A Quotes
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“And I am not one of those women who trips twice over the same stone.”
“And I am not pleased
I am not very pleased
None of this fits into my notion of “things going very well”
“And I am nothing if not a stupid, stupid man.”
Source: The Station Hill Blanchot Reader: Fiction & Literary Essays
“And I am pretty sure that's the point of reading fiction -- so someone else can say in a way you never would have something you recognize immediately.”
“And I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States.”
Source: The Oxford India paper Dickens
“And I am saying, how about the other two branches? And putting the pressure on our representatives in the Senate and the Congress, and the court system. They should be counter-acting this corruption, but they are sitting there silent.”
“And I am so alone
And I am alone here
With the idea of ghosts
And the idea of humanity, which is a cruel idea”
Source: Rome: Poems
“And I am so dull and dirty. Like a small brown toad. He does not see me. How could he see me, when she is before him? Glowing and gilded in gold.”
Source: Song of the Sparrow
“And I am someone who does not let inconsequential boys and near-death experiences stop her.”
“And I am standing in front of my mother, and my whole life I have wanted to make my mother proud. And now I'm going to make my daughter proud.”
“And I am still alive-what though, my damnation is eternal. A man who deliberately mutilates himself is truly damned, is he not? I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am.”
Source: A Season in Hell and Other Poems
“And I am still haunted by all the things I could have been.”
“And I am still mad. So mad. I can starve it, avoid it, rationalize it, manage it, talk about it in therapy, and eat it up in neat little points value. No matter how much weight I lose, I will never lose this one simple truth: I want my mom. I am so f***ing mad that she's gone. And that feeling will never, ever die.”
Source: The Dead Moms Club: A Memoir about Death, Grief, and Surviving the Mother of All Losses
“And I am the kind of person that feels so much that if I didn’t have acting (and music), I would burst from all of the emotion inside!”
“And I am the most miserable man alive, and more so because no one at this dinner table has the slightest notion of what's tearing me up.”
Source: Enigma Variations
“And I am too knowledgeable now to hurt people imprecisely”
“And I am weary of the anguish
Increasing winters bear;
Weary to watch the spirit languish
Through years of dead despair.
So, if a tear, when thou art dying,
Should haply fall from me,
It is but that my soul is sighing,
To go and rest with thee.”
Source: Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell
“And I apologize to all of you who are the same age as my grandchildren. And many of you reading this are the same age as my grandchildren. They, like you, are being royally shafted and lied to by our Baby Boomer corporations and government.”
“And I argued with that intelligence estimate and I think it is a responsibility of policymakers to use their best judgment on the basis of the intelligence they've received.”
“And I ask him why he cuts his arms with a razor. "Just fo feel. Just to feel something.”
“and I ask myself and you, which of our visions will claim us which will we claim how will we go on living how will we touch, what will we know what will we say to each other.”
Source: The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977
“And I ask myself what it is about me that makes this wonderful, beautiful woman return. Is it because I'm pathetic, helpless in my current state, completely dependent on her? Or is it my sense of humour, my willingness to tease her, to joke my way into painful, secret places? Do I help her understand herself? Do I make her happy? Do I do something for her that her husband and son can't do? Has she fallen in love with me? As the days pass and I continue to heal, my body knitting itself back together, I begin to allow myself to think that she has.”
“And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, 'love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.”
“And I asked her about the holes in the walls and Mom tried to joke, saying, “Yes, Marjorie was sleep punching too.” I didn’t get the joke.”
Source: A Head Full of Ghosts
“And I asked my mother 'can I touch the lady in the water? And she said yes I could, but I had to touch Mommy first. And then I asked, 'Mom, can I date the lady in the water?' and she said smiling 'sure, but you gotta date me first.' And yesterday I said 'Mom, may I marry the lady in the water?' and she said o.k., but you'll have to marry me first.”
“And I asked my mother about it; I said, 'Is there something wrong?' She said, 'God... God makes people. You understand that, don't you?' And I said, 'Yeah!' She said, 'Who makes a rainbow?" I said, 'God.' She said, 'I never presumed to tell anyone who could make a rainbow what color to make children.'”
“And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.”
Source: SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE
“And I assure you, I am perfectly sane now. Stable as a workhorse in old Ireland, my friends, with only one goal in life. To do good. Always good.”
Source: Addicted to Time
“And I audition and I see people in the waiting room. And I can’t help but think: there’s a very slim chance people like acting,' said Eden. 'It has too many other things. Attention. Escape. People. Spotlight. But the actual thing of acting, the kernel, has to belong to fewer people than there are actors in this city. They were kids lacking something at a young age and the splendid world of the theatre offered them that, but as soon as they found love, drama, stability, or attention from another source, they abandoned the Theatre. Imagine how sad that feels—to be abandoned. To be told you are loved, again and again, and then be told it was never the case.”
Source: The Goodbye Song
“And I became a psychotherapist because I was fucked-up. That’s the truth—though it’s not what I said during the job interview, when the question was put to me.”
Source: The Silent Patient
“And I became the Wanderer!”
Source: Why the Silhouette?
“And I been waitin' all my life And I been havin' big dreams times twice”
“And I began to feel sorry for myself; for so many years, my drawer full of memories had held the same old stories.”
“And I began to let him go. Hour by hour. Days into months. It was a physical sensation, like letting out the string of a kite. Except that the string was coming from my center.”
Source: You Better Not Cry: True Stories for Christmas
“And I began to suspect that the ultimate sacrifice isn't death after all; the ultimate sacrifice is willingly bearing the fullest penalty for your own actions.”
Source: Treason
“And I believe all men think of me as a person. Correction: not all men. And I believe all men care about consent. Correction: not all men.”
Source: Artemis Made Me Do It
“And I believe happiness is the exact opposite of sadness, bitterness, and hatred: happiness should remain unexamined as long as possible.”
Source: The Tommyknockers
“And I believe in the 13 years Judge Roberts was there, he never turned down a request to give some assistance on a pro-bono case, and this was no different.”
“And I believe it to be a signal evidence of the Spirit's presence when the Word is really precious to a man 's soul.”
“And I believe our sorrow was the more intense because nobody else seemed to share it. They were disgusted, amused, shocked, outraged, or even excited by the story. But we listened for the one who would say, "Poor little girl," or "Poor baby," but there was only head-wagging where those words should have been. We looked for eyes creased with concern, but saw only veils.”
Source: The Bluest Eye
“And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.”
“And I believe that I will never be able to hate any human being for his so-called 'wickedness,' that I shall only hate the evil that is within me, though hate is perhaps putting it too strongly even then. In any case, we cannot be lax enough in what we demand of others and strict enough in what we demand of ourselves.”
Source: Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943
“And I believe that if 100 million people became embodiments of peace, the world would transform, because consciousness is a collective phenomenon. And what we see as good and evil is the balance between forces.”
“And I believe that if we can care about whether or not our neighbor has a good job or access to affordable health care for their children, and we move to implement the policies that can improve these situations, we will unleash vast amounts of human potential and recapture the American spirit.”
“And I believe that it becomes a troubled continent because there are those who must always cause confusion so that we do not keep these natural resources.”
“And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an intimate medium of television, and that we can do reading and language development for young children without getting into human sexuality.”
“And I believe that the best buy in public health today must be a combination of regular physical exercise and a healthy diet.”
“And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.”
“And I believe that the Binomial Theorem and a Bach Fugue are, in the long run, more important than all the battles of history.”
“And I believe that this terror is precisely what must have snagged me, the way a ledge will tempt one to jump off. The very insurmountability of the task, its very unattractiveness, was in the end what attracted me to it.”
Source: We Need To Talk About Kevin