I Quotes
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“I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.”
Source: The Letters of E. B. White
“I can only assume," said Jace, "that mortal emotions amuse you because you have none of your own.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels
“I can only be as good as [the audience members] at acknowledging and owning the information that's coming through ... and sometimes, nobody comes through.... One of the things that I've learned is that I am not an operator and I can't dial direct, ... and even if I do make the connection with the person they want to hear from, there's no guarantee that they're going to come through and tell them what they want to hear.”
“I can only be free when the other people around me are free.”
“I can only be healed
by the particular sweetness
of a man who saw into my soul
and climbed in anyway.
Emerson said "Give all to love"
and I reply, is there anything else one might do?”
“I can only be me. I do what I do, I'm not a jazz player. ... I don't play jazz standards, at least not in any recognizable way. It's not my turf but I have plenty of respect for that style of playing.”
“I can only be myself, I'm sorry that's hell for you.”
“I can only be nice to one Person, today's not your day tomorrow doesn't look good either.”
Source: Beyond the Veil
“I can only be responsible for my orders. I cannot be responsible for all the acts of Himmler.”
“I can only be so long without work before I start getting antsy.”
“I can only be the best version of myself and understand that the only way that we as a people can heal is to understand that the next person's journey may not be your own, but it doesn't mean that you have to marginalize them in any way.”
“I can only become perfectly free by serving the will of God.”
Source: No Man Is an Island
“I can only bow to the will of the heaven, but not to the will of these men.”
“I can only bring peace to my children when I possess it myself.”
“I can only build if I tear the walls down, even if it breaks me I won't let it make me frown, I'm falling but no matter how hard I hit the ground, I'll still smile”
“I can only change the world by changing myself.”
Source: The Great Brain Cleanse
“I can only control what I can control.”
“I can only control what I do. I can try to suggest and be open, but trust is the key.”
“I can only cook brown rice and vegetables, so I don't get too many people coming over for dinner parties or anything.”
“I can only describe it as: the whole experience was imprinted on my body. And when I started to write it, it just came from such a very, In The Body of the Worldvery physical... it just came from my body. I don't know how to explain it better than that. I guess my head was transmitting it. It was a very, very physical experience writing this book.”
“I can only develop a stand-up show by being on stage. I can't write it. Whenever I see comedy written down, it very rarely makes me laugh.”
“I can only display what I've been nurtured with, which is this worldview which has become my view. If I displayed anything different from it in my work, I wouldn't deserve this heritage.”
“I can only do it if there's humour, wit, comedy and drama. If you can get audiences laughing and then suddenly turn them to tears... it's a weird way of making a living making people cry, but I think it's very exciting to be able to send audiences on a rollercoaster ride.”
“I can only do something that my sister or my daughter, if I have one, could watch and feel positive about.”
“I can only do the things I can do. - Because you only try things you can do”
Source: 宝石の国 3 [Houseki no Kuni 3]
“I can only do this because I am the privileged, lucky generation. I have the indulgence to look back, to be a storyteller.”
Source: The List / Yellowface
“I can only do what I do with a spirit of humor, and faith and give the controls over to something else.”
“I can only do what's easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can't, and won't, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who's strong enough to boss me or whom I'm strong enough to boss. So I shan't ever marry, for there aren't such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say 'Jack Robinson.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)
“I can only draw what I see.”
“I can only drive slowly." "That's all right." "And I can only do left turns." Rose ran downstairs, grabbed a road atlas, and ran triumphantly back up again. "Wales is left! Look! It's left all the way!”
Source: Saffy's Angel
“I can only encourage everyone to take a close look at their practices. Prevention is always better than cure.”
“I can only excel for a woman who has embodied her sensuality.”
“I can only express satisfaction that the Dear Leader is joining the likes of Gaddafi, Bin Laden, Hitler, and Stalin in a warm corner of hell.”
“I can only express the hope that faith in the judicial system will never be diminished, and I am sure it will not, so long as we allow a review of the judicial processes that takes place here in some other tribunal where obviously undue influence cannot be brought to bear. As long as governments are wise enough to leave alone the rights of appeal to some superior body outside Singapore, then there must be a higher degree of confidence in the integrity of our judicial process. This is most important.”
“I can only fight back in a way that I feel like I'm talented.”
“I can only fulfill myself by serving someone or something apart from myself, and if I am unable to care for anyone or anything separate from me, I am unable to care for myself.”
“I can only gaze with wonder and awe at the depths of and heights of our psychic nature. Its non-spatial universe conceals an untold abundance of images which have accumulated over millions of years of living development and become fixed in the organism....Beside this picture I would like to place the spectacle of the starry heavens at night, for the only equivalent of the universe within is the universe without; and just as I reach this world through the medium of the body, so I reach that world through the medium of the psyche.”
“I can only gesture at what makes a story good.”
“I can only get my drummer in the winter; he plays with Grand Funk all summer.”
“I can only give away the love that I have received.”
“I can only give my life in a way that makes me comfortable.”
“I can only give what I have. And when I receive, I give it back.”
“I can only give you some hints. You have to place him in a situation where your advantages are magnified.”
Source: Thirst: Thirst No. 1; Thirst No. 2; Thirst
“I can only give you words. Nothing fancy. But this will have to do. It doesn't matter if you're reading it a year from now or a hundred years from now. By the end of the chronicle you will know that humanity carried the flame of knowledge into the terrible blackness of the unknown, to the very brink of annihilation. And we carried it back.”
Source: Robopocalypse
“I can only go one way. I've not got a reverse gear.”
Source: Tony Blair in His Own Words
“I can only go places because I know that I can go away from them, if that makes sense. I like the gypsy lifestyle that filming affords.”
“I can only guess that it made the world he went back to...strangely without meaning. Though he lived in it, though he even enjoyed it, it remained utterly remote. I think it had lost sense for him. In his heart was the reflection of a lovely dream that he could never quite recall.”
“I can only guess that, for guys in their 30s and 40s who watched me play, they understood that the score never mattered and my paycheck never mattered (in relation) to how I played. I played with Little League enthusiasm and professional flair. That's what fans are really looking for.”
“I can only have dinner with my girlfriends once a month instead of once a week.”
“I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel