Am Quotes (page 168)

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• imagination
• wonder
• quality

I am really only myself when I'm somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination. Zelda Fitzgerald

• fall
• thoughts
• watch

I am Alice in Wonderland', Josie thought. 'Watch me fall. Jodi Picoult

• peace
• blessed
• rude

Rude am I in my speech, And little blessed with the soft phrase of peace. William Shakespeare

• true
• wonder
• dead

Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North Jim Harrison

• dream
• one day

If I am really a part of your dream, you'll come back one day. Paulo Coelho

• manners
• time
• different

Cecily. This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade. Gwendolen. [Satirically.] I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different. Oscar Wilde

• him
• beard
• manly

He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man. He that is more than a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a man, I am not for him. William Shakespeare

• sorry
• wise
• been

Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise. Jane Austen

• wind
• leaving
• earth

When heaven doth weep, doth not the earth o'erflow? If the winds rage, doth not the sea wax mad, Threatening the welking with his big-swoln face? And wilt though have a reason for this coil? I am the sea; hark, how her sighs do blow! She is the weeping welkin, I the earth: Then must my sea be moved with her sighs; Then must my earth with her continual tears Become a deluge, overflow'd and drown'd; For why my bowels cannot hide her woes, But like a drunkard must I vomit them. Then give me... William Shakespeare

• water
• thinking
• joy

I should like to be the landscape which I am contemplating, I should like this sky, this quiet water to think themselves within me, that it might be I whom they express in flesh and bone, and I remain at a distance. But it is also by this distance that the sky and the water exist before me. My contemplation is an excruciation only because it is also a joy. I can not appropriate the snow field where i slide. It remains foreign, forbidden, but I take delight in this very effort toward an... Simone de Beauvoir

• end
• wonder
• wonderful

Who am I? And how, I wonder, will this story end? Nicholas Sparks

• vision
• kindness
• friend

This plea comes from the bottom of my heart. Every friend of freedom, and I know you are one, must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence. A country in which shooting down unidentified planes "on suspicion" can be seriously considered as a drug-war tactic is not the kind of United States that either you... Milton Friedman

• dog
• you me
• highly

I am his Highness' dog at Kew; Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you? Alexander Pope

• evil
• die
• thinking

Your edict, King, was strong, But all your strength is weakness itself against. The immortal unrecorded laws of God. They are not merely now: they were, and shall be, Operative for ever, beyond man utterly. I knew I must die, even without your decree: I am only mortal. And if I must die. Now, before it is my time to die, Surely this is no hardship: can anyone. Living, as I live, with evil all about me, Think Death less than a friend? Sophocles

• wonderful
• optimistic
• confused

I am a personal optimist but a skeptic about all else. What may sound to some like anger is really nothing more than sympathetic contempt. I view my species with a combination of wonder and pity, and I root for its destruction. And please don't confuse my point of view with cynicism; the real cynics are the ones who tell you everything's gonna be all right. George Carlin