I Can Quotes - Page 6

I am opposed to special rights for gays just as I am opposed to special rights for heterosexuals or smokers. I can attest to the fact that sexual orientation is not immutable and I urge the city council to vote no on this amendment.

Alan Chambers

Gay, Rights, Cities

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Parents who have fought fiercely for the rights of their much-loved Gay and Lesbian children should not have to worry that their children will be treated differently. As a mother, I can tell you that there is no prouder moment than watching your children grow up, fall in love, and commit to that love in front of their families and friends. I want that same joy for every parent and every child.

Christine Gregoire

Mother, Falling In Love, Children

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I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

Audrey Hepburn

Sex, Rain, Apples

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We've got the most prosperous culture in human history and we've also got the biggest spiritual hole in human history. People are saying, "I can't fill the hole with money. I can't fill it with alcohol, or drugs, or sex, so what do I need to fill it with?"

Mark Victor Hansen

Spiritual, Money, Sex

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I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon, but I cannot understand the love affair.

Gore Vidal

Love, Sex, Dating

"The Moronic Inferno". Book by Martin Amis, 1987.

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Remember to never answer a phone during sex, even if you hilariously answer with 'I can't talk now, I'm going into a tunnel'.

Jimmy Carr

Sex, Tunnels, Phones

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I can live without it all - love with its blood pump, sex with its messy hungers, men with their peacock strutting, their silly sexual baggage, their wet tongues in my ear.

Erica Jong

Love, Sex, Silly

Erica Jong (2013). “Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected”, p.238, Open Road Media

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Should I talk about [having breast cancer]? Because how many things could I have? You know black, lesbian - I'm like, I can't be the poster child for everything. At least with the LGBT issues we get a parade and a float and it's a party.

Wanda Sykes

Children, Cancer, Party

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Within my body are all the sacred places of the world, and the most profound pilgrimage I can ever make is within my own body.

Saraha

Inspiring, Spiritual, Philosophy

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If I want to build wealth to transfer to the next generation, I can let it grow on a tax-free basis.

Arthur Nersesian

Generations, Want, Next

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Do you press the "pause" button - the "until" button in life by saying "I can't be happy until..."? All this accomplishes is a delay in your entry into your innate state of happiness, which is independent of outer circumstances. So press the "play" button and rejoice in the now-ness of the moment!

Michael Beckwith

Happiness, Independent, Play

FaceBook post by Michael Bernard Beckwith from Feb 08, 2011

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To grow in craft is to increase the bredth of what I can do, but art is the depth, the passion, the desire, the courage to be myself and myself alone.

Pat Schneider

Art, Passion, Writing

Pat Schneider (2003). “Writing Alone and with Others”, p.22, Oxford University Press

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I will have faith that, though I might not understand why adversity happens, by my conscious choice I can find strength, compassion, and grace through my trials.

Joe Tye

Adversity, Compassion, Choices

Joe Tye (1997). “Never Fear, Never Quit: A Story of Courage and Perseverance”

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I can show you that the art of calculation has to do with odd and even numbers in their numerical relations to themselves and to each other.

Plato

Art, Plato, Numbers

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When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers.

Gerald Jampolsky

Teacher, Acceptance, Judging

Gerald Jampolsky (2009). “Good-Bye to Guilt: Releasing Fear Through Forgiveness”, p.138, Bantam

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How am I to know what I can achieve if I quit?

Jason Bishop

Motivational, Sports, Quitting

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In college I took a class from a professor who changed my whole life. I can't really remember what his name was, or what the class was, or even which college it was, but I found that if you sit behind a really tall guy and kind of slouch down in your chair you can drink Scotch right from the bottle and not get caught.

Bill Ervin

College, Scotch, Class

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I think I can. I think I can. I think I can. I know I can.

Watty Piper

Inspiring, Book, Thinking

The Little Engine That Could (1930)

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Aren't the stars beautiful? Thousands of them twinkling so far from us, yet so near. Who knows what it's like in the universe where they are? ... I can't breathe when I look at them. I bet somewhere out there we could understand what life is really about, and find a way to bring a bit more meaning into this world.

Shelina Zahra Janmohamed

Beautiful, Stars, Looks

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Why get married and make one man miserable when I can stay single and make thousands miserable?

Carrie Snow

Funny, Men, Married

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How many things I can do without!

Socrates

Life, Money, Possession

Quoted in Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers

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I can hear sweat trickling down your cheek
Your heartbeat sound like Sasquatch feet
Thundering, shaking the concrete.

The Notorious B.I.G.

Rap, Sweat, Feet

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I can't help but be a different person now that I've had kids. That really does change your whole perspective on life for the better.

Jennifer Lopez

Pregnancy, Kids, Motherhood

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I desire only to know the truth, and to live as well as I can...And, to the utmost of my power, I exhort all other men to do the same...I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

Socrates

Life, Courage, Men

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Unless it's out of the goodness of someone's heart, I don't like having things given to me for free. I like working hard for what I earn. It gives me a sense of gratitude, and that's the only way I can truly appreciate it.

Sasha Azevedo

Gratitude, Heart, Appreciate

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