I Quotes
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“I am not self-destructive. I am not a person who wants to die.”
“I am not separate from you, my neighbour.
If you are my enemy then I am my own enemy.
If you are my friend then I am my own friend.
Today, I have stripped off my masks
and come to know myself.
I am Christian. I am Jew. I am Muslim and Hindu.
I am European and African. Asian and South American.
I am man. I am woman. I am intersexed.
I am homosexual. I am heterosexual and asexual.
I am abled. I am disabled.
I am all these things because you are,
and you are all these things because we are.
I exist in relation to each of you, this is what gives my being meaning.
Why must I label myself like a bottle of wine?
When I am the bottle, the wine, and the drunkenness.
Why must I label myself at all?
When I am the flesh, the light, and the shadow.
When I am the voice, the song, and the echo.
Tell me why I must label myself
when I am the lover, the beloved, and love.
I am not separate from you, my neighbour.
And you are not separate from humanity.
We are all mirrors, reflecting one another in perpetuity.”
“I am not setting out here to rehabilitate Nero as a blameless man. But I have come to the conclusion that almost every single thing we think we know about him is wrong.”
Source: Nero: The Man Behind the Myth
“I am not sexually attracted to women. I would rather sleep with an ugly man than with a woman.”
“I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.”
“I am not shame of my failures, they were necessary for my ultimate success.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“I Am Not Sherlock, But I Will Share Happiness With You And Lock you In My Heart For The Rest Of My Life.”
“I am not shy about admitting my modest talents. For example, I am happy to admit that I am better than average at clever remarks, and I also have a flair for getting people to like me. But to be perfectly fair to myself, I am ever-ready to confess my shortcomings, too, and a quick round of soul-searching forced me to admit that I had never been any good at all at breathing water. As I hung there from the seat belt, dazed and watching the water pour in and swirl around my head, this began to seem like a very large character flaw.”
“I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.”
Source: The Diary of Frida Kahlo
“I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy as long as I can paint.”
Source: Frida Kahlo
“I am not simply teaching the reading; I am teaching the reader.”
“I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.”
“I am not single and I'm not taken. I'm simply on reserve for one who deserves me.”
“I am not sleeping with you."
"We could probably manage it, though. Without getting too involved."
"No," she said.
"But why? I mean, if we're trusted friends? And it doesn't interfere with our responsibilities?"
"Did that line ever actually work for you?"
"I can't remember. But it probably did-it's brilliant.”
Source: Sunrise Point
“I am not sleepy at all!”
“I am not smart, I just got the time.”
“I am not smart like you, but I am not selfish like you either.”
“I am not so afraid that I cannot see the truth.”
Source: Outrage
“I am not so blind that I can't see darkness.”
Source: The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
“I am not so complicated or intelligent a composer, nor am I very interested in becoming so. I am much more happy doing what I know I can do than what I am not sure I could do.”
“I am not so concerned with how many Rotten Tomatoes we have - although the good reviews are to be wished for, of course - but I have my hands full in the daily housekeeping of doing Maura right and being truthful to this experience.”
“I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. We have all been split away from each other, the earth, ourselves.”
Source: A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War
“I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. We have all been split away from the earth, each other, ourselves.”
“I am not so foolish as to murmur, if now, since I have drunk up my wine and beer, I have to put up with skimmed milk and sour.”
Source: The Bridal Wreath: Kristin Lavransdatter
“I am not so gifted as at one time seemed likely.”
Source: The Waves
“I am not so interested in fancy tricks and what dogs can be trained to do. Instead, I love seeing what dogs do when they see a problem for the first time. What do they understand about the problem? What kind of intelligence will they display? What skills will they use to solve it?”
Source: The Genius of Dogs: How Dogs Are Smarter than You Think
“I am not so interested in religion or dogma of any kind. It is too restrictive for me, too organizational, too hierarchical, and too tied up in power and being right. You call it a "rabid evangelism."”
“I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.”
“I am not so much afraid of death, as ashamed thereof, 'tis the very disgrace and ignominy of our natures.”
“I am not so much concerned with the right of everyone to say anything he pleases as I am about our need as a self-governing people to hear everything relevant.”
“I am not so much for the freedom of religion as I am for the religion of freedom.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“I am not so naïve as to believe that this slim volume will change the course of history or shake the conscience of the world. Books no longer have the power they once did. Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow.”
Source: Night
“I am not so repelled by Communism: an element of Communism in politics is necessary and inevitable. In any involved society there must be a feeling that something must be done about poverty - which is the basis of communism.”
“I am not so secretly a comedian. I write a lot of my own material if you've seen videos I've done. I write jokes.”
“I am not so sure whether what we do now is art or something not quite art. If I call it art, it is because I wish to avoid the endless arguments some other name would bring forth.”
Source: Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life
“I am not so think as you drunk I am.”
“I am not so weak as to submit to the demands of the age when they go against my convictions. I spin a cocoon around myself; let others do the same. I shall leave it to time to show what will come of it: a brilliant butterfly or a maggot.”
Source: Friedrich
“I am not so weak as to submit to the demands of the age when they go against my convictions. I spin a cocoon around myself; let others do the same. I shall leave it to time to show what will come of it: a brilliant butterfly or maggot.”
“I am not soft. I do not have that luxury. I am the wolf in girl’s clothing; all snarls and claws. My mother once told me: be gentle, be kind. She forgot to mention that the world was full of beasts, and if I wanted to survive I would have to become one myself.”
Source: Poetry For Celestial Nymphs and Wayward Witches
“I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April.”
Source: Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America: From a Manuscript Recently Discovered in Spain
“I am not some genie, bound to your whim." He pushes off the tree. "Nor am I some petty forest spirit, content with granting favors for mortal trinkets. I am stronger than your god and older than your devil. I am the darkness between the stars, and the roots beneath the earth. I am promise, and potential, and when it comes to playing games, I divine the rules, I set the pieces, and I choose when to play. And tonight, I say no.”
Source: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“I am not some kind of computer. Only machines have glib answers for everything.”
Source: The Wrinkle in Time Quintet
“I am not some minor jellyfish. I am the sea witch for the Eastern Seaboard, and I cannot be absent for an extended length of time. Auntie Zee understands this. If I am unable to return within twenty-four hours, there will be havoc.”
Reaching room number three, Kendra flung open the door. Calisa was struck by the stench of seaweed. Sea witch, did she say? What was a sea witch?
Eastern Seaboard?
As in the Atlantic Ocean?”
Source: The Faraway Inn
“I am not some preaching farmer with a book under my arm; I am a graduate of Harvard College.”
“I am not some sort of freak. I might be very good at chess but I'm just a normal person.”
“I am not somebody who just likes to run. I am a runner. This is the difference between a pastime and a passion. I like to play golf, but I am not a golfer. I like to cook, but I am not a chef. I don't just like to run. I am a runner. It is a passion. It is part of who I am and is woven into the fabric of my personality, character, and psyche.”
“I am not somebody who just says let's beat up on the bad guys. No. I want to summon the good guys and give people the incentives and opportunities to actually grow this economy, put more people to work, get the middle class really feeling like they're back in business.”
“I am not someone who believes I am going to find a historical scoop.”
“I am not someone who believes to doing a film just because it is off beat.”
“I am not someone who believes we should build a fence around our country but I do believe there ought to be some fairness with respect to the rules of this globalization.”