I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I hold the gun out from my body, my arms straight, just as Four taught me, when that was his only name. I used a gun like this to defend my father and brother from simulation-bound Dauntless. I used it to stop Eric from shooting Tobias in the head. It is not inherently evil. It is just a tool.”
“I hold the key to his heart right here." He lifted a briefcase from his side to show her. "All we have to do is wind it up again.”
Source: Beauty and Other Dangerous Things
“I hold the Key to my Own Success! (You do too!)”
“I hold the line, the line of strength that pulls me from the fear.”
“I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.”
Source: Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States
“I hold the most archaic values on earth ... the fertility of the soul, the magic of the animals, the power-vision in solitude.... the love and ecstasy of the dance, the common work of the tribe.”
“I hold the precepts of Jesus as delivered by Himself, to be the most pure, benevolent and sublime which have ever been preached to man.”
Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont
“I hold the ratchet unorthodox. Pernell Whittaker, I'm duckin' all sorts of shots”
“I hold the record for signing the most boobs in my band.”
“I hold the value of life is to improve one's condition. Whatever is calculated to advance the condition of the honest, struggling laboring man, so far as my judgment will enable me to judge of a correct thing, I am for that thing.”
Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln
“I hold the view that death is rather like changing one's clothes when they are torn and old. It is not an end in itself. Yet death is unpredictable-you do not know when and howT it will take place.”
“I hold the view that the alchemist’s hope of conjuring out of matter the philosophical gold, or the panacea, or the wonderful stone, was only in part an illusion, an effect of projection; for the rest it corresponded to certain psychic facts that are of great importance in the psychology of the unconscious. As is shown by the texts and their symbolism, the alchemist projected what I have called the process of individuation into the phenomena of chemical change.”
Source: The Collected Works of C. G. Jung
“I hold the view that the World Spirit has given the times the order to advance; such an order is obeyed; this being strides forward like an armored, firmly closed phalanx, irresistibly and as imperceptibly as the sun moves, through thick and thin; it is flanked by innumerable light troops for and against it; most of them have no idea of what is at stake, and only get knocked on over the head, as if by an invisible hand. All the hesitant fibbing and sophisticated shadow boxing in the world is of no help against it; it can only reach about as high as the shoelaces of this colossus and smear a bit of mud or shoe polish on them, but it cannot loosen them, much less remove the divine shoes with the elastic soles or the seven-league boots, if the colossus puts them on. The safest game (both inwardly and outwardly) is, I dare say, to keep one's eye on the advancing giant.”
“I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano!”
“I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.”
“I hold the world speed record downhill, in a Rover. I think it was 17 kilometers per hour, downhill.”
“I hold theatre acting in such high esteem that it scares me.”
“I hold their hands, wipe tears from their eyes and snot from their faces, and love them as my own. This is the side of teaching they don’t tell you about—the side that makes the headaches, heartaches, and the dual caffeine-wine addiction worth it.”
Source: Burning Sage
“I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.”
“I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other.”
Source: Letters to a Young Poet
“I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each shall stand guard over the solitude of the other. For, if it lies in the nature of indifference and of the crowd to recognize no solitude, then love and friendship are there for the purpose of continually providing the opportunity for solitude. And only those are the true sharings which rhythmically interrupt periods of deep isolation.”
Source: Selected Letters
“I hold those wise who know how to be happy.”
“I hold tightly to the string,
So that I forget not one thing.
Searing each passage into my existence, Curving fate with my insistence.”
Source: Strings of Fate
“I hold to faith in the divine love - which, so many years ago for a brief moment in a little corner of the earth, walked about as a man bearing the name of Jesus Christ - as the foundation
on which alone my happiness rests.”
“I hold to my conviction that, once this path of mutual understanding and consideration has been taken, more will come of it in the end than through ever so extensive pacts inherently lacking in clarity.”
“I hold to no God," Roland said. "I hold to the Tower, and won't pray to that.”
Source: The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah
“I hold to nothing but envisioning international peace and utopia. We all have many more things in common than not.”
“I hold to the idea that civility, understood as the willingness to engage in public discourse, is the first virtue of citizens.”
“I HOLD TO THE 'NAUGHTY' IN ANY TUG-OF-WAR”
Source: The Fearless Moral Inventory of Elsie Finch
“I hold too that whatever may be true of other countries, a bloody revolution will not succeed in India.”
Source: Collected Works
“I hold truth in the highest regard and view lies with contempt. Yet, human nature resists truth, for it pierces the soul and unsettles the mind. Lies, being gentle and agreeable, find easier acceptance. Thus, the wise and the rational often embrace silence, knowing that in a world hostile to truth, words are seldom welcome.”
“I hold up my middle finger and keep my eyes forward. Not that I don't like Liam, but I'm still pissed at Xaden for assigning him.
Liam snorts and grins, flashing his dimple. 'And now he's glaring. Tell me, is it fun pissing off the most powerful rider in the quadrant?'
'You could try it yourself and find out,' I suggest, opening my notebook to the next empty page. I can't turn around. I won't. Wanting Xaden is fine. It has to be. Indulging the impulses it gives me? That's asinine.
'That's going to be a no from me.”
Source: Fourth Wing
“I hold we cannot be said to be aware of our minds save under responsibility.”
Source: The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Other Novels, 1926-1948
“I hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great political wrong”
“I hold with the old-fashioned criticism that Browning is not really a poet, that he has all the gifts but the one needful and the pearls without the string; rather one should say raw nuggets and rough diamonds.”
Source: Selected Letters
“I hold you within my heart.”
Source: The Holy Bible: King James Version
“I hold, as an article of faith, that the worth of an organisation can be accurately measured as the reciprocal of how many Hollywood beautiful people it attracts. It has never failed me yet.”
“I hold, that in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual.”
Source: Lincoln on the Civil War: Selected Speeches
“I hollowed out, stopped listening to music, never picked up a pencil, started slipping into old habits. All of the vibrancy I used to see became de-saturated. Lost Slowly, once I had done enough damage to myself, I began to climb out of the hole. Clean. When I made it out, the only thing left inside was the voice, and for the second time in my life, I no longer ignored it - because it was my own.”
“I homeschool my children not to prepare them for tests but to prepare them for life.”
“I honed my fraud research techniques at the dangerous Desoto Solar Farm.”
“I honestly and truly love and believe in what I'm making, and it's not a joke, whereas some people would take a singer-songwriter sitting behind an acoustic guitar as sincere.”
“I honestly believe I am the only woman in the United States who ever traveled throughout the country with a nursing baby to make political speeches.”
Source: Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells
“I honestly believe I'd make one of the worst elected officials in the history of this country.”
“I honestly believe students of painting in the next century will laugh at the abstract art movement. They will marvel at such a drawn-out regression in the plastic arts.”
“I honestly believe that advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.”
Source: From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harb: Front-Line Dispatches from the Advertising War
“I honestly believe that all of my work have the type of impact that will allow me to create some unique opportunities.”
“I honestly believe that everything I know about the writing of non-fiction (or writing) could be engraved on the head of a pin with a garden hoe.”
“I honestly believe that if I decided to be the president of the United States, I could do it. That might sound foolish to some. But in my mind, if Ronald Reagan can become president, why not Will Smith?”
“I honestly believe that if you are willing to out-condition the opponent, have confidence in your ability, be more aggressive than your opponent and have a genuine desire for team victory, you will become the national champions. If you have all the above, you will acquire confidence and poise, and you will have those intangibles that win the close ones.”