I Quotes
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“I am too much of a sceptic to deny the possibility of anything...”
“I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything.”
Source: Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley
“I am too much of a team member to be separated from my team.”
“I am too nervous to eat pie.”
“I am too not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.”
“I am too old a hand to be put off pleasure by even the certain prospect of not enjoying it.”
Source: The Green Man
“I am too old and stiff-necked to change my memories now.”
Source: Oysterville: Roads to Grandpa's Village
“I am too old for adventure," the Judge said, putting his clippers away, "but I hope I am not too old to do what I feel is right.”
Source: The Stand
“I am too old for an eyebrow piercing but too young for an eyebrow lift.”
“I am too old to fawn upon a nurse,
Too far in years to be a pupil now.”
Source: The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Eight Volumes
“I am too old to have ever been very worried about what "genre" any given book of mine might be. I read everything. I am easily amused.”
“I am too old to know how to put a naked photograph of myself on the Internet.”
“I am too old to think that numbers are creating change”
“I am too old to think.”
“I am too perfect for Evening," Adam volunteers. "But that's all right." He smiles shyly at Aislin. "I am not too perfect for Aislin.”
Source: Eve & Adam
“I am too preoccupied with myself. I neither trust myself nor my feelings. I dislike my emotions as all being suspect, delusions or springing from weakness.”
“I am too pure for you or anyone.
Your body
Hurts me as the world hurts God.”
“I am too pure for you or anyone.”
Source: Poemas
“I am too rich already, for my eyes mint gold.
- Coloured Money”
Source: Collected Poems
“I am too rich already, for my eyes
Mint gold, while my heart cries.”
“I am too ruined for the world.” You said once, and it broke my heart, because you were the purest person I had ever known.
“Or maybe the world is too ruined for you,” I countered.
You closed your eyes, absorbing my words. I saw the impact they had on you, as you whispered, hugging yourself, with a strange mix of pain and relief etched on your face, “I am not ruined.” Something had transformed in you when you finally opened your eyes and said, “I think I am falling in love.”
Source: As Night Falls
“I am too selfish to be a mother, I can barely tolerate being his lover at this point. I am selfish and I make no apology for that. ~Shannon~”
Source: Monochrome My Madness
“I am too sick to be out of bed, too crazy to sleep, and am surrounded by horrors.”
Source: Greeley on Lincoln: With Mr. Greeley's Letters to Charles A. Dana and a Lady Friend; to which are Added Reminiscences of Horace Greeley
“I am too sick to lay down the sidewalks frighten me the whole damned city frightens me, what I will become what I have become frightens me.”
Source: The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993
“I am too sick to work and haven't money enough to last 2 months and pay income tax. I want to keep going but do not see quite how, and there is no alternative - rather than justify my mother's 25-year dread of my "coming back on her, sick," I must kill myself. If she has to pay funeral costs, at least she will cut them to the bone and I will not be here to endure her martyrdom and prolong it by living.”
“I am too slow to be a good climber, so I film instead.”
“I am too strong to break so easily, and I become better, sharper, every time I touch him.”
“I am too tall [to dance]. Tall people don’t dance. It’s just not right.”
“I am too tired, even to be happy.”
“I am too tired, I must try to rest and sleep, otherwise I am lost in every respect. What an effort to keep alive! Erecting a monument does not require an expenditure of so much strength.”
Source: The Diaries of Franz Kafka: 1914-1923. Tr. by Martin Greenberg, with the co-operation of Hannah Arendt
“I am too weak to hurt anyone else, but I am very strong to kill bluntly own desires.”
“I am too weary to listen, too angry to hear.”
“I am too well acquainted with women to give advice to any of them when they are bound for the Port of Matrimony, because I never shall advise -any one- to marry the man she does not like and because I know it is to no purpose to advise them to refrain from the man they do.' -- GEORGE WASHINGTON, Letter to Lund Washington, August 13 1783.”
Source: Washington's End: The Final Years and Forgotten Struggle
“I am too young and I've loved you too much.”
Source: The Brothers Karamazov
“I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote.”
Source: Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas.”
Source: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
“I am torn and I am mended - I want everything and need nothing - I love you and am content without you.
Even so, come quickly!”
Source: The Essex Serpent
“I am torn between the beauty of the natural world, which you see all around us, and the idea that some dumb tornado could blow a telephone pole onto my sweet Camaro.”
“I am torn between the freedom of this adventure and the benefits of civilization despite its constraints.”
Source: The Secret Mandarin
“I am torn by duty and desire.”
Source: Mourning Grey: Part Two
“I am torn in two
but I will conquer myself.”
Source: The Awful Rowing Toward God
“I am torn in two’ […]
‘Poor Sam! It might feel like that, I’m afraid,’ said Frodo. ‘But you will be healed. You were meant to be solid and whole, and you will be.’
[...]
‘Do not be too sad, Sam. You cannot be always torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do.”
Source: The Return of the King
“I am tortured too. I am tortured by belly fat and magazine covers about how to please everyone but myself. I am tortured by sheep who click on anything that will guarantee a ten-pound loss in one week. Sheep who will get on their knees if it means someone will like them more. I am tortured by my inability to want to hang out with desperate sheep. I am tortured by goddamned yearbooks full of bullshit. I met you when. I'll miss the times. I'll keep in touch. Best friends forever. Is this okay? Are you all right? Are you tortured too?”
“I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden.”
“I am tossed about and taken without
Warning, like an apple dropped into a
Vast river, flowing, crashing, out to Sea
Where birds, desperate for sustenance
Eat what they find”
Source: Give Me a Fragment: Glimpses into Motherhood, Depression, and Hope
“I am totally against plastic surgery. A lot of people think I have breast implants because I have the biggest boobs in the business.”
“I am totally against plastic surgery. A lot of people think I have breast implants because I have the biggest boobs in the business. But I was a 34C when I was 17...They stay up when I wear a push-up bra. But if people could see me when I come home and take off my bra, how could they think these are fake?”
“I am totally against the idea that a Muslim woman should not have the same opportunities as a Muslim man to learn, to open up, to work, help shape the future. To close Islam down to a sexist approach is totally intolerable and ridiculous. It's not Islam.”
“I am totally against the war but violence is part of mankind and it's going to happen, but as musicians I think we've got to step up and say 'come on'.”
“I am totally amazed at the spread of interest in meditation. When I first came back from studying in India in 1974, I would be asked in social situations what I did. When I replied, "I teach meditation" they would frequently look at me as though to say "That is weird," and sort of sidle away.”