We Can Quotes

I was a normal kid. I can't explain how normal I was.

But today when I am 17 and warm and well fed, I'm keeping this journal for myself so I can always remember life as we knew it, life as we know it, for a time when I am no longer in the sunroom.

I have not come up with anything original. It needs a better brain than mine! I have done what I can do in taking Dawkins' idea and extending it.

Do you really believe in what you said or wrote – in the thing that’s bringing criticism? And if I do believe it, I can withstand anything.

Nobody else can demean me. I can only demean myself

I take every opportunity I can to speak to librarians.

His pacing stopped. The mattress sighed as he sat on the edge. seconds ticked by before he spoke so softly she could barely hear. "Sometimes I want to leave this town so bad I can taste it.

I'm not living in the shadows anymore. I want to walk in the sun. But I can't do that without you.

I can no more imagine falling in love with someone who believed that than I can imagine falling in love with someone who believes that blacks shouldn't be able to vote and are inferior to whites.

I don't ever participate in debates about the existence or nonexistence of God because I can't imagine why anyone would be persuaded one way or the other by such things.

I can't imagine falling in love with a devoutly religious person.

I can make anything disappear, if I really want to.

I can imagine a future in which real books will exist but in a more limited, particular way.

Speaking as a writer, I'm not interested in trends, I want to write books that are honest, with characters as true to the inner world of the story as I can make them.

I can't speak for other people, but for me, it never really worked to think something like, "What Beatle did she like in high school?" or those kinds of elaborate backstories.

So I think (Obama) definitely has convinced people that he stands for change and for hope, and I can't wait to see what he stands for.

...what I write is smarter than I am. Because I can rewrite it.

When someone rips your heart out, there's nothing you can do to change how you feel about them. You just have to keep feeling that way until it goes away. Until it never does.

When your heart is shattered into a million pieces, all you can do is try to keep holding on. You breathe. You try to fall asleep. You try to not think about him.

Everyone at his table laughs. They know I can hear them. They just don't care.

All I know is, if we don't eat soon I'm going to chew off a limb. And I can't guarentee it'll be mine.

When I meet a wind I cannot fight , I can do naught but set my sails to let it take me where it will.

I think memories are like dreams. Not reliable proof of anything. I can't prove a memory any more than I can prove a dream.

I've always felt my role in life was to be a mentor. If I can do that with a younger generation, that's my goal.

If you want, I can carry you—” “I’m fine,” she said shortly. “Let’s go.” He’d said that wrong. He should have said, “I want to carry you.

When I have a lot of work to do my life is very distracted, so for me to concentrate on music I need to create a structure where I can focus better.

I can’t fight the sun. I can only watch helplessly as it drags me into a day that I’ve been dreading for months. Katniss Everdeen

How much better my life has been for knowing him. For loving him, even if it's only in the limited way that I can manage. But I never get the chance.

I cover my face with my arms because this isn't happening. It isn't possible. For someone to make Peeta forget he loves me . . . no one can do that.

I flee what I can't fight. What can only do me harm.

I squeeze my eyes shut and try to reach for him across the hundreds and hundreds of miles, to send my thoughts into his mind, to let him know he is not alone. But he is. And I can't help him.

At the moment, the choice would be simple. I can survive just fine without either of them.

All I can think of is the emaciated bodies of children on our kitchen table as my mother prescribes what the parent's can't give. More food.

i can win but you cant lose, this makes us all even in our ways.

ll I can think about, every day, every waking minute since they drew Prim's name at the reaping, is how afraid I am.

I don't care if you got knocked up. I can still rip your throat out

Who says i can't handle it? I can handle it," said Gregor obviously not handling it.

Because I can't handle the nightmares. Not without you.

Well, I can't leave Mags behind," says Finnick. "She's one of the few people who actually likes me.

But in my head I can hear Haymitch's smug, if slightly exasperated, words: "Yes, that's what I'm looking for, sweetheart.

If I can make it clear that I’m still defying the Capitol right up to the end, the Capitol will have killed me... but not my spirit. What better way to give hope to the rebels?

I wonder how she'll make up her mind." "Oh, that I do know." I can just catch Gale's last words through the layer of fur. "Katniss will pick whoever she thinks she can't survive without.

One can impose silence on sentiment, but one can not give it limits.

Solitude stands by the window She turns her head as I walk in the room I can see by her eyes she's been waiting Standing in the slant of the late afternoon

The first song I wrote was the first song I remember thinking, "Well, maybe I can do something here." The very first one. By the second one I knew I could do something.

Rock and roll mainly but I can play passable jazz also.

I love to be directed, and I can glean something from almost anyone.

After forty years, with whatever authority comes from lived experience, I can say: You, too, can create something. You can nurture it and watch it grow.

I don't consider myself a teacher of moral and political positions. I don't want to be that. I can't help but have a point of view when I make a film, but my first job is to entertain you.

It could be thousands of people or just two, but I can't hide behind anything when I am singing my own songs.