I Quotes
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“I cannot keep to the point. Perhaps I am afraid. It is not easy for me to admit that. My courage is one of the few things about myself that I do not doubt. It is one of the things in which I believe . . . But I would be crazy not to be afraid now.”
Source: In the Cut
“I cannot keep track and lots of great shows go unnoticed.”
“I cannot keep track of all the vagaries of fashion, Every day, so it seems, brings in a different style.”
“I cannot keep you if it is killing me to keep you.”
“I cannot kill him, she muttered to herself. I cannot kill him. I promised Bianka I'd stop at ten bodies a day, and I've already surpassed my quota for the fifth day in a row. I cannot kill him.”
Source: The Darkest Secret
“I cannot lead you into battle, I do not give you laws or administer justice, but I can do something else: I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.” Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II”
Source: The Job Well Done: The Queen's Way to Successful Leadership
“I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.”
“I cannot learn creation from other people; I've got to do it myself. Now, honestly, I regret not studying - I don't know about harmonies, or anything, so if I'm composing a song, it's really hard.”
“I cannot let a place that is so important to so many people fade away. Something that is wonder and comfort and mystery all together that they have nowhere else. If you had that, wouldn't you want to keep it?”
“I cannot let a scriptural text supersede my reason. Whilst I believe that the principal books are inspired, they suffer from a process of double distillation. Firstly, they come through a human prophet, and then through the commentaries of interpreters. Nothing in them comes from God directly.”
Source: What is Hinduism?
“I cannot let anything be her fault, even if it was.
Especially if it was.”
“I cannot let my blood pressure rise because someone wishes to spread his or her bad day around, as if to dilute instead of multiply it.”
Source: Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
“I cannot let the fear of the past color the future.”
Source: The Eternity Cure
“I cannot let things remain as they are, because then I would not be free. If I cease to act because I fear the future, then I create a worse enslavement for myself. That much I know. While my people are not free, I am not free. If the freedom and justice I seek loose destruction upon the earth, then I accept that responsibility, but it seems to me that the real responsibility must be borne by those who keep me from my freedom. I must act!”
Source: Heart of Aztlan
“I cannot let this opportunity pass without placing on record how much I have enjoyed my cricket with Kent.”
“I cannot let well enough alone. I get restless. I have to be doing different things.”
“I cannot let well enough alone. I get restless. I have to be doing different things. I am a very impatient person and headstrong. If I've made up my mind to do something, I can't be persuaded out of it.”
“I cannot lie. I cannot deny you.
Page 305”
Source: The Wicked King
“I cannot life for life itself: but for the words which stay the flux. My life, I feel, will not be lived until there are books and stories which relive it perpetually in time. I forget too easily how it was, and shrink to the horror of the here and now, with no past and no future. Writing breaks open the vaults of the dead and the skies behind which the prophesying angels hide. The mind makes and makes, spinning its web.”
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers require you stop what you are doing and listen.”
“I cannot listen to my child with empathy if I am inwardly preoccupied with being a good mother; I cannot be open to what she is telling me. This can be observed in various parental attitudes.”
Source: For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence
“I cannot live anywhere else except India.”
“I cannot live in mediocrity, content with merely knowing that there is more of God to experience and explore -and then do nothing about it. Truths that are not experienced are, in effect, more like theories than truths. Whenever God reveals truth to us He is inviting us into a divine encounter.”
“I cannot live in the new time anyway, because I belong to the old time, which is dead.”
Source: The Little Town Where Time Stood Still
“I cannot live on an island of prosperity when I'm surrounded by a sea of misery.”
“I cannot live on lust alone.”
Source: The Erotic Notebooks
“I cannot live one day without love.”
“I cannot live or write without music. It stimulates the normally dormant parts of my brain that come in handy when constructing fiction.”
“I cannot live to hear the news from England.
But I do prophesy th' election lights
On Fortinbras; he has my dying voice.
So tell him, with th' occurents, more and less,
Which have solicited - the rest is silence.”
“I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.”
“I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.”
Source: None to Accompany Me
“I cannot live with you, It would be life, And life is over there Behind the shelf”
“I cannot live without art: it excites me, it challenges me, and it leads me to the next thing.”
“I cannot live without books.”
“I cannot live without books: but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object.”
Source: Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson
“I cannot live without brainwork. What else is there to live for”
Source: The sign of the four (low cost): Limited edition
“I cannot live without brainwork. What else is there to live for? Stand at the window here. Was ever such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable world? See how the yellow fog swirls down the street and drifts across the duncoloured houses. What could be more hopelessly prosaic and material?”
Source: Sherlock Holmes - The Novels: A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Valley of Fear
“I cannot live without children.”
Source: Nurtured by Love: The Classic Approach to Talent Education
“I cannot live without flowers everywhere. I grew up having a big garden, the size of a city block, in Rombas.”
“I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!”
“I cannot live without people. I need to live my life with others.”
Source: My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change
“I cannot live without reading.”
Source: This Is All
“I cannot live without you, Gwendolyn, nor can I believe the gods have brought us through so much only to tear us apart again. If I must face the possibility of death, then so be it.”
Source: Twin Passions
“I cannot look at modern buildings without thinking of historical ones.”
“I cannot look at myself in the mirror; everything I have believed in I have had to reject. This environment only makes sense through the prism of trends.”
“I cannot look at you with anything other than abhorrence, much less affection! I couldn't bare your presence when we were children and, I'm afraid to say, the repulsive way at which you have grown to be has made it even worse! You have taken everything from me...”
Source: Abhorrence and Affection: A Jane Austen inspired romance
“I cannot lose the one thing that keeps me alive : hope -”
“I cannot love a friend whose love is words.”
Source: Sophocles
“I cannot love a man who cannot protect me.”
“I cannot love a soul so dark it eats up others' light”
Source: The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection