I May Not Be Quotes - Page 3

• Well sir, I may not be a for-real cowboy... But I am one hell of a stud!

  Jon Voight

  Real, Cowboy, May

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• Cheryl Cole, if you're reading this, I may not be as prety as you but at least I write my own songs.

  Lily Allen

  Song, Reading, Writing

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• I may not be the best dad but I taught my son how to get free samples at the mall.

  Felipe Esparza

  Dad, Son, May

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• The one difference I have noted is that it's made me more tender to my students and to young people particularly. It's made me mellower. I began to have a different perspective, because I may not be around much longer to be hassled by life's pressures.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Differences, People, Perspective

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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• ... as usual I am suffering much from doubt as to the worth of what I am doing and fear lest I may not be able to complete it so as to make it a contribution to literature and not a mere addition to the heap of books.

  George Eliot

  Book, Suffering, Doubt

  George Eliot, Margaret Harris, Judith Johnston (2000). “The Journals of George Eliot”, p.145, Cambridge University Press

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• Listen,” she said. “I may not be what you want right now, but I’m all you’ve got.

  Jodi Picoult

  May, Want, Said

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

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• I may not be the world's best glad-handing politician, but I've been elected mayor twice. I understand politics. And I definitely understand where the state line is.

  Anthony A. Williams

  World, Lines, May

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• Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it. Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield but to my own strength. Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved but hope for the patience to win my freedom. Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Life, Pain, Failure

  Rabindranath Tagore (2017). “Delphi Collected Works of Rabindranath Tagore (Illustrated)”, p.296, Delphi Classics

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• I learn to
  love the thing that has to be erased,
  the thing I may not be allowed to keep,
  sand that runs away beneath my running feet.

  Imtiaz Dharker

  Running, Feet, May

  Imtiaz Dharker (2009). “Leaving Fingerprints”, Bloodaxe Books Limited

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• I may not be the most patient woman in the world, or the most glamorous, or the most athletic, but I'm right up there at the top of the line when it comes to resiliency.

  Janet Evanovich

  Athletic, World, Lines

  Janet Evanovich (1999). “Three To Get Deadly: A Stephanie Plum Novel”, p.277, Simon and Schuster

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• I’m always the one who doesn’t have a date, the one guys walk up to and say, “So, is your friend, you know, with someone?” and I may not be the only girl without someone, but it feels like it sometimes. A lot of the time.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Girl, Guy, May

  Elizabeth Scott (2010). “The Unwritten Rule”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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• I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.

  Richard Strauss

  Inspiring, Music, Second Chance

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• I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life.

  Walter Inglis Anderson

  Attitude, Character, Responsibility

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• Although I may not be my brother's keeper, I am my brother's brother, and 'because I have been given much, I too must give.'

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Spiritual, Brother, Giving

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• I may not be able to pull on the smallest of holds, but those I can pull on I can pull on all day long.

  Jimmy Jewel

  Funny, Climbing, Long

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• I may not be old but I’m too old to have this much nothing

  Jonathan Tropper

  May

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• Listen. I may not be much, but I'm all I've got. Maybe you need a magnifying glass to find my face in my high school graduation photo. Maybe I haven't got any family or friends. Yes, yes, I know all that. But, strange as it might seem, I'm not entirely dissatisfied with life... I feel pretty much at home with what I am. I don't want to go anywhere. I don't want any unicorns behind fences.

  Haruki Murakami

  Home, School, Glasses

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• I may not be the most likable person in the world, but I try not to upset people.

  Haruki Murakami

  People, Upset, Trying

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• If I'm away from you for more than an hour, I can't stop thinking about you. I carry you in my spirit. I pray for you more than I pray for myself...I know you don't believe in fairy tales. But, if you did, I'd want to be your knight in shining armor. You've been through so much. I don't want to see you hurt anymore. Now I may not be able to give you all that your used to. But I do know I can love you past your pain. I don't want you to worry about anything. You just wake up in the morning, that's all you have to do and I'll take it from there...There's one condition...You have to be my wife

  Tyler Perry

  Hurt, Morning, Pain

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• I may not be a human, but I am a man.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Twilight, Men, May

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• When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.

  E. M. Forster

  May, Be You

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• I may not be a lion,but I am lions cub and I have lion's heart

  Elizabeth I

  Heart, Lions, May

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• Evelyn: Look, I... I may not be an explorer, or an adventurer, or a treasure-seeker, or a gunfighter, Mr. O'Connell, but I am proud of what I am. Rick: And what is that? Evelyn: I... am a librarian. The Mummy (1999)

  Max Allan Collins

  Looks, Treasure, May

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• I may not be able to say all I think; but I am not going to say anything I do not think.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Thinking, Say Anything, May

  Eugene V. Debs' anti-war speech in Canton, Ohio (June 16, 1918), as quoted in The Call Magazine, www.marxists.org. 1918.

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• I want to build you a house with my bare hands and carry you over the threshold. I want too cook for you every evening and bring you tea in bed in the mornings. I want to read with you in front of an open fire, sipping a glass of wine. I want to drive you to the beach and lie next to you in the sun. I may not be a man of means, bit I want to take care of you as best I can.

  Catherine Sanderson

  Beach, Morning, Lying

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