I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I have seen what is to come in this world and I understand how I fit in. I fit in protecting the animals because many more are to die before we all stand up. I see who I have become because I had to die to be able to let go of consciousness.”
“I have seen what power does to people. And I have seen how those who pledge loyalty come to resent their oaths and wish for the destruction of the one who holds them. I was never less free than when I ruled.”
Source: The Stolen Heir
“I have seen white settlers in Africa who had sworn that they would never sit down to table with those "smelly blacks" sit down quite happily with half-nude tribesmen once a country achieves independence. It is the context of power which changes behavior and transmutes antipathy into sympathy.”
Source: Home and exile and other selections
“I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.”
Source: Kidnapped: Stevenson's Vol. 23
“I have seen with my own eyes how the pope was carried on the shoulders of the princes, with all the pomp, being adored in the streets by the surrounding people.”
“I have seen without perceiving I have been another man Let me pierce the realm of glamour So I know just what I am.”
Source: Lit Up Inside: Selected Lyrics
“I have seen women looking at jewelry ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they're feeling because that's how I read the seed catalogs in January.”
Source: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating
“I have seen women walk right past a TV set with a football game on and - this always amazes me - not stop to watch, even if the TV is showing replays of what we call a "good hit," which is a tackle that causes at least one major internal organ to actually fly out of a player's body.”
Source: The Greatest Invention in the History of Mankind Is Beer: And Other Manly Insights from Dave Barry
“I have seen yoga teachers, almost in frenzy, looking for something new; new postures, breathing exercises, styles of yoga, teachers and so on. But what are they really searching for? Escape from boredom.”
Source: Create a Safe Space: An Inspirational Guidebook for Yoga Teachers Who want to Further Serve their Students
“I have seen you give him looks and smiles this very night, such as you never give to—me."
"Do you want me then," said Estella, turning suddenly with a fixed and serious, if not angry look, "to deceive and entrap you?"
"Do you deceive and entrap him, Estella?"
"Yes, and many others—all of them but you.”
Source: Great Expectations
“I have seen your
darkest nights
and brightest days
and I want you to know
that I will be here
forever
loving you
in dusk.”
Source: Love Her Wild
“I have seen your despatch expressing your unwillingness to break your hold where you are. Neither am I willing. Hold on with a bull-dog gripe, and chew & choke, as much as possible.”
“I have seen your disregard for other's hearts. I would not choose to trust you with mine”
Source: Once Bitten
“I have seen your face. Just not in this place. Somewhere in space. Full of galaxies - Flashback”
Source: Coming Home
“I have seen your heart, and it is mine.”
“I have seen youths bright eyed and fair groping after bubbles in rapture, and conceiving them diamonds and the glitter of fine jewels, until their hand closed over a something that was not to be felt nor longer seen, mere colored air.”
“I have seen Yunho for 6 years, I know everything about him from his personality to his body.”
“I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.”
“I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged not only journalism but also democracy and truth.”
Source: The Republican Noise Machine: Right-Wing Media and How It Corrupts Democracy
“I have seen, the desperation and disorder of the powerless: how it twists the lives of children on the streets of Jakarta or Nairobi in much the same way as it does the lives of children on Chicago 's South Side.”
Source: Dreams From My Father
“I have seized the light. I have arrested its flight.”
“I have seldom been able to resist the allurement of a bookstore, particularly one that is well supplied with rare and exotic items.”
Source: The Hunters from Beyond
“I have seldom been described as shy.”
“I have seldom known a person who deserted the truth in trifles and then could be trusted in matters of importance.”
“I have seldom seen much ostentation and much learning met together.”
Source: The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works; Miscellaneous theology
“I have seldom seen much ostentation and much learning met together. The sun, rising and declining, makes long shadows; at mid day, when he is highest, none at all.”
Source: Select Tracts from the Writings of the ... Rev. J. Hall
“I have seldom written a story, long or short, that I did not have to write and rewrite. There are single stories of mine that have taken me ten or twelve years to get written.”
Source: THE
“I have seldom written poetry unless I was rather out of health.”
“I have seldom, if ever, seen money and gentleness go hand in hand.”
Source: Peyton Place
“I have selective hearing.”
“I have self-actualized. Pardon me whilst I adjust my glowing halo.”
“I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I'm like, 'My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don't have it. I just want to chill.' We all have self-doubt. You don't deny it, but you also don't capitulate to it. You embrace it.”
“I have sensed the change and maturity leading me to the path of evolution. I observed the veins during suffering and pleasure. It's here inside me. I am me. I am me.
”
“I have sensitive skin, so I don't use regular razors. The Yankees make us stay cleanly shaven!”
“I have sent for you that you may see how a Christian may die.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Joseph Addison, Gay's Fables, and Somerville's Chase: With Memoirs and Critical Dissertations
“I have sent you nothing but angels”
Source: When God Steps In, Miracles Happen
“I have serious concerns about whether it's prudent to give any foreign country substantial leverage over the U.S. economy. Instead of spending $80 billion on important programs here at home, we're sending this money overseas just to pay interest on our debt.”
“I have serious problems with fundamentalist Christians and their creationist theories. Although I believe that scripture is divinely inspired and infallible, I have a hard time going along with the belief that the whole creation process occurred in six twenty-four hour days. My skepticism is due, in part, to the fact that the Bible says that the sun wasn’t created until the fourth day of creation (Genesis 1:16-19). I have a hard time figuring how twenty-four hour days could have been measured before that.”
“I have seriously thought about retiring, but that was on a good day. On a bad day I've thought about killing myself.”
“I have served a sufficiently long sentence. I am not asking for a pardon of my conviction.”
“I have served in the Congress during two wars and I have seen the impacts on our military, on their families and on our national deficit.”
“I have served many long and lonely years aboard ship in war zones, and the only thing that kept me sane during all that enforced loneliness was my access to a good library in which I read, literally, every book on the shelves, even textbooks, and which gave me access to other worlds no way open to me.”
“I have served one idea, marched under one banner - war against all imposed authority - against every kind of deprivation of freedom, in the name of the absolute independence of the individual.”
“I have served the Liberal cause for twenty-two years. That ought to be long enough for anyones lifetime.”
Source: Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage
“I have set a standard, and I'm going to stick to the standard. I may have been able to grow faster and maybe my business could have been bigger, but because I really feel very serious about my subject, I really want to be hands-on.”
“I have set and always will set my face like flint against making any difference between one citizen of this country and another on grounds of his origin.”
“I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die.”
“I have set my mind to make sure I am prepared to accept success, whatever the trials ahead, whatever the work required.”
Source: The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
“I have set off and found that there is no end to even the simplest journey of the mind. I begin, and straight away a hundred alternative routes present themselves. I choose one, no sooner begin, than a hundred more appear. Every time I try to narrow down my intent I expand it, and yet those straits and canals still lead me to the open sea, and then I realize how vast it all is, this matter of the mind. I am confounded by the shining water and the size of the world.”
Source: Sexing the Cherry
“I have set up several businesses as social businesses, and I am a great believer that the power of business should be used for good.”