I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I do not think you want too much sincerity in society. It would be like an iron girder in a house of cards.”
Source: Plays Volume One
“I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.”
Source: Jane Eyre
“I do not threaten, I merely advise caution.”
“I do not tolerate a world emptied of you. I have tried. For a year I have called every black tree Marya Morevna; I have looked for your face in the patterns of the ice. In the dark, I have pored over the loss of you like pale gold.”
Source: Deathless
“I do not touch his arm nor kiss his cheek nor run my fingers across his brow as he leaves the women to their labours, for I am Athena, and my love is marble within my chest.”
Source: The Last Song of Penelope
“I do not traditionally speak ill of women, but your governess is a cabbagehead”
Source: The Season
“I do not travel. I am not much of an extrovert, and I'm not much interested in extroverted objects. I do not care for the 'ideas' of novelists. Novels are wonderful, of course, but I prefer newspapers.”
“I do not truly consider myself an icon, but the Cube has been quite successful.”
“I do not truly fight because I want to be king or Emperor or whatever word you slap above my name in the history texts. The universe does not notice us. There is no supreme being waiting to end existence when the last man breathes his final breath. Man will end. That is the fact accepted, but never discussed. And the universe will continue without care. “I will not let that happen, because I believe in man. I would have us continue forever. I would shepherd us out of the Solar System into alien ones. Seek new life. We are barely in our infancy as a species. But I would make man the immutable fixture in the universe, not just some passing bacteria that flashes and fades with no one to remember.”
Source: Golden Son
“I do not trust doctors. They are like golfers. Every one has a different answer to your problems.”
“I do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me, 'I love you.' There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.”
“I do not trust self serving misinformation coming from corporations and their media trolls. I do not trust politicians who are taking millions from those corporations either. I trust people. So I make my music for people not for candidates.”
“I do not trust technology. I mean, I don't think we're in any danger of kids, you know, doing without video games in the future, but I am saying that their lives are largely out of balance.”
“I do not trust those who make the vaccines, or the apparatus behind it all to push it on us thru fear.”
“I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.”
“I do not try to look sexy or cute. Pain pushes even gender out of the way, even vanity, even the hopes of looking like someone else. In some ways, pain returns me to childhood, my eyes to the naked, peaceful orbs of animals.”
Source: Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System
“I do not try, Lord, to attain Your lofty heights, because my understanding is in no way equal to it. But I do desire to understand Your truth a little, that truth that my heart believes and loves. I do not seek to understand that I may believe; but I believe so that I may understand. For I believe this also, that unless I believe, I shall not understand.”
“I do not tweeze my eyebrows. I've been letting them grow out for years. I try to fill them in wherever nature has abandoned me.”
“I do not Twitter. I don't want to Twitter, and I don't see any point in Twittering. The last thing I want to do is tell people what I'm doing at the moment because I'm probably not doing what I'm supposed to be doing.”
“I do not underestimate the difficulty of the challenge that global climate change presents to us. It will take a significant effort and the best talent and technology we have to solve the problem.”
“I do not understand girls who imagine that something forbidden. You can prohibit someone, but did not imagine.”
“I do not understand how a man can be a true believer, in whom sin is not the greatest burden, sorrow and trouble.”
“I do not understand how an aristocracy can exist, unless it be distinguished by some quality which no other class of the community possesses.”
Source: Coningsby: Or, The New Generation
“I do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to.”
Source: Cross Creek
“I do not understand how anyone can, in good conscience, tell a family whose child is suffering from a life-threatening disease that politics is more important than finding a cure.”
“I do not understand how deeply people seem to like my work - but I love that people feel I have helped them through hardships, and also have shared my experience of living a more spiritual and present life. It's so great to be able to make people laugh, because this is so often how we get our selves back.”
“I do not understand how he can speak of my failures as if they are victories.”
Source: A Curse So Dark and Lonely
“I do not understand how it is that financial institutions could think that they could take taxpayer money and then turn around and act like it's business as usual. I don't understand how they can't see that the world has changed in a fundamental way, that it is not business as usual when you take taxpayer dollars.”
“I do not understand how you humans can walk in shoes that are that tall.” “Its my motto,” said Isabelle, with a sultry smile. “Nothing less than seven inches.”
Source: City of Ashes
“I do not understand it. I would not have believed that such things could happen on our farm. It must be due to some fault in ourselves. The solution, as I see it, is to work harder. From now onwards I shall get up a full hour earlier in the mornings.”
Source: Animal Farm
“I do not understand it, this fighting and killing/ and urge to conquer." His gaze turned downward then. I touched his arm, and he glanced at me, all the sorrow on this earth filling his eyes then. "I will never understand it.”
Source: Song of the Sparrow
“I do not understand men. They spend their lives to use their health to make money and then they spend their money to restore their health.”
“I do not understand modern physics at all, but my colleagues who know a lot about the physics of very small things, like the particles in atoms, or very large things, like the universe, seem to be running into one queerness after another, from puzzle to puzzle.”
“I do not understand normalcy. You have to be out of your mind to think outside the box. You need to think outside the box to make real change. Why remain a spectator when you can own the game?”
“I do not understand normalcy. You have to be out of your mind to think outside the box. You need to think outside the box to make real change. Why remain a spectator when you can own your game?”
“I do not understand normalcy. You have to be out of your mind to think outside the box. You need to think outside the box, with no constraints or boundaries, to make real change. Why remain a spectator when you can own your game?”
“I do not understand people who like to make noise; consequently I fear them, and since I fear them, I hate them.”
“I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife. My understanding is that I can just let her alone.”
Source: The Modern Library Civil War Bookshelf 5-Book Bundle: Personal Memoirs, Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Red Badge of Courage, Jefferson Davis: The Essential Writings, The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln
“I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.”
“I do not understand the squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using poisonous gas against uncivilized tribes.”
“I do not understand the unilateralists. If they hated nuclear weapons as much as I do they would want them down in the world as a whole. I am the true disarmer, I keep peace and freedom and justice with it.”
“I do not understand the world, but I watch it's progress.”
“I do not understand this analogy," Mencheres muttered.”
“I do not understand this man," [Tempi] said. "Is he attempting to buy sex with me? Or does he wish to fight?”
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
“I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. We have definitely adopted the position at the Peace Conference of arguing in favour of the retention of gas as a permanent method of warfare. It is sheer affectation to lacerate a man with the poisonous fragment of a bursting shell and to boggle at making his eyes water by means of lachrymatory gas.”
“I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas... I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes... It is not necessary to use only the most deadly gases: gases can be used which cause great inconvenience and would spread a lively terror and yet would leave no serious permanent effects on most of those affected.”
“I do not understand those who spend hours at the theater watching scenes between people whom they would not listen to for five minutes in real life.”
Source: A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney
“I do not understand those who take little or no interest in the subject of religion. If religion embodies a truth, it is certainly the most important truth of human existence. If it is largely error, then it is one of monumentally tragic proportions—and should be vigorously opposed.”
“I do not understand what makes me take a picture. Cartier-Bresson talks about the decisive moment, the necessity to function with lynx eyes and silk gloves. Perhaps what happens when you press the shutter is an intuitive act infused with all you have learned.”
“I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier.”
Source: Tusculan Disputations