I Quotes
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“I've made some feuillantines," he tells us with a dramatic rising of his eyes heavenward, indicating bliss. "Thin slivers of wafer flavored with ginger, clove, nutmeg and cinnamon." We coo our approval. "You have to try them."
Quite frankly, who are we to argue?”
Source: The Chocolate Lovers' Club
“I've made squash blossoms stuffed with pimento cheese mousse--- because my mother loves pimento cheese--- and for the main course, lobster salad on fresh sweet potato rolls and a simple roasted-corn succotash and jicama-fennel slaw as sides.”
Source: Dear Enemy
“I've made their old favorite, pizza strudel, a recipe I invented in high school. It's essentially pizza dough rolled out to a long rectangle, covered in a combination of mozzarella and provolone cheese, studded with chunks of sweet Italian sausage and slices of pepperoni, and then rolled up strudel-style and baked.”
Source: How to Change a Life
“I’ve managed to convince myself that as long as I’m working, striving, helping and giving, then I can compensate for my flaws and be worthy of the love of those around me.”
Source: A Duet with the Siren Duke
“I've managed to keep him for three months, but in no way does that mean I get to keep him forever. That's the whole idea, isn't it? That is what the theories prepare us for. This is why, when he's finally gone for good it won't hurt as much.”
Source: Love and Other Theories
“I've many regrets in life, but not ever life itself.”
“I've mastered the art of silent laughter, where my joy speaks louder than words ever could.”
“i’ve measured out my life in package deliveries and what’s in bloom. the time is now thirteen boxes past peonies. if you can locate my whenabouts on a calendar, come get me. i don’t know where i’m going, but i need a ride.”
“I've mercifully been allowed the usual professional quota of unmerry thoughts.”
Source: Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction
“I've messed up everything again and I don't know why I even bother trying to be something more than I was because every time I do it ends in disaster.”
Source: Still Me
“I’ve met a man and fallen in love with him. I allowed myself to fall in love for one simple reason: I’m not expecting anything to come of it. I know that, in three months’ time, I’ll be far away and he’ll be just a memory, but I couldn’t stand living without love any longer; I had reached my limit…
Generally speaking, these meetings occur when we reach a limit, when we need to die and be reborn emotionally. These meeting are waiting for us, but more often than not, we avoid them happening. If we are desperate, though, if we have nothing to lose, or if we are full of enthusiasm for life, then the unknown reveals itself, and our universe changes directions.”
Source: Eleven Minutes
“I've met at least three Great Beast 666's over the last few years, and not one of them had even one-tenth of the wit, humour, wisdom or panache that I would expect from a figure of Crowleyan proportions. Isn't it curious how those who strive to be someone else are very selective; yes, I can see that you've got the heroin habit and mastered the art of beating up on your 'scarlet women,' but you haven't been extradited [sic] from any countries, you haven't published anything, nor have you climbed any mountains of late.”
Source: Rebels & Devils; A Tribute to Christopher S. Hyatt
“I've Met:
- Fathers who feel like they have enough time to get back in their kids' lives.
- Daughters who feel they have enough time to have that much-needed conversation with their mothers.
- Sons who feel they have enough time to ask their father those couple of questions they've been meaning to ask.
- Folk who feel they have enough time to apologize properly to that person they hurt deeply.
- People with bad energy who felt there was enough time to make it good.
- Too many folks who wish they had just a little more time.
What I've learned in life is we only have two things:
1. Right now.
2. Death.
Nothing else belongs to you.”
“I've met so many parents of the kids who are on the low end of the autism spectrum, kids who are diametrically opposed to Jacob, with his Asperger's. They tell me I'm lucky to have a son who's verbal, who is blisteringly intelligent, who can take apart the broken microwave and have it working again an hour later. They think there is no greater hell than having a son who is locked in his own world, unaware that there's a wider one to explore. But try having a son who is locked in his own world and still wants to make a connection. A son who tries to be like everyone else but truly doesn't know how.”
Source: House Rules
“I've met some brave people in my life. And I've met some awfully stupid people. You're one of the rare ones that are both.”
Source: The Rule of Thoughts
“I've met the girl. She's a zero in my opinion but terrific-looking. I don't actually know that she's a zero. I mean she hardly said two words the night I met her. Just sat and smiled and smoked, so it isn't fair to say.”
Source: Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction
“I've met travelers who are so physically sturdy they could drink a shoebox of water from a Calcutta gutter and never get sick. People who can pick up new languages where others of us might only pick up infectious diseases. People who know how to stand down a threatening border guard or cajole an uncooperative bureaucrat at the visa office. People who are the right height and complexion that they kind of look halfway normal wherever they go - in Turkey they just might be Turks, in Mexico they are suddenly Mexican, in Spain they could be mistaken for a Basque, in Northern Africa they can sometimes pass for Arab...”
Source: Eat, Pray, Love
“I've missed her too much to risk losing her again.”
Source: The Wicked King
“I’ve missed more than 13040 shots in my business and music career. There are times I’ve been trusted to create or take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed”
“I've missed the opening rituals of a morning pep rally. Darn this school and its constant onslaught of organized student gatherings! I mean, I wouldn't immediately land on "peppy" as an adjective for myself, so how am I supposed to conjure it for a group of people who are only being celebrated because they happen to show a slight advantage in athleticism? So you can take an air-filled shape and put it through another shape--so what? Didn't we get applause for that sort of thing as toddlers? Is this really something we have to cheer for?”
Source: The Best Kind of Magic
“I've missed you, Frank.'
'I haven't breathed since you left.”
Source: On Green Dolphin Street
“I've missed you," he says.
I've missed myself, you want to say, but you don't.”
Source: In the Dream House
“I’ve missed you. I feel terrible when we’re apart. I’m so lonely, and I get so scared that you won’t think of me anymore someday, and I will be forgotten here. I only trust and believe in you. I live through you; and to be apart, I can’t stand this wretched feeling anymore.”
Source: Animae Sine Amore Immortales
“I've missed you so much it's felt like missing you is all I am.
Like if someone looked inside me, there wouldn't be a skeleton and muscles and blood and nerves. There'd just be memories of you and all the things I've tried to say and ripped out of this notebook, all the things I want to say but can't because I don't have the words.”
Source: Love You Hate You Miss You
“I’ve more need of thoughts than of sleep.”
Source: The Fellowship of the Ring Photo Guide
“I've named my cookies Snowballs, but not because that's what they look like. It's the way they make you feel. You know how it is when a snowball is flying toward you on an icy-cold night? The stars are glittering, and the snow is twinkling, but you're wrapped up in mittens and boots, so you're toasty warm. It's surprise and comfort, all at the same time; that's how I want them to taste. Do you know what I mean? Here's the recipe: It has chocolate, marshmallows, and pecans in a very buttery batter.”
Source: Delicious!
“I've needed you from the moment I first met you. And now that I get to have you, I don't want to stop.”
Source: A Court of Silver Flames
“I've never admitted this to Sam or to anyone else, but sometimes I wonder what life would have been like if Sam hadn't become one of the hottest pop stars in the world. Would we have stayed friends throughout college? Would we still have gotten together? I like to think we would have. Maybe we would be hanging out on a second-hand futon with our friends, binge-watching Netflix on a laptop, and wearing jeans and free t-shirts from Freshman Orientation. He'd casually drape his arm around my shoulders while we ate popcorn straight out of the bag and absolutely no one would care. He wouldn't be rich or famous or well-dressed, but he would still be Sam. The same Sam I've known and loved my entire life.”
Source: Worldwide
“I’ve never been a believer in fate. I like to think I’m in control, that my life hasn’t been plotted out ahead of time. Sometimes all it takes is one wild thought, one brave decision to change everything. This must be one of those times.”
Source: Love Hurts: A Speculative Fiction Anthology
“I've never been a good cook - my ex-fiance once compared my meatloaf to roadkill - but I used to make more of an effort. Then my liege lord asked me for a "little favor" and I wound up spending fourteen years as an enchanted fish. It was difficult to work up any enthusiasm about learning to make a casserole after that.”
Source: Late Eclipses
“I’ve never been a victim. I’m in charge of my own life and I can handle everything it throws at me. And if I’ve made a mistake, I can accept it and move on.”
Source: What Happened That Night
“I've never been able to understand how anyone could stand measuring out half a cup of this and four ounces of that. If a woman has the time to do that she's not busy enough—and that may be why she's overweight! It's a lot easier just to buy the foods that are fairly low in calories and to cultivate a taste for them. And have a little of each kind of essential food during the course f a day. The operative word in that bit of advice is 'little.' Raw nibbles, bouillon, and dill pickles always stop the hunger pangs until the next small meal is served.”
Source: My Way of Life
“I’ve never been accused of having good sense when it comes to being careful. I guess my attraction to the what-if possibilities far outweigh my fear of an oh-crap reality.”
Source: Dante's Revenge
“I’ve never been afraid of the darkness. It’s always been a part of my life. But I cannot live in the darkness forever. I better change the way I live and start to crawl toward the light.”
“I've never been afraid of them. Not once. Because I had you.”
Source: The Best Of Me
“I've never been any place I wanted to go.”
Source: South and West: From a Notebook
“I’ve never been bothered with my conduct. I’ve only been bothered by people that don’t get it correct when they gossip about me.”
“I've never been drawn to the feminist movement. I've never been put down by a man, unless I deserved it, and have never felt inferior.”
“I've never been good with asking for help; it seems risky, but at some point when things are really dicey, your stubbornness gives way to a certain form of humility that, after you get over yourself, feels liberating. I started to believe that the universe was conspiring to help me finish my house, sending people along at the right moment.”
“I've never been good with structure—doing assignments for the sake of them or doing things I'm supposed to do.”
“I’ve never been happier in my whole life.”
I leave it at that. Underneath all that happy, she sure doesn’t look happy.”
Source: The Help
“I’ve never been in analysis. But it’s rare that one saves oneself from a rickety landing at the top of a building by throwing oneself down the stairwell.”
Source: La frantumaglia
“I've never been in love, but if a penguin can find a soul mate, I'm sure I can, too.”
Source: Playing Nice
“I’ve never been inside a gaming club before. It will be a novel experience.”
“They won’t let you inside. You’re a lady. And even if they did allow it, I wouldn’t.”
Lowering her hand, Amelia glanced at him in surprise. It was rare that Merripen forbade her to do anything. In fact, this may have been the first time. She found it annoying. Considering that her brother’s life might be at stake, she was hardly going to quibble over social niceties. Besides, she was curious to see what was inside the privileged masculine retreat. As long as she was doomed to remain a spinster, she might as well enjoy the small freedoms that came with it.
“Neither will they let you inside,” she pointed out. “You’re a Roma.”
“As it happens, the manager of the club is also a Roma.”
That was unusual. Extraordinary, even. Gypsies were known as thieves and tricksters. For one of the Rom to be entrusted with the accounting of cash and credit, not to mention arbitrating controversies at the gambling tables, was nothing short of amazing.
“He must be a rather remarkable individual to have assumed such a position,” Amelia said. “Very well, I will allow you to accompany me inside Jenner’s. It’s possible your presence will induce him to be more forthcoming.”
“Thank you.” Merripen’s voice was so dry one could have struck a match off it.”
Source: Mine Till Midnight
“I've never been jealous of an ice cube before.”
Source: Light of the Spirit
“I've never been lonely because I enjoy my own company.”
“I've never been lonely. I've been in a room -- I've felt suicidal. I've been depressed. I've felt awful -- awful beyond all -- but I never felt that one other person could enter that room and cure what was bothering me...or that any number of people could enter that room. In other words, loneliness is something I've never been bothered with because I've always had this terrible itch for solitude. It's being at a party, or at a stadium full of people cheering for something, that I might feel loneliness. I'll quote Ibsen, "The strongest men are the most alone." I've never thought, "Well, some beautiful blonde will come in here and give me a fuck-job, rub my balls, and I'll feel good." No, that won't help. You know the typical crowd, "Wow, it's Friday night, what are you going to do? Just sit there?" Well, yeah. Because there's nothing out there. It's stupidity. Stupid people mingling with stupid people. Let them stupidify themselves. I've never been bothered with the need to rush out into the night. I hid in bars, because I didn't want to hide in factories. That's all. Sorry for all the millions, but I've never been lonely. I like myself. I'm the best form of entertainment I have. Let's drink more wine!”
“I've never been lonely, just alone. I think people who can't stand being alone are silly. How do they know who they are or what they're like if they're never alone?”
Source: Marjory Stoneman Douglas: Voice of the River
“I've never been lost, but I was mighty turned around for three days once.”
“I've never been more hopeful about our future. I have never been more hopeful about America. And I ask you to sustain that hope. I'm not talking about blind optimism, the kind of hope that just ignores the enormity of the tasks ahead or the roadblocks that stand in our path. I'm not talking about the wishful idealism that allows us to just sit on the sidelines or shirk from a fight. I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting.”