I Quotes
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“I do not come to God so that Jesus can give me what I want. But I must come to God so that Jesus will grant me what I need.”
“I do not comment on my client's personal lives in the media. As for Luke, he did so once, a long time ago when he was an inexperienced, young actor and now with maturity and hindsight, he has learned not to engage the press in his personal life again.”
“I do not communicate by words alone. In fact, rarely do I do so. My most common form of communication is through feeling. Feeling is the language of the soul. If you want to know what's true for you about something, look to how you're feeling about it... Hidden in your deepest feelings is your highest truth.”
“I do not compare the past with the present without a prejudice for either, but, great as the improvement in country life is in many respects, it seems a pity the old cheap, wholesome dishes have gone to make way for tinned and preserved foods.”
“I do not compete with anybody else; I compete only with myself. You saw my capacity a few minutes ago. Now I am competing with myself. When I do weightlifting, my body is my world. If I can improve myself, if I can go beyond my previous achievements, then that is my goal. My own previous record is always what I am competing with.”
“I do not comprehend all that I am. Is the mind, therefore, too limited to possess itself?”
Source: Saint Augustine's Confessions
“I do not comprehend those rules of conduct that make us so content with self and so cold to those we love. I detest prudence, I even hate (suffer me to say so) those duties of friendship which substitute propriety for interest, and circumspection for feeling. How shall I say it? I love the abandonment to impulse, I act from impulse only, and I love to madness that others do the same by me.”
“I do not conceive of any manifestation of culture, of science, of art, as purposes in themselves. I think the purpose of science and culture is man.”
“I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.”
“I do not conceive that power is given to the President and Senate to dismember the empire, or to alienate any great, essential right. I do not think the whole legislative authority have this power. The exercise of the power must be consistent with the object of the delegation.”
Source: The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution: As Recommended by the General Convention at Philadelphia in 1787. Together with the Journal of the Federal Convention, Luther Martin's Letter, Yates's Minutes, Congressional Opinions, Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of '98-'99, and Other Illustrations of the Constitution
“I do not conceptualize our current reality as a gender-war. The fight, it seems to me, is one where ethical people of all genders work together paving a path toward legal and institutional change.... telling our stories started this movement and remains at its core.”
Source: Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings from the Me Too Movement
“I do not concern myself with being unique, and I do not concern myself with success. I feel I just do and say what I am supposed to. I do not know where it comes from. I go where I am told, and I just allow whatever it is to come out.”
“I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.”
“I do not concern myself with my inability to feel such comfort amidst humans (other than with very few friends and family), but, rather, am simply thankful that at least dogs exist, and I’m humbly aware of how much less a person I’d be – how less a human – if they did not exist.”
Source: Colter: The True Story of the Best Dog I Ever Had
“I do not concern myself with these protocols of static perceptions that serve only to categorize people with egocentric judgments and limit the profundity of the human spirit.
Cause-and-effect is the basis of my education leading me to an essence that far transcends the limitations of your societal constructs.”
Source: Perceptions From the Photon Frequency: the ascended version
“I do not condemn any personal choices for intimate relationships. Love is love. I detest only the violence and trauma that any self-centered conduct can cause to others.”
“I do not condone hostility toward any church simply to vent personal malice or umbrage.”
“I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the center of the world.”
Source: The Essential W. Somerset Maugham Collection
“I do not consciously reclaim. I am not those "some readers" and so I think it would be impossible for me to see my work that way, as reclaiming a preserve. I write in a way that is aimed at all levels - conscious and unconscious - at pleasing the kind of reader I am. Some of the authors I read are male, some are female, and some are even in between. And speaking of in between, maybe now is as good a moment as any to point out that there might be no "feminine" or "masculine" literary sensibility, or sensibility generally.”
“I do not consecrate myself to be a missionary or a preacher. I consecrate myself to God to do His will where I am, be it in school, office, or kitchen, or wherever He may, in His wisdom, send me.”
Source: The Normal Christian Life
“I do not consent to be irradiated by biologically harmful satellites.”
“I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.”
“I do not consider Hitler to be as bad as he is depicted. He is showing an ability which is amazing and he seems to be gaining his victories without much bloodshed.”
Source: Collected Works
“I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.”
“I do not consider my deeds or my knowledge to be a great thing. The only fact is — and I can say this honestly — that I love learning and a solitary life.”
Source: The Selected Writings of Christine de Pizan
“I do not consider my self as having mastered the flute, but I get a real kick out of trying.”
“I do not consider myself a guitar player. My father is a guitar player - I'm not.”
“I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer.”
“I do not consider myself a literal genius.”
“I do not consider myself a religious person, because I don't adhere to a particular religion or faith or prescribed beliefs, as did my father, who was a Baptist minister. And I am not an atheist, one who thinks that belief in anything beyond the here and now and the rational is delusion. I love science, but I allow for mystery, things that can never be proven by a rational mind. I am a person who thinks about the nature of the spirit when I write. I think about what can't be known and only imagined. I often sense a spirit or force or meaning beyond myself. I leave it open as to what the spirit is, but I continue to make guesses -- that it could be the universal binding of the emotion of love, or a joyful quality of humanity, or a collective unconscious that turns out to be a unified conscience. The spirit could be all those worshiped by all the religions, even those that deny the validity of others. It could be that we all exist in all ten dimensions of a string-theory universe and are seeding memories in all of them and occupy them simultaneously as memory. Or we exist only as thought and out perception that it is a physical world is a delusion. The nature of spirit could also be my mother and my grandmother and that they really do serve as my muses as I fondly imagine them doing at times. Or maybe the nature of the spirit is a freer imagination. I've often thought that imagination was the conduit to compassion, and compassion is a true spiritual nature. Whatever the spirit might be, I am not basing what I do in this life on any expected reward or punishment in the hereafter or thereafter. It is enough that I feel blessed -- and by whom or what I don't know -- but I receive it with gratitude that I am a writer and my work is to imagine all the possibilities.”
“I do not consider myself a teddybear. Just to be clear, I don't feel sorry for myself.”
“I do not consider myself at work unless I am before a six-foot canvas.”
“I do not consider myself beautiful.”
“I do not consider myself by any means an expert on the art of creative visualization. I am a student of the subject, and the more I study and use creative visualization myself, the more I discover how vast and deep its potential is…truly it is as infinite, creative as your own imagination.”
Source: Creative Visualization: Use the Power of Your Imagination to Create What You Want in Your Life
“I do not consider myself less ignorant than most people. I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books. I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me. My story is not a pleasant one; it is neither sweet nor harmonious, as invented stories are; it has the taste of nonsense and chaos, of madness and dreams -- like the lives of all men who stop deceiving themselves.”
“I do not consider myself opposed to any of these Republicans, because any of these people if they were gonna get the nomination are gonna get my vote over Hillary Clinton. I am not in any way, shape, manner, or form trying to damage any of them.”
“I do not consider myself the most stylish rapper out there.”
“I do not consider the outside evils. I determine, to face the insider evil. It is a key to the outside ones.”
“I do not cook. However, if I did, I'd cook all Italian food, all the time.”
“I do not correct my first imaginings by my second--well, yes, perhaps a word or so, but only to vary, not to delete. I want to represent the course of my humors and I want people to see each part at its birth.”
Source: Essays
“I do not cough for my own amusement," replied Kitty fretfully.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“I do not cough for my own amusement.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“I do not crave this" But he needed it before he became a danger to himself and others.”
Source: Lover Unleashed: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood
“I do not criticize religion as such, but I criticize the concept and the definition of "religion" - as I said in Genealogies.”
“I do not cry. I have no tears left. There is nothing left.”
Source: 1666
“I do not cut my life up into days but my days into lives, each day, each hour, an entire life.”
“I do not dare to look at my old photo album since that brings tears to my eyes; however, time never comes back, but the memories stay in the mind that may cause pain, grief, and tears.”
“I do not dare touch you
As you contemplate the day
Quietly, privately, serenely
I love seeing you that way”
Source: A Woman's Place: The Complete Poetry Collection of Margaret Oliver
“I do not deal with subtleties; I am only a lawyer.”
“I do not deal with the text [of the Bible] scientifically. I read it, I'm interested in its layers of meaning, but my relation to it is much more an emotional one.”