I Quotes
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“I shall always feel respect for every one who has written a book, let it be what it may, for I had no idea of the trouble which trying to write common English could cost one—And alas there yet remains the worst part of all correcting the press.”
Source: The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: 1837-1843
“I shall always inspire many hearts in timeless moments.”
Source: Rhythm of a Heart, Music of a Soul
“I shall always rebel against any attempt to reduce a human being to a kind of mannequin, whose deeds and questions would be comprehensible like the deeds and gestures of monarchs recorded day after day in official communiques. Six months of a life cannot catalogue the vitality, the activity of an individual; only death stops development and then, what is important is the overall meaning of a life, not the details of that life, edifying to some, scandalous to others.”
“I shall always remember that smile. From what world did it come from?”
“I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.”
“I shall always think of myself first and foremost... as a hunter.”
“I shall always think of you; I shall never think of anyone else. I came to England simply because you are here; I couldn't stay at home after you had gone: I hated the country because you were not in it. If I like this country at present it is only because it holds you.”
Source: The Portrait of a Lady
“I shall argue that it is the capital stock from which we derive satisfaction, not from the additions to it (production) or the subtractions from it (consumption): that consumption, far from being a desideratum, is a deplorable property of the capital stock which necessitates the equally deplorable activity of production: and that the objective of economic policy should not be to maximize consumption or production, but rather to minimize it, i.e. to enable us to maintain our capital stock with as little consumption or production as possible.”
“I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.”
“I shall argue that the problem of grace is fundamentally a problem of integration and what is to be integrated is the diverse parts of the mind - especially those multiple levels of which one extreme is called 'consciousness' and the other the 'unconscious'”
Source: Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology
“I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one.”
Source: The Wizard of Oz
“I shall ask no more than that you agree with Dean Inge that even though counting heads is not an ideal way to govern, at least it is better than breaking them.”
Source: The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses
“I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot — but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.”
“I shall assume that your silence gives consent.”
Source: Cratylus
“I shall attack Chemistry, like a Shark.”
Source: Unpublished Letters
“I shall attempt to prove two things: first, that the actions and dispositions of mankind are the offspring of circumstances and events, and not of any original determination that they bring into the world; and, secondly, that the great stream of our voluntary actions essentially depends, not upon the direct and immediate impulses of sense, but upon the decisions of the understanding.”
Source: Enquiry Concerning Political Justice: And Its Influence On Morals And Happiness
“I shall await the first shot, and if you do not batter us to pieces, we shall be starved out in a few days.”
“I shall be a good politician. Even if it kills me. Or if it kills anyone else, for that matter.”
“i shall be a heroine of the peripheral.”
“I shall be an Attila to Venice.”
“I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his.”
“I shall be as brave as a my Toad, he thought, for my Toad never hides under the bed when she is afraid of lightning or bats. She sticks out her tongue and eats them.”
Source: The Boy Who Lost Fairyland
“I shall be as secret as the grave.”
Source: The history of the renowned don Quixote de la Mancha. Tr. by several hands: and publ. by mr. Motteux. Ozell
“I shall be better satisfied if the same can be said of me as was said of the prophet of old, "That I walked in the fear of the Lord, and begat sons and daughters" [Genesis 5:22], than if it were inscribed on my tombstone that I governed the councils or commanded the arms of the whole continent of America.”
“I shall be but a shrimp of an author.”
“I shall be dark and French and fashionable and difficult. And you shall be sweet and open and English and fair. What a pair we shall be! What man can resist us?”
Source: The Other Boleyn Girl (Movie Tie-In)
“I shall be dumped where the weed decays, And the rest is rust and stardust”
Source: Lolita
“I shall be forever grateful to you for breaking whatever unfortunate object you did in order to rescue me.”
“Something had to be done, she said, “and it was a very ugly vase.”
Source: And Only to Deceive
“I shall be glad as long as I live that even in that moment of final dissolution, there was in the face a look of peace, such as I never could have imagined might have rested there.”
Source: Dracula
“I shall be glad then to find a hole to creep out of the world.”
Source: The treatise on human nature and that on liberty and necessity. With a suppl. to which is prefixed an account of his life and writings by the editor [P. Mallet].
“I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.”
Source: The Letters of D. H. Lawrence
“I shall be honored to go to jail. Under a dictatorship, the detention cell is a place of honor.”
“I shall be like that tree-I shall die at the top.”
“I shall be most happy indeed if I shall be an humble instrument in the hands of the Almighty, and of this his almost chosen people.”
Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln
“I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.”
Source: The Spirit of Laws
“I shall be perfectly content to spend time with Mr Darcy and enjoy his manner of flattering my ego, for I must confess he does it very well.”
Source: A Lasting Love Affair: Darcy & Elizabeth
“I shall be richer all my life for this sorrow”
Source: All the Little Live Things
“I shall be so brief that I have already finished.”
“I shall be so glad if you will tell me what to read. I have been looking into all the books in the library at Offendene, but there is nothing readable. The leaves all stick together and smell musty. I wish I could write books to amuse myself, as you can! How delightful it must be to write books after one's own taste instead of reading other people's! Home-made books must be so nice.”
Source: Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus
“I shall be supplied with whatever I need; and, if I have not everything I desire, I may conclude it is either not fit for me, or I shall have it in due time.”
Source: Classic Sermon Outlines
“I shall be the first composer in history not to have a biography.”
“I shall be thirty-one next birthday. My youth is gone like a dream; and very little use have I ever made of it. What have I done these last thirty years? Precious little.”
“I shall be up before you are awake; I shall be afield before you are up; and I shall have breakfasted before you are afield. In short, I shall astonish you all.”
“I shall be with Christ, and that is enough.”
“I shall be your poet! I do not want to be a poet for others; make your appearance, and I shall be your poet. I shall eat my own poem, and that will be my food. Or do you find me unworthy? Just as a temple dancer dances to the honor of the god Gudutl, so I have consecrated myself to your service; light, thinly clad, limber, unarmed, I renounce everything. I own nothing; I desire to own nothing; I love nothing; I have nothing to lose-but have I not thereby become more worthy of you, you who long ago must have been tired of depriving people of what they love, tired of their craven sniveling and craven pleading. Surprise me-I am ready”
“I shall become a collector of me and put meat on my soul”
Source: Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems
“I shall become a master in this art only after a great deal of practice.”
Source: THE ART OF LOVING
“I shall become, I shall become a collector of me. And put meat on my soul.”
“I shall begin my march for Camp tomorrow morning. It was not in my power to move until I could procure shoes for the troops almost barefoot.”
“I shall begin my story with an experience I had when I was ten and attended our small town's Latin school.”
Source: Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse