I Quotes
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“I cannot believe that God wants punishment to go on interminably any more than does a loving parent. The entire purpose of loving punishment is to teach, and it lasts only as long as is
needed for the lesson. And the lesson is always love.”
Source: The Irrational Season
“I cannot believe that I am he whose thoughts were once filled with sublime and transcendent visions of the beauty and the majesty of goodness. But it is even so; the fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am quite alone.”
“I cannot believe that in all the years that there have been female stand-ups, there has never been a show just for them.”
“I cannot believe that John Ambrose McClaren read that letter. I didn't remember it to be so...naked. With so much...yearning. God, why do I have to be a person who yearns so much?”
Source: P.S. I Still Love You
“I cannot believe that my illness is natural. I suspect Satan, and therefore I am the more inclined to take it lightly.”
Source: Table talk
“I cannot believe that NSWRU don't want to interview me.”
“I cannot believe that the American people and the people they elected would use the Constitution to stifle any group's rights.”
“I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!”
Source: What the woman lived: selected letters of Louise Bogan, 1920-1970
“I cannot believe that the most delicious things were placed here merely to test us, to temp us, to make it the more difficult for us to capture the grand prize: the safety of the void. To fashion of life such a petty game is unworthy of both men and gods.”
“I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.”
Source: Passions & Prejudices: Or, Some of My Best Friends are People
“I cannot believe that you're still a girl. Your kisses don’t seem that innocent. They are driving me crazy.”
Source: Fateful Italian Passion
“I cannot BELIEVE the nerve of some people, dog-earing the pages of the books! Do they think they OWN the books? I think you should give a bookmark to every single person who checks out a book. I mean it. THEY ARE RUINING EVERYTHING! I will help make the bookmarks if that's what it takes.”
Source: I Work at a Public Library: A Collection of Crazy Stories from the Stacks
“I cannot believe the path to victory lies in staining our souls so black we become indistinguishable from those we fight.”
Source: Queen of Fire
“I cannot believe the volume of famous people I run into in my life, and that's part of the reason I love diary format.”
“I cannot believe there is a god who punishes and rewards, for I see honest folk unlucky, and rogues unlucky.”
“I cannot believe there is caste system in society; I cannot believe people are judged on the basis of their prosperity.”
“I cannot believe they haven't yet come up with a better screening process than the mammogram. If a man had to put his special parts inside a clamp to test him for anything, I think they would come up with a new plan before the doctor finished saying, "Put that thing there so I can crush it.”
Source: Seriously ... I'm Kidding
“I cannot believe this is the end. Nor can I believe that death is more than the blindness of those living. And if this is only the consolation of a heart in its necessity, or that easy faith born of despair, it does not matter, since it gives us courage somehow to face the mornings. Which is as much as the heart can ask at times.”
“I cannot belong to a nonprofit organization because when you receive grants, you have to make such great compromises with your artistic plans.”
“I cannot bend my will to anything that can't withstand its own. I cannot submit my heart to one that has turned cold as stone.”
“I cannot breathe” is an apparently simple sentence that is being repeated millions of times these days with a new meaning. With every repetition, it reminds us of thousands of pages in the history of racial discrimination.”
“I cannot breathe without people.”
Source: Servitude is Sanctitude
“I cannot bring myself to believe that any human being lives who would do me any harm.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln's Wit & Wisdom
“I cannot bring myself to judge those who are defending their lands against an immoral violent foreign invader. The fact that the immoral violent foreign invader happens to be the U.S. government does not alter my view.”
“I cannot bring myself to vote for a woman who has been voice-trained to speak to me as though my dog has just died.”
“I cannot but be astonished that Sarsi should persist in trying to prove by means of witnesses something that I may see for myself at any time by means of experiment. Witnesses are examined in doutbful matters which are past and transient, not in those which are actual and present. A judge must seek by means of witnesses to determine whether Peter injured John last night, but not whether John was injured, since the judge can see that for himself.”
“I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom and with whom I desired only to live; yet the dreadful apprehensions I have of what is coming upon this land may help to make me submissive to this providence, though more bitter.”
“I cannot but bless the memory of Julius Caesar, for the great esteem he expressed for fat men and his aversion to lean ones.”
Source: Life and Correspondence of David Hume
“I cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the Surface of the Earth.”
“I cannot but feel I have had a call from God to devote myself to help save souls in their last hour.....
I have been drawn so strongly to pray for the dying and I believe it to be a work appointed for me, perpetual prayer for the dying.”
“I cannot but feel that the one man, above all others, who deserves the eternal thanks of his own race, and all thinking people, for bringing about baseball’s greatest reform, is Jackie Robinson himself…Certainly baseball people should be eternally grateful for the contribution he made to his own people, and to the game.”
“I cannot but remember such things were that were most precious to me.”
Source: Macbeth
“I cannot but take notice of the wonderful love of God to mankind, who, in order to encourage obedience to His laws, has annexed a present as well as a future reward to a good life; and has so interwoven our duty and our happiness together that, while we are discharging our obligations to the one, we are at the same time making the best provision for the other.”
“I cannot but think it an evil sign of a people when their houses are built to last for one generation only.”
Source: The True and the Beautiful: In Nature, Art, Morals, and Religion
“I cannot but think that he who finds a certain proportion of pain and evil inseparably woven up in the life of the very worms, will bear his own share with more courage and submission.”
Source: Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews
“I cannot but think that it would be a great step if mankind could familiarise themselves with the idea that they are spirits incorporated for a time in the flesh re spirits incorporated for a time in the flesh.”
“I cannot but think we have much to be thankful for, and more still to hope for in the future.”
Source: The World Crisis
“I cannot calculate nor attempt to manage sacrifice, for to do so is to attempt to sacrifice comfortably. And it is in the attempt to sacrifice comfortably that I begin to realize that the desire for comfort is in reality the demand that I put myself first, and there is nothing of sacrifice in that.”
“I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)
“I cannot cause light; the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam.”
Source: The Abundance
“I cannot cause light; the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam. It is possible, in deep space, to sail on solar wind. Light, be it particle or wave, has force: you can rig a giant sail and go. The secret of seeing is to sail on solar wind. Hone and spread your spirit till you yourself are a sail, whetted, translucent, broadside to the merest puff”
Source: PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK
“I cannot change another person. I let others be who they are, and I simply love who I am.”
“I cannot change others, but I can influence others... we can't change people, but we can and we do influence people, and we do it every single day.”
“I cannot change the past, but today and every day to come, I will strive to be the best human I can be. I ask for your forgiveness in that light.”
Source: The Lifer and the Lawyer: A Story of Punishment, Penitence, and Privilege
“I cannot change the world, but I do not have to conform.”
“I cannot change who I was, but you have changed who I shall become." - Caleb”
Source: Elves of Fate: Denial
“I cannot change you. I cannot change other people. So I have decided to put all of my energy where I have the most leverage , where I know I can make a difference. Instead of being upset that this world is not populated the way I want it to be populated, I have decided to become the citizen that I want the world to be populated with. That's how I create the vision.”
“I cannot choose but adhere to the word of God, which has possession of my conscience; nor can I possibly, nor will I even make any recantation, since it is neither safe nor honest to act contrary to conscience! Here I stand; I cannot do otherwise, so help me God! Amen.”
“I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five”
“I cannot choose to ignore this feeling, of life slowly bleeding out of me. I cannot ignore the fact that life only makes sense to me when I see a smile, or feel another hand in mine.”