I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I have written you a hundred letters,
each one folded into the quiet between breaths,
sealed with the weight of words
that never learned how to leave my mouth.”
Source: Saltwater & Smoke: Poems of Almosts, Goodbyes, and What We Leave Behind
“I have written, probably, more books for children than any other writer, from story-books to plays, and can claim to know more about interesting children than most.”
“I have wrote my name in hell,” Brian McFee had said as he was dying on the sawdust of the floor in the Bent Ridge Tavern.”
Source: Narrow Rooms
“I have wrought great use out of evil tools.”
“I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy To the boy who’s half a man, Or the man who’s half a boy.”
Source: The Lost World
“I have yet to be in a game where luck was involved.”
“I have yet to be in a game where luck was involved. Well-prepared players make plays. I have yet to be in a game where the most prepared team didn't win.”
“I have yet to begin my lesson, you wayward pupil. But, fear not, you will learn before sunrise.”
Source: Hiss, Rattle and Bite
“I have yet to discover a dish that will not come alive in the presence of champagne.”
“I have yet to discover a source of information, practical advice, and hope that compares to the wisdom found in the Bible.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“I have yet to do a job where I would really get to rock the great clothes. I'd love to do a job where I could wear Thom Browne.”
“I have yet to encounter that common myth of weak men, an insurmountable barrier.”
Source: The Choir Invisible
“I have yet to figure out a better way to combat hate than to love harder.”
“I have yet to figure out whether it is I am that am crazy, or the world.”
“I have yet to find a faithful tithe payer who cannot testify that in a very literal and wonderful way the windows of Heaven have been opened and blessings have been poured out upon him or her.”
“I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost.”
Source: The world of George Jean Nathan
“I have yet to find any support in the Bible for an attitude of smugness: Ah, they deserve their punishment; watch them squirm.”
“I have yet to find something that beats the power of being in love, or the power of music at its most magical.”
“I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.”
“I have yet to get sued. My father thinks I should get liability insurance.”
“I have yet to go through a struggle I didn't smile at later.”
“I have yet to have a successful outcome of sitting in a room with someone and trying to write a song. The way that I generally co-write is that someone else writes the music or part of the music.”
“I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.”
“I have yet to hear an instance where misfortune hit a man because he worked overtime. I know lots of instances where it hit men who did not.”
Source: Succeeding With What You Have
“I have yet to hear anyone afflicted with the "gun control" disability dial 9-1-1 and specify, "Now please be sure to send the kind of cops who are disarmed. If you can't do that, we'd rather you not send anyone at all to stop the men who are holding my daughter at knifepoint, because in this household we don't believe that guns ever solve anything."”
“I have yet to hear God's audible voice, although I have often felt led by God in more subtle ways.”
Source: Quiet Strength: A Memoir
“I have yet to hear of anyone who, on his deathbed, wished he'd spent more time at the office.”
“I have yet to learn that I am not designed to carry the burden of men. Rather, I am designed to carry the love of God so that I might soothe the burden of men.”
“I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appearances.”
Source: The Best of Confucius
“I have yet to meet a man who can quench my thirst. I'm looking for a man as strong as I am, stronger than meat, than liquor, a man brave as a frightened mother, with a heart hard as a tooth. The hearts of men are too easily stolen, they are not vigilant in guarding the gates of their ribs and my thieving fingers can always reach beneath the sternum and snatch it."
"What do you do with their hearts?"
"I eat them.”
“I have yet to meet a man who has seen my true stars.”
“I have yet to meet a person who has not felt betrayed.”
“I have yet to meet a person whose favorite movie is Gigli, but I hope to meet them one day and give them a hug.”
“I have yet to meet a single person from our culture, no matter what his or her educational background, IQ, and specific training, who had powerful transpersonal experiences and continues to subscribe to the materialistic monism of Western science.”
“I have yet to meet an English teacher who assigned a book to damage a kid.”
Source: A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life
“I have yet to meet anyone who was born into a body they are attracted to.”
Source: Subversive Acts of Humanity : A Survival Guide for Choosing Evolution over Self-Destruction
“I have yet to meet one widow who hasn't changed in monumental ways as she has coped with her loss. Most of us have gotten to the point where we are not the "pleasers" we once were. We say what we think, we realize that life is precious, and we don't have time to be anything less than who we really are.”
“I have yet to meet someone who was successful who was even slightly negative. That comes from a muscle training. You can work on negativity and weed it out of your life. I've noticed that all of the people who acted as if they were going to be gone too soon, were gone too soon.”
“I have yet to meet the famous Rational Economic Man theorists describe. Real people have always done inexplicable things from time to time, and they show no sign of stopping.”
“I have yet to met a liberal who can withstand the attrition of prolonged discussion of the unessentials.”
“I have yet to see a career that is similar in benefit as computer science for doing the advanced exercises.”
“I have yet to see a death case among the dozen coming to the Supreme Court on eve-of-execution stay applications in which the defendant was well represented at trial... People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.”
“I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and have a family. Women are nearly always seen as victims.”
“I have yet to see a fine photograph which is not a good document.”
“I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that does not have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular.”
“I have yet to see a serious act of violence that was not provoked by the experience of feeling shamed and humiliated, disrespected and ridiculed, and that did not represent the attempt to prevent or undo this ‘loss of face’—no matter how severe the punishment, even if it includes death.”
Source: Violence: Our Deadly Epidemic and Its Causes
“I have yet to see a successful prediction about the physical world that was inferred or extrapolated from the content of any religions document.”
Source: The Sky is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist
“I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.”
“I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for the animals-like Lassie.”
“I have yet to see one of those Comedy Central shows with multiple standup comics that doesn't include someone the size of the Hindenburg.”
Source: Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets