I Quotes
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“I'm not saying that you have to be a reader to save your soul in the modern world. I'm saying it helps.”
“I’m not saying that you should deny the difficult events of your life. But the fact that you survived is also a wonderful story to tell. And that story, the story of the way you came through a difficult situation, found resources within yourself or outside of yourself, gleaned from that experience what you wanted and what you didn’t want going forward — that is a story that can inspire you and others to heal and grow.”
“I'm not saying they're gods or anything of the kind. It's that we don't know how their minds work. We can't judge them by ourselves.”
Source: The Perilous Gard
“I’m not saying we’ll live to see some sort of paradise. But just fighting for change makes you stronger. Not hoping for anything will kill you for sure.”
Source: Stone Butch Blues
“I’m not saying we’ll live to see some sort of paradise. But just fighting for change makes you stronger. Not hoping for anything will kill you for sure. Take a chance, Jess. You’re already wondering if the world could change. Try imagining a world worth living in, and then ask yourself if that isn’t worth fighting for. You’ve come too far to give up on hope, Jess.”
Source: Stone Butch Blues
“I'm not saying we were heroes, but we Navajo men always tried to do our bet, like we'd been taught by our families back home”
Source: Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII
“I'm not saying you are jealous or insecure. I'm just saying that you obsessing over another person's accomplishments makes you look that way.”
Source: Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One
“I'm not saying you have to learn Barbershop to be a great a cappella singer... but I am promising you if you do sing Barbershop, you'll be better than if you don't.”
“I'm not saying you should marry wossisname. Just give yourself a chance with him."
"A chance to what?"
"Be with someone again."
"I w-w-want to," I whispered. "But what if it goes the same way? W-what if I'm unbeable with?”
Source: Waiting for the Flood
“I’m not scared of death, Dad,” I told him. “I’m scared of not living. I don’t want to die with any regrets that I didn’t get to do the things in life that I’ve always wanted.”
Source: What's Left of Me
“I'm not scared of death, I just don't want to seek it out.”
“I’m not scared of failing. I simply do not know how to fly.”
Source: Journey of Soul - Karma
“I'm not scared of the feeling. It has shown up, and I am facing it. I let everything happen, and I am facing it.
I let everything happen as it's supposed to.”
Source: I Felt a Funeral, In My Brain
“I'm not scared of the Maos and the Stalins and the Hitlers.
I'm scared of the thousands of millions of people that hallucinate them to be "authority", and so do their bidding, and pay for their empires, and carry out their orders.
I don't care if there's one looney with a stupid moustache. He's not a threat if the people do not believe in "authority".”
“i’m not scared
of the monsters
hidden underneath
my bed.
i’m much more scared
of the boys
with messy brown hair,
sleepy eyes,
& mouths
that only know
how to form
half-truths.”
Source: The Princess Saves Herself in This One
“I'm not scared of you!”
“I'm not scared of you." Jimena folded her arms across her chest with confidence. A holstered gun couldn't shoot anyone but the owner.
"You should be." Payasa bared her teeth in a wicked grin. "I got the power."
"I never needed a gun to make people afraid of me." Jimena smirked. "You don't even have half my reputation.”
Source: The Choice
“I'm not seditious. I don't want the Burmans to drive us out of this country. God forbid! I'm here to make money, like everyone else. All I object to is the slimy white man's burden humbug. The pukka sahib pose. It's so boring. Even those bloody fools at the Club might be better company if we weren't all of us living a lie the whole time.”
Source: Burmese Days
“I'm not self-taught; God taught me everything I know.”
“I’m not sensual because I’m looking to sin. But I’m sensual because I’m looking to give my life dimensions and texture and design and colour and depth and soul and beauty and harmony and meaning and aliveness and purpose.”
“I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know,
is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic
person has a desperate confidence that they won't.”
Source: This Side of Paradise
“I'm not separate from this world, nor is this world separate from me; time had not taken hold of me yet and distances are nothing but ripples on the water”
Source: Butterflies in November
“I'm not Sherlock Holmes or Philo Vance. I don't expect to go over ground the police have covered and pick up a broken pen point and build a case from it. If you think there is anybody in the detective business making a living doing that sort of thing, you don't know much about cops.”
Source: the big sleep
“I'm not sick. I'm dying."
"Yeah, but you're sick."
"I'm sick from dying.”
Source: There There
“I'm not singing for the future
I'm not dreaming of the past
I'm not talking of the fist time
I never think about the last”
“I'm not sittin' down 'til I'm older.
And I'm not shuttin' up 'til it's over.”
“I’m not sitting back here with another dude while there are two perfectly doable females in the car.”
Source: Three Daves
“I'm not smart enough to know how to really fix things. I just know that, in trying, we've found family, we've found home, we've found some strange splendor.”
Source: X-Men: Worst X-Man Ever
“I'm not smart logical or have common sense but I have puns”
“I’m not smarter than you, I’m more knowledgeable than you, and that’s only because I’m older than you. Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents.”
Source: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“I’m not so sure how well I’m doing, deep down. But this moment feels okay. And I think: I know what life is for. I don’t know how it will go, I don’t know anything at all, but it feels okay.”
Source: More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction
“I'm not soft, darling. I can't be fun like Tate or gentle like Knox. But I can be fierce, especially with things I love."
-Ranger Jacobson”
“I'm not some character from a boys' manga." ~Yukio”
Source: Blue Exorcist, Vol. 9
“I'm not some delicate poppy that you can pluck from the ground, quick to wilt away...A flower you can crush in your fist. I am the saffron that wraps its roots around your neck.”
Source: Lullaby
“I'm not some invincible super-soldier--I'm a dying boy who's about to be stuck, helpless, in the hospital while an enemy takes over our country.”
Source: Champion
“I'm not some possession." I pushed at his chest once more. "No, you're not." His mouth returned to mine. "You are my wife." I continued to struggle with the mass of him. He pulled his head back. "You're the only woman I've loved since I lost my mother and sister." His eyes intent on mine. Torn by my anger and his admission, I stopped protesting. His mouth moved against my neck and his body pressed into mine. "I have loved you for so long.”
Source: Amongst the Ruins
“I’m not some sex addict trying to sort myself out. I don’t get a high from fucking everything that walks. I get a high from wanting someone as much as I want you. From actually thinking that for once … for once in my life someone actually cares enough to cry because they think they’ve messed me up.”
Source: Addicted
“I’m not sorry about any of that,” I say as I shove the helmet on my head and meet his stare. I clip it under my chin and put my hands on my hips. “She was rude and I couldn’t stand it.” He blinks down at me, his hand moving toward the back of my neck. He squeezes it gently, pulling me toward him. His lips land on mine, a soft kiss that grows more fevered. I groan into him and hold on to his shoulders to keep myself standing. I can feel several emotions swirling through me, tightening around my chest. Relief, possession,”
Source: Pit Stop
“I'm not sorry for what I did, but I'm sorry it was necessary.”
Source: The Traitor's Ruin
“I’m not sorry," said Quentin. "One of them tried to take my throat away from me. With its teeth. I’m not you. I need my throat.”
Source: A Red-Rose Chain
“I’m not sorry that I met you. If we never meet again, I will hope that one day a weapon made by my hand may yet prove useful to you in some way.”
Source: Learn About Loss
“I’m not sorry you fell in love with me. I’m sorry I didn’t fall in love with you soon enough.”
“I'm not stalking her," I insisted.
"I'm making sure she's safe. Besides, how could you stalk Lori McGillicuddy?
She'd see you and come out to your truck and say, "Hi, I'm Lori. Are you my stalker? It's so neat to meet you! While you're stuck here watching my every move, can I bring you anything? Sweet tea?”
Source: Endless Summer
“I'm not strong enough, I've never been strong enough. You know better than I what your limits are, Wit said. It's not such a terrible thing, to be too weak. Makes us need one another.”
Source: Rhythm of War
“I'm not stupid and I'm not brainy. I just lack execution sometimes.
I'm more of a "I should have said that" kind of gal. But there will be other days when I'll have a comback that'll knock ya flat and you knows it brov! ha-ha!”
“I'm not stupid, but I like to let people think that I am.”
“I'm not stupid, I just look stupid.”
“I'm not stupid, I told myself. There's all kinds of things I can do”
“I'm not stupid, Mr. Potter. What's the real reason you didn't tell me, and what were you actually doing with Mr. Malfoy?"
"Ah. Well..." Harry broke eye contact with her, and looked down at the library table.
"Draco Malfoy told the Aurors under Veritaserum that he wanted to know if he could beat me, so he challenged me to a duel to test it empirically. Those were his exact words according to the transcript."
"Right," Harry said, still not meeting her eyes. "Hermione Granger. Of course she'll remember the exact wording. It doesn't matter if she's chained to her chair, on trial for murder in front of the entire Wizengamot -"
"What were you really doing with Draco Malfoy?"
Harry winced, and said, "Probably not quite what you're thinking, but..."
The horror scaled and scaled within her, and finally broke loose.
"You were doing SCIENCE with him? "
"Well -"
"You were doing SCIENCE with him? You were supposed to be doing science with ME!”
Source: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
“I'm not suffering Trisha, I've never suffered all these years, someone long back taught me by example that its very easy to be content with one's solitude. I've enjoyed mine all these years.”
Source: SHE- Stories of Modern Indian Women