„I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting.“
— Jodi Picoult, kniha Handle With Care
Zdroj: Handle with Care
„I don't see why I should bow my head when I could hold it high, or place it in the hands of my enemies when I can defeat them.“
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„Why should I feed my prisoners when I don't have enough to feed my peasants?“
— Mobutu Sésé Seko President of Zaïre 1930 - 1997
Ayittey, p. 109
„But that's how it is when you start wanting to have things. Now, I just look at them, and when I go away I carry them in my head. Then my hands are always free, because I don't have to carry a suitcase.“
— Tove Jansson, kniha Comet in Moominland
Zdroj: Comet in Moominland
„When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places. That’s the way I remember them, heading for an exit.“
— John Cheever American novelist and short story writer 1912 - 1982
Quoted by Susan Cheever, Home before Dark Houghton Mifflin (1984).
„You know I hate it when you put your hand inside my head
And switch all my priorities around.
Why don't you go pick on someone your own size instead?“
— Warren Zevon American singer-songwriter 1947 - 2003
"I'll Slow You Down"
Life'll Kill Ya (2000)
„I don't need my head examined, but where were you when I married my second husband. Sheesh.“
— Lisa Scottoline American writer 1955
Zdroj: Every Fifteen Minutes
„do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?“
— Robert Greene, kniha The 48 Laws of Power
Zdroj: The 48 Laws of Power
„I closed my eyes, bowed my head and thought, AH, HELL…“
— P. C. Cast, kniha Destined
Zdroj: Destined
„Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?“
— Abraham Lincoln 16th President of the United States 1809 - 1865
His response when "accused of treating his opponents with too much courtesy and kindness, and when it was pointed out to him that his whole duty was to destroy them", as quoted in More New Testament Words (1958) by William Barclay; either this anecdote or Lincoln's reply may have been adapted from a reply attributed to Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund:
:* Some courtiers reproached the Emperor Sigismond that, instead of destroying his conquered foes, he admitted them to favour. “Do I not,” replied the illustrious monarch, “effectually destroy my enemies, when I make them my friends?”
::* "Daily Facts" in The Family Magazine Vol. IV (1837), p. 123 http://books.google.de/books?id=aW0EAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA123&dq=destroy; also quoted as simply in "Do I not effectually destroy my enemies, in making them my friends?" in The Sociable Story-teller (1846)
Disputed
„May I look on thee when my last hour comes; may I hold thy hand, as I sink, in my dying clasp.“
— Tibullus poet and writer (0054-0019) -50 - -19 pred n. l.
Te spectem, suprema mihi cum venerit hora,
Et teneam moriens deficiente manu.
Bk. 1, no. 1, line 59.
Variant translation: May I be looking at you when my last hour has come, and dying may I hold you with my weakening hand.
Elegies
Originál: (la) Te spectem, suprema mihi cum venerit hora,<br/>Et teneam moriens deficiente manu.
„When I confessed my sins, I labored to remember the time when and the place where I committed them.“
— Ann Lee English Shaker leader 1736 - 1784
The Communistic Societies of the United States (1875)
Kontext: When I confessed my sins, I labored to remember the time when and the place where I committed them. And when I had confessed them, I cried to God to know if my confession was accepted; and by crying to God continually I traveled out of my loss.
„I don't settle in any other area of my life when it comes to excellence, so why should I lower my standards when it comes to boys?“
— Adriana Trigiani American film director 1970
Zdroj: Viola in Reel Life
„When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful.“
— Drew Barrymore American actress, director and producer 1975
„Extinguish my sight, and I can still see you;
plug up my ears, and I can still hear;
even without feet I can walk toward you,
and without mouth I can still implore.
Break off my arms, and I will hold you
with my heart as if it were a hand;
strangle my heart, and my brain will still throb;
and should you set fire to my brain,
I still can carry you with my blood.“
— Rainer Maria Rilke, kniha The Book of Hours
Translated by Annemarie S. Kidder
Das Stunden-Buch (The Book of Hours) (1905)
„Some people think I'm high on stage; I would never get high before a show, because, when I'm high, I don't wanna stand in front of a bunch of people I don't know. That does not sound comfortable. Like, when you're high, and a joke doesn't work, it's extra scary. It's like,"Whoa, what the hell happened there? I am retreating within myself. Why have all these people gathered? And why am I elevated? Why am I not facing the same way as everyone else? And what is this electric stick in my hand?"“
— Mitch Hedberg American stand-up comedian 1968 - 2005
Just For Laughs: On The Edge - 2002
„Why are my hands this way
That they will not do as i say?
Does no God hear when I pray?“
— R.S. Thomas Welsh poet 1913 - 2000
"Here"
Tares (1961)
„I can see the beauty of glass objects fully at the moment when they slip from my hand“
— Andrew Solomon, kniha The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
Zdroj: The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
