I Quotes
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“I am relying on the theory that playing golf is just like riding a bike and that I haven't forgotten how.”
“I am remarkably likeable. Few people have ever been as likeable as I am. There is, frankly, no end to my likeability. People gather together in public assemblies to discuss how much they like me. I have several awards, and a small medal from a small country in South America which pays tribute both to how much I am liked and my general all around wonderfulness. I don't have it on me, of course. I keep my medals in my sock drawer.”
Source: Anansi Boys
“I am remarkably pleased with Obama. I had grave misgivings about him.”
“I am remarkably unremarkable at sports, at the arts, at academics.”
Source: Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories
“I am reminded every day of my life, if not by events, then by my wife, that I am not a perfect man.”
“I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be.”
“I am reminded of a colleague who reiterated all my homosexual patients are quite sick - to which I finally replied so are all my heterosexual patients.”
“I am reminded of a piece of advice my father gave me regarding shoes. ...He said it is better to buy one good pair of shoes than four cheap ones. One pair made of fine leather could outlast four inferior pairs and, if well-cared-for, would continue to proclaim your good judgment and taste no matter how old they become.”
“I am reminded of a story of Lord Krishna when he was a cowherd. Every night he invites the milkmaids to dance with him in the forest. They come and they dance. The night is dark, the fire in their midst roars and crackles, the beat of the music gets ever faster - the girls dance and dance and dance with their sweet lord, who has made himself so abundant as to be in the arms of each and every girl. But the moment the girls become possessive, the moment each one imagines that Krishna is her partner alone, he vanishes. So it is that we should not be jealous of God.”
Source: Life Of Pi, Illustrated
“I am reminded of an old Chinese curse I read somewhere: May you live in interesting times. I think of it and laugh. What a curse it is. Interesting times, indeed.”
Source: The Last Innocent Hour
“I am reminded of Housman's remark that 'accuracy is a duty, not a virtue.' To praise a historian for his accuracy is like praising an architect for using well-seasoned timber or properly mixed concrete in his building. It is a necessary condition of his work, but not his essential function.”
Source: What is History?
“I am reminded of how exquisitely easy friendship with Percy is, equal parts comfortable silence and never lacking things to say to each other.
Or rather it was easy, until I ruined it by losing my bleeding mind every time he does that thing where he tips his head to the side when he smiles.”
Source: The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue & The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy By Mackenzi Lee 2 Books Collection Set
“I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. "Never worry about your heart till it stops beating.”
Source: the elements of style
“I am reminded of the apocryphal conversation between Confucius and Lao Tzu when the former had been prating of universal love without the element of self: 'What stuff!' cried Lao Tzu, 'Does not universal love contradict itself? Is not your elimination of self a positive manifestation of self? Sir, if you would cause the world not to lose its source of nourishment— There is the universe: its regularity is unceasing. There are the Sun and Moon: their brightness is unceasing. There are the stars: their groupings never change. There are the birds and the beasts: they flock together without varying. There are trees and shrubs: they grow upwards without exception. Like these, accord with the Dao— with the way of all things— and be perfect. Why then these vain struggles after charity and duty to one's neighbor as though beating a drum in search of a fugitive? Alas, Sir you have brought much confusion into the mind of man.”
Source: Become what You are
“I am reminded of the importance of small kindnesses.”
Source: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
“I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, 'Verify your quotations.”
Source: The Proverbial Winston S. Churchill: An Index to Proverbs in the Works of Sir Winston Churchill
“I am reminded of the query made about man's inhumanity to man in the concentration camps. The question was asked: At Auschwitz, tell me, where was God?
And the answer came: Where was man?
For it was men alone who did this evil. Not God or religion or men acting in the name of God or religion. But simply men.”
Source: The Last Witness
“I am reminded of the true meaning of Confidence, which is about living with fidelity. Being True to Oneself is the route to confidence. How cool is that? Tp walk a Confident Path, is to be True to the Self.”
Source: The Path of Grief: & the Imagined Future
“I am reminded of yet one more reason why I avoid children, why I have remained intentionally childless. Children make ruthless biographers and terrifying judges.”
Source: Stray Love
“I am reminded once again that even if you do something good for somebody and they don't appreciate it, you still sowed the seed, and you will reap what you sow.”
“I am reminded that every day I have the chance to pick up a needle and some thread and add to the story. To stitch together something beautiful and unique, to patch a small scrap of fabric to the story, to the Story of God, that will be retold again and again for all of eternity.”
Source: A Homemade Year: The Blessings of Cooking, Crafting, and Coming Together
“I am reminded that no matter how hard you try, you can never be more than twelve years old with your parents. Parents earnestly try not to inflame, but their comments contain no scale and a strange focus. Discussing your private life with parents is like misguidedly looking at a zit in a car's rearview mirror and being convinced, in the absence of contrast or context, that you have developed combined heat rash and skin cancer.”
“I am reminded that the children we birth do not belong to us. They belong to God. We are simply the vessel through which they arrive on this earth. We are appointed to care for and guide them; however, we must recognize when the time comes for them to govern their own lives.”
“I am reminded that while New Yorkers say "standing on line," the rest of the English-speaking world says "standing in line.”
Source: It Must've Been Something I Ate: The Return of the Man Who Ate Everything
“I am reminded, now, of Leonardo's advice to painters: You should fix your eyes, he says, on certain walls stained with damp. You will see in these the likenesses of divine landscapes, adorned with mountains, ruins, rocks, extensive plains; and you will see there battles and strange figures engaged in violent actions. For in such walls the same thing happens as in the sound of church bells, in whose reverberations you may find every word imaginable.”
Source: Shamrock Tea
“I am renewed and I feel like a brand-new person that has a new, clean slate.”
Source: Dying on The Inside and Suffocating on The Outside
“I am repeated over & over
Like waves forming and
crashing to the shore -
once more I am washed up,
beached on your heart;
wondering if in this voyage
you will claim me before
the full tide takes me once more”
Source: The Soul in Words: A collection of Poetry & Verse
“I am repelled by those who voice the word 'nature', without having any trace of it in their hearts.”
“I am replete with stamina in finding out every single fact I can about this whole affair.
Yet, I think, do I want to pull that thread? Do I want to unleash the truth, unravel deceit, and kill reality as I´ve known it? It is irreparable, if I do, from the moment we met until now. It is long. If I discover too much that is false about what I thought my past was, Time will be skewed even further. I already have a poor connection with the present. Example: I have no sense of what day it is. It´s better.”
Source: Split: A Memoir of Divorce
“I am republic
I am maoist
I am activist
and I am this
and I am that
but why?
Why can't; I be”
Source: The Warrior
“I am required not only to raise the spirits of others, but sometimes to sustain my own, when theirs are failing.”
Source: Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
“I am researching why you would not allow Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) on site.”
“I am reserved
but I allow myself
to be naked
through my writing.”
Source: Solar eclipse of the heart: a collection of poetry and prose
“I am resigning because my secret leaves the governor's office vulnerable.”
“I am resigning my post in the parliament. I have done this because I think it is the right thing to do.”
“I am resolutely opposed to all innovation, all change, but I am determined to understand what’s happening. Because I don’t choose just to sit and let the juggernaut roll over me. Many people seem to think that if you talk about something recent, you’re in favor of it. The exact opposite is true in my case. Anything I talk about is almost certainly something I’m resolutely against. And it seems to me the best way to oppose it is to understand it. And then you know where to turn off the buttons.”
“I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.”
“I am resolved to grow fat, and look young till forty.”
“I am resolved to rise superior to every obstacle. With whom need I be afraid of measuring my strength? I will take Fate by the throat. It shall not overcome me. O how beautiful it is to be alive - would that I could live a thousand times!”
“I am resolved, to go and plant myself in Holland or in Zeeland, and there await the issue which it shall please Him to ordain.”
“I am responsible for everything... except my very responsibility.”
“I am responsible for finding fulfillment in my job, for being happy with what I do, for knowing my value regardless of my title, the company I work for, the salary I make, or the way anyone looks at all of it.”
Source: Get Out of Your Own Way: A Skeptic's Guide to Growth and Fulfillment
“I am responsible for me. I can kind of take care of what I need to do and should do what I like to do.”
“I am responsible for my fate, I am the bringer of good unto myself, I am the bringer of evil. I am the Pure and Blessed One. We must reject all thoughts that assert to the contrary.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“I am responsible for my own existence and happiness.”
Source: Six Pillars of Self-Esteem
“I am responsible for myself. Every time I do the things I shouldn't do or fail to do the things I should do, I sin. The weight of our sins can seem overwhelming, so much so that we feel trapped by them in a dark wood of our own making. What makes it worse is the sense in contemporary culture that sin is either not real or no big deal.”
Source: How Dante Can Save Your Life: The Life-Changing Wisdom of History's Greatest Poem
“I am responsible for no one but myself.”
Source: The quality of mercy: an autobiography
“I am responsible for the team and a journalist should be responsible for his article.”
“I am responsible for the world, as I am the world, the world is me.”
“I am responsible for what happened to me but if I was to stay there it is kind of a constant reminder and it is very easy.... You know the new song is called Mental.... I am not trying to hide from people that I have OCD, and I don't think that I am a completely normal person.”