I Quotes
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“I dismiss posts where one or other of the couple was wearing anything named by brand, or you know, baseball caps, or sweat pants, because I don't like drawing them, and I don't have to please anyone but myself.”
“I disobeyed a basic basketball rule and never boxed out. I figured that if I had the inside position I had enough of an advantage to just go get the ball. And coaches left me alone because I got it.”
“I disobeyed Ra's wishes, and so he ordered my onw father, Shu-" "Hang on," I said. "Shoe?" "S-h-u," she said. "The god of the wind." "On." I wished these gods had names that wearn't common household objects. "Go on, please.”
“I dispelled my invisibility for a few seconds in his full view, a finger resting provocatively on my lower lip, giving him a come-hither look under a streetlight. His jaw and the bottle of Żubrówka dropped at the same time. It shattered, drawing his eyes to the sidewalk, and I took the opportunity afforded by his distraction to disappear again.
"That was mean," Oberon said, watching the man look wildly around for me and pawing at his eyes as if to clear them.
Why? I asked. I’ve done him no harm.
"Yes, you have. You will haunt him for the rest of his life. I know from experience."
You’re haunted by someone flashing you on a street corner?
"No. It was a dog park. Atticus and I were just arriving and she was leaving."
Oh, here we go.
"She was so fit and her coat was tightly curled and she had a perfect pouf on the end of her tail like a tennis ball. I saw her for maybe five seconds, until she hopped into a Honda and her human drove her away. And now I can’t see a Honda without seeing her."
But that’s a good thing, isn’t it? Kind of romantic? A vision of perfection you can treasure forever, unspoiled by reality.
"Well, I don’t know. In reality I’d like to try spoiling her, if she was in the mood."
Look, Oberon, that man is lonely. He’s too skinny and sweaty, and I’m willing to bet you five cows that he’s socially awkward or he wouldn’t be staggering drunk at this hour. But now, for the rest of his life, he will remember the na**d woman on the street who looked at him with desire. When people treat him like something untouchable, he will have that memory to comfort him.
"Or obsess over. What if he starts wandering the streets every night looking for you?"
Then he’s misunderstood the nature of beauty. It doesn’t stay, except in our minds.
"Oh! I think I see. That’s true, Clever Girl! Sausage never stays, because I eat it, but it’s always beautiful in my mind.”
Source: Hunted
“I display my truth through pen and curtain. Yvonne Padmos. Playwright The freedom of passion”
“I display the Fireball between my teeth, pulling my lips into a tingly, victorious smile.
Liam looks disappointed.
Georgia looks pleased.
Too pleased
Did she perform some act of skullduggery for me?
The thought sends a funny warmth through my chest and into my belly.
Or maybe
that's just the cinnamon.”
Source: Worst-Case Collin
“I displayed from my earliest years the greatest sensibility of disposition. I cannot say with what passion I loved every thing even the inanimate objects that surrounded me. I believe that I bore an individual attachment to every tree in our park; every animal that inhabited it knew me and I loved them. Their occasional deaths filled my infant heart with anguish. I cannot number the birds that I have saved during the long and severe winters of that climate; or the hares and rabbits that I have defended from the attacks of our dogs, or have nursed when accidentally wounded.”
“I dispute the point that nuclear energy is 'clean' and 'cost-effective'. As I recall, when we first harnessed nuclear power it was to drop an atom bomb on a civilian population, not to save the environment. However, you must admit, the victors are never tried for war crimes.”
Source: Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
“I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic — in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.”
“I disse sekunder, som koncentrationen gjør tidløse, oplever jeg hvordan hele min skjæbnes brede væv løper sammen til en eneste tråd i denne passage på en tolv-femten forbitrede fingertak.”
Source: Barske glæder og andre temaer fra et liv under åpen himmel
“I dissent from the systems not out of defiance, but from a vision for change. Through open conversations with those in power, I strive for reform. Here in this village, as everywhere, I see the flaws as clear as day. Yet, the fault isn't theirs alone. A community thrives or fails on the actions of its people, not just its leaders. If you champion free speech, embody that freedom in every word and act. Be the change, the 'X' you wish to see, not just in posts but in presence. Authenticity invites authenticity, fostering true freedom within our communities. Otherwise, we're just co-authoring a book of hollow tweets.”
“I dissolved, so white, so unapproachable, amid my white flame, in the whiteness of moonlight”
“I distance myself from heaven and then complain that heaven is distant.”
Source: The Rent Collector
“I distanced myself, relatively, from my parents for a year or so in my late twenties. It was necessary for me to feel my autonomy. Other than that brief gap, we have always been a very close family.”
“I distinctly remember a conversation with my band in the van where I was having a complete meltdown. It was 1984, I think, and I was huddled in the back corner of our van and saying, "I can't do this. I can't do this. I can't do this." I didn't want to play any more shows. I just wanted to stop.”
“I distinctly remember watching Annie when I was very little and thinking 'I don't like this kid.' In fact I think I remember thinking 'I don't like any of these kids.' That's all I remember.”
“I distinctly remember watching Daniel Day Lewis in My Left Foot, and my parents were discussing the fact that hes an actor. To me, it was a foreign concept. I was like, Someone is pretending to do that? Thats so awesome! After that, it just stayed in the back of my mind.”
“I distinguish five types of indicatorism:
1. performing easy, indicator-improving tasks;
2. avoiding difficult, indicator-worsening tasks;
3. improving an indicator for the short term, at the expense of long-term goals;
4. ignoring tasks not covered by an indicator;
5. manipulating or cheating to improve an indicator.”
Source: The Quantified Society: How our obsession with performance measurement shapes the world we live in
“I distinguish sentiment from sentimentality. Sentimentality makes your skin crawl. It's like too much sugar. But, sentiment is a great feeling.”
“I distinguish two types of human beings, Love people, who love the sky and the flowers, and Power People, who are essentially sold on naked power.”
“I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.”
“I distress you; I draw fast to an end.”
Source: A Tale of Two Cities: A Story of the French Revolution
“I distrust a charity that costs nothing and does not hurt.”
“I distrust a man that says when. If he's got to be careful not to drink to much it's because he's not to be trusted when he does.”
“I distrust all dead and mechanical formulas for expressing anything connected with human affairs and human personalities. Putting human affairs in exact formulas shows in itself a lack of the sense of humor and therefore a lack of wisdom.”
Source: The Importance of Living
“I distrust all multiculturalism, liberal or conservative. The Balkans amply demonstrate the perils of Balkanization.”
“I distrust all television doctors.”
“I distrust any advice that contains the words 'ought' or 'should'.”
Source: The Realms of the Gods
“I distrust anything that you don't hear.”
“I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink.”
“I distrust every idea that doesn’t seem obsolete and grotesque to my contemporaries.”
“I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.”
Source: Two Cheers for Democracy
“I distrust Great Men... I believe in aristocracy, though... Its members are to be found in all nations and classes, and all through the ages, and there is a secret understanding between them when they meet... They are sensitive for others as well as for themselves, they are considerate without being fussy, their pluck is not swankiness but the power to endure, and they can take a joke.”
“I distrust pious phrases, especially when they issue from my mouth. I try militantly never to be affected by the pious language of the faithful but it is always coming out when you least expect it. In contrast to the pious language of the faithful, the liturgy is beautifully flat.”
“I distrust speech therapy. Words are the language of lies and evasions. Music cannot lie. Music talks to the heart.”
“I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence”
“I distrust the perpetually busy; always have. The frenetic ones spinning in tight little circles like poisoned rats. The slower ones, grinding away their fourscore and ten in righteousness and pain. They are the soul-eaters.”
“I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.”
Source: Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words
“I distrust thought. The interior life is highly overrated. I don't like the wispy and the vague... or inductive logic in any kind of writing. I'm impatient with writers who make too much sense. The better things that I've done have come to me by instinct.”
“I distrusted, in general, appeals to nostalgia--I loved the past of archives, but there was no era of the past I had any inclination to visit with my actual human body, being rather fond of it having at least minimal rights and protections.”
Source: The Office of Historical Corrections
“I diuen que les famílies són la nostra brúixola, la nostra guia. Són la inspiració per aconseguir els objectius més impossibles, el nostre pilar quan ensopeguem.”
Source: Les calces al sol
“I dive all over the world: Fiji, Australia, the Caribbean, Hawaii, and many other places.”
“I dive as much as I can.”
“I dived for it, caught it three inches above the cement, and found myself face-to-face with the salamander. Ruby-red eyes regarded me with mild curiosity, black lips parted, and a long, spiderweb-thin filament of a tongue slithered from the salamander’s mouth and kissed the sphere’s glass in the reflection of my nose. Hi, I love you, too.”
Source: Magic Burns
“I dived out of the office and I was gone … hitting these fields like a mad March hare. This wasn’t Born Free, it was RUN FREE!”
Source: Harry's Fight: Harry Marsden - From Catholic Care Home Abuse To Gangster To Good Fellow
“I divested myself of despair and fear when I came here. Now there is no more catching one's own eye in the mirror, there are no bad books, no plastic, no insurance premiums, and of cours eno illness. Contrition does not exist, nor gnashing of teeth. No one howls as the first clod of earth hits the casket. The poor we no longer have with us. Our calm hearts strike only the hour, and God, as promised, proves to be mercy clothed in light.”
“I divide all literary works into two categories: Those I like and those I don't like. No other criterion exists for me.”
“I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.”
Source: ... Yearbook
“I divide my officers into four classes as follows: The clever, the industrious, the lazy, and the stupid. Each officer always possesses two of these qualities.
Those who are clever and industrious I appoint to the General Staff. Use can under certain circumstances be made of those who are stupid and lazy. The man who is clever and lazy qualifies for the highest leadership posts. He has the requisite nerves and the mental clarity for difficult decisions. But whoever is stupid and industrious must be got rid of, for he is too dangerous.”
“I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep, for that would be a pity, for sleeping is the highest accomplishment of genius.”
Source: Either/ Or