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 know who the hell you are, hawk-woman, but if you think I'm going to let you destroy Zamaron with your army of birds in my first week on the job, you're mistaken.
Love is beautiful.
Love is inspiring.
But love is also lethal.”
“I don't know who thought up waxing, but it was clearly the same person who invented Vicodin.”
Source: My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands
“I don't know who to write to anymore... They've changed their souls, that's a way to be disloyal, to forget, to keep talking about something else.”
“I don't know who told all these grown men that what women really love are giant pizza-guzzling babies who need sleep all the time.”
Source: Ghosts
“I don't know who you are, but I love you.”
“I don't know who you think you are, but I'm the king's niece, and the closest blood he has left, and you'll keep a civil tongue or I will cut it out.”
Source: A Creature of Moonlight
“I don’t know who you think you are” — my mother’s voice was low and dangerous — “but if you don’t get out of my way right this instant, it won’t matter.”
Adam was the Alpha werewolf in charge of the local pack. He was tough. He could be mean when he had to — and he wouldn’t stand a chance against my mom.”
Source: Bone Crossed
“I don’t know who YOU think you’re kidding you Hufflepuff-ass bitch”
Source: Red, White & Royal Blue
“I don't know whom to talk and what to say. My silences know me well.”
“I don’t know whose bright idea it was to turn the prom into a masquerade ball, but whoever it was, I’m going to kick them in the balls for it.”
Source: Hear Me Now
“I don’t know whose side you’re on,
But I am here for the people
Who work in grocery stores that glow in the morning
And close down for deep cleaning at night”
“I don't know why anyone has a living room when they could have a library instead.”
Source: The Book of Magic
“I don’t know why anyone thinks looking at the stars is so romantic,” he said. “Have they ever read Greek mythology? It’s all the same story—God sees mortal, God desires mortal, mortal suffers gruesome fate and is rewarded with an eternity of pain in the cosmos.” He shrugged. “You could always make up your own stories.” But she was already shaking her head. “No. Those stories are written in stardust millions of years old. I don’t think I get to change them.” “Then I’m thankful for light pollution,” he said.”
Source: Not A Book: Royal Love
“I don't know why, but his reaction disappoints me.”
Source: Allegiant
“I don't know why, but I don't trust the word free anymore. Lunch here is supposed to be free, but it feels like it costs me a lot.”
Source: Free Lunch
“I don't know why, but I'm reminded of something Julian taught me once, long ago.
We destroy. It's the constant of our kind.
I've seen that firsthand. In Archeon, in Harbor Bay, on every battlefield. In the way Reds were treated and are still treated across the continent.
But that world is changing.
We destroy, but we also rebuild.”
“I don't know why, but it feels like a whole separate breakup. Accepting, now, the truth: That he's moved on. That all these moments I cling to, like little mental life rafts, are just memories for him.”
Source: Happy Place
“I don't know why, but the Bible always seems to come to me in my time of need, even with the exact words.”
Source: The Dime That Lasted Forever
“I don't know why but they you said it I started believing it.”
“I don’t know why everyone
is still trying to find out
whether heaven and hell exist.
Why do we need more evidence?
They exist here on this very Earth.
Heaven is standing atop Mount Qasioun
overlooking the Damascene sights
with the wind carrying Qabbani’s
dulcet words all around you.
And hell is only four hours away
in Aleppo where children’s cries
drown out the explosions of mortar bombs
until they lose their voice,
their families, and their limbs.
Yes, hell certainly does exist
right now, at this moment,
as I pen this poem. And all we’re doing
to extinguish this hellfire
is sighing, shrugging, liking, and sharing.
Tell me: what exactly does that make
us? Are we any better than the
gatekeepers of hell?”
“I don't know why Gaby's bothering to cater it at all. Honestly, couldn't she just stick a couple of arugula leaves on a plate and see if anybody dares to take a nibble?”
Source: Charlie Glass's Slippers: A Very Modern Fairy Tale
“I don't know why he isn't dead, maybe he's lucky. Certainly his physical self is dead. Before the streets, drugs, IV use, and hustling -medically - his body is not right.
[...]
So there is some will to live in him, to pass on his knowledge and good nature. It's a mystery. Dave is an inspiration to people. He is society's throw-away.”
Source: Raised by Wolves
“I don't know why human life seems to require suffering for growth to take place, or why things have to be taken away from us if we are to expand. The pattern branded on the human heart seems to be that only pain brings lasting change, that we must learn how to grieve if we want to truly celebrate, that we have to get lost in order to be found again. The lesson of the grape seems to apply here: in order to get the life out, something has to be crushed.”
“I don’t know why I am doing this. Everybody is saying bad things about you. Wherever you go, whatever you do, there is a noise after you… In spite of everything, I respect your courage to go after your ideals, no matter what. Men like you make this world move. I know that the road you go is covered with thorns. But I also know that it must be a road to the stars.”
Source: Truth According to Michael
“I don't know why I can't let the insults go, but I can't. I'm the product of every hurt that's ever been laid on me.”
“I don't know why I did the things I did
I don't know why I said the things I said
Pride's like a knife, it can cut deep inside
Words are like weapons, they wound sometimes”
“I don't know why I didn't have this sixth sense or whatever it is all along, but part of me thinks maybe it means I'm growing up, evolving into a real superhero. Like maybe the world knew I couldn't handle it before, but now, now I'm finally becoming me an the world know sit -- or maybe I'm just learning to listen to myself.”
Source: The Girl Who Would Be King
“I don't know why I feel so wounded with Kartik's obvious infatuation with Pippa. There's no romance between us. There's nothing that tethers us but this dark secret neither of us wants. It's not Kartik's longing that hurts. It's my own. It's knowing that I'll never have what she has--a beauty so powerful it brings things to you. I fear I will always have to chase things I want. I'll always have to wonder whether I'm truly wanted or whether I've just been settled for.”
Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty
“I don't know why I get jealous, since you don't make money or get any attention for it, but I guess it's because I'd rather be doing what you're doing. I mean, I'll have a day in the office where I look at the clock and think 'Oh good, it's eight-forty-five, only seven and a quarter more hours to go; oh good, it's nine-thirty, only six and a half hours to go; oh good, it's nine-forty-five, et cetera, and then we'll meet for a drink and you will have been writing all day and you look happy and crazed, like you just had some wonderful sex or drugs. I resent that all of your time is free time, because half of my life is a bore to me, and I feel guilty because I want to write but I don't write. I can't face all that blank paper.”
Source: Hard Laughter
“I don't know why I keep asking you these questions. It's not like I expect you to answer, and even if you did answer, how would I know? But maybe that doesn't matter. Maybe when I ask you a question like "You doing okay?" you should just tell me, even if I can't hear you, and then I'll just sit here and imagine what you might say.
You might say, "sure thing, Nao. I'm okay. I'm doing just fine.”
"Okay, awesome" I would say to you, and then we would smile at each other across time like we were friends, because we are friends by now, aren't we?”
Source: A Tale for the Time Being
“I don’t know why I’m sitting here trying to give you advice. I’m a single divorcee and I’m forty. Two. Forty-two. What do I know about anything? That’s a rhetorical question, by the way.”
Source: P.S. I Still Love You
“I don't know why I'm so cold and broken up about this but I know the icebergs never meant to hurt the titanic, they were just lonely.”
“I don't know why I'm so upset. It's not about dying. You get used to it, when you can literally feel the moment second hand. Often the heart just does a flip-squeeze, like--" He thumped Jav over the heart.
"Bleeding out is different. Sometimes the heart just gives up." His hands shook.
"If I died, I'm not sure I'd know the difference. I think it'd feel the same, except I wouldn't have to be there, after.”
Source: Earthflown
“I don't know why I pause to watch Raffaele. Perhaps I have always done so, so captivated am I by his beauty. Even now, in the midst of death and destruction, he moves with the grace of someone not of this world. His attention is focused entirely on Enzo. The sight breaks my heart, and a small, lost part of me sparks with light.”
Source: The Rose Society
“I don't know why I resented it so intensely to have them think of me as something newly minted in their private treasury, but it was-I am certain-echoes of that idea that had been sounding in the chambers of my mind from the time we had arrived in Chicago. I wanted to get up and show everyone what a fool he was, to shout at him: I'm a human being, a person - with parents and memories and a history - and I was before you ever wheeled me into that operating room!”
“I don't know why I should have been so pleased to see Lucas behaving like a gentleman for a change. I never liked the man... But of course I know why. I would have defended Satan himself if he had been in disfavor with Emerson.”
Source: Crocodile on the Sandbank
“I don’t know why I should write this. I don’t want to. I don’t feel able. And I know John would think it absurd. But I MUST say what I feel and think in some way - it is such a relief.”
Source: The Yellow Wallpaper
“I don't know why I take the napkin. It's something my body does without checking with my head first, like the obligation to be nice to him is greater than myself.”
Source: All the Rage
“I don't know why I thought of Dottie as my friend but I did. I believe she thought the same way about me although she really didn't like me. In those days, among the people I mixed with, one had friends almost by predestination. There they were, like your winter coat and your meagre luggage. You didn't think of discarding them just because you didn't altogether like them.”
Source: Loitering with Intent
“I don’t know why I told you all those things, but I did. Maybe it was because I’m a drunk, and sometimes drunks like to confess.”
“I don’t know why I’ve always been interested in the evil things people do. I’m not alone, I know that. People who devour true crime stories. People who watch the horrors on the news every day or read about them in the paper. People who rubberneck at accidents. They want to see it, hear it, talk about it. The dark side of human nature is fascinating to people. We’re so obsessed with all the bad things that happen in the world and not with the good.”
Source: Into the Darkness
“I don't know why
I've got so much hope
pinned to someone who will never call me home.”
Source: Mouthful of Forevers
“i don’t know why it is, but…
you feel like home,
and everywhere i’ve never been,
all at once.
it doesn’t make sense…
or maybe it does?
maybe love is the safest place you could ever be,
and every new and undiscovered place
you have yet to go,
all at the same time.
yeah…
i think that’s perfectly how it’s
supposed to feel.”
“I don't know why it is that alcohol and tobacco are now bad, but jolts of caffeine are suddenly good. It is beyond me, and it makes me feel old.”
Source: Open Season
“I don’t know why it’s not universally acknowledged that looking back is a terrible idea. It only makes going forward that much harder.”
Source: Breath of Fire
“I don't know why it's so hard for people to admit that sometimes they're just assholes who screw up because they don't expect to get caught.”
Source: One of Us Is Lying
“I don’t know why it was, exactly, but nothing irritated my father quite like the sound of his children’s happiness. Group crying, he could stand, but group laughing was asking for it, especially at the dinner table.”
Source: When You Are Engulfed In Flames
“I don’t know why Kate was trying to impress him, as far as I could see the guy had all the allure and social grace of a psychotic slug with halitosis and a bad head cold.”
Source: The Jackie Chan Fan Club
“I don’t know why loss, cruelty, or other such things exist in the world - but I have this moment only (yesterday is gone and tomorrow is not promised) - I get to choose what to make of this moment. Am I living in heaven or hell? Only I get to decide.”
“I don’t know why Mateo didn’t
stay in bed, we had a fucking deal.”
Source: They Both Die at the End