Am Quotes (page 373)

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• great
• thinking
• greatness

I am tempted to think that to be despised by her sex is a very great compliment to a woman. Margaret Atwood

• enough
• star
• she

I never told her the other story, in which she stars, in which she is always the heroine? a romanticized story full of clich images in which I am telling her all the things there has not been enough time for, in which we are doing all the things there has not been time fo? Penelope Lively

• sister
• determination
• determines

For my part, I am determined never to speak of it again to anybody. I told my sister Phillips so the other day. Jane Austen

• good
• sister
• saying

There! Now we're friends!" declared the minx. "Say you're sorry about my sister -"I am desolated!"That's a good boy! Agatha Christie

• wellness
• giving
• purpose

It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that.' Well, so fucking what. Stephen Fry

• universe
• mind
• people

In the view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognize, there are yet people who says there is no God. But what makes me really angry is that they quote me for support of such views. (The Expanded Quotable Einstein, Princeton University, page 214) Albert Einstein

• hateful
• fragility
• fragile

I am too fucking fragile. I hate being fragile. Dave Eggers

• humanity
• alien
• aliens

I am a human being, and thus nothing human is alien to me. Terence

• god
• thankful
• thanks

I am (thank God!) constitutionally superior to reason. Wilkie Collins

• thinking
• new
• discovered

Since I became a novelist I have discovered that I am biased. Either I think a new novel is worse than mine and I don’t like it, or I suspect it is better than my novels and I don’t like it. Umberto Eco

• realizing
• said
• realized

I said "Somebody should do something about that." Then I realized I am somebody. Lily Tomlin

• her eyes
• world
• kiss

Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. --I shall feel it."She dropped her head again on Marius' knees, and her eyelids closed. He thought the poor soul had departed. Eponine remained motionless. All at once, at the very moment when Marius fancied her asleep forever, she slowly opened her eyes in which appeared the sombre profundity of death, and said to him in a tone whose sweetness seemed already to proceed from another world:--"And by the way, Monsieur Marius, I believe that... Victor Hugo

• dream
• mind
• mindfulness

Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy. Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams. And you weren't having any of those. Sylvia Plath

• mind
• mindfulness
• presence

I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else. Gilbert K. Chesterton

• time
• men
• feeling

It avails not, time nor place--distance avails not, I am with you, you men and women of a generation, or ever so manygenerations hence, Just as you feel when you look on the river and sky, so I felt, Just as any of you is one of a living crowd, I was one of a crowd, Just as you are refresh'd by the gladness of the river and thebright flow, I was refresh'd, Just as you stand and lean on the rail, yet hurry with the swiftcurrent, I stood yet was hurried, Just as you look on the numberless masts... Walt Whitman