I Quotes
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“I switched the FM-UHF marine radio to the commercial frequencies and tried to find something that didn't sound like somebody trying to break up a dogfight in a sorority house by banging drums and cymbals. Not that I want to say it isn't music.”
Source: Pale Gray for Guilt
“I switched the light out and drew the cover across myself, but I didn't sleep. Instead I lay on my side watching the sea, rising and falling in strange, hypnotic silence outside the thick, storm-proof panes. And I thought, there is a murderer on this boat. And no one knows but me.”
Source: The Woman in Cabin 10
“I switched to my new trainer Abel Sanchez to add versatility to my game. I'm coming to fight a serious fight. If I knock him out, it will just put another feather in my cap. I'm predicting a win, but I never look for the knockout because that's not my game plan. If my punches result in a knockout, so be it.”
“I switched up so that I could work 12-hour shifts at the firm on the weekends so I could have days free to paint. But it was almost like I had a secret life, because I wasn't showing any of my work. It was just in my house. In '89, I got a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. That's when I started to get into group shows. Suddenly I sort of "came out" as an artist.”
“I swivel my back to her, my eyes gluttonous and eager to get their fill of this intimate piece of what has come to be her puzzle.”
Source: Blood Sipper
“I swoon into a standing eight count. Goddamn, I actually feel my consciousness want to detach and hide like a turtle retreating into a hopelessly soft shell that won't save anyone.”
Source: No Sleep Till Wonderland
“I swooned quietly with my first bite. The dish sang with the flavors of Spain and was packed with chunks of browned rabbit, chorizo, and mussels. It was spectacular and camaraderie crushing. "Who made this? Who possibly had time for this?" I was talking through a mouthful of Arboro rice. "I made this once in culinary school and it took an entire day of my life that I'll never get back."
"Reza made it." Carlo used an empty mussel shell to pluck the meat out from another shell. "He said he cooked it over an open fire with orange and pine branches for kindling." Carlo grinned at me, a dribble of olive oil snaking its way down his chin. "According to Reza, it's the pine cones, though, that really do the trick. I'm sure you discovered that yourself when you made it on the day you'll never get back."
I nibbled on a cut of caramelized chorizo but didn't have the chance to reply.”
Source: Sugar
“I swooned the first time I saw Charlo. I actually did. I didn't faint or fall on the floor but my legs went rubbery on me and I giggled. I suddenly knew that I had lungs because they were empty and collapsing.”
Source: The Woman Who Walked Into Doors
“I swore allegiance to your victory
You watched me take the fall
Is it any wonder that I’m wounded?
Do you even care at all?
These stars and blazing fires burn
For what you once believed
But listen close
No one is singing
Long live the king”
Source: Shipwreck Girl
“I swore an oath before the altar of God to protect this woman. And if you're tellin' me that ye consider your own authority to be greater than that of the Almighty, then I must inform ye that I'm not of that opinion, myself.”
Source: The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 1, 2, 3, and 4: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn
“I swore as the knife I’d been using to dice our dinner bit into my finger. I dropped it on the floor, blood spattering the counter and cupboard doors a furious red. I watched, mesmerised, as the blood welled up and began to seep down my hand; I tried to catalogue the amount of pain I was in. Surprisingly little, I concluded, pushing at the edges of the wound to see how deep it went. Deep enough. I was starting to feel it now, but it didn’t hurt so much. I’d endured far worse.
If it came to it, I could do it. There was comfort in that knowledge.”
Source: Chasing Azrael
“i swore i could feel my lies slithering inside me like snakes, wrapping themselves around me and constricting. i felt they were squeezing the air from my lungs, tightening around my heart.”
Source: Halo
“I swore I’d kick him in the balls the next time I saw him.”
Source: Burning Him Insane: A Dark Student–Professor Enemies-to-Lovers Romance
“I swore I was going to exclusively collect assets and not liabilities for the rest of my life. I swore never to take gambles I couldn't back up, or that I couldn't afford to lose. And, I've stuck with that ever since.”
“I swore I wasn't going to rescue any more damsels in distress," Day muttered.
To his surprise, Barbara gave him a lopsided grin, banging on the side of the trailer to make it produce a door. "What makes you think she isn't rescuing you?" she asked, and stomped inside without a backward look.”
Source: Dangerously Charming
“I swore I would never get involved in my dad's life. But then he started blowing it. So I had to get involved, you know, but he's my dad, I can't send him to his room or ground him or go to his first grade play and scream, "Look at the fairy!" I was a wood nymph.”
“I swore I'd be in Chicago tomorrow, and made sure of that, taking a bus to Chicago, spending most of my money, and didn't give a damn, just as long as I'd be in Chicago tomorrow.”
Source: On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”
“I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.”
Source: Night
“I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”
Source: From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences
“I swore on my knees at the altar where you held me that I would kill you. It was an oath you made me make in my own blood. And now I have returned to give you the promised blade.”
Source: Sister Sable
“I swore on screen when I got the Olivier for 'Legally Blonde,' I was so surprised. Awards where the public vote mean a lot. I'm a big Twitter fan and like talking to people who support me.”
“I swore that I would never say I miss you more everyday but, some things are better left unsaid.”
“I swore that I would not suffer from the world's grief and the world's stupidity and cruelty and injustice and I made my heart as hard in endurance as the nether millstone and my mind as a polished surface of steel. I no longer suffered, but enjoyment had passed away from me.”
Source: Essays divine and human with thoughts and aphorisms
“I swore that I wouldn't be one of those parents who leaves a Bugaboo pram parked in the communal entry hall. Well guess what, ours is there right now.”
“I swore to fight an order of fanatical rogues and a demon for you, Sair. I’m sure I can face my mother, too.”
Source: Bastard's Honor
“I swore to marry either a true lady-the type who sits indoors all day- or a sterling imp.
"Please tell me you're joking."
Sebastian tipped his top hat. "Oh, how I dream of wedding an imp.”
Source: Dearest Josephine
“I swore to you that I wouldn't let that happen, and I know I've failed you, but I'm not going to just give up, Alex. I'll never give up on you.”
Source: Elixir
“I swore under oath with the government not to give the whereabouts of my location.”
“I swung around downtown and slowed down to miss a solitary drunk emerging blindly from the Tripoli bar and out upon the street in a sort of gangling somnambulistic trot, pursued on his way by the hollow roar of the juke box from the ghastly lit and empty bar. 'Sunstroke,' I murmured absently. 'Simply a crazed victim of the midnight sun.' As I parked my mud-spattered Coupe alongside the Miners' State Bank, across from my office over the dime store, I reflected that there were few more forlorn and lonely sounds than the midnight wail of a jukebox in a deserted small town, those raucous proclamations of joy and fun where, instead, there dwelt only fatigue and hangover and boredom. To me the wavering hoot of an owl sounded utterly gay by comparison.”
Source: Anatomy of a Murder
“I swung by your office and asked Rochelle if she knew where I could find you."
"Of course you did," Daisy muttered under her breath making a mental note to find out how Rochelle knew where she was when she wasn't at work.
"She's a very accommodating woman." He shrugged off his jacket.
Daisy recoiled in horror. "Did you sleep with her?"
"Of course not. I don't fish in the company pond." A slow, sensual smile spread across his face. "Not unless the fish bite.”
Source: The Dating Plan
“I swung from one place to the next, sometimes backward, sometimes forward, capitalizing on my own momentum, knowing that at some point my arms—or, more accurately, my quivering bank balance, accessed through foreign ATMs—would give out, and I’d fall to the ground.”
“I symbolized doping... My phone rarely rings. I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of riders who call me.”
“I sympathised with the bushes and envied the driftwood.”
Source: Off the Rails
“I sympathize afresh with the mighty Voltaire who, when badgered on his deathbed and urged to renounce the devil, murmured that this was no time to be making enemies.”
Source: Mortality
“I sympathize far more with heavier people than I ever will with thin. I'll never be thin. Let's be honest.”
“I sympathize the first, the direct and single-minded attack [Red Revolution]. I believe it to have been necessary and inevitable in Russia. It may someday be inevitable in this country [United States of America]. I am not seriously alarmed by the sufferings of the creditor class, the troubles which the church is bound to encounter, the restrictions on certain kinds of freedom which must result, nor even by the bloodshed of the transition period. A better economic order is worth a little bloodshed.”
“I sympathize with every kitchen porter.”
“I sympathize with people who want to ban guns, but I can't agree with them. We have to be careful in our zeal to abolish guns that we don't wind up with counter-productive legislation that will leave armed only the people most likely to do harm with them.”
“I sympathize with politicians who have to watch every syllable they utter for fear it will be misused by somebody with an agenda.”
“I sympathize with the inconvenience of time. It never happens when we want it to. I think love comes when we need it, though.”
Source: The Inconvenience of Time
“I sympathized with elderly people who lived inside flesh and bones that couldn’t keep time with their soaring spirits. I knew now what it meant to be in pain every single moment of the day and how it could change someone’s entire personality.”
Source: Knocked Down: A High-Risk Memoir
“I systematically break guys down. I get in the ring and they say I don't have any power but then they feel me and feel my strength.”
“I t'abraço amb l'angoixa vegetal
d'un bosc d'amor ofert a la destral.”
Source: Bruixa de dol
“I ta nema i nevidljiva gomila, koja raste oko njega kao gusta ustalasana trava, govori mu samim svojim prisustvom isto što i ženin šapat: da bol prolazi; da uvek biva bolje, da mora biti bolje.”
Source: Znakovi: sabrana djela Ive Andrića
“I tablighi, come molti altri elementi non necessariamente fondamentalisti del mondo islamico, hanno una più generica e più esistenziale aspirazione: quella semplicemente di condurre un'esistenza diversa dalla nostra, di vivere secondo altri principi, di stare fuori dai meccanismi internazionali che loro vedono dominati da leggi e valori di stampo esclusivamente occidentale.. [...] A torto o a ragione, molti percepiscono la globalizzazione come uno strumento della nostra «civiltà atea e materialistica» che, appunto attraverso l'espansione dei mercati, diventa sempre più ricca e più forte a scapito del loro mondo. [...] Da qui la reazione difensiva e il ricorrere all'Islam come a un rifugio. La religione diventa l'arma ideologica contro [...] l'occidentalizzazione. [...] A noi può parere strano, ma 'è oggi nel mondo un crescente numero di persone che non aspira ad essere come noi, che non insegue i nostri sogni, che non ha le nostre aspettative e i nostri desideri.”
Source: Lettere contro la guerra
“I tacchi di Bella risuonavano impertinenti sul corridoio di finto marmo. Dodici centimetri. Semplicemente un altro strumento per non sentirsi persa, e non solo fisicamente, in un mondo di gargantua. Temibili, paurosi gargantua.
Per Bella riuscire a fissare il prossimo negli occhi – quasi negli occhi in caso di superamento della barriera dei 180 centimetri – era una necessità e spesso ci riusciva solo grazie alle Jimmy Choo o alle Manolo, un fringe benefit che la sua posizione di responsabile della moda del Denver Tribune le assicurava. Gli stilisti, compresi Choo e Manolo, la omaggiavano delle loro ultime creazioni? Lei certo non le rifiutava.
Come ogni mattina alle nove si infilò nell’ascensore più per darsi una controllatina allo specchio che per risparmiarsi la rampa di scale che la separava dall’ultimo piano, quello della direzione.
Sì, era tutto a posto, camicetta di seta bianca e gonna nera, più le Jimmy Choo di vernice rossa da togliere il fiato. Capelli castani appena ondulati sciolti sulle spalle, perle alle orecchie e al collo, un po’ di mascara sulle ciglia a evidenziare i suoi occhi verdi, e labbra più rosse del diavolo, in perfetta nuance con le Jimmy Choo. Il solito travestimento, insomma, che l’avrebbe messa al sicuro da ogni tentativo dei suoi colleghi di irrompere nella sua vita.
Branco di animali.
E che la chiamassero pure Miss Algida o Ghiacciolo alla moda o, ancora, 32, sottintendendo Fahrenheit (ovvero il punto di congelamento dell’acqua), o Italian Job – lavoretto italiano – sottintendendo qualcosa di più volgare, la cosa non la toccava per nulla. Forse solo un pochino, ma se ne infischiava.
L’ascensore si fermò e le porte si aprirono portando sino a lei il vocio dei suoi colleghi, probabilmente intenti a bere caffè e a rimpinzarsi di ciambelle. Dio! Sembrava che non vivessero che per i carboidrati, quando lei…”
Source: E infine la Bestia incontrò Bella
“I tackle guys three times your size for a living. I can handle whatever you throw at me.”
Source: Playing by Her Rules
“I tagged a first-timer one night at fight club. That Saturday night, a young guy with an angel’s face came to his first fight club, and I tagged him for a fight. That’s the rule. If it’s your first night in fight club, you have to fight. I knew that so I tagged him because the insomnia was on again, and I was in a mood to destroy something beautiful.”
Source: Fight Club: A Novel
“I tagged your ass the other night," I said, "while you were sleeping- and you liked it."
"Really? I thought it was a dream."
"It was. A WET one.”
Source: Uninhibited From Lust To Love