I Quotes
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“I cannot cure everybody. I cannot help everybody. But to tell the lonely person that I am not far or different from that lonely person, that I am with him or her, that's all I think we can do and we should do.”
“I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.”
“I cannot dance with you because I... well..." She cleared her throat. "... That is to say..."
"Miss Greene cannot dance with you," a deep, smooth voice rumbled behind her, "because she has already promised the next to me."
She swallowed a lurch of dread, instantly recognizing to whom the sultry, lazy drawl belonged.
Witherby recoiled from the intrusion. "I say," he replied, looking up at Rothbury with distrust, "no wonder the young lady hesitated over my offer. I know for a fact Miss Greene is not permitted to dance with you."
Rothbury only chortled, low and deep. Charlotte could feel it thrum through her spine and down to the soles of her slippered feet.
Turning, she stole a sidelong glance at him. He stood with his feet braced firmly on the floor, his hands behind his back. His burnished gold hair was swept back into place but for a thick lock that hung low on one side of his forehead.
His hooded eyes stared down Witherby as he gave a lopsided grin that on any other man, she supposed, would appear utterly charming in a boyish sort of way. On Rothbury's handsome face, however, it looked watchful, lethal. Quite like he was silently daring Witherby to touch her just so Rothbury could have the pleasure of breaking his fingers.”
Source: To Wed a Wicked Earl
“I cannot dance, O Lord, unless You lead me.”
Source: The Flowing Light of the Godhead
“I cannot deal with obscurity for more than a few decades before I get the worst ache in my chest.”
Source: Flies to Wanton Boys
“I cannot decide if you are a toxin or a tonic. Only that you plague my thoughts and fill my veins”
Source: Pestilence
“I cannot decide whether it is an illness or a sin, the need to write things down and fix the flowing world in one rigid form. Bear believed writing dulled the spirit, stilled some holy breath. Smothered it. Words, when they’ve been captured and imprisoned on paper, become a barrier against the world, one best left unerected. Everything that happens is fluid, changeable. After they’ve passed, events are only as your memory makes them, and they shift shapes over time. Writing a thing down fixes it in place as surely as a rattlesnake skin stripped from the meat and stretched and tacked to a barn wall. Every bit as stationary, and every bit as false to the original thing. Flat and still and harmless. Bear recognized that all writing memorializes a momentary line of thought as if it were final.
But I was always word-smitten.”
“I cannot decide which is better. The minutes of nothingness where I cease to exist at all or the hurricane of sharp emotions and pain that reminds me I am still real, still alive.”
Source: The Daughter of Fire & Fury: Born to Burn
“I cannot define for you what God is. I can only say that my work has proved empirically that the pattern of God exists in every man and that this pattern has at its disposal the greatest of all his energies for transformation and transfiguration of his natural being. Not only the meaning of his life but his renewal and his institutions depend on his conscious relationship with this pattern of his collective unconscious.”
“I cannot deny that I have doubts, reservations and fears. However, I have come to the conclusion that in the present regional and international reality, Israel must act with courage to accept the political plan which I described.”
“I cannot deny that on a breezy summer's day, Fishers Island is one of the most idyllic places possible for a round of golf.”
“I cannot deny that Vera, in her own way--in the way of all human beings who are kind and not cruel--really is lovely.”
Source: The Bette Davis Club
“I cannot describe to you the despairing sensation of trying to do something for a man who seems incapable or unwilling to do anything further for himself.”
Source: Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose
“I cannot describe to you what it is to burn alive. To lose one's hair in an appalling gust, to hear the fat sizzle beneath one's crackling skin. To have one's vision filed with red and then black as one's eyeballs burst. The pain is indistinguishable from the flames. The flames, they are a scream. A chorus roaring from every pore, singing agony. Agony - no, the notion is too bounded, the name inadequate fro that mystery which transmutes a live layer by layer, to matter.”
Source: Mountain Fast: A Gothic Tale of Medieval Horror
“I cannot describe what kind of joy he felt, since it can only be experienced; he who has experienced it, knows it.”
Source: Sultana's Dream and Padmarag
“I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.”
“I cannot differentiate between tears and music”
“I cannot differentiate between tears and music' (Nietzsche). Whoever is not immediately struck by the profundity of this statement has not lived for a minute in the intimacy of music. I know no other music than that of tears. Born out of the loss of paradise, music gives birth to the symbols of this loss: tears.”
Source: Tears and Saints
“I cannot disagree with you that having something like 500 economists is extremely unhealthy. As you say, it is not conducive to independent, objective research. You and I know there has been censorship of the material published. Equally important, the location of the economists in the Federal Reserve has had a significant influence on the kind of research they do, biasing that research toward noncontroversial technical papers on method as opposed to substantive papers on policy and results”
“I cannot disobey something which I do not know and the reality of which I have the right to deny.”
Source: Pale fire
“I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most argumentative.”
“I cannot do all the good that the world needs. But the world needs all the good that I can do.”
“I cannot do anything fake; that is why even when I sleep with a prostitute, she falls in love with me.”
“I cannot do it without comp[u]ters.”
“I cannot do it. I cannot bear it. I cannot go back to what I was here. I cannot stand at her side and watch another take her. I am not that strong or that good.”
“I cannot do my job unless I am fully open to whatever comes. You're almost naked emotionally.”
“I cannot do politics under someone else's control.”
“I cannot do the piece-of-talking-meat thing, the 'Here's your money, wear a pretty dress and take the cheque.' I'm not made that way. I have to be as good as I can be at whatever I do.”
“I cannot do things by halves, it's not in my nature. I'm a passionate little fucker - i know very little about tiptoeing toward the things i love, and everything about diving head first. I give my all, or nothing - there is no in between.”
“I cannot draw a cart, nor eat dried oats;
If it be man's work, I'll do't.”
Source: The works of William Shakespeare
“I cannot draw a human figure if I don't know the order of his bones, muscles or tendons. Same is that I cannot draw a human face if I don't know what's going on his mind and heart. In order to paint life one must understand not only anatomy, but what people feel and think about the world they live in. The painter who knows his own craft and nothing else will turn out to be a very superficial artist.”
“I cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind.”
“I cannot embrace lightly that which conflicts with my soul”
“I cannot emphasize enough how wrongheaded this is. Withholding criticism and ignoring differences are racism in its purest form. Yet these cultural experts fail to notice that, through their anxious avoidance of criticizing non-Western countries, they trap the people who represent these cultures in a state of backwardness. The experts may have the best of intentions, but as we all know, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.”
“I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher.”
“I cannot emphasize enough the importance of family encouragement - not just for me, but for everyone.”
“I cannot emphasize it too strongly that our gifts-whether they consist in wealth, or in the ability to sing, to paint, to build, or to count-are not given unto us to be used for our pleasure merely, or as means of our advancement, weather social or intellectual. But they are given unto us that we may use them for helping those who need help.”
Source: Lectures on Russian Literature: Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenef, Tolstoy
“I cannot encourage any fabrication even for the sake of making people feel good. If I were to fabricate consciously and knowingly, I would not only be ordaining myself their enemy, but also ordaining myself God's enemy.”
Source: Killosophy
“I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.”
Source: Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of
“I cannot escape from myself. I need a holiday from myself, a long holiday. I must shed my old self like a snake sheds its skin.”
“I cannot escape from the conclusion that the great ages of progress have depended upon a small number of individuals of transcendent ability.”
Source: In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays
“I cannot escape my past because it is a part of who I am today. That is something that has taken me a long time to accept.”
Source: Medusa
“I cannot even be myself, you have made your undying claim, and each part of my heart and soul is bewitched by your marks.”
“I cannot even imagine college. I'm white-knuckling it just letting my son go to kindergarten for eight hours a day.”
“I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.”
Source: Laugh Again / Hope Again: Two Books to Inspire a Joy-Filled Life
“I cannot even picture myself retiring. What would I do? I'll always be doing something, asking somebody questions, even if there weren't a book.”
“I cannot even pretend to feel as much interest in boys as in girls.”
“I cannot even remember a time before being conscious of James Bond.”
“I cannot exaggerate the effect of this marvelous sight on my childish imagination. Day after day I asked myself what is electricity and found no answer. Eighty years have gone by since and I still ask the same question, unable to answer it.”
“I cannot exist as a solo artist.”