I Quotes
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“I think you need to have a healthy sense of doubt because I think doubt leads to inquiry.”
“I think you need to have a tax system that basically is flat, fair and simple. And - that you can put on a post card. I mean, even Timothy Geithner could do this one and get it on time.”
“I think you need to have lived more to truly know a man's heart. You need to have made more transactions in life to know the worth of the coin you spend so freely”
“I think you need to have people around you who can remind you that, actually, what you just said makes no sense. Fortunately, I have my wife to do that continually.”
“I think you need to have people around you whose standard is high and who don't accept anything less.”
“I think you need to have the guts to not use comedy. Often, the people that work in comedy use a joke to avoid contemplation.”
“I think you need to know your clients.”
“I think you need to make responsibility something that's not just a word.”
“I think you need to, as an architect, understand the essence of a place and create a building that feels like it resonates with the culture of a place. So my buildings in India or in Kansas City or in Arkansas or in Singapore, they come out different because the places are so different.”
“I think you never forget your childhood, whether it was happy or unhappy.”
“I think you never stop learning.”
“I think you never want to have to go into the scene having to improvise; you want to make sure its working on the page. But I do like to have the ability to try stuff just in the moment, to give it some sort of spontaneity.”
“I think you never want to limit yourself to one style of anything. Why put those limitations on yourself?”
“I think you offend people who never wanted to see you make it to begin with.”
Source: Scarlosophy: Thinking Out Loud
“I think you often have that sense when you write--that if you can spot something in yourself and set it down on paper, you're free of it. And you're not, of course; you've just managed to set it down on paper, that's all.”
“I think you often learn from failure. Success just teaches you how great you were, but in fact it's knowing what will fail that will help you to make the right choices.”
“I think you often say more by saying less. And interestingly enough, I mean, Jesus really set the standard. I mean, he could say more with fewer words than anybody. Most of the parables were less than 250 words. And, boy, did he have some one-liners just packed with truth.”
“I think you only hold U.S. Opens on great courses.”
“I think you only learn what kind of personality you have by committing to things.”
“I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.”
“I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.”
“I think you only watch stuff you've done once because I don't think it's that beneficial to you. I think it's important to sometimes be like, 'What's that thing I'm doing with my face? I didn't think I was doing that.'”
“I think you ought to be open-minded as to where life takes you.”
“I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed.”
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“I think you ought to let me take poor Tessa into town to get some new clothes. Otherwise, the first time she takes a deep breath, that dress will fall right off her." Will looked interested. "I think she should try that out now and see what happens.”
Source: Clockwork Angel
“I think you ought to write, in bed, and make use of your unhappiness. I do it. Many do. One should cook and eat one's misery. Chain it like a dog. Harness like Niagara Falls to generate light and supply voltage for electric chairs.”
“I think you overestimate the maturity of adults, he wrote me in his final letter...”
Source: The Argonauts
“I think you owe me something for deceiving me so exquisitely.”
Source: Closer
“I think you pay people based on their work and not based on gender. It's that simple.”
“I think you pretend to be cold so no one gets close."
"You're close now," he said against her lips.
"I am." Her breath hitched as her gaze drifted down his chest. "And I like what I feel.”
Source: Gone with the Wolf
“I think you put art out into the world, and sometimes it's divisive, sometimes it's embraced. Sometimes people cry, laugh or have complicated reactions.”
“I think you're a raging asshole.
Ruger laughed.
"Yeah, well I think you're a bitch, but my cock likes you, so we'll figure something out.”
Source: Reaper's Legacy
“I think you’re being melodramatic.”
“Aren’t you like the pot calling the kettle black or something?” I asked.
“Pardon me, oh great one. I forgot my place as a mere footnote in the history of Sitia.”
Talk about being melodramatic.
“Is he—”
I cut Devlen off. “Annoying? Yes, all the time.”
He studied Leif. “You are more...subdued at our house.”
“That’s ’cause I’m too busy keeping your daughter out of trouble.”
“I take it Reema has Leif wrapped around her little finger?” I asked Devlen.
“Hey,” Leif said.
“Yes. He needs a child of his own to learn how to not give in to her every demand.”
I agreed. “That would certainly mature him. Unless it backfires and Leif regresses. Then poor Mara would have two children to deal with.”
“I’m standing right here, ya know.”
Source: Shadow Study
“I think you're confused most of the times. You just go with the flow till all your choices disappear and you're left with just one path to follow. You postpone decision making. Maybe because most of the times you're scared of facing your thoughts or the reality.”
Source: Lost Love Late Love
“I think you’re confusing the opposite of love with hurt.” “No,” I disagreed. “I know the opposite of love is hate.” “No,” he replied with a headshake. “The opposite of love is indifference. The feeling of emptiness. That’s what the opposite of love is. Love allows you space to feel everything—joy, bliss, sorrow, and pain. Grief is love, Avery. Love and grief go hand in hand.” “Why is that?” “Because grief is the realization that you could care for another so deeply. That your heart could shatter a million ways, all due to how much you adored another. Being able to feel so deeply is a gift, baby girl. It’s the indifference, the inability to feel, that is the curse.” “It’s scary to feel grief…” “It’s even scarier to feel nothing.”
Source: The Problem with Players
“I think you're fairly strong," said Magnus. "And you have quite a lot of self-control. Look how you sternly repress all the hero worship you are longing to show me that you feel."
"It is sometimes an exercise of real self-control not to laugh in your face," Raphael said gravely. "That much is true.”
Source: Saving Raphael Santiago
“I think you're going to like these," she said, placing the stack on the table. "The whole class spent Monday and Tuesday painting them up."
Raymond and Sean lifted up the top poster and stared.
ARSE PRESENTS
SUPER HALLOWEEN PARTY
FOOD, DRINKS, GREAT MUSIC
HALLOWEEN TRAMPOLINE COSTUME CONTEST
FOR THE MYSTERY PRIZE
DON'T MISS IT!
She smiled proudly. "What do you think?"
"Nice," said Sean, wondering why Raymond had suddenly gone so silent and so pale.
Finally Raymond found his voice. "But Ashly, why does it say" —he pointed to the top line— "that?"
"That? That's us. Our initials—Ashly, Raymond, Sean, and Eckerman—I couldn't remember his first name."
"I get it," said Sean.
Raymond was positively white. "The other kids who worked on them—they didn't—say anything about the posters? The wording maybe?"
"The whole class really liked them," said Ashley. "I think everyone's favorite part was the initials thing. They thought it was clever."
Raymond looked up at the ceiling. "Oh, it was.”
Source: A Semester in the Life of a Garbage Bag
“i think you’re made of flowers how you bloom when there’s light on your skin”
“i think you're made
of flowers how you bloom
when there's light on your skin.
you feel all that fire in your soul
and it's. so. beautiful.
but keep letting the sweetness in.
let yourself feel the glow.
be gentle with your raging heart
and softer with your chaos.
you are a wild thing,
but you are such a tender thing…
so maybe let even a little more of
that gentle in with how you grow.
dig out from the dark what you need to
and burn down what you have to
but then let yourself light up.
let in a little more sweetness
and a little more glow…
and let yourself feel all the ways
you're made of flowers.”
“I think you’re magicians because you’re unhappy. A magician is strong because he feels pain. He feels the difference between what the world is and what he would make of it. Or what did you think that stuff in your chest was? A magician is strong because he hurts more than others. His wound is his strength. Most people carry that pain around inside them their whole lives, until they kill the pain by other means, or until it kills them. But you, my friends, you found another way: a way to use the pain. To burn it as fuel, for light and warmth. You have learned to break the world that has tried to break you.”
Source: The Magicians
“I think you’re more an archivist than a librarian,” he said.
He told me that archivists and librarians were opposite personas. True librarians are unsentimental. They’re pragmatic, concerned with the newest, cleanest, most popular books. Archivists, on the other hand, are only peripherally interested in what other people like, and much prefer the rare to the useful.
”They like everything,” he said, “gum wrappers as much as books.” He said this with a hint of disdain.
”Librarians like throwing away garbage to make space, but archivists,” he said, “they’re too crazy to throw anything out.”
”You’re right,” I said. ”I’m more of an archivist.”
”And I’m more of a librarian,” he said.
”Can we still be friends?”
Source: Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian
“I think you’re my hero,' she said. Only half-kidding.
He stared at her, the picture of incredulity. 'Most people,' he said, 'think I am a very bad man.'
She studied his eyes to try to find out if that bothered him. He didn’t seem bothered by them. He seemed discomfited by her. 'Well,' she said at last, 'maybe you’re a very good dragon.”
Source: Dragon Bound
“I think you're nice to me and that scares the fuck out of me. Because when a guy's a jerk or an asshole, it's easier because you know where you stand.”
“I think you're obsessed with me, Sadie Wen.”
Source: I Hope This Doesn't Find You
“I think you're something wonderful.”
Source: Spencer Cohen, Book One
“I think you’re supposed to mix it slowly, Casper.”
I laughed and icing sugar caught in my throat.”
Source: Christmas Wishes
“I think you're talking nonsense," said Cornelia, flushing. "I attend lectures every winter in Greek Art and the Renaissance, and I went to some on famous Women of History."
Mr. Ferguson groaned in agony: "Greek Art; Renaissance! Famous Women of History! It makes me quite sick to hear you. It's the future that matters, woman, not the past.”
Source: Death on the Nile
“I think you´re the love of my life, and you think I´m the traitor”
Source: The Horcrux Hunt
“I think You’re The type of Woman That enjoys having Power over Men.” “You liked playing Brother against Brother.” “I think You were a Selfish Woman.” “And when You couldn’t control The situation anymore.” “And when Your plan to stab Him didn’t work.” You figured You’d get Him over Here and try with a Hammer.” “Am I right Diane?” “Come on Diane.” “Kiss and tell.”
Source: A Sister's Curse
“I think you're turning into a tree," said Reven. "Forsooth, you see what the trees see. You'll be spouting leaves next.”
Source: Jinx: The Wizard's Apprentice