I Quotes
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“I claim to be a conscientiously immoral writer.”
“I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.”
Source: The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas
“I claim to be no more than an average man with below average capabilities.”
“I claim to be no more than the average person with less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
“I claim to have been a lifelong and wholly disinterested friend of the British people.”
Source: Gandhi: Selected Writings
“I claim to know my millions. All the hours of the day I am with them. They are my first care and God that is to be found in the hearts of the dumb millions.”
Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi
“I claim to represent all the cultures, for my religion, whatever it may be called, demands the fulfillment of all the cultures.”
Source: Volume of prefaces
“I claim we got a hell of a beating. We got run out of Burma and it is as humiliating as hell. I think we ought to find out what caused it, go back and retake it.”
Source: The Stilwell papers
“I claim you as my life mate. I belong to you. I offer my life for you. I give to you my protection, my allegiance, my heart, my soul, and my body. I take into my keeping the same that is yours. Your life, happiness, and welfare will be cherished and placed above my own for all time. You are my life mate, bound to me for all eternity and always in my care.”
Source: Dark Challenge
“I claim you for my very own. With my blood. With my bone. With my heart. With my soul. You are mine. Forever. In this world, and in the next”
Source: Heart on Fire
“I claim you, Rowan Whitethorn. I don't care what you say and how much you protest. I claim you as my friend.”
Source: Heir of Fire
“I claimed identity as Jewish musicians for political reasons, because most of us were touring in Germany and, at this time, twelve years ago, there was a strong resurgence of Nazism in the places we were touring and part of that was on the music scene.”
“I claimed myself and remade my life.”
Source: Two Or Three Things I Know for Sure
“I claimed to be the first person to adjust a vertebra by hand, using the spinous and transverse processes and levers. I developed the art known as adjusting, and formulated the science of chiropractic, and developed its philosophy.”
“I clamped down on the sick, hurt feeling inside that threatened to make me burst into tears. My eyes dried instantly. I was good at hiding tears. I should be; I'd had three years to get good at it.”
Source: Marked
“I clap my hands in delight. Is there anything more intoxicating than making a boy bend to your will?”
Source: Always and Forever, Lara Jean
“I clap so that I can hold on to this feeling. I clap because I know what will happen when I stop. It’s the same thing that happens when I turn off a really good movie - one that I’ve lost myself to - which is that I’ll be thrown back to my own reality and something hollow will settle in my chest.”
Source: Just One Day
“I clasped his face in both hands as I kissed him. "You don't know how I need you, how I love you, how I always have," I whispered in his ear. Maybe he would find me more charming on account of what's befallen me - the unexpected horror I've seen, the inevitable pain I've endured. It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater luster to our colours, a richer resonance to our words. That is, if it doesn't destroy us, if it doesn't burn away the optimism and the spirit.”
Source: The Queen of the Damned
“I class myself as a manual laborer.”
“I class the principle of moral feeling under that of happiness, because every empirical interest promises to contribute to our well-being by the agreeableness that a thing affords, whether profit be regarded.”
Source: Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals: & The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics
“I classify myself as a student and a teacher. This year, I'm back into the student. I try to stay balanced. I learn so much every time I walk about my door.”
“I classify Sao Paolo this way: The Governor's Palace is the living room. The mayor's office is the dining room and the city is the garden. And the favela is the back yard where they throw the garbage.”
Source: Beyond All Pity
“I clean my house, although I have help. I'm on the floor getting spots. I can't stand a dirty house. I'm a cleaning fanatic.”
“I clean my own utensils, my house and I even travel alone. I don't know what the life of a superstar is like.”
“I clean this teapot with the kind of attention I would have were I giving the baby Buddha or Jesus a bath.”
Source: The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation
“I cleaned out my closet and threw out the clothes that didn’t fit, the clothes that were old, the clothes that were stained, the clothes that were tight, and the clothes that were loose until there was nothing in my closet.
I stand here naked, and see who I really am.”
“I cleaned the attic with the wife the other day. Now I can't get the cobwebs out of her hair.”
“I cleaned the shit off my pink high-tops and drove home, stopping for an espresso at the coffeehouse across from the college. Men and women were hunched over copies of Jean Paul Sartre and writing in their journals. Most wore the thin-rimmed tortoiseshell glasses favored by intellectuals. Their clothes were faded to a precisely fashionable degree; you can buy them that way from catalogs now, new clothes processed to look old. The intellectuals looked at me in my overalls the way such people inevitably look at farmers.
I dumped a lot of sugar in my espresso and sipped it delicately at a corner table near the door. I looked at them the way farmers look at intellectuals.”
“I cleaned toilets and shined shoes.”
“I cleaned up my act because otherwise I would have kicked the bucket.”
“I cleaned up. I quit drinking, I quit doing drugs, I quit stealing, I quit breaking into houses, I tried to quit being a bad human being. I developed a conscience later in life than many. I call it the lost-time-regained dynamic.”
“I cleanse the windows of my mind, that it may become a mirror reflecting inspiration from the most High. I do this, not with strenuous effort, but through quiet contemplation, through gently reaching and affirming an inward recognition. I know exactly what to do in every situation. There is an inspiration within me which governs every act, every thought, with certainty, with conviction and in peace.”
Source: This Thing Called You
“I cleared my throat - it isn't frogs you get in your throat; it's memories.”
Source: Belle Ruin
“I cleared my throat and looked up at him. “I’ll just get dressed and meet you in the hall.”
He nodded. “I’ll have the nurse ready your chariot.”
“My chariot?”
He shrugged sheepishly. “I thought that sounded better than wheelchair.”
I grinned. “Totally better.”
Source: Torch
“I cleared my throat and spoke into his kiss. “Sorry, it’s been a while.”
“You should expect to hear the same thing from me in about five minutes,” he murmured.
“Five minutes, huh?”
“I’ll make it the best five minutes of your life.”
I bit his lip, hard, then released him and looked into those intense blues. “Clock’s ticking.”
Source: Sins & Needles
“I cleared my throat, searching for my voice. “There’s a good chance you might be smarter than me.”
That almost made her smile. “Nah, I just like being around you while you’re still breathing.”
Source: Wolf Moon
“I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. I'm not a believer in laissez-faire.”
“I clearly had one drink too many and I am deeply embarrassed about the things I said.”
“I clearly remember writing songs [when I was young] and the power that it gave me of feeling like somebody. My whole life changed when I wrote those songs, even before anyone ever heard them. It wasn't a commercial thing.”
“I clearly saw the skeleton underneath all this show of personality what is left of a man and all his pride but bones?”
“I clearly understood the concept of wise use before I ever heard the actual words, for my father wouldn't allow us to waste anything.”
“I cleave the heavens and soar to the infinite. And while I rise from my own globe to others and penetrate ever further through the eternal field. That which others saw from afar, I leave far behind me.”
“I clench his hands to the point of pain. "Stay with me." His pupils contract to pinpoints, dialate again rapidly, and then return to something resembling normalcy. "Always," he murmurs.”
Source: Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)
“I clench my teeth as tears come. I am fed up. I am fed up with tears and weakness. But there isn't much I can do to stop them. ~ 'Tris”
Source: Divergent
“I click my teeth together every time I want to take a mental picture of something, like, "Wow, what a beautiful sunset!" Slam your teeth together.”
“I clicked on a pop-up and got caught in a pornado.”
“I clicked on the message and slipped back into Ireland where I lay smiling in Raven’s arms. Together we watched the fire from the piles of blankets, clothes, and pillows scattered about on the cottage floor.
I felt him kiss the top of head and I tightened my hold on him.
“You know none of this is real, right?” he whispered. “It’s just a fantasy.”
I buried my face in his chest and felt him breathe beneath me.
“I know that,” I said. “But if I can’t have you, then I’ll settle for Ireland. Besides I’ve had a bad day today and I need this. I want to cry.”
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“But you...” I looked into his eyes. “You walked in and sat down beside me and it feels so right. I can't live without you. I love what we have, where we are... And if ever there is a chance for more, I would take it in a moment’s breath. I love this. Whatever it is, I love it. I need it so much in my life. I need you. I need exactly what we are like this.
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“I would want you to teach me. I would want you to teach me how to be intimate and how to let you in. I would show you all my cards, everything that I am and I would say please teach me to be gentle and sensual and romantic. Please teach me how to accept love because I don’t know how.”
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You meant the world to me right up to the end, even when you found a way to wake me from the lies. And for that, you will always be my dearest friend, my sweetest love, regardless of whether or not you were real.”
Source: Broken
“I climb aboard my tricycle and pedal my heart to the stars.”
“I climb fences when i got fences to climb.”
Source: The Grapes of Wrath
“I climb into a cradle of branches and wait, petals falling around me with the sway of tree limbs. I lean my cheek against the rough bark, listening to the susurration of leaves.”
Source: The Stolen Heir