I Quotes
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“I don't think that I'll ever have the kind of love that I crave.”
“I don’t think that I’ve been in love as such
Although I liked a few folk pretty well
Love must be vaster than my smiles or touch
for brave men died and empires rose and fell
For love, girls follow boys to foreign lands
and men have followed women into hell
In plays and poems someone understands
there’s something makes us more than blood and bone
and more than biological demands
For me love’s like the wind, unseen, unknown
I see the trees are bending where it’s been
I know that it leaves wreckage where it’s blown
I really don’t know what "I love you" means
I think it means "don’t leave me here alone”
Source: Adventures in the Dream Trade
“I don’t think that I want God to come ‘to’ me, for that suggests an encounter that I might enjoy. Rather, I think I want God to come ‘for’ me for that evidences the rescue that I need.”
“I don't think that incident necessarily defines you as bad. I think it makes you human. And I believe you would have stopped yourself. I think that's what makes a person good. Not that you make mistakes, but that you recognize them. You feel remorse for them. You want to correct them and do better.”
Source: Riders
“I don’t think that it’s my belief in God that bothers you. I think that it’s your lack of belief.”
“I don’t think that mankind has ever written a narrative that he didn’t need to be saved from.”
“I don’t think that most opportunity is ‘missed.’ Rather, I think it’s forfeited.”
“I don't think that science and the paranormal have to be at war; in fact, it's crucial that they work together. It seems naïve to believe that the world is exactly as it seems.”
Source: The Pull
“I don't think that the instant desperate attachment Borderlines feel really counts as love, but I had never felt any other kind of love, so I didn't know.”
Source: Borderline
“I don’t think that way.”
“I don’t think that we’re created to question what we supposed to do. I think that we’re created to question what will happen if we don’t do what we’re supposed to do.”
“I don't think the cure for the anxiety of existence is remaining in the quiet of the attic; it didn't do much for the first Mrs Rochester.”
Source: I'm a Joke and So Are You: Reflections on Humour and Humanity
“I don’t think the devil is scared of the adhan as much as I do, Because the adhan is Always waking me up from my dreams with you”
“I don't think the drug dealer in ghetto culture is really admired just because of the shit he owns. He isn't respected for his money, either. Think about it—there are plenty of people with money who aren't respected in ghettos all over the world. No, he's respected because he's capable. For those who feel broken and helpless, there does not exist a more inspiring thing.”
Source: Happiness Will Follow
“I don't think the lady should go. As if he's won the argument, Maxon looked at me with a face that said, See!”
Source: The One
“I don't think the moon ever meant to be a satellite, kept in loving orbit, locked in hopeless inertia, destined to repeat the same pattern over and over - to meet in eclipse with the sun - only when the numbers allowed".”
“I don't think there are any true heroes. Just people who ignore their survival instincts long enough to do something incredibly foolhardy.”
Source: The Next Together
“I don't think there are enough words in the world that exist to express exactly just how much I love my son! He's right there in the front of my soul, he can turn me into an eagle, a lioness, a tigress, a swan! A goof or a queen! There's no underestimating just how much I love him; I surround him like the ocean surrounds the ships! I never wanted to change the world, until he came along and showed me that he deserves a better world to live in!”
“I don't think there has ever been a man who treated a woman as an equal and that's all I would have asked for, for I know I'm worth as much as they.
~Berthe Morisot”
“I don't think there is any such thing as an ordinary mortal. Everybody has his own possibility of rapture in the experience of life. All he has to do is recognize it and then cultivate it and get going with it. I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman, or child.”
Source: The Power of Myth
“I don’t think there is anyone no matter how British or red your passport is, that doesn’t feel the sting of what is happening to your green heritage – NIGERIA”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“I don't think there is anything like the awareness of space to process emotion. That space is such an incredible processor. There is no analysis equal to the processing capacity of open awareness. When you are trying to analyze something, you don't realize that the analyzer itself is part of the problem. Both the problem and the analyzer are constructions of the mind. But direct, open, naked awareness is not a construction of the mind but the nature of the mind itself, and therefore the greatest processor ever.”
Source: Awakening the Luminous Mind: Tibetan Meditation for Inner Peace and Joy
“I don't think there is such a thing as a bad book for children . . . do not discourage children from reading because you feel they are reading the wrong thing. Fiction you do not like is the gateway drug to other books you may prefer.”
“I don't think there's a lonelier feeling than being with someone who has stopped caring.”
Source: Allie's Moon
“I don’t think there’s a way to get away from the past. We can heal, but we can never forget the shame that hangs from us. We carry it in our hearts no matter what anyone says and it turns to rot which turns to actions, justified by the pain.”
Source: Bodymore Zero
“I don't think there's anything in this universe as powerful as the power of an artist to create. By that logic, we are all artists, aren't we?”
“I don't think there's anything wrong with borrowing someone else's faith to get you through until you get enough on your own.”
Source: Collision
“I don't think . . . there's much real difference between men and women. That is, there wouldn't be, if women had fair treatment.”
Source: The Odd Women
“I don't think they're terrible parents. They love us. I think they're negligent parents. That's not the same thing.”
Source: My Sister Rosa
“I don’t think things are preordained or written in the stars. I believe we make our own destiny.”
Source: Life’s Too Short
“I don't think things happen to us for a reason. I don't think there is some all-knowing force directing our lives so that we can learn a lesson and pass on that knowledge to others. I don't think I had to go through what I did to get this book into your hands. In fact, there were many other ways I could have learned those lessons—and they could have been learned without excruciating pain. Yet I cannot deny that somehow my experiences also turned me into who I am and resulted in this book being in your hands today. Multiple things can be true at the same time.”
Source: When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion
“I don’t think this kind of thing [satire] has an impact on the unconverted, frankly. It’s not even preaching to the converted; it’s titillating the converted. I think the people who say we need satire often mean, ‘We need satire of them, not of us.’ I’m fond of quoting Peter Cook, who talked about the satirical Berlin cabarets of the ’30s, which did so much to stop the rise of Hitler and prevent the Second World War.”
“I don't think this one's business as usual. Me evil cunt sense is tinglin'.”
Source: The Boys, Volume 9: The Big Ride
“I don't think this place was everything my mother hoped for that day when she asked God where she should go to give her son the world. Though she didn't ford a river or hike across mountains, she still did what so many pioneers before had done, traveled recklessly, curiously, into the unknown of finding something just a little bit better. And like them she suffered and persevered, perhaps in equal measure. Whenever I looked at her, a castaway on the island of my queen-sized bed, it was hard for me to look past the suffering. It was hard for me not to take inventory of all that she had lost -- her home country, her husband, her son. The losses just kept piling up. It was hard for me to see her there, hear her ragged breath, and think of how she had persevered, but she had. Just lying there in my bed was a testament to her perseverance, to the fact that she survived, even when she wasn't sure she wanted to. I used to believe that God never gives us more than we can handle, but then my brother died and my mother and I were left with so much more; it crushed us.
It took me many years to realize that it's hard to live in this world. I don't mean the mechanics of living, because for most of us, our hearts will beat, our lungs will take in oxygen, without us doing anything at all to tell them to. For most of us, mechanically, physically, it's hard to die than it is to live. But still we try to die. We drive too fast down winding roads, we have sex with strangers without wearing protection, we drink, we use drugs. We try to squeeze a little more life out of our lives. It's natural to want to do that. But to be alive in the world, every day, as we are given more and more and more, as the nature of "what we can handle" changes and our methods for how we handle it change, too, that's something of a miracle.”
Source: Transcendent Kingdom
“I don't think those who die are any better than those who stay alive. They just look better. They can't mess anything up anymore.”
Source: A History of Glitter and Blood
“I don't think tour dying. I think you've just got a touch of cancer.”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“I don’t think very many people get converted by someone telling them they are terrible. No one I’d want to rub shoulders with in Heaven, anyway.”
Source: Flies to Wanton Boys
“I don't think we are cut out to be evil sorcerers, brothers," said Fentongoose. "If we were truly evil, we would not feel such sorrow at the deaths of our friends. We would just go, 'Ha! Ha! Ha!' or something.”
Source: Goblins
“I don't think we can ever say who we are in any fixed sense. Our own curiosity and sense of identification with others drive us constantly toward creative change.”
Source: Keys to Drawing
“I don't think we choked this time. We never played well enough to choke.”
“I don’t think we ever let go of loved ones. They’re always in our hearts. I do think time lessens the pain of a loss but they never, ever leave us. That’s what memories are for.”
“I don't think we get answers to every question. We don't get all the whys. But I think when we look back to the end of our lives, if we do the best we can, and we will see that the things we begged God to take from us, the things we cursed him for, the things that made us turn our backs on him, are the things that were the biggest blessings, the biggest opportunities for growth.”
Source: Making Faces
“I don't think we get answers to every question. We don't get to know all the whys. But I think we will look back at the end of our lives, if we do the best we can, and we will see that the things that we begged God to take from us, the things we cursed him for, the things that made us turn our backs on him or any belief in him, are the things that were the biggest blessings, the biggest opportunities for growth.”
Source: Making Faces
“I don't think we have ever had real democracy in this country. Anyone who studies adoption of the constitution will understand quite clearly that; democracy - as we understand that on today; was the last thing the founding fathers had in mind when they wrote the constitution ....it was: to establish strong central authority responding the elitist interests in United States. That's private property. And those men who wrote the constitution were representatives of the elites. They were the lawyers, bankers, merchants, the land owners, slave owners and so forth. And they write the constitution for their own private interest$. That is how government has served ever since. And that is why we have so little democracy in United States.”
Source: CIA Off Campus: Building the Movement Against Agency Recruitment and Research
“I don’t think we know what kind of enemy we are really dealing with.”
Source: Mourning Grey: Part One: The Guardians Of The Temple Saga
“I don’t think we’re as far apart as you say. I mean, when the shit comes down, we’ll both be on the same side of the barricades.’
‘The shit is already down.’
‘I mean when people are dying in the streets.’
‘Kate, people are dying in the streets. It’s not the movies, where the world divides into freedom fighters and brownshirts. Here in New York City there are people who take action and people who do nothing. Doing nothing is a position. It means giving approval without having actively to say so.”
Source: People in Trouble
“I don't think we're ever going back home.”
Source: I Took a Plane to Die in Denver
“i don't think we're taught enough how
much energy matters in connection and to listen
to our intuition… we’re told what we feel isn’t “real.”
but the physical or just actions or words;
not one of those things alone can tell us everything.
and so i listen to the way things feel… i listen
when something doesn’t feel right. but then…
i also love in energy because i don't think
anything could be more real.”
“I don't think we really talked about what our life would look like afterward. I had these expectations, and she had other expectations, and in the end, we just stopped... working toward the same goal, the same sort of life.”
Source: Much Ado about Nada
“I don't think we set and achieve goals in an effort to become happy. We do it because we are happy and want to expand our happiness.”
Source: The Gap and the Gain: The High Achievers' Guide to Happiness, Confidence, and Success