I Quotes
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“I can see now how deeply God's absence affected my unconscious life, how under me always there was this long fall that pride and fear and self-love at once protected me from and subjected me to.... For if grace woke me to God's presence in the world and in my heart, it also woke me to his absence. I never truly felt the pain of unbelief until I began to believe.”
“I can see now that a concept or even a feeling makes no sense unless out of our substance we spin around it a web of references, of relationships, of values.”
“I can see now that I should have been strong enough to conquer myself.”
“I can see now that I was hungry for love that summer. For something to love: a bite, a dream, a person, a meal, a field, a piece of a world worth believing in. Not for me the solace of boeuf bourguignon; not for me red wine and browned butter, that unctuousness proximate to rot or burning that stickied a diner's tongue. I had lived too long in the low country. I had tasted bitter gray. Only ashes and lost empires in the crust of a kouign amann that would never shatter the same way again.”
Source: Land of Milk and Honey
“I can see now that it's the little things, the small efforts, that keep a relationship going.”
Source: P.S. I Still Love You
“I can see now that it's the little things, the small efforts, that keep a relationship going. And I know now that too in some small measure I have the power to hurt him and also the power to make it better.”
Source: P.S. I Still Love You
“I can see Obama trying to be the president who suggests solutions for everyone who has experienced economic hardship.”
“I can see only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen.”
“I can see only three planets in the entire universe, namely Heaven, Earth and Me! Heaven shines its glory on Earth and the rays keep falling on Me! I have a call!”
Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes
“I can see others in the sunlight; I can see our boats' crews and our athletic young men on the glistening water, or speckled with the moving lights of sunlit leaves; but I myself am always in the shadow looking on. Not unsympathetically, - God forbid! - but looking on alone, much as I looked at Sylvia from the shadows of the ruined house, or looked at the red gleam shining through the farmer's windows, and listened to the fall of dancing feet, when all the ruin was dark that night in the quadrangle.”
Source: Hard Times (And Other Stories)
“I can see patterns in events, and behaviors; in mathematics, I follow slower”
Source: Kushiel's Chosen: A Novel
“I can see Richard Wagner standing at the gates of heaven. "You have to let me in," he says. "I wrote Parsifal. It has to do with the Grail, Christ, suffering, pity and healing. Right?" And they answer, "Well, we read it and it makes no sense." SLAM.”
Source: Valis
“I can see sadness in his eyes as he looks at me. And suddenly I am overwhelmed by wanting to know that sadness and make it go away and make it OK.”
Source: Scrambled Eggs at Midnight
“I can see she's a sad lonely person, despite her job. Somewhere she's made some wrong turns, met some wrong people, and now she can't see her way out of this except in a dream of money -- what everybody tends to do. Money, though, is an illusion with green faces. I think this is so money has personality -- like the way our deities end up with traits like the rest of us. People create money and then they let money create them. Money is a facade but it has a force greater than nature.”
Source: The Republic of East L.A.
“I can see so far because I stood on the shoulders of giants.”
“I can see some of the roses still blooming in my mother's garden. Brown on the edges and bright in other colors, they open and unfold, their petals drooping downward, dying just as their lives have begun.”
Source: If He Had Been With Me
“I can see Sue and I leading this team to many more championships...We're going to take this and learn from it. We worked too hard for this.”
“I can see television much more easily than I can see features, because the economy and politics of making big, big features seems to me to be narrowing even from what it was.”
“I can see that "reap" and "deep," "prayers" and "bears," . . . do rhyme, and so I suppose it is a splendid effort, but if you had written it in plain prose, I could have understood it a great deal better and read it a great deal more easily.”
“I can see that aerial warfare is actually scientific murder.”
“I can see that an insufficent, or perhaps even defective, socialization process has led you to believe that four-letter words add power to languauge”
“I can see that cinema seems to be finished. Everybody has a bigger screen at home. I'm assuming eventually you won't need a screen at all - these iPhones will just project.”
“I can see that Drew is trying to be strong and not show any emotion, and I want to comfort him, so I let him hold me. The problem with doing that, of course, is that he’s Drew. He only knows one way to interpret that kind of touch.", Loving Summer by Kailin Gow”
“I can see that I imagine all kinds of rejection that never happens. I can see that I beg and plead for love that is freely offered because I somehow believe that if I don't ask for it, everyone will forget about me: I will be a little kid sent off to sleep-away camp whose parents forget to meet her at the bus when she comes back in August. Or else I think people are nice to me only to be nice to me, that they feel sorry for me because I am such a loser- as if anyone could possibly be that generous.”
Source: More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction
“I can see that if this was an album done 10 or 15 years ago we could see we were moving on to some place else.”
“I can see that in certain political situations you have to use force to overthrow police states.”
“I can see that in retrospect but I guess I've always had such an identity crisis when it comes to other people's understanding of me.”
“I can see that now. I can see everything once it’s already happened — I’m very good at the past. It’s the present I can’t understand.”
Source: High Fidelity
“I can see that one can never pay back Gilsa for the fear that she will give again.”
Source: The Goose Girl
“I can see that spark coming back when he talks about the future.”
“I can see that the sadness has returned. And it's not a beautiful sadness- beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain.”
Source: Every Day
“I can see that what I am doing here, sitting at my grandmother's writing desk in my mother's spare room, is trying to create my own portrait of the man I'd known thirteen years ago.”
Source: Thirst for Salt
“I can see that you [Bruce Cole] are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a different place or a different time: What's the same and what's different?”
“I can see that you don’t believe me. Maybe it was the cookie? Well, you refused to taste my cookies last night and honestly, I was going to eat the other cookie, but you looked so tired and sad sitting there, I figured you needed the cookie more than I did.”
Source: Wait for You
“I can see that you go through life athwart it. You see the flow of events, you are able to tell how you could most easily fit yourself into it. But you dare to oppose it. And why? Simply because you look at it and say, 'this fate does not suit me. I will not allow it to befall me.'" Amber shook her head, but her small smile made it an affirmation. "I have always admired people who can do that. So few do. Many, of course, will rant and rave against the garment fate has woven for them, but they pick it up and on it all the same, and most wear it to the end of their days. You... you would rather go naked into the storm.”
Source: Ship of Magic
“I can see that you’re down in the dumps, Unc. Shall we stop working and call Toni?”
“And then what?”
“I don’t know. But if it so happens that I’m more of your type . . . Would you like me to give you a blow job? That really does the trick when you’re feeling depressed.”
Source: Golden Girl
“I can see that you're mourning the loss of many things, but I want to help you. I want to help you discover your potential. Don't you want that? Do you really want to sit in this room, crying about what you could have been or done?”
Source: The Legend of Acacia Vitak
“I can see that you spoke in ignorance, and I bitterly regret that I should have been so petty as to take offence where none was intended.”
Source: The Sword in the Stone
“I can see that you're in love, but only in a very narrow sense. It's the love of someone that finds charms and qualities in a woman that she doesn't actually have, who puts her in a class apart with every one else in second place, and who stays attached to her even while he's abusing her.”
“I can see the Beatles sticking together forever, really. We've been together a long time.”
“I can see the beauty of glass objects fully at the moment when they slip from my hand”
Source: The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression
“I can see the carrot at the end of the tunnel.”
“I can see the character in a photograph, in the way a guy stands or holds his hands, the way he buckles his belt. I fantasize a lot looking at photographs. I'm sure that doesn't work for many people.”
“I can see the cracks in society, in people, in this world and I'd rather die before slipping into one of them.”
Source: Nightmare
“I can see the first apple teetering when I let the third arrow go, catching the torn flap and ripping it from the bag. For a moment, everything seems frozen in time. Then the apples spill to the ground and I'm blown backward into the air.”
Source: The Hunger Games Trilogy
“I CAN SEE THE FUTURE
ACTUALLY IT'S NOT THE FUTURE
IT'S A POSSIBLE FUTURE
ALL VISIONARIES CAN AND DO THIS
MOST ARTIST SEE THE PAINTING BEFORE IT'S CREATED
THE HELPFUL ADVICE, I GIVE COMES FROM A SIMILAR PROCESS
MAYBE THIS IS JUST COMMON SENSE
BUT I HAVE A SUSPICION THAT IT'S MORE”
“I can see the future in hindsight.”
“I can see the gentle roll of her throat as she swallows, but just as fast as she let her guard down, it flies back up. "Good luck with that," she says, facing forward again. "I'm pretty sure you'll be the first guy to ever compete with hiimself over the affection of a girl." "Maybe so," I say as we pull into my driveway. "But my money's on me.”
Source: Never Never
“I can see the greed and envy in your eyes.”
“I can see the green light
I can see it in your eyes”