I Quotes
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“I can never tell when something is funny. I just have to do it onstage and find out.”
“I can never tell
whether it’s his heart or mine beating
when passion pulsates
faster than our hearts oneness
From the Poem: Blithe Craving”
Source: To Evince the Blue
“I can never think of promoting my convenience at the expense of a friend's interest and inclination.”
Source: Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious
“I can never think of the time I spend idling in railway stations as lost; it's a waiting liberated from the three temporal vices of regret, anticipation or boredom, the weak echo of that bliss spent between lifetimes.”
“I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend.”
Source: The End of the Affair
“I can never turn a tour into a vacation.”
“I can never turn my back on a city that made me.”
“I can never ‘un-love’ you, Marcus. You are mine, all of you. Your faults are now my own, and all of your secrets are now mine to keep.”
Source: The Real Thing
“I can never understand people's obsession with being seen as normal rather than as themselves, whoever that is. After all, normal is nothing more than an ever-changing ideological dream created by ever-changing current trends that exist solely to make people buy things. If you don't know what that means, it means, politicians and salesmen dictate what normal looks like. Take that however you want.”
“I can never understand why I should eat at one or sleep at eleven, if it is, as it often is, my one and my eleven and nobody else's. For, as between the clock and me alone, one and eleven and all other o'clocks are mine and I am not theirs. But I have known men and women living in hotels who would interrupt a sunset to go to dine, or wave away the stars in their courses to go to sleep, merely because the hour had struck.”
“I can never understand why people don't try to be a better and kinder spiritual soul instead of a religious one. Religion should be more of a status quo to a person and not their way of life.”
Source: Bullying Ben: How Benjamin Franklin Overcame Bullying
“I can never understand why people who have not seen me for a while ask if I am still writing. They might as well ask me if I am still breathing.”
“I can never unlove you. I'll just love you in a different way now.”
“I can never watch anything I've been involved in, because I know it, and I know what the making of it was like, and I know what's been cut out and changed. I just know it.”
“I can no longer be sure whether the psyche is in me or whether I'm in the psyche.”
“I can no longer believe in any voodoo spell or laboratory virus. This is something deeper, darker. This comes from the cosmos, from the stars, or the unknown blackness behind them. The shadows in God's boarded-up basement.”
Source: Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition
“I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me.”
Source: Life Together
“I can no longer deny that bad things happened to me. I can’t be absolutely sure what happened to me, or who did them to me: I can’t ‘prove’ that 100%. But I have enough evidence to be able to state unequivocally that a lot of bad things happened to me from a very young age for a very long time.”
“I can no longer face life, so I've decided to go through the rest of it backwards.”
“I can no longer live by thinking.”
“I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.”
“I can no longer play at a level I was accustomed to in the past.”
“I can no longer say my love and your love; they are both alike in their perfect mutuality.”
“I can no longer seduce because I love my husband. I don’t want to hurt him. I am no longer a man-eater.”
“I can no longer serve justice in the way I have attempted to do during the past 30 years - I can do it only in the way I have now chosen.”
“I can no longer stay quiet in this world, I have a voice and I feel it reverberate off my internal walls, making its slow climb upward until its melody can be heard all around.”
“I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.”
“I can no longer think what I want to think. My thoughts have been replaced by moving images.”
“I can no longer type, so I use TalkingPoint and Dragon Dictate. It's a speech-to-text program, and there's an add-on for talking which some guys came up with.”
“I can no longer walk. I can no longer swim. But I'm lucky when I see how animals suffer.”
“I can no longer work outside because of the intensity of the light.”
“I can no more disown (Jeremiah Wright) than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother - a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe.”
“I can no more explain why I like "natural history" than why I like California canned peaches; nor why I do not care for that enormous brand of natural history which deals with invertebrates any more than why I do not care for brandied peaches. All I can say is that almost as soon as I began to read at all I began to like to read about the natural history of beasts and birds and the more formidable or interesting reptiles and fishes.”
Source: Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia
“I can no more imagine falling in love with someone who believed that than I can imagine falling in love with someone who believes that blacks shouldn't be able to vote and are inferior to whites.”
“I can no more preach nonviolence to a cowardly man than I can tempt a blind man to enjoy healthy scenes.”
“I can no more reread my own books than I can watch old home movies or look at snapshots of myself as a child. I wind up sitting on the floor, paralyzed by grief and nostalgia.”
“I can no more think of my own life without thinking of wine and wines and where they grew for me and why I drank them when I did and why I picked the grapes and where I opened the oldest procurable bottles, and all that, than I can remember living before I breathed.”
Source: Love in a Dish . . . and Other Culinary Delights by M.F.K. Fisher
“I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me”
Source: Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God
“I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks.”
Source: Twelfth Night, Or, What You Will
“I can nod my head and add the occasional commiserative chuckle in my sleep.”
Source: No Sleep Till Wonderland
“I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.”
Source: All the Pretty Horses
“I can not 'make my mark' for all time - those concepts are mutually exclusive. 'Lasting effect' is a self-contradictory term. Meaning does not exist in the future and neither do I. Nothing will have meaning 'ultimately.' Nothing will even mean tomorrow what it did today. Meaning changes with the context. My meaningfulness is here. It is enough that I am of value to someone today. It is enough that I make a difference now.”
Source: Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person
“I can not be a part of myself -
for everything that creates my soul
incompletes my heart.”
“I can not be mistaken - what I say and do is historical.I follow my life with the precision and security of a sleep walker”
“I can not be strong where who besides me weak... we are always weak together and stronger! .......... Together!”
“I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.”
Source: Eleanor and Harry: The Correspondence of Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman
“I can not but hate the prospect of slavery's expansion. I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world-enables the enemies of free institutions, with plausibility, to taunt us as hypocrites-causes the real friends of freedom to doubt our sincerity.”
“I can not conceive of how god who rewards and punishes his creatures, gives type of unconscious in their cognitive mind. (Hadas Moosazadeh)”
“I can not even imagine living without being able to dream”
“I can not evolve any concrete theory about painting.”