I Quotes
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“I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river Is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable.”
“I do not know much about Mohammed or Mohammedanism. I do not take the Koran to bed with me every night. But, if I did on some one particular night, there is one sense at least in which I know what I should not find there. I apprehend that I should not find the work abounding in strong encouragements to the worship of idols; that the praises of polytheism would not be loudly sung; that the character of Mohammed would not be subjected to anything resembling hatred and derision; and that the great modern doctrine of the unimportance of religion would not be needlessly emphasised.”
“I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else.”
“I do not know much. But there are certain advantages in not knowing. Like virgin territory, the mind is free of preconceptions. Everything I do not know forms the greater part of me: This is my largesse. And with this I understand everything. The things I do not know constitute my truth.”
“I do not know myself how I paint it. I sit down with a white board before the spot that strikes me. I look at what is before my eyes, and say to myself, that white board must become something.”
Source: Van Gogh's
“I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.”
“I do not know of a better cure for sorrow than to pity somebody else.”
“I do not know of a single TV meteorologist who buys into the man-made global warming hype. I know there must be a few out there, but I can't find them.”
“I do not know of any credible evidence that suggests Dr Zavos can clone a human being. This seems to be yet another one of his claims to get repeated publicity.”
“I do not know of any environmental group in any country that does not view its government as an adversary.”
“I do not know of any salvation for society except through eccentrics, misfits, dissenters, people who protest.”
“I do not know of any, excepting the unpardonable sin, that is greater than the sin of ingratitude.”
“I do not know of anything in modern poetry as violently hostile to contemporary life as was the poetry of T. S. Eliot, which so perfectly fitted the mood of the young people between the two wars. I also find much more benevolence towards humanity in younger historians than there was in Spengler or in Toynbee. Still, it is not difficult to sense the disgust of the intellectuals at the new prosperous working class, 'with their eyes glued to the television screen,' who have become indifferent to radical ideas.”
Source: Inventing the Future
“I do not know, really, how we will survive without places like the Inner Gorge of the Grand Canyon to visit. Once in a lifetime, even, is enough. To feel the stripping down, an ebb of the press of conventional time, a radical change of proportion, an unspoken respect for others that elicits keen emotional pleasure, a quick intimate pounding of the heart.
The living of life, any life, involves great and private pain, much of which we share with no one. In such places as the Inner Gorge the pain trails away from us. It is not so quiet there or so removed that you can hear yourself think, that you would even wish to; that comes later. You can hear your heart beat. That comes first.”
Source: Crossing Open Ground
“I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food.”
Source: Population: The First Essay
“I do not know that ever I desired anything earnestly in my life but 'twas denied me, and I am many times afraid to wish a thing merely lest my fortune should take that occasion to use me ill.”
Source: Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652–54
“I do not know that everything happens for a reason. I simply know that everything happens.”
Source: Chasing Slow: Courage to Journey Off the Beaten Path
“I do not know that I am happiest when alone; but this I am sure of, that I never am long in the society even of her I love (God knows too well, and the Devil probably too), without a yearning for the company of my lamp and my utterly confused and tumbled-over library.”
“I do not know that jealous insecurity is a real turnoff.”
Source: P.S. I Still Love You
“I do not know that Lady Glencora's heart was made of that stern stuff which refuses to change its impressions; but it was a heart, and it required food. To love and fondle someone, - to be loved and fondled, were absolutely necessary to her happiness. She wanted the little daily assurance of her supremacy in the man's feelings, the constant touch of love, half accidental half contrived, the passing glance of the eye telling perhaps of some little joke understood only between them two rather than of love, the softness of an occasional kiss given here and there when chance might bring them together, some half-pretended interest in her little doings, a nod, a wink, a shake of the head, or even a pout.”
Source: Can You Forgive Her?
“I do not know that there is a more certain sound than Senator Kennedy. I cannot imagine a more uncertain sound than Senator Kerry.”
“I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.”
Source: Letters: Edited by Madeline House & Graham Storey. Associate editors: W.J. Carlton [and others]
“I do not know the answers to life's hard questions, but I do know the One who knows them and that's sufficient...for now.”
“I do not know the details of tomorrow, but I have a hope for a better tomorrows.”
“I do not know the man so bold He dare in lonely Place That awful stranger Consciousness Deliberately face-.”
Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson
“I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.”
“I do not know the names of all the weeds and plants, I have to do as Adam did in his garden... name things as I find them.”
Source: My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition
“I do not know the word 'quit.' Either I never did, or I have abolished it.”
“i do not know this man, i think. he is no one i have ever seen before.”
Source: The Song of Achilles
“I do not know to whom the aphorism 'There are no sound studies, only ones that haven't been busted yet' belongs, but it has measure of truth in it.”
Source: Secrets of Chess Training
“I do not know two finer people and could not imagine better news. May your lives together be happy and long. Congratulations, brother.”
“I do not know very much about painting, but I know enough to know that the Art Teacher did not know much about it either and that, furthermore, she did not know or care anything at all about the way in which you can destroy a human being. Stephen, in many ways already dying, died a second and third and fourth and final death before her anger.”
“I do not know what 'moss' stands for in the proverb , but if it stood for useful knowledge... I gathered more moss by rolling than I ever did at school.”
“I do not know what dust is, I do not know where it comes from, I only know that it settles on things. I cannot see it in the air, or watch it fall. Sometimes Im home all day but I never see it sliding about looking for a place to rest when my back is turned. Does it wait til I go out? Or, does it happen in the night when I sleep? Dust is not fussy about the places it chooses, though it seems to prefer still objects. Sometimes, out of kindness, I let it lie for weeks. On some places it will lie forever. However, dust holds no grudges and once removed it will always return, in a friendly way.”
“I do not know what evil is when it comes to art. I only know what is good art and what is bad art.”
Source: My Name Is Asher Lev
“I do not know what got me interested in technology. What was very clear to me very early on was that I was not interested in religion and that naturally increased my curiosity about science and technology, and I fundamentally believe the two are conflicting.”
“I do not know what happened with your parents or why they did what they did. But in all the world, I could have wished for no daughter but you.”
Source: The Emerald Atlas
“I do not know what has caused MacKinnon to become, and, more surprisingly, to remain, so obsessed with pornography, and so zealous for censorship. But let us not sacrifice our civil liberties on the altar of her obsession.”
“I do not know what horrified me most [during the depression]: the economic misery of my companions [or] their moral and ethical coarseness.”
“I do not know what I can do for this world but I will not let any harm come to you”
Source: The Bone Season
“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”
“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the seashore.”
“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”
“I do not know what I regret. I sit with my pen, and cannot find an end to that sentence.”
“I do not know what I think until I write it.”
“I do not know what I thought Paris would be like, but it was not that way. It rained nearly every day.”
“I do not know what I would do if you left me." For the first time I felt the suggestion of a threat in his voice—or I put it there. "I have been alone so long—I do not think I would be able to live if I had to be alone again.”
Source: Giovanni’s Room
“I do not know what is happening to me, dear, for only God knows. Maybe it is the suffering of man that grants him happiness at the end, or maybe God has nothing but riddles.”
Source: Letters Of The Observer
“I do not know what is happening. The reason of my waking mind tells me that great evil has befallen and we stand at the end of days. But my heart says nay; and all my limbs are light, and a hope and joy are come to me that no reason can deny. [...] I do not believe that darkness will endure!”
Source: The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings
“I do not know, what is the worth of me, but I know, humanity is light and love, and I have only that.”