Quotes with not-self

Quotes 2841 till 2860 of 10786.

• I accept reality and dare not question it.

  Walt Whitman
  American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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• I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.

  Anita Desai
  Indian novelist (1937 - )
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• I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer is not aware of.

  Umberto Eco
  Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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• I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

  Margaret Thatcher
  British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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• I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.

  Caitlyn Marie Jenner
  American television personality and decathlete (born Bruce Jenner)
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• I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands.

  V.S. Naipaul
  Trinidad and Tobago-born British writer (1932 - 2018)
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• I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct - nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world is grievously given to lying.

  Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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• I am a fallen woman, but I assure you: I did not fall. I was pushed.

  Lelieblank, scharlaken rood (2002)

  Michel Faber
  Dutch-Scottish English-language writer (1960 - )
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• I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.

  June Jordan
  American poet and civil rights activist (1939 - )
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• I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

  Bishop Desmond Tutu
   
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• I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.

  Josh Billings
  American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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• I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.

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  Jeanette Winterson
  English writer (1959 - )
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• I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

  Richard Dawkins
  English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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• I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive li

  William Wordsworth
  English poet (1770 - 1850)
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• I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
  

  Winston Churchill
  English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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• I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

  Clarence Darrow
  American Lawyer (1857 - 1938)
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• I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

  Winston Churchill
  English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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• I am as poor as Job, my lord, but not so patient.

  William Shakespeare
  English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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• I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.

  Solomon Ibn Gabirol
  Andalusian poet and Jewish philosopher (1021 - 1058)
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• I am bewitched with the rogue's company. If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I'll be hanged.

  William Shakespeare
  English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• understanding
• self-respect
• circumstance
• friendship
• doubtless
• undertake

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