I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I have never known courage to be judged by the length of a man's hair. Or, for the matter of that, whether he has any hair at all.”
Source: The Book of Three: The Chronicles of Prydain
“I have never known more than fifteen minutes of anxiety or fear. Whenever I feel fearful emotions overtaking me, I just close my eyes and thank God that He is still on the throne reigning over everything and I take comfort in His control over the affairs of my life.”
“I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.”
“I have never known my husband to approve any act of mine which I myself valued.”
“I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.”
“I have never known stage-fright at any time.”
“I have never known the time when I did not wear stays. My stays are part of me.”
“I have never known what is Arabic or English, or which one was really mine beyond any doubt. What I do know, however, is that the two have always been together in my life, one resonating in the other, sometimes ironically, sometimes nostalgically, most often each correcting, and commenting on, the other. Each can seem like my absolutely first language, but neither is.”
Source: Out Of Place: A Memoir
“I have never known what to tell anybody. Except that it is better to do something than nothing, even if the cost is great.”
Source: Abhorsen
“I have never learned anything except from people younger than myself.”
Source: The letters of Oscar Wilde
“I have never learned how to tell somebody something good about myself; that should be a secret they must find out .”
Source: Enter Talking
“I have never learned to draw a hand well enough, so why should I stop trying now?”
Source: Jack Levine
“I have never learned to read or write music so I am not a virtuoso musician like the others you mentioned. I am completely unable to play like them because I never learned classical music, I just developed my own crazy style!”
“I have never learned to say 'gas' for gasoline. It seems to me as absurd as if I were to say 'but' for butter.”
Source: Tish: The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions
“I have never left another senator out to dry. Never.”
“I have never left the company. I keep a tiny residual salary to this day because that's where my loyalty should be forever. I want to be an "employee" on the company data base. I won't engineer, I'd rather be basically retired, due to my family. (talking about his relationship with Apple Inc)”
“I have never left this realm, but my feet have walked in many lands.”
Source: Fire & Ice: The Elementals
“I have never left you. And I never told you you couldn't go outside. Take your children and go outside and play and shop. Resume your life. What are you afraid of?”
Source: Until We All Come Home: A Harrowing Journey, a Mother's Courage, a Race to Freedom
“I have never let gender get in my way.”
“I have never let gender get in my way. It has taken me over 30 years to get from a garage to the huge campus that we have today. And it's been a long journey.”
“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
“I have never lied about my relationship with Bill Clinton. The only proven liar, at this point, and the only admitted liar, is Bill Clinton; not Gennifer Flowers, not Kathleen Willey, not Paula Jones and not Monica Lewinsky, at this point. He is the only proven liar.”
“I have never lied to the people. I have always told them to love themselves, to move their body, and to watch their portions. I never jumped on any other bandwagons for stupid diets or shots or pills or anything. I'm very worried about our young people. And we need to take care of them, or they're not going to live as long as their parents. And this is really something very important to me.”
“I have never lied to you, I have always told you some version of the truth.”
“I have never lied, “ Mr. Barris counters, standing as well. “I do not share what I am not at liberty to say. I gave my word and I intend to keep it but I have never lied to you. You never even asked me, you assumed I knew nothing.”
“I have never liked France or the French, and I have never stopped saying so. (15th February 1945)”
“I have never liked Morrissey, and I still don't. I think it's hilarious, actually, what things I've heard about him, what he's really like, and his public persona is so different. He's such an actor.”
“I have never liked sex. I do not think I ever will. It just seems the opposite of love.”
“I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”
“I have never listened to authority. It is not in my DNA.”
“I have never lived a life so much larger than death. (93)”
“I have never lived before...Until this summer, I did not know what it was to be alive.”
“I have never lived in Ireland, though I retain a sentimental sense of connexion with that poor bitch of a country.”
Source: A Severed Head
“I have never lived in New York City, but a lot of people think that I am a New Yorker, because I was embraced by the Downtown scene since the 1980s. For the record I was born and raised in Los Angeles, California.”
“I have never lived on principles. When I have had to act, I never first asked myself on what principles I was going to act, but I went at it and did what I thought fit. I have often reproached myself for my want of principle.”
“I have never lived the way I lived during my short time with you. For the first time in my life, I’ve felt whole, alive, free. You were the missing piece of my soul, the breath in my lungs, the blood in my veins. I think that if past lives are real then we have been lovers in every single one of them. I’ve known you for a short time, but I feel like I’ve known you forever”
“I have never looked at foreign countries or gone there but with the purpose of getting to know the general human qualities that are spread all over the earth in very different forms, and then to find these qualities again in my own country and to recognize and to further them.”
“I have never looked for dream in reality or reality in dream. I have allowed my imagination free play, and I have not been led astray by it.”
“I have never looked into my sister's eyes. I have never bathed alone. I have never stood in the grass at night and raised my arms to the beguiling moon. I’ve never used an airplane bathroom. Or worn a hat. Or been kissed like that. I’ve never driven a car. Or slept through the night. Never a private talk. Or a solo walk. I’ve never climbed a tree. Or faded into a crowd. So many things I’ve never done, but oh, how I’ve been loved. And, if such things were to be, I’d live a thousand lives as me, to be loved so exponentially.”
Source: The Girls
“I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves - this critical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty. The ideals that have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. Without the sense of kinship with men of like mind, without the occupation with the objective world, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific endeavors, life would have seemed empty to me. The trite objects of human efforts - possessions, outward success, luxury - have always seemed to me contemptible.”
“I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves - such an ethical basis I call more proper for a herd of swine. The ideals that have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face live cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness and Beauty. -Albert Einstein”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves. This ethical basis I call the ideal of the pigsty.”
Source: Ideas and Opinions
“I have never lost a minute praying. For the minutes given over to prayer always create hours given over to my life.”
“I have never lost a total passion for my work.”
“I have never lost faith in America's essential goodness and greatness.”
“I have never lost my faith in God.”
Source: 'Tis Herself: An Autobiography
“I have never lost my temper. I let out my venom in my writing if I have to, but person-to-person, I have never lost my temper, never used abusive language.”
“I have never loved a man as much as I have loved myself”
“I have never loved anyone for love's sake except, perhaps, Josephine - a little.”
“I have never loved anyone the way I loved you. I wish that I could do it again.”
Source: I Took a Plane to Die in Denver