I Quotes
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“I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices.”
“I detest legalism. I certainly don't want to try to pour new wine into old wineskins, imposing superseded First Covenant restrictions on Christians. But at the same time, every New Testament example of giving goes far beyond the tithe. However, none falls short of it.”
“I detest lies hidden behind good breeding and polite smiles.”
Source: Beauty Among Ruins
“I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.”
“I detest limitations of any kind, and intend to establish my ass some place where I am a virgin on the police blotter.”
“I detest literature. I abominate the theatre. I have a horror of culture. I am only interested in magic!”
Source: The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan
“I detest mediocrity.”
Source: This Isn't What It Looks Like
“I detest my fellow-beings and do not feel that I am their fellow at all”
“I detest my final thought-
Throughout my quest I had to adore worse,
I'm weary from being ever so distraught-
Prithee-lay to rest my curse.”
“I detest my past, and anyone else's. I detest resignation, patience, professional heroism and obligatory beautiful feelings. I also detest the decorative arts, folklore, advertising, voices making announcements, aerodynamism, boy scouts, the smell of moth balls, events of the moment, and drunken people.”
“I detest politics, to be honest with you. It's a cesspool. And I don't think I would fare well in that cesspool because I don't believe in political correctness and I certainly don't believe in dishonesty.”
“I detest producing. I mean, I feel like I do it to enable myself to do all the other stuff that I do love, but I find it's in conflict with the other roles because the producer needs to be the one who says "No" and the director and the writer need to let their mind be free.”
“I detest professional anythings but particularly professional writers. Most of them today are just garbage collectors.”
Source: The trouble with nowadays: a curmudgeon strikes back
“I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.”
Source: Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations
“I detest self-regard. If my work has taught me anything, it is that self-aggrandisement is completely unhistorical.”
“I detest so much ... those persons, who insist upon telling you everything - who labor every point, as the lawyers say, as if they thought all excellence consisted in length.”
“I detest symbolic protest, as it is an outcry of weak, middle-of-the-road, liberal eunuchs. If an individual feels strongly enough about something to do something about it, then he shouldn't prostitute himself by doing something symbolic. He should get out and do something real.”
“I detest that saying Everything happens for a reason; its nonsense.”
“I detest the Bible as I detest everything that is cruel.”
“I detest the endgame. A well-played game should be practically decided in the middlegame.”
“I detest the idea that love between two persons can lead to salvation. All my life I have fought against this oppressive type of relationship. Instead, I believe in searching for a kind of love that somehow involves all of humanity.”
“I detest the man who hides on thing in the depths of his heart and speaks forth another.”
Source: The Iliad of Homer
“I detest the masculine point of view. I am bored by his heroism, virtue, and honour. I think the best these men can do is not talk about themselves anymore.”
“I detest the word plot. I never, never think of plot. I think only and solely of character. Give me the characters; I'll tell you a story-maybe a thousand stories. The interaction between and among human beings is the only story worth telling.”
“I detest these underdone men, he thought coldly. Boiled looking! Ought to be shoved back in the oven; just one more minute would do it.”
Source: The Beautiful and Damned
“I detest those who deceive me.”
Source: The Cotton Malone Series 9-Book Bundle
“I detest tradition for tradition's sake; the half-alive; that which is not real. I feel no hatred of individuals, but of customs, traditions; superstitions that go against life, against truth, against the reality of experience, against the spontaneous living out of the sense of wonder-of fresh experience, freshly seen and communicated.”
“I detest violence. I have a tremendous respect not only for human life but also for the animal life that I have to live with, and I believe that our destiny as human beings is to become nature-conscious as well as self-conscious, living in loving relationship and in balance and in harmony, not only with one another, but with the entire natural world.”
“I detest war; it ruins conversation”
“I detested that people who already had everything they could possibly want would step on others who had nothing. Would use them and crush them. I'd lived my life mainly in the streets and found out the hard way that people who could have helped just hurt us.”
Source: Toxic Game
“I detested their blind, thoughtless, automatic acquiescence to it all, their simpleminded patriotism, their prideful ignorance, their love-it-or-leave-it platitudes, how they were sending me off to a war they didn't understand and didn't want to understand. I held them responsible. By God, yes, I did. All of them - I held them personally and individually responsible - the polyestered Kiwanis boys, the merchants and the farmers, the pious churchgoers, the chatty housewives, the PTA and the Lions club and the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the fine outstanding gentry out at the country club. They didn't know Bao Dai from the man in the moon. They didn't know history. They didn't know the first thing about Diem's tyranny, or the nature of Vietnamese nationalist, or the long colonialism of the French - this was all too damn complicated, it required some reading - but no matter, it was a war to stop the Communists, plain and simple, which was how they liked things, and you were a treasonous pussy if you had second thoughts about killing or dying for plain and simple reasons.”
Source: The Things They Carried
“I detested you, at the moment of my death... My soul cannot move beyond that... As long as you live, I cannot rest! -Kikyo to Kagome”
“I devalued the peso solely looking after the poor.”
“I develop altitude sickness at just 1,000 feet. At what altitude do you develop it?”
“I develop artificially intelligent technologies, along with educational and game software and let the business people take it where they will.”
“I develop my own film. And I work in spurts. I pile it up.”
“I develop my work in a time that, from my point of view, is much more # romantic than the present day”
“I developed a deep sadness for celebrities, a pity that they often are caught in a plastic world that runs too hard and too fast, and that many times that world means destroyed relationships with everyone they know and love.”
“I developed a deep, abiding fear of jeans, which I still have. I hold my breath and shut my eyes when I pull on a pair in the dressing room, afraid they will now, as then, get stuck at my hips and there I will stand, absurd, staring at the excess of hips that should, if I were a good person, be „slim“.”
Source: Wasted Updated Edition: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
“I developed a great sense of self-confidence when I was very young.”
“I developed a group of friends around me that were all as crazy as I was about wanting to make films.”
“I developed a long time ago some habits. One of them is what I call "divert daily, withdraw weekly, and abandon annually." Divert daily is everyday you do something that's not work-related. You do something that relaxes you. Then you withdraw weekly. The Bible says every seven days you take a day off. And then abandon annually means you just go out and forget it all.”
“I developed a loyal following. No one knew I was homeless.”
“I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.”
“I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch, I could put it to one side and maintain my form. Call it mental resilience or a strong mind, but that is what we mean when we talk about experience in a football team.”
“I developed a nutty attitude where I'd think, If some guy really loves me he doesn't care if I'm fat. I'd come up with all these stupid reasons why it would be OK to be fat.”
“I developed a panic disorder at the Roque De Los Muchachos Observatory after two years of working there and routinely sleeping atop the high altitude summit.”
“I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts.”
“I developed a pretty unusual style, I think.”
“I developed a problem with authority. Any time that authority was what I interpreted as being unjust, I stood up to it, and that became my personality.”