I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me.”
Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.”
Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“I gave him my Order smile: sweet grin, hard eyes, reached over to my passenger seat, and pulled out my submachine gun. About twenty-seven inches long, the HK was my favorite toy for close-quarters combat. The rider’s eyes went wide.
“This is an HK UMP submachine gun. Renowned for its stopping power and reliability. Cyclic rate of fire: eight hundred rounds per minute. That means I can empty this thirty-round clip into you in less than three seconds. At this range, I’ll cut you in half.” It wasn’t strictly true but it sounded good. “You see what it says on the barrel?”
On the barrel, pretty white letters spelled out PARTY STARTER.”
Source: Gunmetal Magic
“I gave him the qualities I personally admire in either sex—intelligence, courage but not foolhardiness, sensitivity but not sentimentality, and reticence.”
“I gave in to a deep and healthy laughter that must have added ten years to my life and given birth to a thousand blue butterflies somewhere in the world.”
Source: Even Skyscrapers Must End: A Neon Dream
“I gave in to life. I was not defeated but outplayed.”
“I gave in to sadness because I had no choice.”
Source: Gather Together in My Name
“I gave in to the weight around me. I’d become the Lady of the Lake without Excalibur, the damsel in distress without the prince to save her, Dorothy without her slippers or Alice without her “drink me” potion. Fantastic dreams weaved into amazing tales of triumph over obstacles. I was not triumphant over anything. I was a coward.”
Source: Falling Out of Focus
“I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.”
Source: Yours, Jack: The Inspirational Letters of C. S. Lewis
“I gave in, and admitted that God was God.”
“I gave it all that I had, and it's gratifying that others seem to be receiving it so well.”
“I gave it everything in the last 20 minutes. I knew that I still had the energy, that I was ahead of the mark. I felt euphoric — it was the last 20 minutes of my sporting career.”
“I gave it my body and mind, but I have kept my soul.”
“I gave life, and that is beautiful.”
“I gave more than I had, more than they asked for and definitely more than they deserved.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“I gave my all, I gave my best...
Even when my heart begged for rest. "
- from my upcoming poetry book TOO AWAKE TO SLEEP”
“I gave my artistic laugh and also threw in some quirky language for good measure. "Lawks-a-mercy, no! I'm going to have a long bath and..." I looked shyly down. Which is pretty impressive to have done artistic laugh, quirky language and shyness all in the space of ten seconds.”
“I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.”
“I gave my decisions on the principles of common justice and honesty between man and man, and relied on natural born sense, and not on law, learning to guide me; for I had never read a page in a law book in all my life.”
Source: A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett, of the State of Tennessee
“I gave my eardrums to MGM. And it's true: I really did.”
“I gave my father a heart attack. It was a practical joke. Come on, you push a guy's face in a cake he's got to clean it off. You hit a guy with a water balloon, he's got to dry off. Guy's in the hospital, you get his testicles shaved, he scratches and bleeds for a week... it's funny... you're not supposed to have a heart attack, it kills the joke.”
“I gave my genius to my life, but my talent to my art.”
“I gave my girlfriend something she didn't expect for Valentine's day... Chlamydia.”
“I gave my heart to a man who loved me, who wanted to be with me. Who ultimately was afraid of all I offered.
I didn’t understand why he sabotaged our future at the time – cheating on me, again, as we were making final plans to move in together. By the time he came over to smooth talk his way out of it, I was done. No more crying. Even my tears had given up on him. I’d already moved on, his cheating was simply the key left in the mailbox.”
Source: Broken Pieces
“I gave my heart to Jesus when I was five-years-old and since then it's been a special relationship. To me it's not a religion; it's just talking to God, reading his word, and doing my best to honor him in everything I do.”
“I gave my heart to Jesus. I accepted him as my Lord and Savior, started reading the Bible, started going to a church (and) started a relationship with Jesus.”
“I gave my heart to the mountains the minute I stood beside this river with its spray in my face and watched it thunder into foam, smooth to green glass over sunken rocks, shatter to foam again. I was fascinated by how it sped by and yet was always there; its roar shook both the earth and me.”
Source: The Sound of Mountain Water: The Changing American West
“I gave my hero a talent I'd love to have. Who wouldn't want to fly?”
“I gave my jersey to Mourinho because he’s the best coach in the world and I love him like a father.”
“I gave my life for freedom-This I know;
For those who bade me fight had told me so.”
“I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?”
“I gave my life to Christ about 1991.”
“I gave my life to learning how to live. Now that I have organized it all ... it's just about over.”
“I gave my life to the Group Theatre, because in it I'm building something for myself. What I build, I am.”
“I gave my life to the Lord at 12. I was baptized at 12.”
“I gave my mother a matching set [of mugs] for Christmas, and she accepted them as graciously as possible, announcing that they would make the perfect pet bowls. The mugs were set on the kitchen floor and remained there until the cat chipped a tooth and went on a hunger strike.”
Source: Me Talk Pretty One Day
“I gave my parole once, and it has been shamefully violated by the British Government; I shall not give another to people on whom no faith can be reposed.”
“I gave my players a version of the same message at ten-to-three every Saturday: 'I would shoot my granny right now for three points this afternoon.' They knew how important it was to give everything in the cause of victory. Every time. That's why my granny enjoyed more lives than my cat.”
“I gave my son a brief history of the pledge of allegiance. He asked a few questions and I answered them (with a Google check or two on my phone). Then he took a deep breath and said, “Mom, I don’t think I should say the pledge of allegiance anymore. Would that be okay?” All activists want their kids to magically turn into badass activists, but I wanted to make sure that this was a decision my son had come to after some thought, and that he had the reasoning to be able to defend that decision. I asked him why he didn’t want to say the pledge. “Because I’m an atheist, so I don’t like pledging under god. I don’t believe in pledging to countries, I think it encourages war. And I don’t think this country treats people who look like me very well so the ‘liberty and justice for all’ part is a lie. And I don’t think that every day we should all be excited about saying a lie.”
“I gave my son a lavishly illustrated edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland for his fourth birthday, and it did not take very long for me to realize that this was a gift for me, not for him. As Alice engaged in repartee with a dodo early in the book, my son became bored. Alice’s bewilderment and disorientation, which I had anticipated might speak to my son’s experience of being a child in an adult’s world, spoke instead to my own experience navigating the world of information. Being lost in Wonderland is what it feels like to learn about an unfamiliar subject, and research is inevitably a rabbit hole. I fell down it, in my investigation of immunization, and fell and fell, finding that it was much deeper than I anticipated. Like Alice, I fell past shelves full of books, more than I could ever read. Like Alice, I arrived at locked doors. “Drink me,” I was commanded by one source. “Eat me,” I was told by another. They had opposite effects - I grew and shrank, I believed and did not believe. I cried and then found myself swimming in my own own tears.”
Source: On Immunity: An Inoculation
“I gave my whole heart up, for him to hold.”
Source: The Canterbury tales
“I gave my wife a gift certificate for Christmas. She ran out to exchange it for a bigger size.”
“I gave my wife a kiss this morning. She jumped out of bed and did a lap of honour.”
“I gave my wife a twenty-five-dollar gift certificate. She used it as a down payment on a mink coat.”
“I gave my word that this source would not be identified unless he changed his mind. He has not...”
“I gave my youth to humanity, the most precious gift anybody could offer - but I am not asking you to do the same - all I am asking is step up wherever you see injustice - step up wherever you see bigotry - step up wherever you see savagery.”
Source: Hurricane Humans: Give me accountability, I'll give you peace
“I gave myself a mental shake. Snapping out of a slump, that was what today was all about.”
Source: Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set
“I gave myself an objective, to be the second president from Correze and finally to be the successor to Francois Mitterrand.”
“I gave myself over to music and art a long time ago, so I don't get to relax and I don't get to sit still. The best I can do is constantly create my own environment so it benefits what I need to accomplish in the next step.”
“I gave myself permission to care, because there are a lot of people in this world who are afraid of caring, who are afraid of showing they care because it’s uncool. It’s uncool to have passion. It’s so much easier to lose when you’ve shown everyone how much you don’t care if you win or lose. It’s much harder to lose when you show that you care, but you’ll never win unless you also stand to lose. I’ve said it before. Don’t be afraid of your passion, give it free reign, and be honest and work hard and it will all turn out just fine.”