I Quotes
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“I must stay alone and know that I am alone to contemplate and feel nature in full.”
“I must stay alone and know that I am alone to contemplate and feel nature in full; I have to surrender myself to what encircles me, I have to merge with my clouds and rocks in order to be what I am.”
“I must stay true to myself and take my own path all the way.”
“I must stay under the old tree in the midst of the long grass, the luxury of the leaves, and the song in the very air. It seems as if I could feel all the glowing life the sunshine gives and the south winds calls into being.”
Source: The Life of the Fields
“I must stay with you, stay near you, do your will, or die.”
Source: The Message To The Planet
“I must stick with Chinese language films.”
“I must still look perplexed because Gale delivers the next line very slowly. “Katniss…he’s still trying to keep you alive.” To keep me alive? And then I understand. The Games are still on.”
Source: Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)
“I must stop feeling so deeply but I must not be numb; I must move on but I must not forget; I must be happy but not reject sadness; I must embrace but not cling; I must deal with but not dwell on; I must confront but not attack; I must eliminate but not annihilate; I must be gentle with myself but I must be strong.”
Source: Postscript
“I must stop him from being one of those who call themselves good because they have no claws.”
“I must stop remembering. I must keep them in a faraway place. The more I remember, the greater my agony. These thoughts stuttered in my mind. So I stopped talking about them, I wouldn't mouth my boys' names, I shoved away stories of them. Let them, let our life, become as unreal as that wave.”
“I must stop remembering... The more I remember, the greater my agony. These thoughts stuttered in my mind...
I must be more watchful, I told myself. I must shut them out.
I couldn't always keep this up.”
Source: Wave
“I must stop wishing for things to happen. Because something will happen eventually, and when it does, I'll be bound to wish it hadn't.”
Source: Fire
“I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change.”
Source: Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues
“I must stress, basically, the very fact that we do have orangutan rehabilitation means that we have failed to do what is really important, and that is rescue the wild orangutan in its habitat.”
“I must strive to remain rational. For surely reason, and reason alone, is the faculty which divides us from the lower beasts of this earth, who grunt and crawl about on all fours; it is the capacity that ennobles the human spirit above all others, if the human spirit is indeed a thing that can be ennobled - a supposition that I have of late been given copious cause to doubt. Yet still I find that I must trumpet the cause of reason, reason, human reason, above all else - if only because it was no brief time ago that I found myself bereft of its beneficence, reduced to a naked, howling, gibbering thing upon which I shudder to reflect.”
Source: Monsters in a Mirror: Strange Tales from the Chapel Perilous
“I must strongly advise you to desist before your brain is made complicated. The truth is the truth whatever its source. For example, it is indisputably true that that woman is fat whether I or a notorious liar say it and whether or not somebody has been reminded to say it.”
“I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematicks and Philosophy, Geography, natural History, Naval Architecture, navigation, Commerce and Agriculture, in order to give their Children a right to study Painting, Poetry, Musick, Architecture, Statuary, Tapestry and Porcelaine. (12 May 1780)”
“I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.”
Source: The Letters of John and Abigail Adams
“I must study war and politics so that my children shall be free to study commerce, agriculture and other practicalities, so that their children can study painting, poetry and other fine things.”
“I must suppose that reading wonderful writers may, inadvertently, teach an avid reader a great deal -- not only about life and other matters, but about how to write. Therefore doubtless I have benefited from frequent immersions in the glowing genius of others. It would be nice to think so. (I do actually think so). But to improve my skills will never be the prompting force of my reading -- that's just literary lust.”
“I must take care above all that I cultivate communion with Christ, for though that can never be the basis of my peace - mark that - yet it will be the channel of it.”
“I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.”
Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader
“I must talk to Kennit first. He will tell me when he is ready for us to have a baby."
"Never," Bolt said flatly.
"What?"
"Never wait for a male on any such decision. You are the queen. You decide. Males are not made for such decisions. I have seen it time and time again. They would have you wait for days of sunshine and wealth and plenty. Yet to a male, enough is never sufficient, and plenty never reached. A queen knows that when times are hardest and game most scarce, that is when one must care most about the continuance of the race. Some things are not for males to decide.”
Source: Ship of Destiny
“I must tell her, but later, later, later, when it's all long finished and no longer an agony.”
Source: The Nice and the Good
“I must tell you how I carry you about in me like a growth I should excise with my knife - it is weighty and black, it ACHES, it gives out something in my bloodstream, in all the sore endings od my nerves - but I could not cut it out and live!”
Source: The Essex Serpent
“I must tell you, however, that if you refuse us, you face death.”
Source: Lost Identity
“I must tell you I take terrible risks. Because my playing is very clear, when I make a mistake you hear it. If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake. Never be afraid to dare.”
“I must tell you that I am committed, as the president of Iraq, to benchmarks and to do our best to achieve some progress forward for national reconciliation.”
“I must tell you that I should really like to think there's something wrong with me- Because, if there isn't, then there's something wrong with the world itself-and that's much more frightening! That would be terrible. So I'd rather believe there is something wrong with me, that could be put right.”
Source: The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot
“I must tell you that the supply of words on the world market is plentiful, but the demand is falling.”
“I must tell you, I haven't done the drug problem that is faced by cops and people on the border. It's a hard show to do, but I think it's going to say a lot about drugs and the problems related to them. I just hope people can watch it, it's a pretty strong show.”
“I must tell you, to get started today must be very difficult 'cause whatever it takes today is very tough. They have to invest a million dollars in a video just to see if you have a hit record.”
“I must think about working, marrying and money.”
“I must think of him as vanished utterly and gone forever.”
Source: The Green Knight
“I must to the barber's, monsieur, for methinks I am marvellous hairy about the face.”
“I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone.”
“I must try to be alone for part of each year...and part of each day...in order to keep my core, my center...Women must be still as the axis of a wheel in the midst of her activities. She must be the pioneer of achieving this stillness, not only for her own salvation, but for the salvation of family life, of society, perhaps even of our civilization.”
“I must try to hide my emotions. I have to live with both the victory and the defeat.”
“I must try to live in society and yet remain untouched by its pitfalls.”
Source: Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects
“I must try to remember that a boy's heart is not a man's, and perhaps a teacher must learn from his pupil, too, eh?”
“I must try to set aside half an hour in some part of my day, and consecrate it to diary writing. Give it a name and a place, and then perhaps, such is the human mind, I shall come to think it a duty, and disregard other duties for it.”
“I must try, however, as best I can, although I am very conscious of the fact that our feelings and strivings are often contradictory and obscure and that they cannot be expressed in easy and simple formulas.”
Source: The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It
“I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.”
Source: Works
“I must use these great men's virtues as a cloak for my weakness.”
Source: Essays
“I must’ve programmed one of those historical remnant memories of a proper birthday into Aspect and then forgotten, because I don’t know how else to explain the goopy nightmare concoction resting on my floor, crudely labeled CAKE in swirly purple icing. A single wax candle sticks crookedly out of the center.
How long has it been since I cleaned Charon’s cabinets? How long has Aspect’s monstrosity been festering and melting together in there?
Why does it smell like gasoline and old shoes?”
Source: Between Sun and Shadow
“I must wait
a few Days
before seeing
you – You are
too momentous.
But remember
it is idolatry,
not indifference.”
Source: Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson
“I must wake up from my slumber. I have stayed too long on this mountain of detailed self-analysis, protracted self-doubt and crippled action. I must stand up from where I have fallen, knowing that a fall is not a calamity; remaining on my back is. I must now exchange my negative and retrogressive thoughts for new thoughts that amplify God's will about me. I know I will never venture out unless I believe I can win. I am beginning to come to terms with the reality that those who win in life choose to win. They don't necessarily fall less, but they rise up more. They don't have less self-doubts but they believe more than they doubt.”
“I must warn you, my story isn’t a pretty one: abductions, time-traveling dragons, the Order of the Black Fez, highly verbal cats, a secret invisible city, condescending robots (condescending means they talk to you like you’re an Idiot; wait, is it condescending of me to explain what condescending means?), and that’s just for starters. —Willa Snap”
Source: Idiot Genius: Willa Snap and the Clockwerk Boy
“I must warn you that the books I like are not necessarily the ones I think are the best. I like them for various reasons not always easy to explain.”
“I Must warn you, Iris, that I'm not a believer. And though I'm sure that the revelations of other men must be a source of infinite satisfaction to them, individually, I shouldn't for one second be so presumptuous as to make a choice among the many thousands of recorded revelations of truth, accepting one at the expense of all the others: I might so easily choose wrong and get into eternal trouble. And you must admit that the selection is wide, and dangerous to the amateur.”