I Quotes
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“I ultimately have faith though, that good films will find their audience.”
“I ultimately realized we had gotten together for the music. It was such a huge thing in our lives. We were at the same age, same place in our careers, and we had great fun. But when I became a mother and was at home, I realized that in reality we had very little else in common. I wasn't happy, wasn't getting what I needed. It's tough to realize that. But while a big change can be painful, it also was for the best. I'm happier now than I've ever been.”
“I, um, I thought you might want this back.”
I pull out the battered old teddy bear and hold it toward him. He frowns and shakes his head and doesn’t reach for it, and I feel like he’s punched me in the gut.
Then my baby brother slaps that damned bear out of my hand and crushes his face against my chest, and beneath the odors of sweat and strong soap I can smell it, his smell, Sammy’s, my brother’s.”
Source: The 5th Wave
“I unabashedly, unashamedly, unequivocally support the explosion of entrepreneurs in the capitalist system.”
“I unapologetically and unabashedly am deeply biased toward my mother.”
“I unbuttoned my white shirt and reknotted it under by breasts. I felt like one of those circus 'quick change' acts – ta-dah, no more Wimpy Wendy, now we have Slinky Phee rising from the ashes.”
Source: Stealing Phoenix
“I uncapped the blade, flung open the door, and found myself face-to-face with a black pegasus.
Whoa, boss! Its voice spoke in my mind as it clopped away from the sword blade. I don't wanna be a horse-ke-bob!”
Source: The Titan’s Curse
“I unconsciously decided that, even if it wasn't an ideal world, it should be so and painted only the ideal aspects of it - pictures in which there are no drunken slatterns or self-centered mothers . . . only foxy grandpas who played baseball with kids and boys who fished from logs and got up circuses in the back yard.”
“I unconsciously decided that, even if it wasn't an ideal world, it should be. So I painted only the ideal aspects of it - pictures in which there are no drunken slatterns or self-centered mothers... only foxy grandpas who played baseball with the kids and boys who fished from logs and got up circuses in the backyard.”
“I uncover hidden truths, I don’t pander to other’s notions of how the events of the world should come out.”
Source: The Casebook of Elisha Grey
“I uncovered extensive malnutrition issues when I was trying to recover from my Long COVID symptoms.”
Source: COVID Supplements
“I underestimated you, woman." ... "The cry of men down the ages.”
“I understand - and often make fun of - the desire to run to the wall text before running to the painting.”
“I understand a fury in your words But not your words.”
Source: The Works: Of Shakespeare: in Eight Volumes. Collated with the Oldest Copies, and Corrected: with Notes, Explanatory, and Critical: by Mr. Theobald
“I understand a lot of celebrities lose weight because they have the opportunity to get in shape and become healthier, but when you get so polished, you can't tell the story of a blue-collar family anymore.”
“I understand a lot of stuff for a lot of people, how??
You won't get the answer!”
“I understand a lot of the female needs. I'm not saying I know all of them all the time though.”
“I understand about the relative strengths of people, and I don't think people have to be anything. They can be nothin' if they want to be.”
“I understand abstract art as an attempt to feed imagination with a world built through the basic sensations of the eyes.”
“I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.”
“I understand addiction now. I never did before, you know. How could a man (or a woman) do something so self-destructive, knowing that they’re hurting not only themselves, but the people they love? It seemed that it would be so incredibly easy for them to just not take that next drink. Just stop. It’s so simple, really. But as so often happens with me, my arrogance kept me from seeing the truth of the matter.
I see it now though.
Every day, I tell myself it will be the last. Every night, as I’m falling asleep in his bed, I tell myself that tomorrow I’ll book a flight to Paris, or Hawaii, or maybe New York. It doesn’t matter where I go, as long as it’s not here. I need to get away from Phoenix—away from him—before this goes even one step further.
And then he touches me again, and my convictions disappear like smoke in the wind.
This cannot end well. That’s the crux of the matter, Sweets. I’ve been down this road before—you know I have—and there’s only heartache at the end. There’s no happy ending waiting for me like there was for you and Matt. If I stay here with him, I will become restless and angry. It’s happening already, and I cannot stop it. I’m becoming bitter and terribly resentful. Before long, I will be intolerable, and eventually, he’ll leave me. But if I do what I have to do, what my very nature compels me to do, and move on, the end is no better. One way or another, he’ll be gone. Is it not wiser to end it now, Sweets, before it gets to that point? Is it not better to accept that this happiness I have is destined to self-destruct?
Tomorrow I will leave. Tomorrow I will stop delaying the inevitable. Tomorrow I will quit lying to myself, and to him.
Tomorrow.
What about today, you ask? Today it’s already too late. He’ll be home soon, and I have dinner on the stove, and wine chilling in the fridge. And he will smile at me when he comes through the door, and I will pretend like this fragile, dangerous thing we have created between us can last forever.
Just one last time, Sweets. Just one last fix. That’s all I need.
And that is why I now understand addiction.”
Source: Strawberries for Dessert
“I understand all freedom comes with a price, but freedom is such a joyous, marvelous, beautiful thing it is worth fighting for.”
Source: Name The Day: A 365 Day Devotional to Frame Your Day With Positive Affirmations and Encouragement
“I understand all the problems for the Ministry of Defence, of course I do; working within a budget and trying to do so many things is not easy.”
“I understand all the work to be of a nonabstract nature regardless of the style, form, or explicit subject matter because all the work... is concerned with evoking experiences that are in themselves - and their relationship to you, the viewer - the ultimate subject and content of the work. I want to equate the experience of the work with its meaning.”
“I understand and get when kids and teenagers feel like they're alone and it's not going to get better. My advice is that there is a support system out there, there are a lot of people who have been through what you're going through and are going through it now.”
“I understand and respect deeply that each project brings its own secret and wonderful gifts and happy accidents.”
“I understand and respect people who say they want to boycott the Trump brand. I also respect your right to buy his products. But what you miss is that no one in public office, Hilary or Trump should use that platform to profit themselves. In Trump's case there are serious concerns about the conflict of interest in his brand and business ownership. Do we really want a president who had products he can push while working for the American people?”
“I understand and sympathize with the reasonable needs of a reasonable number of people on a finite continent. All life depends upon other life. But what is happening today, in North America, is not rational use but irrational massacre. Man the Pest, multiplied to the swarming stage, is attacking the remaining forests like a plague of locusts on a field of grain.”
“I understand basketball is not my entire life. It's only a part of my life. And there are a lot of other things that interest me a great deal ... other goals to seek, and this is how I have balance in life.”
“I understand Being in all and over all, as there is nothing without participation in Being, and there is no being without Essence. Thus nothing can be free of the Divine Presence.”
“I understand being less sexy than Osama bin Laden, but not less sexy than Carrot Top. That, I find offensive.”
“I understand being the villain is what people like. People play to that. They want to know about the villain.”
“I understand better than she'd imagine that history is indelible. You can mask it; you can patch it smooth and clear; but you always know what's hidden underneath.”
Source: Vanishing Acts
“I understand, Bill. Because I tell myself a lot of stories to help me sleep at night. Stories about how Babe was my dearest friend, and I never betrayed her. Stories about how you and I had a great love, not just an occasional roll in the hay whenever she was out of town. Stories about how wonderful life was back then, when none of us told each other the truth, but so what? It was all so beautiful, wasn’t it? It was all so lovely and gracious. Not like it is now.”
Source: The Swans of Fifth Avenue
“I understand boxing has been around for so long, and it's old money. The sport has such a history, I just don't understand how it's even a competition though.”
“I understand business and understand the ugly face of baseball, which is the business part of baseball.”
“I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No, where it is dangerous to say No.”
Source: The Will to Power
“I understand by socialism a society in which the aim of production is not profit, but the use. In which the individual citizen participates responsibly in his work, and in the whole social organization, and in which he is not a means who is employed by capital.”
“I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)
“I understand charm to be a completely independent characteristic from goodness,' Murphy replies.”
Source: Troll Hunting: Inside the World of Online Hate and its Human Fallout
“I understand China, and I understand the Chinese mind. I understand where they're coming from. They are not our friend.”
“I understand Crawford paid you a visit?" "Yes." "And was he attentive?" "Yes, very." "And has your heart changed towards him?" "Yes. Several times. I have - I find that I - I find that-" "Shh. Surely you and I are beyond speaking when words are clearly not enough.... I missed you." "And I you.”
“I understand cricket - what's going on, the scoring - but I can't understand why.”
“I understand culture. I am the nucleus.”
“I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.”
“I understand democracy as something that gives the weak the same chance as the strong.”
“I understand Donald Trump's goals. That's why I supported him for president. I share his beliefs that we've got to do more about crime, more about illegal immigration, more about gangs and violence and it's an honor and a pleasure to be able to lead that effort.”
“I understand English; I read and write English perfectly, but the accent won't go away.”
“I understand entertaining. You want people to walk out saying, I spent a night with interesting people.”
“I understand everybody in this country doesn't agree with the decisions I've made. And I made some tough decisions. But people know where I stand.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, George W. Bush, 2004, Book 2, July 1 to September 30, 2004