I Quotes
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“I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.”
“I simply can't imagine the world will ever be normal again for us. I do talk about "after the war," but it's as if I'm talking about a castle in the air, something that can never come true.”
Source: The diary of a young girl
“I simply can't resist a cat, particularly a purring one.”
“I simply can't understand the stereotyping women as film makers who make soppy family dramas. Look at Katherine Bigelow: she has directed Point Break and Strange Days. I hate labels of any kind. Just because you are a woman you can't do this or that? Twenty years ago women entering the work force was enough of a shock. People just like the predictable; they feel safe with it. You know, it's such a bore”
“I simply cannot accept that there are on every story two equal and logical sides to an argument.”
“I simply cannot afford to be ignorant of the monumental challenges that constantly batter and beset the world around me. But neither can I afford to be ignorant of the cancer of pessimism that constantly rallies the entire weight of its defeatist character in an all-out effort to convince me that the abilities inherent in mankind are far, far too inadequate to challenge the challenges. And it might be that the greatest challenge of all is to challenge this sort of thinking.”
“I simply cannot fathom the horrors of being enslaved, and the thought that children are ripped apart from their families and used year in and out for sex and hard labor under the threat of violence and death breaks my heart.”
“I simply cannot get over what a surprising and wonderful life God has given me.”
Source: Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir
“I simply cannot see how denying chemotherapy treatment for Palestinian children increases Israel's security or advances U.S. national interests.”
“I simply cannot see why one would wish to picnic in the nude. There would be ants in dreadful places.”
Source: Chain of Gold
“I simply cannot stand by and watch a right guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States come under attack from those who either can't understand it, don't like the sound of it, or find themselves too philosophically squeamish to see why it remains the first among equals: Because it is the right we turn to when all else fails. That's why the Second Amendment is America's first freedom.”
“I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards.”
Source: Down Among the Dead Men
“I simply cannot vote for Senator Obama because he's not pro-life.”
“I simply cannot wrap my mammalian brain around the notion that there can be a reality where there is no space and time.”
Source: Random Cosmos
“I simply can´t resist a cat, particularly a purring one. They are the cleanest, cunningest, and most intelligent things I know, outside of the girl you love, of course.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain
“I simply care nothing for any of your religions, as all three are fundamentally flawed, unlike the Church of Common Sense, right from the start! They call God he instead of she and all three would like to burn me at the stake for saying that!”
“I simply channeled a character, this time I allowed the character to inhabit me.”
“I simply constructed a project to try to snap Kurt [Cobain] out of a frame of mind. I sent him a plane ticket and a driver, and he tacked the plane ticket to the wall in the bedroom and the driver sat outside the house for 10 hours. Kurt wouldn't come out and wouldn't answer the phone.”
“I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.”
Source: Three Lives
“I simply couldn’t muster up the mental energy to pull myself away from my sheets.”
Source: The Problem with Players
“I simply couldn't walk away from [ The Nightingale].”
“I simply couldn’t conceive of how devastating it would be not to be able to hear my children’s voices. Not to be able to communicate with them, to hear them learn, grow, and express themselves verbally. How fortunate, how blessed I am. This overwhelmed me. I can talk to my children, I can respond to their needs and comfort them when they tell me they are unwell. I can tell them stories and hear them tell theirs.”
Source: The Golden Hat: Talking Back to Autism
“I simply decided that dope wasn't worth the ritual.”
“I simply define glory as the beauty of God unveiled. Glory is the resplendent radiance of His power and His personality. Glory is all of God that makes God God, and shows Him to be worthy of our praise and our boasting and our trust and our hope and our confidence and our joy.”
“I simply did not want my face to be my talent.”
Source: Self-portrait
“I simply do not believe I’m allowed to have the thing unless I utterly destroy myself to get it.”
Source: Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”
“I simply do not distinguish between work and play.”
“I simply do not think that yelling, swearing, threatening or belittling will get you to the place you want to be faster than kindness, understanding, patience and a little willingness to compromise.”
“I simply don't accept losing well. I just feel whatever it takes to win, you have to do it.”
“I simply don't believe in failure. In itself, it doesn't exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail.”
“I simply don't like the culture of drugs. I never liked the hippies for it. I think it was a mistake to be all the time stoned and on weed. It didn't look right and it doesn't look right today either and the damage drugs have done to civilizations are too enormous. And besides, I don't need any drug to step out of myself. I don't want them and I do not need them.”
“I simply don't shine in company. Mostly I prefer to retreat with a book.”
Source: Bride of the Rat God
“I simply don't understand the refugee crisis. The history of humanity can be told through a story of migration and settlement. If I can't protect my family, I'm coming to where you are; I'm just coming. It's a round world, and we've all got to get on with it and move on.”
“I simply don't want the poems mixed up with my life or opinions or picture or any other regrettable concomitants. I look like a bear and live in a cave; but you should worry.”
“I simply feel that the frontier of angling is no longer either ethical or geographical. The Bible tells us to watch and listen. Something like this suggests what fishing ought to be about: using the ceremony of our sport and passion to arouse greater reverberations within ourselves.”
“I simply felt alone, one leaf sitting miles away from a giant, communal pile.”
Source: I Am Not A Serial Killer
“I simply find it boring to walk around like everybody else. I find it really great to stand out and do something special.”
“I simply find that as a songwriter, my goal is to try to move people. And I feel that before I can move other people, I have to genuinely be able to move myself.”
“I simply followed (my teacher's) instruction which was to focus the mind on pure being 'I am', and stay in it. I used to sit for hours together, with nothing but the 'I am' in my mind and soon peace and joy and a deep all-embracing love became my normal state. In it all disappeared -- myself, my Guru, the life I lived, the world around me. Only peace remained and unfathomable silence.”
“I simply go with what works. And what works is the healthy skepticism embodied in the scientific method. Believe me, if the Bible had ever been shown to be a rich source of scientific answers and enlightenment, we would be mining it daily for cosmic discovery.”
Source: The Sky is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist
“I simply got used to seeing people I didn't recognize wandering around.”
Source: Still Me
“I simply hate the people who have no good words for anyone, who is impolite & who don't respect anyone.”
“I simply have a marvellous life, a very lucky life.”
“I simply have no business being in love and playing around with a girl, however innocently.... After all I am supposed to be a monk with a vow of chastity and though I have kept my vow—I wonder if I can keep it indefinitely and still play this gorgeous game!”
Source: Learning to Love: The Journals of Thomas Merton [Volume Six 1966-1967]
“I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.”
“I simply imagine it so, then go about to prove it.”
“I simply imagine that my skeleton is me and my body is my house and that way I'm always at home.”
“I simply know what the actor's attitude should be and what he should say. He doesn't, because he can't see the relationship that begins to exist between his body and the other things in the scene.”
“I simply like guns because you can't shoot people without them.”
“I simply like the monumentality of the subjects - the opportunity for metaphor and the varied light that comes with high altitudes.”