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 take orders from people who are weaker than me.”
Source: The Quest for Freedom
“I don’t take trips out of town, the city, state or country to do the same things I can do at home in my city. I go for the sake of experiencing something different- be it a cultural, dining experience or entertainment that I can’t get where I Iive, because why else leave the house?”
“I don’t talk about my personal life so they [the media] had to make one up for me.”
“I don't talk about my vision, I show it.”
Source: I WILL BE A BILLIONAIRE: The right mindset is the first step towards the journey.
“I don’t talk much anymore, not because I have nothing to say, but because I know you will blame me. Every word turns into an argument, every feeling becomes my fault. So I stay quiet not out of peace, but out of exhaustion. It’s easier to stay silent than to be misunderstood again and again. Silence becomes a shield when words no longer feel safe. And that’s when you realize sometimes it’s not that people stop talking, they just stop feeling heard.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“I don’t talk much because talking without thought is not talking at all,”
“I don't talk things, sir,' said Faber. 'I talk the meaning of things. I sit here and know I'm alive.”
Source: Fahrenheit 451
“I don’t teach. I just show them why to learn, what to learn, how to learn, and the ultimate purpose of learning.”
“I don't teach lessons to learn, I lessen the teach to learn”
“I don't tell her that my grasp on truth, on words, on people, has slipped. I was getting close, so close to normal again, and that's been snatched away. I'm not even back where I started. I'm somewhere else entirely, so far off the map I don't know where to turn next.”
Source: When You Were Here
“I don’t tell them more, but before the land implodes, I will tell everyone the whole story....I will tell them that she loved them, that her last thought was her parents. I will tell them that she hid it, but she feared the land’s implosion because it would mean their separation.”
Source: A Return Before This Land Implodes
“I don't tell you this story today in order to encourage all of you in the class of '04 to find careers in the music business, but rather to suggest what the next decade of your lives is likely to be about, and that is, trying to ensure that you don't wake up at 32 or 35 or 40 tenured to a life that happened to you when you weren't paying strict attention, either because the money was good, or it made your parents proud, or because you were unlucky enough to discover an aptitude for the very thing that bores you to tears, or for any of the other semi-valid reasons people marshal to justify allowing the true passion of their lives to leak away. If you're lucky, you may have more than one chance to get things right, but second and third chances, like second and third marriages, can be dicey propositions, and they don't come with guarantees.... The question then is this: How does a person keep from living the wrong life?”
“I don't the life of a thug. I live the life of a sinner.”
“I don’t think a girl ever gets over losing her mom. I’m an adult and it’s completely normal and expected for my mom to be dead, but I still feel orphaned sometimes.”
Source: P.S. I Still Love You
“I don’t think a man has ever offered to help in the kitchen in this house.”
Source: Hope For Chattanooga
“I don't think a single one of them had any clear idea of time, as we at the end of countless ages have. They still belonged to the beginnings of time—”
Source: Heart of Darkness
“I don't think about breaking his legs, just his two friends. It's the little things that get me through the day.”
Source: Too Old for This
“I don’t think about politics,” Rabbit says. “That’s one of my Goddam precious American rights, not to think about politics. I just don’t see why we’re supposed to walk down the street with our hands tied behind our back and let ourselves be blackjacked by every thug who says he has a revolution going. And it really burns me up to listen to hotshot crap-car salesmen dripping with Vitalis sitting on their plumped-up asses bitching about a country that’s been stuffing goodies into their mouth ever since they were born.”
Source: Rabbit Redux
“I don't think about what it will be like to say good-bye. I don't ask about her leaving. I don't think about how sad I'll be without her, or say I'll miss her or how life will be a perfect graveyard without her living next door for the rest of our lives...Lucy's eyes, deep and blue and flecked with light from dancing disco stars hanging from the ceiling, remind me of the sky, but also of water. I've never been to Maine, but I imagine that the color of the ocean there looks something like Lucy's blue eyes.”
Source: Ten Thousand Tries
“I don't think age has much to do with writing. I think it's something that can certainly improve in time, but there's no age limit on how old you need to be to write well.”
Source: A Little Something Different
“I don't think all writers are sad, she said.
I think it's the other way around—
all sad people write.”
Source: Love & Misadventure
“I don't think any of us are blameless when we all, more and more often, see ourselves not as members of a culture but as weapons in a war.”
Source: An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
“I don’t think any of us expected it to look like it did! Most of the dry surface was ‘sand,’ grains of hydrocarbons like coffee grounds. It was piled in giant dunes that ran on for miles over the ice—like in the Sahara or Canada.”
Source: What Awaits?
“I don't think any responsible performer would go on stage high. If he convinced himself he is better that way, he is deluding himself.”
“I don't think anybody'd remember and certainly do know everybody'd lie. The reason I'm so bitter and, as I said, 'in anguish,' nowadays, or one of the reasons, is that everybody's begun to lie and because they lie they assume that I lie too: they overlook the fact that I remember very well many things (of course I've forgotten some...)
I do believe that lying is a sin, unless it's innocent lie based on lack of memory, certainly the giving of false evidence and being a false witness is a mortal sin, but what I mean is, insofar as lying has become so prevalent in the world today (thanks to Marxian Dialectical propaganda and Comitern techniques among other causes) that, when a man tells the truth, everybody, looking in the mirror and seeing a liar...
...like those LSD heads in newspaper photographs who sit in parks gazing rapturously at the sky to show how high they are when they're only victims momentarily of a contraction of the blood vessels and nerves in the brain that causes the illusion...”
Source: Vanity of Duluoz: An Adventurous Education, 1935-46
“I don't think anyone aims to be typical, really. Most people even vow to themselves some time in high school or college not to be typical. But still, they just kind of loop back to it somehow. Like the circular rails of a train at an amusement park, the scripts we know offer a brand of security, of predictability, of safety for us. But the problem is, they only take us where we've already been. They loop us back to places where everyone can easily go, not necessarily where we were made to go.”
Source: Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
“I don't think anyone could write a completely honest autobiography. I am sure no one could bear to read it: My Past Was An Evil River.”
Source: The Cat Inside
“I don’t think anyone deserves to rot in jail the rest of their lives for stealing a pack of cigarettes. The court systems will be no kinder to these people than police have been, and both are avid practitioners of a convenient morality that consigns millions of black Americans to poverty with its selective policies, then persecutes those same black Americans at a disproportionate rate (almost a rate of 1:5) for the same (often nonviolent) crimes, openly regards black Americans with brutality (often killing people in cold blood for no reason other than that they ‘look like’ the grainy photos of 'suspects' I report), and then condemns millions of black Americans, each year, to lives in prison- too often for nothing more than the crime of stealing a pack of cigarettes.”
“I don’t think anyone in any age is ever ready to become a parent.”
“I don’t think anyone’s ever shown Greer real love,” he says. “It may take some time to break down those walls, but when you do? I don’t think you’d find a more loyal wife.”
I crack open one eye and grin at him. “She just might have a shifter side piece.”
He laughs. “Maybe a fae too.”
Source: Shadow Slayer
“I don't think anyone sets out to be a hero or a role model. I don't think that's how you become those things. But when you set out to follow your dreams—when you set goals and go after them with hard work and persistence and faith and integrity—then you start creating a path that others will want to follow because of the light that you shine. If you set out to be the best version of yourself, there's no way you can go wrong.”
Source: Who in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?
“I don’t think being a comedian gives you any fucking insight into what makes people laugh.”
“I don't think caring is a limited resource. I think the sum of care in the world can be increased. In fact, I think care for animals leads to greater care for humans, too, since we all share the natural world, and the same systems of power that endanger animals also endanger humans.”
“I don t think cartoons are only for kids, but I think kids will love anything as long as it's visually interesting.”
“I don't think-"
"Clearly. Why start now?”
Source: Siege and Storm
“I don’t think—”
“Clearly. Why start now?”
Ivan’s face flushed in anger. “You don’t—”
Sturmhond leaned in close, the laughter gone from his voice, his easy demeanor replaced by something with a sword’s edge. “I don’t care who you are on land. On this ship, you’re nothing but ballast. Unless I put you over the side, in which case you’re shark bait. I like shark. Cooks up tough, but it makes for a little variety. Remember that the next time you have a mind to threaten anyone aboard this vessel.” He stepped back, his jolly manner restored. “Go on now, shark bait. Scurry back to your master.”
“I won’t forget this, Sturmhond,” Ivan spat.
The captain rolled his eyes. “That’s the idea.”
Source: Siege and Storm
“i don't think college is something you should tough out.”
Source: The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University
“I don't think confidence and self-worth is something you magically attain. And you don't simply hold on to it forever like a tangible object. It's fluid. You can be confident in every aspect except one. Or something could happen and all your confidence can be shattered in an instant. Like the Instagram photo. It doesn't mean you don't inherently love yourself to the core.”
“I don't think either of us understood how much I loved her. It seemed like there'd be enough time to sort it out.”
Source: Solutions and Other Problems
“I don't think even the Carver knows what Nesta is. But I wanted to see- just in case.'
'Why?'
'I want to help.'
It was answer enough.
We fell into silence, the stream gurgling as it rushed by.
'Would you be frightened of her, if Nesta was- Death? Or if her power came from it?'
Cassian was quiet for a long moment.
He said at last, 'I'm a warrior. I've walked beside Death my entire life. I would be more afraid for her, to have that power. But not afraid of her.' He considered, and added after a heartbeat. 'Nothing about Nesta could frighten me.'
I swallowed and squeezed his hand. 'Thank you.”
Source: A Court of Wings and Ruin
“I don't think every moment needs to have music playing in the background. You're hanging out with firends - we don't need to have music in the back. If there is music in the back, it doesn't have to be loud, could be very low. Could be background music. Sometimes I get in the car with someone they're blasting music that doesn't fit the moment at all and it's loud. I don't need music all the time, sometimes I just want to listen to the music in my head, or I just want to listen to my thoughts, or I just don't wanna listen to anything other than the sound of nature - the sound of wind, the sound of crickets. There is music in nature and you have to seek it out sometimes, there is music in everything - so when you put music to music it clashes. So take it easy on the music”
“I don't think every moment needs to have music playing in the background. You're hanging out with firends - we don't need to have music in the back. If there is music in the back, it doesn't have to be loud, could be very low. Could be background music. Sometimses I get in the car with someone they're blasting music that doesn't fit the moment at all and it's loud. I don't need music all the time, sometimes I just want to listen to the music in my head, or I just want to listen to my thoughts, or I just don't wanna listen to anything other than the sound of nature - the sound of wind, the sound of crickets. There is music in nature and you have to seek it out sometimes, There is music in everything - so when you put music to music it clashes. So take it easy on the music.”
“I don’t think ‘fear’ is the right word for his kind,” Hoffman observed. “It’s milked out
of them before they are released on to an unsuspecting world.”
Source: The Eagle's Covenant
“I don't think, for instance, that you can invoke a Protestant ethic when it comes to loss. You can't say, "Oh, I'll go through loss this way, and that will be the result, and I'll apply myself to the aks, and I'll endeavor to achieve the resolution of grief that is before me." I think that one is hit by waves, and that one starts out the day with an aim, a project, a plan, and one finds oneself foiled.”
Source: Undoing Gender
“I don’t think forgiving ... means you’re excusing their behavior. I think forgiveness is more about not letting it destroy your heart anymore.”
Source: The Invitation
“I don’t think Garbo with her clothes off, panting in a brass bed, would have been more sexy than she was.”
Source: A life on film
“I don’t think God have us this anymore than he gives little kids cancer or makes poor people lottery winners.... if anything, he gives us courage to deal.”
Source: Challenger Deep
“I don't think happily ever after is something that happens to you, Dev. I think it's something you choose to do for yourself.”
Source: The Charm Offensive
“I don’t think haters are small-minded; it’s more tragic than that. I think they’re great minded, but choose to sell themselves short every day.”
“I don't think Hell is a place people go when they die. But it's real.”
Source: Abandon All Hope