I Quotes
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“I cannot sell my soul in order to participate with Nancy Pelosi or Carole Migden or any of them. I can't do it.”
“I cannot separate the aesthetic pleasure of seeing a butterfly and the scientific pleasure of knowing what it is.”
“I cannot separate the finances of India from those of England. If the finances of the Indian Government receive any severe and irreparable check, will not the resources of England be called upon to meet the emergency, and to supply the deficiency?”
Source: Speeches on Questions of Public Policy
“I cannot separate the man you are now from the boy you were then, and it's killing me.
I wanted everything for you, son.
I still do.”
Source: Unconditional
“I cannot seriously believe in it [quantum theory] because the theory cannot be reconciled with the idea that physics should represent a reality in time and space, free from spooky actions at a distance [spukhafte Fernwirkungen].”
“I cannot shake the conviction that life is (usually) worth living, and that we should continue to create the conditions for intelligent life to experience beauty, create art, discover how the world works, and continue to set and satisfy goals that presuppose a complex form of intelligence. It is at this point that our intuitions bottom out. If you think that life is pointless, given that we will leave no trace in 20 billion years, it is hard to know how to convince you to believe otherwise. An obligation to reproduce, no matter how weak it is, cannot exist unless there is value to the future experiences intelligent creatures will have.”
Source: Creating Future People
“I cannot share my secrets with her, even to brag.
And I admit that I desperately want to brag.”
Source: The Wicked King
“I cannot shift the blame for Chechnya, for the sorrow of numerous mothers and fathers. I made the decision, therefore I am responsible.”
“I cannot show remorse because I do not believe I am guilty.”
“I cannot shun the past because it contains information that is useful to script future goals. Looking back into the opaque window of reductive retrospect, what essential opportunities exist today that beckon one to seek with unrestrained enthusiasm? What iridescent signals flare from our conceptual self that if we heedlessly ignore their luminous summons, such deliberate acts of omission will suture the apex of our souls, relegating us to the dreaded curse of mucking along in an ordinary life stalled out by our overweening fear of estrangement?”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“I cannot shut my eyes and plunge confidently into the absurd; that is for me an impossibility, but I do not praise myself for it. I am convinced that God is love; this thought has for me a primordial lyrical validity. When it is present to me I am unspeakably happy; when it is absent I long for it more intensely than the lover for the object of his love. But I do not believe; this courage I lack.”
Source: Fear and Trembling
“I cannot shut you out the way I shut the others out, so maybe I can destroy you. Must destroy you?”
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
“I cannot shy away from controversy. I don't know if it's my Irish blood, but I love it.”
“I cannot significantly improve on the assertion that it simply is proper for us, as intelligent members of the universe, to try to look after our fellow creatures, and evil for us to do otherwise.”
Source: Last Animals at the Zoo: How Mass Extinction Can Be Stopped
“I cannot sing karaoke because it's hard and weird. If I actually tried to sing, I would probably sound good, and I think that's weird and not fun.”
“I cannot sing the old songs Though well I know the tune, Familiar as a cradle-song With sleep-compelling croon; Yet though I'm filled with music, As choirs of summer birds, I cannot sing the old songs-- I do not know the words.”
“I cannot sing the old songs, I sang long years ago, For heart and voice would fail me, And foolish tears would flow.”
“I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again.”
“I cannot sing, dance or act; what else would I be but a talk show host.”
“I cannot sit and think; books think for me.”
Source: The Essays of Elia and Eliana
“I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
Source: Why We Can't Wait
“I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham.”
Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:
“I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as sorrow.”
Source: Evelina; Or, The History of a Young Lady's Introduction to the World
“I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I'd find you coming through some door.”
“I cannot sleep in your presence In your absence, tears prevent me you watch me my beloved on each sleepiness night and Only you see the difference”
“I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.”
“I cannot smell mothballs because it's so difficult to get their little legs apart.”
“I cannot solve the problem of life by losing myself in the problem of art.”
Source: The Letters from Tina Modotti to Edward Weston
“I cannot spare the luxury of believing that all things beautiful are what they seem.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Fitz-Greene Halleck: Now First Collected. Illustrated with Steel Engravings, from Drawings by American Artists
“I cannot spare the time to focus on the flaws, in others since I stay rectifying that exist, within myself”
“I cannot speak
In happy tones; the tear drops on my cheek
Show I am sad;
But I can speak
Of grace to suffer with submission meek,
Until made glad.”
“I cannot speak adequately, especially considering my race and my privilege, to the violence of the NYPD or the police in racial terms. That is something that I cannot speak adequately to.”
“I cannot speak but I am doubted, every moment judged for lies, as though I come into a court when I come into this house!”
“I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.”
“I cannot speak for the way God deals with others; I only know how he deals with me personally.”
“I cannot speak so confidently about the fighting qualities of the Eastern men, or what are called Yankees - not knowing myself particularly to whom the appellation belongs - but this I do know - if the Southerners think that man for man they are better than our Illinois men, or western men generally, they will discover themselves in a grievous mistake.”
Source: Conversations With Lincoln
“I cannot speak to my own morality, I don't think it would be a respectable thing for me to decide what type of person I am.
- Kaede (King of Hearts)”
Source: Alice in the Land of Clovers
“I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.”
Source: Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.
“I cannot speak your england.”
Source: Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)
“I cannot speculate on what our cluttered mind will save- sleepy Sundays, or a nosebleed after love. I know only the dying heart needs the nourishment of memory to live beyond too many winters.”
“I cannot squeeze the stars; but I can squeeze my mind to feel the moon compressed.”
“I cannot stand authority.”
“I cannot stand beer. But I love wine.”
“I cannot stand being awake, the pain is too much.”
Source: Milligan's Meaning of Life: An Autobiography of Sorts
“I cannot stand forward, and give praise or blame to any thing which relates to human actions, and human concerns, on a simple view of the subject as it stands stripped of every relation, in all the nakedness and solitude of metaphysical abstraction. Circumstances (which with some gentlemen pass for nothing) give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing colour, and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.”
“I cannot stand no wack MC.
So step back if you please,
And don't test me, you're history.”
“I cannot stand people who disagree with me on the issue of Roe v. Wade... which I believe is about the proper way to cross a lake.”
“I cannot stand public attention, I just can't. Of course, if I may I might write something instead”
“I cannot stand superheroes. I do not understand any of its appeal. It has just bored me to death since I was a little kid.”
“I cannot stand that whole game of confession, that is: Here I have sinned, now I'm confessing my sins, and describing my path of sin and then in the act of confession I beg for your forgiveness and redemption.”