I Quotes
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“I must ask you, Harry, whether there is anything you'd like to tell me', he said gently. 'Anything at all.'
Harry didn't know what to say...
...'No', said Harry. 'There isn't anything, Professor...”
Source: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
“I must assert in the most unqualified way that it is primarily and mainly for the sake of saving the soul that I seek the salvation of the body.”
Source: In Darkest England and the Way Out
“I must assume that knowing is better than not know, venturing better than not venturing; and that magic and illusion, however rich, however alluring, ultimately weaken the human spirit. I take with deep seriousness Thomas Hardy's words, 'If a way to the Better there be, it exacts a full look at the Worst.”
Source: Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy
“I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.”
“I must be able to say, 'Percival, a ridiculous name'. At the same time let me tell you, men and women, hurrying to the tube station, you would have had to respect him. You would have had to form up and follow behind him. How strange to oar one's way through crowds seeing life through hollow eyes, burning eyes.”
Source: The Waves
“I must be absolutely clear about this. Britain cannot accept the present situation on the Budget. It is demonstrably unjust. It is politically indefensible: I cannot play Sister Bountiful to the Community while my own electorate are being asked to forego improvements in the fields of health, education, welfare and the rest.”
“I must be allowed to add some explanatory remarks to bring the subject home to reason-to that sluggish reason, which supinely takes opinions on trust, and obstinately supports them to spare itself the labour of thinking.”
Source: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
“I must be allowed to be as I am.”
“I must be an anorexic because an anorexic looks in the mirror and sees a fat person.”
“I must be at the command of the Lord, not the dictates of people, pressures, or my own issues.”
Source: Shark Proof: How to Deal with Difficult People
“I must be besotted,” he said evenly. “I have the imbecilic idea that you’re the prettiest girl I’ve ever seen. Except for your coiffure,” he added, with a disgusted glance at the coils and plumes and pearls. “That is ghastly.” She scowled. “Your romantic effusions leave me breathless.”
“I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs.”
“I must be cheaper now than I was ten years ago in order to get a laugh. It's not funny now if I leave the table and give the waiter a nickel tip, which was a laugh years ago. Today I must maneuver it so that somehow I get the waiter to give me a nickel tip.”
“I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.”
Source: Hamlet
“I must be cruel, only to be kind.”
“I must be dead for there is nothing but blue snow and the furious silence of a gunshot.”
“I must be doing something right. I was raised to stand up to the bully in the schoolyard, and you don't lose that.”
“I must be doing something right. I've been around for a long time.”
“I must be drunk on moonlight to tell you this…but after I left you at Sparrow Inn, I…I couldn’t stop thinking about you. I didn’t know anything about you, and yet I had never met anyone so determined—or brazen. Not even Megari.” He laughed, then his expression turned serious once more. “Somehow, I knew I would see you again. It was as if I could feel our strands crossing. Yet when you came to Iro, you seemed different. Sadder, more withdrawn. I’d look for you in the kitchen as Pao and I walked around the castle. I wanted to make you smile.”
Source: Six Crimson Cranes
“I must be ever so careful to remember that my pain is a precious salve that when used in the service of others can heal a thousand wounds and more. And I must likewise remember that if I do not use it as such, I have done nothing more than wound myself yet again.”
“I must be frank in my feeling that a notable heresy has come into being throughout our evangelical Christian circles -- the widely accepted concept that we humans can choose to accept Christ only because we need Him as Saviour and that we have the right to postpone our obedience to Him as Lord as long as we want to... The truth is that salvation apart from obedience is unknown in the sacred scripture... Apart from obedience, there can be no salvation, for salvation without obedience is a self-contradictory impossibility.”
“I must be free... free to do what I like, say what I like, write what I like, within the limits prescribed for me by my own sense of what is seemly and fitting.”
“I must be getting absent-minded. Whenever I complain that things aren't what they used to be, I always forget to include myself.”
“I must be getting back to my rooms,” Silence said and stood.
Mick frowned with displeasure. “Why?”
“Because of Mary Darling.”
He shrugged. “One o’ the maids is watchin’ her.”
“But if Mary wakes she’ll want me.”
“Why?” he asked again, biting into a sweetmeat. This discussion wasn’t to his fancy, but sparring with her was.
“Because,” she said slowly, looking at him as if he were lack-witted, “she’s only a baby and she loves me.”
“Babies,” Mick pronounced, “are a great trouble.”
She shook her head, not bothering to reply this time, and started marching to the door.”
Source: Scandalous Desires
“I must be getting old ... People are beginning to tell me I look so young. They never tell you that when you are young.”
Source: L. M. MONTGOMERY – Premium Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry & Autobiography (Including Anne Shirley Novels, Chronicles of Avonlea & The Story Girl Series): Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, The Golden Road, Kilmeny of the Orchard, The Watchman, Songs of the Sea & many more
“I must be getting old; it's getting harder and harder to remember who I owe an apology too anymore.”
Source: The Deathbed Confessions
“I must be gone and live, or stay and die.”
“I must be happy, he said, it is less pleasant than I should have thought.”
Source: Malone Dies
“I must be honest and say that I was under the fascination of films. I was fascinated by all films, even the words of them. If I was to do a more-precise analysis of the situation, I have to admit that I was more entertained by the bad films than the good ones. Because when something is beautiful, it is there; it is finished; it is done. It doesn't have to be touched or be worked upon.”
“I must be honest. I can only read so many paragraphs of a New York Times story before I puke.”
“I must be in love with this woman, Sumire realized with a start. No
mistake about it. Ice is cold; roses are red; I'm in love. And this
love is about to carry me off somewhere. This current's too
overpowering; I don't have any choice. It may very well be a special
place, some place I've never seen before. Danger may be lurking
there, something that may end up wounding me deeply, fatally. I might
end up losing everything. But there's no turning back. I can only go
with the flow. Even if it means I'll be burned up, gone forever.”
Source: Sputnik Sweetheart
“I must be informed, that one of my great duties was, to obey the priests in all things; and this I soon learnt, to my utter astonishment and horror, was to live in the practice of criminal intercourse with them.”
Source: Awful Disclosures ... Second edition, revised by the Rev. J. J. Slocum
“I must be lean & write & make worlds beside this to live in.”
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
“I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.”
“I must be mad, or very tired, When the curve of a blue bay beyond a railroad track Is shrill and sweet to me like the sudden springing of a tune, And the sight of a white church above thin trees in a city square Amazes my eyes as though it were the Parthenon.”
“I must be made of nothing to feel so much nothing.”
Source: The Evolution of Mara Dyer
“I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.”
“I must be out of my mind if I loved you in spite of everything you've done, and anyone else would condemn you for it, but I can't condemn you at all. In my own troubled mind, I loved you for it.”
“I must be overtired', Buttercup managed. 'The excitement and all.' 'Rest then', her mother cautioned. 'Terrible things can happen when you're overtired. I was overtired the night your father proposed.”
Source: The Princess Bride
“I must be reminded that God often seems distant because I’ve made Him smaller than what He is and my struggles bigger than what they are.”
“I must be right. Never an aspirin. Never injured a day in my life. The whole country, the whole world, should be doing my exercises. They'd be happier.”
“I must be sincere towards what I am. ... Experimenting is the only thing that fills me with enthusiasm. ... It is the only sphere where I feel really honest and sincere.”
“I must be strong in this respect and not let it get me down. Never in my life have I been so consciously aware of my stutter as in these past two or three months. I must somehow destroy it before it destroys me. I have no alternative but to stamp it out.”
“I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.”
Source: British Classics: Great Expectations
“I must be thankful that I get to do intense dramatic roles, because it takes so much more, whereas I've been doing L'Oreal forever, and I can do that in my sleep.”
“I must be the luckiest man in the world. Not only am I bisexual, I am also Welsh.”
“I must be the mate of the man I had chosen; and if he would not come to my level, I must go to his.”
“I must be the oldest living child soprano.”
“I must be the only person in the world who's looking forward to going into hospital. I can't wait to get it over and done with.”
“I must be the only person of my age who doesn't have a bloody gong. They are so common in show business.”