I Quotes
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“I can't hang out as loose as I used to, but I can still go down Jefferson Avenue and look in the faces of winos, pimps and junkies, all the things I'm made of.”
“I can't hate for long. It isn't worth it.”
Source: The bicycle rider in Beverly Hills
“I can't hate people that much. Don't get me wrong. I want to murder every last Keeper I can find. But that's not hate. That's vengeance.”
Source: Magic Slays
“I can't have a big breakfast or a big lunch because I get very lethargic, and then I get really cranky. I eat, but I have to eat small, healthful amounts of food.”
“I can't have a daily routine. I feel really overwhelmed a lot of the time. I don't take much comfort in routine, but if I don't start, I could really get eaten alive by my industry.”
“I can't have a lot of people around me all the time. It really bugs me out that I have that many people. I need to be by myself.”
“I can't have cats around me because they try to steal my energy.”
“I can't have composite characters. I can't attribute dialogue to someone based simply on my memory and not based on notes taken at the time that the words were spoken.”
“I can't have discussions about it anymore, I just can't. When someone asks me if I've found Jesus, I say, 'Yeah, I saw him at a Nirvana concert a couple of years ago.' It's like, Jesus has got things to do, he's got a ten o'clock. He's not going to fix things for me, I have to fix things for myself, so I try and have a sense of humor about it and nobody finds my humor very amusing. We've just got to lighten up on the savior bit, folks. You know, get off the cross, we need the wood.”
“I can't have just anybody assisting me, I need somebody who I can really communicate with.”
“I can't have white roses. They symbolize death.”
“I can't heal your pain but I can see it. And you don't have to be lost. Not forever.”
“I can't hear music. I don't understand it. It's so above and beyond me.”
“I can't hear myself. I can stare at my double chin all I want, but hearing this androgynous voice, you can't even tell what sex I am.”
“I can't hear what Jeremy says because my ears are blocked with my two Stanley Cup Rings.”
“I can't help believing that these things that come from the subconscious mind have a sort of truth to them. It may not be a scientific truth, but it's psychological truth.”
“I can't help but admire the structural linguists who have carved out for themselves a linguistic discipline based on the deterioration of written communication. Another case of men devoting their lives to studying more and more about less and less - filling volumes and libraries with the subtle linguistic analysis of the grunt.”
“I can't help but always be thinking about ideas.”
“I can't help but be a different person now that I've had kids. That really does change your whole perspective on life for the better.”
“I can't help but be a different person now that I've had kids. That really does change your whole perspective on life for the better. I definitely feel like I've grown up. So, I guess in a way parts of me are going to be different, but in general I'm still the same girl from the Bronx who had big dreams.”
“I can't help but be a little more gun-shy and wary about people.”
“I can't help but believe that in the future we will see in the United States and throughout the Western world an increasing trend toward the next logical step, employee ownership. It is a path that befits a free people.”
Source: Ronald Reagan
“I can't help but care about the rights of the people I used to shower with.”
“I can't help but feel that stuff that comes to me by chance or on purpose, whatever, tends to reflect where I am as a human being.”
“I can't help but go against the grain, I suppose it is in my fabric to be a rule-breaker.”
“I can't help but have my sights set on Scorsese, Cohen Brothers and Spike Jones.”
“I can't help but laugh at all of you writing fake stories about me. I was not in any hit and runs. I don't drink so the DUI is false.”
“I can't help but look for my future wife in the crowd.”
“I can't help but note that God is being useful to a lot of people trying to do harm to one another.”
“I can't help but notice that everytime I fly somewhere, other people's planes fall out of the sky.”
“I can't help but react to the painful realities of the two-tiered society we live in, where the signs of poverty and inequity are everywhere. Almost twenty five percent of our children live at or below the poverty line. We expect the no-option life cycle of the poor to be interrupted by the weak social safety net and then wonder why building more jails doesn't solve the problems.”
“I can't help but see myself in them. The Seelie are who I was before my sister died. Pink, pretty, frivolous Mac. The Unseelie are who I've become, carved by loss and despair. Black, grungy, driven Mac.”
Source: The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned
“I can't help but smile as I swipe a lone tear trailing down my cheek. How can I not be crazy in love with this guy? Time away from him didn't change anything. I can't deny him another chance. That would be denying myself.”
“I can't help but think that at the end of your life, when you look back, there'll be a tone. And that tone will come from the essence of how you live your day to day what you did in that between time because that is really your life.”
“I can't help but think that it's an unfortunate custom to name children after people who come to sticky ends. Even if they are fictional characters, it doesn't bode well for the poor things. There are too many Judes and Tesses and Clarissas and Cordelias around. If we must name our children after literary figures then we should search out happy ones, although it's true they are much harder to find.”
Source: Emotionally Weird: A Novel
“I can't help but to write, I have a inner need for it. If I'm not in the middle of some literary project, I'm utterly lost, unhappy and distressed. As soon as I get started, I calm down.”
“I can't help but wonder why we, as Christ professing young women so easily submit our minds and emotions to an industry that openly mocks the purity and righteousness of our Heavenly Prince.”
Source: Set-Apart Femininity: God's Sacred Intent for Every Young Woman
“I can't help comparing what I have with Gale to what I'm pretending to have with Peeta. How I never question Gale's motives while I do nothing but doubt the latter's. It's not a fair comparison really. Gale and I were thrown together by a mutual need to survive. Peeta and I know the other's survival means our own death. How do you sidestep that?”
Source: The Hunger Games
“I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts
“I can't help feeling that there is no beauty without hope, struggle, and conquest.”
“I can't help feeling wary when I hear anything said about the masses. First you take their faces from 'em by calling 'em the masses and then you accuse 'em of not having any faces.”
“I can't help flying up on the wings of anticipation. It's as glorious as soaring through a sunset... almost pays for the thud.”
“I can't help it if I stretch the truth, not if that's the way it happened.”
“I can't help it if the ladies take note of me; I am not going to protest.”
“I can't help it when people are frightened," says Merricat. "I always want to frighten them more.”
“I can't help it! I'm just a woman with high standards!”
“I can't help it, Kate. And I'm laughing at me. I feel like one of those sappy men who run around with a big grin on his face all the time. I feel like grinning all the time around you, and it's so idiotic.”
Source: The Wicked and the Wondrous
“I can't help it, the idea of the infinite torments me.”
“I can't help it. I always focus in on the negative.”
“I can't help moving my face - reacting - when I watch a movie, because I'm really inhabiting a character. I know this is weird, but it demonstrates what I love about cinema: it allows you to live a different life, to have a different experience, to disappear for two hours. I think it's wonderful.”