I Quotes
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“I thought how artists, writers, and thinkers who are genuinely and strongly connected to their time, place, and peoples always sense disasters before they befall. They are not magicians with crystal balls. They simply use their other well-trained senses, beyond the five senses, to feel the upcoming earthquake, to sense the eruption of the upcoming volcanos, the approaching hurricanes. They signal what they sense in their works, while many people don’t take their warnings seriously.”
Source: Bullets in Envelopes: Iraqi Academics in Exile
“I thought, "How could I NOT cover the checks?" I didn't want him to ruin his credit.”
Source: GAMES COMPULSIVE GAMBLERS and WE PLAY Second Edition
“I thought how ironic it was that Jake's telescope would see stars a million light-years away, but not the town it was in.”
“I thought how lovely and how strange a river is. A river is a river, always there, and yet the water flowing through it is never the same water and is never still. It’s always changing and is always on the move. And over time the river itself changes too. It widens and deepens as it rubs and scours, gnaws and kneads, eats and bores its way through the land. Even the greatest rivers- the Nile and the Ganges, the Yangtze and he Mississippi, the Amazon and the great grey-green greasy Limpopo all set about with fever trees-must have been no more than trickles and flickering streams before they grew into mighty rivers.
Are people like that? I wondered. Am I like that? Always me, like the river itself, always flowing but always different, like the water flowing in the river, sometimes walking steadily along andante, sometimes surging over rapids furioso, sometimes meandering wit hardly any visible movement tranquilo, lento, ppp pianissimo, sometimes gurgling giacoso with pleasure, sometimes sparkling brillante in the sun, sometimes lacrimoso, sometimes appassionato, sometimes misterioso, sometimes pesante, sometimes legato, sometimes staccato, sometimes sospirando, sometimes vivace, and always, I hope, amoroso.
Do I change like a river, widening and deepening, eddying back on myself sometimes, bursting my banks sometimes when there’s too much water, too much life in me, and sometimes dried up from lack of rain? Will the I that is me grow and widen and deepen? Or will I stagnate and become an arid riverbed? Will I allow people to dam me up and confine me to wall so that I flow only where they want? Will I allow them to turn me into a canal to use for they own purposes? Or will I make sure I flow freely, coursing my way through the land and ploughing a valley of my own?”
Source: This Is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn
“I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.”
“I thought how lucky you might be to find not one but two extraordinary men to love - and what a fluke it was if they happened to love you back.”
Source: Still Me
“I thought how proud I am to be standing up beside my dad. Never did it occur to me that he would become the gist for cartoonists.”
“I thought how sadly beauty of inscape was unknown and buried away from simple people and yet how near at hand it was if they had eyes to see it and it could be called out everywhere again.”
Source: Poems and prose
“I thought how strange it had never occurred to me before that I was only purely happy until I was nine years old.”
Source: the bell jar
“I thought how tenuous the links were between mother and children between friends family things you think are eternal. Everything could be lost more easily than anyone could imagine.”
Source: White Oleander
“I thought how true it was that the world was a delightful place if it were not for the people, and how more than true it was that people were not worth troubling about, and that wise men should set their affections upon nothing smaller than cities, heavenly or otherwise, and countrysides which are always heavenly.”
Source: Stories
“I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.”
Source: A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas
“I thought how utterly we have forsaken the Earth, in the sense of excluding it from our thoughts. There are but few who consider its physical hugeness, its rough enormity. It is still a disparate monstrosity, full of solitudes, barrens, wilds. It still dwarfs, terrifies, crushes. The rivers still roar, the mountains still crash, the winds still shatter. Man is an affair of cities. His gardens, orchards and fields are mere scrapings. Somehow, however, he has managed to shut out the face of the giant from his windows. But the giant is there, nevertheless.”
“I thought how we might have to yell to be heard by Higher Power, but that's not saying it's not there. And that is faith for you. It's belief even when the gods don't deliver.”
“I thought how you can never tell just by looking at them what they were thinking or what was happening In their lives. Even when you got daft people or drunk people on buses, people that went on stupid and shouted rubbish or tried to tell you all about themselves, you could never really tell about them either... I knew if somebody looked at me, they'd know nothing about me, either.”
Source: Skellig
“I thought I am kissing pain and pain belongs to You as happiness never does. I love You in Your pain. I could almost taste metal and salt in the skin, and I thought, How good you are. You might have killed us with happiness, but You let us be with You in pain.”
Source: The End of the Affair
“I thought I better warn you that I am not one of those politically correct comedians, but it turns out that also I'm not really that racist, homophobic or woman hating either, so you might not notice”
“I thought: I cannot bear this world a moment longer.
-Then, child, make another.”
Source: Circe
“I thought I could capture the stories of the city on paper. I thought I could write about the horrors of the city. Horror stories you see. I tell you I didn't have to look far for material. Everywhere I looked, there were stories hidden there in the dark corners. . . . I wrote and still there were more. . . . No one would publish them. 'Too horrible,' they said. 'Sick mind,' they said. I thought I could write about the horrors of the city but the horror is too big and it goes on forever.”
“I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state but a process.”
“I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process.”
Source: A Grief Observed
“I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state, but a process. It needs not a map, but a history, and if I don't stop writing that history at some quite arbitrary point, there's no reason why I should ever stop.”
Source: A Grief Observed
“I thought I could do something different from any Conservative prime minister before me. But I couldn't.”
“I thought I could fit everything into tidy boxes and sort right from wrong. But now I see that sometimes a saint acts like a sinner. And sometimes a sinner acts like a saint.”
Source: The Bitter End Birding Society
“I thought I could get everyone's attention by coming up with something that's provocative.”
“I thought I could have leaped from earth to heaven at one spring when I first saw my sins drowned in the Redeemer's blood.”
Source: Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series
“I thought I could let you go
I thought that you could leave and know
The time we took would fade
But I’m colder than the bed where we lay
You let go if you like, I’ll hold on
Say no all you want, I’m not done
Baby, I promise you
Did you think I’d let you go?
That’s never happening and now you know
Take your time, I’ll wait
Regretting every last thing I said”
Source: Lick
“I thought I could make a difference, so I ran for office.”
“I thought I could make a narcissist repent, accept responsibility and understand the implications of her behavior, and that's how I wasted years of my life driving myself insane with endless explanations that were disregarded as much as any emotions behind them, because, for the narcissist, without empathy but driven by hate, everything that hurts the ego is an insult. And that's when I realized the narcissist was simply gaslighting me into oblivion.”
Source: Codex Illuminatus: Quotes & Sayings of Dan Desmarques
“I thought I could make a sarcastic joke about it. But it's based on my own struggle with how much to give, how much it's really helping or not, and how foolish or not I feel. Giving sometimes backfires.”
“I thought I could make out Jamie's Highland screech, but that was likely imagination; they all sounded equally demented.”
Source: An Echo in the Bone: A Novel
“I thought I could never be the actor Dad was, so I avoided it for a while.”
“I thought I could never write a proper book; I'd never done it before. But I thought I could write a sequence. Then I had a chapter. The next thing I knew I was turning acting down.”
“I thought I could not breathe in that fine air That pure severity of perfect light I yearned for warmth and colour which I found In Lancelot.”
“I thought I could organise freedom/How Scandinavian of me.”
“I thought I could outrun my ignorance, but life was too fast for me. I find it necessary to re-engage and re-assess the things I thought I knew. Humility is exhausting.”
“I thought I could rely on the plot in the novel and fill in the colour between the lines, but I made a mistake with that assumption. It was really, really hard because you pull a few things apart and then you realise how everything relies on everything else and it can all fall apart.”
“I thought I could salvage something that was beyond my reach, that was nonexistent. His heart had set voyage to the darkest crevice the universe has ever known.”
“I thought I could start over, you see. But now I know you can never start over. Not really. You think you have control, but you are like a fly in somebody else's web. Sometimes I think that's why I like accounting. All day, you are only dealing with numbers. You add them, multiply them, and if you are careful, you will always have a solution. There's a sequence there. An order. With numbers, you can have control.”
Source: Dreams From My Father
“I thought I could write something better, something that rang true. And I thought that I was the best person to do it. I was just crazy enough. Because if you're going to write a book about undocumented immigrants in America, the story, the full story, you have to be a little bit crazy. And you certainly can't be enamored by America, not still. That disqualifies you.”
Source: The Undocumented Americans
“I thought I could, and thought I would, swim a lot quicker - much quicker.”
“I thought I couldn't afford to take her out and smoke as well. So I gave up cigarettes. Then I took her out and one day I looked at her and thought: 'Oh well,' and I went back to smoking again, and that was better.”
“I thought I'd already gone down about as deep as a soul could go--down into that black abyss called hell--but I was wrong. There's more to go.”
Source: Tragic Beauty
“I thought I'd be seeing you soon. Harry Potter." It wasn't a question. "You have your mother's eyes. It seems only yesterday she was in here herself, buying her first wand. Ten and a quarter inches long, swishy, made of willow. Nice wand for charm work."
Mr. Ollivander moved closer to Harry. Harry wished he would blink. Those silvery eyes were a bit creepy.
"Your father, on the other hand, favored a mahogany wand. Eleven inches. Pliable. A little more power and excellent for transfiguration. Well, I say your father favored it- it's really the wand that chooses the wizard, of course.”
Source: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
“I thought I'd find you here. Well, either here or the stairs to the city.'
Cassian's voice sounded behind her, and Nesta whirled.
He went on alert, but Nesta glanced over a shoulder toward the darkness. Nothing.
It was gone. Or she'd imagined it.
'It's nothing,' she said as she peered over the railing. 'Just shadows.'
Cassian blew out a breath, leaning against the railing. 'Can't sleep?'
'I keep thinking about Tamlin.'
'You did well with him. And you did well against Eris, too. I don't think he'll forget that anytime soon.'
'He's a snake.'
'Glad we agree on something.'
Nesta huffed a laugh. 'I didn't appreciate him speaking to you like that.'
'It's how a lot of people speak to me.'
'That doesn't make it right.' She had spoken to him like that. She had said far worse things to Cassian than Eris had. Her throat tightened.
But she said, 'I can't believe Feyre ever loved Tamlin.'
'Tamlin never deserved her,' Cassian rested a hand on her back.
'No,' Nesta again peered into the darkness below. 'He didn't.”
Source: A Court of Silver Flames
“I thought I'd gone to the limits,' Frank explains. 'I hadn't. The Cenobites gave me an experience beyond limits. Pain and pleasure, indivisible....Some things have to be endured. Take it from me. And that's what makes the pleasures so sweet.”
Source: The Hellbound Heart
“I thought I'd known torment until it wrapped around her finger.
No, torment is tangible, and it gleams atop her tanned skin.
I stare, unblinking, at the symbol my brother slid onto her finger. It is binding. It is infinite. It is my undoing.
A laugh threatens to slip past my numb lips. It's not as though she hadn't promised to be my ruin, hadn't already become my demise. She is the single most destructive thing I have ever desired, and yet, it is the diamond on her finger that will destroy me.
I watch Paedyn through the gaps of a gawking crowd, just as I will for the rest of my life. I'll be forced to spend my days at her service but never at her side. In her shadow but never truly seen. In love with a girl I'd have bowed to long before she became my queen.”
Source: Fearless
“I thought I'd start to get my sanity back as the years went on, but my love for him only gets worse, more toxic and more selfish”
Source: Dirty Love
“I thought I'd witnessed the darkest realms of human kind, but there I was, surprised again by the cruelty some people were capable of.”
Source: V Games: Fresh From the Grave
“I thought I did play one villain, Hitler, [who is] like Lecter in some ways, but he's a mythical figure, anyway.”