I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I have watched how steadily the general feeling, as shown at elections, has been rising against Slavery. What a proud thing for England if she is the first European nation which utterly abolishes it! I was told before leaving England that after living in slave countries all my opinions would be altered; the only alteration I am aware of is forming a much higher estimate of the negro character.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)
“I have watched hundreds of Christians in my time become financially blessed then develop an acquisitive streak that in turn makes their souls as metallic as the coins they seek.”
“I have watched lives change. I have seen women gain confidence.”
“I have watched patients stand and gaze longingly toward the city they in all likelihood will never enter again. It means liberty and life; it seems so near, and yet heaven is not further from hell”
Source: The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)
“I have watched people come to revival meetings burdened, broken, and hopeless, and then leave completely transformed. The difference is undeniable—their eyes are brighter, their posture changes, and their spirit is lighter because Jesus set them free.”
Source: Unlock Your Deliverance: Keys to Freedom From Demonic Oppression
“I have watched people who have nothing to do with the film business, but who have become part of the circle for a short period of time. They can be truly devastated when the film wraps and people leave.”
“I have watched the river and the sea for a lifetime. I have seen rivers rob soil from the roots of trees until the giants came foundering down. I have watched shores slip and perish, the channels silt and change; what was beach become a swamp and a headland tumble into the sea. An island has eroded in silent pain since my boyhood, and reefs have become islands. Yet the old people used to say, People pass away, but not the land. It remains forever. Maybe that is so. The land changes. The land continues. The sea changes. The sea remains.”
Source: The Bone People: A Novel
“I have watched the tears of frustration of a stroke victim or the autistic child who struggles to communicate a need or thought, but no one understands. Eventually, the soul grows quiet and gives up. At every stage of life, and in every circumstance, we search for someone who understands what we are going through.”
Source: A Prayer Journey Through Deployment
“I have watched them all day and they are the same men that we are. I believe that I could walk up to the mill and knock on the door and I would be welcome except that they have orders to challenge all travelers and ask to see their papers. It is only orders that come between us. Those men are not fascists. I call them so, but they are not. They are poor men as we are. They should never be fighting against us and I do not like to think of the killing.”
“I have watched this famous island descending incontinently, fecklessly, the stairway which lead to a dark gulf.”
Source: Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches
“I have watched you wildly bloom
As your petals unfolded with thorns
I got drunk on your perfume
I bled against your thorn
But loved you even more”
“I have watchedmany literary fashions shoot up and blossom, and then fade and drop.... Yet with the many that I have seen comeand go, I have never yet encountered a mode of thinking that regarded itself as simply a changing fashion, and not as an infallible approach to the right culture.”
“I have way too many candles. Theres always a candle burning at home.”
“I have way too many commitments. I get pulled in too many directions and I never seem to be able to satisfy anybody. People get turned on by knowing a celebrity, even my friends and family. They feel that there's something exciting about me, but in reality there's no substance to it. People in airports just hold on to me expecting something and it seems that I always come up empty. It's frustrating because I'm trying to please everybody, and ya just can't do that ... at least I can't.”
“I have way too many songs that have music but don't have lyrics.”
“I have way too much going on, as usual, but fortunately it's all good stuff. I'm not complaining.”
“I have ways of making extra money when I need it", he said, slightly offended. "When Gilbert needed money for graduate school, I sold a kidney on the black market for tuition."
We can grow those back?" I asked.
It wasn't my kidney.”
Source: Nice Girls Don't Date Dead Men
“I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.”
“I have weapons of self-defense. They’re called jokes.”
Source: Eggs, they’re not just for breakfast
“I have weathered many different storms and I know who I am and my friends know who I really am.”
“I have wept for my nation until I am out of tears. Not from a personal depression, but with the deepest grief and sorrow as one might have for a dying loved one who lays helplessly in the hospital. The patient in this case is our nation, America, but she is not so much ill as she is being euthanized...And so, being presently out of tears for the moment, I take up the pen.”
“I have what doctors call a little bit of a weight problem.”
“I have what I call A-list moments, but believe me, I'm still on the D-list.”
“I have what I call an iron prescription that helps me keep sane when I naturally drift toward preferring one ideology over another and that is: I say that I'm not entitled to have an opinion on this subject unless I can state the arguments against my position better than the people who support it. I think only when I've reached that state am I qualified to speak. This business of not drifting into extreme ideology is a very, very important thing in life”
“I have what I came to find in my research is a mild form of synesthesia, though I never would have labeled it as such. It's how I think about numbers and letters. They all have inherent genders.”
“I have what I guess is medically known as a farting problem.”
“I have what I have now because I sacrificed a lot. Dedication, hard work all the time, and belief.”
“I have what I like to call a 'chinneck.' My chin just flows rather easily into my neck.”
“I have what it takes to get the work done.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“I have what passes for an education in this day and time, but I am not deceived by it.”
“I have what takes to get the job done.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“I have what you might call the South Pole and the North Pole. I have my team and my work, which I do on one side, and I have my family and my home on the other side. Both have nothing really to do with each other.”
“I have whispered your name reverently in darkness,
More than a prayer,
My faith in you goes beyond that of prayer.”
Source: Ouroboros Thoughts
“I have willed
To forgive
What made me bleed.”
Source: Where Written Words Remain: Route to My Soul
“I have willpower and determination. I am very resilient, like rock.”
“I have wined and dined with kings and queens and I’ve slept in alleys and dined on pork and beans.”
“I have wings on the back of my shoulders,
and I'm ready to fly.”
Source: Ronit & Jamil
“I have wisdom of a 60-year-old. Also it takes a lot for me to respect a person, so when a person has a body of work behind him, it draws my respect.”
“I have wisdom. I feel love. I live in the present and I try to present a dimension that brings harmony and healing.”
“I have wished a bird would fly away,
And not sing by my house all day.”
Source: The Notebooks of Robert Frost
“I have wished a bird would fly away,
And not sing by my house all day;
Have clapped my hands at him from the door
When it seemed as if I could bear no more.
The fault must partly have been in me.
The bird was not to blame for his key.
And of course there must be something wrong
In wanting to silence any song.”
Source: The Notebooks of Robert Frost
“I have wished to see chemistry applied to domestic objects, to malting, for instance, brewing, making cider, to fermentation and distillation generally, to the making of bread, butter, cheese, soap, to the incubation of eggs, &c.”
Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson
“I have wished you dead and myself dead. How could it be otherwise. I have broken into you like a burglar. And you've set your dogs on me. And a pile of broken sticks. A child could kick. I have climbed you like a monument, gasoing, For the exercise and the view, And leaned over the railing at the top... Strong and warm, the summer wind.”
“I have wished you something None of the others would.”
Source: The Less Deceived
“I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way”
“I have with me all that I do not knowI have lost none of it.”
“I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.”
“I have withdrawal pains about not getting to work the people (on the show).”
“I have withdrawn myself from the confusion of cities and multitudes, and spend my days surrounded by wise books, bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.”
Source: The Island of Dr. Moreau
“I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.”