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Kazantzakis:I hope nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.
Sylvia Plath:I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am, I am, I am.
James Joyce:I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
Emile Zola:If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.
Herman Melville:I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
Talleyrand:I am more afraid of an army of one hundred sheep led by a lion than an army of one hundred lions led by a sheep.
Edna Milley:What should I be
but just what I am?
Ahmad Javad:I am a voice which belongs to the tormented country
Onesimo Silveira:I am more original than no one
Ahmed Shawqiν:My homeland is always in my mind, even when I am in paradise.
Muhammad Iqbal:My ancestors were Brahmins. They spent their lives in search of god. I am spending my life in search of man
Darwin:It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
John Keats:My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
Gabriel Marquez: I love you not for whom you are,
but who i am when i'm by your side.
Mary Shelley:Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.
Mitropoulos:I only live for the moments I am in the podium and in order to live those moments, I spend my life preparing myself with discipline, doubts and humility.
Borges:“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”
Chinua Achebe:Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what I need - is something I have to find out myself.
Na Hye-sok:.. as a pioneer of social transformation, I am victimized by destiny.
Guevara Che:Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
Mozart:When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly.
Jackson Pollock:On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.
Plotinus:“I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.”
Samuel Johnson:I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.”
Henry Miller:I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.
Carl Jung:I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.
Carl Rogers:When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
Primo Levi:I am constantly amazed by man's inhumanity to man.
Anne Sullivan:I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
Manos Xatzidakis:They say that artists are either communists or homosexuals. Anyway, I am not a communist…
Great the Alexander:I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teachers for living well.
Socrates:I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing
Darwin:I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.
Washington:My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
Nazim Hikmet:You are my drunkenness...
I did not sober up, as if I can do that;
I don't want to anyway.
I have a headache, my knees are full of scars
I am in mud all around
I struggle to walk towards your hesitant light.”
Marie Curie:I am one of those who think, like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.
Gustav Klimt:Even when I am being idle, I have plenty of food for thought, both early and late - thoughts both about and not about art.
Rousseau:I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.”
Joseph Conrad:My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see.
Aziz Nesin:I understand that you'll leave
I am already ruined, I can't collapse
But leave your color with me
Fidel Castro:“If people call me Christian, not from the standpoint of religion but from the standpoint of social vision, I declare that I am a Christian.
Diogenes:I am not an Athenian, Ia am not a Greek, I am a citizen of the world.
Guevara Che:I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.
Luther:When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.
Frida Kahlo:I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
Oscar Wilde:Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
Emile Zola:I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.
Walt Whitman:Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself; I am large -- I contain multitudes.
Nikolai Gogol:I am who I am and that's who I am”
Beethoven:What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.
Jacqueline Romilly:I am still sensitive to beauty. I would say, almost more so! The objects are somewhat distorted, blurry like impressionist paintings that strike you, sometimes, and draw you in. But external beauty remains transitory, whereas the beauty of a text, of a sentence, is an idea that I will keep within me an entire day.
Paul Valery:At times I think and at times I am.
Great the Alexander:I am dying with the help of too many physicians.
Gabriela Mistral:Let the earth look at me, and bless me, for now I am fecund and sacred, like the palms and the furrows.
A. Modigliani:What I am seeking is not the real and not the unreal but rather the unconscious, the mystery of the instinctive in the human race.
Petrarca:I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.
Montaigne:I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.
Walt Disney:I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
Carl Rogers:The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
Demosthenes:I am a citizen of the world.
Saadawi:Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.
Michelangelo:I am still learning.
Dostoevsky:I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can’t help re-living such moments as these in my dreams, for such moments are something I have very rarely experienced. I am going to dream about you the whole night, the whole week, the whole year.
Remarque:I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another.
Francis Bacon:I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
Guevara Che:I am not interested in dry economic socialism. We are fighting against misery, but we are also fighting against alienation.
Ovid:Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
L. Wittgenstein:I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that’s a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn’t insane. We are only doing philosophy.
de Simone Beauvoir:I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
Oscar Wilde:“I am not young enough to know everything.
Walt Whitman:“I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best. ”
de Sade,Marquis:Either kill me or take me as I am, because I'll be damned if I ever change.”
Fidel Castro:I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.
Freddie Mercury:Onstage, I am a devil. But I'm hardly a social reject.
Igor Stravinsky:I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.
Jack London:I am I. And I won't subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind.
Hobbes:I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
Tennyson:"I am a part of all that I have met."
Guru Nanak:I am in constant bliss, day and night, egotism has been dispelled from within me.
Erich Fromm:If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?
de Simone Beauvoir:I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
Luther:If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.
Salvador Dali:There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
Igor Stravinsky:I am an inventor of music.
Bernard Shaw:I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
Maya Angelou:If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?
Khalil Gibran:I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
Bismarck von Otto:With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
Heraclitus:I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.
Leo Tolstoy:Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.
Luther:I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.
Chanel:I don’t do fashion, I am fashion.’
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