I Quotes
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“I know the community mostly for its art and culture... and of course its food, I eat at their restaurants." "They make you feel like taking off your shoes... it feels like home.”
“I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it.”
Source: The Diary of a Country Priest
“I know the concern over the events in our nation doesn't end at our borders. Because there are no borders, really, if you think about it. Everything we do on this planet has repercussions that reverberate around the world. Because we're connected. We belong to each other. And we need each other. We will get through this. Together. And we'll learn and grow and overcome. Together. I believe the good things in this world outnumber the sad. And I believe the good people outnumber the bad. We are the lights sparkling in the darkness, and our hope and love are going to set the world on fire. I believe in us.”
“I know the consequences, Manon,” Ilyse conceded. “I know the fate you endured might one day be my own. But I refuse to be a prisoner for the rest of my life.”
Source: City of Lights: The Trials and Triumphs of Ilyse Charpentier
“I know the consequences of what I’ve done. Kill me if You must.
There was a long silence, and I could sense Her softening, that strange affection She shared with me above the others.
Do you think I rejoice in death?
I raised my head. What?
There is no joy for Me in punishing you or in taking lives. I do what I must to survive. And not only would I not delight in your death, I would mourn it. You must know by now how dear you are to Me.
I swallowed. Why me? Why do I have Your favor more so than the others?
She was so tender with me, lifting me up from the sand as if She were cradling a baby. Considering her timelessness and my temporariness, I practically was a newborn in Her eyes.
Throughout My many, many years and all the sirens I’ve carried in My hands, none of them has considered Me as you do. There’s been a detachment, a deliberate isolation between them and Me.
But you? You come to Me with a sweetness, an attempt to understand. You come to Me even when you are not called. I feel for you what a mother feels for her daughter. To end your life would be to end Mine.
I cried again. I’m so sorry. I never wanted to hurt You.”
Source: The Siren
“I know the constitution in Oregon was passed in 1859. Free expression of opinion.”
“I know the country works extremely well. You know, but when it isn't clogged up.”
“I know the crew so well, so I forget I'm being filmed. It's like cooking with a friend in the kitchen - you're talking, as you do, and maybe you're telling her about this wonderful way to prepare lamb chops - it's more natural, more honest.”
“I know the dark delight of being strange, The penalty of difference in the crowd, The loneliness of wisdom among fools.”
Source: Complete Poems
“I know the devices of a demon. I was taught as a child about the demon lover. I was told about a beautiful temptress who came to a young man's room. And he, if he were wise, would demand that she turn around, because demons and witches have no back, only what they wish to present to you.”
Source: The English Patient
“I know the devil is working against me. I already know my mission and what I'm really here to do. People may not see it but he's been working overtime. He's not even able to mess with other artists because he's got so many demons around me.”
“I know the difference between black magic and white magic.”
“I know the difference between right and wrong, and I can tell good from bad. But I also know that the more difficult decisions come when we have to choose between good and better. The toughest calls of all are those we have to make between bad and worse.”
“I know the difference between sadness and depression. Clinical depression has no source from which it springs-it just is. Intractable sadness has nothing to do with synapses, or brain chemistry, or essential salts, it's born of something. It's the product of injustice and helplessness. It can be anesthetized, I suppose, but it's there, unaltered, when the medication wears off, like an intruder who has broken into your house and is still there every morning when you wake up.
Given the choice, I would rather be depressed. I've come back from depression.”
Source: Dancing on Broken Glass
“I know the difference between true love and the love of my fans.”
“I know the difference between venture capital[ism] and vulture capitalism. Venture capitalism is a good thing, comes in, gives that gap funding to help these companies get off and get started creating jobs, and work. But Mitt Romney and Bain Capital were involved with what I call vulture capitalism. And they walked into Gaffney and took over that photo album company for no other reason than to basically pick the bones clean. And those people lost their jobs.”
“I know the difference now between dedication and infatuation. That doesn't mean I don't still get an enormous kick out of infatuation;: the exciting ephemera, the punch in the stomach, the
adrenaline to the heart.”
Source: Living Out Loud
“I know the drill. [Republicans] say Donald Trump is not a Republican. They say he's a Trojan horse or he's unacceptable or he's uncouth or whatever they say.”
“I know the empathy borne of despair; I know the fluidity of thought, the expansive, even beautiful, mind that hypomania brings, and I know this is quicksilver and precious and often it's poison. There has always existed a sort of psychic butcher who works the scales of transcendence, who weighs out the bloody cost of true art.”
Source: Scattershot: My Bipolar Family
“I know the established Christian theology... I know the enemy, but the enemy doesn't know me. Thus the enemy has already lost the war.”
“I know the exact date that I began writing Twilight, because it was also the first day of swim lessons for my kids. So I can say with certainty that it all started on June 2, 2003.”
“I know the exploding cost of health care is at the root of our long-term fiscal challenges.”
“I know the expression love bloomed is metaphorical, but in my heart in this moment, there is one badass flower, captured in time-lapse photography, going from bud to wild radiant blossom in ten seconds flat.”
Source: The Sky Is Everywhere
“I know the fabric of love is fragile and yet I never saw the stitches break.”
Source: He Walks Past My House: Uniquely written live on Instagram. The NEW psychological thriller that gripped its followers.
“I know the families that I photograph extremely well and have known them for a very long time.”
“I know the fashion is that everything is fair game [for comedy material] but I don't believe that.”
“I know the game is crazy, its more crazy than its ever been, im married to that crazy b*tch call me kevin federline”
“I know the game wasn't a classic, but the night was about more than that-it was about bringing back the memories and raising money for former heroes who have now fallen on hard times.”
“I know the game, it's old and lame:
You're holdin' a flame for my name and my fame.
Livin' like Givens schemin' on Tyson,
But she got lucky 'cause he was a nice one.
But I ain't nice and I don't play that,
If it ain't tax, I don't pay that.”
“I know the Goliath Fucking Bird-Eating Spider can't fly because if it could, it would have a different name entirely. We would call it "sir" because it would be the dominant species on the planet. None of us would leave the house unless a Goliath Fucking Bird-Eating Spider said it was okay”
Source: This Book Is Full of Spiders
“I know the good Lord wouldn't give me any more than I can handle, but I sure wish he wouldn't have so much confidence in me.”
“I know the GOP is called the stupid party, but the idea that Republicans can have the Confederate flag hung around their neck is ridiculous! It's a Democrat flag! The flags - states that seceded during the Civil War were all Democrat states. That's their flag. The slave states were Democrat states! The racist states until the 1960s were Democrat states!”
“I know the Gospel according to Mark better than I know any sura in the Quran.”
“I know the greatness of Christianity; it is a past greatness.. I live in 1924, and the Christian venture is done.”
Source: Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays
“I know the guru route, I know you go sit on a mountain. But screw India. I ain't going there.”
“I know the Haitian people because I am the Haitian people.”
“I know the hard ground and the taste of the salt water I’m made of and the way even getting out of bed feels impossible some days. I know how some moments there’s not even enough air.
I know the desperate and the bargains you want to make with the universe and every last prayer you’ve prayed to gods you don’t even believe in.
But stupid? No, love.
Not stupid. Not you. You are infinitely, impossibly, beautifully human.”
“I know the hatred and envy of your hearts. Ye are not great enough not to know of hatred and envy. Then be great enough not to be ashamed of them!”
Source: THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA (Modern Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the World’s Most Influential Philosopher, Revolutionary Thinker and the Author of The Antichrist, The Birth of Tragedy & Beyond Good and Evil
“I know the heart of life is good.”
“I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to the sophisticated business today.”
“I know the hole he went in at, but I can't tell you what hole he will come out of.”
Source: The War Years, 1854-1865, Volume 3
“I know the horrors of war: no gains can compensate for the losses it brings.”
“I know the human being and fish can co-exist peacefully.”
“I know the human spirit. I haven't found a wall that can be built that a determined human being can't get over, under or around.”
“I know, the "I" in me, is silent;
You have nothing to say either.
Heart is down in the mouth,
Lips are closed,
Eyes are watering,
You are, and your remembrance is.
I have no comfort.
When I feel you, I feel the life.
I know when the lips are silent
Heart has many tongues to speak
Yet, I miss you, I Miss you.
How possible is separation from you??
You are my soul and I am yours.
In fact, my soul and yours are the same, You appear in me, I in you, We hide in each other.”
“I know the immortal has faked a lot of things. I know he's trafficked with Darkness and been a murderer, a liar, and a betrayer. But I think for my entire life I will remember the look on Kalona's face when he saw Rephaim that day. For an instant Kalona smiled and such pure joy suffused his entire being that I lost grip on Rephaim. I stood there, slack jawed, and gasped at the wonder of Kalona's happiness, and realized that I saw within his expression the same love I'd seen when he'd gazed at Nyx in the Otherworld.”
Source: Destined
“I know the importance of education because my pens and books were taken from me by force.”
Source: I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
“I know the importance of highly trained awareness of the “moment” and the immediate and intuitive response of the photographer. It should be obvious to all that photographers whose images possess character and quality have attained them only by continued practice and total dedication to the medium.”
“I know the ingredients that will conjure luck and I can brew a potion to talk to the dead, but no one ever taught me how to speak a truth that is uncomfortable.”
Source: Wayward Witch
“I know the intimate gestures he uses with women, but I still want to know the gestures he uses with God.”
Source: An Interrupted Life: The Diaries, 1941-1943; and Letters from Westerbork