I Quotes
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“I am saying that there is a time to do, and a time not to do, and that when we are slave to the habit of doing we are unable to distinguish between them.”
Source: The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible
“I am saying that there is no salvation apart from Jesus; that’s my evangelical mindset. However, I am not convinced that Jesus only lives in Christians”
“I am saying the same to Muslims in the global South, telling them: "Just ignore what is done." However, in the Southern countries they are not living in a comfortable society like you and me. They deal with unemployment, corruption, and surviving. For the majority of them, their religion is helping them survive.”
“I am saying there are women in the Senate, there are women in governorships, there are women in statewide office, there are women in the House, and I do think we can't ignore the fact that we have had the first woman ever win a nomination of a major party and the first woman ever winning the popular vote. So I think the table is set for a woman in the near future. I really do.”
“I am saying there is someone that I have a message and purpose for, that God will bring in my pathway, because one thing I'm committed is never to waste my trials in life, to find purpose in all things and especially the places of pain.”
“I am saying voluntarily that I have sung for almost every religious group in the country, from Jewish and Catholic, and Presbyterian and Holy Rollers and Revival Churches.”
“I am saying what comes out, because I'm really not a methodical writer. I'm not a good building writer, where you are like "well, I going to make a song today, and I think it will be a pop song." Some people are great at it and it's beautiful. If I am feeling musical and I pick up the guitar, usually something will eventually come out and I'll see where it goes.”
“I am saying yes to criticism, but no to insults.”
“I am scaffolding.
Scaffolding. I am the grid of poles and platforms reinforcing the towering skyscraper under occasional repair. I am the thick stone buttress bolstering the great cathedral. I am the dense concrete pier anchoring the soaring bridge.”
Source: Culpability
“I am scared about what Julian has to say, and what he will choose, and where he will go. But I am terrified by what I want: for him, and worst of all, from him.
Because I do want. I’m not even sure what, exactly, but the want is there, just like the hate and anger were there before. But this is not a tower. It is an endless, tunneling pit; it drives deep, and opens a hole inside me.”
Source: Pandemonium
“I am scared easily, here is a list of my adrenaline - production: 1: small children, 2: policemen, 3: high places, 4: that my next movie will not be as good as the last one.”
“I am scared of becoming a mother.”
“I am scared of being broke and famous. I think that would be the biggest curse.”
“I am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill.”
“I am scared of my father to this day. My father walked in the room - and God knows I am telling the truth - I have fainted in his presence many times. I have fainted once to be honest. I have thrown up in his presence because when he comes in the room and this aura comes and my stomach starts hurting and I know I am in trouble.”
“I am scared of running out of money.”
“I am scared of snapping. That something, some random day, it will simply make ‘click’ in my mind and all of the sudden I will absolutely lose my mind. In other words having gazed into the abyss for too long. Go completely and totally insane! How does one decent into madness? What makes one click so all of the sudden life is upside down and people don’t know themselves anymore?”
Source: 2018: Our Summer of Creeping Boredom and Beautiful Shimmering
“I am scared of spiders! And I still get a little afraid every time I have to do something new or have to get out in front of a big crowd. The first time I sang "Swag It Out" live, I was really scared.”
“I am scared of the photo studio. I am scared of the telephone. Scared of anything outside our apartment. Scared of the people in their big fur hats. Scared of the snow. Scared of the cold. Scared of the heat. Scared of the ceiling fan at which I would point one tragic finger and start weeping. Scared of any height higher than my sickbed. Scared of Uncle Electric Current. "Why was I so scared of everything?" I ask my mother nearly forty years later.
"Because you were born a Jewish person," she says.”
Source: Little Failure: A Memoir
“I am scared to even say this out loud, because I worry that having confessed this fragility, you now know where to punch. I know that if I am hit where I am earnest, I will never recover.
It can sometimes feel like loving the beauty that surrounds us is somehow disrespectful to the many horrors that also surround us. But mostly, I think I'm just scared that if I show the world my belly, it will devour me. And so I wear the armor of cynicism and hide behind the great walls of irony and only glimpse beauty with my back turned to it through the claude glass. But I want to be earnest, even if it's embarrassing.
The photographer Alec Soth has said, "to me, the most beautiful thing is vulnerability. I would go a step further and argue that you cannot see the beauty which is enough unless you make yourself vulnerable to it."
So I try to turn toward that scattered light, belly out and I tell myself, "this doesn't look like a picture, and it doesn't look like a god. It is a sunset, and it is beautiful." And this whole thing you've been doing where nothing gets five stars because nothing is perfect, that's bullshit. So much is perfect. Starting with this.”
“I am scared to look inside me, Except me everyone else is in here, And they said education was the cure, Now of not even one thing that I am sure…”
Source: Narcissistic Romanticism
“I am scared; I don't know what is going to happen to me. What was the point of working so hard and of being talented, to be rewarded like this? Never a penny, tormented all my life. It is horrible; one cannot imagine it.”
“I am Scottish. I am also British.”
“I-am scris lui Vladi că nu merg la nicio nuntă. Detest nunțile. Am impresia că nimeni nu-și dorește să fie acolo și nimeni nu se distrează în mod real. Dar cine știe, poate într-o zi voi simți o nevoie crescândă de a mânca struguri la suprapreț. Și atunci voi opta să merg la o nuntă de bună voie.”
Source: Vicios
“I am searching as Diogenes did with his lantern for all of these wonderful human beings. I haven't found them yet.”
“I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.”
“I am searching for that which every man seeks-peace and rest.”
“I am searching for the truth. Somewhere, it's in the music.”
“I am seated here
Alone
A thousand miles away
From everybody
But if I have myself
And my sanity
I’ve got nothing else to lose”
Source: Song of a Nature Lover
“I am secretive. Always have been. And one way that secrecy manifested in my early life was that I was adept at juggling multiple social realities: I could get by no problem in many social arenas (including that of high school), but also felt alienated and totally uninspired by everything that happened there.”
“I am secretly afraid of animals.... I think it is because of the usness in their eyes, with the underlying not-usness which beliesit, and is so tragic a reminder of the lost age when we human beings branched off and left them: left them to eternal inarticulateness and slavery. Why? their eyes seem to ask us.”
“I am seeing a resurgence of entertainment that not only entertains, but inspires, evokes, and moves. I am seeing strength in the ability of artistic expression to change our future.”
“I am seeing all the guys, like Earnie Shavers, Tex Cobb, and Larry Holmes all the time.”
“I am seeing change at earlier stage start-up companies. For a lot of big companies, the ship has sailed. They are trying to bolt on diversity and inclusion.”
“I am seeing strength in the ability of artistic expression to change our future.”
“I am seeing that Gandhi is looking through these specs that whether we have made India clean or not, what we have done and what we have done.”
“I am seeking every day to restore faith in Parliament - to ensure we have a House of Commons which is representative, effective and reconnected to the people we serve.”
“I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality.”
“I am seeking that dance which might be the divine expression of the human spirit through the medium of the body's movement.”
Source: My Life (Revised and Updated)
“I am seeking to rescue the poor stockinger, the Luddite cropper, the “obsolete” hand-loom weaver, the “utopian” artisan, and even the deluded follower of Joanna Southcott, from the enormous condescension of posterity. Their crafts and traditions may have been dying. Their hostility to the new industrialism may have been backward-looking. Their communitarian ideals may have been fantasies. Their insurrectionary conspiracies may have been foolhardy. But they lived through these times of acute social disturbance, and we did not. Their aspirations were valid in terms of their own experience…”
Source: THE MAKING OF THE ENGLISH WORKING CLASS
“I am seeking whatever is painful in my body, whatever is joyful. While seeking, I may never find myself. While seeking, I have no idea what form I may take or whether anyone, including myself, will ever like what I write. Most of writing feels like walking in the dark. I'm reminded of what Donald Barthelme said: The writer is that person who, embarking upon her task, does not know what to do.”
Source: Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence and Grief
“I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.”
Source: The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh
“I am seized with an abiding fear regarding what these two instruments are doing to our society, our culture and our heritage. Our history will be what we make it. And if there are any historians about fifty or a hundred years from now, and there should be preserved the kinescopes for one week of all three networks, they will there find recorded in black and white, or color, evidence of decadence, escapism and insulation from the realities of the world in which we live.”
“I am seldom otherwise than happy while watching in the chamber of death... . I see a repose that neither earth nor hell can break, and I feel an assurance of the endless and shadowless hereafter--the Eternity they have entered--where life is boundless in its duration, and love in its sympathy, and joy in its fulness.”
Source: Wuthering Heights
“I am selective, but at the same time, I want to be out there as an actor and show people my range.”
“I am selective. If I do splash out, it's an investment, and I wear things for years.”
“I am self-contained, a woman unchained.
Has there ever been a creature more disdained?”
“I am self-reliant, I am accountable, I am determined, I am strong, I am...the scarce minority.”
“I am self taught in how to control potentially dangerous encounters with police officers and how to deescalate the situation by calling 911.”
“I am self taught. My dad threw me in with a drum set at the age of four and I figured it out!”