I Cannot Quotes
2161 quotes by 1455 authors
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I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; I…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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He chose a certain path in life, it proved to be a misguided one, but there, he chose it, he can say that at least.…
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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Because in a small dark room, a broken child lies on a filthy bed and stares up at a high window. He waits for me,…
— Jennifer Donnelly
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I’ll carry you over my shoulder if I must, just as I did last night. If I’m forced to do it, however, I cannot guarantee…
— Gena Showalter
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Being in a hurry. Getting to the next thing without fully entering the thing in front of me. I cannot think of a single advantage…
— Ann Voskamp
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Here is why I will be a good person. Because I listen. I cannot speak so I listen very well. I never interrupt, I never…
— Garth Stein
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You are my siren,†he said, running his hands along her thighs and down her calves, feeling the shape of her even as the silk…
— Sarah MacLean
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In these last few days, we were close because we were both mortal men. We saw the same sun and the same twilight, we felt…
— Anne Rice
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I cannot get him to write or speak in real, solid earnest. I don't much mind it now, but if it be always so, what…
— Anne Bronte
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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the patience not to strangle…
— Jennifer Weiner
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When I cannot bear outer pressures anymore, I begin to put order in my belongings...As if unable to organize and control my life, I seek…
— Anais Nin
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I cannot hate them because nothing binds me to them; I have nothing in common with them.
— Milan Kundera
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I am asking you to marry me because I love you,†he said, “because I cannot imagine living my life without you. I want to…
— Julia Quinn
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I cannot help feeling there is something essentially wrong about love. Friends may quarrel or drift apart, close relations too, but there is not this…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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I cannot rest from travel; I will drink Life to the lees.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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I talk in a daze, I walk in a maze I cannot get out, said the starling
— Vladimir Nabokov
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Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer, in my mind I am free.
— Stephen Hawking
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The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out.
— Annie Dillard
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I dare not hope. I never was fainthearted before; but I cannot believe such a creature cares for me.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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I cannot kill him, she muttered to herself. I cannot kill him. I promised Bianka I'd stop at ten bodies a day, and I've already…
— Gena Showalter
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