I Quotes
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“I looked for company and i found myself.”
Source: Just the Way I Feel
“I looked for God. I went to a temple and I didn't find him there. Then I went to a church and I didn't find him there. The I went to a mosque and I didn't find him there. Then finally I looked in my heart and there he was.”
“I looked for great men, but all I found were the apes of their ideals.”
“I looked for it [heavy hydrogen, deuterium] because I thought it should exist. I didn't know it would have industrial applications or be the basic for the most powerful weapon ever known [the nuclear bomb] ... I thought maybe my discovery might have the practical value of, say, neon in neon signs.
[He was awarded the 1931 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering deuterium.]”
“I looked for love,
I found pain.
I avoided pain,
I lost love.
I looked for pain,
I found love.
I accepted pain,
I discovered joy.”
Source: Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect
“I looked for perfection, and I found something better.”
Source: The Ender Quintet
“I looked for the church and I found it in the world; I looked for the world and I found it in the church.”
“I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.”
“I looked for you in the palms of my right hand, and all I found were the broken lines that were fading away whilst chasing your ghost that I named loved. Your love for me.”
“I looked forward to making friends at school, but I had come late and friendships had already been formed. I couldn’t find my way into their world. They seemed to have a secret code I couldn’t decipher.”
“I looked forward to spending the day thanking Adonai for removing me from a people whose gods demanded everything and gave nothing back, and placing me among those whose God lavished blessings on his own and ashes only that they love him with all their heart, mind, soul, and strength.”
Source: To Dwell Among Cedars
“I looked from one to the other, and realized that Barrons and my dad were having one of those wordless conversations he and I have from time to time. Though the language was, by nature, foreign to me, I grew up in the Deep South where a man’s ego is roughly the size of his pickup truck, and women get an early and interesting education in the not-so-subtle roar of testosterone.”
Source: Bloodfever
“I looked good. Dangerous. Seductive.
And not at all like the man who cried in his shower last Tuesday while listening to Sleep Token on loop.”
“I looked good when I sang the end.”
Source: Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)
“I looked him dead in the eye and said, you better not fall in love with me. And he didn’t. But I did.”
“I looked him in the eye."I will always love you." Then I plunged the stake into his chest.
It wasn't as precise a blow as I would have liked, not with the skilled way he was dodging. I struggled to get the stake in deep enough to his heart, unsure if I could do it from this angle. Then, his struggles stopped. His eyes stared at me, stunned, and his lips parted, almost into a smile,albeit a grisly and pained one.
"That's what I was supposed to say..."he gasped out.
Those were his last words.
His failed attempt to dodge the stake had made him lose his balance on the edge. The stake's magic made the rest easy, stunning him and his reflexes.
Dimitri fell.”
Source: Blood Promise
“I looked him in the eye, "I will always love you." Then plunged the stake into his chest. It wasn't as precise a blow as I would have liked, not with the skilled way he was dodging. I struggled to get the stake in deep enough to his heart, unsure if I could do it from this angle. Then, his struggles stopped. His eyes stared at me, stunned, and his lips parted, almost into a smile, albeit a grisly and pained one. "That's what I was supposed to say..." he gasped out.”
“I looked him in the eye. “I will always love you.” Then I plunged the stake into his chest.”
Source: Vampire Academy: Blood Promise
“I looked in temples churches and mosques. But I found the Divine within my heart.”
“I looked in the audience. There were no strangers. Everybody was singing and cheering and hugging. That was a beautiful picture to look at.”
“I looked in the mirror a lot during this time. The body I once recognised as my own had melted away. Who was this creature beneath the fat? At the time, I failed to recognise her as my best self. I thought she was nothing like a real girl. I thought she looked like something a pervert imagined; something a twelve-year-old boy doodled in the back of a notebook.”
“I looked in the mirror and realized that I was already dead. I let you kill me one piece at a time, starting when I was, what? Eight years old? Nine? You killed yourself and then you came after us.”
Source: Twisted
“I looked in the mirror and stared at my reflection, until I was in the head-clearing trance that comes when you stare at something for a long time.”
Source: The Vast Fields of Ordinary
“I looked in the mirror at my pigeon chest, I had to put my clothes on cause it made me depressed.”
“I looked in vain for LaRoue, my cruelty towards her now in me like a splinter, where it would sit for years in my helpless memory, the skin growing around; what else can memory do? It can do nothing: It pretends to eat the shrapnel of your acts, yet it cannot swallow or chew.”
“I looked inside my typewriter. There's a city in there. Black and grey columns and no inhabitants.”
Source: Mr. Fox
“I looked into [Prozac]. I must say that it is certainly a wonder drug.”
“I looked into Blake's eyes, remembering my lost marble and thinking that even though it was gone forever, there could be another match out there. There might be another guy who would kiss my forehead, a guy who was just as sweet as strong enough to choose me over everybody else”
Source: Other Words for Love
“I looked into her eyes, and saw my own staring back, the same peculiar shade, pale grey, flecked with yellow, rimmed with black. Now I knew the nature of her debt. It had weighed on her conscience for fourteen years. I was looking into the eyes of mother and I knew that I would never see her again.”
Source: Witch Child
“I looked into her eyes. "Mom, who do you pray to?" I just pray, Daniel. That's all.”
Source: The Dangerous Days of Daniel X
“I looked into his eyes, and I wish I hadn’t. Because they held this... aching compassion and this nagging fragility. And the way his
arms brushed against mine, I could feel tenderheartedness and I could feel... lenity. I could feel all of these things that I hadn’t felt within myself for a long time. But I felt them around Caspian Marks.”
Source: Counting Stars
“I looked into his eyes, and I realized he was the same man I'd seen in my dreams. His face might be totally different, but the same soul was in there, the same intelligence and all the sadness.”
Source: Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth
“I looked into his good face. Not good because it was handsome, but because it was itself...”
Source: Circe
“I looked into Mr. Putin's eyes, and I saw three letters, a "K," a "G," and a "B."”
“I looked into studying psychoanalysis, wrote to the governing body and was about to start the year where they psychoanalyse you, four times a week, before you get to do it yourself. I just thought I'd taken the ventriloquism as far as I could. My act is so deconstructive, and I'd made all the monkey jokes anyone wanted to hear.”
“I looked into that empty bottle and I saw myself.”
“I looked into the display window this morning. On a white marble shelf are aligned innumerable boxes, packages, cornets of silver and gold paper, rosettes, bells, flowers, hearts, and long curls of multicolored ribbon. In glass bells and dishes lie the chocolates, the pralines, Venus's nipples, truffles, mendiants, candied fruits, hazelnut clusters, chocolate seashells, candied rose petals, sugared violets... Protected from the sun by the half-blind that shields them, they gleam darkly, like sunken treasure, Aladdin's cave of sweet clichés. And in the middle she has built a magnificent centerpiece. A gingerbread house, walls of chocolate-coated pain d'épices with the detail piped on in silver and gold icing, roof tiles of florentines studded with crystallized fruits, strange vines of icing and chocolate growing up the walls, marzipan birds singing in chocolate trees... And the witch herself, dark chocolate from the top of her pointed hat to the hem of her long cloak half-astride a broomstick that is in reality a giant guimauve, the long twisted marshmallows that dangle from the stalls of sweet-vendors on carnival days...”
Source: Chocolat
“I looked into the mirror and everything came alive—my delusions, my dreams were burying everything within reality.”
Source: Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia
“I looked into the mirror and saw this middle-aged woman who keeps invading my face.”
“I looked into the mirror; I could see all the body parts that belong to me, but I couldn't see myself.”
“I looked into the mirror, I couldn't find myself. I looked into you and there I was.”
“I looked into the sky that was her eyes.”
Source: Shantaram
“I looked into the vast dome of blue emptiness that stretched out above me in all directions and the illusion was still there, the size and speed, and what information they were sending to mother earth.”
“I looked into their new mom gift baskets. The basket included... a scarf. A fucking scarf.
My first thought was that this company bulk ordered them for something else, and couldn't get rid of them, so they pivoted and tried to make it a "mommy scarf;" selling you on the idea that there are scarves specifically for women who have children. Which are very different, from normal scarves, for childless women.
"Great for dressing up a look or just keeping mama warm while she's out conquering the world." The fact that they wrote a blurb about why a human would need a scarf at all, to me, further proves how dumb we think women are.
As if there's some tired mom out there, typing into Google "what is scarf and how?" "neck cold. how do i hot it?”
Source: All Things Aside: Absolutely Correct Opinions
“I looked into those eyes and I saw nothing. It was like staring straight into the Underworld. Like he aches to return to where he came from.”
Source: The Rose Society
“I looked into your eyes and found nothing; you took everything, leaving no memories behind. I walked away and glanced back, hoping to see you waving goodbye, but all I saw was a dark, empty space where you once stood.”
“I looked into your eyes and was captivated by the chaos that ran through you. I wish you hadn't said all the things I wanted to hear!”
“I looked inward at my heart. And indeed, there too, the criss-cross corsetry was slackened and gaping. I was all undone. Potentially, I could spill. Or tangle. And so I began to tug at my own heartstrings, pulling them up tight until there was just the right amount of tension at each criss and each cross. Then I bent down to my boots and laced them firmly too, first the left, then the right, finishing off on each side with a surgeon's shoelace knot.”
“I looked it at like this way. To get folks to like you, as a screen player I mean, I figured you had to sort of be their ideal. I don't mean a handsome knight riding a white horse, but a fella who answered the description of a right guy.”
“I looked left and right. The moment before the engagement was an unforgettable picture. In shell craters against the enemy line, which was still being forked over and over by the fire-storm, lay the battalions of attackers, clumped together by company. At the sight of the dammed-up masses of men, the breakthrough appeared certain to me. But did we have the strength and the stamina to splinter also the enemy reserves and rend them apart? I was confident. The decisive battle, the last charge, was here. Here the fates of nations would be decided, what was at stake was the future of the world. I sensed the weight of the hour, and I think everyone felt the individual in them dissolve, and fear depart.”
Source: Storm of Steel