I Quotes
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“I know what to do with the camera because I see the giant in the camera when I'm operating it live on the set.”
“I know what to do
with the dark.”
Source: Brute: Poems
“I know what to keep to myself. I know what I want to give up.”
“I know what tournaments I'm going to be in, and I know that I don't have to qualify for pretty much anything. That's a huge relief. But I don't really set that many goals, I just want to have fun out there and enjoy what I do. When a win comes, a win comes.”
“I know what Twitter is; I don't use it. I don't use Facebook, so luckily, it does zero to my ego.”
“I know what wanting and craving adventure feels like, I can really relate to that.”
“I know what war's like. I know what scene's like.”
“I know what we can control, we can control our effort and we can control our approach. We do what we're supposed to do to get some second-chance points off the offensive glass, maybe our pressure can get us some easy opportunities in the open floor and we've got to capitalize.”
“I know what we do is right but right doesn't always mean easy.”
“I know what women look good in. I don't think the rules ever change.”
“I know what women want. They want to be beautiful.”
“I know what you are known as . . . but to me, you will always be Tom Riddle. It is one of the irritating things about old teachers. I am afraid that they never quite forget their charges’ youthful beginnings.”
“I know what you are learning to endure. There is nothing to be done. Make sure nothing is wasted. Take notes. Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. I've told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to.”
Source: White Oleander
“I know what you are thinking. You can’t now fathom ever forgetting to think about me. You’re afraid that if you move forward, it will take you further away from me. This is a common misconception shared by many people and it delays their healing... It keeps you stuck in you grief and it’s only because you are still clinging to me. You think if you stop grieving that you will lose me. Maybe you even feel if you let go of me that you are abandoning me; maybe you feel that you will hurt my feelings because if it were the other way around you would not ever want me to forget about you. You are afraid that if you love again that you will grow away from me.
I am Here! I am here, waiting to run to you when the time comes. It’s unconditional. It’s forever.”
Source: Only Gone From Your Sight: Jack McAfghan's Little Therapy Guide to Pet Loss and Grief
“I know what you are, Talon. You are the man I was born to love. The only man I was born to love.” “I’m not a man. Not anymore.” “You are mine and I will not let you go without a fight.”
“I know what you are. I've always known from the beginning, Kushiel's Chosen. It is folly, to make claim on one whom the gods have marked for their own. And unlike the others, I am no fool, to grasp at that which burns to the touch. What you have given..." she raised one hand, palm upward, the garnet seal dangling at her wrist, "... I hold in an open hand.”
“I know what you did,” he drawled, voice low, not at all sounding like he was asking a question. “Wicked girl. Yet you let your sister take the brunt of my ire. That wasn’t very nice, was it?”
Source: The Lost Sisters
“I know what you feel like anyone else. It's people that matter. If not, what are you worrying about. What's Madge got that you can't have for a bob against the railings? You care about someone and they let you down. Where's the difference?”
Source: The Charioteer
“I know what you go through when you learn someone close to you has died.”
“I know what you going through right now it’s tough. But let me tell you something, put your trust in God and you will find a solution for your problems.”
Source: Daily Motivational Quotes: Inspirational & life-changing thoughts, Volume 2
“I know what you hate. You hate something in them you can't understand. You don't hate their evil. You have the good in them you can't get at. I wonder what you want, what final thing.”
Source: East of Eden
“I know what you mean", she said. "Families can seem so normal and boring from the inside that you don't know you're different until someone else makes you feel different.”
Source: Fans of the Impossible Life
“I know what you might be thinking here on your own, but those thoughts won’t last for ever,’ I said. ‘You won’t always feel like this. This will pass. Homer will be here for you, and the sun will rise and you’ll find your reasons again. The ones you think have deserted you. Isn’t that right, Meg?”
Source: The Apple Tart of Hope
“I know what you might think; that being alone is a sign of loneliness. But the way I see it, sometimes being alone serves as a period of insight as to who you really are. Think about it.”
Source: An Absolute Mind
“I know what you must think of me,' [the Doctor] said, his voice so slow. It was like a voice designed for laughing that didn't get to do it often. 'I'm going to tell you a story about a man who travels, and everywhere he goes, he makes everyone's lives better. I'm not that man. That man doesn't exist. I wish he did.' He smiled. 'I'd believe in him.”
Source: Doctor Who: Dead of Winter
“I know what you need as a female to feel not just comfortable but powerful.”
“I know what you're afraid of. It's not pain, or solitude. It's indignity you can't stand, Hannibal, you're like a cat that way.”
Source: The Silence of the Lambs
“I know what you're doing, though."
"I'm glad somebody knows what I'm about, because I seem to have lost my own grasp of it entirely.”
Source: Lady Maggie's Secret Scandal
“I know what you're gonna think, what you're gonna ask. Percy Jackson, why are you hanging from a Times Square billboard without your pants on, about to fall to your death?”
Source: Other Worlds
“I know what you’re thinking about,” said Tweedle-dum, “But it ain’t so, nohow.” “Contrariwise,” continued Tweedledee, “if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn’t, it ain’t. That’s logic.”
Source: Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There
“I know what you're thinking, agapi mou, zoi mou.
I took a shallow breath. What does that mean?
It means 'my love, my life.”
Source: Deity
“I know what you're thinking," he says.
"No. You don't."
"You're wondering if you should kiss me good-bye.”
Source: The Infinite Sea
“I know what you're thinking. ‘How the hell does this broke ass piece of trailer trash know words like caveat,’ right? Well guess what? I've read every single book on the New York Times list of 'Top 100 Literary Classics,' not to mention every Jane Austen, Sylvia Plath or Bronte sisters’ book ever written. And fuck you very much for judging me, by the way.”
Source: Promiscuous
“I know what you’re thinking, Princess, but don’t you remember what I told you? What I warned you about?”
She shook her head.
The edges of his lips turned up slightly, but the smile didn’t reach his eyes. Not by a long shot. He wasn’t ready for what was between them to end either. She sensed it.
“All great romances end tragically,” he’d said.”
Source: Wicked Cowboy Wolf
“I know what you're thinking,' Xaden says in that deceptively soft voice of his, and there's a flicker of fear in those onyx depths.
'You have no idea what I'm thinking.' Fucking. Traitor.
'You're thinking I betrayed our kingdom.'
'Logical guess. Good for you.”
Source: Fourth Wing
“I know what you're thinking. You explain theology to me, what you profess to believe, then you behave as if you believe something entirely different," She shook her head until auburn waves of hair flew. "You--"
"It's not that simple. There are consequences to--"
"But it is that simple. You're forgiven, Matt. Go and sin no more. After two thousand years, that's still His command, and it's the only advice He has for you. When we start talking to the police, you're going to have some really difficult decisions to make. Make them in light of being forgiven, in light of the fact that you're going to do what's right from this point forward. Tell them the truth, but don't shut me out.”
Source: No Safe Place
“I know what you're up to."
"I doubt that." Hayes leaned toward her, his hand looping around the back of McKenzie's neck as he gently drew her to him. "Because if you could see what I was up to, then you'd know I was about to kiss you.”
Source: Rescue at Cardwell Ranch: A Montana Cowboy Suspense Romance
“I know what you said! My mother would never have belonged to something like that. Some kind of-some kind of hate group." "It wasn't-," Jace began, but Hodge cut him off. "I doubt," he said slowly, as if the words pained him, "that she had much choice." Clary stared. "What are you talking about? Why wouldn't she have had a choice?" "Because," said Hodge, "she was Valentine's wife.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass
“I know what you think…like most girls do…that you have to work hard at a career, get ahead, be just as ambitious as a man.” She raises an eyebrow to this, but stays quiet. “I don’t want a girl who wants to be a man’s equal. I want a girl who understands her place.”
“I know what you think' Oak says. 'That you're not whom I should want.'
She ducks her head, a faint flush on her cheeks.
'It's true you inspire no safe daydream of love,' he tells her.
'A nightmare, then?' she asks with a small, self-depreciating laugh.
'The kind of love that comes when two people see each other clearly,' he says, walking to her. 'Even if they're scared to believe that's possible. I adore you. I want to play games with you. I want to tell you all the truths I have to give. And if you really think you're a monster, then let's be monsters together.'
Wren stares at him. 'And if I send you away even after this speech? If I don't want you?'
He hesitates. 'Then I'll go,' he says. 'And adore you from afar. And compose ballads about you or something.”
Source: The Prisoner’s Throne
“I know what you thought, what you always thought of me.
It's so much easier that way, isn't it?”
Source: Ruin and Rising
“I know what you want, darlin'. You go on and ask me nicely and you might just get it.”
Source: Degrees of Control
“I know what you want. You’re a vicious little hellcat—all teeth and claws. And you want to use them, don’t you? You want to fight. You like to fight.” She stiffened at the pinch of his teeth at her neck and he blew gently into her ear. “Fight me, then. Fight me as much as you want. As hard as you want. Because no matter what you do, I’m going to ruin you. No one will ever fuck you the way I do.”
Source: Star Crossed
“I know what you want. And I know what you need. But I'm gonna screw it up, yeah, cause I'm an idiot. And I'm your boyfriend.”
“I know what you want. You want a story that won't surprise you. That will confirm what you already know. That won't make you see higher or further or differently. You want a flat story. An immobile story. You want dry, yeastless factuality.”
Source: Life of Pi
“I know what you wanted to say, Do you think that electrocution rewired your brain to make you the retard that you are? You can say it, lady.”
“I know what you're going to say! 'They are men, and men should be free.' A free man is dangerous to himself and everyone else. Freedom should be left to those who can put it to good use.”
“I know what you're thinking 'Did he fire six shots or only five?”
“I know what you're thinking - that anybody with proper sensitive feelings would rather scrub floors for a living. But I should scrub floors very badly, and I write detective stories rather well. I don't see why proper feelings should prevent me from doing my proper job.”
Source: The Nine Tailors
“I know what you're thinking," Grandma said into the silence. "Do I have anymore bullets in this here gun? Well, with all the confusion, what with being locked up in a refrigerator, I plumb forgot what was in here to start with. But being that this is a 45 magnum, the most powerful handgun in existence, and it could blow your head clean off, you just got to ask yourself one question. Do you feel lucky today? Well, do you, punk?" Christ," Spiro whispered. "She thinks she's f**king Clint Eastwood.”