I Quotes
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“I've always enjoyed a challenge," Niko remarked, shifting through the powder to lift something out. "I think perhaps there are other things I could enjoy instead. Bonsai trees, painting, forging my own weapons. The opportunities are endless." He opened his hand to show me the small braid of several yellowed hairs. "Voodoo." "Think it would work?" I perked up. Killing from a distance wasn't usually my thing, but in this case, I'd make an exception.”
Source: Roadkill
“I've always felt, almost from the beginning, that I knew you. That I saw you and you saw me. That life up until the day we met had uniquely prepared my heart for yours.”
Source: Can't Get Enough
“I’ve always felt an almost physical loathing for secret things--intrigues, diplomacy, secret societies, occult sciences. What especially irks me are these last two things--the pretension certain men have that, through their understandings with Gods or Masters or Demiurges, they and they alone know the great secrets on which the world is founded.
I can’t believe their claims, though I can believe someone else might. But is there any reason why all these people might not be crazy or deluded? The fact there are a lot of them proves nothing, for there are collective hallucinations.
What really shocks me is how these wizards and masters of the invisible, when they write to communicate or intimate their mysteries, all write abominably. It offends my intelligence that a man can master the Devil without being able to master the Portuguese language. Why should dealing with demons be easier than dealing with grammar?”
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“I'VE ALWAYS FELT AND BELIEVED IN FENG SHUI. IF IT IS YOURS, IT IS YOURS. IF IT IS NOT YOURS, IT IS NOT YOURS.”
“I’ve always felt comfortable amongst the horrors. I married your uncle Gerard, after all.”
Source: Corcitura
“I've always felt like a failure inside if I'm not already a success, if that makes any sense.”
Source: You're Never Weird on the Internet
“I've always felt like I was stumbling through darkness. Then I met you...and you became the only thing I could see.”
Source: No Lights With You
“I’ve always felt safer at night. You can be much more forgiving of yourself, not to mention the world and everyone in it, when your shortcomings aren’t threatened by the brazen light of day. And by shortcomings, I mean damage. The scars are still there, but at least they're easier to hide. I never understood why they shine a fluorescent spotlight in the faces of alleged culprits in old movies to get them to tell the truth. Put me to bed and turn off the lights. I’ll tell you everything. I’ll be who you want me to be, I’ll be honest. I’ll be who I want to be, I’ll be braver. Just don’t ignore me. I really do want to be stronger, sweeter, less afraid all the time. Maybe it’s a within-the-womb thing, but it’s safer in the dark. What they should really warn you about is the light.”
“I've always felt strongly that life is a collection of moments meant to be lived out loud and made into memories.”
Source: Yours to Lose
“I’ve always felt that a manager has achieved a great deal when he’s able to motivate one other person. When it comes to making the place run, motivation is everything. You might be able to do the work of two people, but you can’t be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.”
“I've always felt that distant train whistles heard in the dead of night are the universe's way of letting us know the best days are neither ahead nor behind us...they're happening right now, cradled in the palms of our hands. But that doesn't change the fact that the whiskey, weed, and romance eventually runs out and the night will soon turn to day.”
Source: Sleepeth Not, the Bastard
“I've always felt weird about coming to Nigeria. Everything is always so overwhelming and aggressive from the moment we step out of the airport and into a country that my father loves so deeply he had to run away from it. But I've never had a choice. No one has ever asked me. Each summer, my father's momentum dragged us all home.”
Source: Speak No Evil
“I've always figured it that you die each day and each day is a box, you see, all numbered and neat; but never go back and lift the lids, because you've died a couple of thousand times in your life, and that's a lot of corpses, each dead a different way, each with a worse expression. Each of those days is a different you, somebody you don't know or understand or want to understand.”
Source: The Illustrated Man
“I've always found fairytales inspire my creativity and imagination.”
Source: Between Stairs and Stardust
“I've always found old bookstores exciting. Whenever I'm in a city that's new to me, I immedicately look through the telephone directory for BOOKS, USED AND RARE. Book dealers send me their catalogs, and I read them as carefully as I would a letter from an old friend, never knowing what treasure I might find. Sometimes the catalogs contain printed material other than books, such as old photographs, newspapers, pamphlets, postcards, and letters.”
Source: At Her Majesty's Request: An African Princess in Victorian England
“I've always found that the most beautiful people, truly beautiful inside and out, are the ones who are quietly unaware of their effect." His eyes searched mine intently, and for a moment we stood there toe to toe. "The ones who throw their beauty around, waste what they have? Their beauty is only passing. It's just a shell hiding nothing but shadows and emptiness.”
Source: Obsidian
“I've always found that the most beautiful people, truly beautiful inside and out, are those who are quietly unaware of their effect.”
Source: Obsidian
“I've always found the best people in the worst places.”
“I've always found the idea of death comforting. The thought that my life could end at any moment frees me to fully appreciate the beauty and art and horror of everything this world has to offer.”
“I’ve always found the idea of 'saving' your virginity intriguing: it’s not as if we’re packing our Saran-wrapped hymens away in the freezer, after all, or pasting them in scrapbooks. But packed-away virginities aside, the interesting — and dangerous — idea at play here is that of 'morality.” When young women are taught about morality, there’s not often talk of compassion, kindness, courage, or integrity. There is, however, a lot of talk about hymens (though the preferred words are undoubtedly more refined — think 'virginity' and 'chastity'): if we have them, when we’ll lose them, and under what circumstances we’ll be rid of them.”
Source: The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women
“I've always found there are far fewer answers than there are questions.”
Source: A Keeper
“I've always got stage fright,' he says. 'There's always a level of fright. If I can just make it manageable rather than overwhelming then I've won.”
Source: Reveal: Robbie Williams
“I’ve always had a bit of a feminine aura, but I don’t mind. Russell Brand has one, too.”
Source: Rites
“I’ve always had a lifelong interest in spirit. I was an 8-year-old boy – an 8-year-old adorable little boy. I just understood my grandfather had a ‘knowingness.’ I didn’t know the word psychic then.” (during interview with Sam Liebowitz on the Conscious Consultant Hour)”
“I've always had a passion for tearing the bandages from other people's eyes. I've always insisted that those round me should see things as they are. I suppose it is that I need companionship in despair. I can't understand not despairing.”
Source: Thérèse
“I've always had a talent for recognizing when I am in a moment worth being nostalgic for. When I was little, my mother would come home from a party, her hair cool from the wind, her perfume almost gone, and her lips a faded red, and she would coo at me "You're still awake! Hiiii." And I'd think how beautiful she was and how I always wanted to remember her stepping out of the elevator in her pea-green wool coat, thirty-nine years old, just like that.”
Source: Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
“I’ve always had a talent for recognizing when I’m in a moment worth being nostalgic for.”
Source: Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
“I’ve always had a terrible weakness for beautiful but sad things.”
Source: Gabriel's Inferno
“I've always had a thing for Carmyn Rafferty. She carries herself as a reserved and proper woman, but I see a tension in her. A slight glitch in some of her movements lets me know she's aching to be liberated. She wants to let go. In a way she never has. A way she's afraid to get too close to. Her boyfriend's obviously never been able to take her there.
I could, though.
Maybe that's what has always kept me drawn to her. She wouldn't just be another lay to me. I'd be breaking her in, kind of like taming a horse, but I'd be setting her free.”
Source: Wicked Thing
“I’ve always had a very binge and then cleanse approach to casual sex for that very reason. We long for an intimate connection, but that longing makes us feel vulnerable. Therefore, we guard our hearts for self-preservation, which barricades that intimacy we are longing for.”
“I've always had the sense that my life is run by other people. Except for a few years after Martin died. Those were the toughest years, I was alone with my children, I had to cope by myself. Complete poverty. You won't believe this, but nowadays when I look back, those are my happiest years.”
Source: Ignorance
“I've always had this feeling," Henry says, "that all dogs are really therapy dogs."
I've probably circled this thought a thousand times, but have never formulated it so concisely before. It seems to me that it's the sort of thing only someone who loves dogs could say. "Yes, I think you're right.”
Source: Dog Crazy
“I've always had this theory, that we're all born with a certain optimum age, the age we're really meant to be, and once we reach it we stick there, in our minds, where it counts. Personally I've always been twenty-five. I was good at being twenty-five.”
Source: The Proof House
“I’ve always had very strong feeling that computer programming is a godlike kind of job.
Similar to the Lord creating our material world and whole the Universe, based on molecular techniques such as DNA coding ― developers create the digital world based on IT technologies coding.”
Source: Indigo Diaries: A Series of Novels
“I’ve always hated being asked if I’m ‘OK’. The available answers are either to lie and say ‘I’m fine’ or to massively and embarrassingly overshare.”
Source: Loveless
“I’ve always hated it when authors seem to find joy
In killing my favorite characters.
With gleaming eyes they toy
With turmoil in every chapter.
Just when they’ve got you attached
To the character’s quirks and flaws
To their words and their demons
Just when you’ve fallen in love
With the character’s identity—
With a cruel turn of the lip
The author smirks and kills them off
And at our gasped pleas, merely scoffs.
But the author was God
And my favorite character was you
And I still can’t believe
You’re gone.”
Source: Bending The Universe
“I've always hated the idea of hugs, but you know, I guess sometimes it's the people who say they hate hugs that actually need it the most”
Source: sparked
“I’ve always hated the “Who are you?" question. This is a philosophical inquiry. Answering that question is why we’re on earth. You can’t answer it in thirty seconds or in an elevator.”
Source: Numenon
“I’ve always heard every ending is also a beginning. We just don’t know it at the time. I’d like to believe that’s true.”
“I’ve always heard that being disgustingly wealthy makes you miserable. I’d like to give it a try, I think. - Lavonia Jackson”
Source: The Way You Look Tonight
“I’ve always heard that it’s better to give than to receive, but someone has to receive, and I’ve learned to do it.”
Source: Ten Million Steps: Nimblewill Nomad's Epic 10-Month Trek from the Florida Keys to Québec
“I've always heard the expression, 'your body is a temple'. Well, my body was a crack den off Interstate sixty-five.”
Source: Broken pieces of June
“I've always kept one emotional suitcase packed.
With you,
I live out of one,
every day,
and I keep a cab on speed dial.”
Source: Ink Blot in a Poet's Bloodstream
“I've always known I would watch you die," he said. "I've like the idea less and less as the years have gone by. I'd trade many a year to give you an extra month, and still consider I'd got the better end of the deal.”
Source: Forest of Dreams and Whispers
“I’ve always known my circumstances were far, far from the worst, but I truly believe that just the slightest misalignment in our upbringings can have such a dramatic knock-on effect on our lives.”
Source: The Winners' Guide
“I've always known that I was destined for greatness. I am descended from a long line of prestigious, European men.”
“I’ve always known the contours of your existence, the form you take between the stars. You are the inception and destruction of my sky. I will always be able to recognize you, even in the abysmal darkness.”
Source: Meet Me in the Ether
“i've always known the truth, i simply choose to ignore it as i do with everything in my life." - human, January 16, 2021”
“I've always known we were two puzzle pieces that fit together in a hollow that is our pain. There was a time when I was certain we were too damaged not to destroy each other. Now I think we are saving each other.”
Source: Being Me
“I’ve always known what you need. Someone to rage at who’s strong enough to take all the pain and fury you have to dish out until you’ve burned it out of your system and nothing is left but a pile of ashes from which the Phoenix rises. Kid, woman, whatever the hell you are—I want to see you rise. Even if you have to hate me.”
Source: Feversong