I Quotes
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“I am somewhat uncertain whether there is a definite factual question as to whether natural language handles truth-value gaps. Nor am I even quite sure that there is a definite question of fact as to whether natural language should be evaluated by the minimal fixed point or another, given the choice of a scheme for handling gaps. We are not at the moment searching for the correct scheme.”
“I am sonnets full of stardust within the meter of my skin.”
“I am soooo excited, I am over-excited. I'm hysterical, I may have to slap my own face in a minute at this rate.”
“I am sore wounded but not slain
I will lay me down and bleed a while
And then rise up to fight again”
“I am sorie God made me so comely.”
Source: Roister Doister: Written, Probably Also Represented, Before 1553
“I am sorry " I murmured. "I know. I ought not to have threatened to beat you " he returned. He pressed a kiss to my hair. "I just cannot bear to be kept out of your life " I said into the dark. He gave a sigh. "Julia you daft woman. When you will you understand You are my life.”
“I am sorry about the person who is not truly excited about his job. He will not only never truly be happy there, but he won't achieve anything great.”
“I am sorry, but I can't do this. As much as I loved you, as much as I still love you, I can't put you above me again.”
Source: Lovember: A Collection of Short Love Stories
“I am sorry, but I will not lie to you: I could not have let you fall. You may value their lives above your own; I cannot do so, for to me you are worth far more than all of them.”
Source: His Majesty's Dragon
“I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure.”
Source: The Papers of Woodrow Wilson: 1911-1912
“I am sorry for people who can't write letters. But I suspect also that you and I ... love to write them because it's kind of like working without really doing it.”
“I am sorry for those that disagree with me because I know that they are wrong.”
“I am sorry for those who have never had the experience of seeing the victory of a national liberation movement, and I feel cold contempt for those who jeer at it.”
Source: Hitch 22: A Memoir
“I am sorry for you tonight, Mr. President. You are facing one of the greatest decisions of your career. Upon what you decide depends on whether or not you are going to get your canal. If you fall back upon the old methods of sanitation you will fail, just as the French failed. If you back up Dr. Gorgas and his ideas, and you let him make his campaign against mosquitoes, then you get your canal. I can only give you my advice; you must decide for yourself. There is only one way of controlling yellow fever and malaria, and that is the eradication of the mosquitoes. But it is your canal; you must do the choosing and you must choose tonight whether you are going to build that canal.”
Source: Doctor William Crawford Gorgas Of Alabama And The Panama Canal
“I am sorry for your girl, Ned. Truly. About the wolf, I mean. My son was lying, I’d stake my soul on it. My son … you love your children, don’t you?”
“With all my heart,” Ned said.
“Let me tell you a secret, Ned. More than once, I have dreamed of giving up the crown. Take ship for the Free Cities with my horse and my hammer, spend my time warring and whoring, that’s what I was made for. The sellsword king, how the singers would love me. You know what stops me? The thought of Joffrey on the throne, with Cersei standing behind him whispering in his ear. My son. How could I have made a son like that, Ned?”
“He’s only a boy,” Ned said awkwardly. He had small liking for Prince Joffrey, but he could hear the pain in Robert’s voice. “Have you forgotten how wild you were at his age?”
“It would not trouble me if the boy was wild, Ned. You don’t know him as I do.” He sighed and shook his head. “Ah, perhaps you are right. Jon despaired of me often enough, yet I grew into a good king.” Robert looked at Ned and scowled at his silence. “You might speak up and agree now, you know.”
“Your Grace …” Ned began, carefully.
Robert slapped Ned on the back. “Ah, say that I’m a better king than Aerys and be done with it. You never could lie for love nor honor, Ned Stark. I’m still young, and now that you’re here with me, things will be different. We’ll make this a reign to sing of, and damn the Lannisters to seven hells.”
Source: A Game of Thrones
“I am sorry. Genuinely uttered, that three-word statement, has saved many relationships that were on the the brink of collapse and has strengthened many more.”
“I am sorry he hurt you," Pembroke said. "I would kill him, too, if he still lived.”
Source: Love on a Midsummer Night
“I am sorry, I am not a writer. I simply put my thoughts on paper. Those helped by them call them a book and me a writer. Those who are not helped call it rubbish and me a fool. Both have reason.”
Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom
“I am sorry, I can never give you a family... I so badly wanted to have a family, Pratap." She sobbed. Pratap held her cold hands in his reassurings, "But Ajabde... we are already a family, You and I. A complete one.”
Source: The Royal Wedding Planner
“I am sorry; I cannot help you. I am only a cookie.”
“I am sorry I couldn't complete my term as leader. It is necessary for my staff to resign ... to regain the people's trust.”
“I am sorry I didn’t tell you the truth before. I was hoping I wouldn’t have to. You kept asking about Romeo and what he was really like. I was hoping that”—he smiled wistfully—“you would recognize me.”
Source: Juliet: A Novel
“I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society.”
“I am sorry—I know that what you shared was not like other gods and humans.’
‘It was not. But how would you know that it was not, with everything that you have seen? I want to tell you how it is different, so that you understand.’
Caught up in the joy, my fears and my doubts were a current tugging at me from underneath, but I pushed them down. For now at least, I would not think of them. I would let him talk and hope, this time, that his words would convince me.”
Source: Ariadne
“I am sorry I ran from you. I am still running, running from that knowledge, that eye, that love from which there is no refuge. For you meant only love, and love, and I felt only fear, and pain. So once in Israel love came to us incarnate, stood in the doorway between two worlds, and we were all afraid.”
Source: Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
“I am sorry," I whispered to Reyes.
He wrapped his long fingers around my neck and buried his face in my hair. He smelled like a lightening storm. His emotions electricity. His body the desert after a rain. Fresh. Starkly beautiful. Dangerous.
"Are you okay?" he asked, his breath on my neck.
"I am now.”
Source: The Curse of Tenth Grave
“I am sorry if I am upsetting all you Pharisees but I am telling you the truth. Marriage is an institution established under the curse, so man can live in some measure of order until God raises him up from under this curse.”
Source: The Mind Of The Spirit
“I am sorry if I took an inappropriate way that might have hurt your feelings; I am earnestly careful because of my bitter experience; people have broken my trust severely. I saw you also came to my social media pages; it's no problem; you seem like a good soul, but I can't help myself to trust strangers; I don't know them, and they disguise themselves to play a dubious role. I don't want to be the victim again. Somehow you also pretended to be someone like beloved; it showed emotional victimization. I adore honest, truthful, and uncomplicated characters. I hope, and I am sure, as a mature person, you will realize it. I am not interested in anyone.”
“I am sorry, Lharkin told them, but I cannot: I no longer have the power of the Light. To bring Spyrel back, Cila, would mean to lose my own life, as that would be the price a Night Empian would now pay.”
Source: Mourning Grey: Part Three The Guardians Of The Temple Saga
“I am sorry my decisions do not meet with your approval, but nevertheless, they are mine, and the consequences are also mine.”
Source: The Morganville Vampires:
“I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay the penalty of suffering.”
Source: The letters of Oscar Wilde
“I am sorry, Persephone," he whispered, "for daring to love you, for letting my darkness touch your light.”
Source: Hades And Persephone: Curse Of The Golden Arrow
“I am sorry," said Monty. "I cannot respond to you in any way. I am just not sufficiently interested in anything you have to say.”
Source: The Sacred and Profane Love Machine
“I am sorry that I am alive to feel this misery and horror.”
Source: Frankenstein 1818
“I am sorry that I was never there for you, you know? Weak men can become fathers too.”
Source: The Lizard Laughed
“I am sorry that our friendship, or whatever name one may give to the obsessive relationship which has bound us together for so many years, should end in this way. This is not the place to utter its elegy.”
Source: The Black Prince
“I am sorry that so often the biggest obstacle to God has been Christians. Christians who have had so much to say with our mouths and so little to show with our lives. I am sorry that so often we have forgotten the Christ of our Christianity.”
“I am sorry that the distinguished leader of the Republican Party in the House states that he is not versed in botany and publicly admits that he does not know anything of these terms or what it is all about; but, Mr. Chairman, it is indeed a sad day for the people of this country when we must close the doors of the laboratories doing research work for the people of the United States.”
“I am sorry that they are finding themselves in this situation based on assurances they got from me.”
“I am sorry the infernal Divinities, who visit mankind with diseases, and are therefore at perpetual war with Doctors, should have prevented my seeing all you great Men at Soho to-day-Lord! what inventions, what wit, what rhetoric, metaphysical, mechanical and pyrotecnical, will be on the wing, bandy'd like a shuttlecock from one to another of your troop of philosophers! while poor I, I by myself I, imprizon'd in a post chaise, am joggled, and jostled, and bump'd, and bruised along the King's high road, to make war upon a pox or a fever!”
“I am sorry the only outlet for her troubled mind was in clumsy foreplay with an inadequate partner." He threw the rest of her sandwich at the swinging door as she passed through it.”
Source: Blood Ties Bundle: Blood Ties Book One: The Turning\Blood Ties Book Two: Possession\Blood Ties Book Three: Ashes to Ashes\Blood Ties Book Four: All Souls' Night
“I am sorry they began their deliberations by so abominable a precedent as that of tying up the tongues of their members. Nothing can justify this example but the innocence of their intentions and ignorance of the value of public discussions. I have no doubt that all their other measures will be good and wise. It is really an assembly of demigods.”
Source: Memoirs, 2: Correspondence and Private Papers
“I am sorry to be leaving the BBC. I have enjoyed a fascinating seven years at the corporation and am particularly proud to have played a small part in the development of the BBC's Global News services, BBC World Service and BBC World.”
“I am sorry to be so blunt, but I do not see much ambiguity here. [Barack] Obama was late to affirm the Egyptian revolution as a democratic movement, and even then he was eager to have installed those military leaders who were known for their practices of torture. And now he is quick to make allies with the Muslim Brotherhood for tactical reasons as well (though earlier that same administration stoked Islamophobic fear about that very political party).”
“I am sorry to have made such a long speech, but I did not have time to write a shorter one.”
“I am sorry to have to inform you that I do not believe in the Bible as a divine revelation, & therefore not in Jesus Christ as the Son of God.”
“I am sorry to have to introduce the subject of Christmas. It is an indecent subject; a cruel, gluttonous subject; a drunken, disorderly subject; a wasteful, disastrous subject; a wicked, cadging, lying, filthy, blasphemous and demoralizing subject. Christmas is forced on a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press: on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred; and anyone who looked back to it would be turned into a pillar of greasy sausages.”
“I am sorry to say that it is a common practice with romancers to announce their hero as a man of extraordinary genius, and to leave his works entirely to the reader's imagination; so that at the end of the book you whisper to yourself ruefully that but for the author's solemn preliminary assurance you should hardly have given the gentleman credit for ordinary good sense.”
Source: Man and Superman
“I am sorry to say that Manhattan is officially lost to us. We fear the connecting boroughs may be next. Pray for us.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“I am sorry to say that sometimes matters of very small importance waste a good deal of precious time, by the long and repeated speeches and chicanery of gentlemen who will not wholly throw off the lawyer even in Congress.”