I Quotes
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“I could not help feeling that they were evil things -- mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss.”
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“I could not help feeling that they were evil things-- mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss. That seething , half-luminous cloud-background held ineffable suggestions of a vague, ethereal beyondness far more than terrestrially spatial; and gave appalling reminders of the utter remoteness, separateness, desolation, and aeon-long death of this untrodden and unfathomed austral world.”
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“I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes.”
Source: Jane Eyre
“I could not help liking this girl more and more. I’ve never met a woman who was the one initiating her own seduction. Directing it even.”
Source: Anti-Nice Guy
“I could not help reflecting that the bullet which had struck the chestnut [horse] had certainly passed within a foot of my head. So at any rate I had been 'under fire.' That was something.”
Source: My Early Life: 1874-1904
“I could not help remembering that I myself had uttered to a journalist in 1967, during the dawn of tropicalismo, a sentence that Tom Zé would soon use in a song resonant with the movement: "I am Bahian and I am a foreigner." In fact, we had understood that in order to do what we believed necessary, we had to rid ourselves of Brazil as we knew it. We had to destroy the Brazil of the nationalists, we had to go deeper and pulverize the image of Brazil as being exclusively identified with Rio.”
Source: Tropical Truth: A Story of Music and Revolution in Brazil
“I could not help staring back, for they made quite a contrast: Kate's pale skin and elegant purple suit, Nadira's dusky skin and exotic fiery sari. "Do we clash?" Nadira said dryly. "We certainly do," said Kate. "Would you like me to move?" "Don't trouble yourself.”
Source: Skybreaker
“I could not help wondering in my own mind....how it came to pass that our joints of meat were of such extraordinary shapes - and whether our butcher contracted for all the deformed sheep that came into the world; but I kept my reflections to myself.”
“I could not imagine living away from Sevenwaters, away from all that was so much a part of me. Maybe, if you cared enough about someone, you could do it and not feel your spirit torn in two. But the forest keeps her hold on all those who are born there, and they cannot travel far without the yearning in them to return.”
Source: Son of the Shadows: Book Two of the Sevenwaters Trilogy
“I could not imagine that the future I was walking toward could compare in any way to the past that I was leaving behind.”
Source: The Essential Nelson Mandela
“I could not imagine that we should make much of an effort to preserve remainders of natural beauty in conquered Poland.”
“I could not kick heroin to save my life, literally, until I started telling my secrets. It was some of the clearest evidence I've ever found of anything. It was the only immediate change in behavior I've ever undergone. I told the most frightening truths, and I was free.”
“I could not kill her, of course, as some have thought. You see, I loved her. It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”
Source: Lolita
“I could not limit my values and pursuits to what makes others comfortable. Being possessed by a promise I live without options. I will spend the rest of my life exploring what could happen through the life of one who is willing to cultivate the God-given appetite to see impossibilities bow to the name of Jesus.”
Source: When Heaven Invades Earth: A Practical Guide to a Life of Miracles
“I could not live by literature if only to begin with, because of the slow maturing of my work and its special character.”
Source: Tell Me a Riddle
“I could not lose unless I was caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy.”
“I could not love thee, Dear, so much,
Loved I not Honour more.”
Source: The Lucasta Poems
“I could not love thee, dear, so much, loved I not Honor more.”
“I could not make a move without making love.”
Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories
“I could not make him a god," she says. Her jagged voice, rich with grief.
/But you made him./”
Source: The Song of Achilles
“I could not move them. They would not even agree to a modification, of the ruling (banning the Rand vaccine), which would at least allow the 100 (cancer) patients at Richmond Heights (Ohio) to complete their injections. The Justice Department was prepared to go along, but the FDA commissioner, Dr. James Goddard, was adamant, even belligerent. It's wrong of the government to snatch away this hope when there is no evidence against its use offered in court. It's damnably wrong.”
“I could not now say when I first grew to love the wild, only that I did, and that a need for it will always remain strong in me. As a child, whenever I read the word, it conjured images of wide spaces, remote and figureless. Isolated islands off Atlantic coasts. Unbounded forests, and blue snow-light falling on to drifts marked with the paw-prints of wolves. Frost-shattered summits and corries holding lochs of great depth. And this was the vision of a wild place that had stayed with me: somewhere boreal, wintry, vast, isolated, elemental, demanding of the traveller in its asperities. To reach a wild place was, for me, to step outside human history.”
Source: The Wild Places
“I could not paint at all if I had to paint slowly. Every effect is so transient, it must be rapidly painted.”
“I could not persuade her that a place does not merely exist, that it has to be invented in one's imagination.”
Source: The Shadow Lines
“I could not possibly be in a relationship now for more than six days. When I was younger, I might have said six months, although I think the longest relationship I was ever in was three years.”
“I could not possibly count the gold-digging ruses of women, Not if I had ten mouths, not if I had ten tongues.”
“I could not possibly have been placed in circumstances more highly favorable for study and exploration than those which I now enjoy. I am free from the distractions constantly arising in civilized life from social claims. Nature offers unceasingly the most novel and fascinating objects for learning. The only drawbacks to this solitude are the want of information on the progress of scientific discovery in Europe and the lack of all the advantages arising from an interchange of ideas.”
“I could not possibly improve on the sentiment, but I don't think it ought to depend on the current austerities. Isn't Christmas a moral and aesthetic nightmare whether or not the days are prosperous?”
“I could not possibly overstate the need for an urgent response.”
“I could not prove the Years had feet-/Yet confident they run.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)
“I could not remember my first kiss, but I could have told you Charlotte would be my last.”
Source: Handle with Care: A Novel
“I could not resist the clarity of the world in books, the incredibly satisfying way in which life became weighty and accessible. Books were reality. I hadn't made up my own mind about my own life, a vague, dreamy affair, amorphous and dimly perceived, without beginning or end.”
Source: Stop-time
“I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit, I suppose it is some taste of the original apple that remains still in our mouths.”
Source: Dracula
“I could not rest, Watson, I could not sit quiet in my chair, if I thought that such a man as Professor Moriarty were walking the streets of London unchallenged.”
Source: The Best of Sherlock Holmes: Literary Touchstone Classic
“I could not savor it. My head felt heavy, and my throat had begun to ache. I swayed. By now, Aeëtes was back on Colchis, drinking his milk and honey. My aunts would be laughing on their riverbanks, my cousins returned to their games. My father, of course, was overhead, shedding his light down on the world. All those years I had spent with them were like a stone tossed in a pool. Already, the ripples were gone.”
Source: Circe
“I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.”
“I could not see other human beings at present.”
Source: A Severed Head
“I could not see the speedometer, and was not accustomed to travelling in an open vehicle, but I estimated that we were consistently exceeding the speed limit. Discordant sound, wind, risk of death—I tried to assume the mental state that I used at the dentist.”
Source: The Rosie Project: A Novel
“I could not separate myself off stage from myself on stage, as so many actors can.”
“I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my life, & if it were indispensable for me to keep it up & never relax into laughing at myself or other people, I am sure I should be hung before I had finished the first chapter. No - I must keep my own style & go on in my own way; and though I may never succeed again in that, I am convinced that I should totally fail in any other.”
Source: My dear Cassandra: the letters of Jane Austen
“I could not sleep when I got on such a hunt for an idea until I had caught it; ...This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck by me; for I am never easy now, when I am handling a thought, till I have bounded it north, and bounded it south, and bounded it east, and bounded it west.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln's Wit & Wisdom
“I could not sleep when I got on the hunt for an idea, until I had caught it. This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck with me.”
“I could not smile, but then I was not allowed not to anyway. My husband would say that he loved my smile and wanted it on-demand, but my husband never did anything to put a smile on my face. I was never allowed to do anything but smile by those who professed to love me.”
Source: Reham Khan
“I could not stay here. I would not stay here. Seriously, who would want to stay here? “Please don’t put me in this box. In this box, I cannot shine!” So, I secretly crawled out of the box. To this box, I said, “Goodbye.”
Source: In the Land of Boxes
“I could not stop for death and he did not stop for me.”
“I could not stop something I knew was wrong and terrible. I had an awful sense of powerlessness.”
“I could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be finished. We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.”
Source: Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold
“I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.”
Source: The thief's journal
“I could not tell anymore how much of the screaming came from my own mouth. I was borne up on the swell of it, I was the sound. We were all howling together, the poor and the quality, the boxing girl and the beast inside my breast. If she was a madwoman, then we were all of us with her, and I had never felt such savage elation, nor known that it existed.”
Source: The Fair Fight
“I could not tell Himmler everything because he was too false and two-faced.”