I Quotes
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“I've fought for more than three years. I was just thirteen when I started. I'm sixteen now, though that fact, like so many facts, has been deliberately obscured in the secret accounts we've kept.
I'm a sixteen-year-old kid named Jake Berenson, and I am the leader of the Animorphs.”
Source: The Answer
“I've fought for religious freedom and I can tell you that anti-gay 'religious freedom' bills aren't it.”
“I’ve fought in three campaigns,” he began. “In seven pitched battles. In countless raids and skirmishes and desperate defences, and bloody actions of every kind. I’ve fought in the driving snow, the blasting wind, the middle of the night. I’ve been fighting all my life, one enemy or another, one friend or another. I’ve known little else. I’ve seen men killed for a word, for a look, for nothing at all. A woman tried to stab me once for killing her husband, and I threw her down a well. And that’s far from the worst of it. Life used to be cheap as dirt to me. Cheaper.
“I’ve fought ten single combats and I won them all, but I fought on the wrong side and for all the wrong reasons. I’ve been ruthless, and brutal, and a coward. I’ve stabbed men in the back, burned them, drowned them, crushed them with rocks, killed them asleep, unarmed, or running away. I’ve run away myself more than once. I’ve pissed myself with fear. I’ve begged for my life. I’ve been wounded, often, and badly, and screamed and cried like a baby whose mother took her tit away. I’ve no doubt the world would be a better place if I’d been killed years ago, but I haven’t been, and I don’t know why.”
He looked down at his hands, pink and clean on the stone. “There are few men with more blood on their hands than me. None, that I know of. The Bloody-Nine they call me, my enemies, and there’s a lot of ’em. Always more enemies, and fewer friends. Blood gets you nothing but more blood. It follows me now, always, like my shadow, and like my shadow I can never be free of it. I should never be free of it. I’ve earned it. I’ve deserved it. I’ve sought it out. Such is my punishment.”
Source: The Blade Itself
“I’ve fought single-headed dragons, double-headed, eight-headed, nine-headed, and the kind with so many heads that if you stopped to count them you’d be pretty much dead.”
Source: The Demigod Files
“I’ve found a new kind of home in us, and I’m ready to move in for good.”
“I've found duct tape more effective than advice, myself.”
Source: The Final Gambit
“I’ve found environmentalism isn’t popular with many Boomers unless it gives them good social value; a round of applause for recycling or for purchasing themselves the latest state-of-the-art electric car. They were born amid one of the largest eras of value-by-resource-extraction, and they’re just not wired to understand scarcity.”
Source: A Year in Boomertown: A Memoir
“I've found one of the best filters you can use to trust someone is when there's nothing for them to gain from their advice.”
Source: Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
“I've found that all it usually takes to draw out an engineer is to ask a couple of technical questions and then remain calm while listening to the answers. Most people tend to take on a blank, frightened look as soon as they realize that a technical explanation is under way; if you can resist giving this reaction and simply listen, your engineer will open up and tell you everything you ever wanted to know.”
Source: Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight
“I've found that child's play -stuff that was not considered serious, but goofy- was the stuff I liked to do, so I still do it as an adult.”
“I’ve found that cultures often clash for the same reasons that people do. It’s not because we’re so different from each other... it’s because we’re all so goddamn alike”
Source: Saga, Volume 6
“I've found that he way a person feels about cats-and the way they feel about him or her in return-is usually an excellent gauge by which to measure a person's character”
“I've found that it's easier to be pleasant when there's less need to be so.”
Source: England's Perfect Hero
“I’ve found that it’s of some help to think of one’s moods and feelings about the world as being similar to weather.
Here are some obvious things about the weather:
It's real.
You can't change it by wishing it away.
If it's dark and rainy, it really is dark and rainy, and you can't alter it.
It might be dark and rainy for two weeks in a row.
BUT
it will be sunny one day.
It isn't under one's control when the sun comes out, but come out it will.
One day.
It really is the same with one's moods, I think. The wrong approach is to believe that they are illusions. Depression, anxiety, listlessness - these are all are real as the weather - AND EQUALLY NOT UNDER ONE'S CONTROL.
Not one's fault.
BUT
They will pass: really they will.
In the same way that one really has to accept the weather, one has to accept how one feels about life sometimes, "Today is a really crap day," is a perfectly realistic approach. It's all about finding a kind of mental umbrella. "Hey-ho, it's raining inside; it isn't my fault and there's nothing I can do about it, but sit it out. But the sun may well come out tomorrow, and when it does I shall take full advantage.”
“I've found that martinis make mourning much easier.”
“I've found that most people don't have a mental filing drawer labeled Times I Was Wrong. Its mislabeled Times I Was Lonely or Times So-And-So Was Angry.”
Source: [Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error] [By: Schulz, Kathryn] [January, 2011]
“I've found that neither spouse is 100% innocent during a fight. There is always something we can apologize for...”
Source: Answers We Seek: A Marriage Devotional for Christian Wives
“I've found that no matter what life throws at me, music softens the blow.”
“I've found that people reveal nothing of their true selves except within their art and their sin." ~ Dacey Sinnett, 'ROAM”
Source: Roam
“I’ve found that some smells are strings tied around memories. When you catch certain scents, those strings pull taut.”
Source: Glint
“I’ve found that the best way to live one’s life
Is above the fog of negative thought,
With gossiping lips outside of earshot,
Keeping harsh criticism far less rife.
I’ve found that the best way to avoid strife
Is by sharing with others who have not,
Seeing the good, speaking kindness a lot,
Burying hatchets as well as sharp knives.
Every compassionate deed we have sown
Lifts a heavy burden from a brother.
Each positive thought and comment we own
Extends joy and love to one another.
Life was not meant to be traveled alone.
It is where we learn we need each other.”
Source: A Heart Made of Tissue Paper
“I’ve found that the best way to win at shatranj is usually to turn into a giant snake and tear my opponent’s throat out.”
– Dread Empress Vindictive III”
Source: So You Want to Be a Villain?
“I've found that the less stuff I own, the less my stuff owns me.”
“I've found that the ones you lose have a way of coming back to you.”
Source: Steel Crow Saga
“I've found that when someone tells they love you too fast and overwhelms you and wants to move in right away, it's a trap. Know a man like that most likely want to own you and control you in order to make himself feel powerful and significant. Know that things will change.”
Source: Brave
“I've found that when you're wrapped up in the process of dating and want so badly to have something work out with someone -anyone- it's easy to forget that your choices aren't limited to one person or the other. There's also the choice I always forget about: To not choose anyone in order to keep myself open to someone who IS right for me.”
Source: The Science of Single: One Woman's Grand Experiment in Modern Dating, Creating Chemistry, and Finding Love
“I've found the best way to revise your own work is to pretend that somebody else wrote it and then to rip the living shit out of it.”
“I've found the Great Silence, and I've come to see that the noise was inside.”
Source: Tales of a Magic Monastery
“I’ve found the most potent prayer is always a prayer of gratitude and thanks as opposed to a prayer asking for what we want.”
Source: Spiritual Sugar: The Divine Ingredients to Heal Yourself With Love
“I've found, though, that people are more likely to share their personal experiences if you go first, so that's why I always keep an eleven-point list of what went wrong in my childhood to share with them. Also I usually crack open a bottle of tequila to share with them, because alcohol makes me less nervous, and also because I'm from the South, and in Texas we offer drinks to strangers even when we're waiting in line at the liquor store. In Texas we call that '_southern hospitality_.' The people who own the liquor store call it 'shoplifting.' Probably because they're Yankees.
I'm not allowed to go back to that liquor store.”
Source: Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir
“I’ve found you again. I never stopped loving you, not ever. I swear to you, you were inside me like the beat of my own heart. I would have done anything to be with you now like this. We can’t be parted again. Promise me we’ll always be together. I love you more than life itself.”
Source: Prohibition A
“I’ve frequently been told things like: “Girl, you’ve been hanging out with too many white folk” ; “What do you have to be depressed about? If our people could make it through slavery, we can make it through anything” ; “Take your troubles to Jesus, not no damn psychiatrist.”
Source: Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman's Journey Through Depression
“I've frightened your shadow, and you do not know it. I've told you everything nobody expects to hear. I've put an end to your game. You have escaped from me, finding shelter in all your lies. You are now looking for the next corporate mission. Good Luck with that.”
“I've fucked more women in my almost forty years than I could count, but I have always preferred men when it comes to sex. I like to fuck and I occasionally like to be fucked.”
Source: Taking Lance
“I've given her signs! I've given her plenty of signs. What does she want me to do? Slap him across the face with my glove, and challenge him to pistols at dawn?”
Source: Relatively Honest
“I've given my best, but I've been used. Delphine said I have to move past it. Lakshmi moved past her betrayals. So did Victorine. Isn't that the look she's giving us in Manet's paining? There will always be a Ferdie in our lives. We have to do our best despite them.”
Source: The Perfumist of Paris
“I've given myself to you. You may have my body, soul, everything. Time passes, and all I want is the intimacy that slows, defeats. and confounds it. Love, that's what it is. You've always made the mistake that men often make, and carried forward the great fault that mars civilisation, which is that you believe that your philosophy is deeper than love.”
Source: Freddy and Fredericka
“I’ve given up men.”
At that, he arched a brow.
Be strong. Be confident. Be… Neytiri from Avatar. Okay, so Neytiri was a mythical creature, not to mention animated, but still. She was strong and
confident, and that’s all that matters at the moment. “It’s true. At first, I was just going to give up attorneys, but that seemed immature—and far too
exclusive, so I’m playing it safe and giving up all the penis-carrying humans.” Because that was so much more mature.”
Source: Simply Irresistible
“I've given up men. It's true. At first, I was just going to give up attorneys, but that seemed immature - and far too exclusive, so I'm playing it safe and giving up all the penis-carrying humans.”
Source: Simply Irresistible
“I've given up on it getting easier, but at least I haven't given up. I guess that's something...”
Source: The Path of Leashed Resistance: The Buddy System
“I've given you a power over me that you do not deserve.”
Source: The Lost Man
“I've gone from "sole-surviving space explorer" to "guy with wacky new roommate." It'll be interesting to see how this plays out.”
Source: Project Hail Mary
“I’ve gone out alone and bellowed in rage at God at the top of my lungs. But the fact that I bellow at him I suppose proves that I think he’s there, doesn’t it? Go ahead and be mad at God if you feel like it, Vicky. [...] But remember when you’re yelling at God, what you're doing is saying, Do it MY way, God, not YOUR way, but MY way”
Source: The Moon by Night
“I've gone to prepare a place for you
But I will come back again.”
Source: The Holy Bible: King James Version
“I've googled OCD about 45 times so far today.”
“I’ve got 99 problems and 86 of them are completely made up scenarios in my head that I’m stressing about for absolutely no logical reason.”
“I've got 99 problems and I won't let you have the honor of being my 100th.”
“I've got a bad case of the 3:00 am guilts - you know, when you lie in bed awake and replay all those things you didn't do right? Because, as we all know, nothing solves insomnia like a nice warm glass of regret, depression and self-loathing.”
Source: Dying Bites
“I ve got a boot boy from the Youth team. His name s Kudos - he's a good lad and has been looking after me for a few years.”
“I've got a hot shower and an even hotter bed only ten minutes from here."
"Hotter bed?"
"It's got a heater in it."
She narrowed her eyes. "It does not."
"Hand to heaven," he said.
She narrowed her eyes. "Does this 'heater' run on electricity?"
"Nope.”
Source: My Kind of Wonderful