I Quotes
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“I saw it. I saw the look in his eyes, and I was paralyzed.”
Source: Dreaming of Hiraeth
“I saw it in his eyes, first—the beginning of the end, the beginning of things to come. The blackest night, they cut into me, paralyzing my trembling body. Not even the gods could sense my fear now, for the celebration of the monsters who’d claimed me drowned out all perception of pain. It was all-powerful, all-knowing, the definition of infinite, an overwhelming possession that consumed every inch of my being.”
Source: The Gates
“I saw it myself. An endless succession of mongrels and malingerers, the laziest dropouts who fancied themselves explorers. He made his policy clear: he was not responsible for their food, their shelter, their safety, or their health. He didn't waste his time discouraging them because frankly there was no discouragement they could not withstand. All of the energy they could have put into their intelligence they had used to develop their tenacity. But what I quickly learned was that their tenacity was for going, not for staying. Once they were out on the trail they fell like flies. Some took a day, two days, others were gone in a matter of hours, and Dr. Rapp never stopped for them. He remained beautifully consistent: he was to work and he would continue to work. He would not ferry back the weak and the lame. They had chosen to get themselves in and they would simply have to figure the means to get themselves out. People were quick to accept these terms until they themselves were weak. Then they changed their tune entirely, then they said Dr. Rapp was heartless. They couldn't slander him as a scientist but they said no end of scurrilous things about him as a man. He hadn't rescued them! He hadn't been their father and mother! I will tell you, none of that troubled his sleep. If he had made them his responsibility, either by dissuading them from their ambitions or by bailing them out of their folly, the greatest botanist of our time would have been reduced to a babysitter. It would have been an incalculable blow to science, all in the name of saving the stupid.”
Source: State of Wonder
“I saw it now. I would never be safe. Never be loved. All my hopes, dashed-all my dreams, shattered-leaving nothing, nothing. My father was right-I didn't deserve to live. I was-nothing.”
Source: The Silent Patient
“I saw it on the Twitter of today, on the online boards. There was a huge amount of negative reaction that's been forgotten because the quality eventually shined through. But usually it takes people a while to see what they've got on their plate. And I think, with "Jessica Jones," it's this anomalous thing where, and because of the original property being so good, people saw it right away, which is very unusual.”
“I saw it, Six,’ Marina whispers to me. ‘When I kissed him, I saw inside the thing – Lorien, the energy, whatever you want to call it.’
‘Okay,’ I say, wanting to be gentle with her, but not sure we have time for this. ‘And?’
Marina grins at me. ‘It’s spreading, Six. Through the Earth. It’s spreading everywhere.’
‘What does that mean?’ Adam asks.
‘It means,’ Marina says, wiping her face and standing up straight, ‘that we aren’t alone anymore.”
Source: The Revenge of Seven
“I saw it written and I saw it say
Pink moon is on its way
And none of you stand so tall
Pink Moon gonna get you all”
“I saw Jake in the hallway at school. I pretended not to notice him.
I saw Rachel, too. She had a dark look in her eyes. Like she hadn't slept. Like something was really wrong.
Even Cassie seemed grim. It had gotten to all of us. It's not so easy to just forget terror. It's not easy to just ignore the memory of your leg being ripped off. Of being dismembered. Torn apart.
One of these days, I thought, one of us is going to go crazy. Totally lock-me-up-in-a-rubber-room nutso. It was too much. This wasn't how life was supposed to be.
One of us would snap. One of us would lost it. It could happen, even to strong people.
-Animorphs #5, The Predator page 52”
“I saw John Garfield smoke. He was my idol, so I smoked. I even smoked like him.”
“I saw Jonathan after he faced the fear demon, you know. It showed itself to him as you. That told me all I needed to know. The greatest fear in Jonathan’s life is the love he feels for his sister.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels
“I saw Krishnamurti speak one time. And I thought, I'm not going to live here.”
“I saw leaving any situation where I was treated with disrespect as evidence of my courage. I wanted my daughters to learn that lesson of worth from me.”
Source: Wild Truth
“I saw leaving college as an opportunity to do something different with my life. I always thought that becoming an academic was going to be my path.”
“I saw life; I thought about death.”
“I saw Linus Pauling as a brilliant lecturer and a man with a fantastic memory, and a great, great showman. I think he was the century's greatest chemist. No doubt about it.”
“I saw literature as a fantasy, no less absorbing for all its irrelevance - a parallel life, as dreams shadow waking but never intersect it.”
Source: A Boy's Own Story: Picador Classic
“I saw Lord Sabaoth (The Lord of Hosts) assign the angel hosts to go to bloodlines and command familiar and familial spirits to back off and quit speaking from past mistakes and past reproaches.”
“I saw lots of music devices. I loved playing with music devices. And like most of the world, I thought of a music device as a music device. Steve Jobs tends to look beyond that, and he doesn't see a music device as having any importance at all - how fast it is, how many songs it can hold, and all that - he sees music itself to a person as a being the important thing.”
“I saw love once
It hid behind a heart
and faded into my soul~”
“I saw Madeleine Stowe from Revenge recently, and she totally blew me away. And growing up I loved Morticia Addams and Lily Munster on one hand, and Jeannie from I Dream of Jeannie on the other. Two completely different ends of the spectrum, kind of like me.”
“I saw many humans on whom there were no clothes. I saw many clothes in which there were no humans.”
“I saw many people who begun their marathon races lately, but they eventually came up as top winners. I believe that your "lateness" does not account for your "lastness". It's not too late for you to make a start... Begin it now! No further delays!”
Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes
“I saw many people who had advanced heart disease and I was so frustrated because I knew if they just knew how to do the right thing, simple lifestyle and diet steps, that the entire trajectory of their life and health would have been different.”
“I saw men whom thirty years had changed but slightly; but their wives had grown old. These were good women; it is very wearing to be good.”
Source: Autobiographical Writings: A Penguin Enriched eBook Classic
“I saw Mikhail Baryshnikov do Twyla Tharp's Sinatra Suite on PBS. I have no numbers to prove it, but I bet that kids who saw that loved it. I think you will see younger dancers, who certainly have the artistic sense and capabilities, start going back to romantic numbers.”
“I saw mommy kissing Santa Claus. Underneath the mistletoe last night. She didn't see me creep down the stairs to have a peep; She thought that I was tucked up in my bedroom fast asleep. Then, I saw mommy tickle Santa Claus Underneath his beard so snowy white; Oh, what a laugh it would have been. If daddy had only seen. mommy kissing Santa Claus, last night.”
“I saw money becoming more and more important everywhere. It's one of the most abstract and important inventions by human beings. At the same time, money is capable of extraordinary corruption in every kind of relationship. I tried to see how and why, more and more, money is becoming a religion.”
“I saw money becoming more and more important everywhere. It's one of the most abstract and important inventions by human beings. At the same time, money is capable of extraordinary corruption in every kind of relationship.”
“I saw money change votes.I mean, they just seem unaware of this, that money is something - if they want to see the appearance of corruption, all they had to do was look in Las Vegas last weekend.”
“I saw more clearly than ever, that the first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day was, to have my soul happy in the Lord. The first thing to be concerned about was not, how much I might serve the Lord, how I might glorify the Lord; but how I might get my soul into a happy state, and how my inner man may be nourished...I saw that the most important thing I had to do was to give myself to the reading of the Word of God and to meditation on it.”
“I saw more clearly the uselessness of all attempts to bring happiness to a mind from which only darkness came”
“I saw more stupid people in graduate school and three decades in academia than I ever did who ran 100 acres without going broke.”
“I saw more than I can tell / And I understood more than I saw.”
Source: Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
“I saw more truth and sensitivity in art than I did in many of the people in this world.”
“I saw music as a way to entertain people and take them away from their daily lives and put smiles on their faces, as opposed to what I see it being now, which is a way for me to actually communicate, and a way for me to tap into my subconscious.”
“I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men.”
“I saw my bulky person in the windows of the passing storefronts and wondered, when will that man there find himself to be loved?”
Source: The Sisters Brothers
“I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.”
Source: Sign of the Unicorn ; The Hand of Oberon ; The Courts of Chaos
“I saw my enemies in Munich, and they are worms.”
“I saw my ex become lesbian, she was very stressed about it! She was previously straight. She was a Mauna Kea night shift worker regularly exposed to the very high altitude summit.”
“I saw my ex-husband in the street. I was sitting on the steps of the new library. Hello, my life, I said. We had once been married for twenty-seven years, so I felt justified. He said, What? What life? No life of mine.”
Source: The Collected Stories
“I saw my face today
And it looked older,
Without the warmth of wisdom
Or the softness
Born of pain and waiting.
The dreams were gone from my eyes,
Hope lost in hollowness
On my cheeks,
A finger of death
Pulling at my jaws.
So I did my push-ups
And wondered if I'd ever find you,
To see my face
With friendlier eyes than mine.”
Source: There Are Men Too Gentle to Live Among Wolves
“I saw my father as a man, and not, as a man who was my father.”
“I saw my father cry twice in his life. Ironically, the moment he was near death was not one of those times.”
“I saw my father march with Martin Luther King.”
“I saw my first angel.
And it was you.”
“I saw my first gig here actually (Festival Hall in Brisbane) Duran Duran.”
“I saw my future. I pictured it, but didn't quite know how to get there. But I knew that I should never give up.”
“I saw my hometown burning that day.”
“I saw my husband in his cell for ten minutes. During the interview the cell was packed with officers and a sergeant, who kept a watch in his hand and closed the interview by saying, 'Your ten minutes is now up.'”