I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I fear the future I wish for my children is at risk, so I'm taking action. Please join me.”
“I fear the Greeks, especially bearing gifts.”
Source: The Aeneid (Penguin Classics) [Paperback] [2003] (Author) Virgil, David West
“I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.”
“I fear the ire of men over the wraith of gods”
Source: Pennyrile Mint
“I fear the ire of men over the wrath of gods”
Source: Pennyrile Mint
“I fear the line between myself and madness is as fine these days as a cobweb, and I have seen what it means when a soul crosses over into that dim and wretched place.”
Source: Year of Wonders
“I fear the man who drinks water and so remembers this morning what the rest of us said last night”
“I fear the many faces, many personalities in me. Sometimes I fail to understand my self and become deceived by my various selves.”
“I fear the prayers of John Knox more than all the assembled armies of Europe”
“I fear the vast dimensions of eternity.
I fear the gap between the platform and the train.
I fear the onset of a murderous campaign.
I fear the palpitations caused by too much tea.
I fear the drawn pistol of a rapparee.
I fear the books will not survive the acid rain.
I fear the ruler and the blackboard and the cane.
I fear the Jabberwock, whatever it might be.
I fear the bad decisions of a referee.
I fear the only recourse is to plead insane.
I fear the implications of a lawyer’s fee.
I fear the gremlins that have colonized my brain.
I fear to read the small print of the guarantee.
And what else do I fear? Let me begin again.”
Source: Selected Poems | Ciaran Carson
“I fear the vermin that shall undermineSenate and citadel and school and shrine.”
“I fear the ‘Wet Dream’ of 5G satellite radiation is going to be a global biological disaster.”
“I fear theology is--in the words attributed to William Temple--"still in its infancy" when it comes to animals.”
“I fear there will be no future for those who do not change.”
Source: Jubal Sackett
“I fear this is not the right exchange to attain virtue, to exchange pleasures for pleasures, pains for pains and fears for fears, the greater for the less like coins, but that the only valid currency for which all these things should be exchanged is wisdom.”
“I fear those big words, Stephen said, which make us so unhappy.”
“I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets.”
“I fear to lose you more than losing my life, I wonder is there any difference between the two? My fears may be unfound but still I fear, And this fear is eating me to the point, That I can’t live without loving you even more…”
Source: Narcissistic Romanticism
“I fear uniformity. You cannot manufacture great men any more than you can manufacture gold.”
“I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death.”
Source: Forty Years on Main Street
“I fear very much for our kids, for low income people and for seniors.”
“I fear waking up one morning and finding out my life was all for nothing. We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark. When you're kind to someone in trouble, you hope they remember and are kind to someone else and so on. Soon it will be like a wildfire.”
“I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.”
Source: Goldwater from A to Z: a critical handbook
“I fear we are in danger of forgetting that to HAVE the Bible is one thing, and to READ it quite another.”
Source: Why Read the Bible Through & How Readest Thou?
“I fear we are in danger of losing this ability to laugh off the small stuff, and we are even closer to losing the ability to laugh at the big stuff. Comedians like Jerry Seinfeld and Chris Rock no longer perform on college campuses. Why? The PC culture has driven comedians away. In a 2015 interview, Seinfeld observed: ‘They just want to use these words: That’s racist. That’s sexist. That’s prejudice,’” he said. ‘They don’t know what the hell they’re talking about.’ Comedians are worried that they’ll offend an overly sensitive generation of students looking for any reason to be offended. This is deeply unfortunate, and not just for the sake of comedy.”
Source: Fortitude: American Resilience in the Era of Outrage
“I fear we have shot our bolt - but we have been to Pole and done the longest journey on record.”
Source: Journals: Captain Scott's Last Expedition
“I fear we may live to see another revolution.”
Source: The Political and Economic Doctrines of John Marshall
“I fear we might be losing the basic human facility to be alone - and with that you throw out independent decision-making, what to trust, what not to trust; key stuff - a perilous loss.”
“I fear we must use bad science to accomplish good politics.”
Source: A Darkling Sea
“I fear women who will do and say anything for attention and money. Who will hate you for calling them out. Who have plausible deniability. Who want to be correct all the time. Who never take any accountability. Who don't take no for an answer. Who always want their way. Those ones are dangerous and are capable of doing unspeakable shocking things.”
“I fear yet this iron yoke of outward conformity hath left a slavish print upon our necks: the ghost of a linnen decency yet haunts us.”
Source: Areopagitica
“I fear You and, yes, I love You: and yet I cannot believe. Why could You not let me believe, where so many believed? Or else, why could You not let me deride, as the remainder derided so noisily? O God, why could You not let me have faith? for You gave me no faith in anything, not even in nothingness. It was not fair.”
Source: Between Dawn and Sunrise
“I fear you do not fully comprehend the danger of abridging the liberties of the people. Nothing but the sternest necessity can ever justify it. A government had better go to the extreme of toleration, than to do aught that could be construed into an interference with, or to jeopardize in any degree, the common rights of its citizens.”
Source: State papers, 1861-1865
“I fear you may become a lonely man, even in the company of others.”
“I fear you think your strength lies in your darkness. But the measure of a man is not the fear he sows in his enemies. It is the hope he gives his friends.”
Source: Dark Age
“I fear you will never arrive at an understanding of God so long as you cannot bring yourself to see the good that often comes as a result of pain. For there is nothing, from the lowest, weakest tone of suffering to the loftiest acme of pain, to which God does not respond. There is nothing in all the universe which does not in some way vibrate within the heart of God. No creature suffers alone; He suffers with His creatures and through it is in the process of bringing His sons and daughters through the cleansing and glorifying fires, without which the created cannot be made the very children of God, partakers of the divine nature and peace.”
Source: The Marquis' Secret
“I fear your faith has been mis- placed—but then, faith usually is.”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“I fear, as any daughter would, losing myself back into the mother.”
Source: In My Mother's House
“I fear, the inevitable conclusion we must all come to is, that in the world happiness is quite indefinable. We can no more grasp it than we can grasp the sun in the sky or the moon in the water. We can feel it interpenetrating our whole being with warmth and strength; we can see it in a pale reflection shining elsewhere; or in its total absence, we, walking in darkness, learn to appreciate what it is by what it is not.”
“I feared disappointing my father more than anything in the world.”
“I feared for my very safety should I voice a preference for either side, such was the vehemence with which their respective beliefs were held. The gentle courtship of my vote was fast becoming a betrothal by force.”
Source: Calamity at Conclave
“I feared if I spoke I would no longer be happy, or would be so in a way that I did not want to be, and so I surrendered myself body and soul to the joy that was inundating my whole being and that I could see was mutual. My happiness so overwhelmed my senses that it reached the point where nature, drowning in supreme pleasure, exhausts itself. For the space of a minute I remained motionless, in intellectual contemplation and adoration of my own apotheosis.
Sight and touch, which I had thought must be the main characters in this drama, played only secondary roles. My eyes desired no greater happiness than to remain fixed on the face of the creature charming them, while my touch, limited to my fingertips, feared to move, since it could conceive of no greater sensation.”
Source: The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt 1725 - 1798
“I feared making mistakes, but then I realized perfection is just a well-polished error.”
“I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with.”
Source: Assassin's Quest: The Farseer Trilogy
“I feared my soul was dying, being replaced by the monster I would become.”
Source: Fruit of Misfortune
“I feared putting a child through more pain than I had gone through. Yet the more I tried to avoid acting like the men in my childhood, the more them I seemed to become.”
Source: Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains
“I feared Sarah was one of those women who instead of laughing said, "That's funny," or instead of smiling said, "That's interesting," or instead of saying, "You are a stupid blithering idiot," said, "Well I think it's a little more complicated than that.”
Source: A Gate at the Stairs
“I feared that if I let him, it would be the final push over a ledge I had been precariously hovering on since the day I had first laid eyes on him.”
Source: Tragedy and Desire
“I feared that you were the destined heir to the Secret Scroll because of the prophecy."
"What prophecy?" Catty hated the tremor that had crept into her voice.
"Only the child of a fallen goddess and an evil spirit will inherit the Scroll, Zoe recited.
Catty's heart sunk. Her mother was a Follower, her father an evil member of the Inner Circle. She suddenly felt damned. How could she overcome such a birthright?
Zoe took Catty's hand. "You must never worry that you are evil because of your heritage. The manuscript can only be given to someone with a pure heart and the strength to fight the Atrox.”
Source: The Secret Scroll
“I feared the defining point of this Hell was its unrelenting uniformity, its lack of variation from type. If there was a heaven at the end of this, it must be filled with great variety, perhaps a multiplicity of intelligent species spread across universes. Yes, heaven would be as full of difference as Hell was of sameness.”
Source: A Short Stay in Hell