I Quotes
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“I do not believe there is any important difference between men and women - certainly not as much as they may be between one woman and another or one man and another.”
Source: Of Men and Women: How to Be for Each Other
“I do not believe there is any one study that can be taken up that will broaden the imagination, that will be the source from which will spring more deep thinking and sincere research than the study of astronomy.”
“I do not believe there is any royal road to success as an athlete any more than there is to others in everyday life.”
Source: The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds; an Autobiography
“I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic and algebra.”
“I do not believe there is such a thing as a God.”
“I do not believe there is the slightest chance of war with Japan in our lifetime. The Japanese are our allies.... Japan is at the other end of the world. She cannot menace our vital security in any way.... War with Japan is not a possibility which any reasonable government need take into account.”
“I do not believe there was ever a life more attractive than life on a cattle farm.”
“I do not believe they are right who say that the defects of famous men should be ignored. I think it is better that we should know them. Then, though we are conscious of having faults as glaring as theirs, we can believe that that is no hindrance to our achieving also something of their virtues.”
Source: The Summing Up
“I do not believe they've run out of surprises.”
Source: Stars and Gods
“I do not believe this darkness will endure.”
“I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.”
“I do not believe Tony Blair was a fundamentally good man who went bad. I believe he was evil in the first place.”
“I do not believe war the most certain means of enforcing principles. Those peaceable coercions which are in the power of every nation, if undertaken in concert and in time of peace, are more likely to produce the desired effect.”
Source: Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution
“I do not believe we are born in sin. We are pure at birth but corrupted by the culture. Unfortunately, this fosters the Will in its search for unending satiation. Once corrupted by the culture and what other atrocities some people endure, we then must seek to resolve that inner conflict. Few people ever face it head on either because it's too painful or too shameful. This existence is quite a conundrum.”
“I do not believe we can blame genetics for adultery, homosexuality, dishonesty and other character flaws.”
“I do not believe we can effectively move Australia to a lower emission economy, which is what we need to do if we're going to make a contribution to a global reduction in greenhouse gases, without putting a price on carbon.”
“I do not believe we can repair the basic fabric of society until people who are willing to work have work. Work organizes life. It gives structure and discipline to life.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1993
“I do not believe we can truly enter into our own inner pain and wounds and open our hearts to others unless we have had an experience of God, unless we have been touched by God. We must be touched by the Father in order to experience, as the prodigal son did, that no matter how wounded we may be, we are loved. And not only are we loved, but we too are called to heal and to liberate. This healing power in us will not come from our capacities and our riches, but in and through our poverty. We are called to discover that God can bring peace, compassion and love through our wounds.”
“I do not believe we will get to Ray Kurzweil's proposed "singularity" in which human minds meld with machines to produce, in effect, synthetic human evolution. Our basic problems with maintaining the electric grid argue against that fantasy.”
“I do not believe wealthy candidates should spend vast resources in their own campaigns.”
“I do not believe writers should read reviews of their own books, and I do not. If one is not careful one is soon writing to please reviewers and not their audience or themselves.”
“I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow”
“I do not believe you can threaten people into goodness.” - Jem Carstairs”
“I do not believe you could intellectually comprehend all the different forces playing upon us. Yet what you can do is become very silent, so you are not distracted and then begin to feel how these forces playing upon us are affecting us, and according to how we feel, we can then make intelligent decisions as to how far, how deep, how much, we explore in any pose.”
“I do not believe you have ever given your friends a moment's anxiety - except for worrying that this wicked world would quickly take advantage of someone so honest.”
Source: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
“I do not believe, as do so many musicians, that genius should be left to fight its way to the light. Genius is too rare, too precious, to be permitted to waste the best years of life--the years of youth and lofty dreams--in a heart-breaking struggle for bread. To starve the soul with the body is to do worse than murder. Think, too, of what the public loses!”
“I do not believe, even remotely, that you have to have a partner in your life in order to be whole, in order to be complete, in order to be fulfilled. You just don't have to.”
“I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits.”
Source: Essays
“I do not believe, given her past decisions and comments on the reasons to go to war in Iraq, that Dr. Rice will be able to represent the United States without a predetermined bias from the war.”
“I do not believe, that it is true or right that Islam is terrorist.”
“I do not believe...I know.”
Source: Interpretação psicológica do dogma da Trindade
“I do not belive that Washington should do for the people wha they can do for themselves through local and private effort.”
“I do not belong anywhere.
I have an accent in every language I speak.”
Source: Keeping Time with Blue Hyacinths: Poems
“I do not belong to any faction, I will fight them all.”
“I do not belong to any political party because I am not a party to the wrongs they eventually do.”
“I do not belong to any religion. Everything is between God and myself.”
“I do not belong to any school, I simply want to do something that is personal to my self.”
“I do not belong to anyone! Certainly not to a self-centered, brute of man, err...being or whatever it is you are, person!" she fumbled.”
Source: Magnificence
“I do not betray the confidence of friends and I require you to respect that fact and admire me for it. Enormously and all the time. Where secrets are concerned, compared to me, the grave is a chatterbox”
Source: The Constant Gardener
“I do not blame Lord French. I have no right to blame him, as I am not a soldier nor a military expert. He did his best, with the highest motives. The blunders he made were due to ignorance of modern battles. Many other generals made many other blunders, and our men paid with their lives. Our High Command had to learn by mistakes, by ghastly mistakes, repeated often, until they became visible to the military mind and were paid for again by the slaughter of British youth. One does not blame. A writing-man, who was an observer and recorder, like myself, does not sit in judgment. He has no right to judge. He merely cries out, “O God! … O God!” in remembrance of all that agony and that waste of splendid boys who loved life, and died.”
Source: Now It Can Be Told
“I do not blame myself for running from those feelings. No one would deliberately subject himself to the discomfort I carried inside my skin unless he had a very good reason to. As a little boy fleeing into the streets and waiting neighborhood games, as an adolescent fleeing toward drugs that soothed me like a mother, I have taken flight throughout most of my life. Hurt, grandiose, blaming others for not filling me up, I was in search of the next big fix, in search of love without having the skills to love well in return. Like Perceval, I have spent a good portion of my life wandering, searching for the right question.”
Source: I Don't Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression
“I do not boast that God is on my side, I humbly pray that I am on God's side.”
“I do not bow. I do not obey. I do not worship.”
“I do not bring any professional knowledge of the issue to bear, but what I do bring to my consideration of immigration is a deepened and highly sensitized feeling with those persons who feel alien in our country. I can feel the strangeness they feel because it is something I have experienced in a different area.”
“I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget.”
“I do not buy CDs any more; I usually stream Internet radio. For movies, I hardly every buy any DVDS. I have a DVR, so just record things off HBO, Showtime and so on.”
“I do not buy repentance at so heavy a cost as a thousand drachmae.”
“I do not call it religion so long as it is confined to books and dogmas.”
Source: Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind
“I do not call reason that brutal reason which crushes with its weight what is holy and sacred, that malignant reason which delights in the errors it succeeds in discovering, that unfeeling and scornful reason which insults credulity.”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language-religion-government-blood-identity in these makes men of one country.”
Source: Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Table Talk (2 v.)