I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I have lost faith in universal panaceas - work is the one thing in which I really believe.”
Source: What the woman lived: selected letters of Louise Bogan, 1920-1970
“I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.”
“i have lost millions and millions
of words to fear.
tell me that is not violence”
Source: Salt
“I have lost my credibility as a hit maker because of these side excursions into other branches of music; by not being consistent. Consistency seems to be all-important.”
“I have lost my faith in goals. At one time, they were like a religion to me. But I am starting to realize that goals by themselves are nothing more than an arrow pointing in a certain direction. The real magic is in the systems you create.”
“I have lost my faith, but I gained the truth! It is not important at all to lose your candle as long as you find a torch!”
“I have lost my heart! … Fascism has rendered a service to the entire world.”
“I have lost my mother, my father, my five, and ninety relatives in Poland. Poland is for me a cemetery.”
“I have lost my oil and my labor. (Labored in vain.)
[Lat., Oleum et operam perdidi.]”
“I have lost my sense of understanding,
My intellect has lost all its intel,
Looking at you oh beloved,
My soul is spellbound.”
Source: The Inward Journey
“I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.”
“I have lost my smile, but don't worry. The dandelion has it.”
“I have lost my spark, I'm told, and should seek to rekindle it. Respecting the messenger, I wonder if this is true. I feel as if my spark endures, but having opened up to the world so bright, perhaps it no longer shines by comparison. So, without a word, I slip back into seclusion to nurture my beautiful inner glow.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“I have lost my voice to the thunders roaring inside me! I have lost to them my everything!”
“I have lost my way many times, but nature has always guided me home.”
Source: Slipping into another world
“I have lost silence, and the regret I feel over that is immeasurable. I cannot describe the pain that invades a man once he has begun to speak. It is a motionless pain that is itself pledged to muteness; because of it, the unbreathable is the element I breathe. I have shut myself up in a room, alone, there is no one in the house, almost no one outside, but this solitude has itself begun to speak, and I must in turn speak about this speaking solitude, not in derision, but because a greater solitude hovers above it, and above that solitude, another still greater, and each, taking the spoken word in order to smother it and silence it, instead echoes it to infinity, and infinity becomes its echo.”
Source: Death Sentence
“I have lost someone I loved as a brother, as a closest friend, and a remarkable human being. We have also lost one of the best damn actors we'll ever see.”
“I have lost the consolation of faith/ though not the ambition to worship”
Source: Torn Awake
“I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing.”
Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“I have lost the freedom of not having an opinion.”
“I have lost three semi-finals at Newlands. I was hoping that last year would be a lucky number three. It was close, but we could not make it.”
“I have lost tolerance for things without meaning. There is no time for them. Does that make sense? - Sara Seager”
Source: Five Billion Years of Solitude: The Search for Life Among the Stars
“I have lost track of the number of times when I chatted with DEI professionals or even diversity hires of different races and backgrounds who painfully told me that they are put in a position that makes them incapable of making any meaningful changes in their workplace. That their job is primarily to be tokenized and make the institution look and feel good, but in reality they – and any diverse person in their workplace – feel totally paralyzed in environments that look good, but are in fact extremely controlled by the few privileged at the top.
[From “The Trump Age: Critical Questions” published on CounterPunch on June 23, 2023]”
“I have lost weight because my events are so exciting. When I'm done I don't want to eat.But I could see how it could go the other way for some people. That's only because their events are boring.”
“I have lost you, Gat, because of how desperately, desperately I fell in love.”
Source: We Were Liars
“I have lot of respect of filmmakers who work in Telugu and Tamil.”
“I have lots of brothers and sisters, two of whom are younger than myself, so I rely on my phone, text messaging or e-mailing to stay in the loop and communicate when I'm away for big chunks of time.”
“I have lots of CDs that came out at one time or another, and according to the statements I've gotten, no one's buying them.I figured there's no need making a new CD. There are plenty of mine out there, and none of them are selling.”
“I have lots of desires - good body, nice skin, cute, beautiful, knows how to cook, concentrates on her work, a girl that's worth the respect.”
“I have lots of favorites movies. I say this only because it's a favorite movie because it's a sport I love. I'm a huge baseball fan. There are movies I like as much as this, but I sort of single this movie out because I'm a baseball nut, and that's 'Field of Dreams.'”
“I have lots of favorites. That's the trouble with books. You can never choose your favorite. It changes depending on your mood.”
Source: How to Find Love in a Bookshop
“I have lots of favourite memories but I can't say that I have a favourite film.”
“I have lots of fiction in the drawer, but the essays I mostly kick out into the world, ready or not. Fiction incubates differently, I suppose.”
“I have lots of friends and, like me, they're not married. So my kids have lots of godparents - men and women, gay and straight. My loft is always filled with people helping me out with them and loving them.”
“I have lots of friends. I mix with all sorts of people, of all generations.”
“I have lots of girlfriends - all over the country! You think I'm kidding? I'm dead serious. Girlfriends everywhere.”
“I have lots of heroes: anyone and everyone who does whatever they can to leave the natural world better than they found it.”
“I have lots of ideas and put pressure on myself to action them all. This can make life very busy so organisation can sometimes be crazy.”
“I have lots of ideas. The problem for me has always been which one to do.”
“I have lots of ideas. Trouble is, most of them suck.”
“I have lots of interests, but it's true that dancing is a very full-time job.”
“I have lots of memories of counting down the eight hours at work until I could go home!”
“I have lots of notebooks around, because one great advantage of writing by hand-in addition to how much it slows you down-is that it makes me write at the speed that I feel I should be composing, rather than faster than I can think, which is what happens to me on any keyboard.”
“I have lots of objects. Every object has a story, which makes me think I should write a story about every object.”
“I have lots of older siblings, and as they started to leave the house, I went from cooking once a week to twice, three times, and so on. After a while, it was just like making the bed.”
“I have lots of other mountains that I would like to climb. I have no dream of Everest, but there are some, like Mount Fuji, I'd like to do.”
“I have lots of passions - gardens, art, music and reading. I have eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books.”
“I have lots of plans for you, princess, and every single one ends with my fingers, tongue, or cock inside your sweet little cunt.”
Source: Twisted Games
“I have lots of records, quite a collection, actually, that I stole from my mom. I have the original 'Thriller' album and I have a really great 'Elton John's Greatest Hits,' and I also have a N.E.R.D. album. Records sound more original. They have more edge.”
“I have lots of Scottish blood and know that my family name is Scottish. At my home in the States I have a tartan crest but, unfortunately, I do a terrible Scottish accent.”