I Quotes
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“I do not make mistakes.”
“Your minions will die by the thousands here in this war.”
The giant being shrugged. “Mortals die. It is what they do. And how they die is my pleasure and my power.”
Source: Lolth's Warrior
“I do not make movies to send any message, but my treatment makes my viewers think on the subject.”
“I do not make stories up, full stop.”
“I do not mean that others represent Jesus for us. I mean that Jesus actually is present in each other person”
“I do not mean to be the slightest bit critical of TV newspeople, who do a superb job, considering that they operate under severe time constraints and have the intellectual depth of hamsters. But TV news can only present the "bare bones" of a story; it takes a newspaper, with its capability to present vast amounts of information, to render the story truly boring.”
Source: Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus
“I do not mean to call an elephant a vulgar animal, but if you think about him carefully, you will find that his nonvulgarity consists in such gentleness as is possible to elephantine nature-not in his insensitive hide, nor in his clumsy foot, but in the way he will lift his foot if a child lies in his way; and in his sensitive trunk, and still more sensitive mind, and capability of pique on points of honor.”
Source: pt. VI: Of leaf beauty. pt. VII: Of cloud beauty. pts. VIII-IX: Of ideas of relation
“I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But I will venture to assert, that a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward.”
Source: The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799
“I do not mean to expose my ideas to ingenious ridicule by maintaining that everything happens to every man for the best; but I will contend, that he who makes the best use of it, fulfills the part of a wise and good man.”
“I do not mean to imply by this that a man can determine just what his world or his life will be like. A man, after all, is only a man. He stands somewhere between absolute freedom on the one hand, and total helplessness on the other. All of his important decisions must be made on the basis of insufficient data. It is enough if a man accepts his freedom, takes his best shot, does what he can, faces the consequences of his acts, and makes no excuses. It may not be fair that a man gets to have total responsibility for his own life without total control over it, but it seems to me that for good or for bad, that's just the way it is.”
Source: If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him! The Pilgrimage of Psychotherapy Patients
“I do not mean to imply that television news deliberately aims to deprive Americans of a coherent, contextual understanding of their world. I mean to say that when news is packaged as entertainment, that is the inevitable result. And in saying that the television news show entertains but does not inform, I am saying something far more serious than that we are being deprived of authentic information. I am saying we are losing our sense of what it means to be well informed.”
Source: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
“I do not mean to imply that the good old days were perfect. But the institutions and structure--the web--of society needed reform,not demolition. To have cut the institutional and community strands without replacing them with new ones proved to be a form of abuse to one generation and to the next. For so many Americans, the tragedy was not in dreaming that life could be better; the tragedy was that the dreaming ended.”
“I do not mean to impugn the social justice and social expediency of the redistribution of incomes aimed at by N.I.R.A. and by the various schemes for agricultural restriction. The latter, in particular, I should strongly support in principle. But too much emphasis on the remedial value of a higher price-level as an object in itself may lead to serious misapprehension as to the part which prices can play in the technique of recovery. The stimulation of output by increasing aggregate purchasing power is the right way to get prices up; and not the other way round.”
“I do not mean to mock or ridicule your life's work, for in one way at least it mimics my own: We have dedicated our lives to the pursuit of phantoms. The difference is the nature of those phantoms. Mine exist between other men's ears; yours live solely between your own.”
Source: The Monstrumologist
“I do not mean to moralise but to those who do, I would give this advice : if you mean ultimately to deprive the best things and states of all all honour and worth then continue to talk about them as you have been doing!”
“I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the interminable comments and bewildering criticisms that teach but one thing: there are as many opinions as there are men.”
Source: The Story of My Life
“I do not mean to say that such institutions act unilaterally on psychic life, or that they determine certain psychic outcomes. Rather, they exploit forms of fear and insecurity that are there for any population - no political organisation of life could ever fully do away with fear and insecurity; but some work to intensify, accelerate, and make more acute forms of fear, and to provide ideological focus for such intensified fears, at which point critical thinking has a fierce rival. The critical analysis that shows precisely how those forms of fear are promulgated, and for what purpose.”
“I do not mean to seem indelicate or ungrateful," said Linette Owens, "but are you a dangerous lunatic?”
Source: Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale
“I do not mean to suggest for a moment that all it takes to be a top executive is a custom-tailored European suit. You also need the correct shirt and tie.”
Source: Claw Your Way to the Top: How to Become the Head of a Major Corporation in Roughly a Week
“I do not mind at all that Newton is not a Cartesian provided he does not offer us suppositions like that of attraction.”
“I do not mind having imaginary conversations with animals who are part of my life. The comfort of talking to one at a time of personal distress is so soothing because one has the ease of knowing that one's secrets will not be repeated to anyone. Yet there are those who are horrified that an animal can be a more reliable part of one's world than that of the human world.”
“I do not mind having written the song at all. I just wish that I had written it in a different key, as the high d is hard to play. I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people.”
“I do not mind if you think slowly, but I do object when you publish more quickly than you think.”
“I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.”
“I do not mind riding in day coaches...Please do not put yourself or the railroad to extra expense.--First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt”
Source: Hissing Cousins: The Untold Story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Alice Roosevelt Longworth
“I do not mind sleepless night to be involved in reading.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“I do not mind someone talking to me, as long as they do not mind me not listening or talking to them.”
“I do not mind when you tell me what you want and put that first instead of last.”
Source: The Sagan Diary
“I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I found joy in the things that made me happy.”
Source: The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled.”
Source: The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.”
“I do not miss ITV, God no! Have you seen ITV lately?”
“I do not miss my toys. I wouldn't play with them anyway. I am fifteen. I miss my childhood.”
Source: Among Others
“I do not miss you anymore. But I think of you most of the time. Now I am trying to fall out of love with you. I'll love you always but will never remain in love with you. You aren't worth it anymore.”
“I do not mistrust reality, of which I know next to nothing, but I am suspicious regarding the image of reality which our senses convey to us, and which is incomplete and limited. Our eyes have developed such as to survive. It is merely coincidence that we can see stars with them, as well.”
“I do not mistrust the future; I do not fear what is ahead. For our problems are large, but our heart is larger.”
“I do not misunderstand you. I dislike and mistrust you.”
Source: The Lamplighter
“I do not mourn the loss of my sister because she will always be with me, in my heart," she says. "I am, however, rather annoyed that my Tara has left me to suffer you lot alone. I do not see as well without her. I do not hear as well without her. I do not feel as well without her. I would be better off without a hand or a leg than without my sister. Then at least she would be here to mock my appearance and claim to be the pretty one for a change. We have all lost our Tara, but I have lost a part of myself as well.”
“I do not much believe in education. Each person ought to be his or her own model, however frightful that may be.”
“I do not much care for childhood. It is a astate of terrible vulnerability, and is therefore unnatural and incomaptivle with human life.”
Source: Washington Black
“I do not much care for childhood; it is a state of terrible vulnerability. It is therefore unnatural and incompatible with human life. Everyone will cut you, strike you, cheat you. Everyone will offer you suffering when goodness should reign. And because children can do nothing for themselves, they need good advocates, good parents. But a good parent is as rare as snow in summer.”
“I do not much care for nature, and believe that flowers belong in vases rather than loose and untidy on the ground.”
Source: 1876: a novel
“I do not much trust the man who cares solely to inspire - he does not really inspire me - only the man who cares mostly to tell the truth, whatever that may do. For when the man who cares to tell the truth happens to inspire, I, in addition, find it easier to believe that he in fact does his homework on how and when one should truly inspire.”
Source: Healology
“I do not much wish well to discoveries, for I am always afraid they will end in conquest and robbery.”
Source: The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume II: 1773-1776
“I do not myself believe there is any misfortune. What men call such is merely the shadowside of a good.”
Source: The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more
“I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.”
Source: The basic writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959
“I do not myself find it agreeable to be 90, and I cannot imagine why it should seem so to other people. It is not that you have any fears about your own death, it is that your upholstery is already dead around you.”
“I do not necessarily support the president's decision.”
“I do not need a lot of money to be happy.”
“I do not need a man. I am devoted to masturbation. I think it's probably one of the most pleasurable experiences in life.”
“I do not need a reason to be angry with God.”