I Quotes
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“I have to impose my belief to share with a person.”
“I have to introduce the part of me that feels like a winner to the part of me convinced I’m a loser, and see if they can’t agree to exist somewhere closer to the middle.”
Source: Someday, Someday, Maybe: A Novel
“I have to just go in and audition, like everyone else, and fight my way to the top.”
“I have to just worry about my own opinion and the opinions of the people I'm working with and people who are close to me.”
“I have to keep Dune perfume in my dressing room, because I always wear it, but I must never put it on in case it makes me choke.”
“I have to keep facing the darkness. If I stand tall and face the thing I fear, I have a chance to conquer it. If I just keep dodging and hiding it will conquer me.”
“I have to keep going to find out ultimately what is the matter with it in the end.”
“I have to keep going, as there are always people on my track. I have to publish my present work as rapidly as possible in order to keep in the race. The best sprinters in this road of investigation are Becquerel and the Curies.”
“I have to keep healthy; otherwise, I jeopardise my career.”
“I have to keep inspiration close to me. I'm always on YouTube looking at the greats or anything that can give me the spark that I need.”
“I have to keep law and order and it means that I have to kill my enemies before they kill me.”
“I have to keep my mouth shut about Nam though. All of these guys want to believe they were fighting an honorable war, and that their conduct deserves respect. They want the public to treat them like they’re heroes—like the WWII vets were.” “Instead, smart ass, pampered kids call them names and throw dog shit at them.”
Source: Hurricane Ginger
“I have to keep myself in check when I go to the kids' sports events. I sit waaay in the back. I make sure I don't do too much cheering, you know what I mean? I'm still not quite adjusted to this modern school of thought: Oh, it doesn't matter who wins. I'm not all the way there yet, but I accept it from the back row.”
“I have to keep reminding myself that being famous on earth would be nice but I would rather walk the red carpet in Heaven.”
“I have to keep reminding myself that I am their mother. Sometimes we are sitting at home and I feel like we are waiting for our mom to come home.”
“I have to keep reminding myself that I was hired for a reason and one of those reasons is because of the stories I tell and the films I've made previously.”
“i have to keep reminding myself that this is what i wanted - this is what everybody's supposed to want.”
Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson
“I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances.”
“I have to keep testing myself.”
“I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening.”
“I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools... I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.”
“I have to kind of like switch heads. Sometimes I manage it seamlessly, and other times I feel rather all over the place. I feel a bit schizophrenic, like I have a split personality.”
“I have to know if you believe in second chances—because I do, even if they do come with good-byes.”
Source: By Way of Accident
“I have to know if you'll read this
the same way that I wrote it,
because if you can't,
then you're nothing more than a rough draft
that I don't care to edit.”
Source: Ink Blot in a Poet's Bloodstream
“I have to know the killer, the victim and the motive when I begin. Then I start to create the characters and see how the novel takes shape based on what these people are like.”
“I have to know" "What? What do you have to know?" "What you taste like." Another step. What happens when you know?" she rasped. "I stop wondering. Stop dreaming of you every night, thinking of you every minute of every day." Another step closer. "I think you wonder, too. I think you dream of me and wonder. You hate yourself for it. You hate me for it, but you cannot stop.”
“I have to laugh at myself.”
“I have to laugh internally when I'm asked in interviews what nightspots I like to hit. I just don't have answers... so sometimes I make them up.”
“I have to laugh when I receive newsletters from major personalities and when you hit reply, you get a 'do-not-reply' address. It's ridiculous! Don't you want your customers to reply to you?”
“I have to laugh when the English claim they are such a wonderful nation. Everyone knows that Englishmen are really Germans, that the English kings were German, and that in Russia the emperors were either of German origin or received their education in Germany.”
“I have to learn from Sehwag how to play in the nervous 90's”
“I have to learn how to say no a lot. Life is too short for anything else.”
“I have to learn more in order to preserve my body.”
“I have to learn that the aim in life is God's, not mine.”
Source: Called of God: Extracts from My Utmost for His Highest on the Missionary Call
“I have to learn that the aim in life is God's, not mine. God is using me from His great personal standpoint, and all He asks of me is that I trust Him, and never say — Lord, this gives me such heart-ache.”
“i have to learn
to feel good
in my own
before it
can feel good
to be next
to someone else’s
– skin”
“I have to leave,” he whispered against her hair.
“No, stay.” Her face turned, her lips nuzzling the bare skin of his chest. “Stay all night. Stay forever.”
He smiled and kissed her temple. “I would. But somehow I think your family would take exception to my debauching you before we were properly betrothed.”
“I don’t feel debauched.”
“I do,” Matthew said.
Daisy smiled. “I’d better marry you, then.”
Source: Scandal in Spring
“I have to leave the games now if the announcer says something I don't agree with. I'm thinking, 'Peyton, it is not healthy to be all worked up before a game.”
“I have to let go of all comparison, all rivalry and competition, and surrender to the Father’s love. This requires a leap of faith because I have little experience of non-comparing love. I can only remain in the resentful complaint that results from my comparisons. In the light of God I can finally see my neighbor as my brother, as the one who belongs as much to God as I do. But outside of God’s house, brothers and sisters, husbands and wives, lovers and friends become rivals and even enemies; each perpetually plagued by jealousies, suspicions, and resentments.”
Source: The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming
“I have to let her remain here if she wants to. She's wreckage. It's as simple as that. We have these obligations to our human ruins.”
Source: There's Something I Want You to Do
“I have to let myself be vulnerable in order to have a good marriage. That's something I'm really going to have to work on. A lot of times I'm really guarded because of what I do for a living, what I've done in my life.”
“I have to lie, if I don't want to take madmen seriously and become a madman myself”
“I have to listen to music while I'm working. Music is essential. It's at the top of the pyramid for me. I've always felt disappointed in what I've made when I held it up to the music I love. I try not to compare them now.”
“I have to listen to New York; I live there. I wasn't born there, but I've been living there all my life.”
“I have to live and make my own choices, my own mistakes. You have to let me be me, even if i suck at it sometimes." - Adria”
“I have to live for me. I have to do what I need to do for me, and I have stopped concerning myself with what people say.”
“I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.”
“I have to live for the day, and not worry about or try to know what tomorrow brings.... if I've learned one thing from all that'shappened to me, it's that if you would know what tomorrow brings, you may not want to live it.”
“I have to live if I want to be remembered.”
Source: A Need So Beautiful
“I have to live in the richest, deepest, most productive way I can”
Source: Gratitude