I Quotes
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“I did not begin with craft, I began with strong feelings and worked toward craft.”
Source: Trash
“I did not believe him capable of love. That is an emotion in which tenderness is an essential part, but Strickland had no tenderness either for himself or for others; there is in love a sense of weakness, a desire to protect, an eagerness to do good and to give pleasure--if not unselfishness, at all events a selfishness which marvellously conceals itself; it has in it a certain diffidence.”
Source: The Moon and Sixpence
“I did not believe I was superior to him. Perhaps the chief reason for his defeat was the overestimation of his own powers arising out of his overwhelming victory in New York, 1927, and his underestimation of mine.”
“I did not believe in stalemates. I believed in resolutions, one way or another, and if I found myself on the losing end, so be it. Losing meant quiet, and forgetting quickly, and giving up nothing of any real worth to me. I did not debate restaurant bills, politics, wrongly delivered mail, divorces. These things were officiously loud, and silence was always best.”
Source: A Listing of the Holdings of the National Museum of Romance
“I did not believe in the war. I thought it was wrong to go into any war. And I got to the war, and saw the Germans, and I changed my mind. I decided we were right going into World War II.”
“I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing . . . not to poetry or fiction, which to be valid had to express as truthfully as possible the individual emotions and reactions of the writer.”
Source: I Wonder as I Wander: An Autobiographical Journey
“I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from convention and prejudice, should demand the denial of life and joy. I insisted that our Cause could not expect me to become a nun and that the movement would not be turned into a cloister. If it meant that, I did not want it.”
“I did not believe what I was told about being poor and black and female in Mississippi in 1954.”
“I did not bother to explain myself. It would have taken months. Years.”
Source: In the Cut
“I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.”
Source: The 10 Greatest Books of All Time
“I did not break up the Beatles. You can't have it both ways. If you're going to blame me for breaking the Beatles up, you should be thankful that I made them into myth rather than a crumbling group.”
“I did not bring a television set out here with me, and I regret it sometimes when the evenings get long, but my idea was that living alone you can soon get stuck to those flickering images and to the chair you will sit on far into the night, and then time merely passes as you let others do the moving. I do not want that. I will keep myself company.”
Source: Out Stealing Horses
“I did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome. I found it here, in great vigour, more abounding than in any of the neighboring Protestant States. I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.”
“I did not call for the extermination of people, but of ideas.”
“i did not care. i would have no need of her. i did not plan to live after he was gone.”
Source: The Song of Achilles
“I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what is was all about.”
“I did not choose solitude. Who would? It came on me like a kind of vocation, demanding an effort that married women can’t picture. Sometimes, even now, I look on the married girls the way a wild dog might look through the window at tame ones, envying the regularity of their lives but also despising the low pleasure they get from the master’s touch.”
“I did not choose solitude. Who would? It came on me like a kind of vocation, demanding an effort that married women can't picture.”
“I did not choose the pen, the pen first choose me. I did not have to look for God, He first found me. Now I'm about that Life, Faith, Love and Family, I let the Business be last because money can never make you happy.”
Source: Pivot: Pinecones & Spaceships Volume I
“I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.”
“I did not choose to be a monster—a shell of a man—half-human, half-fiend. I am a tiefling. I am what I am.”
Source: The Tiefling: Angel Kissed, Devil Touched
“I did not climb to the top of the food chain to eat carrots.”
“I did not clip the wings of my daughter to fly.”
“I did not come across the world to lose you now.”
Source: The Princess Bride
“I did not come all this way not to interfere”
“I did not come from an academic background. My father was a smart man, but he had a fifth-grade education. He and all his friends were plumbers. They were all born around 1905 in great poverty in New York City and had to go to work when they were 12 or 13 years old.”
“I did not come here for the purpose of surrendering my command.”
“I did not come here to repeat what you already know. I have come to reveal something new. I want to share with you a new revelation from God.”
“I did not come into contact with any Muslim before I embraced Islam. I read the Qur'an first and realized no person is perfect, Islam is perfect, and if we imitate the conduct of the Holy Prophet... we will be successful.”
“I did not come into football to make money. I had already made millions.”
“I did not come into the world to prove anything. I came into the world to love everyone and everything.”
“I did not come into this world
to be comforted.
I came, like a red bird, to sing.
But I'm not a red bird, with his head mop of flame
and the red triangle of his mouth
full of tongue and whistles,
but a woman whose love has vanished,
who thinks now, too much, of roots
and the dark places
where everything is simply holding on.”
Source: Red Bird
“I did not come to NASA to make history.”
“I did not come to power to divide Somali but to unite them, and I will never deviate from this path. I shall respect a Somali individual as long as he deserves respect, but if he turns away from the correct path, then that is not my business.”
“I did not come to Washington to be loved, and I have not been disappointed.”
“I did not come to Washington to raise the electricity rates by as much as $40 per month as this plan would do.”
“I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart, such as I have felt it since my childhood.”
“I did not consider him to be any kind of a genius. I considered him deeply lacking in the area that mattered most in life. Star quality.”
“I did not consider that I would lead a literary life. I'd thought initially, as a young girl, that I would be a teacher, since I so admired many of my teachers. And though I loved writing, I did not ever think of myself as a writer.”
“I did not count the days or the weeks or the months. Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time.”
Source: Life of Pi - CANCELED
“I did not create my life, so I have no right to negate my life.”
“I did not criticize the Central Bank's position.”
“I did not cry [...] I did not think. I simply sat, and watched and waited. One road had closed, one path to resolution. I would never make it up with her, never get to apologize or tell her what she'd meant to me. I would not be her friend again. I had not conceived this possibility.
Forgiveness. I hoped she had forgiven me.”
Source: Shirley
“I did not cry then or ever about Finney. I did not cry even when I stood watching him being lowered into his family’s straightlaced burial ground outside of Boston. I could not escape a feeling that this was my own funeral, and you do not cry in that case.”
Source: A Separate Peace
“I did not deal well with the politicians. I tend to tell people that when they are full of crap, that they are full of crap.”
“I did not deceive him, he did not deceive me, I did not leave him, he did not leave me, I freed him, he freed me.”
Source: Stag's Leap
“I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.”
Source: Annotated The Mysterious Affairs at Styles with English Grammar Exercises: by Agatha Christie (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)
“I did not decide to become an officer to start a military career. I still wanted to be an agronomist and work in some remote corner of Russia after the war. I could not suppose that my country would change, and I would.”
“I did not design this game; I did not name the stakes. I just happen to like apples; and I am not afraid of snakes.”
“I did not destroy your refuge. It was already weak. I merely revealed the truth.”