I Quotes
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“I search for the realness, the real feeling of a subject, all the texture around it... I always want to see the third dimension of something... I want to come alive with the object.”
“I search for your name on
The blank page of my fate.
Write your sorrows as my destiny
Walk in the storm with a broken home of dreams.”
Source: Hang My Heart on the Shadows of Light: A Novel
“I search his eyes for the slightest sign of anything, fear, remorse, anger. But there's only the same look of amusement that ended our last conversation. It's as if he's speaking the words again. "Oh, my dear Miss Everdeen. I thought we had agreed not to lie to each other." He's right. We did. The point of my arrow shifts upward. I release the string. And President Coin collapses over the side of the balcony and plunges to the ground. Dead.”
“I search my brain for the truth. “I want it more than anything, just as long as you promise me one thing.” “And what’s that?” “That if at any time it gets to be too much for you, you’ll leave me—walk away and get out.” “That will never happen,” he guarantees me. “You need to give me some credit. You left me, ripped out my heart, and then came back acting like a robot, and you know what? We made it through. You and I, good or bad, belong together. We make each other whole.”
“I search the phrase "Kellyanne Conway fails," and I'm just watching that Scottie [Nell Hughes] woman smirk all the time.”
“I searched among her crayons for a color that represented autumn and pulled out an orange-toned crayon, never used. It read “Bittersweet,” and I wondered why that particular name. Autumn was my favorite time of year… I was always ready for the change. I guess some people didn’t see it that way. Some people wanted to cling to summer... I loved both seasons, but I thought no one would ever call spring bittersweet, even though it was just another change, another new cycle, an end to one season and a beginning for another in an endless, never-ending spiral.”
Source: Finding Tranquility Base
“I searched everywhere for a proof of reality, when all the while I understood quite well that the standard of reality had changed”
Source: Delphi Complete Novels of Algernon Blackwood (Illustrated)
“I searched for a deeper existence. What I found was myself. The next moment the journey towards self discovery began all over again.”
“I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God.”
“I searched for my own heart
and long after I had lost my way
in the days trailing past with their foliage
in the aloof sky blue with distance
I thought I'd find my heart
where I'd kept your eyes two brown butterflies
and I saw the swallows swoop
and shadows starlings”
“I searched for years I found no love. I'm sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.”
“I searched for you in the forest–
in every trace of sky and soil,
in every space of rest and soul.
I searched for you along the highway,
in every city, in every valley,
in every place I stepped in
and every door I walked out.
I searched for you in my dreams–
in every bliss, in every storm,
in every wish, in every hope.
I searched for you in my thoughts,
in every text, in every chord,
in every breath, in every song.
I searched for you in these verses;
in every rhyme, in every word,
in every smile, in every poem.
I searched for you.”
“I searched for you in this valley–
in every ray of sun,
in every drop of water.
In every purple song,
in every sunset mourning.
I searched for you in imagined kiss–
in every word I couldn’t invent,
in every touch I can’t resist.
I searched for you at midnight;
in every star I looked upon,
in every dream, desire and storm.
I searched for you right here;
in every touch that I keep inventing,
in every word I keep repeating.
I searched for you.”
“I searched heaven and earth for a gift for my beloved - my humanity, I found nothing suitable, so I place the offering of my life at your feet.”
Source: Time to End Democracy: The Meritocratic Manifesto
“I searched his warm eyes in a failed attempt to find a galaxy in them I hadn't already discovered.”
Source: Dreaming of Hiraeth
“I searched my heart, and tried to find shame or regret. But I couldn't. It just wasn't there.”
Source: Madam
“I searched my stomach for that tight feeling, the sensation of waiting for the other shoe to drop. I could find it, if I tried hard enough, but for once, I didn’t want to. This moment felt worth whatever pain it might bring later, and I tried to repeat that to myself until I was sure I’d be able to remember it if I needed to.”
Source: Beach Read
“I searched so hard for a part that was so complex”
“I searched through rebellion, drugs, diet, mysticism, religion, intellectualism and much more, only to begin to find that truth is basically simple and feels good, clear and right.”
“I seat myself at the typewriter and hope, and lurk.”
“I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.”
“I second-guess and overthink and rethink every single thing that I do.”
“I second-guess myself all the time. I make a decision and then wonder if I made the wrong choice.”
“I secretly assumed, as poets do,
The duty on me to define the moon.”
Source: Dreamtigers
“I secretly hate worship music, as it's it weak and predictable, with lyrics designed to appeal to the lowest common denominator - not the greatest art ever created by mankind, as I think true worship should attempt to be. Very talented people make some very bad songs so that people with a fourth grade reading level can sing along.”
“I secretly liked acting, but I wanted to play football. It was an enormous dream.”
“I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it.”
“I secretly understood: the primitive appeal of the hearth. Television is - its irresistible charm - a fire.”
“I secretly want to be a rapper.”
“I secretly want to be a zebra. That is why I always wear stripes.”
“I secretly wondered if Dimitri's problem might be that he was jealous. He hadn't pulled Lissa aside to yell at her. The thought made me slightly happy, but then I remembered my earlier curiosity about why Dimitri had even wandered by.”
Source: Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection
“I seduce myself with hope.”
Source: The loneliness of the Fox
“I see "demand creation" as a 20th-century construct that's bound up with advertising. It's an outmoded view of marketing that says, "First, we build a product or service, then we advertise it into people's lives." Embedded this view is the belief that companies control brands. This is a myth. My message all along has been that brands are actually created by customers, not companies. Companies only provide the raw materials - the products, messaging, behaviors - that people use these to create brands.”
“I see 'Ahab's Wife' as offering an alternative vision to”
“I see (humor) in the smallest things.”
“I see ... a pile of skulls and bones. For the first time since my arrival, what I see before me is too painful, and I break down completely. These are my relatives, friends and neighbors, I keep thinking ... It is a long time before I am calm again. And then I am able, with my bare hands, to rearrange the skulls and bones so that they are not scattered about.”
“I see 30 to 40 gallery shows a week, and no matter what kind of mood I'm in, no matter how bad the art is, I almost always feel better afterward. I can learn as much from bad art as from good.”
“I see [activists] getting really angry that people won't just do what the evidence tells them, and that's not very helpful. You need to actually think why that is.”
“I see [Lyndon] Johnson as the war in Vietnam, and the invasion of the Dominican Republic and so on. So I'm not a liberal in that sense, because i think of liberals as part of that establishment.”
“I see [my pen] as an extension of my musculature. It's like being a painter. It's the closest I can get to my breath.”
“I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs and defeats, through long years to come, I see the evil of this time and of the previous time of which this is the natural birth, gradually making expiation for itself and wearing out.”
Source: A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations (Oprah's Book Club): Two Novels
“I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss. I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful, useful, prosperous and happy. I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”
“I see a big difference between the Republican candidate and the Democratic candidate.”
“I see a bird carrying me and carrying you, with us as its wings, beyond the dream, to a journey that has no end and no beginning, no purpose and no goal. I do not speak to you, and you do not speak to me; we listen only to the music of silence. Silence is the friend's trust of friend, imagination's self-confidence between rain and rainbow.
A rainbow is inspiration provoking the poet, uninvited, the infatuation of the poet with the prose of the Quran.
Which of your Lord's blessings do you disown?
We are absent, you and I; we are present, you and I.
And absent.
Which of your Lord's blessings do you disown?”
Source: Absent Presence
“I see a bird like a cock, which means good news, but you yourself are very agitated. A road that looks bright. And you are on the first step. You are thinking of a hundred things at the same time. One road is closed and dark, and the other is open and full of light. Both could happen; it is your choice. There is a key; a problem will be solved. ... A small ship that is still in the harbor and has not yet started to set sail.”
Source: Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
“I see a bit of a contradiction between the fight against the Islamic State and the desire to remove the Assad regime. And even if you work with Russia, I'm just not sold that working with Russia is an effective way to hasten the end of the Assad regime or to enact any type of punitive measures.”
“I see a boy with his mother's ambition, performing for love, trained in submission.”
“I see a bright future for the biotechnology industry when it follows the path of the computer industry, the path that von Neumann failed to foresee, becoming small and domesticated rather than big and centralized.”
Source: Dreams of Earth and Sky
“I see a bright
portion
under the overhead light
that shades into
darkness
and then into darker
darkness
and I can't see beyond that.”
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
“I see a broken shell and I remind myself that something might have needed setting free. See, broken things always have a story, don't they?”