I Quotes
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“I’ve tried a number of religions and gurus in my time, including Buddhism, but ultimately they didn’t do as much for my peace of mind as snooker.”
“I've tried here to delineate some of the differences between science fiction and horror, science fiction and fantasy, terror and horror, horror and revulsion more by example than by definition. All of which is very well, but perhaps we ought to examine the emotion of horror a little more closely--not in terms of definition but in terms of effect. What does horror do? Why do people want to be horrified... why do they pay to be horrified? Why an Exorcist? A Jaws? An Alien?
But before we talk about why people crave the effect, maybe we ought to spend a little time thinking about components--and if we do not choose to define horror itself, we can at least examine the elements and perhaps draw some conclusions from them.”
Source: Danse Macabre
“I've Tried keeping my face shut until someone volunteers information, which gets you peace and quiet.”
Source: Swords & Dark Magic: The New Sword and Sorcery
“I've tried reading the Bible. I never make it past all the talk about the firmament. The firmament is the thing, on Day 1 or 2, that divides the waters from the waters. Here you have the firmament. Next to the firmament, the waters. Stay with the waters long enough, presumably you hit another stretch of firmament. I can't say for sure: at the first mention of the firmament, I start bleeding tears of terminal boredom. I grow restless. I flick ahead. It appears to go like this: firmament, superlong middle part, Jesus. You could spend half your life reading about the barren wives and the kindled wraths and all the rest of it before you got to the do-unto-others part, which as I understand it is the high-water mark.”
“I’ve tried so hard to stay away from you,” he whispered one night, cuddling her while the moonlight made stripes across the shadowed hills of the bedclothes.
“Why?” Daisy whispered back, crawling over him until she was draped over the muscled surface of his chest.
He played with the dark cascade of her hair. “Because I shouldn’t come to you like this until we’re married. There’s a risk—”
Daisy silenced him with her mouth, not stopping until his breath had hastened and his bare skin was as hot as a stove-plate beneath her. She lifted her head to smile down into his gleaming eyes. “All or nothing,” she murmured. “That’s how I want you.”
Source: Scandal in Spring
“I've tried talking to God, I really have tried, but what sort of God makes a priest this sick? She's never done anything but good for other people, so what sort of God gives an illness like this to her?!”
Source: Anxious People
“I've tried to approach environmentalism the same way I do my climbing: by setting small, concrete goals that build on each other. That was the idea behind starting the Honnold Foundation. | also worked on smaller projects, such as setting up my mom’s house with solar panels and giving up meat in an effort to eat lower on the food chain. In some ways it might seem silly even to make the effort, since the environmental problems facing our world are so much bigger than any one person's actions. But some walls also seem so huge and impossible that it appears pointless to work toward them. The beauty of climbing has always been the reward of the process itself.”
Source: Alone on the Wall
“I've tried to block out the awkward years of my puberty, but we've played this same what-if game before, you and me—what if it's just a matter of finding the right haircut, the right outfit, the right boyfriend, the right femininity. Maybe you were right in some way; you never gave in to expectations of what a woman should be.”
Source: The Thirty Names of Night
“I’ve tried to bridle my
affections, but the spur of my passion will let me do
nothing else but run right to you.”
Source: Julien and Alita
“I've tried to get the angel to watch MTV so I can learn the vocabulary of your music, but even with the gift of tongues, I'm having trouble learning to speak hip-hop. Why is it that one can busta rhyme or busta move anywhere but you must busta cap in someone's ass? Is "ho" always feminine, and "muthafucka" always masculine, while "bitch" can be either? How many peeps in a posse, how much booty before baby got back, do you have to be all that to get all up in that, and do I need to be dope and phat to be da bomb or can I just be "stupid"? I'll not be singing over any dead mothers until I understand.”
Source: Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal
“I've tried to hold space for change... even that for me felt like i was forcing, forcing myself to accept something I wasn't comfortable with. Love makes us act strange..and excitement can feel like pressure and passion can feel like obsession..so best to just sit back calmly..and let them do what they need to do. Then i forced myself to eventually to do the same.”
Source: The Bunna Man Trilogy
“I've tried to ignore it, but it pries at me. Every glance pulls me apart until suddenly my duty is disregarded, and I'm craving the touch of your skin. I'm afraid my heart will not know balance without you. But that doesn't mean I can have you.”
“I’ve tried to imagine how she’d feel knowing that her cells went up in the first space missions to see what would happen to human cells in zero gravity, or that they helped with some of the most important advances in medicine: the polio vaccine, chemotherapy, cloning, gene mapping, in vitro fertilization. I’m pretty sure that she—like most of us—would be shocked to hear that there are trillions more of her cells growing in laboratories now than there ever were in her body.”
Source: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
“I’ve tried to keep my thoughts from the whirlwind in my mind
in order to discourse on a level more your kind.
But I just can’t seem to customize a pattern to relate
the content of your intellect to the produce in my freight.”
Source: Poetic Cognition
“I’ve tried to live each day with purpose—have fallen short some days, made mistakes—but I learn from each experience. (Congress Needs Accountability: A Personal Call from Pulitzer-prize nominated author, Carlos Wallace – blog)”
“I've tried to teach what I learned all those years in my mother and father's house, all those things I didn't realize I was learning and that I never knew I'd be so grateful for. When you have love and it's proffered every day in a kind of tender, yet stern insistence and even reckless laughter, when it is given to you and you accept it in life as a thing as natural as rain or snow, or the littler of leaves in fall, you can't help but take it for granted. For a bewildered while you incorrectly understand that the world has given you this becuase it's there in equal measure, everywhere. You never knowuntil it's too late to do anything about it, how seet the effort is: how lasting the human will to love can be in the breast of people who want to make it for you, who want to give it to you, without calculating what's in it fo them, without thinking at all of what it will mean when you grow to full adulthood, see the world as it is, and forget to mention what you have been given.
Ever day of my grown-up life, I have wanted to do what my parents did. I have wanted to widen the province of love and weaken hate and bitterness in the hearts of my children. And I've done these things because of what I got from my family, all those lovely years when I was growing up, being loved and cherished and, unbeknown to me, and in the best way, honored, for myself.”
Source: Dream Me Home Safely: Writers on Growing Up in America – Intimate Essays on Diverse Childhoods
“I've turned my tears into prayers”
“I've unsheathed my claws too many times. I want to save lives, not destroy them.”
Source: Crookedstar's Promise
“I've visited thirty-one inhabited planets in the universe, and I have studied reports on one hundred more. Only on Earth is there any talk of free will.”
Source: SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE
“I've waited a century to marry you, Ms. Swan.”
Source: Breaking Dawn
“I’ve waited for him to invite my confidence, to fill the void my mother’s death left in my life. I’ve hungered for his affection. But he made me wait too long.”
Source: Luna Station Quarterly: Issue 018
“I've waited forever for you...what's a few more lifetimes?”
“I’ve waited my entire life to find you, and I’ll protect you, or die trying.”
Source: Song of the Soul
“I've waited so long for this.
You feel so fucking right.”
Source: This Summer Will Be Different
“I've waited so very long for this. For you. For someone as beautiful, both inside and out, as you, my beloved Brianna. Do you not see? 'Tis no accident that you're here. We were destined through time, through eternity, to meet. To love.”
Source: The Unquiet
“I've wandered through the real world, and written myself through the darkness of the streets inside me. I see people walking through the city and wonder where they've been, and what the moments of their lives have done to them. If they're anything like me, their moments have held them up and shot them down.
Sometimes I just survive.
But sometimes I stand on the rooftop of my existence, arms stretched out, begging for more.
That's when the stories show up in me.
They find me all the time.
They're made of underdogs and fighters. They're made of hunger and desire and trying to live decent.
The only trouble is, I don't know which of those stories comes first.
Maybe they all just merge into one.
We'll see, I guess.
I'll let you know when I decide.”
Source: Getting The Girl
“I’ve wanted everything in my life to change for so long, and when it’s finally about to, my urge to escape slows down. I think that’s why people stay unhappy for so long, you know? Miserable or not, it’s easier to stick with what’s familiar.
Do you notice that, too? How all of us just want to get through life as quickly and as easily as possible? And even though we know that without risk there’s no reward, we’re still so scared to chance it?”
Source: Punk 57
“I've wanted to change. I wanted to leave behind that desperate world where we fought over a single cookie... I've always wanted to be part of the beautiful, clean world outside.”
Source: Wind Breaker 11
“I’ve wanted to die for a
long time and one day,
I’m going out like a
Texas lightning storm –
big, bold, beautiful,
deadly, dead and
done with.”
Source: Cells
“I've wanted you from the first moment I laid eyes on you," he breathed. "I think of you all day and night. I imagine what it would be like ot kiss you, taste you. I get lost in those thoughts and I never want to leave. Wanting you...it's consuming me.”
Source: Devil's Temptation
“I've wanted you," he'd murmured, his lips barely touching mine, "for so long.”
Source: A Beautiful Dark
“I've wanted you since Texas...”
Source: Midnight Heat
“I’ve wanted you since the moment you first turned up here four months ago,” he whispered, “I have to have you.”
Source: Carrie's First Time
“I’ve warned him about the dangers of smoking and second-hand smoke. He always looks off in the distance, as if giving my warnings serious thought, then returns to his paper. I reconcile it all by thinking of him as an incense burner. I do like the smell of pipe tobacco . . . may Al Gore forgive me.”
Source: Zonked Out: The Teen Psychologist of San Marcos Who Killed Her Santa Claus and Found the Blue-Black Edge of the Love Universe
“I've wasted a lot of time in my life. I've thought too much about what people will say or what they're gonna think. And sometimes it's over silly things like going to the grocery store or going to the post office. But there have been times when I really stopped myself from doing something special. All because I was scared someone might look at me and decide I wasn't good enough. But you don't have to bother with that nonsense. I wasted all that time so you don't have to.”
Source: Dumplin'
“I've wasted a lot of time in my life waiting for good things to happen, rather than acting to make them happen.
What I've learned?
Waiting suffocates power. Acting ignites it.
Waiting feeds anxiety. Acting relaxes it.
Waiting fuels boredom. Acting repels it.
Waiting galvanizes fear. Acting subdues it.
Your life will not change any sooner while you wait around for something new. But it just may transform at warp speed once you take action to change it.
I'm tired of wasting time, of waiting time. How about you?
Act, don't wait.”
“I've wasted all those yesterdays and am completely out of tomorrows”
Source: They Both Die at the End
“I’ve wasted too much of my life already trying to please a man who can’t be pleased. It’s about time I pleased myself.”
Source: The Christmas Wish
“I've watched a never-ending line of relationships crumple around me, with each sordid detail publicized to the world. I couldn't stand to hurt you that way.”
Source: Blind Attraction
“I've watched anime before too... Evangelion was it?
- Igarashi”
Source: 私がモテてどうすんだ 1 [Watashi ga Motete dousunda 1]
“I’ve watched even the most loyal of you scheme against your brothers, whine about who was favoured over whom, and go to war over your arrogances, heedless of consequence, like some moronic pantheon of ancient gods. You, and the malformed coven of tainted genetics you call a family, have no right to set foot upon this world.”
Source: Era of Ruin
“I've watched every episode of Poirot and Midsomer Murders on TV. I never guess the ending and I can't wait for the moment when the detective gathers all the suspects in the room and, like a magician conjuring silk scarves out of the air, makes the whole thing make sense.”
Source: Magpie Murders
“I’ve watched hundreds of deed transfers take place right here on the steps of the Registry,” Michele mused. “At those moments of transfer, I’ve seen in the eyes of desperate sellers an emotional reconciliation of irrevocably relinquishing a homestead, a treasured dominion, willingly or otherwise. Perhaps all these deeds, Mr. Geoffrey…perhaps they, too, have their own soul, a predilection that would tell me more than what they say if only I had the capacity to ask.”
Source: Macom Farm
“I’ve watched the Lord press seeds into the sometimes resistant soil of my heart that I might grow out of myself and become more like Him. Sometimes he does the planting alone in the night, when it’s just Him and me. But usually God uses others to plant and water the hope that I can do exceedingly more through Christ than I ever dreamed.”
Source: I Grew Up Little: Finding Hope in a Big God
“I’ve watched you for a very long time now. And in this time, I’ve come to discover just as I first suspected. We are perfect for one another.”
Source: Hold My Hand
“I've watched your face on TV, Mrs. Anderson. I've seen the photos and read the quotes. I think you knew she was dead but you wouldn't admit it. But I'm not sure why. Was it dire optimism? Did you think you could stave off the inevitable if you refused to acknowledge it, if you refused to admit the possibilities or to picture them in your mind's eye? Some sort of surreal hope or fear against jinxing providence?
Did praying help? Did it really help? Obviously, it didn't help change the situation but did it help you get through those two long weeks of uncertainty? Perhaps it helped to think that god has a plan for everything?”
Source: Tool
“I've welcomed all the hardships while staying undaunted & I've transcended above myself.”
“I've wept enough in my life. I have no tears left.”
Source: Quintana of Charyn
“I've wondered. Of course I have. And I love Byatt more than anything, more than myself, more than the life I had before Raxter. But I know the warmth in my heart when I look at her. How it burns smooth and even, without a spark.”
Source: Wilder Girls
“I’ve wondered since if you can ever truly read a face. It’s too easy to see what you so desperately want to see, even if it isn’t there. I knew that.”
Source: The Beauty of the End