I Quotes
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“I cannot stand the people who get wonderful starts in show business and who abuse it. Lindsay Lohan and Charlie Sheen, for example, although there are plenty of others, too. They are the most blessed people in the world, and they don't appreciate it.”
“I cannot stand Tolstoy, and reading him was the most boring literary duty I ever had to perform, his philosophy and his sense of life are not merely mistaken, but evil, and yet, from a purely literary viewpoint, on his own terms, I have to evaluate him as a good writer.”
Source: The Objectivist
“I cannot start a story or chapter without knowing how it ends. ... Of course, it rarely ends that way.”
“I cannot starve myself. I'm a foodie! I make fabulous pastas, Indian food, parathas and club sandwiches!”
“I cannot stay, Empress. You are too much temptation, and I am nowhere near strong or good enough to resist you." He spoke the words quietly at her ear, his nose buried in her hair- hair he no longer considered brown, but a rich myriad of chocolate and mahogany and sable that was fast becoming his favorite of all colors.”
Source: Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake
“I cannot stay, Empress. You are too much temptation, and I am nowhere near strong or good enough to resist you." He spoke the words quietly at her ear, his nose buried in her hair- hair he no longer considered brown, nut a rich myriad of chocolate and mahogany and sable that was fast becoming his favorite of all colors.”
Source: Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake
“I cannot stop asking. If I could taste one sip of an answer, I could break out of this prison for drunks.”
Source: Selected poems
“I cannot stop thinking about you. It is like you are with me all the time. I can almost feel you at times. But I don’t fight it anymore. You
are there with me and I am comforted by that thought”
“I cannot stop writing poems! … They come from the vocabulary of woods and animals and earth.”
“I cannot stress enough how good it is to know the future. If I didn’t come back with my memories intact, I would have probably clung to my father. I would have hated to see myself, unlovable, begging for attention, and finally turning into an ugly woman all over again. Yes, to live a good life… I just need to do nothing. The moment I tried to do something, I would attract people’s hatred and anger.”
Source: 폭군님은 착하게 살고 싶어 [Poggunnim'eun Chaghage Salgo Sip'eo]
“I cannot stress enough that the answer to a lot of your life's questions is often in someone else's face. Try putting your iPhones down every once in a while and look at people's faces.”
“I cannot stress enough that the answer to life's questions is often in people's faces. Try putting your iPhones down once in a while, and look in people's faces. People's faces will tell you amazing things. Like if they are angry, or nauseous or asleep.”
“I cannot stress enough the perils of your friends marrying or becoming court inventors. One day you are all a society of outlaws, adventurous comrades and companions who will be pushing off somewhere or other when things become tiresome; you have all the world to choose from, just by looking at the map… And then, suddenly, they’re not interested any more. They want to keep warm. They’re afraid of rain. They start collecting big things that can’t fit in a rucksack. They talk only of small things. They don’t like to make sudden decisions and do something contrariwise. Formerly they hoisted sail; now they carpenter little shelves for porcelain mugs.”
Source: Moominpappa's Memoirs
“I cannot stress how important and effective it is to leverage the principles of S.T.A.R.T. - Serve. Thank. Ask. Receive. Trust.”
“I cannot stress often enough that what science is all about is not proving things to be true but proving them to be false.”
“I cannot stress the importance of pausing to take a few deep breaths throughout the day. It's simple and effective.”
“I cannot stress this enough - if you try to install an HDTV in a non-HDTV compatible house, you may tear the space-time continuum.”
“I cannot stress this enough: content creators need to stop comparing their work with that of total strangers. Furthermore, we need to stop seeing ourselves as content consumers and realize that, as producers, we need time and distance from what is already out there in order to create truly innovative work. If you are always exposing your mind to others’ work, when will you gain the strength to create your own? Find a balance between inspiration and creation, and make sure that the first is indeed inspiring. What might start as a journey to gather ideas can quickly become a shortcut to discouragement. Know when to stop.”
Source: Powering Content: Building a Nonstop Content Marketing Machine
“I cannot stress this enough: do not take powerful hallucinogens before going to a Holocaust memorial.”
“I cannot stress this topic enough. As parents, we have to communicate with our children. "Sometimes we have to go into great details from the past and bring them to the present to remind them of how great of a person they are. We have to be their “turbo-charge” to renew their positive thoughts.”
“I cannot subscribe to the omnipotence of a State legislature.”
“I cannot sufficiently be astonished that such is the insanity of some men, such the impiety of their blinded understanding, such, finally, their lust after error, that they will not be content with the rule of faith delivered once and for all from antiquity, but must daily seek after something new, and even newer still, and are always longing to add something to religion, or to change it, or to subtract from it!”
“I cannot sufficiently celebrate the glorious liberty that reigns in the public libraries of the twentieth century as compared with the intolerable management of those of the nineteenth century, in which the books were jealously railed away from the people, and obtainable only at an expenditure of time and red tape calculated to discourage any ordinary taste for literature.”
Source: Looking Backward: From 2000 to 1887
“I cannot suggest political ways out, that is the task of politicians, so it is simply that those who accuse me of this do not know how to read.”
“I cannot sustain hate for longer than a couple of years.”
Source: The Quality of Mercy
“I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.”
Source: An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama : a Primer
“I cannot switch my voice. My voice is not like an elevator going up and down.”
“I cannot take advice from anyone who does not know how to use the words, know and no correctly.”
“I cannot take back one word or action; the past does not change for anyone.”
“I cannot take credit for the fact that I do not have the soul of a psychopath.”
“I cannot take every case that people ask me to take.”
“I cannot take you out and say you are separate from the whole. If someone says to me, "Well, how do I find my life purpose?" I first say, "You've never lost your life purpose." Number two, I say, "Have no judgments about your life. No expectations. Give up the need to know what happens tomorrow. Just be fully present and appreciate all that is in your life right now."”
“I cannot take your sense of humor--and, with it, you've nothing to fear from me.”
Source: The phantom tollbooth
“I cannot talk to the children about her. The moment I try, there appears on their faces neither grief, nor love, nor fear, nor pity, but the most fatal of all non-conductors, embarrassment. They look as if I were committing an indecency. They are longing for me to stop. I felt just the same after my own mother's death when my father mentioned her. I can't blame them.”
Source: A Grief Observed
“I cannot teach -- if I teach as teaching should be I become so exhausted I nearly die, I seem to have no middle gear.”
“I cannot teach a child I do not know”
“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
“I cannot teach anybody how to cook. All I can do is show them, share methods with them.”
“I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.”
Source: The Dawn of Freedom
“I cannot tell a joke. But I can do a situation, that it becomes a joke.”
“I cannot tell a lie. I cut down the cherry tree.”
“I cannot tell and I shall never know how many words of mine might have given birth to cruelty in place of love and kindness and charity.”
“I cannot tell by what logic we call a toad, a bear, or an elephant ugly; they being created in those outward shapes and figures which best express the actions of their inward forms.”
Source: Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and Other Papers
“I cannot tell good art from bad art. I have no eye for it.”
“I cannot tell her I have been moping over a broken heart when I have worked so hard to convince her I have no heart at all.”
“I cannot tell how much my heart suffered for my people while at Leavenworth.”
“I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.”
“I cannot tell if I am lying.”
Source: Rules for Vanishing
“I cannot tell if what the world considers ‘happiness’ is happiness or not. All I know is that when I consider the way they go about attaining it, I see them carried away headlong, grim and obsessed, in the general onrush of the human herd, unable to stop themselves or to change their direction. All the while they claim to be just on the point of attaining happiness.”
“I cannot tell my story without reaching a long way back.”
Source: Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse