I Am Quotes

Tolerance says I am just going to stomach your right to be different. That if you disappear from the face of the earth, I am no better or worse off. But love - love knows that every American has worth and value, no matter what their background, race, religion, or sexual orientation.

~ Cory Booker

I was never pushed into the religion by my mother or anyone else. I made up my own mind when I was old enough. I am not a religious person, but I am spiritual.

~ Janet Jackson

I am thankful I can see much to admire in all religions.

~ Alfred Russel Wallace

I am obsessive always, even as a child. On one side is this strict orthodox religion, on the other is communism, and I am this little girl pulled between the two. It makes me who I am. It turns me into the kind of person that Freud would have a field day with, for sure.

~ Marina Abramović

I select a very small number of things to be sceptical about, such as markets, and on these I am hypersceptic. But I want to be fooled by randomness in art. I want the ceremonial of religion; we are made for it.

~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Myself, first of all, I am a Jew. And that is the most important thing for me.

~ Ariel Sharon

I have never made fun of religion. Religion is something I don't even want to mess with, because I am really afraid of the clouds opening up and my being struck by lightning.

~ Alice Cooper

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

~ Richard Burton

I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.

~ Peter Jennings

What I am teaching is religiousness, a quality. Religion is a dead dogma, fixed principles, frozen fossils. What I am teaching to you is a living, flowing religiousness - an experience like love.

~ Rajneesh

Whether religion is man-made is a question for philosophers or theologians. But the forms are man-made. They are a human response to something. As a historian of religions, I am interested in those expressions.

~ Mircea Eliade

I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world - a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals.

~ Buddha

I am happy to continue with my journey through time.

~ Mary

There's so much to appreciate about my life every single day, and I make a big point of taking time to smell the roses and noticing how lucky I am. I never want to take that for granted.

~ Josie Maran

People change with time. There are things that happened to a person in his childhood and years later they seem to him alien and strange. I am trying to decipher that child. Sometimes he is a stranger to me. When you think about when you were 14, don't you feel a certain alienation?

~ Günter Grass

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

~ James A. Baldwin

It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

~ Madeleine Albright

I am having a good time doing nothing.

~ Phylicia Rashad

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

~ Jorge Luis Borges

Here's the thing, men have to also mature in how they see women, too. Because they need to understand that it's not just about how we look, it's about who we are. And I am going to tell you like this, 'If you can't love me with short hair, and you telling me I got to have long hair to be loved, guess what, I ain't the one for you.'

~ Jada Pinkett Smith

I am not handsome, but when women hear me play, they come crawling to my feet.

~ Niccolo Paganini

Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.

~ Coco Chanel

I am my own woman.

~ Evita Peron

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes'; They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'

~ Clare Boothe Luce

People say Malala's voice is being sold to the world. But I see it as Malala's voice reaching the world and resonating globally. You should think about what is behind Malala's voice. What is she saying? I am only talking about education, women's rights, and peace.

~ Malala Yousafzai

I think I am at my best when my hair is short. It's easier to take care of and more of who I am. Women are conditioned to think we need long hair.

~ Halle Berry

I am very much in favor of women's rights, being a woman myself, and I support intelligent, successful, independent working women.

~ Gal Gadot

On behalf of NARAL Pro-Choice America - and our one million member activists - I am honored to be here to talk to you about what's at stake for women in 2012. I am proud to say that the Democratic Party believes that women have the right to choose a safe, legal abortion with dignity and privacy.

~ Nancy Keenan

I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.

~ Lyndon B. Johnson

I'll continue to work to ensure that safety and I am honored to have earned the endorsement of the men and women who provide public safety in our city.

~ Alan Autry

If you ask me about my views on the environment, on women's rights, on gay rights, I am liberal. I don't have a problem with that at all. Some of my best friends are liberal.

~ Bernie Sanders

I am not a sexy woman, I'm not beautiful, I'm not a sex kitten, I don't flirt with people, yet I've been tagged more of sex symbol than women who truly are and I that's solely because I don't reveal too much: people are curious.

~ Shirley Manson

I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.

~ Mikhail Bakunin

I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.

~ Jean Giraudoux

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

~ Walt Whitman

I am my own muse, the subject I know best.

~ Frida Kahlo

My mother thinks I am the best. And I was raised to always believe what my mother tells me.

~ Diego Maradona

I am an emotional person, and soccer is sheer emotion. For me, it is the best way to unwind.

~ Martin Winterkorn

I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.

~ Arthur Ashe

I am a gentleman. My natural inclination is to be on my best behavior.

~ Joe Wilson