I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I have no nerves, no emotion, no pressure.”
“I have no next time, each moment is unique, different from every other moment, and many are wasted by my own indolence.”
Source: The invention of Morel
“I have no nostalgia for the patriarchy, please believe me. But what I have come to realize is that, when that patriarchic system was (rightfully) dismantled, it was not necessarily replaced by another form of protection. What I mean is--I never thought to ask a suitor the same challenging questions my father might have asked him, in a different age.”
Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims
“I have no notion of barbering and no idea what will happen if I cannot do the work. But I tell myself that after all it cannot be worse than dying…”
Source: The Last Jew of Treblinka
“I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.”
Source: Northanger abbey
“I have no notions of a perfect society, I don’t know what that means. I know we can do much better than what we’ve got, I’m no utopian, I’m not a humanist that would like to see everybody living in warmth and harmony: I know that if we don’t live that way, we’ll kill each other and destroy the Earth.”
“I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.”
“I have no objection to any person's religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or insult any other person, because that other person don't believe it also. But when a man's religion becomes really frantic; when it is a positive torment to him; and, in fine, makes this earth of ours an uncomfortable inn to lodge in; then I think it high time to take that individual aside and argue the point with him.”
“I have no objection to anyone's sex life as long as they don't practice it in the street and frighten the horses.”
“I have no objection to the concept of domestic partnership.”
“I have no objection to well-written romance, but I'd read enough of it to know that that's not what I had written. I also knew that if it was sold as romance I'd never be reviewed by the 'New York Times' or any other literarily respectable newspaper - which is basically true, although the 'Washington Post' did get round to me eventually.”
“I have no objection whatever to your representing me as a little eccentric, since you and your learned friends would have it so; only don't set me on in my fury to burning hearthrugs, sawing the backs off chairs, and tearing my wife's silk gowns... Had I been numbered amongst the calm, concentric men of the world, I should not have been as I now am, and I should in all probability never have had such children as mine have been.”
“I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work.”
“I have no one belonging to me or dependent on me. I am quite alone, and free to do what I like with my own - including my life!”
Source: The Jewel of Seven Stars
“I have no one else involved in the writing process. I would hate to feel that I was going into the studio with something wishy-washy and not done. It's because I'm a control freak, so I want to know that everything is sorted and what's going to come out the other end, obviously with a bit of leeway.”
“I have no one left to protect”
Source: Legend / Prodigy
“I have no one to blame for the construction for myself, of course, but I'm always surprised and slightly sulky when I realizeВ people are buying the whole thing.”
“I have no one to leave the money to. I'm a single man. I like spending my money.”
“I have no opinion. No, none at all. Opinion is politics, and politics is an evil which has caused many a fellow to be hung while he's still young and pretty.”
Source: Wizard and Glass
“I have no opposition at all to technology. I think technology is a wonderful thing that has to be used thoughtfully, and we can't just assume that every bit of new technology improvesthe quality of life; it's really in how the technology is used. What I am very disturbed about is this trend of everything happening faster and faster and faster and there being more and more general noise in the world, and less and less time for quiet reflection on who we are, and where we're going.”
“I have no other but a woman's reason: I think him so, because I think him so.”
“I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.”
“I have no other pictures of the world apart from those which express evanescence, and callousness, vanity and anger, emptiness, orhideous useless hate. Everything has merely confirmed what I had seen and understood in my childhood: futile and sordid fits of rage, cries suddenly blanketed by the silence, shadows swallowed up for ever by the night.”
“I have no other possessions of value but my soul.”
“I have no other real pleasure besides the analysis of my pain, nor any other sensual delight besides the morbid dribbling of sensations when they crumble and rot....”
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“I have no other self than the totality of the things of which I am aware.”
“I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.”
Source: Correspondence and miscellaneous papers relating to the American revolution. June, 1775, to July, 1776 (v. 3); July, 1776, to July, 1777 (v. 4); July, 1777, to July, 1778 (v. 5); July, 1778, to March, 1780 (v. 6); March, 1780, to April, 1781 (v. 7); April, 1781, to December, 1783 (v. 8)
“I have no other wish in this world but to find light and joy and peace through Hinduism.”
Source: Collected Works
“I have no particular career agenda.”
“I have no particular interest in antiquities or antiques, but I like things to meet a certain aesthetic.”
“I have no particular love for my species, but own to an exhaustless fund of compassion”
“I have no particular plan in life - and that's something I rather like. Most things that people do seem to me to be rather dull and silly. In my ideal life I'd be left alone to read”
Source: Dreamhunter
“I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive.”
“I have no parting sigh to give, so take my parting smile.”
Source: Poems from annuals
“I have no past--the steps have disappeared
the wind has blown them away.”
Source: God Lives: From Religious Fear to Spiritual Freedom
“I have no path, for I am the path.”
Source: Martyr Meets World: To Solve The Hard Problem of Inhumanity
“I have no patience at all.”
“I have no patience for anybody who doubts me, none at all.”
“I have no patience for anyone who thinks they've figured things out, no patience for people who think they're right at the expense of everyone else. The world is too connected and too complicated to conform to any of our rigid ideas of what it should be like.”
“I have no patience for those in the American Jewish community who just go around slandering people as anti-Semites without realizing that what they're doing is really trivializing anti-Semitism.”
“I have no patience for those who say that poverty is a blessing. Poverty is the greatest curse on earth.”
“I have no patience whatever with these gorilla damnifications of humanity.”
“I have no patience with anyone born after World War II. You have to explain everything to these people.”
“I have no patience with people who go around blowing up innocent people.”
“I have no patience with people who want to tell me what's wrong. I only want to hear from the person who first tells me the solution and then fills me in on the problem. I don't want to hear that your basement is flooded. I want to hear that you've found the number to the cleanup company. Then tell me why you're calling them.”
“I HAVE no patience with the hypothesis occasionally expressed, and often implied, especially in tales written to teach children to be good, that babies are born pretty much alike, and that the sole agencies in creating differences between boy and boy, and man and man, are steady application and moral effort. It is in the most unqualified manner that I object to pretensions of natural equality. The experiences of the nursery, the school, the University, and of professional careers, are a chain of proofs to the contrary.”
Source: Hereditary Genius: An Inquiry Into Its Laws and Consequences
“I have no patience with this dreadful idea that whatever you have in you has to come out, that you can't suppress true talent. People can be destroyed; they can be bent, distorted, and completely crippled. In spite of all the poetry, all the philosophy to the contrary, we are not really masters of our fate.”
“I have no patience with up-themselves authors who complain about having to trail round a few bookshops signing stock.”
“I have no patience with women who measure and weigh their love like a country doctor dispensing capsules. If a man is worth loving at all, he is worth loving generously, even recklessly.”
“I have no perfect panacea for human ills. And even if I had I would not attempt to present a system of philosophy between the soup and fish.”
Source: As it Seems to Me: Being Some Philistine Essays Concerning Several Things