I Quotes
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“I refused to beat my head against stone, of course.”
“I refused to believe that love could take any other form than mine: I measured love by the extent of my jealousy, and by that standard of course she could not love me at all.”
Source: The End of the Affair
“I refused to believe that someone who had a voice that angelic could be bad. I knew it was illogical to think that way, but I had to believe in something good.”
Source: Love at First Plight
“I refused to conform to an image that a lot of people thought a president's brother should adopt.”
“I refused to let go of what I had.”
Source: Wide Awake: The Future Is Waiting Within You
“I refused to march because George Bush marched.”
“I refused to show my fear, lock it down, Huntress.”
Source: Enclave
“I refused to take no for an answer.”
“I refused to teach Sunday school. When Archdeacon Henry Phillips, my last rector, died, I flatly refused again to join any church or sign any church creed. From my 30th year on I have increasingly regarded the church as an institution which defended such evils as slavery, color caste, exploitation of labor and war.”
“I refused to worry about something I could not change, and I still refuse. Look, I'm like any other woman. All this evolved b.s. that I'm telling you is my mantra. It's not something I practice naturally. I had to surrender to not worrying about the way I looked, how much I weighed, because that's just part of the journey of having a baby. I am not a woman whose self-worth comes from her dress size.”
“I regained my soul through literature after those times I'd lost it to wild-eyed gypsy girls on the European streets.”
Source: Rooftop Soliloquy
“I regard (parenting) as the hardest, most complicated, anxiety-ridden, sweat-and-blood-producing job in the world. Succeeding requires the ultimate in patience, common sense, commitment, humor, tact, love, wisdom, awareness, and knowledge. At the same time, it holds the possibility for the most rewarding, joyous experience of a lifetime, namely, that of being successful guides to a new and unique human being.”
Source: The new peoplemaking
“I regard a great ad as the most beautiful thing in the world.”
“I regard a human being as simply a human being, whether he is from this world or another, or whether he is a beggar, or God in person, and whether he is ignorant or wise, they are all of equal right. No one has more right than any other, and nobody is more than any other.”
“I regard a love for poetry as one of the most needful and helpful elements in the life-outfit of a human being. It was the greatest of blessings to me, in the long days of toil to which I was shut in much earlier than most young girls are, that the poetry I held in my memory breathed its enchanted atmosphere through me and around me, and touched even dull drudgery with its sunshine.”
Source: A New England girlhood
“I regard Abraham as my ancestor. Some of the greatest inspiration I have got has come from what we call the Old Testament prophets and what Jews would say "our prophets."”
“I regard affirmative action as pernicious - a system that had wonderful ideals when it started but was almost immediately abused for the benefit of white middle-class women.”
“I regard almost all quarrels of princes on the same footing, and I see nothing that marks man's unreason so positively as war. Indeed, what folly to kill one another for interests often imaginary, and always for the pleasure of persons who do not think themselves even obliged to those who sacrifice themselves for them!”
Source: Selected Letters
“I regard an illegal non-disclosure termination agreement as an admission of guilt.”
“I regard anti-Semitism as ineradicable and as one element of the toxin with which religion has infected us. Perhaps partly for this reason, I have never been able to see Zionism as a cure for it. American and British and French Jews have told me with perfect sincerity that they are always prepared for the day when 'it happens again' and the Jew-baiters take over. (And I don't pretend not to know what they are talking about: I have actually seen the rabid phenomenon at work in modern and sunny Argentina and am unable to forget it.) So then, they seem to think, they will take refuge in the Law of Return, and in Haifa, or for all I know in Hebron. Never mind for now that if all of world Jewry did settle in Palestine, this would actually necessitate further Israeli expansion, expulsion, and colonization, and that their departure under these apocalyptic conditions would leave the new brownshirts and blackshirts in possession of the French and British and American nuclear arsenals. This is ghetto thinking, hardly even fractionally updated to take into account what has changed. The important but delayed realization will have to come: Israeli Jews are a part of the diaspora, not a group that has escaped from it. Why else does Israel daily beseech the often-flourishing Jews of other lands, urging them to help the most endangered Jews of all: the ones who rule Palestine by force of arms? Why else, having supposedly escaped from the need to rely on Gentile goodwill, has Israel come to depend more and more upon it? On this reckoning, Zionism must constitute one of the greatest potential non sequiturs in human history.”
Source: Hitch 22: A Memoir
“I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.”
“I regard as impious and detestable the maxim that in matters of government the majority of a people has the right to do everything, and nevertheless I place the origin of all powers in the wishes of the majority. Am I in contradiction with myself?
There exists a general law which has been made, or at least adopted not only by the majority of this or that people but by the majority of all men. This law is justice.
Justice thus forms the limit to the right of each people.”
Source: Democracy in America
“I regard belief as a form of brain damage.”
“I regard breathing industrial gas to be as harmful as heavy smoking.”
“I regard cell phone towers as miniature Sun’s that never set and are shining their toxic radiation 24 hours a day.”
“I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force.”
Source: The World As I See It
“I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness.”
“I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.”
“I regard couples therapists as incompetents!”
“I regard Duryodhana and his party as the baser impulses in man, and Arjuna and his party as the higher impulses.”
Source: The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas
“I regard each sentence as a little wheel... Now and again I try to put a really big one next to a very small one in such a way that the big one, turning slowly, will make the small one spin so fast that it hums. Very tricky, that.”
Source: Selected stories of Roald Dahl
“I regard Elon Musk as an incompetent in the fields of astrobiology and the long term biological effects of electromagnetic radiation.”
“I regard England as my wife and America as my mistress.”
“I regard everything with irony, including the face I see in the mirror when I wake up in the morning.”
“I regard Florida as a dangerous state.”
“I regard food as fuel. I am not a brunch person.”
“I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy.”
“I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.”
“I regard Heart-Master Adi Da as one of the greatest teachers in the Western world today.”
“I regard high voltage electricity as one of the most toxic forms of electricity. Few people that come into contact with it survive. The higher the voltage, the less likely it is the person will survive. Those that do survive are typically maimed for life. Losing limbs is common, as are extensive burns, nerve damage and scarring. Having studied it, I will no longer work with it for safety reasons.”
“I regard individuality as the most precious trait we have, because without it there is no creativity, there is no consciousness, there is no rationality. There is nothing that could make me speak more strongly to this point.”
“I regard indoor light as biologically toxic.”
“I regard irreligious people as pioneers. If there had been no priesthood the world would have advanced ten thousand times better than it has now.”
“I regard it (the Constitution) as the work of the purest patriots and wisest statesman that ever existed, aided by the smiles of a benign Providence; it almost appears a "Divine interposition in our behalf... the hand that destroys our Constitution rends our Union asunder forever.”
“I regard it as a duty which I owed, not just to my people, but also to my profession, to the practice of law, and to the justice for all mankind, to cry out against this discrimination which is essentially unjust and opposed to the whole basis of the attitude towards justice which is part of the tradition of legal training in this country. I believed that in taking up a stand against this injustice I was upholding the dignity of what should be an honorable profession.”
“I regard it as a tragedy that people of a differing sexual orientation find themselves proscribed in a world that has so little understanding for homosexuals and that displays such gross indifference for sexual gradations and variations and the great significance they have for living. It is completely foreign to me to wish to regard such people as less valuable, less moral, incapable of noble sentiments and behavior.”
“I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value.”
Source: Camille Pissarro: letters to his son Lucien
“I regard it as an inelegance, or imperfection, in quaternions, or rather in the state to which it has been hitherto unfolded, whenever it becomes or seems to become necessary to have recourse to x, y, z, etc.”
“I regard it as ethically unacceptable and impractical to censor any aspect of trying to understand the nature of our world.”
“I regard it as the foremost task of education to insure the survival of these qualities: an enterprising curiosity, an undefeatable spirit, tenacity in pursuit, readiness for sensible self denial, and above all, compassion”