I Quotes
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“I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.”
“I can easily believe it. Women of that class have great opportunities, and if they are intelligent may be well worth listening to. Such varieites of human nature as they are in the habit of witnessing! And it is not merely in its follies, that they are read; for they see it occasionally under every circumstance that can be most interesting or affecting. What instances must pass before them of ardent, disinterested, self-denying attachment, of heroism, fortitude, patience, resignation-- of all the sacrifices that ennoble us most. A sick chamber may often furnish the worth of volumes.”
“I can easily come up with ten really iconic stories/trade paperbacks for Superman, Batman, others... name me ten equally big, iconic Wonder Woman stories. Much harder. That ain't the character's fault, that isn't sexism, that's just not servicing the character.”
“I can easily conceive, most Holy Father, that as soon as some people learn that in this book which I have written concerning the revolutions of the heavenly bodies, I ascribe certain motions to the Earth, they will cry out at once that I and my theory should be rejected.”
Source: Prefaces and prologues to famous books
“I can easily do without people (there are days when I could easily do without myself), and ... in the country of books where I dwell, the dead can count entirely as much as the living.”
Source: The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier
“I can easily give away everything I own, but don't sin against yourself by trying to interfere with my freedom of choice.”
“I can easily go to America, or I can easily escape to some places in Europe with friends. But the place for me is the Philippines. The struggle is there. I cannot turn my back on it. It's a responsibility.”
“I can easily ignore my detractors and feel the people who respond favorably.”
“I can easily imagine belonging to one man for my entire life, but he would have to be a whole man, a man who would dominate me, who would subjugate me by his inate strength. And every man—I know this very well—as soon as he falls in love becomes weak, pliable, ridiculous. He puts himself into the woman's hands, kneels down before her. The only man whom I could love permanently would be he before whom I should have to kneel.”
Source: Venus in Furs
“I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader - or any person - in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.”
“I can easily lose myself emotionally in absolute Hollywood garbage.”
“I can easily say "no" to a project if the script isn't great, but when the script is good, then I start asking the other questions. Who's going to direct it? Who's the creator? Who are the actors? When are we shooting? Where is it shooting? All that kind of stuff.”
“I can easily say I've done everything I've wanted in music.”
“I can easily set my tone.”
“I can easily teach people to be gardeners, and from them, once they know how to garden, you'll get a philosopher.”
“I can eat a man, but I'm not sure of the fiber content.”
“I can eat everything; chocolate, hamburgers, pizza, go to McDonalds, Burger King, KFC. It's all in my body.”
“I can eat fifty eggs.”
“I can edit into infinity. It's such a joy. I'd probably edit until the last word. Until there's only one word left.”
“I can either cross the street, or I can keep waiting for another few years of green lights to go by.”
“I can either spend the rest of my life holding on to hope that everything will fall into place...or I can shove two middle fingers at life and make it my bitch.”
Source: Collided
“I can either turn to you
Or make them all blind
For witnessing my real hue
And letting my soul slide
First is obviously the one I chose
For even the ones with their eyes tied
Never miss to disclose
Never miss to be prejudiced”
“I can elect something I love and absorb myself in it.”
“I can embarrass myself very easily on guitar. It's funny because people say to me I can play anything; I'm God on the guitar. But I could make a big list of everything I can't play... I'm grateful that people don't notice that.”
“I can empathize with characters. Real people are harder. Real people don’t have concise character arcs.”
Source: Eliza and Her Monsters
“I can empathize with President [George Bush]. I know what it feels like having a young guy waiting around for you to keel over.”
“I can empathize with the magnitude of his sheer solitude more than anyone else. (alt: I understand the feeling of what it's like to be lonely at the top.)”
Source: 呪術廻戦 27 [Jujutsu Kaisen 27]
“I can empathize with women who feel that [sexism]. I personally haven't experienced it, and I'm grateful for that. I feel very appreciated on the show I'm on, but I do empathize. My concern is less the entertainment industry specifically, and more the general problem that women don't get paid as much as men in any industry.”
“I can endlessly ‘talk’ about the need to ‘listen’. Yet in doing so, I’m once again doing the very opposite of what I say I should be doing.”
“I can endow all my rights and principles if that constancy becomes the precept and tenet of the unity within us since it manifests the sacrifice and the elimination of hatred and such division, for the future youth.”
“I can endure more pain then anyone you've met. That's why I win, because I can endure more pain.”
“I can endure my own despair, but not another's hope.”
“I can enjoy a vacation as well as the next person, as long as I know it's a vacation and not a premature retirement.”
“I can enjoy an Arsenal-Chelsea match without having to worry about getting exclusive quotes afterwards from one of the participants as he makes his way to his Bentley. I was never very good at steaming up to someone and engaging them in conversation like that.”
“I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“I can entertain the proposition that life is a metaphor for boxing--for one of those bouts that go on and on, round following round, jabs, missed punches, clinches, nothing determined, again the bell and again and you and your opponent so evenly matched it's impossible not to see that your opponent is you.... Life is like boxing in many unsettling respects. But boxing is only like boxing.”
Source: On Boxing
“I can envision observations and experiments that would disprove any evolutionary theory I know.”
Source: Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History
“I can eraser you out just as easily as I can pencil you in.”
“I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No.”
“I can evade questions without help; what I need is answers”
“I can even say I desire death now because the friends we started to live with have left from this world one by one.”
Source: Red-White Love: The Love of Liverpool FC
“I can even work with my enemies. Because I know from experience that they might have a change of heart any minute!-Septima Clark”
Source: The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement
“I can exchange opinion with any neighbouring mind,
I have as healthy flesh and blood as any rhymer's had,
But O! my Heart could bear no more when the upland caught the wind;
I ran, I ran, from my love's side because my Heart went mad.”
Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
“I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.”
“I can explain all the poems that were ever invented - and a good many that haven't been invented just yet.”
Source: The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll With All the Original Illustrations + The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll: All the Novels, Stories and Poems: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland + Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There + Sylvie and Bruno + A Tangled Tale + What the Tortoise Said to Achilles + Puzzles from Wonderland + The Hunting of the Snark and much more
“I can explain how a person with autism thinks. I am very, very interested in how people think. It's been a gradual process of learning more and more about how my thinking process is different. You know it's bottom up - you take specific examples to make concepts and then I put them in categories.”
“I can explain it to you, but I can't comprehend it for you.”
“I can express gratitude for the simple act of being able to breathe in and breathe out. I can move away from darkness and depression to light and hope. I can be happy with who I am, not what I should be, or what I might have been, or what someone tells me I must be. I am me, the true me; you are you, the true you - and that's good. That's beautiful. That's enough.”
“I can express no better hope for my country than that the kind Providence which smiled upon our fathers may enable their children to preserve the blessings they have inherited.”
Source: Inaugural Speeches from the Presidents of the United States - Complete Edition
“I can express no kinder sign of love, than this kind kiss.”
Source: First Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III