I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I can’t remember the last time I’ve slept and while caffeine does sound like Heaven, I wonder if it’ll really be able to help me in this state. After all, caffeine does not cure existential exhaustion.”
Source: The Moon Warriors
“I can't remember the name of the piece, or the artist. Maybe it wasn't even an artwork. Why must I automatically assume that every strange object is a sculpture, that every public display of unorthodox behavior is an act of performance.”
Source: A Line Made By Walking
“I can’t remember the words she spoke when they finally opened the garage door and yanked me inside, but I was petrified. It wasn’t sound Mom’s screams or the jolt of her grabbing me by the shoulders and shaking me like a rag doll that plagues my memory, but the look of her eyes- wide, wild, and unrecognizable.”
“I can’t remember who I am.”
Source: Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia
“I can't rest with you so close to me. I feel more alive than ever.”
Source: Vampire Kisses - Blood Relatives: Complete Edition
“I can’t rock you on my lap, if you’re not here.”
Source: Daddy's Girl
“I can't run from myself
There's nowhere to hide”
“I can't save everyone, especially not someone who isn't willing to save themselves.'
'Damn, Xaden,' Garrick rubs the bridge of his nose. 'Way to give a pep talk.'
'If they need a fucking pep talk, then we both know they're not flying out of the quadrant on graduation day. Let's get real. I can hold their hands and make them a bunch of bullshit empty promises about everyone making it through if that helps them sleep, but in my experience, the truth is far more valuable.' He turns his head, and I can only assume he's looking at the panicked first-year. 'In war, people die. It's not glorious like the bards sing about, either. It's snapped necks and two-hundreds-foot falls. There's nothing romantic about scorched earth or the scent of sulphur. This'- he gestures back toward the citadel- 'isn't some fable where everyone makes it out alive. It's hard, cold, uncaring reality. Not everyone here is going to make it home... to whatever's left of our homes. And make no mistake, we are at war every time we step foot in the quadrant.' He leans forward slightly. 'So if you won't get your shirt together and fight to live, then no. You're not going to make it.”
Source: Fourth Wing
“I can't say anything though. Even if it’s true I’d sound like a prick. Believe that. How can we even— Christ! That’s the problem with people living however they want. When anything goes, reason is no longer credible. You can’t point out trouble. If the truth is offered, and they don’t want it, they get to say the truth is a lie. Autonomy is now prioritized over understanding.”
Source: A Happy Ghost
“I can’t say enough about the wonderful people I met in Cuba and feel saddened that they are stuck in the 50’s because of the actions of their politicians as well as ours! I don’t usually get into politics regarding Cuba but I am certain that we should be able to work things out between the two governments. I was born in Germany prior to World War II and can understand how political differences can upset relations between countries. Although I was in the United States during that terrible war, I still lost members of my family during the hostilities! Still, in time, the United States and Germany found a way to reestablish their trading relations and are now close friends. The same holds true for Japan, Italy, Vietnam and countries we have had traditional differences with, such as China and Russia. What is the problem? I certainly don’t harbor any animosities or have hatred towards any of the individual people that live in these countries. I do know that there are those who have developed resentments and somehow justify these feelings; however it’s not the people but rather politically active groups and the governments that cause problems!”
“I can't say for sure if I'm better off, since I have no way of knowing what would have been. I could have traveled to exotic places and kissed exotic men in the moonlight. Or I could have ended living alone in a dumpy apartment with the flesh eating virus I contracted from a public toilet. Could haves are always a great unknown.”
Source: Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith
“I can't say how you think about love, Cal," he said delicately. "I don't know how you define it, or interpret it. But for me love is a..." He searched for the right words. "Love is this cocktail of feelings: a little bit of affection, fondness, a little bit of lust, maybe even a bit of pity. The intoxication is hard to parse out, but I am intoxicated by you. I love you, Callie.”
Source: Androne
“I can't say I have always loved myself. I can only admit that I have weaved in and out of love for myself. I have always seemed to love others sometimes more than myself, but have had a true desire to turn that love inwards.”
“I can't say I'm unhappy about it,' added the bard, 'I get along well enough with mice, and I've always been found of birds, but when you put the two together I'd just as soon avoid them.”
Source: The Castle of Llyr
“I can’t say I particularly like Matty Reed. But you, Matt? I like being with you.”…
“That’s good, Viv,” he said.
“Because I like being with you. And I want…” He leaned in a little closer, “I need…” His lips were mere inches from hers…”
Source: One More Kiss
“I can't say I remember this bit in the book,' she commented when he was finished and she was sweeping an applicator along his collarbone and pressing it lightly into the hollow beneath.
'They call it “artistic licence”. '
'Not just the producers trying to shoe-horn in a scene involving you in a wet shirt?'
'Why would they want that?' There was a soft gleam of white teeth as his lips parted in a smile.”
“I can't say." Miranda mimicked a very grown-up sound with her imperious tone. "I wasn't at the morgue. I was in school.”
Source: Mademoiselle le Sleuth
“i can't say that i understand love, or that I'm very good at it, because I've never loved anyone before. but I love everything about you, donatella dragna. everything.”
“I can't say that many of the youngsters at church aspired to be saints or lead particularly 'Godly' lives, they canoodled, smoked pot, drank excessively and were generally a whole lot more rebellious than most of the irreligious children from my school.”
Source: The Ultimate Religion
“I can’t say the cops were foolish for putting this sort of target on my back. The numbers were certainly in their favor. The odds were, if they did pull me over on any given day, for any given reason, I would be up to something they could fine me for and collect money from it. In addition, my truck was blaring red, full of character, and hard to miss, just like me. As a teenager, however, I felt robbed of freedom, robbed of dignity, robbed of innocence. It took me years to realize that they weren’t the ones who were actually robbing me.”
Source: Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose
“I can't say what I was looking for exactly, though I was ever hopeful that he might come out and profess his love, save me, run away with me, solve all my problems.”
Source: Eileen
“I can't say what my first thought was as I sunk below the surface, because it was mostly a string of four-letter words.”
“I can't see a thousand years into the future, I told Her, so I can't see the nasty, evil outcome. What I can see is Master Prosper's horse, which is going to be amazingly beautiful. And thousands and millions of people who haven't even been born yet will look at that horse and hear about how it was made, even though it was impossible, and maybe it'll give them that little extra bit of strength and hope they need to persevere with scrambling up this shit heap we call life. And—I don't know. I really can't imagine what you've got up your sleeve that's so incredibly bad and horrible that Prosper's horse wouldn't have been worth it. From our perspective, I mean.”
Source: Prosper's Demon
“I can't see how anything can ever happen to us — I mean, I feel as if, if we leave this place, we shall crumble to pieces.”
Source: The Green Knight
“I can’t see Jupiter,” Joseph said. “The moon’s too bright. And I don’t know where she is.”
Source: Orbiting Jupiter
“I can't see," she whispered. "You're blockin' my view."
And because he didn't want her to know how shaken he was by her nearness, by her touch, he decided to play it cool. Play it smart. Give her exactly what she'd come to expect from him. "Babe" - he turned and flashed her an exaggerated wink - "I am the view.”
Source: Devil and the Deep
“I can't see that Danish episode as an adventure, or a crisis survived, or a serious quest for anything definable. It was just another happening like today's luncheon, something I got into and got out of. And it reminds me too much of how little life changes: how, without dramatic events or high resolves, without tragedy, without even pathos, a reasonably endowed, reasonably well-intentioned man can walk through the world's great kitchen from end to end and arrive at the back door hungry.”
Source: The Spectator Bird
“I can't see the logic in medicating a grieving person like there was something wrong with her, and yet it happens all the time... you go to the doctor with symptoms of profound grief and they push an antidepressant at you. We need to walk through our grief, not medicate it and shove it under the carpet like it wasn't there.”
Source: The Amateur's Guide to Death and Dying: Enhancing the End of Life
“I can't see why feminists don't demand that The Taming of the Shrew be cancelled and expelled from libraries. It's diabolical, even for those times.”
Source: Patriot: A Memoir
“I can't see you, Evelyn."
"Yes, you can."
"What do you want us to do?" she said. "Ruin each other all over again?”
Source: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“I can't seem to get down to writing. There appears to be no urge. No coherent reason just now.”
“I can’t seem to wipe away the blood. I rub my hands against my nightgown, but traces of the red remain, staining the lines of my palms and the crescents beneath my fingernails. I wipe harder, gathering and bunching the soft cotton inside my fists. The fabric has been slit up the center and for a moment I worry that I’ve been cut, that maybe the blood is my own. I try to ask what’s happening, but there’s a mask over my mouth and nose. Suddenly it hits me—I’m in an ambulance.
I don’t remember how I got here.”
Source: Vicarious
“I can't serve SPIT to my friends."
"Would you give any of them blood? A kidney?"
"Of course. They can have the organ of their choice." This makes me think about Grant's friend Jenna, who gave her best friend part of her liver, sadly to no avail. Grant and I used to double-date occasionally with Jenna and her husband Elliot, and I loved them both. They live not far from here, but I didn't tell them when I moved into the Palmer house. They were his friends, not mine, and I'm sad to have lost them in the split. Although they do have the worst-behaved dog on the planet, who slobbered all over Schatzi the one time we tried to meet at the dog park, and ate my purse the last time they had us over for dinner, so maybe it isn't the worst loss.”
Source: Recipe for Disaster
“I can't settle for merely liking a man when I've known what it’s like to love one.”
Source: Perception
“I can’t shake you.”
Source: MxT
“I can’t simulate you with moon, moon is fully naked and you are fully clothed.”
Source: A moment with God ; Poetry
“I can't single-handedly change what has been happening to women for generations.”
Source: Second Chinese Daughter
“I can’t sit for
long periods of time, so to compensate, I hula hoop. I read and hula hoop. Research
and hula hoop. Talk and hula hoop. You get the picture.”
Source: Health & Not Screwing It Up
“I can’t sit up, well, actually I can, it just hurts, but I don’t actually want you to do anything, because I’m fine, except I’m sort of not, but I will be, and I don’t want to comfort you about it, so let’s just say I’m fine.”
Source: Sick Kids in Love
“I can’t sleep alone anymore
and I get used to
company
too quickly. You’re always gone too soon.”
Source: You're Doing Just Fine
“I can’t sleep at night, and during the day I only wander around. I am here and I am not here—a ghost among people. I can’t help feeling cross at everyone. How can they go on living their lives as if nothing has changed?”
Source: The Forty Rules of Love
“I can't sleep at night unless I've rescued at least ten trees and five maidens in distress during the course of my working day.”
Source: A Wedding in December
“I can't sleep because fear and worry are always there, keeping me awake.”
“I can’t sleep during the nights; I feel carrying the world on my shoulders.”
“I can’t sleep,” he says so quietly that only I can hear. “I can’t sleep. I can’t sleep. I can’t sleep.”
“Nor I.”
“You neither?”
“No.”
“Truly?”
“Yes.”
He sighs a deep sigh, as if he is relieved. “Is this love then?”
“I suppose so.”
“I can’t eat.”
“No.”
“I can’t think of anything but you. I can’t go on another moment like this; I can’t ride out into battle like this. I am as foolish as a boy. I am mad for you, like a boy. I cannot be without you; I will not be
without you. Whatever it costs me.”
I can feel my color rising like heat in my cheeks, and for the first time in days I can feel myself smile. “I can’t think of anything but you,” I whisper. “Nothing. I thought I was sick.”
The ring like a crown is heavy in my pocket, my headdress is pulling at my hair; but I stand without awareness, seeing nothing but him, feeling nothing but his warm breath on my cheek and scenting
the smell of his horse, the leather of his saddle, and the smell of him: spices, rosewater, sweat.
“I am mad for you,” he says.
I feel my smile turn up my lips as I look into his face at last. “And I for you,” I say quietly. “Truly.”
“I can't sleep, I don't have what to do... I'm ill.... wow... the best choice will be listening to a podcast what more awesome than that?”
“I can’t sleep without you by my side.”
Source: Full Force
“I can't speak. I can't think. words are water and everything melds into a sea of suffering.”
Source: Forgotten Sisters
“I can't spend any more time pining after someone who doesn't belong to me.”
Source: Dead Girls Society
“I can’t spend my life waiting around for men to decide they want me to be a part of theirs.”
Source: The Baker's Man