I Quotes
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“I thought...someone else would be here.”
“Is it okay that it’s me?”
Source: Unity
“I thought speakers didn't believe in sin," said a sullen boy.
Andrew smiled. "You believe in sin, Styrka, and you do things because of that belief. So sin is real in you, and knowing you, this speaker must believe in sin.”
Source: Speaker for the Dead
“I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public.”
“I thought success in show business was everything. It isn't. I don't know what is.”
“I thought success was what people were interested in, but in reality, they’re more invested in my downfall.”
Source: Redeemed
“I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish.”
Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
“I thought symphaths didn't have a conscience." "I'm half my mother's boy, too. So I have a little." "Aren't you lucky." The Reverend's chin dipped down, and his eyes flashed pure, purple evil for a split second. Then he smiled. "No… all the rest of you are fortunate.”
Source: J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 1-4
“I thought tamarinds were made to eat, but that was probably not the idea. I ate several, and it seemed to me that they were rather sour that year. They pursed up my lips, till they resembled the stem-end of a tomato, and I had to take my sustenance through a quill for twenty-four hours. They sharpened my teeth till I could have shaved with them, and gave them a 'wire edge' that I was afraid would stay; but a citizen said 'no, it will come off when the enamel does' - which was comforting, at any rate. I found, afterward, that only strangers eat tamarinds - but they only eat them once.”
Source: 60 WESTERNS: Cowboy Adventures, Yukon & Oregon Trail Tales, Famous Outlaws, Gold Rush Adventures & much more: Riders of the Purple Sage, The Night Horseman, The Last of the Mohicans, Rimrock Trail, The Hidden Children, The Law of the Land, Heart of the West, A Texas Cow-Boy, The Prairie…
“I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone.”
Source: The Works of Edmund Burke
“I thought that 'Twilight' would be a kind of girl movie, but it was cool.”
“I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.”
Source: Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
“I thought that all generations were lost by something and always had been and always would be”
Source: Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition
“I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God.”
“I thought that any woman as beautiful as she must have an instinct about life, access to some secret wisdom which is beyond cleverness.”
Source: The Lighthouse
“I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly fast.”
“I thought that beauty alone would satisfy, but the soul is gone. I can’t bear those empty, staring eyes.”
“I thought that because I wasn't a sickly person - I never have been - I thought I was healthy. So I assumed health. I didn't have it.”
“I thought that being king meant I didn't have to kill people myself. I see know that was another misconception.”
“I thought that being popular in school was just so pathetic. I knew I had a future over and beyond the horizon of that school.”
“I thought that by saying no and explaining my reasons my employer would abandon his social suggestions. However, to my regret, in the following few weeks, he continued to ask me out on several occasions”
“I thought that childhood went away softly, or that it was lost with a rip, at the moment when the veil is torn and you see another reality.
Instead it is neither one nor the other. Childhood goes away in shreds, like a mosaic that flakes under your eyes. Below, in fragments, appears the adult being in its darkest part, from which we protect ourselves, like children who puts the blanket upon their faces, for fear of the ogre, there are the things you do not want to see, until when you can no longer deny them.
And perhaps this denial is a part of wanting to believe in a life after death, the last piece of childhood that some of us guard, for thinking that every goodbye, after all, is not forever.”
“I thought that choosing a non-professional was a condition for me, because it would allow Juliette to have a less-professional way of acting. It would challenge her performance as a professional actress.”
“I thought that Christian was a noun, a person looking for authenticity. I never understood that idea that a band could be Christian or something could be Christian. But it just can be and is.”
“I thought that coming out was going to be the end of my religious life but actually it was the beginning. Because it only afterwards that I could be honest about who I was, what I wanted, how I understood spirituality.”
“I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.”
“I thought that conclusion that we leaped to right after the election, that has been disproven statistically so many times, I don't know why Republicans would advocate that advocating for comprehensive immigration reform is somehow a political solution for the Republicans losing a percentage of Hispanics. I probably have less appetite for this than either the Senate or colleagues in the House, certainly the Democrats and most likely members of the Republican Conference. They are still wrestling with trying to get their education up to a level where they can actually advocate for policy.”
“I thought that continence was a matter of our own strength, and I knew that I had not the strength: for in my utter foolishness I did not know the word of Your Scripture that none can be continent unless You give it.”
Source: Confessions (Second Edition)
“I thought that culture and education are the shield. An educated person cannot do certain things and, and be educated, you cannot, and there they were, killing children day after day.”
“I thought that deserved a book and feel like the door needs to be open so people can say, "Ok, here we go, let's deal with this" because we're not dealing with it. I'm waiting for somebody to write another book but it hasn't happened yet, though I guess mine's only been out for a year and a half.”
“I thought that directness spoke for itself, but hadn’t realized that the English like their ritual and distrust plain speaking as somehow mendacious. Everything has a hidden meaning, does it not? And the more direct the speech, the more carefully hidden the true meaning must be, the more effort must be expended to understand what is really being said.”
Source: [The Portrait] (By: Iain Pears) [published: July, 2005]
“I thought that ending Glass-Steagall was a mistake.”
“I thought that from the moment someone else could do the same as myself, there was no difference between the pictures and they should not be signed. Afterwards I realized it was not so and began to sign my pictures again. Picasso had begun again anyhow.”
“I thought that he was righteous, but he's vain. Oh, somethings a telling me I wear the ball and chain.”
“I thought that I could do some kind of vehicle involving rock musicals and presenting rock and characters and storyline in a completely different fashion.”
“I thought that I could trust you
Assumed your actions had meaning and weight
But all I got in return for loving you
Was profound anger, sadness, and hate
The promises, the promises
Of what you said that you would do
All seemed to slip through
I believed in the wrong view”
Source: Unforgettably Unique
“I thought that I’d found my new favorite hobby—watching Tristan cook anything at all.
“Bev has this really great frilly pink apron,” I told him. “What would I have to do to get you to wear
it while you cook for me?”
“You don’t even want to know, boo,” he said.
That effectively shut me up again.”
Source: Bad Things
“I thought that I'd write everything.
But I think that whatever I feel at this point,
Is beyond my ability to comprehend or describe.
I would have to burn my skin alive right in front of your eyes
And still I'd fear letting it out
In the wild, to make you feel
How much it hurts
How much it breaks my heart,
How brutally it's wounding my soul,
How terribly you're causing my existence to dissolve ...
How do I write what's engraved through your voice in my cells?
What would I have to do to forget anything which you told me?
Would I have to die?”
“I thought that I had a really healthy relationship with food, and I went home to my parents' house for a week because I cut my foot, and was recovering. I just ate loads, ate family meals, went along with group activities. And I realized how unhealthy my relationship actually is with food.”
“I thought that I had been asked every kind of question possible.”
“I thought that I had found something new. But then I convinced myself that the Abbot Gregor Mendel in Brünn, had, during the sixties, not only obtained the same result through extensive experiments with peas, which lasted for many years, as did de Vries and I, but had also given exactly the same explanation, as far as that was possible in 1866.”
“I thought that I had no time for faith nor time to pray, then I saw an armless man saying his Rosary with his feet.”
“I thought that I had to wait until I didn't feel afraid. I always thought that fear meant inadequacy, that confident people just feel capable all the time. But maybe I've had it all wrong...Maybe the fear never goes away. Maybe what changes is your response to it. Maybe you just keep choosing to be brave, every single day.”
Source: Main Character Energy
“I thought that I held the record of most appearances on the Bob Hope Show, but I think - It's Brooke Shields”
“I thought that I loved her. I really did.”
“I thought that I needed a church and hundreds of guests and music that
actually sounded like music, but I was wrong.
What I needed was a drunken priest, irreverent guests, and a companion
who learned to play piano from a goat."
"Then you got exactly what you needed."
"I suppose so. But then again, all I really needed was you.”
Source: Dancing at Midnight
“I thought that I needed your apology to
move on.
I really needed to forgive myself
first.”
Source: The Nectar of Pain
“I thought that I was an artist. I no longer think about it, I am.”
“I thought that I was going to be like this earth mother. When people would complain about being pregnant, I was like, 'What are you talking about? It's incredible! Just enjoy it.'”
“I thought that I was going to have to pay them to do what I wanted to do, that was how much fun I was having. You're 20 years old and you're hanging out with rock stars and going to fabulous parties, and then you talk about it!”
“I thought that I was in heaven
But I was sure surprised
Heaven help me, I didn't see
The devil in your eyes
You look like an angel
Walk like an angel
Talk like an angel
But I got wise
You're the devil in disguise
Oh yes you are
The devil in disguise”