I Quotes
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“I avoid the looming visitor,
Flee him adroitly around corners,
Hating him, wishing him well;
Lest if he confront me I be forced to say what is in no wise true:
That he is welcome; that I am unoccupied;
And forced to sit while the potted roses wilt in the crate or the sonnet cools
Bending a respectful nose above such dried philosophies
As have hung in wreaths from the rafters of my house since I was a child.
Some trace of kindliness in this, no doubt,
There may be.
But not enough to keep a bird alive.
There is a flaw amounting to a fissure
In such behaviour.”
Source: Collected Poems
“I avoid the media circus, keep my head down and try to keep growing and learning things.”
“I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me.”
“I avoid the young adult section altogether if possible, although it's sometimes fun to catch a girl lying on the floor, reading "Gossip Girl."”
“I avoid traveling on budget airlines.”
“I avoid traveling through Denver International Airport (DIA) due to its high altitude.”
“I avoided any leaves and stones, falling into a pattern of movement that some part of my body—some part that was not born of the High Lords—remembered.
Like waking up. That's what it felt like.
I passed the well. Not a speck of dirt, not a stone out of place. A perfect, pretty trap, that mortal part of me warned. A trap designed from a time when humans were prey; now laid for a smarter, immortal sort of game.
I was not prey any longer, I decided as I eased up to that door.
And I was not a mouse.
I was a wolf.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“I avoided his stare, turning for the kitchen. 'You must be hungry, I'll heat something up.'
Rhys straightened. 'You'd- make me food?'
'Heat,' I said. 'I can't cook.'
It didn't seem to make a difference. But whatever it was, the act of offering him food... I dumped some cold soup into a pan and lit the burner. 'I don't know the rules,' I said, my back to him. 'So you need to explain them to me.'
He lingered in the centre of the cabin, watching my every move. He said hoarsely. 'It's an... important moment when a female offers her mate food. It goes back to whatever beasts we were a long, long time ago. But it still matters. The first time matters. Some mated pairs will make an occasion of it- throwing a party just so the female can formally offer her mate food... That's usually done amongst the wealthy. But it means that the female... accepts the bond.'
I stared into the soup. 'Tell me the story- tell me everything.'
He understood my offer: tell me while I cooked, and I'd decide at the end whether or not to offer him that food.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“I avoided nudity unless a film couldnt be told without those scenes. If you look at my films, few of them have that element, yet nudity and male fantasies have become emblematic of my work.”
“I avoided reality for most of my life. But once you deal with it, it's kind of cool.”
“I avoided writers very carefully because they can perpetuate trouble as no one else can.”
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“I avoided you, so that you couldn’t avoid me.”
Source: Swimming in the Dark
“I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.”
Source: The Works of William Harvey ...
“I avow that I do not hold that complete and instantaneous love for the freedom of the press that one accords to things whose nature is unqualifiedly good. I love it out of consideration for the evils it prevents much more than for the good it does.”
Source: Democracy in America
“I await joyous surprises while working, an awakening of the materials that I work with and that my spirit develops.”
“I await the hour when a journalist can be driven from the press room for venal practices, as a minister can be unfrocked, or a lawyer disbarred.”
“I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.”
“I awaited this moment for a lifetime. I waited for him to ignite whatever lurked inside me.”
Source: Crowed
“I awake, I meditate, get the kids off to school, go to the gym, go to the Favored Nations office, and usually at around 1 pm I'm home and do music the rest of the day.”
“I awaken in the morning with confidence, rejoicing in whatever work is given to me to do. Whatever that work is, I do it, not in order to earn a living or in a sense of performing an onerous duty; but, with joy and gladness, I let it unfold as the activity of God's expression through me.”
Source: The Art of Meditation
“I awaken myself to the greatest lesson Ireland offers: that I must wake up to whatever place I find myself, wake up to its seasons and weather, its heritage and special beauties, its ultimate and indisputable holiness.
I have news for you: spring comes everywhere with sweetness and hope. Summer's fullness becomes harvest, then the world sleeps through a dark time. This is the only truth: that just as Ireland is sacred, so all land is sacred, as we are all sacred. This is my news.”
Source: The Red-Haired Girl from the Bog: The Landscape of Celtic Myth and Spirit
“I awaken today, appreciating everything in sight, and I give thanks.”
“I awaken. I consume oxygen, then bacon, eggs and black coffee, then my wife, then bacon.”
“I awakened on Monday with the impression that I might have to get up and bang my head against the wall to get my heart started.”
Source: Pale Gray for Guilt
“I awakened. is that not a wonderful statement?”
Source: Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life
“I awoke each night, shaking and panting. And became glad when Tamlin wasn't there to witness it. When I, too, didn't witness him being yanked from his dreams, cold sweating coating his body. Or shifting into that beast, and staying awake until dawn, monitoring the estate for threats. What could I say to calm those fears, when I was the source of so many of them?”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“I awoke from my chronic fatigue and significant mental illness in 2022. I had changed the body chemistry like those in the movie ‘Awakenings’. I was aware that it may be temporary. In 2024 the ‘Awakening Effect’ started slowly subsiding.”
“I awoke from my physical and mental sickness in 2022. I had changed the body chemistry like those in the movie ‘Awakenings’. In 2024 the ‘Awakening Effect’ started slowly subsiding. Unlike those in the ‘Awakenings’ movie, I was able to adjust the body chemistry and wake up again.”
“I awoke from The Sickness at the age of forty-five, calm and sane, and in reasonably good health except for a weakened liver and the look of borrowed flesh common to all who survive The Sickness.”
Source: Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
“I awoke from The Sickness at the age of forty-five, calm and sane, and in reasonably good health except for a weakened liver and the look of borrowed flesh common to all who survive The Sickness... When I speak of drug addiction I do not refer to keif, marijuana or any preparation of hashish, mescaline, Banisteriopsis caapi, LSD6, Sacred Mushrooms or any other drugs of the hallucinogen group... There is no evidence that the use of any hallucinogen results in physical dependence.”
“I awoke from this nightmare into a freezing cold motel room: the heater had broken at some point during the night, and the fan was now blowing icy air into the room.
At first I tried to keep warm under the crappy motel bedspread by thinking about the man I loved. At the time he was traveling in Europe, and was thus unreachable. I didn't know it yet, but as I lay there, he was traveling with another woman. Does it matter now? I tried hard to feel his body wrapped tightly around mine.
Next I tried to imagine everyone I had ever loved, and everyone who had ever loved me, wrapped around me. I tried to feel that I was the composite of all these people, instead of alone in a shitty motel room with a broken heater somewhere outside of Detroit, a few miles from where Jane's body was dumped thirty-six years ago on a March night just like this one.
'Need each other as much as you can bear,' writes Eileen Myles. 'Everywhere you go in the world.'
I felt the wild need for any or all of these people that night. Lying there alone, I began to feel - perhaps even to know - that I did not exist apart from their love and need of me.
Of this latter I felt less sure, but it seemed possible, if the equation worked both ways.
Falling asleep I thought, 'Maybe this, for me, is the hand of God.”
Source: The Red Parts
“I awoke in a cold room, hunched on the floor beside a black and empty grate, the clock striking three, and the siren howling overhead.”
“I awoke in the Midsummer not-to-call night, in the white and the
walk of the morning”
Source: Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins
“I awoke one day to find myself famous.”
“I awoke one morning and found myself famous.”
“I awoke one morning to find myself famous.”
“I awoke that cold winter morning knowing she was gone as a fact. Butt I had no pictures, no memory, of any goodbye, indeed no pictures of her at all. Instead I recalled my mother in the secondhand, so that I was sure that she had been taken, in the same way that I was sure that there were lions in Africa, though I had never seen one.”
“I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.”
Source: Essays, lectures and orations
“I awoke, warm and rested and calm.
Safe.
Sunlight streamed through the filthy window, illuminating the reds and golds in the wall of wing before me- where it had been all night, shielding me from the cold.
Rhysand's arms were banded around me, his breathing deep and even. And I knew it was just as rare for him to sleep that soundly, peacefully.
What we'd done last night...
Carefully, I twisted to face him, his arms tightening slightly, as if to keep me from vanishing with the morning mist.
His eyes were open when I nestled my head against his arm. Within the shelter of the wing, we watched each other.
And I realised I might very well be content to do exactly that forever.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“I awoke with a mild hangover.”
“I awoke you from your sleep because I saw that you were having a nightmare. And now you are cross and say to me: "What are we supposed to do now? Everything is still night!" You ingrates! You should go to sleep again and dream better.”
“I awoke, only to see that the rest of the world is still asleep.”
“I aye loved you, Inge. I never stopped loving you, I think, even when I hated you.”
Source: Quest for a Maid
“I back away from conscious thought and turn the problem over to my unconscious mind. It will scan a broader array of patterns and find some new close fits from other information stored in my brain.”
“I back away from negativity - there's too much in this world, and I don't want to be around it.”
“I backed horse last week at ten to one. It came in at quarter past four.”
“I backed off Nicole fast. They hit her with a needle, but she wouldn't stop trying to get me and they had to haul her out.
"You b*tch!" she shrieked back at me. "You think what I did to Serena was bad? Just wait until I get ahold of you." They dragged her away, still spewing threats.”
Source: The Rising
“I backed out of the kitchen. Griff was a rigid shadow halfway
down the hall, his gaze trained on the door at the end. His snarls
shook the air. The hall lights flickered, illuminating the hackles
along his spine. My insides turned liquid.
They weren’t coming.
They were here.”
Source: Anomaly
“I backed up all my pictures on my iCloud so you can’t see me when I die / I left my body somewhere down in Mexico / Give ‘Find My iPhone’ app a try.”
“I backed us up against the wall. “How I feel? You want to know?” I ran my hands over his face and tangled them into his messy hair. “This is unlike anything else. I’ve bungeed off buildings, I’ve skateboarded off roofs. I’ve even gone train surfing. Nothing comes close to the high I feel when I’m with you. You’ve been through horrible things, and yet you’re one of the kindest, truest people I’ve ever met. At first I thought it was because you were
safe. I could feel something for you because you couldn’t hurt me. Not the way Alex did. But it’s more than that. It’s you. Who you are. The way you are. Everything from your smile to the way you always say exactly what’s on your mind. Your soul, Kale.”
Source: Touch