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I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy. – Samuel Butler
I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure-that is all that agnosticism means. – Clarence Darrow
I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily as chanticleer in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake his neighbours up. – Henry David Thoreau, Walden; Where I Lived, And What I Lived For
I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business. – Bette Davis
I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar. – Miguel Cervantes
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it. – Thomas Jefferson
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. – Abraham Lincoln
I do not think myself to be a worm, and a grub, grass of the field fit only to be burned, a clod, a morsel of putrid atoms that should be thrown to the dungheap, ready for the nethermost pit. Nor if I did should I therefore expect to sit with Angels and Archangels. – Anthony Trollope
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature. – John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr.
I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success....Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything. – Nikola Tesla
I do not want a friend Who smiles when I smile Who weeps when I weep For my shadow in the pool Can do better than that. – Confucius
I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any. – Mahatma Gandhi
I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that trouble of liking them. – Jane Austen
I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them. – Jane Austen
I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace. – Helen Keller
I do not want to die. . . until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown. – Kathe Kollwitz
I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown. – Kathe Kollwitz, O Magazine, September 2002
I do not want to dieuntil I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the see that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown. – Kathe Kollwitz
I do not wish to kill nor to be killed, but I can foresee circumstances in which these things would be by me unavoidable. – Henry David Thoreau
I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person. – Socrates
I do remember stopping by the way, To watch a potter thumping his wet clay; And with its all-obliterated tongue It murmured, ?Gently, brother, gently, pray!? – Omar Khayyam
I don't believe anything. I only know some things to a greater degree of certainty than others. - from When Galaxies Collide – John Ryman
I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard. – Lyndon B. Johnson
I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents. – Elie Wiesel
I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse. – Isaac Asimov

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