I Quotes
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“I do not part with my collections easily.'
Collections? The word crawled over Catherine like a spider.”
Source: The Oathing Stone
“I do not participate in any sport with ambulances at the bottom of the hill.”
“I do not particularly like the word 'work.' Human beings are the only animals who have to work, and I think that is the most ridiculous thing in the world. Other animals make their livings by living, but people work like crazy, thinking that they have to in order to stay alive. The bigger the job, the greater the challenge, the more wonderful they think it is. It would be good to give up that way of thinking and live an easy, comfortable life with plenty of free time. I think that the way animals live in the tropics, stepping outside in the morning and evening to see if there is something to eat, and taking a long nap in the afternoon, must be a wonderful life. For human beings, a life of such simplicity would be possible if one worked to produce directly his daily necessities. In such a life, work is not work as people generally think of it, but simply doing what needs to be done.”
Source: The One-Straw Revolution
“I do not perceive even one other thing, O monks, that when undeveloped and uncultivated entails such great suffering as the mind. The mind when undeveloped and uncultivated entails great suffering.”
“I do not permit affection or lack thereof to influence my actions. There is good, and there is evil. The good must be protected, the evil eradicated. I have shown you the triumph of evil as a caution.”
“I do not permit blasphemy, the F-word, or obscenities such as soy milk at my table. Consider yourself chastised.”
Source: Forever Odd
“I do not personally agree with some of the positions that Mr. Gonzales has advocated, but that should come as no surprise, because I do not agree with many of the proposals made by the man who nominated him, President Bush.”
“I do not personally regard the whole of the remaining cities of Germany as worth the bones of one British Grenadier. It therefore seems to me that there is one and only one valid argument on which a case for giving up strategic bombing could be based, namely that it has already completed its task and that nothing now remains for the Armies to do except to occupy Germany against unorganized resistance.”
“I do not personally want to believe that we already know the equations that determine the evolution and fate of the universe; it would make life too dull for me as a scientist. ... I hope, and believe, that the Space Telescope might make the Big Bang cosmology appear incorrect to future generations, perhaps somewhat analogous to the way that Galileo's telescope showed that the earth-centered, Ptolemaic system was inadequate.”
“I do not photograph for ulterior purposes. I photograph for the thing itself - for the photograph - without consideration of how it may be used.”
“I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.”
“I do not pick the wrong guys. They pick me.”
“I do not plan any painting, but begin with layers of textures and colors. As I layer the colors, something is suggested to me from within, and that is how it evolves.”
“I do not plan in any way to whitewash my sin. I do not call it a mistake, a mendacity; I call it sin. I would much rather, if possible - and in my estimation it would not be possible - to make it worse than less than it actually is. I have no one but myself to blame. I do not lay the fault or the blame of the charge at anyone else's feet. For no one is to blame but I take the responsibility. I take the blame. I take the fault.”
“I do not plan my fiction any more than I normally plan woodland walks; I follow the path that seems most promising at any given point, not some itinerary decided before entry.”
“I do not play chess – I fight at chess. Therefore, I willingly combine the tactical with the strategic, the fantastic with the scientific, the combinative with the positional, and I aim to respond to the demands of each given position.”
“I do not play football, I score goals.”
“I do not play games, but always just say what's on my mind. Ostentatious modesty - for fools. If a man afraid of your honesty, it means that he is not the one you need.”
“I do not play games. There is not time for it. When I get through with work, I don't want anything that requires the working of the mind.”
Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein
“I do not play the instrument In longing but in quest Not to be undertaken Not to be lost In a forest of bliss.”
“I do not politicize Christianity nor my discipleship as Jesus did not politicize either His divinity nor his humanity.”
Source: The Humanity of Jesus Christ: Wholly God, Holy Man
“I do not portray the thing in itself. I portray the passage; not a passing from one age to another, or, as the people put it, from seven years to seven years, but from day to day, from minute to minute.”
“I do not pose my sitters. I do not deliberate and then concoct... Before painting, when I talk to the person, they unconsciously assume their most characteristic pose, which in a way involves all their character and social standing - what the world has done to them and their retaliation.”
“I do not possess the attitude of thinking differently, I possess the attitude of differently thinking”
“I do not practice clinical medicine and hence do not treat individual patients. My career is in medical science.”
“I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.”
“I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.”
“I do not pray. . . . I do not expect God to single me out and grant me advantages over my fellow men. . . . Prayer seems to me a cry of weakness, and an attempt to avoid, by trickery, the rules of the game as laid down. I do not choose to admit weakness. I accept the challenge of responsibility.”
“I do not preach doubtingly, for I do not live doubtingly.”
Source: Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon
“I do not presume that I have found the best philosophy, I know that I understand the true philosophy.”
Source: Letters to Friend and Foe
“I do not presume to explain how to paint, but only how to get enjoyment.”
Source: Churchill on men and events: a selection from
“I do not pretend people in general are without imperfections.”
Source: Sanditon: Jane Austen's Last Novel Completed
“I do not pretend that all that white men do is properly Christianized.”
“I do not pretend that birth control is the only way in which population can be kept from increasing. There are others, which, one must suppose, opponents of birth control would prefer.”
Source: The Impact of Science On Society
“I do not pretend that I have led a blameless life, or that one fault justifies another, but the public in judging a case like mine should remember that the darkest life may have a bright side...”
“I do not pretend that language is science. It isan instrument for the attainment of science.”
“I do not pretend to be a divine man, but I do believe in divine guidance, divine power, and in the fulfillment of divine prophecy. I am not educated, nor am I an expert in any particular field but I am sincere, and my sincerity is my credentials.”
Source: By any means necessary: the trials and tribulations of the making of Malcolm X
“I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian god may exist; so may the gods of Olympus, or of ancient Egypt, or of Babylon. But no one of these hypotheses is more probable than any other: they lie outside the region of even probable knowledge, and therefore there is no reason to consider any of them.”
Source: The Quotable Bertrand Russell
“I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.”
Source: Logic and Knowledge: Essays 1901-1950
“I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight, I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.”
Source: Centenary Edition [of the Writings of Theodore Parker]
“I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one. . . . But from what I see I am sure it bends toward justice.”
Source: Ten Sermons of Religion and Prayers
“I do not pretend to write much of a letter. You know under what circumstances I am writing.”
“I do not prize the word cheap. It is not a word of inspiration. It is the badge of poverty, the signal of distress. Cheap merchandise means cheap men and cheap men mean a cheap country.”
“I do not promise to believe tomorrow exactly what I believe today, and I do not believe today exactly what I believed yesterday. I expect to make, as I have made, some honest progress within every succeeding twenty-four hours.”
“I do not propose to add anything to what has already been written concerning the loss of the "Lady Vain."”
Source: The Island of Dr. Moreau
“I do not propose to be buried until I am dead.”
“I do not propose to criticize the fatuous argument I have just outlined; here, to expound is to expose.”
Source: The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice and Other Classic Essays on Science
“I do not propose to our British ladies, that they should turn Amazons in the service of their sovereign, nor so much as let their nails grow for the defence of their country. The men will take the work of the field off their hands, and show the world, that English valour cannot be matched when it is animated by English beauty.”
Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: With the Exception of His Numbers of the Spectator
“I do not punish my enemies with arrogance; I punish ,them, undoubtedly more subtle - with devoted respect.”
“I do not purpose to discuss faith in its dogmatic sense today.”
Source: Sermons