I Quotes
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“I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth. I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.”
“I do not share the general view that market forces are the basis for political liberty. Every time I see a homeless person living in a cardboard box in London, I see that person as a victim of market forces. Everytime I see a pensioner who cannot manage, I know that he is a victim of market forces”
“I do not share the general view that market forces are the basis of personal liberty.”
“I do not share the gloomy thought that Negroes in America are doomed to be stomped out bodaciously, nor even shackled to the bottom of things. Of course some of them will be tromped out, and some will always be at the bottom, keeping company with other bottom-folks.”
“I do not share the half-in, half-out attitude to the EU of some in Britain. Britain's place is in Europe.”
“I do not share the pessimism of the age about the novel. They are one of our greatest spiritual, aesthetic and intellectual inventions. As a species it is story that distinguishes us, and one of the supreme expressions of story is the novel. Novels are not content. Nor are they are a mirror to life or an explanation of life or a guide to life. Novels are life, or they are nothing.”
“I do not shoot with my hand,'" Eddie said. He suddenly felt far away, strange to himself. It was the way he'd felt when he had seen first the slingshot and then the key in pieces of wood, just waiting for him to whittle them free ... and at the same time this feeling was not like that at all.
Roland was looking at him oddly. "Yes, Eddie, you say true. A gunslinger shoots with his mind. What have you thought of?"
"Nothing." He might have said more, but all at once a strange image-a strange memory-intervened: Roland hunkering by Jake at one of their stopping-points on the way to Lud. Both of them in front of an unlit campfire. Roland once more at his everlasting lessons. Jake's turn this time. Jake with the flint and steel, trying to quicken the fire. Spark after spark licking out and dying in the dark. And Roland had said that he was being silly. That he was just being ... well ... silly.
"No," Eddie said. "He didn't say that at all. At least not to the kid, he didn't."
"Eddie?" Susannah. Sounding concerned. Almost frightened.
Well why don't you ask him what he said, bro? That was Henry's voice, the voice of the Great Sage and Eminent Junkie. First time in a long time. Ask him, he's practically sitting right next to you, go on and ask him what he said. Quit dancing around like a baby with a load in his diapers.
Except that was a bad idea, because that wasn't the way things worked in Roland's world. In Roland's world everything was riddles, you didn't shoot with your hand but with your mind, your motherfucking mind, and what did you say to someone who wasn't getting the spark into the kindling? Move your flint in closer, of course, and that's what Roland had said: Move your flint in closer, and hold it steady.
Except none of that was what this was about. It was close, yes, but close only counts in horseshoes, as Henry Dean had been wont to say before he became the Great Sage and Eminent Junkie. Eddie's memory was jinking a little because Roland had embarrassed him ... shamed him ... made a joke at his expense ...
Probably not on purpose, but ... something. Something that had made him feel the way Henry always used to make him feel, of course it was, why else would Henry be here after such a long absence?”
Source: Wizard and Glass
“I do not sing nor play, but I adore music, particularly Chopin. I like him because I cannot understand him.”
“I do not sing politics. I merely sing the truth.”
Source: Makeba: The Miriam Makeba Story
“I do not sleep because I am not only afraid of the monsters at my door, but also of the monsters my own mind can conjure. The ones that live within.”
Source: The Priory of the Orange Tree
“I do not sleep to dream
but dream to change the world”
Source: Poems by Martin Carter
“I do not sleep to let others sleep in the shade of my waking.”
“I do not sleep, but it's totally fine, because I love what I do.”
“I do not sleep; I wish to meet my death awake.”
“I do not smile when I don’t feel like it.” Lyssa blinked, surprised. “Why not?” “Because we are always expected to plaster a grin on our faces even when we don’t wish to. I used to do it so often, I stopped being able to tell when I was smiling for me or for someone else. So now, I don’t smile unless I’m one hundred percent sure it’s something I want to do, not something someone else wants me to do.” She smoothed a lock of hair away from Lyssa Sage’s face. “And you shouldn’t, either.”
“I do not snivel that snivel the world over,
That months are vacuums and the ground but wallow and filth,
That life is a suck and a sell, and nothing remains at the end but threadbare crape and tears.”
Source: Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition by: Walt Whitman
“I do not so easily think in words.... after being hard at work having arrived at results that are perfectly clear... I have to translate my thoughts in a language that does not run evenly with them.”
“I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a people.”
Source: Elizabeth I: Collected Works
“I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a people. Therefore I have cause to wish nothing more than to content the subject and that is a duty which I owe. Neither do I desire to live longer days than I may see your prosperity and that is my only desire.”
Source: Elizabeth I: Collected Works
“I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as a dying friend. I hold its hand and hope it will get better.”
“I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.”
“I do not speak carelessly or recklessly but with a definite object of helping the people, especially those of my race, to know, to understand, and to realize themselves.”
Source: Marcus Garvey Life and Lessons: A Centennial Companion to the Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers
“I do not speak for my church on public matters; and the church does not speak for me.”
“I do not speak for the White House correspondents association. I`m not a member.”
“I do not speak of what I cannot praise.”
“I do not speak the English so good, but then I speak the driving very well.”
“I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.”
Source: Complete Essays
“I do not spew profanities, I enunciate them like a f**king lady.”
“I do not spoil women. ... I don't send them flowers and gifts. . . . I'm saving those gestures until I am an unpleasant old man who must resort to bribery to win a woman's synthetic affections.”
“I do not stand here before you as a self-righteous saint who has achieved spiritual perfection, but as a sinner who has received Jesus into his heart as his Lord and Savior.”
“I do not stand on this side, nor on that. I stand where the walls between hearts crumble.”
“I do not stare at a gentleman in distress.”
“I do not steal imagination. I use it and replace it by making people read.”
Source: The Spirit of Imagination
“I do not steal victory.”
“I do not stick to rules when cooking. I rely on my imagination.”
“I do not subscribe to functioning labels because functioning labels are inaccurate and dehumanizing, because functioning labels fail to capture the breadth and complexity and highly contextual interrelations of one's neurology and environment, both of which are plastic and malleable and dynamic. Functioning is the corporeal gone capitalistic -- it is an assumption that one's body and being can be quantitatively measured, that one's bodily outputs and bodily actions are neither outputs nor actions unless commodifiable.”
Source: Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness
“I do not subscribe to the philosophy that there has to be a pill for every ill. I firmly believe there is a better way—it's called prevention.”
Source: Turn Heads at Any Age: Simple Anti-Aging and Weight Loss Solutions to Help You Feel and Look Fabulous
“I do not subscribe to the school of thought that I am leading the presidential polls because of my beautiful legs.”
“I do not suffer from Autism, but I do suffer from the way you treat me.”
“I do not suffer; I cannot suffer because I am not an object. Of course there is suffering. But do you realize what this suffering is? I am the suffering. Whatever is manifested, I am the functioning. Whatever is perceptible I am the perceiving of it. Whatever is done I am the doing of it; I am the doer of it, and, understand this, I am also that which is done. In fact, I am the total functioning.”
“I do not suggest that you should not have an open mind ... but don't keep your mind so open that your brains fall out.”
“I do not support a civil war. I don't want to be policeman of the world. But we can't back off of this.”
“I do not support a constitutional amendment to prohibit gay marriage.”
“I do not support abortion rights. Although what I would support in this vexed area is not clear to me.”
Source: The Trouble with Principle
“i do not support all women. some of you bitches are very dumb!!!”
“I do not support child abuse. It's a disgusting crime of which I am a victim.”
“I do not support citizenship for those already here illegally. Those who cut the line and broke our laws as their first act entering this country have foregone that opportunity.”
“I do not support Common Core because there is absolutely no evidence that a big, centralized bureaucracy makes anything better. In fact, there is a lot of evidence to the contrary.”
“I do not support driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants.”
“I do not support Hamas! I support human dignity and respect! I support sharing! I support Peace! #ceasefire”