I Quotes
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“I am suspicious - first of all, in myself - of adopted mysticisms of glib spirituality, above all of white people's tendency to ... vampirize American Indian, or African, or Asian, or other 'exotic' ways of understanding.”
Source: What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)
“I am suspicious and disillusioned about the uses and misuses of photography in the art world, the press, and the world of entertainment. And to make things more complicated, I don't think that the general public is well educated regarding images. Generally we are taught how to read, but we are not taught how to look.”
“I am suspicious of both facility and speed.”
“I am suspicious of guilt in myself and in other people; it is usually a way of not thinking, or of announcing one's own fine sensibilities the better to be rid of them fast.”
“I am suspicious of the idea of a new paradigm, to use that word, an entirely new structure of the economy.”
“I am suspicious of what people might want from me. Do they like me, or my money?”
“I am suspicious without a motive, and jealous without love; although I feel I ought to love since I desire to be loved.”
Source: The Spanish Drama. Lope de Vega and Calderon
“I am sustained by a sense of the worthwhileness of what I am doing; a trust in the good faith of the process which created and sustains me. That process I call God.”
“I am sustained by the certainty that life has meaning...as does death.”
“I am sustained by the prayers of the people in this country. I guess an appropriate way to say this, it's one of the beautiful things about America and Americans from all walks of life is that they're willing to pray for the President and his family. And that's powerful. It's hard for me to describe to you what that means. It's-let me just say this: It's a leap of faith to understand.”
“I am sustained by the tranquility of an upright and loyal heart.”
“I am sweet, I am ugly, I am mean if you love me. I'll try hard just to please you, when I say I don't need you.”
“I am Switzerland. I refuse to be affected by territorial disputes between mythical creatures.”
Source: Eclipse
“I am sworn to uphold the Constitution as Andy Johnson understands it and interprets it.”
“I am sympathetic to developing countries’ concerns: because of our emissions it’s their crops that will disappear; because of our inaction, it’s their fields that turn to desert...”
“I am sympathetic to the fact that Turkey is doing everything it can to prevent the civil war in Syria from spilling over into its own country.”
“I am sympathetic to the general form of Aristotle's view: the exercise of complex and more inclusive abilities is not anything in itself that is or necessarily should be valued over simple and less inclusive abilities. Rather, value depends on what the abilities are and the ends to which they are put.”
“I am sympathetic to the kind of faith that does not evangelize or raise banners but is the faith drawn on by a lone human being as a means of support or as an organizing principle or even as mere practice. It is faith that is born of humility and an understanding of one's own frailty. I can recognize it because I have met many people who exhibit this kind of faith.”
“I am Syrian, I was made in Syria, I have to live in Syria and die in Syria.”
“I am Taiwanese as well as Chinese.”
“I am taking a break, I need to breath!”
“I am taking a leap of faith to love and take a chance on happiness because I deserve it.”
Source: Dying on The Inside and Suffocating on The Outside
“I AM TAKING A LEAP OF FATH TO LOVE MYSELF MORE AND MORE EVERY DAY—AND TO TAKE A CHANCE ON HAPPINESS BECAUSE I DESERVE IT!”
Source: Dying on The Inside and Suffocating on The Outside
“I am taking a risk with my claycourt schedule. It is pretty heavy from now up until Roland Garros. I am scheduled to have one week off before Paris. Playing here is not as tiring as competing abroad. I wanted to see this tournament happen and now that we have the event, I want to see it grow.”
“I am taking belly dancing now. My hips are double-jointed, so I can do it really easily.”
“I am taking my production style more into the world of dub. I mean true dub production techniques but in house music.”
“I am taking the applause sign home, putting it in the bedroom.”
“I am taking this in, slowly,
Taking it into my body.
This grief. How slow
The body is to realize
You are never coming back.”
“I am talking about anything that is a provocation - ignore it. When something falls under freedom of expression, you can read it and take a critical distance.”
“I am talking about being optimistic enough to sow some seeds in the hope that some of them will germinate and grow into flowers.”
“I am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living, the kind that enables men and nations to grow and to hope and to build a better life for their children - not merely peace for Americans but peace for all men and women - not merely peace in our time but peace for all time.”
“I am talking about misery and all of its implications.”
“I am talking about offering my services to Nahara. Helping them to rise in world power.” -Kai Sera
Cerin Heliot: “It will be hard to convince them you are capable of this.”
Kai: “Will it? I have the blood of the gods, Cerin, and Nahara is a country of religion.”
Cerin: “What gives you such drive?”
Kai: “Revenge.”
Source: Earth
“I am talking about ordinary people making the link between their communities being treated as disposable and the assumption that the environments they depend on are disposable as well. What gives me hope is the kind of bridgework I'm seeing between social movements on the one hand, and young writers and artists on the other, all intent on opposing such pitiless, short-term thinking.”
“I am talking about poetry. It's like that line from [John] Yeats: I go back to "where all the ladders start/ In the foul rag and bone shop of the heart."”
“I am talking about societies drained of their essence, cultures trampled underfoot, institutions undermined, lands confiscated, religions smashed, magnificent artistic creations destroyed, extraordinary possibilities wiped out.”
“I am talking about the general psychological health
of the species, man. He needs the existence of
mysteries. Not their solution.”
Source: The Magus
“I am talking about the responsibility of the poet, who is irresponsible by definition, an anarchist enamored of a solar order and never of the new order or whatever slogan makes five or six hundred million men march in step in a parody of order.”
Source: Around the Day in Eighty Worlds
“I am talking here about the need for every woman to live a considered life. The necessity for that consideration grows and deepens as one faces directly one's own mortality and death. Self scrutiny and an evaluation of our own lives, while painful, can be rewarding and strengthening journeys toward a deeper self. For as we open ourselves more and more to the genuine conditions of our lives, women become less and less willing to tolerate those conditions unaltered, or to passively accept external and destructive controls over our lives and our identities.”
Source: The Cancer Journals
“I am talking of a place in India, at least a third of the country, a fertile place, full of rice fields and wheat fields and ponds in the middle of those fields choked with lotuses and water lilies, and water buffaloes wading through the ponds and chewing on the lotuses and lilies. Those who live in this place call it the Darkness. Please understand, Your Excellency, that India is two countries in one: an India of Light, and an India of Darkness. The ocean brings light to my country. Every place on the map of India near the ocean is well off. But the river brings darkness to India—the black river.”
“I am talking to you, but the moment I am talking to you, the universe is being created and destroyed.”
“I am Tamil, Sinhalese, Muslim and Burgher. I am a Buddhist, a Hindu, a follower of Islam and Christianity. I am today, and always, proudly Sri Lankan.”
“I am tapping into a place in you that is unexplored, and very dangerous, but I think essential to the creative life of an artist.”
“I am Tarzan of the Apes. I want you. I am yours. You are mine. We live here together always in my house. I will bring you the best of fruits, the tenderest deer, the finest meats that roam the jungle. I will hunt for you. I am the greatest of the jungle fighters. I will fight for you. I am the mightiest of the jungle fighters. You are Jane Porter, I saw it in your letter. When you see this you will know that it is for you and that Tarzan of the Apes loves you.”
Source: EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS Ultimate Collection: 30+ Adventure Novels & Science Fiction Classics (Illustrated): The Tarzan Series, The Barsoom Series, The Pelucidar Series, Caspak Trilogy, The Mucker Trilogy, Lost World Novels, Fantastic Stories, Historical Novels and more
“I am tasting the universe little by little day by day and it's making me hungry.”
Source: Who has a heart and the mind?
“I am teaching more. That is what I do best.”
“I am teaching myself how to be free”
Source: Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry
“I am teaching the internet everything I know.”
“I am teaching you now about it, but how many of you will practice it?”
Source: The Powers of The Mind
“I am teaching you to live simply. To live with an idea is a very complicated living, it is cunning. To live simply, just like trees and birds.”