I Quotes
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“I don't know notes or octaves or the difference between sharp and flat, but I know music makes everything more.”
Source: My Best Everything
“I don’t know or understand any other language except the language of kindness.”
“I don’t know, perhaps because life is the only thing I know or that it is the only thing I don’t know.”
“I don't know, said Tej. Like, I don't feel any different than I did when I was twenty. Still in Nepal. Now, I'm here. The years keep passing, but I feel the same.
That's what other people are for, said the son. They're part of the litmus test.
Right, said Tej. Maybe they're the ones who help us see ourselves clearer. And helping them is helping ourselves.”
Source: Palaver: A Novel
“I don’t know,” Scot offered. “Being a hero feels fair and fine to me.”
Mordred turned to him and looked him up and down under his dark brows. “That’s because you’re young, inexperienced, and living in the sunrise glow of a moment of glory. Enjoy it, fellow, while it lasts. You’ve accomplished something that you’ve longed to achieve and felt was an impossible dream since childhood. You’ll have the best half-year of your life (if you’re lucky) and then the glory of this moment will set beyond your horizon. You’ll be left empty, questioning everything, and wishing for a challenge to equal the old. It is the central cycle of every ambitious man’s life—it is the reason he seeks and achieves glory, and the reason that one day his own glory grows too heavy and crushes him, especially as he gets too old to bear its weight.”
Source: Three Days and Two Knights
“I don’t know,” she lied. “I need a few days to think it over.”
Even as she said it, she knew she was going to take the offer. Hell, she might even escape from whatever dark menace haunted her rune readings lately, along with the owner of that predatory, handsome face.
Or if she went, she could be running right toward it. Toward him.
Ah, well. You’ can’t fix stupid. And you can’t heal crazy.”
Source: Moonshadow
“I don’t know,” she muttered, looking uncertain. “Let’s just leave.”
“You want to dance?” I prodded. “I’ll get you anything you want.”
“How are you going to do that?”
“I get anything I want,” I stated quite plainly.
She laughed under her breath, probably thinking I was joking, and I went weak for a moment, the light in her eyes the most beautiful thing I’d seen in a long time.”
Source: Kill Switch
“I don’t know," she said. "I’m not sure you would like me in real life. I’m a lot different there, you know. I don’t even look the same."
" I don’t care if you look like a troll with warts," Sir Leo declared, taking her hand in his. "I love you.”
Source: Gamer Girl
“I don’t know,” she said quietly. “A guy in a pair of ripped jeans who takes off his shirt because he’s all sweaty is kind of hot.”
Source: One More Kiss
“I don't know," she said. "We used to squabble a lot when we were going together and then engaged and everything, but I thought everything would be so different as soon as you were married. And now I feel so sort of strange and everything. I feel so sort of alone.”
Source: Here We Are
“I don’t know that an easy life is really all that easy.”
“I don’t know that anything really new can be said about love, for something so imposing has long captured the attention and teased the words of untold millions, including myself. But in similar fashion, nothing new can be said of the struggle that I have to live it out in the way that I have so often written it out.”
“I don’t know that dreams die. I think it’s more that they are never born.”
“I don't know that he said a thing. He smelled strange, I noticed that right away, not rotten like you and Roticella said, more complicated, like an apple that the wasps are flying around, musty, but autumny... I can't explain. But he hissed, and those awful red eyes, like red fire, coals. God, they were anything but dead the way they are in his picture. I could see the iris was dark brown, almost black, and the whites were bloodshot lines... The lashes were thick and Harry I just can't say this right, but the eyes, they weren't repulsive. Evil, evil, but not to turn you away. I... I couldn't stop looking at him. It was like some sort of spider sucking out all my juices. Destroying me right there on the sidewalk.
'And I felt I was going to faint, and I tried, I tried to break out of that stare of his, but I couldn't. He was drawing everything out of me - my job, that you were trying to trap him, even things about me, even personal things. Then... then he was gone.
'I was conscious of myself again, it was like I had been left hollow, worthless. I mean something of me went with him and the rest of me wanted to go with him. I'm ashamed, Harry, so ashamed...' She sobbed for a moment, then with difficulty regained her control.”
Source: Progeny of the Adder
“I don't know that I brood. I just occasionally take time out to silently consider the specific ways in which others have wronged me.”
Source: Ayoade on Ayoade: A Cinematic Odyssey
“I don't know that I'll feel any different if my soul withers away, but I don't think I could stand to see him looking so sad.”
“I don't know that I'm making up for anything," he disagreed lightly. "Like everything in life, I just had to decide what to do with what I was given”
Source: New Moon
“I don’t know that our dreams died. Rather, I think that they were abandoned because that leaves us with the dream that maybe, in some nearly impossible way we can somehow still achieve the dream, for without a dream it us who dies.”
“I don’t know that time is fleeting. Rather, I think that it’s our wise use of it that’s fleeting.”
“I don't know that we are actually human at this point, those of us who are like most of us, who grew up with TV and movies and now the Internet. If we are betrayed, we know the words to say; when a loved one dies, we know the words to say. If we want to play the stud or the smart-ass or the fool, we know the words to say. We are all working from the same dog-eared script.
It's a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters.
And if all of us are play-acting, there can be no such thing as a soul mate, because we don't have genuine souls.
It had gotten to the point where it seemed like nothing matters, because I'm not a real person and neither is anyone else.
I would have done anything to feel real again.”
Source: Gone Girl
“I don't know the beginnings and the end of all things? But apparently most people do.”
Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom
“I don't know the hate... I know the Ignorance ... Hesham Nebr
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أنا لا أعرف الكراهية ... أنا أعرف الجهل ..... هشام نيبر”
“I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone." (258)
My parents were Fresh Off the Boat, I'm a chinkstronaut, and my kids will be on spaceships. I didn't allow America to sell me in a box with presets and neither should you. Take the things from America that speak to you, the excite you, that inspire you, and be the Americans we all want to know; then cook it up and sell it back to them for $28.99. Cue Funk Flex to drop bombs on this. All my peoples from the boat, let'em know: WEOUTCHEA. (272)”
Source: Fresh Off the Boat
“I don't know the perfect thing to say when a person is hurting but I do know the last thing they want to hear are reasons they shouldn't be hurting.”
“I don't know the rules of grammar. If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language.”
“I don't know the solution, Daniel, but we'll never find it if we're muzzling each other -- or worse -- banishing anyone from outside our social circle who disagrees with us.”
Source: Out of Time, Into You
“I Don't Know (The Sonnet)
What does winning or losing mean,
I don't know.
What does kill or be killed mean,
I don't know.
What does 'my culture, your culture' mean,
I don't know.
What does 'my nation, your nation' mean,
I don't know.
What does 'my people, your people' mean,
I don't know.
What does my life and your life mean,
I don't know.
I only know, we are not some mindless mouthpiece
for our dead ancestors and their shortsightedness.
It is time we bury the divisionism that
they passed on to us tradition and heritage.”
Source: Mucize Misafir Merhaba: The Peace Testament
“I don't know the ultimate fate of a suppressed fart.”
Source: Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
“I don't know the world, I don't even know myself. I'm forever daydreaming and often can't tell dreams from reality.”
Source: Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
“I don't know. They look like monuments to something that died", she muttered to me as we followed him. "Something very unpopular.. like the human spirit, for example.”
Source: Shantaram
“I don't know, Tobble. Will you return to Bossyp? To be with other wobbyks?"
"I always thought I would." Tobble shrugged. "But it doesn't seem quite as important anymore. You know?"
"I do," I said softly. "I do know.”
Source: The Only
“I don’t know true reality; I only know my emotional perception.”
“I don't know, upon my honour, what I'm doing.”
Source: The Wings of the Dove
“I don't know what a historian would say, but I would say Jesus: love thy neighbor, and it's easier for a camel to fit through a needle's eye than a rich man to get into heaven. In a place like Rome, insisting everyone had intrinsic value -- it rattled them. I mean, they killed him for it.
I was not expecting an answer like that from my dad, who was, as far as I knew, violently atheist.”
Source: Margo's Got Money Troubles
“I don't know what actually goes down in heaven, if heaven has a grand staircase or a theater where you get to see your impact in a "Crash" kind of cinematic adventure, but I do know our stories work that way--the imprints of ourselves we press into the palms of others have the power to be passed and passed through the hands of many. That the smallest things we do, never thinking twice about them, might be the very things that keep a person alive, and breathing, and standing on that day. I've stopped doubting that kind of impact because believing in it - believing in miracles in the mud of the mundane - gives you so much more purpose than not believing in it at all.”
Source: If You Find This Letter: My Journey to Find Purpose Through Hundreds of Letters to Strangers
“I don't know what Alex did to piss this poisonous cow off, but now I want blood.”
Source: Shadow Embraced
“I don't know what being god must feel like, but it can't be much different that being an inventor.
There is power in the idea that a certain product never existed before you thought of it, there is joy in the act of bringing the idea into reality and there is contentment in seeing the product come to life when it is being used.”
“I don't know what being in love with someone is supposed to feel like," Tyler admits with a breathy laugh, "but if being in love means thinking about someone every second of every day... If being in love means your entire mood shifts when they're around... If being in love means you'd do anything and everything for them," he murmurs, "then I am endlessly in love with you.”
Source: Did I Mention I Need You?
“I don't know what brings you up here, but to me the town looks prettier and the people look nicer and even the worst of them look almost kind.”
Source: All the Bright Places
“I don't know what came first, the brown-nose worker or the arrogant boss; I simple hate it and I won't be part of it.”
“I don't know what came first, the brown nose worker or the arrogant boss; I simply hate it, and I won't be part of it.”
“I don’t know what circumstances occurred in your life for you to build such a strong brick wall around your heart, but I do intend to tear it down." ~Cole”
Source: Power of the Moon
“I don’t know what else to do, so I’m asking You to give me a solution.”
Source: The Friendly Mouse
“I don't know what everybody else was fantasizing about but what I was fantasizing about was a nine-to-five existence, a house on a tree-lined block with a white picket fence, pink roses in the backyard. [...] After a while you learn that privacy is something you can sell, but you can't buy it back.”
Source: Chronicles, Volume One
“I don't know what God intends, or what qualifies Him to forgive me,' Sobran said”
Source: The Vintner's Luck
“I don't know what happened between the two of you. I don't know if it can be forgiven. The hardest thing always is to forgive yourself.”
Source: The Storyteller
“I don't know what happened, but in a pre-emptive strike, I'm offended on behalf of people who may have been offended even though that wasn't the intention. I'm also offended on behalf of people who may be allergic to apologies. Some people are probably offended by what I've written and I'm also offended on behalf of those people against myself.”
“I don't know what happened. Disease? War? Social collapse? Or was it just us? The Dead replacing the Living? I guess it's not so important. Once you've arrived at the end of the world, it hardly matters which route you took.”
Source: Warm Bodies
“I don’t know what happened to me,” he said, shaking his head. “I honestly don’t.” Bennie glanced at him, a middle-aged man with chaotic silver hair and thoughtful eyes. “You grew up, Alex,” he said, “just like the rest of us.”
Source: A Visit From the Goon Squad
“I don't know what happened to me," he said, shaking his head. "I honestly don't." ...
"You grew up, Alex.”
Source: A Visit From the Goon Squad