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 seen a monument erected to a pessimist.”
“I have never seen a more lucid, more lonely, better balanced mad mind than mine.”
“I have never seen a newspaper headline where those in spirit, without physical bodies, carried out evil deeds like a mugger in a parking lot.”
Source: Cosmic Ordering Guide
“I have never seen a person no matter what age, look, ability, height, this or that be passionate about life and not be beautiful.”
Source: Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone
“I have never seen a player as driven and determined as me, quietly determined; that's why I always want to do the best.”
“I have never seen a proton or electron spinning around it. I have never actually seen a chromosome. I trust that they exist because people who I trust tell me they do.”
“I have never seen a river that I could not love. Moving water... has a fascinating vitality. It has power and grace and associations. It has a thousand colors and a thousand shapes, yet it follows laws so definite that the tiniest streamlet is an exact replica of a great river.”
“I have never seen a sight as moving as the fallen leaves bouncing in the wind.”
“I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.”
“I have never seen a thin person drinking Diet Coke.”
“I have never seen a work of fiction so perfectly capture the out-of-nowhere shock of discovering that you've just bricked something important because you didn't pay enough attention to a loose wire.”
“I have never seen a wrestling match or prize fight, and I don't want to. When I find out a man is interested in these sports, I drop him.”
“I have never seen an adequate description anywhere of the amazement, the uncomprehending horror of the bulk of the American people which preceded the firing of that gun at Sumter. Politicians or far-sighted leaders on both sides knew what was coming. And it is they who have written histories of the war. But to the easy-going millions, busied with their farms or shops, the onrushing disaster was as inexplicable as an earthquake. Their protest arose from sea to sea like the clamor of a gigantic hive of frightened bees.”
“I have never seen an angel. Show me an angel, and I'll paint one.”
“I have never seen an aurora. They happen in the arctic and antarctic circles normally, close to the north and south poles.”
“I have never seen an experienced programmer who routinely made detailed flow charts before beginning to write programs.”
“I have never seen any of my work, I can't watch it because I am ultra critical. We all have little mannerisms that people may love about us, but can be embarrassing. Perhaps we got teased about them as kids and we may not like them ourselves. That is what it is like for me, I can't look at myself on screen even if the audience loves what I am doing.”
“I have never seen any such quote anyplace, anywhere.”
“I have never seen anyone walk in a heavy anointing that has a spirit of levity.”
Source: Motivational Quotes by Vince Baker & Smith Wigglesworth: Victory & Success Is Just a Few Quotes Away
“I have never seen anyone who has ever benefited from mere wishing in life.”
“I have never seen anything like that before. He must have given his last three managers heart attacks. I like to see those sort of things - as long as they come from the other goalkeeper.”
“I have never seen battles quite as terrifyingly beautiful as the ones I fight when my mind splinters and races, to swallow me into my own madness, again.”
Source: Hush
“I have never seen either a drop of piety or a grain of truth or ingenuousness - nay, I have never found common sense in any Jew.”
Source: John Calvin's Commentaries On Daniel 1- 6 (Annotated Edition)
“I have never seen either angels or goddesses, so I am not interested in painting them.”
“I have never seen faces, but because I have looked people in the eye, only their gazes.”
“I have never seen genius without a touch of madness... and vice versa.”
Source: The Price of Creation
“I have never seen happier people than those who have repented.”
“I have never seen her face – yet she holds my heart with both hands.”
“I have never seen him sleep so deeply. Not even when he was just a babe. The slightest sound would wake him."
Surprise rippled through me as the hand under mine remained relaxed and still. "You knew him then?" I asked, completely unable to picture Ash as a babe.
"I knew his parents. I called them my friends, and I call Ash one of my own," he answered, head straightening. His gaze caught mine and held it. "I think I will call you one of my own."
"Because you've given him peace.”
Source: A Shadow in the Ember
“I have never seen homosexual chicken, or turkey.”
“I have never seen it (Jaws 4) but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built and it is terrific.”
“I have never seen more Senators express discontent with their jobs....I think the major cause is that, deep down in our hearts, we have been accomplices in doing something terrible and unforgivable to our wonderful country. Deep down in our heart, we know that we have given our children a legacy of bankruptcy. We have defrauded our country to get ourselves elected.”
“I have never seen myself as an alarmist but rather as a scientist with a critical viewpoint, and in that sense I have always been a skeptic. I have devoted most of my career to developing models for predicting the weather, and in doing so I have learned the importance of validating forecasts against observed weather. As a result, that's an approach I strongly favor for "climate predictions." It's essential to validate model results, especially when dealing with complex systems such as the climate. It's essential do so properly if such predictions are to be considered credible.”
“I have never seen myself as leading for others. What's important is that I know who I am. Not completely. But I'm coming around third base.”
“I have never seen one who really loves goodness or one who really hates wickedness. One who really loves goodness will not place anything above it. One who really hates wickedness will practice goodness in such a way that wickedness will have no chance to get at him. Is there anyone who has devoted his whole strength to doing good for even as long as a single day? I have not seen anyone give up such an attempt because he had not the strength to go on. Perhaps there is such a case, but I have never seen it.”
“I have never seen opponents so silent about their record, and so desperate to keep their power.”
“I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars.” Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. . . . Then he was sorry for the great fish that had nothing to eat and his determination to kill him never relaxed in his sorrow for him. . . . There is no one worthy of eating him from the manner of his behavior and his great dignity. I do not understand these things, he thought. But it is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.”
Source: The Old Man and the Sea
“I have never seen people who could do real work except under the stimulus of encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of the people for whom they are working.”
“I have never seen snow and do not know what winter means.”
“I have never seen so much male hotness in one place in my entire life,” Rach rasps. “I fucking love America.”
Source: Keeping Kyler
“I have never seen someone point after point that just gives it everything.”
“I have never seen something so bold, so beautiful, so blatantly wrong for me. She is a devil.
She is a deity. She is a man's downfall in human form. She is my downfall.”
Source: Powerless
“I have never seen such a perfectly formed animal. Beautiful and graceful like a gazelle, he burned hot and wild with the deserts of Egypt in his soul.”
“I have never seen such beauty as beholding a newborn baby.”
“I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the Constitution.”
“I have never seen the day when I was discouraged, as I could always see glorious blessings ahead.”
“I have never seen the Philosopher's Stone that turns lead into Gold, but I have known the pursuit of it turn a Man's Gold into Lead.”
Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac
“I have never seen the sea quiet round Treasure Island. The sun might blaze overhead, the air be without a breath, the surface smooth and blue, but still these great rollers would be running along all the external coast, thundering and thundering by day and night; and I scarce believe there is one spot in the island where a man would be out of earshot of their noise.”
Source: Collected Adventure Tales: Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Catriona, The Wrecker, The Ebbe-Tide, St Ives, Island Nights' Entertainments, The Adventure of the Hansom Cab and more (Illustrated Edition): The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses, The Adventure of Prince Florizel and a Detective, The Misadventures of John Nicholson, Adventures of David Balfour (Novels and short stories )
“I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.”
“I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of proof that there is a future life. And yet-I am inclined to expect one.”
Source: MARK TWAIN - The Man Behind the Humor: Complete Autobiographical Books & Biographies: The Complete Travel Books, Essays, Autobiographical Writings, Speeches & Letters, With Author’s Biography; The Innocents Abroad, Roughing It, Life on the Mississippi, What Is Man, Christian Science…