I Quotes
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“I rely on a backbone of books and, for the most part, it's enough to keep me quiet, half-drugged with dreams of imaginary worlds.”
Source: The Girl with Borrowed Wings
“I rely on a lot of green drinks to get my vegetables.”
“I rely on guns for protection in life. God does not say, 'This is la-la land.' God doesn't say, 'Welcome to Earth. Everything's perfect. There's no crime. There's no murder. There's no death.' The world is imperfect, and you have to be on guard.”
“I rely on music heavily, just in life and in my work.”
“I rely on my directors, a lot. I love being directed.”
“I rely on regular chiropractic care to keep in shape for my strenuous type of acting and singing.”
“I rely on some words that actually my husband said to me. He jokes about saying, "You know it's only darkest before it's totally black!" Even in my darkest hour - and my darkest hour was probably when I lost both my parents - I look to him and I see what he has endured, what he has overcome, what he is doing with his life, and just how he's lived his life.”
“I rely on sure hope, the Holy Scriptures.”
“I rely on swearing just to communicate emotion, but I wanted to express the same feelings [in song] without using curse words.”
“I rely on Taegan Goddard's Political Wire for straight, fair political news, he gets right to the point. It's an eagerly anticipated part of my news reading.”
“I rely on the promise, God is kind to women, fools, and drunk people.”
Source: Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
“I remain a fan of my friend Bret Easton Ellis's 'American Psycho.' I think as a book about New York in the '80s it was pretty excellent.”
“I remain a humanist. We are a very curious race.”
“I remain a religious agnostic, but, unlike most atheists, I not only am not hostile to traditional religion but consider it a highly valuable, not to say essential, social institution... I am convinced that the moral regeneration and repair of a frayed social fabric that this country so badly needs will not take place unless more people take their religion seriously.”
Source: Why America Needs Religion: Secular Modernity and Its Discontents
“I remain a simple man who has more questions than answers. Please join me as I seek to turn that tide.”
“I remain an active volunteer in the field of at-risk youth, so I'm pretty familiar with the landscape as it stands now, but I don't have any qualifications or an exhaustive body of research to back up my observations.”
“I remain an eternal optimist about love. I believe in love.”
“I remain attached to my nation.”
“I remain California-bound”
“I remain calm, polite, civil, and courteous; even you are rude and uncivil. It is my way of life that I learned through spirituality.”
“I remain close to my people. I keep singing with them.”
“I remain committed to improving the government services to which Hudson Valley veterans are entitled.”
“I remain committed to my core family as one I can trust and depend on. The end result is the assurance that I'm surrounded by the people who will help me, stick by me, and fight alongside me, through good and bad, life and death.”
“I remain convinced that for Stalin to have complete centralized power in his hands, he found it necessary to physically destroy the second-largest Soviet republic, meaning the annihilation of the Ukrainian peasantry, Ukrainian intelligentsia, Ukrainian language, and history as understood by the people; to do away with Ukraine and things Ukrainian as such. The calculation was very simple, very primitive: no people, therefore, no separate country, and thus no problem. Such a policy is Genocide in the classic sense of the word.”
“I remain convinced that I can be a true universalist only when I am a better Jew.”
“I remain convinced that most human conflicts can be solved through genuine dialogue conducted with a spirit of openness and reconciliation.”
“I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.”
Source: Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68
“I remain convinced that pardoning Nixon was the right thing to do.”
“I remain convinced that the most valuable use of time for a newly published author is to write a second book that's even better than the first, and a third that's better than the second, and on and on.”
“I remain curious about all the lives I can't have - and about the lives of others, real and imagined, past and present, and how people came to be who they are... and who they might yet be. I am enchanted by the landscape of possibility.”
“I remain detached and distant, but it is under my eyes and my orders that the work of art must create itself. Then, when the creation starts, I stand there, present at the ceremony, immaculate, calm, relaxed... ready to welcome the work of art that is coming into existence in the tangible world.”
“I remain easily optimistic in the face of everything happening. Consider the most amazing person you personally know, by any quality metric you choose. Odds are that there are literally millions of their caliber in the world, which is plenty to build a bright future.”
“I remain faithful to bourbon sour. It's absolutely delicious. You'd have to ask a bartender what's in it, but I think if you know you might never have a drink. I also love a little rum, 7 years aged, brown, when it is chilly, before dinner.”
“I remain faithful to the ideals of Imam Khomeini and the Islamic Revolution of 1357.”
“I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back.”
“I remain fearless of airplanes after 9/11. But during a trip to Los Angeles on a Boeing 767, I couldn't keep my mind from drifting: What's the largest piece of this airplane that could crash into the World Trade Center, explode out the other side, and survive intact? The landing gear? My computer battery? My belt buckle? My wedding ring?”
“I remain God's humble servant.”
“I remain good friends with most of the major relationships in my life.”
“I remain in intolerable non-knowledge, which has no other way out than ecstasy itself.”
Source: Inner Experience
“I remain instinctively hostile to communitarian philosophy and communitarian politics.”
“I remain interested in the potential of art, except I've always been more struck by applied modernism than high modernism. It's partly because of feminist theory and being brought up in the '70s, with questioning who is speaking, and why, and what authority they're carrying.”
“I remain just one thing, and one thing only - and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.”
“I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature.”
“I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)
“I remain more suspicious of religion than most people who'd never darken the door of a church.”
Source: Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
“I remain myself. I have never cared about others misjudging me”
“I remain on SVU because it is an incredible opportunity.”
“I remain optimistic that ultimately free speech and a free press where individuals have access to the dialogue will have a self-correcting quality.”
“I remain persuaded of the inevitable and necessary complementarity of man and woman. Love, imperfect as it may be in its content and expression, remains the natural link between these two beings. To love one another! If only each partner could move sincerely towards the other! If each could only melt into the other! If each would only accept the other's qualities instead of listing his faults! If each could only correct bad habits without harping on about them!”
Source: So Long a Letter
“I remain thankful to God for all his mercies.”
Source: Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel