I Quotes
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“I dealt with men who had tempers, and who could get violent-Lord knows how I had to defend myself against Howard Hughes and Frank Sinatra, and from Artie Shaw's verbal abuse. But George [C. Scott] was a different category of animal when he got drunk. He'd break into my hotel room, which he did in Italy, London and at the Beverly Hills Hotel, attack me to where I was frightened for my life, and scream, 'Why won't you marry me?' Well, I would never marry a man who couldn't control his liquor. Me, I'm a happy drunk. I laugh, I dance. I certainly don't break bottles and threaten to kill.”
“I dealt with people with diverse political views. If you find people who are your political opponents, and talk to them for an hour, chances are you're going to like them, and they're not full of hate.”
“I dearly love a laugh.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part, and discuss it only with consenting adults.”
“I debate adding kisses, but don’t. They might be misconstrued as something more than being friendly.”
Source: Paper Hearts & Summer Kisses
“I debated for a moment and wondered if I was walking into a trap. Eventually, I thought what the hell, and followed him into the dark.”
Source: The Legend of Acacia Vitak
“I debated free trade in college. I came out as a free trader. I'm a free markets guy. I'm an Adam Smith guy.”
“I debated in high school! If you told things that weren't true or just made things out of whole cloth, you were penalized. It's too bad they don't apply the same standards to presidential candidates as they do to high school students.”
“I debated whether or not to pin the setting down to a particular date but in the end I decided to leave things vague. It depends how fast technology improves.”
“I debated whether to tell them I had long since abandoned my writing career and moved into radishes and fraud, but decided the timing was wrong.”
Source: Home to Woefield
“i decapitated dandelions all morning, leaving carnage and death strewn into my path.”
“I deciced if I were ever to get into booze and women, my line would be, 'Excuse me, madam, but I would really love to bed and muss you. . . . Are you perchance free this evening?”
Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
“I decide a book is bad if I get angrier and angrier as I read it.”
“I decide every day that I love Creativity enough to accept that Fear will always come with it. And I talk to Fear all the time, speaking to it with love and respect, saying to it: “I know that you are Fear, and that your job is to be afraid. And you do your job really well! I will never ask you to leave me alone or to be silent, because you have a right to speak your own voice, and I know that you will never leave me alone or be silent, anyhow. But I need you to understand that I will always choose Creativity over you.”
“I decide I’ll just have to be myself. I’m sick of pretending anyway – of policing my words and editing my thoughts. Husband never wants me to talk about the Slits or my ceramics or make rude jokes, I’m losing every ounce of the person I used to be. I know she wasn’t all good, but she wasn’t all bad either. I’m not going to pretend to be something I’m not for this bloke who lives miles away across the sea. I’m not going to try and be nice and seductive for him. There are so many people in my life that I’m putting on a front for, I don’t need one more. If he doesn’t like me for who I am, forget it.”
Source: Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys
“I decide I'm not dead because I can hear the sound of the rain hitting the roof of the car. I'm alive because I'm listening to the rain, and the rain becomes the hand of God strumming his fingers on the roof, deciding what to do.”
Source: Left Neglected
“I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.”
“I decide my friends, but God decide my enemies.”
“I decide on the basis of conscience. A genuine leader doesn't reflect consensus, he molds consensus.”
“I decide that sometimes definitions are wrong. Even if they're written in a dictionary. Identities aren't always separate and distinct. Sometimes they ARE wrapped up with others. Sometimes, for a few minutes, maybe they can even be shared. And if I am ever fortunate enough to return to Mr. Bender's garden, I wonder if the birds will see that piece of him that is wrapped up in me.”
“I decide that we could always indulge ourselves later. First, I had a soul-eating stone of power to poke with a stick.”
Source: Magic Lost, Trouble Found
“I decide this day with Chase Gartner--my friend, my maybe-possibility--is the best one yet.”
Source: I Stand Before You
“I decide this is just A Bad Day. We all get them, because grief doesn't care how many years it's been.”
Source: A Quiet Kind of Thunder
“I decide to ask a question that’s been on my mind for months: “Why, when job searching could be totally rationalized by the Internet through a simple matching of job seekers’ skills to company needs, does everything seem to depend on this old-fashioned, face-to-face networking? After all, there’s going to be an interview anyway, right?”
“It’s about trust,” Ron answers opaquely, not to mention “likability.” “The higher up you get in the exec ranks, the more things depend on being likable. You’ve got to fit in.”
I catch my right hand advancing toward Ron’s untouched French fries and quickly revise the gesture into a reach for the salt. It’s distracting to think that our major economic enterprises, on which the livelihoods and well-being of millions depend, rest so heavily on the thin goo of “likability.”
Source: Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
“I decide to be brave. Being brave isn't always about throwing your body on the line in footy clashes. Sometimes it's about letting your heart show in your face.”
Source: White Night
“I decide to do what I always do when I'm not sure what's going on: I act like everyone else.”
“I decide to keep an alert and clear mind.
I love to be affectionate.
I extend brilliance.
Perhaps beauty is the alchemy of those things.”
“I decide to make a massive tortilla española, since that's something I can prepare in advance and serve warm or at room temperature. I add a Manchego and apple salad to the list, along with a watermelon and tomato salad and shrimp and squid a la pancha. For fourteen people, I will need a few more vegetable dishes---maybe some roasted red peppers stuffed with goat cheese and a green bean salad with apricots and jamón Serrano---along with a few more hot, meaty dishes, like ham croquetas and grilled hanger steak.”
Source: Too Many Cooks
“I decide to make the most of the time we got left before she gets too big for this small town.”
Source: Cold Skin
“I decide to take a risk on this family. Not because I won’t get hurt, but because they are the right people to get hurt by.”
Source: Love Warrior
“I decide to take the risk on this family. Not because I won't get hurt, but because they are the right people to get hurt by.”
Source: Love Warrior
“I decide what I am,
and I decide the parameters of what I am -
for example, I can be a monk and still fall in love,
just like, I can be a muslim poet,
and still consider the koran to be flawed -
I can be a theologian of any faith, and consider
all the scriptures to be a mix of good and bad -
my mind is the measure, not convention;
life is my constitution, not tradition.
This is how I created whatever I've created,
not in defiance of convention, but indifference -
I built my universe, aloof from foolish fractures,
to men of ritual it's a terrible sacrilege.”
Source: The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology
“I decided a long time ago but sometimes it takes you 40 years to get around to doing something - and that's the truthful answer.”
“I decided a long time ago I didn't want to be a star personality and live my life out in public. I don't think it's a good idea to wave personality about like a flag and become labeled.”
“I decided a long time ago I would feed on the vultures until a dove came along. A pigeon. The kind of soul that didn't impede on anyone; just walked around worrying about its own business, trying to get through life without pulling everyone else down. With its own needs and selfish habits. Brave. A communicator. Intelligent. Beautiful. Soft-spoken. A creature that mates for life. Unattainable until she has a reason to trust you.”
Source: Walking Disaster Signed Limited Edition: A Novel
“I decided a long time ago that I didn’t want to go into comedy to make money. I just want to perform on that stage. If I do make money, then... great! But if I don’t, that’s okay.
I’m satisfied living out this calling any way I can.”
Source: Andrew's First Act
“I decided (after listening to a "talk radio" commentator who abused, vilified, and scorned every noble cause to which I had devoted my entire life) that I was both a humanist and a liberal, each of the most dangerous and vilified type. I am a humanist because I think humanity can, with constant moral guidance, create a reasonably decent society. I am terrified of restrictive religious doctrine, having learned from history that when men who adhere to any form of it are in control, common men like me are in peril. I do not believe that pure reason can solve the perpetual problems unless it is modified by poetry and art and social vision. So I am a humanist. And if you want to charge me with being the most virulent kind—a secular humanist—I accept the accusation. [Interview, Parade magazine, 24 November 1991]”
“I decided as long as I'm going to hell, I might as well do it thoroughly.”
Source: Twilight
“I decided as usual that justice lay in the middle - that is to say nowhere.”
Source: Quiet as a Nun
“I decided at 10 I wanted to be in a band; everyone else wanted to play football.”
“I decided at 15 that I didn't want to be one of those artists that gets up and sings love songs they don't mean. I decided that I was going to be me to the fullest extent, that my songs were going to reflect relationships I've had, things I've been through, and even the stuff I'm embarrassed about.”
“I decided at age 5 to start acting and I have never wanted to do anything else.”
“I decided at age 9, but I was reinforced at age 13 when a teacher told me I had talent. I can't say she really motivated me because I already knew. I knew I had talent. I went to the Jewish community theater and got in plays there. Then I went for the movies.”
“I decided at school that the only sensible way to make a living by arranging words in a pleasing order was by working on newspapers, because you got paid at the end of the week or the end of the month.”
“I decided at that moment that we would find a way to be together. The future was terrifying, but we would face it together...our pelts brushing,our tails twined. Our hearts in love,forever. -CrowfeatherXLeafpool.”
Source: Warriors: Secrets of the Clans
“I decided at the outset to invest in a fairly broad range of businesses, as I didn't want to get pigeonholed into one sector.”
“I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly.”
“I decided during my teens that I wasn't going to have the life of a concert pianist, much to the chagrin of a lot of people who had put a lot of money into me!”
“I decided early in graduate school that I needed to do something about my moods. It quickly came down to a choice between seeing a psychiatrist or buying a horse. Since almost everyone I knew was seeing a psychiatrist, and since I had an absolute belief that I should be able to handle my own problems, I naturally bought a horse.”
Source: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
“I decided early on that I was going to put on my crown and rule my world by acting right and treating myself like a queen.”