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 want to write beyond this point, because those days when I studied relentlessly are nostalgic to me; and on the other hand, I am sad when I think how I have become increasingly preoccupied with matters other than study.”
Source: Tabibito
“I do not want two classes of citizens in this country. I want everybody to prosper. That's going to be a top priority.”
“I do not want you ever to initiate any action for any refunds of taxes without first consulting me and presenting the matter fully to me so that I may judge whether it is an honorable and ethical action to take, not simply legally, but according to my own personal standards.”
“I do not want you to follow me or anyone else; if you are looking for a Moses to lead you out of this capitalist wilderness, you will stay right where you are. I would not lead you into the promised land if I could, because if I led you in, some one else would lead you out.”
“I do not want you to have me softly. You don't have to ask me to confirm if I say harder and faster. If I can still offer intelligible speech after you go harder and faster, you are not yet hard or fast enough. Test how much I can take. I'm confident it is more than you think, but please surprise me. You should call me whatever names you like. Your social conscience requests you refer to me as a 'liberated woman' or a 'sex worker' when your cock means 'slut' and 'whore.' Call me those. It won't offend me coming from your mouth. You should cum in me. I'm on birth control now, and that's what my kitty is for. You can cum elsewhere if you must, as long as doing this will be hotter for you. Don't cum somewhere out of courtesy—though not in my hair, please. I promise you that it is a trial to clean out fully.”
Source: Jarring Sex
“I do not want you to hear that I LOVE you, but I want you to feel it without me having to say.”
“I do not want you to live in the dream world because time erratically passes away in that world. Come to reality and begin to act now.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“I do not want your admiration now, because I do not want your insults in the future. I bear with my loneliness now, in order to avoid greater loneliness in the years ahead. You see, loneliness is the price we have to pay for being born in this modern age, so full of freedom, independence, and our own egoistical selves.”
Source: Kokoro
“I do not want your blind and rigid loyalty towards my ideas, I want you to explore, I want you to expand, I want you to expand to such an extent that even my ideas become obsolete.”
Source: Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier
“I do not waste my time interacting with corrupt government agencies.”
“I do not waste my time writing pot-boilers: the pot must be boiled, and even my pot au feu has some chunks of fresh meat in it. ...I have no time to boil myself down; and anyhow I could not do so and preserve all the necessary nutriment and the flavoring on which the digestibility depends.”
“I do not waste time or language on our enemies, beloved. But if I ever did, I would tell them that there is a river between what they see and what they know. And they don’t have the heart to cross it.”
Source: There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
“I do not waste time to find the great human; I spend the time to become myself such a human.”
“I do not watch television. But I'm in touch with the world. If anything really important happens, someone will tell me.”
“I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich.”
“I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve; I write about them.”
“I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.”
“I do not weep: I loathe tears, for they are a sign of slavery.”
“I do not welcome advice from actors, they are here to act.”
“I do not whisper obscurities in some dark corner. I would not have told the people of Israel to seek me if I could not be found. I, the Lord, speak only what is true and declare only what is right.”
“i DO NOT WHY BUT i KEEP THINKING OF YOU, WHAT DID YOU EVER DO TO ME?
I have tried na nikashindwa kukudelete from my system, IMEKATAA.
i KNOW YOU HAVE TRIED TOO, IT LEAVES ME WONDERING WHAT IS THESE.
It can only be explained by the gods.”
“I do not will him to be exceptional.
It is the exception that interests the devil.”
Source: Winter Trees
“I do not wish a foreign army to spill the blood of my people.”
“I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing.”
Source: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Thrift Study Edition
“I do not wish disaster to British arms.”
“I do not wish integrity to be taken in some vague metaphorical sense; I mean it quite literally.”
Source: The Projective Cast: Architecture and Its Three Geometries
“I do not wish my anger and pain and fear about cancer to fossilize into yet another silence, nor to rob me of whatever strength can lie at the core of this experience, openly acknowledged and examined. For other women of all ages, colors, and sexual identities who recognize that imposed silence about any area of our lives is a tool for separation and powerlessness, and for myself, I have tried to voice some of my feelings and thoughts about the travesty of prosthesis, the pain of amputation, the function of cancer in a profit economy, my confrontation with mortality, the strength of women loving, and the power and rewards of self-conscious living.”
Source: The Cancer Journals
“I do not wish my house to be walled and my windows stuffed. I want all cultures to blow freely through my dwelling.”
“I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.”
Source: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
“I do not wish to avoid the walk. The distance is nothing when one has a motive.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.”
Source: Wanda. Ariadne. The general's match-making
“I do not wish to be either governor nor governed!”
“I do not wish to be High King. I only wish to be here, with my mate and my people.”
Source: A Court of Silver Flames
“I do not wish to be misunderstood upon this subject of slavery in this country. I suppose it may long exist, and perhaps the best way for it to come to an end peaceably is for it to exist for a length of time. But I say that the spread and strengthening and perpetuation of it is an entirely different proposition. There we should in every way resist it as a wrong, treating it as a wrong, with the fixed idea that it must and will come to an end.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46
“I do not wish to be shut up in a corral. All agency Indians I have seen are worthless. They are neither red warriors nor white farmers. They are neither wolf nor dog.”
Source: Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches
“I do not wish to be told what to do or where to go.”
Source: The Thousand Routes Tree
“I do not wish to belittle reason, but it should be the servant of love, not of pride.”
Source: The Age of Voltaire
“I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.”
Source: The complete works of George Orwell
“I do not wish to die- There is such contingent beauty in life: The open window on summer mornings Looking out on gardens and green things growing, The shadowy cups of roses flowering to themselves- Images of time and eternity- Silence in the garden and felt along the walls.”
“I do not wish to die: but I care not if I were dead.
[Lat., Emori nolo: sed me esse mortuum nihil aestimo.]”
“I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is not an apology, but a life.”
Source: Self-Reliance and Other Essays
“I do not wish to explain my passion—that would imply that it was a mistake or some disorder I need to justify—I just want to describe it.”
Source: Simple Passion
“I do not wish to give (women) a first place, still less a second one- but the complete freedom to take their true place, whatever it may be.”
“I do not wish to give the order full force without giving timely warning but I am a widow's son outlawed and must be obeyed.”
“I do not wish to give the order full force without giving timely warning but I am a Widow’s Son, outlawed and my orders must be obeyed.”
“I do not wish to grow old, to outlive my illusions. Only a short respite from cares and sorrow, a brief time of flowers, and music, and love, and laughter, and ecstatic tears.”
Source: A Village Ophelia
“I do not wish to help Jeremy Clarkson be amusing in the event of my death.”
“I do not wish to hide my origins, nor do I seek to make it a subject of conversation. I am what I am.”
“I do not wish to live in a society where you are stoned for adultery. I prefer to live in a society where we get stoned first, and then commit adultery.”
“I do not wish to lose my temper because very shortly I will lose my head. Nevertheless, upon leaving this spark of earthly existence, I have this to say: I shall see you all very soon ... very soon.”