Source: Reply to Jane Dormer telling her that she was no longer sick.
“So the way you say I am dominating, I am not dominating. I am serving people.”
Sheikh Hasina (1947) Prime Minister of Bangladesh
In an interview in Dhaka. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/16/british-jihadis-bangladesh-extremism-uk-isis-sheikh-hasina <br class="br">Context: All the democratic institutions are working and people are satisfied and people are enjoying it. So the way you say I am dominating, I am not dominating. I am serving people.
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the World. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet
https://twitter.com/wise_chimp/status/1488946174321205253?s=21
“I am what I am because I have made myself so.”
Obert Skye book Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo
Source: Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo
“I am not the president of all the Chileans. I am not a hypocrite that says so.”
Salvador Allende (1908–1973) Chilean physician and politician
Quoted by Chilean newspapers as a remark at a public rally (17 January 1971). Allende sent a public letter to El Mercurio newspaper to deny the quotation
Citied in Jonathan Haslam's "The Nixon Administration and the Death of Allende's Chile"
Misattributed
“Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes so by chance.”
William Shakespeare The Winter's Tale
Source: The Winter's Tale
“I am constantly thankful. The world is so beautiful, I am thankful.”
Peace Pilgrim (1908–1981) American non-denominational spiritual teacher
Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words (1982), Ch. 7 : Living the Spiritual Life
Context: I am constantly thankful. The world is so beautiful, I am thankful. I have endless energy, I am thankful. I am plugged into the source of Universal Supply, I am thankful. I am plugged into the source of Universal Truth, I am thankful. I have this constant feeling of thankfulness, which is a prayer.
“Let him think I am more man than I am and I will be so.”
Ernest Hemingway book The Old Man and the Sea
Source: The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
“I am not so much concerned with the return on capital as I am with the return of capital.”
Will Rogers (1879–1935) American humorist and entertainer
The Prudent Professor: Planning and Saving for a Worry-Free Retirement (2011) by Edwin M. Bridges, Brian D. Bridges;
Forbes Guide to the Markets: Becoming a Savvy Investor (2009) by Forbes, LLC, Marc M. Groz
The National Underwriter, Volume 45 (1941), p. 12: "As Eddie Cantor put it years ago, after getting burned in the stock market, the life insurance policyholder is more interested in the return of his money than in the return on it."
Misattributed
“I am owner of my might, and I am so when I now myself as unique.”
Max Stirner book The Ego and Its Own
In the unique one the owner himself returns into his creative nothing, of which he is born. Every higher essence above me, be it God, be it man, weakens the feeling of my uniqueness, and pales only before the sun of this consciousness. If I concern myself for myself, the unique one, then my concern rests on its transitory, mortal creator, who consumes himself, and I may say: All things are nothing to me.
Dover 2005, p. 366
The Ego and Its Own (1845)
