I Quotes
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“I set out to try to help my fellow man and to do what little I could to make the world a better place.”
“I set out to work hard, not to get rich.”
“I set out to write a screenplay but, since my early 20s, had dreamed of writing a novel.”
“I set out to write an anti-parenting parenting book.”
“I set out with a perfect distrust of my own abilities, a total renunciation of every speculation of my own, and with a profound reverence for the wisdom of our ancestors, who have left us the inheritance of so happy a Constitution and so flourishing an empire, and, what is a thousand times more valuable, the treasury of the maxims and principles which formed the one and obtained the other.”
Source: The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke
“I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don't even get printed.”
“I set the coffee aside and got a cup of water instead. I could never see why people drank that stuff. It tasted like soil boiled in mud, wit a topping of dirt.”
Source: Calamity
“I set the fashion for a quater of a century. Why? Because i knew how to express my own time.”
“I set up a company, an algorithmic auditing company myself. I have no clients.”
“I set up a laboratory in the Department of Physiology in the Medical School in South Africa and begin to try to find a bacteriophage system which we might use to solve the genetic code.”
“I set up a system for myself where I work on a lot of pieces at once. I'll switch between them and keep working on a piece until it comes together, and then I'll publish it. This way some pieces can take a year if they need to. The trick is to just make sure one is ready every week.”
“I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.”
“I set up stations, buy a big vat of chili, and then guests do what they want to do - and I still get to party.”
“I set up this little office space with a piano in it and I thought that would be quite a novel way of writing the album, to make it like a job - a romanticised version of the 9 to 5. I think that was probably my favourite time. I made sure I walked there every day, which took me about an hour.”
“I set up this magazine called Student when I was 16, and I didn't do it to make money - I did it because I wanted to edit a magazine. There wasn't a national magazine run by students, for students. I didn't like the way I was being taught at school. I didn't like what was going on in the world, and I wanted to put it right.”
“I set very bold goals. It's how I've always been. I'm definitely somebody who swings for the fences, and I expect very high performance.”
“I set very high standards for myself and worked every game with the same energy and enthusiasm as if it were the seventh game of a World Series.”
“I settle for a radio station that’s currently playing a Tom Waits track. That man has so much gravel in his voice that, if he coughed, you could build a road with the contents of his phlegm.”
Source: Cafe Insomniac
“I settle into my imagination so that I might be someone when the real world tells me I'm no one.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“I settle into their pace. The uniform pounding of feet in my ears and the homogeneity of the people around me makes me believe that I could choose this. I could be subsumed into Abnegation’s hive mind, projecting always outward.”
Source: Divergent Trilogy
“I settled in with The Uninvited Guests thinking I knew what kind of Edwardian pleasures were in store: the fraught dinner party in an endangered, rambling house, the feuding family, the rich suitor, the disruptive visitors. The novel has all of those delightful things, but it also defied every one of my expectations. I saw none of it coming. I read it in one breathless sitting, and finished wanting to give it to everyone I know.”
“I settled on the floor and whispered to Sam, “I want you to listen to me, if you can.” I leaned the side of my face against his ruff and remembered the golden wood he had shown me so long ago. I remembered the way the yellow leaves, the color of Sam’s eyes, fluttered and twisted, crashing butterflies, on their way to the ground. The slender white trunks of the birches, creamy and smooth as human skin. I remembered Sam standing in the middle of the wood, his arms stretched out, a dark, solid form in the dream of the trees. His coming to me, me punching his chest, the soft kiss. I remembered every kiss we’d ever had, and I remembered every time I’d curled in his human arms. I remembered the soft warmth of his breath on the back of my neck while we slept.
I remembered Sam.”
Source: Shiver
“I sew his ears on from time to time, sure.”
Source: Post Captain (Vol. Book 2) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)
“I sewed good wishes and thoughts into my garments, especially so if they were wedding or graduation dresses.”
Source: Plain Anne Ellis: More about the Life of an Ordinary Woman
“I shadowed my father a million times before, watching him sneak off to the outskirts, but it never occurred to me to follow my mother—that she would have a life of her own.”
Source: The Grace Year
“I shake my booty all the time! It's the best workout!”
“I shake my head and the tiny acrobats fall like spangles, like the cool rain on another planet, down to the inside of my feet.”
Source: Go Now
“I shake my head. Heart is racing. Turn to the window. Sadness seeps in. Try to hide my teary eyes. Can't believe I'm back at this place. I'm so tired of being shuffled around like a punched up doll with no voice box. Take a deep breath, hands fidget.”
Source: When Tender Is the Heart
“I shake my head. I don't want anything from Logan. Logan is dangerous. Handling a wholesome dairy product does not ease the effects of the malfeasance he's guilty of.”
Source: Vex
“I shake my head. “I know,” I reply. “You are searching for her too.”
We stand for a moment, staring out at the stars mirrored in the calm seas. I know why Magiano doesn’t look at me. I remind him too much of her.
“I’m sorry,” I whisper, after a long pause.
“Don’t be.” A small, sad smile touches his lips. “She chose it.”
Source: The Midnight Star
“I shake my head. I want to say no, but my legs move toward the god; my heart beats so fast that the unnoticeable movement becomes painful and unpleasant.”
Source: Tut Reborn
“I shake my head in unfortunate assent...in any life age and stage to this necessary truth one must be able to maintain and without forced effort. Jealousy, dislike, envy, hatred are low-living, human traits, of a rejectable, and dejected nature. Elevate your mindfulness & emotional state when in the presence of those trapped in their negative miserable ones. I recommend when that's finished, recalibrate who you've allowed to access your inner/outer circle perimeter - the gift of your personal/professional contact & presence...then...adjust control measures accordingly. You can believe with full certainty you'll be on a healthy and gold-bricked wealthy boulevard to practicing soul abuse & neglect prevention - by the lightning-quick process of connection elimination. Selah...”
“I shake my head. "Not my kind of scene. I'd rather be home with my book boyfriend."
"I'll never get what you book sluts get out of a fictional man…" He shakes his head.
"Boys in books are better.”
Source: Private Message
“I shake my head. "Remember, Mother. There are no mistakes."
She smiles through her tears, leaning in to kiss my cheek "No mistakes, my angel.”
Source: Prophecy of the Sisters
“I shake my head with a soft laugh. "I don't know myself very well, but I must have been extremely competitive. Because I just took that as a challenge." "Took what as a challenge? You think you can make me like you again?" I look over at her and give my head the slightest shake. "No. I'm gonna make you fall in love with me again.”
Source: Never Never
“I shake my head, but I can’t change this. I can only bear the scars, as I have always done, as I ever do.”
Source: Aftermath
“I shake my head, watching snow tumble and swirl from an all-white sky. The world seems so clean if you only look up”
Source: Wither
“I shake my head. I pick up the rake and start making the dead-leaf pile neater. A blister pops and stains the rake handle like a tear. Dad nods and walks to the Jeep, keys jangling in his fingers. A mockingbird lands on a low oak branch and scolds me. I rake the leaves out of my throat. Me: "Can you buy some seeds? Flower seeds?”
Source: Speak
“I shake my shoulders to get rid of all my feels. I hate these people. They're so annoying. Except I king of like Silas. Kind of.”
Source: Never Never
“I shake off the thought. It doesn't matter if Vincent and I aren't endgame. I'm not looking to marry the guy - that's ridiculous. I just want to climb him like a tree. -Annie, Night Shift.”
Source: Night Shift
“I shall accord to myself the honor of inscribing myself as an applicant for the American citizenship which according to law I can obtain only after five years residence in this country. And I shall yield to no one of my future countrymen in patriotism. I consider America now my real home.”
“I shall act as I think my duty requires.”
“I shall add that only he who has decided to commit suicide can start a nuclear war in the hope of emerging a victor from it. No matter what the attacker might possess, no matter what method of unleashing nuclear war he chooses, he will not attain his aims. Retribution will inevitably ensue.”
“I shall adopt new views as fast as they shall appear to be true views.”
Source: Speeches & Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865 by Abraham Lincoln
“I shall also take you forth and carve our names together in a yew tree, haloed with stars.”
Source: Letters of Ted Hughes
“I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he always treats me as a flower girl, and always will; but I know I can be a lady to you, because you always treat me as a lady, and always will.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“I shall always be a priest of love.”
Source: The Art of Perversity
“I shall always be consistent and never change my ways so long as I am in my senses; but for the sake of precedent the Senate should beware of binding itself to support the acts of any man, since he might through some mischance suffer a change.”
“I shall always be grateful for this curious love of history, allowing me to spend a lifetime looking back into the past, allowing me to learn from these large figures about the struggle for meaning for life.”
“I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet.”