I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I expect nothing of man, and disown the race. The only folly is expecting what is never attained; man is most contemptible when compared with his own pretensions. It is better to laugh at man from outside the universe, than to weep for him within.”
“I expect of abstraction as much as what imagery does for me... to carry meaning.”
“I expect people to at least use some thought.”
“I expect perfection from myself.”
“I expect photographs to find me. I never thought of looking for them. I instinctively put them there. My intellect had nothing to do with it.”
“I expect some bodies from the hurricane Ian disaster will be showing up years from now.”
“I expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment.”
Source: Friends and Sisters: Letters Between Lucy Stone and Antoinette Brown Blackwell, 1846-93
“I expect that [trying to do the best] of my players today and of my kids. My wife says I shouldn't expect that of my children, but I don't think that's asking too much.”
“I expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.”
“I expect that any day now, I will have said all I have to say; I'll have used up all my characters, and then I'll be free to get on with my real life.”
“I expect that Calvin would evaluate our worship today not as too emotional, but as too narrow in its emotional repertoire.”
Source: Calvin on the Christian Life: Glorifying and Enjoying God Forever
“I expect that essential oils may some day prove a vital weapon in the fight against strains of antibiotic-resi stant bacteria.”
“I expect that everything I do will be not watched or not seen. That way, I'm never disappointed when I become flooded with that reality.”
“I expect that in 40 years' time I'll be writing political tomes and working for an organisation like Oxfam.”
“I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language, I expect them to have read books - there are a lot of people like that! That's my audience.”
“I expect that people are going to feel differently about that once they're aware that AI systems can watch through a camera and can, in some sense, understand what it's seeing.”
“I expect that the 2019 attempt to construct the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) atop Mauna Kea will be remembered for desecration of the native Hawaiian’s beliefs, a commitment to damaging very high altitude workers health, and a continuation of the willful ignorance to the laws of the USA.”
“I expect that the 2019 attempt to construct the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) atop Mauna Kea will result in damage to some of the careers of people involved with it and harm the reputations of the associated corporations.”
“I expect that Trump believes we do not have an obligation to have a Cold War with Russia, but that he is very cautious.”
“I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.”
Source: The Ordeal of Richard Feverel
“I expect that would be a very different world with very different priorities.”
Source: The Dream Thieves
“I expect that you must receive top marks at school, young lady." Madeleine smiled as she stirred her tea. "There are always rewards for those who state the obvious frequently and with conviction.”
Source: Touching Darkness: Number 2 in series
“I expect the audience to assume TV is stupid. I accept that it's my job to overcome it.”
“I expect the audience to come up to my level.”
“I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an assumed sub-standard mass.”
“I expect the best and with God's help will attain the best.”
Source: The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results
“I expect the hip-hop audience to be avant garde. I want them to be where I'm at or beyond where I'm at.”
“I expect the Maui wildfires that destroyed Lahaina to be remembered as one of the biggest tourism disasters in history.”
“I expect the name ‘Steven Magee’ will become associated with the reform of the corrupt aspects of professional astronomy.”
“I expect the ruling and opposition parties to work together for the future of Taiwan.”
“I expect the worst, and I am sure I won't be disappointed.”
“I expect them to tell me things about myself I don't know.”
Source: Too Loud a Solitude
“I expect this is what death is like when you meet it. Sort of wildly unfair but inevitable.”
Source: A Shilling for Candles
“I expect to be awarded the Nobel prize for researching what professional astronomers did not want researched.”
“I expect to be great. I expect to do what hasn't been done. I expect to provoke change.”
“I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.”
Source: Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words
“I expect to fight that proposition until hell freezes over. Then I propose to start fighting on the ice.”
“I expect to get paid if I do something.”
“I expect to maintain this contest until successful, or till I die, or am conquered, or my term expires, or Congress or the country forsakes me.”
Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln
“I expect to make a career out of country music.”
“I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.”
“I expect to pass through this world but once and therefore if there is anybody that I want to kick in the crutch I had better kick them in the crutch now, for I do not expect to pass this way again.”
“I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good things, therefore, that I can do, any good kindness that I can show a fellow being, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again”
“I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do ... let me do it now.”
“I expect to play golf until I am 90-even longer if anybody figures out a way to swing a club from a rocking chair.”
Source: Championship golf
“I expect to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mean to labor for the elevation of my sex.”
“I expect to retire to a fine-grained heaven where the temperatures are always consistent, where the images slide before one's eyes in a continual cascade of form and meaning.”
“I expect to see a lot of household appliances on the Net by 2010, as well as autos and other mobile devices.”
“I expect to see the coming decades transform the planet into an art form; the new man, linked in a cosmic harmony that transcends time and space, will sensuously caress and mold and pattern every facet of the terrestrial artifact as if it were a work of art, and man himself will become an organic art form. There is a long road ahead, and the stars are only way stations, but we have begun the journey. To be born in this age is a precious gift, and I regret the prospect of my own death only because I will leave so many pages of man’s destiny — if you will excuse the Gutenbergian image — tantalizingly unread. But perhaps, as I’ve tried to demonstrate in my examination of the postliterate culture, the story begins only when the book closes.”
“I expect to see the coming decades transform the planet into an art form; the new man, linked in a cosmic harmony that transcends time and space, will sensuously caress and mold and pattern every facet of the terrestrial artifact as if it were a work of art, and man himself will become an organic art form.”