Here I Am Quotes - Page 2

• Here I am with a seriously hunky guy and I'm covered in demon pee. Why does the universe hate me?

  Jana Oliver

  Hate, Guy, Doe

  Jana Oliver (2011). “The Demon Trapper's Daughter: A Demon Trappers Novel”, p.34, Macmillan

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• Here I am in a rabbit run, here I am in a valley of pine, waiting for you to find me. I could pretend I’m speaking to everyone—assume a middle distance and transcend myself—but I’m taking to you and you know it.

  Richard Siken

  Running, Distance, Waiting

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• So here I am. This is as good as it gets. Take it or leave it.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Good As It Gets

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Survivor: A Novel”, p.80, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Here I am with you & yet not for a single moment do I forget that there's an unfinished novel waiting for me.

  Anton Chekhov

  Waiting, Forget, Moments

  Anton Chekhov (2007). “Chekhov Plays”, p.97, Wordsworth Editions

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• And when demigods use cell phones, the signals agitate every monster within a hundred miles. It's like sending up a flare: Here I am! Please rearrange my face!

  Rick Riordan

  Phones, Cells, Monsters

  Rick Riordan (2013). “Percy Jackson: The Complete Series”, p.984, Penguin UK

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• The very presence of an angel is communication. Even when an angel crosses your path in silence, God has said to us, I am here. I am present in your life.

  Tobais Palmer

  Communication, Angel, Silence

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• Remember all those times I swore I needed you? Well consider them lies because baby here I am without you and I survived.

  Lil Wayne

  Baby, Hate, Lying

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• Here I am going to say something which may come as a bit of a shock. God doesn't necessarily want us to be happy. He wants us to be lovable. Worthy of love. Able to be loved by Him. We don't start off being all that lovable, if we're honest. What makes people hard to love? Isn't it what is commonly called selfishness? Selfish people are hard to love because so little love comes out of them.

  William Nicholson

  Selfish, People, May

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• I think the function of suffering is to let me know that my perception is skewed; what I’m doing is judging natural events in such a way that I am creating suffering within myself. For instance, you have pain over certain conditions, certain situations that occur. And if you just say ‘ok, here I am, I’m going to experience the pain,’ you don’t suffer. The resistance and the degree of the resistance to the natural phenomenon of life causes tremendous suffering.

  Hubert Selby, Jr.

  Pain, Thinking, Creating

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• The only way you can find it is through being alone with your thoughts at sufficiently long intervals to give that inner voice within you a chance to cry out in distinguishable language for you. 'Here I am within you.' That is the silent voice, the voice of nature, which speaks to everyone who will listen.

  Walter Russell

  Voice, Long, Giving

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• I went to university for a couple of years and I didn't enjoy university. The studying and the accountancy, economics, I just hated that stuff. Now the irony is here I am lawyer, accountant, I do it all day every day and sit at a desk. So I've never ended up where I wanted to be in many ways. I always wanted to be a farmer.

  Gerry Harvey

  Couple, Years, Stuff

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• I am 73 years old. I was born in Jerusalem. I'm the first prime minister of Israel to be born here. I am the only former general to become a prime minister.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Israel, Years, Jerusalem

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• Get on the floor floor like it's your last chance. If you want more, more then here I am.

  Nicki Minaj

  Flirty, Want, Lasts

  Song: Starships, Album: Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded., 2012

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• In a word, literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. The things I have learned and the things I have been taught seem of ridiculously little importance compared with their "large loves and heavenly charities.

  Helen Keller

  Sweet, Book, Literature

  Helen Keller (2012). “The Story of My Life”, p.74, Courier Corporation

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• Here I am, safely returned over those peaks from a journey far more beautiful and strange than anything I had hoped for or imagined - how is it that this safe return brings such regret?

  Peter Matthiessen

  Beautiful, Travel, Regret

  Peter Matthiessen (1998). “Nine-Headed Dragon River: Zen Journals 1969-1982”, p.94, Shambhala Publications

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• I had to keep breathing. Even though there was no reason to hope... I stayed alive. I kept breathing. And one day my logic was proven all wrong because the tide came in, and gave me a sail. And now, here I am. Im back... Because now i know what I have to do now. I have to keep breathing. Because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?

  Tom Hanks

  Breathing, One Day, Alive

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• Come on,” he droned, “I’ve been ordered to take you down to the bridge. Here I am, brain the size of a planet and they ask me to take you down to the bridge. Call that job satisfaction? ’Cos I don’t.” He turned and walked back to the hated door. “Er, excuse me,” said Ford following after him, “which government owns this ship?” Marvin ignored him. “You watch this door,” he muttered, “it’s about to open again. I can tell by the intolerable air of smugness it suddenly generates.

  Douglas Adams

  Jobs, Government, Air

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.63, Pan Macmillan

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• But for me there is neither Monday nor Sunday: there are days which pass in disorder, and then, sudden lightning like this one. Nothing has changed and yet everything is different. I can't describe it, it's like the Nausea and yet it's just the opposite: at last an adventure happens to me and when I question myself I see that it happens that I am myself and that I am here; I am the one who splits in the night, I am as happy as the hero of a novel.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Monday, Hero, Adventure

  Jean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander (1964). “Nausea”, p.54, New Directions Publishing

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• Great! I've written something stupid, but I haven't signed a contract with anyone to produce solely wise and perfect works. I gave vent to my stupidity...and here I am, reborn.

  Witold Gombrowicz

  Wise, Stupid, Perfect

  Witold Gombrowicz (2012). “Ferdydurke”, p.82, Yale University Press

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• Here I am not the one to throw out. No one steals my warmth and shoes because I am small. No one handles my backside. No one whinnies like sheep or goat because I drop in fear and weakness. No one screams at the sight of me. No one watches my body for how it is unseemly. With you my body is pleasure is safe is belonging. I can never not have you have me.

  Toni Morrison

  Sheep, Sight, Shoes

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• And here I am, instead of there. I'm sitting in this library, thousands of miles from my life, writing another letter I know I won't be able to send, no matter how hard I try and how much I want to. How did that boy making love behind that shed become this man writing this letter at this table?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Writing, Boys, Men

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• So here I am, my affections torn between a postal service that never feeds me but can tackle a challenge and one that gives me free tape and prompt service but won't help me out when I can't remember a street name. The lesson to draw from this, of course, is that when you move from one country to another you have to accept that there are some things that are better and some things worse, and there is nothing you can do about it. That may not be the profoundest of insights to take away from a morning's outing, but I did get a free doughnut as well, so on balance I guess I'm happy.

  Bill Bryson

  Country, Morning, Moving

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• Your Dark-Huntress, Danger, called for Acheron and since he’s busy, I was sent to check things out and report back to him on what’s happening. So here I am. Joy, oh joy of my life. (Alexion)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Dark, Joy, Busy

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Sins of the Night: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.18, Macmillan

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• Here I am,' I thought, 'back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer gorgeous and power has no dignity.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Ruins, Dignity, Gorgeous

  Evelyn Waugh (1958). “The world of Evelyn Waugh”

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• Here I am on the shore of Brittany. Let the cities light up in the evening. My day is done. I am leaving Europe. The sea air will burn my lungs. Lost climates will tan me. I will swim, trample the grass, hung, and smoke especially. I will drink alcohol as strong as boiling metal--just as my dear ancestors did around their fires.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Strong, Fire, Light

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