I Quotes
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“I do not, in short, myself believe it is in the least bit undignified to confess to having been critically influenced in one's thinking by a teacher, or a faculty, or a book; but the accent these days is so strong on atomistic intellectual independence that to suggest such a thing is, as I have noted, highly inflammatory.”
Source: Up from Liberalism
“I do not in the least object to a sport because it is rough.”
Source: Works
“I do not in the least underestimate bisexuality... I expect it to provide all further enlightenment.”
“I do not innovate. I transmit.”
“I do not insist," answered Don Quixote, "that this is a full adventure, but it is the beginning of one, for this is the way adventures begin.”
Source: Don Quixote
“I do not intend for 'honor, courage, and commitment' to be just words; I expect them to frame the way that we live and act.”
“I do not intend that our natural resources shall be exploited by the few against the interests of the many.”
Source: Progressive Principles: Selections from Addresses Made During the Presidential Campaign of 1912
“I do not intend to allow the Senate to rubber-stamp the president's plan to reward the Chinese Communists.”
“I do not intend to be made the scapegoat of sacrifice, to be offered up as a victim to society.”
“I do not intend to be one of those who bemoan little results, while resting in the faithfulness of God. My cue is to take hold of the faithfulness of God and USE THE MEANS necessary to secure big results.”
“I do not intend to defend capitalism or capitalists. They, like everything human, have their defects. I only say their possibilities of usefulness are not ended.
Capitalism has borne the monstrous burden of the war and today still has the strength to shoulder the burdens of peace. ...
It is not simply and solely an accumulation of wealth, it is an elaboration, a selection, a co-ordination of values which is the work of centuries. ...
Many think, and I myself am one of them, that capitalism is scarcely at the beginning of its story.”
“I do not intend to dispute in any way the need for defence cuts and the need for government spending cuts in general. I do not share a not in my backyard approach to government spending reductions.”
“I do not intend to let myself down more than I can possibly help, and I find that the fewer illusions I have about myself or the world around me, the better company I am for myself.”
“I do not intend to prejudge the past.”
“I do not intend to spare myself, not to avoid emotions or difficulties. I don't care much whether I live a longer or shorter time... the world concerns me only in so far as I feel a certain debt toward it, because I have walked on this earth for thirty years, and out of gratitude I want to leave some souvenir.”
“I do not intend to waste my life but to do great deeds.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“I do not interfere, and people become rich by themselves.”
“I do not interrupt him, I let him weigh each man's merits, waiting for him to tell me off.... His incomprehension of others is astounding. Subtle and ingenuous both, he judges you as if you were an entity or a category. Time having had no hold over him, he cannot admit that I am outside of whatever he forbids, that nothing of what he favors still concerns me. Dialogue becomes pointless with someone who escapes the procession of the years. I ask those I love to be kind enough to grow old.”
Source: The Trouble with Being Born
“I do not inveigh against higher education, I simply maintain that the sort of education the colored people of the South stand most in need of, is elementary and industrial. They should be instructed for the work to be done.”
Source: Black and White: Land, Labor, and Politics in the South
“I do not invent characters. There they are. That's who they are. That's their nature. They talk and they behave the way they want to behave. I don't have a character behaving one way, then a point comes in the play where the person has to either stay or leave. If I had it plotted that the person leaves, then the person leaves. If that's what the person wants to do. I let the person do what the person wants or has to do at the time of the event.”
“I do not judge a person by their mistakes nor their failures. I judge a person by what they have learned. Because it's those failures that they learn from. A person who has never made a mistake nor failed at anything has never learned. By Bonnie Zackson Koury”
“I do not judge success based on championships; rather, I judge it on how close we came to realizing our potential”
Source: Wooden's Complete Guide to Leadership (EBOOK BUNDLE)
“I do not judge the individual based on their belief. If I were to, then I would, undoubtedly, be no better than the (religious) system that I frown upon.”
Source: Why I Love My Prozac: The Ideologies of an Ordinary Family Man
“I do not judge the quality of my work by the feedback obtained from the masses, for if the masses knew how to judge wisely, would not have supported so much madness throughout human history; I judge my work through the many attacks the devil launches on me, by using possessed souls during the process of creation, and the viciousness of such attacks. It is in the most poisonous insults that I find the elixir of my self-worth.”
Source: Codex Illuminatus: Quotes & Sayings of Dan Desmarques
“I do not judge the universe.”
“I do not judge you. The magistrate sits in your heat that judges you. I never thought you but a good man, John-only somewhat bewildered.”
“I do not judge, I only chronicle.”
“I do not just want you at your best.
I almost do not care
where your Happiness lives,
but please,
let me visit your pain?
Take me to the place
where your sadness goes,
and show me the tragedy
that no one knows.”
Source: Divine Trouble
“I do not just write, I write what I am. If there is a secret, perhaps that is it.”
“I do not keep a diary. Never have. To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit.”
“I do not keep up with the details of particle physics.”
“I do not kill with my gun; He who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father. I kill with my heart.”
Source: Stephen King's The Dark Tower: The Complete Concordance
“I do not know
What kind of my obedience I should tender.
More than my all is nothing; nor my prayers
Are not words holy hallowed, nor my wishes
More worth than empty vanities; yet prayers and wishes
Are all I can return.”
Source: King John and King Henry VIII
“I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.”
“I do not know all of the providences of the Lord, but I do know that he permits false doctrine to be taught in and out of the Church and that such teaching is part of the sifting process of mortality”
“I do not know all things. I might not believe some things. But I know what my mom believes; I have heard her testimony. I know her faith, and that has fed my faith on many grim occasions. Sometimes we do well to lean on the faith of others to pull us through until our own faith increases enough to sustain us.”
Source: Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
“I do not know an instance of a major mathematical advance initiated by a man past fifty”
Source: A Mathematician's Apology
“I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue.”
Source: The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
“I do not know any way so sure of making others happy as of being so oneself, to begin with.”
“I do not know any way to explain why God's grace touches a man who seems unworthy of it.”
Source: Witness
“I do not know anybody that is threatening Iran. It is a safe country.”
“I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work.”
“I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.”
“I do not know anything about ‘all the good guys are taken’ but I certainly know none of the beautiful girls are virgin.”
Source: LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
“I do not know anything about Art with a capital A. What I do know about is my art. Because it concerns me. I do not speak for others. So I do not speak for things which profess to speak for others. My art, however, speaks for me. It lights my way.”
Source: Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves
“I do not know anything about luck, apart from that the more I practice, the luckier I get.”
“I do not know, at this point, whether Joshua Joseph Spork is the man of my life. He could be. I have given it considerable thought. The jury is still out. The issue between you and me is that you wish to deprive me of the opportunity to find out. Joe Spork is not yours to give or to withhold from me, Mr. Cummerbund. He is mine, until I decide otherwise. You have caused him grief, sullied his name, and you have hurt him. If anyone is going to make him weep, or lie about him, or even do bad things to him, it is me.”
Source: Angelmaker
“I do not know beneath what sky nor on what seas shall be thy fate; I only know it shall be high, I only know it shall be great.”
Source: Along the Trail
“I do not know by what power I think; but well I know that I should never have thought without the assistance of my senses. That there are immaterial and intelligent substances I do not at all doubt; but that it is impossible for God to communicate the faculty of thinking to matter, I doubt very much. I revere the Eternal Power, to which it would ill become me to prescribe bounds. I affirm nothing, and am contented to believe that many things are possible than are usually thought so".”
“I do not know everything and I am far from perfect but the little I do know makes me dangerous if you ever get on my bad side or mess with my family”