I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I don't have to be safe to feel safe, I always feel safe at my core.”
“I don't have to get married to grow up!”
“I don't have to justify its awesomeness/activeness/healthiness/usefulness to anyone, because it is MINE. Not yours.”
Source: Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
“I don’t have to let anyone use me. I don’t have to bend the truth. Even if I’m not ready to forgive just yet, I don’t have to be tied to my scars, to the people who wounded me, or to the anger and fear that grew out of it. I can be myself and be honest and not be afraid. Not of getting hurt or of hurting others.”
Source: Biome
“I don't have to listen to rumors about a man when I can judge him for myself.”
Source: Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
“I don’t have to look far and wide to discover that material wealth alone is not enough to build a great nation. There are many countries in the world, especially in developing countries of Africa, Asia and South America that are enormously wealthy in natural resources and yet have a poor population.”
“I don’t have to look outside to know, I got it all here. Fuck. The world’s actually fucking ending.”
Source: In Limbo
“I don't have to move into Amanda's house to be present in her family. Even though I'm not there physically all the time, I want them to have something that says, 'I'm out here. I'm okay. I love you.' I want them to bite into a cookie, and think of me, and smile. Food is love. Food has a power. I knew it in my mind, but now I know it in my heart.”
Source: The Kitchen Daughter
“I don't have to point out, I'm sure, that letters received should be answered within a reasonable time- say a month; but there is such a thing as answering too promptly and writing too long a letter. It makes answering a burden to your correspondent, who will feel obligated to do at least as well as you have done, and will soon be heartily sick of the whole thing.”
Source: We Took to the Woods
“I don’t have to prove I’m blessed—God knows. I don’t chase validation, I walk in purpose. When it’s time to shine, He’ll make sure I’m seen.”
“I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. The lunatics have taken over the asylum. Masked goons are dragging people from the street and throwing them into concentration camps. And there's no end to the cruelty.
“Things are worse than bad. They're crazy [paraphrasing Howard Beale in the 1976 film ‘Network’].”
“I don't have to try to be outrageous.
I am outrageous.”
“I don't have to understand the reasons for the colours of a rainbow to appreciate its beauty.”
“I don't have to worry about Madame Ouche! she'll still be robbing me blind when she's dead!...having made her last confession and received extreme unction...all the cataclysms will pass over her without harming a single gray hair on her head! it's a paradise here for scum like her, on earth as there is in heaven...they don't really die, the sluts, the hussies, the really awful ones, they just go from one paradise to another, with their money, servants, cars...just buy their cute little ticket and off they go! final absolution and see you later! they shit in your hands!...they're born to slip out of both hells - the one here and the one in the next world...all they do is fuck and whine...loads of cash! never broke!...cheers! here's to you! no regrets! you realize too late...”
Source: Normance
“I don’t have to worry about what I’ll do on any given day because I already know—I work. All decisions are made for me. The only thing I have to worry about is the possibility of dying.”
Source: Mass Casualties: A Young Medic's True Story of Death, Deception, and Dishonor in Iraq
“I DON'T HAVE TOO MANY PLANS; PLAN OF ACTION IS MY ONE AND ONLY PLAN.”
“I don't have what it takes to inspire someone to become a "worldly" musician or rapper! I can't use the power God gave me yesterday to work against the Kingdom God set up many years ago!”
Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes
“I don't have wishes, I make plans”
“I don't have words for appreciative abuses.”
“I don't hear it much anymore... but... I guess people do sometimes ask... well why don't you go back to Russia.... Well I'm sorry I can't help it I guess Im stuck in this shithole for a while. My aunt married some Jew and then we won a "lottery" and my daddy (pussy little bitch) decided to come to this shithole and make me go to school with fucked up Jews and learn english and shit. Then I became an alcoholic in college. Then I worked for the government a bit and that REALLY fucked me up. Now I'm just waiting for them to catch up, make some amends and pass the Universal Basic Income so I can go back to drinking. Rigorous honesty, every single day.”
“I don’t hesitate to say that damage or destruction of the land-community is morally wrong, just as Leopold did not hesitate to say so when he was composing his essay, “The Land Ethic,” in 1947. But I do not believe, as I think Leopold did not, that morality, even religious morality, is an adequate motive for good care of the land-community. The primary motive for good care and good use is always going to be affection, because affection involves us entirely. And here Leopold himself set the example. In 1935 he bought an exhausted Wisconsin farm and, with his family, began its restoration. To do this was morally right, of course, but the motive was affection. Leopold was an ecologist. He felt, we may be sure, an informed sorrow for the place in its ruin. He imagined it as it had been, as it was, and as it might be. And a profound, delighted affection radiates from every sentence he wrote about it.”
Source: It All Turns on Affection: The Jefferson Lecture and Other Essays
“I don't hold grudges. I hold lessons.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“I don't hold grudges... I just cut people off. I don't see a point in willingly subjecting myself to constantly being hurt by the same people.”
“I don't hold Travis anymore, of course- not to read to him, or for any other reason, either. I wish I'd known that the last time was going to be the last time.”
“I don’t hurt to heal. I heal so I don’t hurt.”
“I don't. I never wanted to make you care for me so, and I went away to keep you from it if I could.”
Source: Little Women
“I don't identify with being old, I identify with being alive – which probably means I'm old.”
“I don't identify with the words female or male. They are not my words. The space in which I have felt gendered female and transitioned to gendered male has been in the ways people have treated me.”
Source: Finding Nevo
“I don’t ignore everyone because I have social anxiety. I ignore some people because I don’t need crawl backs that weren’t around when I was building myself, that are now currently building themselves”
“I don't imagine book elitists as my audience when writing. I dream about teachers, morticians and garbage men instead.”
Source: The Devil in the Wide City
“I don’t imagine,” Orson said, “you’ve laid any traps? Nothing that would harm a patriot doing his duty?”
“No.”
“No,” Orson agreed. “I’ve always found your constancy refreshing. Galen Erso is an honest man, unaltered by stress or circumstance.”
Troopers called to one another in the house behind Galen, and he stifled the impulse to turn. “Honest, perhaps. Still just a man.”
Source: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
“I don’t imagine that we can alter anything in our own lifetime. But one can imagine little knots of resistance springing up here and there—small groups of people banding themselves together, and gradually growing, and even leaving a few records behind, so that the next generations can carry on where we leave off.”
Source: 1984
“I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.”
“I don't impressed if you're a religious person.
I just wanna know about soul behind that mask.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“I don't incidentally suggest that the deceit is conscious. Much more likely, it's just the enormous power of conformity to convention, to what Gramsci called hegemonic "common sense." Some ideas are not even rejected; they are unthinkable. Like the idea that US aggression is aggression; it can only be "a mistake," "a tragic error," "a strategic blunder." I also don't want to suggest this is "American exceptionalism." It's hard to find an exception to the practice in the history of imperialism.”
Source: The Precipice: Neoliberalism, the Pandemic, and the Urgent Need for Radical Change
“I don’t intend to be any less than what I can be, nor any more than who I should be.”
“I don't joke about sex, not when it comes to you. I'm absolutely serious about it. And there's never joking about marriage. That's a sacred, serious topic.”
Source: Lethal Game
“I don’t judge, because I can see through your eyes. Were I in your shoes, I might have done even worse.”
“I don't judge other people for doing what they need to do. But you know what sex does? It makes oxytocin. Bonding hormones. Running around your system willy-nilly and making things all warm and fuzzy. Anyone who thinks that they can have sex more than once without catching at least some kind of feelings is delusional, because catching feelings is biology."
I put my hands up. "OK, Einstein, I take your point."
"Einstein wasn't a biologist."
I laughed, all disbelief. "I'm telling you that I want to be naked in your bed, and you're being a smartass?"
She blushed. "Stating facts isn't smartassery. It's pedantry.”
Source: The Slowest Burn
“I don't judge people.
It blurs out the center of my attention,
my focus,
myself.”
Source: Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
“I don't judge the quality of my decisions by the outcome”
Source: The Incredible Shrinking Alpha: How to Be a Successful Investor Without Picking Winners
“I don't just dare, I quadruple dare.”
Source: You Can Quote Me On That
“I don’t just design pages—I design paths that help people see themselves more clearly.”
“I don’t just like you, I love you. You and your little hedgehog self.”
She stopped brushing Willow. “Hedgehog?”
“Yeah.” Meg grinned, never a good sign. “You’re spiny on the outside and soft and fuzzy on the inside.”
“Hmph.”
“But without the spines, you’d just be a squishy, boring hamster.”
Simone shook her head. “You are an absolute freak, and I love you for it.”
Source: Stirring Up Love
“I don't just love him, I adore him”
“I don’t just love you, you live in my heart and will do so forever.”
“I don't just make moves; I AM the movement!”
“I don't just paint something I have in mind. I paint to find out what I have in mind.”
“I don't just see anger in his expression. I see a hell of a lot of pain”
Source: It Starts with Us
“I don’t just speak diversity, I actually live it.”