I Quotes
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“I chose to present myself as one who comes from among the people, and I can be touched by their pain because I have my own.”
“I chose to publish the first 'Shopaholic' book under a pseudonym because I wanted it to be judged on its own merits.”
“I chose to put my vulnerability above my social image. I was going to either fail or succeed. But I sure as hell wasn't going to be complacent.”
Source: The Pursuit of Endurance: Harnessing the Record-Breaking Power of Strength and Resilience
“I chose to spend the day with you. And I'm choosing now to have dinner with you.”
Source: How (Not) to Fall in Love
“I chose to start my world tour in Israel for a very specific and important reason. As you know, the Middle East and all the conflicts that occur here and that have been occurring for thousands of years... They have to stop... You can't be a fan of mine and not want peace in the world.”
“I chose to stay awake, this time lulled by the sounds of a very special mixtape made for me by a very special boy who just might have my heart.”
Source: MIXTAPE: Volume One
“I chose to stay with tennis and they didn't understand that at the school.”
“I chose to take the oath of office with my personal copy of the Bhagavad Gita because its teachings have inspired me to be a servant-leader, dedicating my life in the service of others and to my country.”
“I chose to take the weight of the world on my shoulders, but you don't necessarily have to. If you can't take the weight of the world on your shoulders, take the weight of your nation - if you can't take the weight of your nation, take the weight of your city - if you can't take the weight of your city, take the weight of your neighborhood. Start small but start somewhere - take responsibility for the issues of your immediate vicinity if not the whole world, and the world will change, slowly but surely.”
Source: No Foreigner Only Family
“I chose to tell a personal story. When you tell a movie like this that's as emotionally charged as this is, it's a risk. As one of my great cinematic heroes, Francis Coppola, would say, "If you aren't taking the highest, greatest risk, then why are you a filmmaker?"”
“I chose to tell the story visually, so that anyone of any age, from any country, could understand it.”
“I chose to treat the homosexuality like I would treat any other form of sexuality.”
“I chose to trust him when he said that the sharks were like the “dogs of the sea” and took aim, plunging into a shark-less patch of ocean. The water stole all my senses in a second, then a tail called them to attention, whipping my legs as I surfaced among the bubbles, my heart pounding.”
Source: The Shift: A Memoir
“I chose to wait to get my drivers license. Since I was working and I didn't have time, I got it like a week before my 18th birthday.”
“I chose to write about food: food is inherently political, but it's also an essential part of people's real lives. It's where the public and private spheres connect. I wanted to show readers that the larger politics of war and economics and U.S. foreign policy are inextricably bound to the supposedly trivial details of our everyday lives.”
“I chose you because you’re an orchard of ripe fruits, and I want to lay my sufferings in the shadows of your arms, of your belly. I chose you because your tears remind me of September rain. Because of the sun I see in your pupils. You cannot run now, can you? You have found your home. Do you feel the darkness in the hollow of your plexus? Don’t you understand? Your darkness was your secret, and she whispers to mine.”
Source: The Closed Doors
“I chose you. Nothing and no one will change that choice.”
“Not even your soulmate?”
“I feel like maybe I know myself better than the universe knows me. I know what’s right for me. What makes me happy.”
“And what’s that?”
“You.”
Source: Faces
“I chuckle, nuzzling into his chest, breathing him in. "You smell like home," I tell him after a moment.
"You are home," he says simply. "The bed, the flat..."
He pauses, the way he always does when he's looking for enough words for something big.
"It was never home until you were there, Tiffy.”
Source: The Flatshare
“I chuckled, guiding the Sailplane gently toward the sunlit horizon. “Poetry or not, it’s true. Flying taught me that freedom isn’t about escaping—it’s about finding your place, even if it’s thousands of feet above the ground. And love? It’s not so different. It’s about rising together, trusting each other, and embracing the moments when you’re weightless.”
Source: Entangled Hearts: Is It Me You’re Looking For?
“I chuckled to myself and kept walking. The Universe had proven Curran wrong: a person who aggravated him more than me did, in fact, exist.”
Source: Magic Burns
“I cieli non sono umani e la vita sopra di me e sotto di me e dentro di me neppure.”
Source: Too Loud a Solitude
“I Cinesi adottarono definitivamente una specie di positivismo superstizioso che accetta tutte le formule religiose, nella misura in cui esse si mostrano efficaci, che le utilizza un po' tutte, tanto per provare [...] ma che non si impegna, in fondo, che a rispettare le tradizioni.”
Source: Religion of the Chinese People
“I circled a few misspelled words, then handed it back to Theo.
“Do these words mean anything to you?”
“Nights. Reed. Hour. Male.” His eyes widened as he spoke the words aloud. “The knights read their mail? Which knights? Why?”
“Crap,” I muttered. “Someone with influence over your mail doesn’t want you to know whatever’s going on in Margen.”
Source: Don't Marry the Cursed
“I circumnavigate the globe with a one-liner like latitude.”
“I cite a good example, say, of agriculture, .. In agriculture we need to move with speed to bring to full utilization the land that is now in our possession. We need to curb aspects of corruption that are endemic in the economy. We need to be transparent in everything that we do. We need to be consistent in implementing the policies we would have agreed. And not implement policies one day and reverse them the other day.”
“I cite in my book countless examples of the foundational documents of the colonial period in America and the writings of the leaders, that this was intended to be a Christian nation.”
“I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation.”
“I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces.”
“I claim for Canada this, that in future Canada shall be at liberty to act or not act, to interfere or not interfere, to do just as she pleases, and that she shall reserve to herself the right to judge whether or not there is cause for her to act.”
“I claim my heart's desire, and I choose my direction. I will attain my chosen goal.”
Source: A Daily Dose of Sanity: A Five-Minute Soul Recharge for Every Day of the Year
“I claim neither liberalism nor conservatism - one tends to be airheaded while the other tends to be brickheaded.”
Source: Killosophy
“I claim no right to myself, no right to this understanding, this will, these affections that are in me. Neither do I have any right to this body or its members, no right to this tongue, to these hands, feet, ears or eyes. I have given myself clear away and not retained anything of my own.”
“I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.”
“I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere the justice and goodness of God.”
Source: The Portable Abraham Lincoln
“I claim that every woman in this century and in our culture sphere who has ventured into male-dominated institutions - 'literature' and 'aesthetics' are such institutions - must have experienced the desire for self-destruction.”
“I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.”
Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi
“I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung.”
“I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.”
“I claim that Mach people (and apparently FreeBSD) are incompetent idiots.”
“I claim that many patterns of Nature are so irregular and fragmented, that, compared with Euclid - a term used in this work to denote all of standard geometry - Nature exhibits not simply a higher degree but an altogether different level of complexity ... The existence of these patterns challenges us to study these forms that Euclid leaves aside as being "formless," to investigate the morphology of the "amorphous."”
“I claim that nothing else is so effective in encouraging the growth of chess strength as such independent analysis, both of the games of the great players and your own.”
“I claim that relativity and the rest of modern physics is not complicated. It can be explained very simply. It is only unusual or, put another way, it is contrary to common sense.”
Source: Conversations on the Dark Secrets of Physics
“I claim that the absolute Majority of strict and proud Christians would not only fail to recognize Jesus, but also despise him, not listen to him and even envy him.”
“I claim that this bookless library is a dream, a hallucination of on-line addicts; network neophytes, and library-automation insiders...Instead, I suspect computers will deviously chew away at libraries from the inside. They'll eat up book budgets and require librarians that are more comfortable with computers than with children and scholars. Libraries will become adept at supplying the public with fast, low-quality information. The result won't be a library without books--it'll be a library without value.”
“I claim the holy right to disappoint men in order to avoid disappointing God.”
“I claim the right not to incriminate myself.”
“I claim the right to be who I want to be. Regardless of my choice, I will find those who agree and those who don't. I will gain support, and I will confront opposition, but I will stand firmly as me.
It is my choice.
It is the only real choice I have to make.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“I claim the right to contradict myself. I don't want to deprive myself of the right to talk nonsense, and I ask humbly to be allowed to be wrong sometimes.”
“I claim the right to take a stand once in a while.”
“I claim there ain't Another Saint As great as Valentine.”
Source: Happy Days