I Quotes
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“I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else.”
Source: The Economic Way of Looking at Behavior: The Nobel Lecture
“I was not talented enough to run and smile at the same time”
“I was not that pretty a girl and I was never pursued as a teenager or young woman, so I was used to having no shame and trying to get people to love me.”
“I was not the commander, I was a junior person, so once both were outside, I followed my leader, because we (NASA) had not put together detailed jobs of people outside. I believe it could have been improved. But it was very successful for what it was.”
“I was not the equal of my cousins in athletic ability or good looks, but I'd like to think God evened the score by granting me a modicum of common sense, which sometimes seems to be sadly missing in most descendants of Walter Kaminski, who have shown a tendency to live for the moment and think with their peckers.”
Source: A Brilliant Death
“I was not the first choice for Veronica in Heathers. I auditioned and they were like, "Oh, thanks." And I went to the Beverly Center to Macy's and had them do a makeover on me. I went back because I kind of knew that they thought I wasn't pretty enough. They were trying to get Jennifer Connelly.”
“I was not the hot, popular girl in school.”
“I was not the kid that hung out at the arcade.”
“I was not the kind of a principal player that was so in demand that eight or 10 or 12 scripts came per month.”
“I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.”
“I was not the midwife of the Law School, but its fraternal twin.”
“I was not the most attractive child. I had two really big buck teeth. I was horrendous - long, lanky and gangly.”
“I was not the one he wanted to rise from
or return to”
Source: Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems
“I was not the one she was destined to say yes to. It was someone else, someone human and warm. And I could not let myself hunt him down and kill him, because she deserved him. Whoever it was. It really didn't matter if I left, because Bella could never see me the way I wished she could. Never see me someone worthy of love. Never. Could a dead, frozen heart break? It felt like mine would.
"Edward," she mumbled softly. She was dreaming of me. Could a dead, frozen heart beat again? It felt like mine was about to.
I would always love this fragile human girl, for the rest of my limitless existence.”
Source: Midnight Sun [2008 Draft]
“I was not the one to invent lies: they were created in a society divided by class and each of us inherited lies when we were born. It is not by refusing to lie that we will abolish lies: it is by eradicating class by any means necessary.”
“I was not the popular kid in school.”
“I was not too smart and constantly mouthed off and didn't know anything.”
“I was not too stupid to learn, but too smart. Some instinct must have warned me that a woman accomplished in the domestic arts is frequently enslaved by them.”
“I was not trying to be shocking, or to be a pioneer. I wasn`t trying to change society, or to be ahead of my time. I didn`t think of myself as liberated, and I don`t believe that I did anything important. I was just myself. I didn`t know any other way to be, or any other way to live.”
“I was not ugly. I might never be anything for men to lose their heads about, but I need never again be ugly. This knowledge was like a song within me. Suddenly it all came together. If you were healthy, fit, and well-dressed, you could be attractive.”
“I was not unhappy. I wanted to be with someone. But it didn't trouble me that I was alone.”
Source: Call Me by Your Name
“I was not using the gears I usually do for time trials - it was either hard [gear] to pedal, or really low [gear] to pedal; [that] was something special of today.”
“I was not very strong growing up, and my uncle used to look at me, like, This kid is not growing up, he is growing tall but he can be broken like a banana.”
“I was not very well-behaved. I remember I was a discipline problem. I was a typical American male at twenty-years-old, and I was causing trouble whenever I could.”
“I was not weak; I did not cry. But it hurt me, more in a kind of refreshing, thrilling way, than a kind of pain that would cripple me and send me away crying. My fingernails dug into the palms of my hands, and my teeth bit into my lips, my knees were locked, but I could not faint.”
Source: Sharden
“I was not what you'd call a first-class actor, but I did all right.”
“I was not willing to give up because I was born to like taking risks and that is my way of life.”
“I was not wounded in any part of my body, but I had never experienced such intense pain, such a ripping of the nerves, such an ache of the heart.”
Source: Life of Pi
“I was not wrong. I was just misinformed.”
“I was not yet given a life when you were born; when I was born you were old already. How I wish I had not come this late, but death has placed mountains and seas between you and me.”
Source: Gold Boy, Emerald Girl
“I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love...I sought what I might love, in love with loving.”
“I was not yet three years old when my mother determined to send one of my elder sisters to learn to read at a school for girls we call the Amigas. Affection, and mischief, caused me to follow her, and when I observed how she was being taught her lessons I was so inflamed with the desire to know how to read, that deceiving - for so I knew it to be - the mistress, I told her that my mother had meant for me to have lessons too. ... I learned so quickly that before my mother knew of it I could already read.”
“I was not your destiny nor you mine; fate matters, not dreams and hopes.”
“I was not, and am not, officially a producer of that film [I am love] but the work of what a producer does I learned at that stage and to a certain extent I've been a producer ever since.”
“I was not, I was, I am not, I care not. (Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo)”
“I was not, though, born with a silver spoon in my mouth. Despite what people seem to think.”
“I was not; I have been; I am not; I do not mind.”
“I was nothing but a failure. A fucked-up, broken shame.
I was nothing but this emptiness. A shell ruined by fame.
Don’t be afraid to shatter, baby, if that will set you free.
I’ll find you in the pieces and that will unbreak me.”
Source: Unbreak Me
“I was nothing but a nomad to you.
Destined to leave,
inclined to stay.
I would have gladly rewritten
my entire journey for you,
but you already viewed me as a traveler.
“Wait for me,” you murmured,
with no intention of ever returning.
I was your right now
after you became my infinity.”
Source: Into the Wildfire: Mourning Departures
“I was nothing if not Kirito the Black Swordsman.”
Source: ソードアート・オンライン14:アリシゼーション・ユナイティング [Sōdo āto onrain 14: Arishizēshon Yunaitingu]
“I was nothing more than a thug with Tolstoy in my pocket.”
Source: Mercy Among the Children: A Novel
“I was noticing during living in Hawaii that I would become chronically fatigued and sleepy after eating. It was strange, as it did not happen at every meal. I would eat at the same restaurants and sometimes I would be sickly after eating and other times I would feel fine. I knew I had past food intolerance to gluten, fructose and lactose and was avoiding them. But even with this avoidance, some meals would make me sickly! It was a mystery I could not understand, no matter how much I tried. The only clue I had was it seemed to occur only when I ate large meals. I could eat small meals fine anywhere, but large meals were an occasional issue.”
Source: Magee’s Disease
“I was notified on July 17 to be ready to start August 7 for an October air date. When we reached the screen we did not have a single segment ready. It was done so fast the writers never got a chance to know what it was all about.”
“I was now, all the time, unutterably tired as if simply keeping alive was a terrible effort.”
Source: A Severed Head
“I was now at a university in New York, a professor of existential psychology with the not inconsiderable thesis that magic, dread, and the perception of death were the roots of motivation.”
Source: An American Dream: A Novel
“I was now enjoying the incredibly generous spread between the editor and me: a thick Belgian waffle obscured by a mountain of fresh cream and berries; crepes stuffed with thick, stick-to-the-roof-of-your-mouth Nutella and daintily folded into quarters; and the tarte tatin, traditionally served as dessert after lunch or dinner but the juicy, caramelized hunks of apple baked beneath buttery puff pastry and topped with slightly sour crème fraîche seemed totally appropriate to be on the table before us at 9:00 a.m. If only every day could start this way.”
Source: Brooklyn in Love: A Delicious Memoir of Food, Family, and Finding Yourself
“I was now ordered to have my writings copied, and put into the printer's hand.”
Source: Copies of letters sent to the clergy of Exeter. 1813. A communication sent in a letter to the Reverend Mr. P. in 1797. [1814] A dispute between the woman and the powers of darkness. 2d ed. 1813. The answer of the Lord to the powers of darkness. 2d ed. 1813. A caution and instruction to the sealed. 1807. A warning to the world. [1804] The strange effects of faith. 2d ed. 1801
“I was now prepared to accept any faith so long as it did not demand a direct denial of reason, which would have been a deceit.”
“I was now privy to how a calm, average , peace-loving individual can suddenly get infected with a special kind of crazy. Higher reasoning is replaced with killer animal instincts.”
Source: The Price of Dick
“I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.”