I Quotes
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“I thought of you and how you love this beauty, And walking up the long beach all alone I heard the waves breaking in measured thunder As you and I once heard their monotone. Around me were the echoing dunes, beyond me The cold and sparkling silver of the sea -- We two will pass through death and ages lengthen Before you hear that sound again with me.”
Source: Flame and Shadow
“I thought of you,” he said again, “and it was as if you were there, with me. I saw your face. Your hair …” He wound a finger through a dangling curl beside her face. She could feel the warmth from his hand against her cheek. “And I was no longer afraid. I knew I would be able to come home, because of you. That you would lead me back. You are my constant star, Daisy.”
Source: Chain of Iron
“I thought of you with your hair silver as snow all through that cold, slow journey from Sirle. I felt you troubled deep within me, and there was no other place in the world I would rather have been than in the cold night riding to you. When you opened your gates to me, I was home.”
Source: The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
“I thought once how Theocritus had sung
Of the sweet years, the dear and wished-for years,
Who each one in a gracious hand appears
To bear a gift for mortals, old or young;
And, as I mused it in his antique tongue,
I saw, in gradual vision through my tears,
The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years,
Those of my own life, who by turns had flung
A shadow across me. Straightaway I was 'ware,
So weeping, how a mystic Shape did move
Behind me, and drew me backward by the hair;
And a voice said in mastery, while I strove,--
Guess now who holds thee?--Death, I said, But, there,
The silver answer rang,--Not Death, but Love.”
Source: Sonnets from the Portuguese
“I thought one only had to speak Latin through one's nose and bite off the end.”
Source: Delphi Complete Novels of Charlotte Mary Yonge (Illustrated)
“I thought one way to try to hold on to the power was to write the script myself. That way, I could say to filmmakers, "I'm not asking you to hire me unseen. I'm just saying, 'Here's my script. Can we work together?'" So that worked out well.”
“I thought originally when I was in school and I wanted to be a poet, I knew that poets seemed to be miserable.”
“I thought Out of Action was better as a catalogue than the honeycomb because the honeycomb was like walking into one compartment and then another compartment.”
“I thought, out of respect to her, she should have been captain. We all saw her as our leader.”
Source: The Captain Class: The Hidden Force that Creates the World's Greatest Teams
“I thought packing was the first read movement toward the incredible journey God has planned. Who knew it would be the beginning, middle, and final leap off the cliff of disappointment?”
Source: Love and the Silver Lining
“I thought Pan's Labyrinth was one of the greatest films I've ever seen, just pure artistry. Guillermo Del Toro is just really something, this guy. And he's a real mensch: down-to-earth, funny, huggy, and terrific.”
“I thought people cared about music in a deep way, so I was writing to that spirit in people and in myself. It was me, thinking I knew what was up. Youth, who else can change the world?”
“I thought people loved it when I played my guitar. Last time I performed Toby Keith, and everyone at the party started engaging in gay butt sex.”
Source: Powdered Saxophone Music
“I thought people would ask me really personal questions because I've shown more of myself, but it's a comedy, and people understand that it's a game we play.”
“I thought people would think I only wanted to be an actor because my dad was, rather than because I had an innate calling.”
“I thought people wouldn't take me seriously if too much acting was involved in the singing. But now I love the idea of mixing everything together.”
“I thought perhaps I was reading too much into it, but maybe it was that Tyler had changed, but by everything that I held dear, he was still Tyler Woodland, so I went with him.”
Source: Our Time Apart
“I thought perhaps it should be recognized that religious people, including fundamentalists, are quite intelligent, many of them are highly educated, and they should be treated with complete respect.”
“I thought perhaps people with injuries could be subject to a starters gun to cure them.”
“I thought perhaps that when you told me you did not love me that my own feelings would fall away and atrophy, but they have not. They have grown every day. I love you now more desperately, this moment, than I have ever loved you before, and in an hour I will love you more than that”
“I thought physics could be done to the glory of God, till I saw there wasn’t any God at all and that physics was more interesting anyway. The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake, that’s all.”
Source: The Amber Spyglass
“I thought playing an angel would be very good for my image.”
“I thought poems were songs for people with bad voices.”
“I thought poetry could change everything, could change history and could humanize, and I think that the illusion is very necessary to push poets to be involved and to believe, but now I think that poetry changes only the poet.”
“I thought President Obama was bad and President Trump is even worse!”
“I thought President Obama was okay until I saw him launch the dangerous Desoto Solar Farm to the world. I have never liked him since.”
“I thought rape was something a bad man did to you, a man who jumped out at you in an alleyway in the dead of night, a man who held a knife to your throat. I didn't think boys did it. Not schoolboys like Robbie, not good-looking boys, the ones who go out with the prettiest girls in town. I didn't think they did it to you in your own living room, I didn't think they talked to you about it afterwards and asked you if you'd had a good time. I just thought I must have done something wrong, that I hadn't made it clear enough that I didn't want it.”
Source: Into the Water
“I thought religion would eventually wither away and we'd all be worshiping at the altar of science.”
“I thought religion would make me live with my head in the clouds, but as often as not, it grounds me in this world.”
Source: The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
“I thought research would be more glamorous, somehow. I'd give the librarian a secret code word and he'd give me the one book I needed and whisper the necessary page numbers. Like a speakeasy. With books.”
“I thought Rounders was a comic movie in its way. First time I directed a movie, I wanted to do a comedy. I don't like things that are superficially one thing or another, mainly. My favorite comedies are really smart, too, and have a lot of levels to them as well.”
“I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better.”
Source: Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five
“I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better. I fully expected that by the time I was twenty-one, some scientist, maybe my brother, would have taken a color photograph of God Almighty—and sold it to Popular Mechanics magazine. Scientific truth was going to make us so happy and comfortable. What actually happened when I was twenty-one was that we dropped scientific truth on Hiroshima.”
Source: Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five
“I thought seeing you again was going to hurt, but the moment I saw you, I knew it was not seeing you that was killing me.”
Source: Hollywood Comes Home
“I thought sex was to breach new ground, despite terror, that as long as the world did not see us, its rules did not apply. But I was wrong. The rules, they were already inside us.”
Source: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“I thought she seemed beyond saving: some people just let themselves go for too long, and one day they wake up crazy and monstrous.”
Source: A Sunny Place for Shady People
“I thought she suspected something last night…” I stared at the paper bag lying in the center of the table and looked back to Cash. “So she doesn’t know about Dad?”
“No—that’s your truth to tell.”
“Great, so she thinks I’m a bad influence on you.”
“There’s a way to fix that, you know.”
Source: Christmas Wishes
“I thought she was going to say, because I don't love you, which probably would have been more or less the truth, but instead, to my surprise, she said: "Because I love Henry."
"Henry's dead."
"I can't help it. I still love him."
"I loved him, too," I said.
For just a moment, I thought I felt her waver. But then she looked away.
"I know you did," she said. "But it's not enough.”
Source: The Secret History
“I thought she was going to win it, she just got out-bobbed at the wire.”
“I thought she was the funniest woman, and I believed being a comedian was the most exciting thing you could be.”
“I thought," she whispered, "that you were going to forget me. Forget all about me."
"I can't." His voice sounded as if it were being pulled taut. "A malady. Which is ironic, since you are a physician. If you had medicine that could make me forget you-"
"No such thing exists," she said.
"Then I am cursed," he said, "to think only of you. You, who think I am a loathsome person. A vain monster who could not resist showing off, and in doing so, has made you wretched.”
“I thought she would wait. I thought there was no way she would leave without saying goodbye. And so it came as a surprise when I peeped out of the window to see if she was crying yet, and found that the taxi had gone and my father had gone with it.”
Source: The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
“I thought she'd [her mother] offer me some sympathy. Instead, she said, 'Don't you ever call me crying again! You wanted to be in this business, so you better toughen up!' And I did.”
“I thought she'd make some comment about the bloodthirsty gods chasing us, but when she finally found her voice, she said, "That boy kissed you!" Leave it to Liz to have her priorities straight.”
“I thought Sissy Hickey should be really skinny and leathery and have one of those really husky voices, but Del Shores kept saying, "I wrote this part for you." He took me to his house and showed me pictures of all his Texas relatives, and they looked exactly like my family.”
“I thought so. Those who can really do what they promise don't first pause to promise what they can do”
Source: Saga, Volume 1
“I thought society would do the right thing. Now I look around and I think -- society never does the right thing. Sometimes people do the right thing. Sometimes one person makes a difference. But civilization has rules, and I've learned them well -- never be helpless, never be sick, never be poor.”
“I thought some of Mrs. White's material was prophetic. I felt some of her insights were extremely helpful and I regarded her as a sister in the Lord. I wasn't out to attack Ellen White's character.”
“I thought some of my earlier cartoons were not exactly great shakes at the time I drew them. Now I see a certain innocence in them. The humor has a kind of purity to it, I guess. And it works better on some level for me now.”
“I thought some of the stories were neat; I liked some of the liturgy and some of the songs. If you're a writer you have some inclination to pay attention. I didn't just tune it out and think about baseball. So, it had an effect on me.”