A Quotes
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“All I ask of food is that it doesn't harm me.”
“All I ask of in the world is just one day after another with nothing planned.”
Source: Sport
“All I ask of Life is a constant and exaggerated sense of my own importance.”
“All I ask the new year for
is to fall silently into the spaces
that the last one left empty.
Filling them with a hope
that tells me gently at dawn
that my simple love
can cure even the most extraordinary heart
and that my broken past
is enough for each tomorrow that follows.
Maybe it will even remind me
that all the mistakes I will collect over the next year
are not as bad as the chances I missed in the last one.”
“All I ask, is the privilege for my masculine part the poet in me.... If I must not, because of my sex, have this freedom... I lay down my quill and you shall hear no more of me.”
Source: Behn Five Plays
“All I asked for was equality and independence. A rotating chairmanship might have been the answer.”
“All I asked of life is that it ask nothing of me.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“All I asked was that I be spared surprises, although, in this world of six billion souls, all acting with free will and too many with audacity, surprises are inevitable, too few of them are the kind that make you smile and that lift your heart.”
Source: The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd
“All I asked was, where do I sign? Some of the other navy men said I was rooting for the war to last forever. (after Browns gave him a monthly stipend during the war)”
“All I believe in is food and myself.”
“All I can ask from society is that it please stop telling me why I should like sports.”
“All I can be is me- whoever that is.”
“All I can be is who I am right now; I can experience that and work with it. That's all I can do. The rest is the dream of the ego.”
“All I can claim in this respect, alas, is that I think I may know just about enough theology to be able to spot when someone like Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens—a couplet I shall henceforth reduce for convenience to the solitary signifier Ditchkins—is talking out of the back of his neck.”
Source: Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate
“All I can do in my writing is to stimulate a certain amount of thought, clarify some technical facts and date my work. But when I preach sharpness, brilliancy, scale, etc., I am just mouthing words, because no words can really describe those terms and qualities it takes the actual print to say, “here it is.”
“All I can do in the context of pursuing any sort of TV thing, and all I've done in the past, is offer your life at any given point in time to whatever situation you're in.”
“All I can do is advocate changes at the BBC while respecting editorial independence upon which the success of the BBC rests. I can't do anything that requires the BBC to pay certain people certain amounts.”
“All I can do is assess the value from Manchester United perspective. Whatever Chelsea do, they may have a different criteria, and different financial assets.”
“All I can do is be faithful with my gift, be faithful with anyone I talk to and let love be my guide and just be gracious with people. God will take care of the rest. I really believe that.”
“All I can do is be me, whoever that is.”
Source: Dylan on Dylan: The Essential Interviews
“All I can do is be my best - there will always be people who will never like me.”
“All I can do is do my best work, try to create the best kind of moment to moment reality that I can do. That's what I do. I'm an actor. And all the rest of it is like baseball. You hit the ball. Sometimes it goes in the hole. Sometimes it goes to the player.”
“All I can do is do what I can do, and do what I know how to do. I do what I love to do, and that's pretty much it.”
“All I can do is engage with complete sincerity. Then whatever happens, there is no regret.”
Source: Worlds in Harmony: Compassionate Action for a Better World
“All I can do is follow my instincts, because I'll never please everyone.”
“All I can do is go by the words of Christ, who was the only talker we had, for f - 's sake. Buddha didn't speak. The Holy Ghost didn't speak. But I think it all boils down to the same thing - it's all about unity, love, compassion.”
“All I can do is go out there and play hard and try and help my team win, and that's what I'm going to keep doing.”
“All I can do is hope.”
Source: So Much Closer
“All I can do is just do what I can do and not be hampered by knowing that some people won't like it.”
“All I can do is just go in there and tighten up my game, tighten up my handles. Just all the little basic things that you wouldn't even think about, the fundamental parts of the game.”
“All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from.”
“All I can do is lie here, brain turning somersaults. It's nights like these when memories stir, whipping themselves into stiff peaks of pain.”
“All I can do is listen to what my body needs and feels.”
“All I can do is make good music and make it for the fans, not for anybody else.”
“All I can do is make the best of what I am, become accustomed to it, evaluate the possibilities, and take advantage of them the best I can.”
Source: Sartre in the Seventies: Interviews and Essays
“All I can do is play the game the way the cards fall.”
“All I can do is present what I think is in the best interest of this country and how I can best serve this country and the president of the United States. And I feel very good about that opportunity I've had.”
“All I can do is read a book to stay awake, and it rips my life away, but it's a great escape.”
“All I can do is repeat what I think is the best information that anybody ever gave me.”
“All I can do is say I smell a rat. I don't know where it is or what kind of rat it is, but as an artist, I can express how. But I couldn't responsibly stand up and tell people which way to go, because then I'm just as guilty as the people who are telling everybody else what to do and where to go.”
“All I can do is seek the information that'll make me stronger, that'll help me overcome my toxic masculinity, my male privilege, because that's something you never think about.”
“All I can do is share what I'm thinking - and learn from others.”
“All I can do is stand still- I feel like if I just stand still, I can stop it from being true, I can pretend that everything is all right.”
“All I can do is take influences from where I was raised.”
“All I can do is to urge on you to regard friendship as the greatest thing in the world; for there is nothing which so fits in with our nature, or is so exactly what we want in prosperity or adversity.”
Source: Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero with His Treatises on Friendship and Old Age: Letters of Pliny the Younger
“All I can do is try to create my own brand and have people appreciate me for that.”
“All I can do is try to do the best work I can. I need to work, I like to work... although I complain about it, but I do like it - and I just need to make the best film I can.”
“All I can do is turn a phrase until it catches the light.”
Source: May Week Was In June
“All I can do is write about whatever grabs me.”
“All I can do is write my stories for mankind, and rest easy.”
Source: Three Times Three