Quotes 561 till 580 of 1785.
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I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes - and as cold as Charity, Chastity or any other Virtue.
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I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.
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I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.
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I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.
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I am so changeable, being every thing by turns and nothing long,— I am such a strange mélange of good and evil.
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I am the most spontaneous speaker in the world because every word, every gesture, and every retort has been carefully rehearsed.
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I assume that to prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all.
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I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light I can command must be concentrated on this particular web, and not dispersed over that tempting range of relevancies called the universe.
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I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
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I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed. Amen. Amen.
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I believe in the discipline of silence, and could talk for hours about it.
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I believe that it is my job not only to write books but to have them published. A book is like a child. You have to defend the life of a child.
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I believe with all my heart that the Church of Jesus Christ should be a Church of blurred edges.
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I by no means rank poetry high in the scale of intelligence - this may look like affectation but it is my real opinion. It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.
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I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.
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I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.
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I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.
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I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.
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