I Quotes
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“I was grateful for the opportunity to make a difference. The political violence really started in 1970-1971. The political difficulties start a little bit beyond that.”
“I was grateful that Facebook already had generous bereavement policies . Now Facebook employees receive 20 days paid leave to grieve the loss of an immediate family member and 10 days for an extended family member. I'm proud that we're able to do this and I hope more businesses do the same. Only 60 percent of private sector workers get paid time off after the death of a loved one, and then it's usually just a few days. Workers and families deserve better than that.”
“I was grateful to be away from all that familiarity, to have a chance to do something anonymously.”
“I was grateful to have two weeks to shoot this one scene in Harry Potter. It's a big, big scene, but they have to deliver. And they have high expectations.”
“I was grateful to see President Obama's victory speech. I was over the moon to see the audience. There were about 60 percent white voters the other 40 percent were African Americans, Asian, Spanish speaking etc. I wept at that spectacle, it told me that the pundits that continue in our country to try to polarize us, to keep us apart, are not succeeding. Americans are waking up not only to the truth, but the truth in each other. Hallelujah!”
“I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.”
“I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book.”
“I was greatly affected by a guy named Rob Briner, who died about five years ago, who wrote a book called "Roaring Lambs", which is a book on how to be salt and light in the secular community.”
“I was greatly influenced by one of my teachers. She had a zeal not so much for perfection as for steady betterment-she demanded not excellence so much as integrity.”
“I was greedy in a sense. I had everything I could ever want standing right in front of me and I didn’t know how to handle it. I wanted more, something else. I need to want and I can’t want when I have it all standing right in front of me.”
“I was grieved that my life had come to this point; it had all happened so quickly. I just found myself running from one thing to the next and the things I was using to cope started more problems in and of themselves. The cycle spiraled out of control when one coping mechanism created consequences that led to the next coping mechanism, which created consequences, and on and on, without ever addressing the hurt and confusion inside.”
Source: Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose
“I was grieving the way the earth seems to grieve for spring in the dead of winter, but I wasn't afraid, because nothing, I told myself, can take our halcyon days away.”
Source: "Dear Genius...": A Memoir of My Life with Truman Capote
“I was gripped with a sense of unreality that followed me through most of the war. Reality, I guess, is just what we are accustomed to ...”
Source: War in Korea: The Report of a Woman Combat Correspondent
“I was growing, and if I could not name my anguish precisely I still knew there was nothing noble in it.”
Source: Between the World and Me
“I was growing cold, but now you are my campfire.”
Source: Under a Blackberry Moon
“I was growing inward incessantly; like an animal that hibernates during the wintertime, I could hear other peoples' voices with my ears; my own voice, however, I could hear only in my throat. The loneliness and the solitude that lurked behind me were like a condensed, thick, eternal night, like one of those nights with a dense, persistent, sticky darkness which waits to pounce on unpopulated cities filled with lustful and vengeful dreams. My whole being could now be summed up in my voice―an insane, absolute record. The force that, out of loneliness, brings two individuals together to procreate has its roots in this same insanity which exists in everyone and which is mingled with a sense of regret, tending gradually toward death...Only death does not tell lies! The presence of death annihilates all that is imaginary. We are the offspring of death and death delivers us from the tantalizing, fraudulent attractions of life; it is death that beckons us from the depths of life.”
Source: The Blind Owl
“I was growing tired of all the fussing and prevaricating, of the stolen hours and the secret rendez-vous; of the small indignities and broad discomfort that are part and parcel of adultery.”
Source: I know what I'm worth
“I was growing up in the 50's and 60's. Back then they didn't even know what dyslexia was.”
“I was growing up in the suburbs; I was one of eight kids. So I did have a community when I was younger, but all of my brothers and sisters were older.”
“I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.”
“I was growing up with a single mom who'd be at work when I came home from school. So I'd just turn on the TV. I grew up watching old Clint Eastwood westerns. I adopted him as one of my male role models.”
“I was growing, so I had to scrunch my feet up. Now people are like: "Why do you have so many shoes." I jump at the fact that I can wear something new everyday.”
“I was grown up long before the grown ups were the grown ups.”
Source: Life... Love... Kumbh...
“I was guaranteed a hundred thousand dollars a year for five years, which was big money in the early 60's. You think, acquiring that should cool you out, but for me it wasn't true.”
“I was guided by Allah (God) to give a yardstick to the voting public, particularly Black people as to what will set that candidate apart from others.”
“I was guilty and irritated and full of love and pain. I wanted to kick him and I wanted to take him in my arms.”
“I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature.”
Source: Out of step: an unquiet life in the 20th century
“I was gung-ho, no question about that.”
“I was gushing and I knew it. I surprised myself with my eagerness to please, felt myself saying too much, explaining too much, overinvolved and overexcited in the way you are when you're a kid and you think you've found a soul mate in the new boy down the street and you feel yourself drawn by the force of the courtship and so act as you don't normally do and a lot more openly than you may even want to.”
Source: The Human Stain: A Novel
“I was gutted to leave my boyfriend at home when I started my tour, but taking my pillow was like taking a little bit of him with me.”
“I was gypsy when gypsy wasn't cool.”
“I was half asleep but I smiled. In spite of all his irritating qualities, I couldn't help liking a man who despised a fictional character with such passion.”
Source: City of Thieves: A Novel
“I was half in love with her by the time we sat down. That’s the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they’re not much to look at, or even if they’re sort of stupid, you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. They really can.”
“I was half lawyer; I always noticed the loopholes.”
Source: Seraphina
“I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future.”
Source: On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“I was hallucinating without the ‘Mad Honey’ atop 13,800 feet Mauna Kea!”
“I was handed a tough life lesson at a very early age.”
“I was hanging out and drinking as long as I could afford it, or as long as somebody else could afford it.”
“I was hanging out in gers [yurts] with these Kazakh sort of Bedouins. Drank nasty-ass camel milk. The drive [from the Souther Gobi to Ulan Bator] is insane. It's like The Road.”
“I was hanging out with Jonathan Richman last night.”
“I was hanging out with some of what my mother would consider the wrong kind of kids. With no direction, no motivation. I would hang out in the lunchroom all day, or the handball courts”
“I was Hannah Montana's mother ... Where did I go wrong?”
“I was happier," Adam says, "when I thought she was dead."
"You don't mean that. Don't say things like that, man. Once you say that kind of ... you can't take it back--"
"Oh, I mean it," Adam says. "I really, really mean it." He finally looks at me. Fists clenched. "Thinking you were dead," he says to me, "was so much better. It hurt so much less than this."
The walls are moving. I'm seeing spots, blinking at nothing.”
Source: Ignite Me
“I was happier before, when I lead a normal life.”
“I was happier going back to my roots: training like men do in my hometown of Pittsburgh. Back home the guys in the gyms don't lift to look good; they're lifting to lift. They do it because they want to squat more and bench more.”
“I was happier then. Or was that I? Or am I now I? Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand. Would you go back to then? Just beginning then. Would you?”
Source: The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more
“I was happier when pursuing success than I was when savoring its fruits; the attraction, perhaps the addiction, was in the process, as much as in its end.”
“I was happiest, frankly, when I had a day job and then I went and was in my band that I never, ever had dreams of making money, ever.”
“I was happy and free and in the arms of the man I loved. Tonight, nothing else mattered.”
Source: Ice Cold Heart: Alternate Cover
“I was happy anywhere I could see the ocean.”