I Quotes
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“I see no reason in morality, why literature should not have as one of its intentions the arousing of thoughts of lust. It is one of the effects, perhaps one of the functions of literature to arouse desire, and I can discover no grounds for saying that sexual pleasure should not be among the objects of desire which literature presents to us, along with heroism, virtue, peace, death, food, wisdom, God, etc.”
“I see no reason not to write whatever comes to me.”
“I see no reason that a golf course cannot be played in 18 birdies. Just because no one has ever done that doesn't mean it can't be done.”
“I see no reason to believe that a creator of protoplasm or primeval matter, if such there be, has any reason to be interested in our insignificant race in a tiny corner of the universe, and still less in us, as still more insignificant individuals. Again, I see no reason why the belief that we are insignificant or fortuitous should lessen our faith.”
“I see no reason to believe that the Vietnamese Communist Party will lose control over the reins of power in Vietnam. There is no organized force in the country that is capable of competing with the VCP for power. And the party still believes that it must rule by intimidation and by dominating the political scene In effect, it has abandoned that part of Ho Chi Minh's legacy that the people must be won over by persuasion rather than by force - a dictum that Ho Chi Minh did not always follow himself.”
“I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It's irrational.”
“I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.”
“I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.”
Source: Loitering with Intent
“I see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems.”
Source: Breakfast Served Any Time All Day: Essays on Poetry New and Selected
“I see no reason to stop writing. But the reason isn't always one of your own. The mind is not invulnerable, and it can lose some of its powers.”
“I see no reason to suppose these machines will ever force themselves into general use.”
“I see no reason why 1931 should not be an extremely good year.”
“I see no reason why church services have to be standard. I've discussed this with the man who used to be a pastor here at the Methodist Church in Sebastopol. I told him I saw no reason why, on a certain Sunday morning, if a minister has felt during the week the burden of a topic upon his heart and he knows that it is going to take more than the standard twenty minutes to discuss this thing, why he can't rise at the beginning of the service and say 'I have something of special importance this morning so let's sing just one song, and if you'll forgive me, I think I'm going to need about an hour to explain it to you.' I think the congregation would appreciate his candor and give him their attention. If, on the other hand, he does not feel that a definite message has been given him, why not admit it from the pulpit and say, 'This morning, I'm not going to try to make up something to fill the time. We'll sing a few extra hymns and go home!' Why do the services have to begin and end at the same time, and why does everything have to be so rigid?”
Source: Charles M. Schulz: Conversations
“I see no reason why I should be consciously wrong today because I was unconsciously wrong yesterday.”
“I see no reason why I should not live on indefinitely just as I have done, and on the whole I am more comfortable here than in Purgatory, a place that I imagine to be like the suburbs of London.”
“I see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze.”
“I see no reason why Indians who can give satisfactory proof of having by their own labor supported their families for a number of years, and who are willing to detach themselves from their tribal relations, should not be admitted to the benefit of the homestead act and the privileges of citizenship, and I recommend the passage of a law to that effect. It will be an act of justice as well as a measure of encouragement.”
“I see no reason why the artistic world can't absolutely merge with Madison Avenue. Pop art is a move in that direction. Why can't we have advertisements with beautiful words and beautiful images?”
Source: Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997
“I see no room in holy Scripture for any sexual activity outside of matrimony.”
“I see no sin in a kiss. I only see sin in the condemnation”
Source: Every Day
“I see no thread running through my work; I simply get on with my life and my painting.”
“I see no virtue where I smell no sweat.”
Source: Emblems: Divine and Moral
“I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.”
“I see no women out here, and you're chanting about a male organ, now tell me who's the fruit bootie?”
“I see.”
“No, you don’t.” A low blow, but as usual, it didn’t even begin to get under Siveril’s skin.
Siveril laughed, but it was clearly forced. He wanted Illimon to know he wasn’t really amused. “Ah, yes, I can’t see because I’m blind! I haven’t ever heard that one before.”
Source: The Last King of the Mountain
“I see not a step before me as I tread on another year;But I've left the Past in God's keeping,-the FutureHis mercy shall clear;And what looks dark in the distance may brighten as I draw near.”
“I see not any road of perfect peace which a man can walk but after the counsel of his own bosom.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
“I see not just beauty but a promise — that those who love it will rise to heal it. If fate ever brings you there, remember: it is not the planet that belongs to us, but we who belong to its keeping. - Children Of The Rogue”
“I see nothing but a world of ruins, where a kind of front line is possible only in the catacombs.”
“I see nothing for the treatment of my misery but the melancholy and very local palliative of articulate art.”
Source: Lolita
“I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.”
Source: Essays of E. B. White
“I see nothing in the present situation that is either menacing or warrants pessimism.”
“I see nothing in the present situation that is either menacing or warrants pessimism... I have every confidence that there will be a revival of activity in the spring, and that during this coming year the country will make steady progress.”
“I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.”
Source: Letters and Diaries: The controversy with Gladstone, Jan. 1874-Dec. 1875
“I see nothing quite conclusive in the art of temporal government, But violence, duplicity and frequent malversation. King rules or barons rule: The strong man strongly and the weak man by caprice. They have but one law, to seize the power and keep it.”
“I see nothing that can unite us under the auspices of innocence and honor," he wrote to her. "In the future you will be alone, although at your husband's side, and I will ab alone in the midst of the world. The glory of having conquered ourselves will be our only consolation.”
“I see nothing to fear in inner space.”
“I see nothing wrong ethically with the idea of correcting single gene defects through genetic engineering. But I am concerned about any other kind of intervention, for anything else would be an experiment, which would impose our will on future generations and take unreasonable chances with their welfare ... Thus such intervention is beyond the scope of consideration.”
“I see nothing wrong in sterilizing a man who has already brought eight or ten children into the world. Especially if it helps those eight or ten children to live better.”
“I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now.”
“I see nothing. We may sink and settle on the waves. The sea will drum in my ears. The white petals will be darkened with sea water. They will float for a moment and then sink. Rolling over the waves will shoulder me under. Everything falls in a tremendous shower, dissolving me.”
Source: The Waves
“I see now how things even up, how they are squared away, and how they balance under the law of love and justice. No year of life is emotionally, spiritually or even materially, all drought or all rainfall; nor is it all sun. The road turns a little every day, and one day there's a sudden twist we didn't dream was there, and for every loss there is somewhere a gain, for every grief a happiness, for every deprivation a giving.”
“I see now—I took all that comfort for granted. It was so good, and there were so many ways it could’ve all gone to pieces.”
Source: Dark Matter
“I see now more clearly than ever before that even our greatest troubles spring from something that is [as] admirable and sound as it is dangerous – from our impatience to better the lot of our fellows.”
“I see now our fireside formed into a groupe, no one member of which has a fibre in their composition which can ever produce any jarring or jealousies among us. No irregular passions, no dangerous bias, which may render problematical the future fortunes and happiness of our descendants.”
Source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 29: 1 March 1796 to 31 December 1797
“I see now that dismissing YA books because you're not a young adult is a little bit like refusing to watch thrillers on the grounds that you're not a policeman or a dangerous criminal, and as a consequence, I've discovered a previously ignored room at the back of the bookstore that's filled with masterpieces I've never heard of.”
Source: Shakespeare Wrote for Money
“I see now that my faith was becoming an ally rather than an enemy because I could vent anger freely, even toward God, without fearing retribution.”
Source: A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows Through Loss
“I see now that no person who has ever loved has ever been spared from tears.”
Source: Poems of Love and Letting Go
“I see now that the circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant. It is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are.”
Source: The Art of Pokemon, The First Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back!
“I see now that the circumstances of ones birth are irrelevent. it is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are”