I Quotes
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“I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.”
“I constantly repeated these notions to myself, spending hours stroking and probing the cube. The outcomes? I still had not succeeded in solving the rubik’s cube! I did not even solve a single side! I was not at all able to find a feasible method to deal with simultaneous permutations of combinations, nor find ways to lead my hands into dexterous motions... Nonetheless, for another hour, I persisted in repeating these notions, hoping I might be able to solve the cube.”
Source: For the Intellect
“I constantly saw the false and the bad, and finally the absurd and the senseless, standing in universal admiration and honour.”
Source: The World as Will and Representation
“I constantly say things that I regret. I mortify myself constantly.”
“I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest - sometimes not even the most diligent. But they are learning machines; they go to bed every night a little wiser than when they got up. And, boy, does that habit help, particularly when you have a long run ahead of you.”
“I constantly signal to the Iraqi leaders that our patience, or the patience of the American people, is running out.”
“I constantly sought knowledge and truth, and it became my belief that for gaining access to the effulgence and closeness to God, there is no better way than that of searching for truth and knowledge.”
“I constantly think as an artist, as a rapper of what are the stories you want to tell? They can't all be, "I'm ill, I'm fresh, look at me, I have money." At some point, when you have an audience for it, there are stories that need to be told.”
“I constantly think I'm a fraud, that this success is not warranted or justified.”
“I constantly tour, even when I don't have a record out.”
“I constantly try to humble myself; if you don't, I'm sure the game is going to find a way to humble you.”
“I constantly try to reinvent my sensibilities and my ideas. I enjoy some of the satisfaction that I get when I feel good about what I've done. But the process is quite lonely and quite painful.”
“I constantly walk into a room and I don't remember why. But for some reason, I think there's going to be a clue in the fridge.”
“I constantly watch 'The Simpsons' and an English cartoon called 'The Raccoons' and 'Gummi Bears.' I was obsessed with ninja films, and the 'Teenage Mutant Nina Turtles,' I used to love that as well.”
“I constantly work at maintaining balance. For me, my family comes first. If my family is taken care of, then everything else usually falls into place.”
“I constantly worry about my family and my kids. 'Are they O.K., what are they doing right now?'”
“I constantly yearn to celebrate life & its infinite manifestations, to examine the details of everything including the human heart & mind.”
“I construct my memories with my present. I am lost, abandoned in the present. I try in vain to rejoin the past: I cannot escape.”
“I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology.”
“I consulted a therapist at Mass. General. After about 20 minutes, he stopped me and said, 'You're just a big existential garbage pail. Go home and relax.'”
“I consulted a trauma expert who travels to communities devastated by natural disasters. When she meets with suffering people, she often asks this question, “Where are you feeling the pain in your body?” She wants to know if they want to talk about their emotions or if they need to talk about what’s happening physically to them. I used this advice when I recently met with a grieving friend. I wasn’t sure what to ask her, so I sat with her, cried, and then asked, “How are you feeling the grieving in your body?” She loved the question. Nobody had ever asked her this, and she wanted to talk about all the trembling and nausea she was feeling.”
Source: The Six Conversations: Pathways to Connecting Again in an Age of Isolation and Incivility
“I consume an enormous number of books, but they're always on a particular subject because I'm obsessive.”
“I consume too much sugar. It’s a problem, I need to stop.”
“I contact Allah the Holy the Merciful on a daily basis.”
“I contain multitudes, most of them flawed.”
Source: The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death
“I contemplate the body, dead and diseased as well as alive and healthy.”
“I contemplate the idea that maybe I'm an alcoholic. I get this occassionally, the need to define myself as something-or-the-other, and at various times in my life have wondered if I'm a Goth, a homosexul, a Jew, a Catholic or a manic depressive, whether I am adopted, or have a hole in my heart, or possess the ability to move objects with the power of my mind, and have always, most regretfully, come to the conclusion that I'm none of the above. The fact is I'm actually not ANYTHING.”
“I contemplate the impossible and achieve madness. This is my blessing. This is my curse. My heaven, my hell.”
Source: Moon Gypsy
“I contemplate the notion that maybe regrets are a process of accumulation of time, as unavoidable as a closet full of clothes and more bags of them in the attic. Is accumulated baggage what makes people get old? If so, they need to clean out their fecking attics, send the stuff to consignment shops and remember how to walk around naked like kids, little bellies sticking out, always ready for a good laugh.”
Source: Iced: Fever Series
“I contemplated her, seeing her young bland face looking at me, now removed as if behind a gauze curtain. She quietly invited me to suffer. There was a great space now, a great silent hall in which this suffering could take place. There was no urgency now, nothing to plan, nothing to achieve. What shall I do with it, I asked her, what shall I do now with my love for you which you so terribly revived by reappearing in my life? Why did you come back, if you could not content me? What can I do now with the great useless machine of my love which has no wholesome work to do? I can do nothing for you any more, my darling. I wondered if I would be fated to live with this love, making of it a shrine which could not now be desecrated. Perhaps when I was living alone and being everyone's uncle like a celibate priest I would keep this fruitless love as my secret chapel. Could I then learn to love uselessly and unpossessively and would this prove to be the monastic mysticism which I had hoped to attain when I came away to the sea?”
Source: The Sea, The Sea
“I contemplated my greed for peace. And I did not seek tranquillity anymore.”
“I contemplated pride and love. All this contemplativeness. When will I be free of it?”
“I contemplated suicide. My main concern was that I would not make the New York Times obituary page.”
Source: Leaving home: a memoir
“I contemplated the phone for some time. Never had I heard her so oddly gay and forthright; as a matter of fact, we hadn't discussed sex since adolescence. Her entire inner life was secretive and mysterious, and no one dared violate it. She sent out powerful "No Trespassing" signals and I had learned to honor them. It crossed my mind that my sister was drunk.”
Source: Haywire
“I contend it is this " presence of absence " that is most harmful”
Source: The Absent Father Effect on Daughters
“I contend that Bush would be a lot more moderate if there weren't some fundamentalists breathing down his neck every time he wants to establish the state of Israel, every time he wants to do justice for the Palestinian people.”
“I contend that every woman has the right to feel beautiful, no matter how scrambled her features, or how indifferent her features.”
“I contend that financial markets never reflect the underlying reality accurately; they always distort it in some way or another and the distortions find expression in market prices. Those distortions can, occasionally, find ways to affect the fundamentals that market prices are supposed to reflect.”
Source: The Crash of 2008 and What it Means: The New Paradigm for Financial Markets
“I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.”
“I contend that in the kind of nonfiction I write, and that other people also pursue, anything is permissible provided the reader knows what you're taking liberties with.”
“I contend that it's impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment.”
“I contend that most emotional distress is best understood as a rational response to sick societies.”
Source: Affluenza: How to be Successful and Stay Sane
“I contend that no book figured more prominently than the Bible in the political thought of these patriots we call the founders.”
“I contend that non-violent acts exert pressure far more effective than violent acts, for the pressure comes from goodwill and gentleness.”
Source: Collected Works
“I contend that not only can you laugh at adversity, but it is essential to do so if you are to deal with setbacks without defeat.”
“I contend that the continued racial classification of Homo sapiens represents an outmoded approach to the general problem of differentiation within a species. In other words, I reject a racial classification of humans for the same reasons that I prefer not to divide into subspecies the prodigiously variable West Indian land snails that form the subject of my own research.”
“I contend that the cry of 'Black Power' is, at bottom, a reaction to the reluctance of white power to make the kind of changes necessary to make justice a reality for the Negro. I think that we've got to see that a riot is the language of the unheard. And, what is it that America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the economic plight of the Negro poor has worsened over the last few years." — Martin Luther King, Jr., 60 Minutes Interview, 1966”
“I contend that the only thing holding people back from exploring infinite divergence is their will to do so.”
Source: Questioning Creativity: Modern Explorations In Creative Thinking
“I contend that the problem with transsexualism would best be served by morally mandating it out of existence”
“I contend that the reason why America is not as happy as it was in 1950 or 1920 or whenever, 100 years ago, is because our priorities are wrong, but it has nothing to do with exploiting the planet and has everything to do with losing faith in God.”