I Can't See Myself Quotes

#1. Surprise is a major factor in distinguishing an answer to prayer from a projection of my own mental processes. When I can't believe I made up the answer myself, I have to look around to see where it came from. - Author: Pat Schneider

#2. I so don't want to be attracted to him, and the fact that I am surprises me. Sometimes when I get home, I convince myself that I'm just romanticizing anyone who's actually spoken to me, but then I see him the next day and my heart starts beating fast and I can't really kid myself. - Author: Melina Marchetta

#3. The language has got to be fully alive - I can't bear dull, flaccid writing myself and I don't see why any reader should put up with it. - Author: Helen Dunmore

#4. I don't see what harm there is in my wishing not to tie myself. I don't want to begin life by marrying. There are other things a woman can do. - Author: Henry James

#5. And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration. - Author: Pam Grier

#6. As you can see, I am immersing myself in color-I've held back from that until now; and I don't regret it. - Author: Vincent Van Gogh

#7. I can't ever see myself playing the romantic lead because that's not me; I'm not that girl. - Author: Maisie Williams

#8. I have no problem with nudity. I can look at myself. I like walking around nude. It doesn't bother me. I see all the people walking around nude; it doesn't bother me. - Author: Ursula Andress

#9. I'm afraid I can't explain myself. Because I am not myself, you see? - Author: Lewis Carroll

#10. Being a journalist, you write what you see. If we can't do that, what use are we? I turned years of training on myself. - Author: Katie Hafner

#11. I can't even begin to visualize myself as a five-star general ... When I think of the people who are five-star generals, I can't even see myself standing in their shadow. - Author: Norman Schwarzkopf

#12. I'd go for "really great writer." Although I don't think I am. I know I have a style which is recognizable. I think you can see Terry Pratchett in every book. I like doing it. I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that's it. - Author: Terry Pratchett

#13. I deliberately try not to cater for the commercial market, so I can't see myself in competition, you know, with second or third generation rock stars. - Author: Van Morrison

#14. I can't really see myself as an artist. Now, to step out here and there, do it when I feel like it, that's a possibility. But for me to be a full-fledged, full-time artist in the industry, I don't think so. - Author: T.I.

#15. If I see someone doing a new sport, I usually like to throw myself into it, and I never look at it and think, 'That's something I can't do.' - Author: Manu Bennett

#16. Now that it's over, I just wanna hold her
I'd give up all the world to see
That little piece of heaven looking back at me.
Now that it's over, I just wanna hold her.
I've gotta live with the choices I've made
And I can't live with myself today. - Author: Skillet

#17. There are some things around us that are not actually useful. I didn't know that before. It's very new for me to understand. That became my way of writing: I can see also the new myself. - Author: Rokia Traore

#18. I can see myself now, she said. And I can see what I want to be, ten years from now. But I don't understand how I'm going to get from here to there. - Author: Jodi Picoult

#19. I don't feel real confident expressing myself except when I'm writing. I feel kind of scatterbrained. I can see everything from both sides and that makes it hard to reach conclusions. Writing enables me to clarify things. - Author: Conor Oberst

#20. Now I'm growing and I can see my faults. I can look at myself objectively and say I can't blame anyone else; it was my own damn fault. - Author: Christopher Atkins

#21. I love waking up with you, Sam. You feel so good. You smell so good and when I open my eyes and see you laying there so peaceful and serene, I can't help myself. I'm usually able to look at you for a few minutes before my body decides it needs to be in you. - Author: P.J. Fiala

#22. I never rush myself. See, they can't start the game without me. - Author: Satchel Paige

#23. I'm going out, I'm gonna drink myself to death
And in the crowd I see you with someone else
I brace myself 'cause I know it's going to hurt
But I like to think at least things can't get any worse - Author: Florence Welch

#24. Like I can't cry for myself so I will let this song take all of the things inside I can't let anyone else see and offer it up, as if the sound were some kind of god, and my pain is some kind of sacrifice. - Author: Robert Smith

#25. I can't age on the inside, and I'm totally okay with that. I have no need to grow up and see myself as mature. - Author: Kay Panabaker

#26. To be honest, I don't see myself acting forever. I just can't imagine myself being a 70-year-old man fighting for roles. I would love to do small parts in my friends' movies or things that I'm directing myself. I do envision myself behind the camera as I get a little bit older. - Author: Dave Franco

#27. When I can't see myself in the mirror, I can't even feel myself, and I begin to wonder if I exist at all. - Author: Jean-Paul Sartre

#28. My inspiration is endless; I can't define it. It is a constant flow and evolution. In general, I'm taking it from everywhere. People get nervous when they walk with me, as I'll see something and suddenly have to text it to myself. - Author: Raf Simons

#29. I just can't see myself with a man on the ropes and just to prove how bad I am - and I see in his eyes, his head, he's hopeless - and I'm just deliberately hitting. I don't do that. - Author: Muhammad Ali

#30. I can't see how You're leading me unless you've led me here, where I'm lost enough to let myself be led. - Author: Rich Mullins

#31. I spent a long time trying to convince myself you were better off without me. That keeping away from you was the best way to keep you safe. But I can't do it anymore. I won't. See, you and I mated for life about a million years ago, little bird. Without you, there's no music. No love. No life. - Author: Julie Johnson

#32. I don't think of myself as a role model, but I can see that I am. - Author: Jennifer Doudna

#33. If I can avoid looking at myself, I will. I don't care to examine myself or see much of what I do. I never care how I look. - Author: Scott Bakula

#34. When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else. - Author: Imani Hakim

#35. You see people you identify with, and you take pieces of people you like and shape who you are. Like, I sound just like my dad. But that's literally my vocal chords. I can't sound like anything else ... I sound like him, but I act like myself. - Author: Damon Wayans Jr.

#36. I can't see myself without pink lipstick. I can go without it for a couple days, but if there was no more pink lipstick in the world, I'd be useless. Seriously. - Author: Nicki Minaj

#37. I have no preferred team, but everyone wants to go No. 1 in the draft. Even the guy who gets picked last in the draft wants to go No. 1. But I just know that whoever picks me, I'm going to be excited to play for that team, and I can't wait to see myself in 'Madden' on that team. - Author: Robert Griffin III

#38. I love my husband very much. I knew it was real true love because I felt like I could be myself around that person. Your true, true innermost authentic self, the stuff you don't let anyone else see, if you can be that way with that person, I think that that's real love. - Author: Idina Menzel

#39. The Bible, undoubtedly, is a mixed bag. I don't see myself coming back to the Church. I do like the tradition. If you come from a strong culture, you can decide what you agree with and what you don't agree with. If you're given a blank canvas, it's almost harder in life. - Author: Steve Coogan

#40. But when it comes down to actually packing and leaving, I can't bring myself to do it. Can you see what I mean?If the town's really going to die, then the urge to stay on and see the town to its end wins out. - Author: Haruki Murakami

#41. I don't think I've ever loved anyone quite like this. In this sort of giddy, obliterating game-changing way. Where I can see myself with her for the rest of my life ... - Author: Christina Lauren

#42. I think it's always great to not be the smartest person in the room because I don't want to ever feel like I can't improve upon what I'm doing. I just want to surround myself with people that are better actors than me and better singers and dancers and see what happens. - Author: Drew Seeley

#43. I believe in breakfast. It's the one meal that my kids usually eat without a fuss, so that's huge. As for myself, I can't function without it, and I see it as a great way to get some healthy greens in, some coffee, and on a good day, maybe even some news of the world via the newspaper. - Author: Samantha Bee

#44. 'This' pain I can see it but I can't feel it It haunts me When I cut myself I can see where the pain is coming from and watch it heal And I can easily care for it 'This' pain doesn't have a specific place It moves around and creeps into strange places. - Author: Melanie

#45. I can't stand to see myself on television. - Author: Bob Dylan

#46. This is real, man, and it's scary as fuck, but I can't see myself without her. - Author: Toni Aleo

#47. I can say that I don't see myself with the foot on the gas pedal as hard as it's been down for 16 years. - Author: Kenny Chesney

#48. I never pigeonholed myself - the only reason you'd want to pigeonhole is to monetize your business and, as a person, I don't see the importance of doing that. My music took off above the rest of those things: You can just make a song, put it on a CD, and get it out to all these people. - Author: M.I.A.

#49. If I'm acting at all, it's going to be under Marvel contract, or I'm going to be directing. I can't see myself pursuing acting strictly outside of what I'm contractually obligated to do. - Author: Chris Evans

#50. New York is more exciting, I guess, than even Paris or London. New York's the center of something; I don't know what, really - the center of a lot of things. With all its problems and chaos and craziness, it's still a great place to live. I can't see myself living anywhere else. - Author: Robert De Niro

#51. There was so much pressure by myself and everyone else and I can't handle this by myself. It's not good for me so I made the decision never go to a ski coach for mental help. I said last season I will try a mental coach and see how it works. - Author: Michaela Dorfmeister

#52. Oh, I would love to be a motivational speaker. I have pulled myself out of a million potholes, and I can see the potholes ahead of me. That doesn't mean that I could always do that so perfectly for my own life. I totally fall in potholes. - Author: Drew Barrymore

#53. I can't watch my movies and get into them because as soon as I see myself I get taken out of the film. - Author: Kirsten Dunst

#54. Sometimes I can't see myself when I'm with you. I can only just see you. - Author: Jodi Lynn Anderson

#55. I can't assume that people see me the way I see myself. I have to show them. But I can't do it in a way where it's too much, where it's rude. I feel like when you're a king, you lead. And I just see myself as a king, or as something more than just a regular human being. - Author: Shameik Moore

#56. I expect big things from myself but as long as I can keep the commitment and dedication and put the hard work in, I don't see why there's any reason not to handle it OK. - Author: Rory McIlroy

#57. I don't see myself as disabled. There's nothing I can't do that able-bodied athletes can do. - Author: Oscar Pistorius

#58. I can't help but see myself in them. The Seelie are who I was before my sister died. Pink, pretty, frivolous Mac. The Unseelie are who I've become, carved by loss and despair. Black, grungy, driven Mac. - Author: Karen Marie Moning

#59. I don't fool myself. I can't see myself doing Shakespeare. - Author: Sharon Tate

#60. Can't you see? Every step I have taken, since I was that child on the bridge, has been to bring myself closer to you. - Author: Arthur Golden

#61. I don't know, scene stealing is something I see as, people look at it, it could be a positive thing, but I really like to think of myself as a team player. It's kind of like one player can make the other teammates better, kind of like Larry Byrd dishing off. - Author: Kevin Dillon

#62. I can see myself as a very old man in a terrific wheelchair. Only, I won't be photographing the tree outside my window, the way Steichen did. I'll be photographing other old people. - Author: Richard Avedon

#63. I can't bear to look at it. Well I can, I do, I want to, I don't want to, I try not to. Every day I tell myself not to look, and every day I look. I can't help myself, even though there is nothing I want to see there, even though anything I do see will hurt me. - Author: Paula Hawkins

#64. O, she said, a woman in love can't afford to be proud. He must be made to see, he must be made to come back. And I must do it myself, no matter how silly it looks. - Author: Brian Moore

#65. I see so much beauty in people and in the world and when I see ugliness I try to either expose it or fight but also remind myself that it's mostly just people who can't spell who say mean things. - Author: Rose McGowan

#66. The primary symptom of a controller is denial, that is I can't see its symptoms in myself. - Author: Keith Miller

#67. I don't do anything specific for the stage. I'm just myself. I can't stand still for five seconds. I'm normally quite active, so that just comes out on stage. If I see people react to me and my music, I just have to give back and express myself. - Author: Shreya Ghoshal

#68. Sometimes I can't stop myself from buying things just because I see them - even when I don't really need them. - Author: Angela Merkel

#69. I like them all - I don't always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these characters, and I can see why they do what they do; sometimes they make some mistakes, but at heart I think they're decent. - Author: Patrick Marber

#70. I really just can't watch myself. I see all the machinery at work and it just drives me nuts. - Author: Paul Newman

#71. I can't stand to see myself act. It just makes me cringe. - Author: Thomas Jane

#72. I can't see myself on positive side, on negative I can see myself. - Author: Deyth Banger

#73. I'm so fucking tired of being alone. I was scared that he'd tell me to fucking leave. Because that means going back to a life I can't see for myself anymore. - Author: Krista Ritchie

#74. I seek speed, clarity, and a practical approach in people I mingle and work with. I can't see myself working in films that stretch beyond maximum four months. - Author: Ravi Teja

#75. Here's a question I still can't answer: Did I see through the male tricks because I was destined to scheme that way myself? Or do girls see through the tricks, too, and just pretend not to notice? - Author: Jeffrey Eugenides

#76. Usually when I see myself in a film or on television, there's about a six-month period where I can't look at it because all I'll see are the mistakes. I'm just appalled by the person that I see. - Author: Tim Daly

#77. I was in love and love died and the pain you've left isn't pain I can see myself having the strength to face again. - Author: Adam Silvera

#78. I don't see myself as beautiful, because I can see a lot of flaws. People have really odd opinions. They tell me I'm skinny, as if that's supposed to make me happy. - Author: Angelina Jolie

#79. ... I see that something's are hard to do, but that you can't live with yourself if you don't do them. I see that the best way to help myself is to help the people I care about. The rest will sort itself out. It has to, right? - Author: Trenton Lee Stewart

#80. I think the silhouette of the kimono costume will become engraved in people's minds. I do think there'll be lots of red accents in the near future. For me personally, I can't see myself flaunting around in a geisha uniform but it'll make me smile when I see what others do with it. - Author: Colleen Atwood

#81. I am a student of whoever I can learn from. I don't see myself in position like I'm above anybody else and I can never learn, or no one can ever teach me anything. You learn a lot from guys who are just starting off sometimes. - Author: Rashad Evans

#82. I immerse myself in everything I write; I feel what my characters do. I suffer with them. I cry as I type, sometimes to the point that I can't see the screen. - Author: Ann Aguirre

#83. There are only three major vote getting days in Absoroka County, and I can't remember the other two. "Oh God, no. It's Pancake Day." I thought about shooting myself. I could see the headlines: Sheriff shoots self, unable to face pancakes. - Author: Craig Johnson

#84. I don't see myself as a moviemaker only, you know? When I can do a picture, I do. But I don't work like a business, in pictures. I am not obliged to make one picture after the other in order to live. - Author: Alejandro Jodorowsky

#85. You know, Antoine, I can't see what people like them and a person like myself could possibly have in common." He - Author: Nikki Smith

#86. The only thing that you can do is do jobs and see if people respond to that. I'm always holding onto the fact that I don't really know who I am. Hopefully I won't compartmentalize myself because of that, because I'm completely ignorant of the whole. - Author: Robert Pattinson

#87. My mom has obviously had a powerful influence on my life, and her voice can describe certain things that I couldn't see in myself. - Author: Common

#88. I don't like getting myself in hot water. But suddenly I find that every minute I have to stop and think about what I'm saying. I can see what's going to happen. I'm going to have to stop giving interviews because I'm always saying the wrong thing. I don't want that to happen. - Author: Joanne Woodward

#89. I really honestly can't see myself as a lawyer. It's pretty much safe to say I'll never become one. - Author: Vance Joy

#90. My rule in making up examination questions is to ask questions which I can't myself answer. It astounds me to see how some of my students answer questions which would play the deuce with me. - Author: Henry Adams

#91. I consider myself to be a very good skateboarder, but the difficulty when you're being pulled behind any car, when there's only a 20-ft. line, is that you can't see the potholes. - Author: Casey Neistat

#92. I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't. - Author: Robyn Davidson

#93. I'll see ya," I said in a neutral tone. I wasn't sure whether to
be annoyed by Simon or by myself, or by both of us. "I can walk
home," I added as Simon trudged alongside me to the walkway
leading up to Wind Song.
"I can see that. You're very talented at it. - Author: Amanda Howells

#94. I can't see myself not rappin' and not talking the bullshit I'm talking. I love that! I can't lie. Once I stop I'm just going to stop all the way. - Author: Sean Price

#95. I don't see myself as extremely handsome. I just figure I can charm you into liking me. - Author: Wesley Snipes

#96. No, only disappointment in myself on those occasions I didn't manage to rise to the occasion as I felt I should've done. I can always see how to do it, and then the challenge is, Can I manage that each and every day? - Author: Christian Bale

#97. I just can't see myself as a trophy wife. I can't imagine not having my own life. - Author: Tamara Mellon

#98. Don't you ever get taken that way? When I can't see myself I begin to wonder if I really and truly exist. I pat myself just to make sure, but it doesn't help much. - Author: Jean-Paul Sartre

#99. I can't see myself singing the same song twice in a row. That's terrible. - Author: Bob Dylan

#100. I don't sleep. I just let my body lie itself into numbness and lie to myself that I can't hear, see, or feel anything. - Author: Will Advise