I Quotes
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“I can hardly bring myself to caution you against drinking, because I am persuaded that I am writing to a rational creature, a gentleman, and not to a swine. However, that you may not be insensibly drawn into that beastly custom of even sober drinking and sipping, as the sots call it, I advise you to be of no club whatsoever.”
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“I can hardly decide what plays I should be in.”
“I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.”
“I can hardly express in words my deep feeling and sympathy for them, knowing as I do, the many serious handicaps and obstacles that will confront them in almost every walk of life.”
Source: The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds; an Autobiography
“I can hardly find the words to describe the peace I felt when I was acting. My dysfunctional self could actually plug in to another self, not my own, and it felt so good.”
“I can hardly forbear hurling things at him.”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators
“I can hardly keep track of the things I don't know, but every now and then comes an ignorance that makes me nostalgic.”
Source: Tre cavalli
“I can hardly let the fear of my expectations falling short, the idea of people letting me down, dictate how we live around here.”
Source: How to Say I Love You Out Loud
“I can hardly think of an occasion when I've got into a stand-up fight with any political opponent. I've got my views, people know what they are, they can agree or they can choose to disagree. I'm not going to waste time just rubbishing everybody else.”
“I can hardly thinke there was any scared into Heaven; they go the surest way to Heaven who would serve God without a Hell; other Mercenaries, that crouch unto Him in feare of Hell, though they terme themselves servants, are indeed but the slaves of the Almighty.”
Source: Religio Medici and Urne-Buriall
“I can hardly understand the Australian accent.”
“I can hardly wait for tomorrow, it means a new life for me each and every day.”
“I can hardly wait till he gets old enough to talk," sighed Diana. "I just long to hear him say `mother.' And oh, I'm determined that his first memory of me shall be a nice one. The first memory I have of my mother is of her slapping me for something I had done. I am sure I deserved it, and mother was always a good mother and I love her dearly. But I do wish my first memory of her was nicer."
"I have just one memory of my mother and it is the sweetest of all my memories," said Mrs. Allan. "I was five years old, and I had been allowed to go to school one day with my two older sisters. When school came out my sisters went home in different groups, each supposing I was with the other. Instead I had run off with a little girl I had played with at recess. We went to her home, which was near the school, and began making mud pies. We were having a glorious time when my older sister arrived, breathless and angry.
"`You naughty girl" she cried, snatching my reluctant hand and dragging me along with her. `Come home this minute. Oh, you're going to catch it! Mother is awful cross. She is going to give you a good whipping.'
"I had never been whipped. Dread and terror filled my poor little heart. I have never been so miserable in my life as I was on that walk home. I had not meant to be naughty. Phemy Cameron had asked me to go home with her and I had not known it was wrong to go. And now I was to be whipped for it. When we got home my sister dragged me into the kitchen where mother was sitting by the fire in the twilight. My poor wee legs were trembling so that I could hardly stand. And mother -- mother just took me up in her arms, without one word of rebuke or harshness, kissed me and held me close to her heart. `I was so frightened you were lost, darling,' she said tenderly. I could see the love shining in her eyes as she looked down on me. She never scolded or reproached me for what I had done -- only told me I must never go away again without asking permission. She died very soon afterwards. That is the only memory I have of her. Isn't it a beautiful one?”
Source: Anne of the Island: Anne of Green Gables Series Book 3
“I can hardly wait until Donald Trump announces his celebrity cabinet.”
“I can hate that I'm nothing more than a pawn to you and still understand why I am.'
'You're not just a pawn to me, Poppy.”
Source: A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire
“I can hate you more, but I'll never love you less.”
“I can have a song with Ariana Grande that is going to be the song for all the kids and the teen girls, and then another song that could be for a different group of people who all love the song. Im with whoever. Whatever type of people want to love the music and whatever they love about the music is fine with me.”
“I can have a thousand people say the nicest things, but I'll always notice the one person who doesn't get me.”
“I can have a whole year off. I'm really lucky because I'm my own boss, so I make the rules and get to choose when I take time off.”
“I can have an androgynous quality.”
“I can have both of you, can’t I?” I whisper to him. “I don’t have to choose?”
He rubs his hands along the back of my head.
“You don’t have to choose,” he says quietly. “We chose you already.”
Source: Bear, Otter, and the Kid
“I can have different opinions with anybody. I can still be a friend with that person.”
“I can have fairly crippling self-criticism. It doesn't really put me in a vulnerable state, I just get glum and intolerable, but it certainly is a vulnerability.”
“I can have fun anywhere, as long as I'm with good people. But in the offseason, I like to go somewhere warm, a nice spot in the Caribbean.”
“I can have incredible self-discipline. But see, I think it's obviously a form of stupidity.”
“I can have little patience with those who oppose ... the theory of evolution or what are called "mechanistic" explanations of the phenomena of life because of certain moral consequences which at first seem to follow from these theories, and still less with those who regard it as irrelevant or impious to ask certain questions at all. By refusing to face the facts , the conservative only weakens his own position.”
“I can have my goals, and I can have my dreams. My goal is to make the finals and improve my position. I want to run all decent races. I don't want to look back and say I ran a terrible race.”
“I can have oodles of charm when I want to.”
Source: Breakfast of champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday!
“I can have patience for anything, but it's waiting for love, that kills me a little each day.”
“I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.”
Source: Good-Bye to Guilt: Releasing Fear Through Forgiveness
“I can heal a broken heart with a smile.”
“I can heal the scars on your body, but I can’t heal the scars of the soul. Not yours, not mine. You have to learn to live with them. You have to choose to live beyond them”
Source: Heir to the Shadows: The Black Jewels Trilogy 2
“I can hear a distant whisper,
a whisper beyond time.
It whispers not to the mind,
but to itself.
I listen and think I know what it’s saying,
but I’m just in the way.
Listen, be silent, don’t think.
It speaks not to the mind,
but to the silence itself.
The silence that I am.”
Source: One Without a Second: Poems
“I can hear change humming
In its loudest, proudest song.
I don’t fear change coming,
And so I sing along.”
Source: Change Sings: a Children's Anthem
“I can hear her thunder, she's coming after me, thunder thighs.”
“I can hear him weeping but I don't care. They probably won't even bother to question her, she's so far gone. Gone right off the deep end years ago in her Games. There's a good chance I'm headed in the same direction. Maybe I'm already going crazy and no one has the heart to tell me. I feel crazy enough.”
Source: Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)
“I can hear… music…” Dandelion suddenly sobbed.
“It happens,” said the witcher, looking at the arrowheads. “Don’t worry. There’s no shame in fear.”
Source: The Last Wish
“I can hear my aunt's voice, telling me that if my security depends on a man's words or action, I've lost sight of my power.”
Source: Heart Berries
“I can hear my brother's voice in my head. Your problem is that you're too emotional. But how can I not be emotional, Rowan? How can I not care?”
Source: Wither
“I can hear my heart beating. I can hear my stomach growling. I can hear my teeth grinding and my joints creaking. My body's so noisy, I can't sleep.”
“I can hear my muse whispering tenderly in my ear. There is a story that wants to be told, and I'm merely its chosen vessel.”
Source: The Merchant of Stories: A Creative Entrepreneur's Journey
“I can hear of the brilliant accomplishments of any of my sex with pleasure and rejoice in that liberality of sentiment which acknowledges them.”
Source: Letters of Mrs. Adams: the wife of John Adams
“I can hear other things, too. Before you came around, I had no idea a man could make a girl scream like that. Reyes seems very talented.”
Source: The Charley Davidson Series
“I can hear our hearts breaking."
A tear wets my fingertips, his tears, and his other hand encases my face, the way mine does him. His lips nearly skim mine. "I’ll shield your ears from the sound of heartbreak.”
Source: Fuel the Fire
“I can hear people smile.”
“I can hear President Snow's voice in my head. 'On the seventy-fifth anniversary, as a reminder to the rebels that even the strongest among them cannot overcome the power of the capital, the male and female tributes will be reaped from their existing pool of victors.”
Source: Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)
“I can hear sweat trickling down your cheek
Your heartbeat sound like Sasquatch feet
Thundering, shaking the concrete.”
“I can hear the darkness. It is like a breeze on a frigid winter's night that rattles the leafless branches. It is like the cold that travels through your open mouth and down your throat, a frozen kiss stealing your breath. It is like a blizzard that swallows you in its swiftness, blinding behind and before, and side to side. Darkness is winter. It is the end. It is death.”
Source: Night Falls on Predicament Avenue
“I can hear the library humming in the night,
a choir of authors murmuring inside their books
along the unlit, alphabetical shelves,
Giovanni Pontano next to Pope, Dumas next to his son,
each one stitched into his own private coat,
together forming a low, gigantic chord of language.”
Source: Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems
“I can hear the moths crackling and burning on the bulb,
I see myself as one of them, flitting around this porch light.
I can imagine me bewitched by the wink and sparkle,
but I couldn't imagine myself taking up camp here, forever.
I am suddenly abundantly aware that this is not even summer yet.
This is just a porch with a jerrybuilt swing and creaky planked floors,
a frayed recliner, and splays of gray hairs just (now) taking root.
I remember that first summer when we strung sprinklers like toy lanterns...”
Source: Ink Blot in a Poet's Bloodstream