I Am Quotes

1. "Since the age of four, I've been exploring what I can do with the written word: everything from championing literacy and youth voice to raising awareness about world hunger."
Author: Adora Svitak

2. "Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies."
Author: Albert Camus

3. "Il faut que l'homme s'évade de cette lice ridicule qu'on lui a faite: le prétendu réel actuel avec la perspective d'un réel futur qui ne vaille guère mieux. Chaque minute pleine porte en elle-même la négation de siècles d'histoire boitillante et cassée. Ceux à qui il appartient de faire virevolter ces huit flamboyants au-dessus de nous ne le pourront qu'avec de la sève pure._ Manifestes du surréalisme"
Author: André Breton

4. "Rakstišana vislabak veidoties zinamos burzmas apstaklos. Šo apgalvojumu esmu dzirdejis no tik daudziem intellektualiem, ka tas man jau sen ir apnicis… Saprotams, es tam neticu."
Author: Anšlavs Eglitis

5. "Now the Irish women always look so ashamed. They know they can never make a Jesus. It will be just another Mick."
Author: Betty Smith

6. "Of all the minerals the most vital in dietary terms is sodium, which we mostly consume in the form of sodium chloride – table salt.* Here the problem is not that we are getting too little, but possibly way too much. We don't need all that much – 200 milligrams a day, about what you would get with six or eight vigorous shakes of a salt cellar – but we take in about sixty times that amount on average. In a normal diet it is almost impossible not to because there is so much salt in the processed foods we eat with such ravenous devotion. Often it is heaped into foods that don't seem salty at all – breakfast cereals, prepared soups and ice creams, for instance. Who would guess that an ounce of cornflakes contains more salt than an ounce of salted peanuts?"
Author: Bill Bryson

7. "Ever since I became a Muslim, I've had to deal with attempts to damage my reputation and countless insinuations seeking to cast doubt on my character and trying to connect me to causes which I do not subscribe to."
Author: Cat Stevens

8. "Gay rights is just one of the social issues I'm interested in. I think that people might be less tense about it if we would all accept the fact that not everyone is wired the same way."
Author: Charlaine Harris

9. "Genius, throughout history, has been found difficult to classify because it varies in amount: It's rare to find a genius in the context of the noun, but most people, if not all, have a bit of genius in them in the context of the adjective."
Author: Criss Jami

10. "That's my entire weekend. I had plans." "A Vampire Diaries marathon is not plans." She looked at me like I'd lost my mind. "Have you even seen the Salvatore brothers? Holy mother of ginger snaps."
Author: Darynda Jones

11. "L.A. burns, and so many other cities smolder, waiting for the hose that will flood gasoline over the coals, and we listen to politicians who fuel our hate and our narrow views and tell us it's simply a matter of getting back to basics while they sit in their beachfront properties and listen to the surf so they won't have to hear the screams of the drowning."
Author: Dennis Lehane

12. "China protects the Chinese, America protects the Americans, I don't see why Europe should not protect the Europeans."
Author: Dominique De Villepin

13. "God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation."
Author: Francis Bacon

14. "Are you a devil?""I am a man," answered Father Brown gravely; "and therefore have all devils in my heart."
Author: G.K. Chesterton

15. "Dad, Mom, Brother. You haven't failed me. But you have all grown up. You have all grown old. And I'm still the same. I'm still fourteen-years-old. And I'm just now waking up."
Author: Garth Stein

16. "My wife Mariana is a good photographer too and, like me, she just picks up a camera and takes a picture when she sees something, rather than looking too deeply into it."
Author: Graeme Le Saux

17. "Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you."
Author: J.C. Ryle

18. "But they were not living, thought Harry: They were gone. The empty words could not disguise the fact that his parents' moldering remains lay beneath snow and stone, indifferent, unknowing. And tears came before he could stop them, boiling hot then instantly freezing on his face, and what was the point in wiping them off or pretending? He let them fall, his lips pressed hard together, looking down at the thick snow hiding from his eyes the place where the last of Lily and James lay, bones now, surely, or dust, not knowing or caring that their living son stood so near, his heart still beating, alive because of their sacrifice and close to wishing, at this moment, that he was sleeping under the snow with them."
Author: J.K. Rowling

19. "I don't collect awards, I collect empty trophy cases. Once my collection is large enough, I'm going to start collecting broken dreams."
Author: Jarod Kintz

20. "Mag-sorry kung ikaw ang may kasalanan. Kung hindi naman, ikaw ang unang mag-reach out. I-tae sa kubeta ang lecheng pride. Kung simpleng away lang naman, kabobohan ang patagalin o palalain pa ito.Tandaan, walang perpektong relasyon. Pero ang "pagbabati" mula sa isang away, ang isa sa pinakamatamis na bahagi nito."
Author: Jayson G. Benedicto

21. "They?re from my best friend," I said. "They?re from my best gay friend, Curtis Chapman." He stood there, frozen, possibly thinking I was joking. "Curtis won?t be back. He got out… he was saved. He won?t have to be called names, picked on, tortured, and assaulted anymore. He?s gone to a different school, and your days of bullying him are over." "Jon, the kid?s a fag!" "And he?s my best friend, and I love him… and so does God"
Author: Jeff Erno

22. "Then God said, "Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons." The Hebrew word for "sign" is owth, which also translates as "signals." Therefore, based on the Bible, God uses the sun, moon, and stars as signals to mankind."
Author: John Hagee

23. "La traición nunca prospera, cual será la razón? Que si prospera, nadie osa llamarla traición."
Author: John Harrington

24. "Just going on the road and entertaining the fans, that's amazing."
Author: Jordan Knight

25. "-Sólo quería dejar mis cosas. Un cambio de ropa y algunas cosas para mañana, dado que pasare la noche aquí.-¿Y no podías simplemente dármela en lugar de entrar aquí?-Pregunté con rabia. ¿Por qué tenia que hacer todo tan difícil?- Podía haberlo hecho, pero me habría perdido el placer de ver tu ardiente trasero en mi camiseta. Creo que es muy sexy que una chica vista ropa de su chico."
Author: Kirsty Moseley

26. "My photography is often a sociological look at American culture, and it's been very well published in the U.K."
Author: Lauren Greenfield

27. "In countries other than Pakistan - I won't necessarily call them 'Western' - people support me. This is because people there respect others. They don't do this because I am a Pashtun or a Punjabi, a Pakistani, or an Iranian, they do it because of one's words and character. This is why I am being respected and supported there."
Author: Malala Yousafzai

28. "But now that the guerrilla fighting is over, the Spaniards are again men without a country or families or homes or work, though everyone appreciates very much what they did."
Author: Martha Gellhorn

29. "Try seeing your world and yourself this way, eyes open to whatever is before you, mind free of dichotomies. Are you good or bad, fragile or tough, wise or foolish? Yes. And so am I."
Author: Martha N. Beck

30. "A third reason scientists are reluctant to examine paranormal phenomena is that they appear to contradict known physical laws. What is the point of studying the impossible? Only a fool would waste his time. The problem of data in conflict with existing theory cannot be overstated. Arthur Eddington once said you should never believe any experiment until it has been confirmed by theory, but this humorous view has a reality that cannot be discounted."
Author: Michael Crichton

31. "I'm still no good at ball-and-stick games. If I go play golf with the guys, it's intended to be a joke."
Author: Neil Peart

32. "Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?"
Author: Oscar Hammerstein II

33. "This man called President Bush has a lot to answer for. I don't know if this man is really taking care of America. This government has been shameful."
Author: Pierce Brosnan

34. "Life is a war, and the families are the armies. Even if you win the war, some will never see you plant the flag."
Author: R.A. Nelson

35. "Eleanor hated it when her mom acted like that. Relentlessly submissive. It was humiliatng to be in the same room."
Author: Rainbow Rowell

36. "A conglomerate heap of trash, that's what I am. But it burns with a high flame."
Author: Ray Bradbury

37. "I am very self-critical, but that's a good thing because it keeps me growing as a human being and as a musician."
Author: Ray Lamontagne

38. "None of us are meant to be or do anything," he said. "We decide what we're going to be. You told me once that there are no victims here, that we all have the power to choose what we want.""Don't try to use my own words against me," I warned."Why?" he asked, a slight smile on his lips. "They were damned good ones. You're not a victim. You're not a captive to that lily. You can be what you want. You can choose what you want.""You're right." I slipped away, finding no resistance from him at all. "And I don't choose you. That's what you're missing in all of this" - Sydney & Adrian, The Golden Lily"
Author: Richelle Mead

39. "I am the highway and a peregrine and all the sails that ever went to sea"
Author: Robert James Waller

40. "Uncanny as something long familiar that feels strangely unfamiliar. The uncanny stands between standard categories and challenges the categories themselves. It is familiar to see a doll at rest. But we don't need to cover its eyes, for it is we who animate it. It is familiar to have a person's expressive face beckon to us, but if we blindfold that person and put them behind a curtain, we are inflicting punishment. The Furby with its expressions of fear and the gendered Nexi with her blindfold are the new uncanny in the culture of computing."
Author: Sherry Turkle

41. "His understanding of transference in the therapeutic relationship and the presumed value of dreams as sources of insight into unconscious desires. He is commonly referred to as "the father of psychoanalysis" and his work has been highly influential-—popularizing such notions as the unconscious, defense mechanisms, Freudian slips and dream symbolism — while also making a long-lasting impact on fields as diverse as literature (Kafka), film, Marxist and feminist theories, literary criticism, philosophy, and psychology. However, his theories remain controversial and widely disputed. Source: Wikipedia"
Author: Sigmund Freud

42. "I read on the back cover that the author was born in Russia and came to America when she was young. She barely spoke English, but she wanted to be a great writer. I thought that was very admirable, so I sat down and tried to write a story. "Ian MacArthur is a wonderful sweet fellow who wears glasses and peers out of them with delight." That was the first sentence. The problem was that I just couldn't think of the next one."
Author: Stephen Chbosky

43. "Bella: Drizzai le spalle e andai incontro alla mia sorte, confortata dal destino che mi camminava al fianco."
Author: Stephenie Meyer

44. "When I accept myself, I am freed from the burden of needing you to accept me."
Author: Steve Maraboli

45. "I've never had a boy in here," Martin said in a serious voice. "I've never touched another man, as a matter of fact. . . .except for my father. That was my duty."Blomkvist's temples were pounding. He could not put his weight on his feet without being strangled. He tried to use his fingers to get a grip on the concrete wall behind him, but there was nothing to hold onto."It's time," Martin Vanger said.He put a hand on the strap and pulled down. Blomkvist instantly felt the noose cut into his neck."I've always wondered how a man tastes." He increased the pressure on the noose and leaned forward to kiss Blomkvist on the lips at the same time that a cold voice cut through the room."Hey you fucking creep, in this shithole I've got a monopoly on that one."
Author: Stieg Larsson

46. "Dans la forêt de mélèzes glissent des ombres. Les chevaux évitent savamment les troncs, les sabots crèvent la neige avec un bruit de poing dans l'oreiller de plume et des panaches de vapeur enfument les chanfreins."
Author: Sylvain Tesson

47. "He was drowned, he used to say, and lying on a cliff with gulls screaming over him. He would look over the edge of the sofa down into the sea. Or he was hearing music… But "Lovely!" he used to cry and the tears would run down his cheeks, which was to her the most dreadful thing of all, to see a man like Septimus, who had fought, who was brave, crying. And he would lie listening until suddenly he would cry that he was falling down, down into the flames!"
Author: Virginia Woolf

48. "What sort of God would put us here in this goddamned, stinking slaughterhouse of a world?"
Author: William Lindsay Gresham

49. "PISTOL-Say'st thou me so? is that a ton of moys? Come hither, boy: ask me this slave in French What is his name.Boy-Ecoutez: comment etes-vous appele?French Soldier-Monsieur le Fer.Boy- He says his name is Master Fer.PISTOL-Master Fer! I'll fer him, and firk him, and ferret him: discuss the same in French unto him.Boy-I do not know the French for fer, and ferret, and firk."
Author: William Shakespeare

50. "It is an oft-repeated axiom that a person can learn a whole lot abouta society by how it treats its poor; but just as much may be learnedby looking at how that same society treats its rich. Indeed, the economicfuture of the poor—and our nation—will be determined in the coming decades by how we treat the people in this country who create great wealth. It will be determined by our understanding of theso-called rich and by our need to foster and protect this minority oftrue wealth creators."
Author: Ziad K. Abdelnour

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