I Quotes
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“I see depression as an exponentially developed version of a human condition. Meaning I always think in the end it's humanizing. People who never suffer from depression I find suspect. I assume Donald Trump is not a sufferer from depression.”
“I see disappointment as something small and aggregate rather than something unified or great. With a little effort, every failure can be turned into something good.”
“I see disaster everywhere; I also […] see generosity and resistance everywhere.”
“I see Donald Trump as a phenomenon of an expression of certain fears, certain resentments, that have been a running thread in American history.”
“I see Dr. Johnston at the end of the hall, walking toward us. He stops talking to the other doctors and gestures for me to wait. He holds up his hand: Stop. His face is eager yet unsmiling. I look in the other direction then back at him. His steps quicken, and I squint, for some reason pretending I don’t recognize him. And I think: What if I’m wrong? What if Joanie doesn’t make it out of this?
“Scottie,” I say. “This way.”
I walk in the other direction, away from Dr. Johnston, and she turns and follows me.
“Walk quickly,” I tell her.
“Why?”
“It’s a game. Let’s race. Walk fast. Run.”She takes off, her backpack jiggling on her back, and I follow her, walking quickly then breaking into a slow jog, and because Dr. Johnston is my friend’s dad and was a friend of my father’s, I feel like I’m fourteen again, running from the patriarchs.”
Source: The Descendants
“I see drawings and pictures in the poorest huts, in the dirtiest corner. And my mind is drawn toward these things by an irresistible force.”
“I see dull people as projects ... to be reformed”
“I see Earth! It is so beautiful.”
“I see Edward Snowden as someone who has chosen, at best, exile from the country he loves-with a serious risk of his assassination by agents of his government or life in prison (in solitary confinement)-to awaken us to the danger of our loss of democracy to a total-surveilla nce state”
“I see Elon Musk as a combination of Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and Steve Jobs, of our time. In his entrepreneurial pursuits, he has played the role of a programmer, industrial designer, product architect, mechanical engineer and physicist.”
Source: Innovate Like Elon Musk: Easily Participate in Innovation with Guidelines from Tesla and SpaceX: A Simple Understanding of First Principle Thinking and Vertical Integration
“I see encouraging signs of democracy developing in other places in the Middle East. In Tunisia, in Iraq, and now in Egypt. Tunisia is the one Muslim country that does something for girls and education. As far as I know, this is the only Muslim country where this is true. There is compulsory education for girls from the age of 5.”
“I see Ender in you looking out at me. You see Ender in me looking out at you. And yet not one of us is truly him; we are each our own self, all of us strangers on our own road.”
Source: Children of the Mind
“I see enormous loves growing immense and finally crushing me.”
“I see ethical considerations as having a certain priority in our interactions - passing judgment on our political and legal processes.”
“I see every chance of a long, confused and disorganizing civil war, and I feel no desire to take a hand therein.”
Source: Home Letters of General Sherman
“I see everybody as pretty normal, ya' know? Except for the people that are normal; I think they're stranger than the people that are strange.”
“I see everything as creative material. If I pick up a shell of a song that I wrote 10 years ago, all that matters is the reality of that material as it's living today.”
“I see everything as if in a dark mirror, as if through smoked glass. I view the world in the same way as others look at the Sun in eclipse. Thus I see the Earth in eclipse. I see us moving about blindly in eternal Gloom, like the May bugs trapped in a box by a cruel child. It's easy to harm and injure us, to smash up our intricately assembled, bizarre existence. I interpret everything as abnormal, terrible and threatening. I see nothing but Catastrophes. But as the Fall is the beginning, can we possibly fall even lower?”
Source: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
“I see everything outside of me through the lens of everything that is inside of me. Therefore, before I look at the world outside I’d be wise to look at the lens inside.”
“I see everything through a spiritual lens.”
“I see everything visually. It's very visual for me. And so I think, from a plotting standpoint or what have you, there's obviously a certain amount of internal thinking that goes on in a novel (that) you can't do...in a screenplay. But I think, pacing wise, my novels move quickly because (they aren't overly) descriptive.”
“I see everything with love, not with eyes.”
“I see evil when I look in my shaving mirror. It is, philosophically, present everywhere in the universe in order, apparently, to highlight the existence of good. I think there is more to this theory, but I tend to burst out laughing at this point.”
“I see exercise taking this perverted detour. The original intention of exercise was to heal and maintain health. Now I see it as having nothing to do with health. I see most exercises based on looking good. They actually make you less healthy. You overdevelop the obvious muscles. You take drugs to enhance that. You ignore the rest, and you become more out of balance.”
“I see explicit covers on magazines, and they're getting even more explicit, and it's like, Are women being empowered, or is this just what sells magazines? Are they feeling pressured, or have they really come into themselves and are saying, 'I am woman, hear me roar?”
“I see fans all the time. They're always very complimentary and they're always very eager to talk and to share their experiences or get a selfie. They're really, really loyal. And intense.”
“I see far stronger and more charismatic personalities strolling around Philadelphia's neighborhoods than are being featured in most of today's bland daytime soaps.”
“I see fashion as a proclamation or manifestation of identity, so, as long as identities are important, fashion will continue to be important. The link between fashion and identity begins to get real interesting, however, in the case of people who don't fall clearly into a culturally-recognized identity.”
Source: Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us
“I see fat kids on the street all the time and I give them free radiohead t-shirts with bullseyes on them. Later when I see them wearing the t-shirts I shoot at them with bb guns while riding a very large dog and singing kicking squealing gucci little piggy over and over”
“I see fear as a sign of intelligence, of preservation.”
“I see filmmaking as a business and pity anyone who regards it as an art form.”
“I see films in theaters, and I enjoy films. I enjoy the art of storytelling, and the different ways to tell them.”
“I see football as an art and all players are artists.
If you are a top artist, the last thing you would do is paint a picture somebody else has already painted.”
“I see for Nature no defeat
In one tree's overthrow
Or for myself in my retreat
For yet another blow.”
Source: Frost: The Poet and His Poetry
“I see for others... in order to put on canvas the sudden apparitions which come to me.”
“I see for you.
You see for me.
We see for each other.
I hear for you.
You hear for me.
We hear for each other.
I think for you.
You think for me.
We think for each other.
I speak for you.
You speak for me.
We speak for each other.
I stand for you.
You stand for me.
We stand for each other.”
“I see foxes often, but always they are crossing fallow fields in the distance. Gold flecks on faraway expanses of green. Magnetic to the meandering eye. Enigmatic, unreachable.”
Source: A Line Made By Walking
“I see freedom as getting a matchstick and now you can start a fire anywhere — but once you do, you have a fire but not the matchstick. A lot of times, people get so protective of their freedom, so worried about losing it, that it prevents them from using it.”
Source: Happiness Happens: Happiness For Those Who Have Everything Else
“I see friends who are in different genres of music, and they say they're so burnt playing the same stuff every night. That's why you see a country act wanting to go out and play an old classic rock song. But what cracks me up is that they all want to be Jimmy Buffett. I can't figure that out.”
“I see." Gamache lowered his voice, though all could still hear the words. "When I was Chief Superintendent, I had a framed poster in my office. On it were the last words of a favorite poet, Seamus Heaney. Noli timere. It's Latin. Do you know what it means?"
He looked around the room.
"Neither did I," he admitted when no one spoke. "I had to look it up. It means 'Be Not Afraid.' His eyes returned to the unhappy young agent. "In this job you'll have to do things that scare you. You might be afraid, but you must be brave. When I ask you to do something, you must trust there's a good reason. And I need to trust that you will do it. D'accord?”
Source: A Better Man
“I see ghosts everywhere, and that is partially a function of my being incredibly near-sighted and reading way too late into the night.”
“I see God as a song-and-dance man. If I had my way, he'd be able to carry a tune, too. Preferably, one of mine.”
“I see God as my heavenly father, like my earthly father, as loving and kind. Yes, he disciplined me, he helped me make good decisions, but I knew my dad was always there for me. If I made a mistake, I wouldn't run from my dad, I'd go to him.”
“I see God every day... For God is in everything I see.”
“I see God in a sunrise, not in repetitious ritual.”
Source: Bloodfever: Fever Series
“I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper's wounds I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experience?”
“I see God in the face of children. If there were no children on this Earth, if somebody announced that all kids are dead, I would jump off the balcony immediately. I'm done.”
“I see God in the instruments and the mechanisms that work reliably, more reliably than the limited sensory departments of
the human mechanism.”
“I see God now as an unimaginative writer of popular fictions, someone who builds stories around sadistic and graceless plots, narratives that exist only to express His terror of a woman's power to choose who and how to love, to redefine love as she sees fit, not as God thinks it ought to be. The author is unworthy of His own characters.”
“I see God through my children. I speak to God through my children. I am humbled for the blessings He has given me.”