I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I am flushed and warm. I think I may be enormous, I am so stupidly happy, My wellingtons Squelching and squelching through the beautiful red.”
Source: Collected Poems
“I am flying back to New York as I write this. I will never forget these wonderful 35 days and I would go back to Copenhagen in a heartbeat to work there again.”
“I am flying blindly but sure to meet some day...wait for me!”
“I am focused on racing. I enjoy it. It's a great feeling to be back fighting for the title.”
“I am focused on the work. I am constantly creating. I am a busy girl. I live and breathe my work. I love what I do. I believe in the message. There's no stopping. I didn't create the fame, the fame created me.”
“I am focused on what needs to be done for the people of Israel. Period. I do not pity myself and I do not pat myself on the shoulder. I get up in the morning full of energy to fulfill my mission.”
“I am focused, organized, and easily able to honor the priorities that need my attention.”
“I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.”
“I am fond of children - except boys.”
“I am fond of depicting the lives of young folks for one thing, and if you have parts for girls or young men, you must absolutely have young people to fill them - that is generally acknowledged now.”
“I am fond of history and am very well contented to take the false with the true. In the principal facts they have sources of intelligence in former histories and records, which may be as much depended on, I conclude, as anything that does not actually pass under ones own observation; and as for the little embellishments you speak of, they are embellishments, and I like them as such.”
Source: Jane Austen Six Pack - Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion
“I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.”
“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”
“I am fond of reminding my yoga students of the saying "It takes one to know one" when they become lost I condemnation and judgment of others. The world that we perceive is a reflection of our own states of mind and reveals our own level of consciousness. The world is little more than a Rorschach blot in which we see our own desire systems projected. We see what we want to see. (116)”
Source: The Yoga of Spiritual Devotion: A Modern Translation of the Narada Bhakti Sutras
“I am fond of saying that reading the Bible turned me into an atheist.”
“I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.”
“I am fooling only myself when I say that my mother exists now only in the photographs on my bulletin board or in the outline of my hand or in the armful of memories I still hold tight. She lives on beneath everything I do. Her presence influenced who I was and her absence influences who I am. Our lives are shaped as much by those who leave us as they are by those who stay. Loss is our legacy. Insight is our gift. Memory is our guide.”
“I am for . . . each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45
“I am for a clear distinction between public and private life. I believe private matters should be regulated in private and I have asked those close to me to respect this.”
“I am for a close global association in trade and financial matters, rather than the opposite possibility of excessive nationalism, as manifested in the two world wars.”
“I am for a government rigorously frugal & simple, applying all the possible savings of the public revenue to the discharge of the national debt; and not for a multiplication of officers & salaries merely to make partisans, & for increasing, by every device, the public debt, on the principle of its being a public blessing.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: 1799-1803
“I am for a huge, huge tent that espouses conservative principles.”
“I am for America because America is for the common people.”
Source: Speeches and addresses of William McKinley, from his election to Congress to the present time.
“I am for an art of things lost or thrown away. . . I am for an art that one smokes like a cigarette. . . I am for an art that flutters like a flag.”
“I am for an art that grows up not knowing it is art at all.”
Source: Claes Oldenburg: an exhibition organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, under the auspices of the International Council of the Museum, the Tate Gallery, London 24 June - 16th August 1970
“I am for an art that imitates the human, that is comic, if necessary, or violent, or whatever is necessary. I am for an art that takes its form from the lines of life itself, that twists and extends and accumulates and spits and drips, and is heavy and coarse and blunt and sweet and stupid as life itself.”
“I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something more than sit on its ass in a museum.”
“I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation.”
Source: Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings
“I am for an art that takes its form from the lines of life itself, that twists and extends and accumulates and spits and drips, and is heavy and coarse and blunt and sweet and stupid as life itself.”
Source: Claes Oldenburg: an exhibition organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, under the auspices of the International Council of the Museum, the Tate Gallery, London 24 June - 16th August 1970
“I am for an art that tells you the time of day, or where such and such a street is. I am for an art that helps old ladies across the street.”
“I am for an immigration policy that's welcoming and upholds the law.”
“I am for anything that makes teens visible in an honest way... in other words, anything that represents them the way they are, positively or negatively.”
“I am, for certain, a powerful force. I've stood outside on a winter day, for years an unending winter, without batting an eye. While you... even when you go out on a sunny day, you bring a sweater just in case. You can never be on the outskirts, you can never be in the cold, you can never be at the losing end. You need your blankets. You make me think twice about what it means to be a protector; you protected me so well only because I was beside you. It wasn't about me. It was still about you. But I have learned... that even in the winter the summer lasts within me. Flowers grow and sunbeams exit the palms of my hands. And that I can grow feathers and lots of fur.”
“I am for decriminalization. The significant aspect of that is that we don't force prostitutes to have to get a license to work. I think the whole idea of licensing consensual sex between adults is offensive.”
“I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.”
“I am for doing good to the poor, but...I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed...that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.”
“I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.”
Source: Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin
“I am for economy. After that I am for more economy. At this time and under present conditions that is my conception of serving all the people.”
“I am for everything starting
into full-blown perfection
at once.”
Source: The inheritance, by the author of Marriage. By the author of 'Marriage'. Revised by the author
“I am for free commerce with all nations; political connection with none; and little or no diplomatic establishment”
“I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.”
Source: Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence
“I am for God, I am the lover of God, I am loved by God, I am the servant of God, I am the servant of the servant of God, and I am the well-wishing instrument of God's love towards every living being, with all humility. The emergence of that realization is the greatest attainment in life.”
“I am for hockey. I find I should like to hit something with a stick. -Gemma Doyle Trilogy”
“I am for I think not (Sonnet 2674)
Every country needs just one person
to embody the best of humanity -
but I couldn't wait to find those people,
so I chose to be that person
from every culture and every country,
that's why I made these languages,
these cultures, these soils, my own,
no native, no foreign, it's all my own -
I let their air fill my lungs,
their passions permeate my veins,
their tears galvanize my heart,
their dreams resurrect my brain -
which is why, some ask for water, some ask pani -
somewhere I'm scientist, somewhere I'm sufi.
I cannot explain this to your puny
eurocentric analytical psyche,
even to try would be like explaining
neuroscience to a neanderthal -
all I can say is, I am for I am not -
I am for I think not - I don't live, I combust.”
Source: With Love From A Blue Rock
“I am for it - not to make a threat, but to make clear that decisions that have been made are applicable law, even if you have voted against it. At issue here is European solidarity, which cannot be a one-way street. The traffic has to move in both directions.”
“I am for joining a free trade zone. The European Union is not such zone, but a zone of raging bureaucracy which stears every hectolitre of wine, and every tone of beef.”
“I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring. Because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again.”
Source: The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and related readings
“I am for lasting peace... United, I believe, we can win the battle for peace. But it must be a different peace, one with full recognition of the rights of the Jews in their one and only land: peace with security for generations and peace with a united Jerusalem as the eternal, undivided capital of the Jewish people in the state of Israel forever.”
“I am for liberty of conscience in its noblest, broadest, and highest sense. But I cannot give liberty of conscience to the pope and his followers, the papists, so long as they tell me, through all their councils, theologians, and canon laws that their conscience orders them to burn my wife, strangle my children, and cut my throat when they find their opportunity.”
“I am for lifting everyone off the social bottom. In fact, I am for doing away with the social bottom altogether.”