I Quotes
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“I made you a mix tape
That I worried you’d hate
But you called me at three a.m.
With it playing
Softly saying
Song number three
Is about you and me
and I’ve felt the same way for a while”
Source: Faking Normal
“I made you a snowman,
I wish you had come and seen it,
Then, it melted, leaving its coal eyes.
You came after that,
“What a beauty,” you said.”
Source: a Song a Poem
“I made you an offer when you first came here: help me, and food, shelter, clothing... All of it is yours.'
I'd been a beggar in the past. The thought of doing it now...
'Work for me,' Rhysand said. 'I owe you, anyway. And we'll figure out the rest day by day, if need be.'
I looked toward the mountains, as if I could see all the way to the Spring Court in the south. Tamlin would be furious. He'd shred the manor apart.
But he'd... he'd locked me up. Either he so deeply misunderstood me or he'd been so broken by what went on Under the Mountain, but... he'd locked me up.
'I'm not going back.' The words rang in me like a death knell. 'Not- not until I figure things out.' I shoved against the wall of anger and sorrow and outright despair as my thumb brushed over the vacant band of skin where that ring had once sat.
One day at a time. Maybe- maybe Tamlin would come around. Heal himself, that jagged wound of festering fear. Maybe I'd sort myself out. I didn't know.
But I did know that if I stayed in that manor, if I was locked up one more time... It might finish the breaking that Amarantha had started.
Rhysand summoned a mug of hot tea from nowhere and handed it to me. 'Drink it.'
I took the mug, letting its warmth soak into my stiff fingers. He watched me until I took a sip, and then went back to monitoring the mountains. I took another sip- peppermint and... liquorice and another herb or spice.
I wasn't going back. Maybe I'd never even... gotten to come back. Not from Under the Mountain.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“I made you fragile so you'd take each other seriously”
“I made you nervous? I was ready to get on my knees, Em."
My heart flipped over in my chest, and I covered the moment by fumbling with the string holding the box closed. It slipped free with a jerk, and the box, designed to open like a flower, revealed its gift.
A gasp escaped me. Nestled in a white cloud of spun sugar was a perfect little sphere-shaped gâteau covered in chocolate so dark and glossy it shone like midnight. But that wasn't what had my mouth falling open in awe.
Resting on the very top of the orb was a pink-and-gold butterfly made of sugar glass. The delicate wings were so fine and thin the light shone through them. It looked so real I half expected it to fly away.
"Lucian..."
"This is how I see you sometimes," he said in a low voice, eyes on the gâteau. "Beautiful and rare, something not to be contained but treasured.”
Source: Make It Sweet
“I made you take time to look at what I saw and when you took time to really notice my flower, you hung all your associations with flowers on my flower and you write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see—and I don't.”
Source: Georgia O'Keeffe
“I made you, dear, and all I make is perfect. Please come close, for I desire you.”
“I made your sorrow mine also, that you might have help in bearing it.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (more than 150 Works)
“I made, like, five movies while I was in college. I think they just weren't memorable movies. I've taken breaks as the years have gone on - I burn out every once in a while.”
“I made, over the years in Cambridge, several very good American friends, and America appeared to me, a land of promise in every sense of that word, a land of freedom from the inhibitions and restrictions that I felt in England.”
“I maestri del tè si guardarono attorno con occhi amorevoli e posarono il loro sguardo sugli oggetti d'uso comune che li circondavano, quelli cui nessuno presta di solito attenzione. Qualcuno potrebbe dire che i maestri del tè furono molto arditi, ma in realtà si comportano in modo del tutto naturale. Anche gli oggetti più comuni, destinati all'uso quotidiano, si ammantano di bellezza quando li si ama. Ciò che è umile sa accogliere l'amore. Quegli oggetti, nati nella purezza e nutriti dalle benedizioni della natura, sono quindi integri sia dal punto di vista materiale che da quello spirituale. Se fossero stati troppo delicati o troppo vistosi non avrebbero potuto servire come utensili. Non è forse la schiettezza il loro pregio principale? Non c'è da meravigliarsi dunque se irradiano un'autentica bellezza. Il regno dei cielo è stato promesso proprio agli umili e l'umiltà è in stretta relazione con la bellezza.”
Source: The Unknown Craftsman: A Japanese Insight into Beauty
“I maestri non cercarono una bellezza avulsa dalla realtà della vita e scoprirono gli aspetti più alti e nobili del bello negli oggetti legati all'esistenza. Fu questa la loro esperienza più intima e profonda. Per loro bello e artigianale erano sinonimi.
I maestri del tè sono agli antipodi degli esteti dei nostri giorni, i quali attribuiscono valore solo alla maestria degli artisti e disprezzano la perizia dell'artigiano. Gli esteti tentano di valutare la bellezza con il ragionamento.”
Source: The Unknown Craftsman: A Japanese Insight into Beauty
“I mainly buy books in my free time.”
“I mainly get my inspiration for writing from everyday situations and I come up with hypothetical scenarios and I can usually write a lot about that.”
“I mainly let my imagination be my reality. Fantasy is my reality.”
“I mainly play traditional music, which by definition is music that you've heard someone else doing.”
“I mainly read non-fiction, and that's probably because I have a huge amount of insecurity about my lack of education and the things I don't know.”
“I mainly try not to be afraid.”
“I mainly use Stratocasters. I like a lot of different kinds of guitars, but for what I do, it seems that a Stratocaster is the most versatile. I can pretty much get any sound out of it, and I use stock pickups.”
“I mainly wanted non-english writing poets, because I loved the idea that I was translating translations.”
“I maintain a balanced view of the world, but that balance is always in my favour.”
Source: Emperor of Thorns (The Broken Empire, Book 3)
“I maintain an ongoing survey of Internet Publishing and self publishing, so that it is now possible for any writer with a book to get it published at nominal cost or free, and to have it on sale at booksellers like Amazon.com.”
“I maintain couchsurfing and crowdsurfing are basically the same thing — you're falling into the audience and you're trusting each other.”
“I maintain my conviction that there are NO pyramids at Visoko, Bosnia.
Rather, all the so-called pyramids are the result of natural geological processes
and phenomena that are currently being 'excavated' (i.e., modified) to look
like pyramids.”
“I maintain my inner beauty by trying to lead a balanced life in general. I try to eat healthy foods, but... that doesn't mean I won't treat myself now and then! I work out almost every day, which gives me more energy and helps me feel stronger. I also try to be a genuinely good person to the people around me.”
“I maintain my sanity by keeping my distance.”
“I maintain that all sorrow comes from love of those things of which loss deprives me.”
“I maintain that any writer of a book is fully authorised in attaching any meaning he likes to a word or phrase he intends to use. If I find an author saying, at the beginning of his book, "Let it be understood that by the word 'black' I shall always mean 'white,' and by the word 'white' I shall always mean 'black,'" I meekly accept his ruling, however injudicious I think it.”
Source: Symbolic Logic: Elementary
“I maintain that anyone who still refuses to see, for instance, a horse galloping on a tomato, must be an idiot. A tomato is also a child's balloon - Surrealism, again, having suppressed the word "like."”
“I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.”
“I maintain that I have been a Negro three times--a Negro baby, a Negro girl and a Negro woman. Still, if you have received no clear cut impression of what the Negro in America is like, then you are in the same place with me. There is no The Negro here. Our lives are so diversified, internal attitudes so varied, appearances and capabilities so different, that there is no possible classification so catholic that it will cover us all, except My people! My people!”
“I maintain that I never expect anything, therefore Im always pleasantly surprised.”
“I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world; this is evident from the quarrels caused by occasional indiscreet disclosures.”
Source: Pensées
“I maintain that in every position that arises, we should deliberately search, among other things, for pieces which have no retreat. If we see one, we automatically look to see if it can be netted.”
“I maintain that inversion is the effect of neither a prenatal choice nor an endocrinal malformation nor even the passive and determined result of complexes. It is an outlet that a child discovers when he is suffocating.”
“I maintain that it should cost as much to get married as to get divorced. Make it look like marriage is worth as much as divorce, even if it ain't.”
Source: Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams
“I maintain that no movie can be funny enough. I mean even the most serious, even the most intense movie and I know enough about life to know in those dark moments inevitably someone will say something funny and I will be part of the whole experience.”
“I maintain that nothing useful and lasting can emerge from violence.”
“I maintain that some Jew wrote it who probably heard about Christian people but never encountered any.”
“I maintain that the best song is the one that ends up on the album. So whether I've written it or I haven't, I'm very comfortable with both.”
“I maintain that the biggest challenge in the new millennium could be a change of habit. We could change from a dominating commodity culture into one of true exchange in which we learn from each other in humility and respect. I do think it's possible. But it's up to us.”
“I maintain that the cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and noblest motive for scientific research.”
Source: The World As I See It
“I maintain that the existing corn laws are bad, because they have given a monopoly of food to the landed interest over every other class and over every other interest in the kingdom.”
“I maintain that the expression of junk and objects has an intrinsic value, and I see no need to look for aesthetic forms in them and to adapt them to the colors of the palette.”
“I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of deciding upon them as reason and principle shall dictate.”
“I maintain that the human mystery is incredibly demeaned by scientific reductionism, with its claim in promissory materialism to account eventually for all of the spiritual world in terms of patterns of neuronal activity. This belief must be classed as a superstition. ... We have to recognize that we are spiritual beings with souls existing in a spiritual world as well as material beings with bodies and brains existing in a material world.”
“I maintain that the maxim is still to be faster than the others.”
“I maintain that the period during the first half of the 1990s, the period in which rising inequality reached its peak, was a period in which we came very, very close to a demagogic immobilization of racism in this society.”
“I maintain that there is no common language or medium of understanding between people of education and without it - between those who judge of things from books or from their senses. Ignorance has so far the advantage over learning; for it can make an appeal to you from what you know; but you cannot re-act upon it through that which it is a perfect stranger to. Ignorance is, therefore, power.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“I maintain that to tell a person they are born again, while they are living in carelessness or sin, is a dangerous delusion.”