I Quotes
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“I do not put much emphasis on periods of meditation - if you do meditation, it's fine - but the important thing is to bring the awareness into everyday life, into every little action that you do, into the varied challenges of everyday life.”
“I do not put myself in a box and say, for instance, I'm writing post-colonial literature. I don't know what I'm writing. That's the business of professors and critics. My job is to tell a story, and that's it.”
“I do not quote from the scriptures;
I simply see what I see.”
“I do not quote my own movies. I think I would be pretty insufferable if I did.”
“I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.”
Source: Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work
“I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.”
“I do not read newspapers. I do not watch television. I am not interested in current events, although I will occasionally discuss them if other people want to discuss them.”
“I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.”
“I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek.”
“I do not read the works of Salman Rushdie, I write them. By the time I have finished writing them all I can think of is never reading them again. It's so deep, your involvement with a book, that once it's finished, then you are really done with it.”
“I do not really believe there is such a thing as al-Qaida, the organization; there is al-Qaida, the mind-set”
“I do not really care what people do as long as they do not do it in the street and frighten the horses.”
“I do not really know if it is a gain to exchange the crown of martrydom with two or three years of life in freedom. But I leave the good Lord to decide.”
“I do not really like vacations. I much prefer an occasional day off when I do not feel like working. When I am confronted with a whole week in which I have nothing to do but enjoy myself I do not know where to begin. To me, enjoyment comes fleetingly and unheralded; I cannot determinedly enjoy myself for a whole week at a time.”
Source: The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks
“I do not really shop. Most of my clothes I make. I dress simply.”
“I do not rebel against my God, I simply do not accept his world.”
“I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table.”
“I do not recall another period when ‘faith’ was as popular as it is today. ‘If only we believe hard enough we'll make it somehow.’ So goes the popular chant. What you believe is not important. Only believe... What is overlooked in all this is that faith is good only when it engages truth; when it is made to rest upon falsehood it can and often does lead to eternal tragedy. For it is not enough that we believe; we must believe the right thing about the right One.”
“I do not recall ever receiving a suggestion, let alone an order, from the White House as to how I should make a regulatory decision. How times have changed.”
“I do not recall our Lord ever saying one could not be 'cool'. It is only a problem if one esteems 'coolness' above that which is righteous and true, which is, when we give it its way, really what many of us do. 'Coolness' is too transient to be of any real and meaningful, lasting significance, and it is often in great conflict with one being one's most honest, most vulnerable self. That, and in reality, some of the coolest people are actually those who least concern themselves with being cool anyway, those who make 'trying to be cool' less evident.”
Source: Healology
“I do not recall spending long hours in front of a mirror loving my reflection.”
Source: Self-portrait
“I do not recall to [Kim Jong-un], but it was complex. "Dear young leader of the people and chairman of the joint military commission" or something like that.”
“I do not recognize these as defeats. They are but interesting experiences of life. They are valuable stepping stones to success.”
“I do not refer to myself as a 'housewife' for the reason that I did not marry a house.”
“I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.”
“I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.”
“I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information. When I write an advertisement, I don’t want you to tell me that you find it ‘creative.’ I want you to find it so interesting that you buy the product.”
“I do not regard capital to be the enemy of labour.”
Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi
“I do not regard flesh-food as necessary for us at any stage and under any clime in which it is possible for human beings ordinarily to live, I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species.”
Source: India of My Dreams
“I do not regard it as wrong to take my life, because I simply change my place of residence and go where my wife and baby are.”
“I do not regard killing or assassination or terrorism as good in any circumstances whatsoever.”
Source: Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace
“I do not regard myself as a Christian politician. I regard myself as a politician who just happens to think religion matters. I would be appalled, absolutely appalled, to think religion drove anyone's politics in a secular democracy like ours.”
“I do not regard the Keynesian revolution as a great intellectual triumph. On the contrary, it was a tragedy because it came so late. Hitler had already found out how to cure unemployment before Keynes had finished explaining why it occured.”
Source: The Second Crisis of Economic Theory: And Other Selected Papers from the American Economic Meeting, December 27-29, 1971
“I do not regard the procuring of peace as a matter in which we should play the role of arbiter between different opinions ... more that of an honest broker who really wants to press the business forward.”
“I do not regard the rise of woman as a bad sign. Rather do I fancy that her traditional subordination was itself an artificial and undesirable condition based on Oriental influences. Our virile Teutonic ancestors did not think their wives unworthy to follow them into battle, or scorn to dream of winged Valkyries bearing them to Valhalla.”
Source: Selected Letters 1934-1937
“I do not regret getting married nor do I regret getting divorced.”
“I do not regret having braved public opinion, when I knew it was wrong and was sure it would be merciless.”
“I do not regret one moment of my life.”
“I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.”
Source: The lonely life: an autobiography
“I do not regret the folly of my youth, but the timidity.”
“I do not regret the sacrifices that I made for you, because, once upon a time, I was so happy to make those sacrifices”
“I do not regret the things I've done, but those I did not do.”
“I do not regret the things that I do not reach to grasp and enjoy. I consider that the will of God is so; may he gives other good ones.”
“I do not reject responsibility - our movement made mistakes, like every other movement in the world. But there was another aspect that was outside our control - the enemy's activities against us.”
“I do not remember any proper children's books in my childhood. I was not exposed to them.”
“I do not remember having felt, as a boy, any passion for mathematics, and such notions as I may have had of the career of a mathematician were far from noble. I thought of mathematics in terms of examinations and scholarships: I wanted to beat other boys, and this seemed to be the way in which I could do so most decisively.”
Source: A Mathematician's Apology
“I do not remember. I have said this.”
“Or…the time you shared your mate with me? In the furs?”
I growl low and stop in my tracks, sudden fury sweeping over me.
Harrec stops, too. He raises his hands into the air, grinning. “It is a joke, friend. Merely a joke. I was testing you.”
“It is not funny.” Another hunter walks up and gives Harrec a push on the shoulders, indicating he should walk. It is Bek. “Your jokes are as poor as your hunting skills.”
Source: Barbarian's Heart
“I do not remember in my whole life I ever willfully misrepresented anything to anybody at any time. I have never knowingly had connection with a fraudulent scheme.”
“I do not remember joy or sorrow in childhood, but listening for clues.”
“I do not remember the '70s, for who-knows-what-all reasons.”