I Quotes
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“I can move both of my eyes separately in different directions.”
“I can move objects with my mind, if I use my hands.”
“I can multitask very well. But I know exactly when to block off anything coming in from the outside and just stay focused on the film.”
“I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.”
“I can name a LOT of things that taste better than skinny feels… Potatoes! Bread!”
“I can negate everything of that part of me that lives on vague nostalgias, except this desire for unity, this longing to solve, this need for clarity and cohesion. I can refute everything in this world surrounding me that offends or enraptures me, except this chaos, this sovereign chance and this divine equivalence which springs from anarchy. I don’t know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I do not know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it. What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“I can negate everything of that part of me that lives on vague nostalgias, except this desire for unity, this longing to solve, this need for clarity and cohesion. I can refute everything in this world surrounding me that offends or enraptures me, except this chaos, this sovereign chance and this divine equivalence which springs from anarchy. I don't know whether this world has meaning that transcends it. But I know that I do not know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it. What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“I can neither confirm nor deny details of any such operation without Secretary's approval”
“I can neither return your love nor dismiss it.”
“I can neither serve God nor humanity if as an Indian I do not serve India, and as a Hindu I do not serve Indian Mussalmans.”
Source: Collected Works
“I can neither teach nor live by the faith of others. I must live by my own faith as the Spirit of the Lord has taught me through His Word.”
Source: The Complete Works of Menno Simons
“I can never accomplish what I want - only what I would have wanted had I thought of it beforehand.”
“I can never acknowledge the right of slavery. I will bow down to no deity however worshipped by professing Christians - however dignified by the name of the Goddess of Liberty, whose footstool is the crushed necks of the groaning millions, and who rejoices in the resoundings of the tyrant's lash, and the cries of his tortured victims.”
“I can never again see a UNITED STATES MARINE without experiencing a feeling of reverence.”
“I can never be an atheist, because God is our celestial hope for our existential worries, our cosmic chance against absurdity!" MMI”
“I can never be divorced from them. Because they exist within me. I am her, the molested and the raped. I am him, the detained and the sold. I am they, the legions of people killed in regional subsidised genocides without names and buried in anonymous tombs.”
Source: I Will Be Silent
“I can never be enough to someone who does not appreciate my efforts.
Neither could i ever be significant to someone who does not acknowledge my presence.”
“I can never be important to any one.' 'What is to prevent you?' 'Every thing — my situation — my foolishness and awkwardness.”
Source: The Complete Novels of Jane Austen
“I can never be important to anyone.'
'What is to prevent you?'
'Everything -- my situation -- my foolishness and awkwardness."
'As to your foolishness and awkwardness, my dear Fanny, you never have a shadow of either, but in using the words so improperly. There is no reason in the world why you should not be important where you are known. You have good sense, and a sweet temper, and I am sure you have a grateful heart, that could never receive kindness without wishing to return it. I do not know any better qualifications for a friend and companion.”
“I can never be lost. I have no destination.”
“I can never be Michael Jackson or do what he did, but he is definitely a good inspiration: I want to give the kids that feeling.”
“I can never be on time for anything. I'm always 10 or 15 minutes late.”
“I can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher goal. That's how I've gotten to where I am.”
“I can never be the hero now. You have to be young and all that stuff. I used to be the hero.”
“I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be.”
“I can never be who I was. I can simply watch her with sympathy, understanding, and some measure of awe. There she goes, backpack on, headed for the subway or the airport. She did her best with her eyeliner. She learned a new word she wants to try out on you. She is ambling along. She is looking for it.”
Source: Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's
“I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace.”
Source: Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
“I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart”
Source: THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD, MASTER HUMPHREY'S CLOCK, AND SKETCHES BY
“I can never consent to being dictated to.”
“I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.”
Source: The Letters of D. H. Lawrence
“I can never describe myself as a movie star. I don't know when that happens but it's certainly not me.”
“I can never do better than 'Fawlty Towers,' whatever I do. Now I very much want to teach young talent some rules of the game.”
“I can never do justice to the great feeling of amazement and encouragement I felt when, perhaps for the first time in American history, white citizens of a Southern state banded together to come to Selma and show their indignation about the injustices against the African-Americans.”
“I can never do nothing in this house!”
“I can never drive my car over a bridge without thinking of suicide. I can never look at a lake or an ocean without thinking of suicide.”
Source: The Captain is Out to Lunch
“I can never endorse sin any more than when I tell people it's their nature to do it.”
“I can never enjoy Sundays, because in the back of my mind I always know I've got to go to school the next day. It's like trying to enjoy your last meal before the execution.”
“I can never experience the next realm of glory until I crucify myself.”
“I can never fathom it when people say things like "I can't understand abstract art!" Or: "Abstract art is junk!" Or: "Abstract art isn't as valid as realism!"”
“I can never fear that things will go far wrong where common sense has fair play.”
Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin
“I can never feel that setting fire to houses and churches and litter boxes and destroying valuable pictures really helps to convince people that women ought to be enfranchised.”
“I can never feel that the Illusion of Life is a truth as long as any illusion reflects unreality; however, even an untruth is a truth in its turn.”
Source: Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom
“I can never find a movie I want to watch, even though I've got hundreds to choose from.”
“I can never find the right bras.”
“I can never forget suffering and I will never forget sunset. I came home with all of it in my mind.”
“I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.”
Source: Working and Thinking on the Waterfront: A Journal, June 1958-May 1959
“I can never forgive evil and lying and cruel means, and still less can I forgive fanatics that use that for an excuse! If I may imitate Romain Rolland, a country that tolerates evil means — evil manners, standards of ethics — for a generation, will be so poisoned that it never will have any good end.”
Source: It Can't Happen Here
“I can never forgive God for having invented the French”
“I can never get bored of looking at you and loving you.”
“I can never get enough of you.”
Source: Resurrection