awe, and says, "where is God?" And "well, I don't understand it and I would like to know what this creation really means." That is a pious man, who is really touched by the greatness of nature and of the creation.”
“I am not religious, but I am spiritual.”
“I am not religious. I do not believe that personhood is conferred upon conception. But I also do not believe that a human embryo is the moral equivalent of a hangnail and deserves no more respect than an appendix.”
“I am not reporting things about people. I am reporting things about practices.”
“I am not representative of any state; however, I am representative of humanity, justice, love, and peace.”
“I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.”
Source: Edna St. Vincent Millay
“I am not resigned: I am not sure life is long enough to learn that lesson.”
Source: The Mill on the Floss
“I am not responsible for actions of the imaginary version of me you have inside your head.”
“I am not responsible for all the journalists in the past that have told lies.”
“I am not responsible for creating an opposition, neither am I responsible for appointing my own successor. My job is to allow for the opposition to exist within what the realms of the law. There is space in Rwanda for political parties - if fact we have about a dozen of them - as long as their objective is not to take us back twenty two years. On that point, we are and will always be very vigilant.”
“I am not responsible for the actions of Saakashvili and even for those of Gamsakhurdia.”
“I am not responsible for what other people think. I am responsible only for what I myself think, and I know what that is. No idea I've ever come up with has ever struck me as a divine revelation. Nothing I have ever observed leads me to think there is a God watching over me.”
Source: Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine
“I am not responsible for your interpretation of my context.”
--wit for the witless, poems on the Run vol. I”