I Quotes
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“I did not succeed in life by intelligence. I succeeded because I have a long attention span.”
“I did not suggest that Iran is a democracy; just the opposite. I talked about it being a repressive theocracy. What I think is indisputable is that even within this repressive regime, the political leaders there - including the Supreme Leader - are sensitive to the concerns of the population within bounds.”
“I did not support any more New York. I lived 10 years there, and after September 11, I felt very European. I did not share the opinion of people in the street, who were deeply influenced by what they heard in the media.”
“I did not support Operation Desert Fox.”
“I did not survive everything. No one ever does. Little pieces of you - sometimes the best of you - get lost in a little lie here, a little joke there. And of course, the aftereffect is the tiny sob - unseen, unheard, deeply felt.”
“I did not take the name, I just named myself Cassius Clay, this is a honorable, Mohammed Ali, given to me by my religious leader and teacher, the Honorable Elijah Mohammed, and I would like to say that Mohammed means in Arabic "one who is worthy of praise" and one praiseworthy, and Ali means the most High, but the slave name Clay meant dirt with no ingredients.”
“I did not tell Fat this, but technically he had become a Buddha. It did not seem to me like a good idea to let him know. After all, if you are a Buddha you should be able to figure it out for yourself.”
Source: Valis
“I did not tell him the prophecy. I watched him eat and fingered my rage as if it were a knife's point. I wanted to keep it sharp for as long as I could.”
Source: Circe
“I did not think I had what it took to be an actor, because most of the actors that I encountered were people who were very narcissistic and I thought since I lacked narcissism to become an actor because that's what it took. It was more of a social experiment for me to walk in the shoes of other people that I found interesting.”
“I did not think I should be ever loved: do you indeed Love me so much as now you say you do? Ask of the sea-bird if it loves the sea, Ask of the roses if they love the rain, Ask of the little lark, that will not sing Till day break, if it loves to see the day: And yet, these are but empty images, Mere shadows of my love, which is a fire So great that all the waters of the main Can not avail to quench it.”
Source: The Duchess of Padua: Easyread Large Bold Edition
“I did not think I would make the grade.”
“I did not think I would see the day when, you know, an AIG would not be able to have its checks clear.”
“I did not think much about working at the 13,796 feet high summit of Mauna Kea until I started working there. Every day atop the mountain was spent feeling really crappy and taking company supplied drugs so that I could do my job. My love of Hawaii kept me working there for five years until my health started to fail.”
“I did not think of writing as a career and I don't think that I did this ever really, but I think of writing as something that I could do, I should do alongside whatever else I was doing. It simply grew on me.”
“I did not think that I was angry, but clearly anger was reflected in my writing. I did not think that I had been affected emotionally, but it was clear from my writing that I was still very emotional about the trial some six months after it ended.”
“I did not think that you would come today."
A hint of a smile played across her lips. "I confess, my lord, I did consider avoiding the visit."
"And yet, here you are."
Her cheeks pinkened as she dipped her head, shyly. "We have a bargain."
When he replied, his voice was quieter, more thoughtful. "Indeed. We do.”
Source: Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake
“I did not think you would be angry, Jem burst out, and it was like ice cracking across a frozen waterfall, freeing a torrent. We were engaged, Tessa. A proposal-an offer of marriage-is a promise. A promise to love and care for someone always. I did not mean to break mine to you. But it was that or die. I wanted to wait, to be married to you and live wit you for years, but that wasn't possible. I was dying too fast. I would have given it up-all of it up-to be married to you for a day. A day that would never have come. You are a reminder-a reminder of everything I am losing. The life I will not have.”
Source: Clockwork Princess
“I did not think you would be this impressed with my visit. I should come to see you more often."
"Oh Fredrick," she said, not amused. "I am so glad to see a familiar face."
"Is that all? A familiar face?" He let out a sigh. "For a minute I thought you'd missed me."
She let go of him and stood back to swat him playfully on the arm. "Do not play with me, Fredrick. Of course I missed you. You have been away from my company for far too long.”
Source: Ruby
“I did not think; I experimented.”
“I did not threaten anybody in any moment and even less with a brick.”
“I did not tremble when his eyes met mine. One can only shudder in fear for so long until all trepidation is replaced by unearthly bravery.”
Source: Clashing Waters: The Obyascon Prince
“I did not try to conform to anybody's ideal of what a Latin celebrity or movie star should be. I took a lot of hits for it.”
“I did not understand that one future comes at the exclusion of all others.
Everybody pretends that you die only once. But that’s not true. You can die a thousand possible futures in the course of a single, stupid life.”
Source: No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear
“I did not understand that she was hiding her feelings under irony, that this is usually the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded, and that their pride makes them refuse to surrender till the last moment and shrink from giving expression to their feelings before you. to have guessed the truth from the timidity with which she had repeatedly approached her sarcasm, only bringing herself to utter it at last with an effort.”
“I did not understand the differences between Catholic and Protestant until I was an adult.”
“I did not understand them but they did not have any mystery, and when I understood them they meant nothing to me. I was sorry about this but there was nothing I could do about it.”
Source: Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition
“I did not understand you. I shut my eyes, and would not understand you, or do you justice. This is a recollection which ought to make me forgive every one sooner than myself.”
Source: Persuasion
“I did not unlove you over night.
It took growth, new skin, a deeper soul, forgiveness.
You'll have to get to know this knew me, i put my pieces back differently.”
“I did not use paint, I made myself up morally.”
“I did not utter a word on seeing them nor did my feet falter but I was shaken by the revelation of two people, whom until now I had regarded only as reflections of my own existence, in violent relation to each other. For the first time I was forced to admit that other people existed. It was not a discovery that I welcomed.”
Source: The Naked Civil Servant
“I did not very often consider the reasons my father died. I didn't believe his life was taken to instill some larger meaning in my character, or make me a better person. I preferred to believe that a person might be taken for no reason other than the random winds of chance, the same forces that could create a brilliant sky after a terrible storm.”
“I did not volunteer for the Waffen SS, but was, as were thousands of my year group, conscripted. I did not then know as a 17-year-old that it was a criminal unit. I thought it was an elite unit.”
“I did not vote Labour because they've heard of Oasis and nobody is going to vote Tory because William Hague has got a baseball cap.”
“I did not wait to hear the end of my father's story, for I had been with him myself after mass when we had met M. Legrandin; instead, I went downstairs to the kitchen to ask about the menu for our dinner, which was of fresh interest to me daily, like the news in a paper, and excited me as might the programme of a coming festivity.”
Source: Swann’s Way
“I did not wake up on purpose. God took care of that. I woke up WITH purpose! That I can control.”
“I did not want 'Battleship' to be perceived as an American war film. I wanted to do everything I could to make the film accessible to a global audience. It felt like bringing an alien component to the film would help take the American jingoism out of it.”
“I did not want a war, nor did I bring it about. I did everything to prevent it by negotiations. After it had broken out, I did everything to assure victory. Since the three greatest powers on earth, together with many other nations, were fighting against us, we finally succumbed to their tremendous superiority. I stand up for the things that I have done, but I deny most emphatically that my actions were dictated by the desire to subjugate foreign peoples by wars, to murder them, to rob them, or to enslave them, or to commit atrocities or crimes. The only motive which guided me was my ardent love for my people, its happiness, its freedom, and its life. And for this I call on the Almighty and my German people to witness. (31 August 1946)”
Source: Trial of the Major war Criminals: before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946
“I did not want my people killed. I did not want bloodshed.”
“I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'”
“I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.' I think I'd like them to remember me by saying, 'She opened government to everyone.'”
“I did not want passion, I did not want pleasure. Perhaps I didn’t even want proof. And I did not want words, small talk, big talk, bike talk, book talk, any of it. Just the sun, the grass, the occasional sea breeze, and the smell of his body fresh from his chest, from his neck and his armpits.”
Source: Call Me by Your Name
“I did not want to avoid service. I did realize reservists could be called up, and that it was something that I wanted to do.”
“I did not want to be a Champion growing up, just a fast skater.”
“I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being.”
“I did not want to be an actor because my whole family did it-going into the family business was the last thing I wanted to do.”
“I did not want to be an ingrate, but I had trouble seeing why writing support emails for a venture-funded startup should offer more economic stability and reward than creative work or civic contributions.”
Source: Uncanny Valley
“I did not want to be anything, and naturally I did not want to turn myself into a mere profession: all I ever wanted was to be myself.”
“I did not want to be coming off the stage at the mercy of what somebody else told me I did.”
“I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition.”
“I did not want to be labelled the designer who survived the atomic bomb, and therefore I have always avoided questions about Hiroshima.”