I Quotes
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“I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in the presence of people who are noted for their special virtuousness, for they radiate an atmosphere of the torture they inflict on themselves. That is not a virtue but a vice.”
“I cannot love as I have loved,
And yet I know not why;
It is the one great woe of life
To feel all feeling die.”
Source: Festus: a poem
“I cannot love evergreens - they are the misanthropes of nature. To them the spring brings no promise, the autumn no decline; they are cut off from the sweetest of all ties with their kind - sympathy. ... I will have no evergreens in my garden; when the inevitable winter comes, every beloved plant and favorite tree shall drop together - no solitary fir left to triumph over the companionship of decay.”
Source: Francesca Carrara
“I cannot love, I want to be alone
I will not love, I want to be alone”
“I cannot love in the insipid way others do. What I feel is different; it's more. This thing I feel when I look at you is formidable. It burns through my veins and infects my mind with a weakness to you I've never felt. It's terrible.”
Source: Hemlock
“I cannot love myself in the dark because I want to see the world.”
Source: Dying on The Inside and Suffocating on The Outside
“I cannot love people in the country, I discover, because there is always this danger that they may be acquaintances, with all the perils and choleras of acquaintance implicit in them; but in London they seem as charming as rabbits.”
Source: Letters
“I cannot love thee; thou 'rt worse than thy brother. Go, say thy prayers, child, and ask God's pardon. I doubt thy mother and I must rue that we ever reared thee!”
Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“I cannot love what you are, no,
what you are is indeed a mistake.”
Source: My Poems Won't Change the World: Selected Poems
“I cannot make it better known than it already is that I strongly favor colonization.”
Source: The Portable Abraham Lincoln
“I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better.”
“I cannot make myself believe that God wanted me to hate. I'm tired of violence, I've seen too much of it. I've seen such hate on the faces of too many sheriffs in the South. And I'm not going to let my oppressor dictate to me what method I must use. Our oppressors have used violence. Our oppressors have used hatred. Our oppressors have used rifles and guns. I'm not going to stoop down to their level. I want to rise to a higher level. We have a power that can't be found in Molotov cocktails.”
“I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.”
“I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me.”
Source: No Man Is an Island
“I cannot make up my mind / because my mind
I cannot find. The wizard, I will tell him / I need a cerebellum. Hope the wizard's got for me / a reverse lobotomy.”
Source: We're Off
“I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.”
“I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought, but this man is in wide contrast.”
“I cannot mislead people into believing that I support organized religion. In Jesus' name, I cannot be complicit with many of the things organized religion does.”
“I cannot morally blame all Americans for allowing, for instance, the birth of the Federal Reserve System and the money destruction that has followed. They are simply ignorant about it and don’t know what happened or what is happening. They think that prices go up rather than that dollars go down.”
“I cannot move, I cannot even want to move, unless I hear the music first.”
“I cannot name this, I cannot explain this, and I really don't want to so just call me shameless.”
“I cannot neglect prayer for a single day.”
“I cannot not grieve.”
Source: An Oresteia
“I cannot now evaluate the events that, at the end of those thirty years, made me discover the necessity of religious belief. I was not reasoned into my disposition. Though I admire the structured thought of theology, it is to religion no more than counterpoint exercises are to music.”
Source: Expositions and Developments
“I cannot, of course, prove that there is no supervising deity who invigilates my every moment
and who will pursue me even after I am dead. (I can only be happy that there is no evidence for
such a ghastly idea, which would resemble a celestial North Korea in which liberty was not just
impossible but inconceivable.) But nor has any theologian ever demonstrated the contrary. This
would perhaps make the believer and the doubter equal—except that the believer claims to know,
not just that God exists, but that his most detailed wishes are not merely knowable but actually
known. Since religion drew its first breath when the species lived in utter ignorance and
considerable fear, I hope I may be forgiven for declining to believe that another human being can
tell me what to do, in the most intimate details of my life and mind, and to further dictate these
terms as if acting as proxy for a supernatural entity. This tyrannical idea is very much older than
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Christianity, of course, but I do sometimes think that Christians have less excuse for believing, let
alone wishing, that such a horrible thing could be true.”
Source: Is Christianity Good for the World?
“I cannot outline. I do not know what the next thing is going to happen in the book until it comes out of my fingers.”
“I cannot overemphasise the value we place on a free, independent and outspoken press”
Source: Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations
“I cannot overemphasize the impact our childhood has on our ability to be honest because we live out what we learned as children in our adult relationships.”
Source: Lies We Tell Ourselves: The Psychology of Self-Deception
“I cannot overemphasize this, the attitude, the defeatist attitude that everybody on the Republican side had.”
“I cannot overstate how much a generous spirit contributes to good luck. Look at the luckiest people around you, the ones you envy, the ones who seem to have destiny falling habitually into their laps. If they're anything like the fortunate people I know, they're prepared, they're always working at their craft, they're alert, they involve their friends in their work, and they tend to make others feel lucky to be around them.”
Source: The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life
“I cannot overstate the power of libraries in my life.”
“I cannot perceive that you're still a girl. Ur kisses don't seem so innocent. They just drive me crazy!" #MilanoVeneziani. #ItalianPassion”
“I cannot perch among those who think that I am broken.”
Source: Seraphina
“I cannot permit you to disrupt the Paramount schedule.”
“I cannot personally imagine any U.S. president normalizing relations with him [Fidel Castro], as opposed to his brother, but I may prove wrong on this score.”
“I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.”
“I cannot persuade myself that a beneficient and omnipotent God would have designedly created...that a cat should play with mice.”
“I cannot persuade myself that without love to others, and without, as far as rests with me, peaceableness toward all, I can be called a worthy servant of Jesus Christ.”
“I cannot picture to myself a time when all mankind will have one religion.”
Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
“I cannot place the luxury of thought towards tomorrow as I am consumed by living for today.”
Source: Wantin
“I cannot play a lie. I have to believe in what I play or it won't come out.”
“I cannot please everybody, but it is important to have one eye. This builds a faithful following and, consequently, good clientele. That's why the conversation - the dialogue with visitors and customers - is so important.”
“I cannot possibly let you stay at school over the summer. Surely you want to go home for the holidays?"
"No," Riddle said at once. "I'd much rather stay at Hogwarts than go back to that- to that-"
"You live in a Muggle orphanage during the holidays, I believe?" said Dippet curiously.
"Yes, sir," said Riddle, reddening slightly.
"You are Muggle-born?"
"Half-blood, sir," said Riddle. "Muggle father, witch mother."
"And are both your parents-?"
"My mother died just after I was born, sir. They told me at the orphanage she lived just long enough to name me- Tom after my father, Marvolo after my grandfather.”
Source: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
“I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.”
“I cannot praise the common superfluity which women now use in their apparel.”
“I cannot predict the wind but I can have my sail ready.”
“I cannot pretend i am not without fear.”
“I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude.”
Source: Gratitude
“I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I have been given much and I have given something in return; I have read and traveled and thought and written. I have had an intercourse with the world, the special intercourse of writers and readers.
Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.”
Source: Gratitude
“I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I have been given much and I have given something in return; I have read and traveled and thought and written. I have had an intercourse with the world, the special intercourse of writers and readers.”
Source: Gratitude