I Quotes
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“I count myself really fortunate that I have some lifelong friends. The best thing about a friend is when you are being your own worst enemy a friend can help snap you out of it.”
“I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half, was a born teacher in advance of her own times.”
Source: An autobiography
“I count no more my wasted tears;
They left no echo of their fall;
I mourn no more my lonesome years;
This blessed hour atones for all.
I fear not all that Time or Fate
May bring to burden heart or brow,-
Strong in the love that came so late,
Our souls shall keep it always now!”
“I count on chiropractic sessions to keep my body aligned. Standing for hours can impact my posture, and that can throw the rest of my body out of whack. Acupuncture helps me relax and release stress. I'm also very into massage to help release tension in my back, neck, and shoulders.”
“I count on the kindness of strangers.”
“I count only the hours that are serene.”
Source: The Measure of the Hours
“I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.”
“I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God-- Lifting the soul from the common clod To a purer air and a broader view.”
Source: THE MARBLE PROPHECY AND OTHER POEMS.
“I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God.”
“I count too heavily on birthdays, though I know I shouldn't. Inevitably I begin to assess my life by them, figure out how I'm doing by how many people remember; it's like the old fantasy of attending your own funeral: You get to see who your friends are, get to see who shows up.”
“I counted down the days until there was just air between us and in the meantime enjoyed this place of our own making; he was like a portal at the side entrance of boring, daily life that allowed me to slip into a magical technicolour world.”
“I counted it up once. I think I have written 45 full screenplays. Of those, maybe 15 have been shot, in some form. That's a pretty good track record, but it's not 100%. It is frustrating that, as a screenwriter, I've seen all those movies and they don't exist in the real world. They're juts inside my head and on those pages.”
“I counted myself so plain, so poorly made, that no honest love could come to me.”
“I counted them all out and I counted them all back.”
“I counted to ten slowly, using binary notation.”
Source: The Door Into Summer
“I court not the votes of the fickle mob.”
“I courted danger because danger was one of the few things strong enough to help me forget what I'd lost.”
Source: Shantaram
“I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it.”
“I cover media people the way they cover politicians.”
“I cover my face with my arms because this isn't happening. It isn't possible. For someone to make Peeta forget he loves me . . . no one can do that.”
Source: Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)
“I covered it up, and John Hersey uncovered it,” [McCrary] stated. “That’s the difference between a P.R. man and a reporter.”
Source: Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World
“I covered my face because they had taken my wisdom teeth out.”
“I covered the first Gulf War in Saudi Arabia and Israel for ABC News.”
“I covered the Lebanese civil war. I could see a place that had once been prosperous and now was impoverished. I'm not seeing that in America.”
“I covered the scar with concealer every day because I wanted my body to be a flawless figurine, but this blemish would be with me forever.”
“I covet him.
His hot body over mine,
sweaty and smelling like grass
after the rain.
I want to live that moment of Eros
again and again and again.
Never having enough of him,
the masculine image of me,
a piece of art,
unique masterpiece of God,
that is calmly sleeping beside me.”
Source: Moments of Eros: Poetry as the Language of Desire
“I covet solitude and storms…and rain, with its geography of dark silence and distance”
“I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.”
Source: Emerson's Prose and Poetry
“I coveted you. I had no right to want you--but I reached out and took you anyway. And now look what's become of you! Trying to seduce a vampire.”
“I crack jokes and do silly things not so that people laugh on me but because of me.”
“I crack jokes and play games and that's really more my nature than being cold.”
“I crack my knuckles and my neck.Okay, first off when I win one, it's not going to be for you. It's going to be for that beautiful girl right there.
I point at Callie, then want to take it back,even though it's true.”
Source: The Coincidence of Callie & Kayden
“I cracked a child prostitution ring - I'd worked with three vice cops every day for months, out on the street, in the cold, trying to track down the pervs and the young girls being prostituted.We finally got the convictions.Six or seven months later, I was working, and I glanced up at the TV, and it was a report on a federal case.It was all three of them, in federal court, in handcuffs. Every time they busted a drug lord or a doper, they'd take all their money and their jewelry and flat screens before sending them to jail. They had been stealing from dopers for years!”
“I craft everything in the beginning. I know where the characters are going before I start writing the book.”
“I crammed my exams in London and did fine.”
“I crank the music up so loud I can't think about any of the things that could go wrong today”
Source: 10 Truths and a Dare
“I crash into him, clinging to him tightly as a wave of emotion threatens to make me burst into tears again. I bury my cheek into his chest as the heady, manly scent of Zak's cologne invades my senses, instantly calming my inner chaos.
It's been forever since I have been in Zak's arms.
"I'm here." He quietly moans next to my ear, rocking us from side to side, squeezing me tighter. "Had to make a quick stop, but I'm here, Bella."
I forgot how much I love Zak's hugs.”
Source: Maybe Probably
“I crashed my boyfriend's birthday when I was 12 years old. He didn't invite me and so I showed up.”
“I crave a cone of silence every once in while.”
“I crave attention and adventure.”
“I crave cantaloupe like a crazy person. But I put salt all over it, so I don't know if it's that healthy.”
“I crave fit disposition for my wife;
Due reference of place, and exhibition;
With such accommodation, and besort,
As levels with her breeding.”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare
“I crave for love, everybody does . . . and I've never had a bloody crumb of it—and I've given so much love to people—I can really love people, I can, I let them walk over me—but nobody's ever loved me.”
Source: The Black Prince
“I crave ideas, and when an idea hits me, it grips me and it tortures me until I master it.”
“I crave intimacy to the same burning degree that I detest commitment.”
“I crave intimate love. Words that make my soul dance, a touch that gives me goosebumps, eye contact that electrifies my entire body, a kiss that could have me questioning whose air I am breathing.”
“I crave music that'll sort of hurtle me into space and release me up there.”
“I crave stillness,
And yet I fear the moment
Stillness turns into boredom,
And the moment boredom
Turns into loneliness.”
Source: Dead of Night
“I crave the diversity because I'm an actor and it's more fun to play different types of characters, but I'm pretty spontaneous as well, so I don't rule anything out.”
“I crave the freedom of knowing that if I want to do something, I can do it. It's important that I live in such a way that I can maintain a direct response to ideas.”