I Quotes
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“I cannot say and no man could say that no more will be asked of us.”
“I cannot say anything about going away. I cannot say anything even in this diary. Perhaps it is better not to say anything ever. I must try not to say anything more to Eddie, when I have said things it has always been a mistake.”
Source: The Death Of The Heart
“I cannot say enough of appreciation for your determination to live by the standards of the Church, to walk with the strength of virtue, to keep your minds above the slough of filth which seems to be moving like a flood across the world. Thank you for knowing there is a better way. Thank you for the will to say no. Thank you for the strength to deny temptation and look beyond and above to the shining light of your eternal potential.”
“I cannot say for certain that God does not exist; I think the worst thing that can be said about him is that he's a bit of an underachiever.”
“I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other people's fiction. Just don't.”
“I cannot say my yes to legends that have been clearly and fancifully created. If I could not move my search beyond angelic messengers, empty tombs, and ghostlike apparitions, I could not say yes to Easter.”
Source: Resurrection: myth or reality? : a bishop's search for the origins of Christianity
“I cannot say something different to one person and then another.”
“I cannot say that having an intense life filled with accomplishments is better than having a relaxed life filled with savoring, though I can say that being strong is better than being weak, and that struggling gives one strength. My nature being what it is, I would not have changed my life, but I can’t tell you what is best for you. That is for you to choose. What I have seen is that the happiest people discover their own nature and match their life to it.”
Source: Principles: Life and Work
“I cannot say that I am in the slightest degree impressed by your bigness, or your material resources, as such. Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation. The great issue, about which hangs true sublimity, and the terror of overhanging fate, is what are you going to do with all these things?”
Source: Collected essays
“I cannot say that I don't disagree with you.”
“I cannot say that I have been hindered all my life by the permutation of genes that resulted in me being born a woman.”
Source: Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage
“I cannot say that I was a particularly diligent student, especially during the lower grades.”
“I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really.”
Source: Tom Stoppard, Professional foul: notes
“I cannot say that our country could have no secret police without becoming totalitarian, but I can say with great conviction that it cannot become totalitarian without a centralized national police.”
“I cannot say that the attitude of the United Nations always is for the Israeli attitude. Israel, I think, has been under severe attacks by members of the United Nations many times.”
“I cannot say this too strongly: Do not compare yourselves to others. Be true to who you are, and continue to learn with all your might.”
“I cannot say to be glad or not glad to be on Everest. It is my life. I have opportunity to be here, so I am here.”
“I cannot say to you what is right or wrong. I can say only one thing to you: be conscious - that is right. Don't be unconscious because that is wrong. And then whatsoever you do in consciousness is right. But people are living in unconsciousness. And let me tell you: in unconsciousness you may think you are doing something right, but it can't be right. Out of unconsciousness, virtue cannot flower; it may appear virtuous but it can't be. Deep down it will still be something wrong. If you are unconscious and you give money to a poor man, watch: your ego is strengthened. This is sin.”
“I cannot say what color Lenore Beadsman’s eyes are; I cannot look at them; they are the sun to me.”
Source: The Broom of the System: A Novel
“I cannot say what I think is right about Music. I only know the rightness of it.”
“I cannot say where I will be in 5 yearsscratch that, tomorrowBut I know that wherever you find me, I will remain true to myself with a genuine smile on my face and happiness in my heart.”
“I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is that they must change if they are to get better.”
“I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.”
“I cannot say Who Art in Heaven-If all my interests and pursuits are in earthly things.”
“I cannot say who I will be tomorrow. Each day is new, and each day I am born again. I see hope everywhere, even in the dark, and when I die, I will perhaps become God.”
“I cannot say who, precisely, came up with the idea of a Stone Age family.”
“I cannot say why I wanted to paint. The only answer is in the pictures themselves.”
“I cannot say, with truth, that the news of my old master's death softened my feelings towards him. There are wrongs which even the grave does not bury. The man was odious to me while he lived, and his memory is odious now.”
Source: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
“I cannot say your worships have delivered the matter well when I find the ass in compound with the major part of your syllables [...] our very priests must become mockers if they shall encounter such ridiculous subjects as you are. When you speak best unto the purpose, it is not worth the wagging of your beards, and your beards deserve not so honorable a grave as to stuff a botcher's cushion or to be entombed in an ass's packsaddle [...] more of your conversation would infect my brain, being the herdsmen of the beastly plebeians. I will be bold to take my leave with you.”
Source: Coriolanus
“I cannot say, and I will not say
That he is dead. He is just away.
With a cheery smile, and a wave of the hand,
He has wandered into an unknown land
And left us dreaming how very fair
It needs must be, since he lingers there.
And you - oh you, who the wildest yearn
For an old-time step, and the glad return,
Think of him faring on, as dear
In the love of There as the love of Here.
Think of him still as the same. I say,
He is not dead - he is just away.”
Source: The Best of James Whitcomb Riley
“I cannot see ... evidence of design and beneficence ... There seems to me too much misery in the world.”
“I cannot see as they see, in shades of advantage and degrees of subtlety.”
Source: Hell and Earth
“I cannot see him. I cannot have a relationship with my father and be morally consistent... I lived with all these adopted children, so they are my family. To say Soon-Yi was not my sister is an insult to all adopted children.”
“I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious -- unless he purposely shut the eyes of his mind & keep them shut by force.”
Source: Adventures of Tom Sawyer Companion
“I cannot see how it can be argued that one should speak in tones of reverence and awe about the alleged divine instruction-in Psalms-to grab the defenseless bodies of innocent infants and dash their brains out against the nearest rocks or walls.”
Source: More Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion and Morality
“I cannot see myself as a wife. Ugly word.”
“I cannot see myself in a new car. I am a tiny white van person. That is what i want!”
“I cannot see that any rational American. . . could conceivably try to fulfill the major national purposes of the United States through the United Nations. It would be comparable to the United States seeking to pass its legislation through the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.”
“I cannot see that art is anything less than a way of making joys perpetual.”
Source: The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews
“I cannot see that keeping the status quo intact would help in any way to solve the problems of inequality or suffering in this world. I would go for taking action towards change instead of accepting the inevitable.”
Source: Love on the Line: How to Recover from Romance Scams Gracefully and Without Victimisation
“I cannot see the future, but I can sense its possibilities. I sense now that what I am telling you is the truth. But truth, like magic, can have different meanings. It is not an absolute. It does not always come about as we think it will.”
Source: The Measure of the Magic
“I cannot see the future, but I can tell you that opportunities, good and bad, don't ask permission before opening the door and hauling us through.”
“I cannot see the short, white curls
Upon the forehead of an Ox,
But what I see them dripping with
That poor thing's blood, and hear the ax;
When I see calves and lambs, I see
Them led to death; I see no bird
Or rabbit cross the open field
But what a sudden shot is heard;
A shout that tells me men aim true,
For death or wound, doth chill me through.”
“I cannot see the short, white curls Upon the forehead of an Ox, But what I see them dripping with That poor thing's blood, and hear the ax; When I see calves and lambs, I see Them led to death; I see no bird Or rabbit cross the open field But what a sudden shot is heard; A shout that tells me men aim true, For death or wound, doth chill me through. W.H. Davies I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.”
“I cannot see the war as historians see it. Those clever fellows study all the facts and they see the war as a large thing, one of the biggest events in the legend of the man, something general, involving multitudes.”
Source: Inhale & exhale
“I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet.”
“I cannot see why a taste for the country should be held so very indispensable a requisite for excellence; but really people talk of it as if it were a virtue, and as if an opposite opinion was, to say the least of it, very immoral.”
Source: The Complete Works of L.E. Landon
“I cannot see why all men are not friends below.
The identity of your weaknesses and misfortunes, the need that you have one for another, the shortness of your lives, the spectacle of the infinite greatness of the spheres, and the comparison of these with your own littleness, all ought to unite you fraternally, as voyagers threatened with shipwreck.”
Source: The Strange Friend of Tito Gil
“I cannot see why we should expect an infinite God to do better in another world than he does in this.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“I cannot seem to contort myself back in to the shape of a dutiful child.
I am becoming unravelled. I am becoming undone.”
Source: The Cruel Prince