I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I leave the world in terrible turmoil. I come back, same turmoil. Nothing at all different. Well, outfits are a little different.”
“I leave these speculations to others. It’s quite possible that my work represents a search for beauty in the most prosaic and ordinary places. One doesn’t have to be in some faraway dreamland in order to find beauty.”
“I leave this as a declaration of intent, so no one will be confused. One: "Si vis pacem, para bellum." Latin. Boot Camp Sergeant made us recite it like a prayer. "Si vis pacem, para bellum - If you want peace, prepare for war." Two: Frank Castle is dead. He died with his family. Three: in certain extreme situations, the law is inadequate. In order to shame its inadequacy, it is necessary to act outside the law. To pursue... natural justice. This is not vengeance. Revenge is not a valid motive, it's an emotional response. No, not vengeance. Punishment.”
Source: The Punisher
“I leave to children exclusively, but only for the life of their childhood, all and every the dandelions of the fields and the daisies thereof, with the right to play among them freely, according to the custom of children, warning them at the same time against the thistles. And I devise to children the yellow shores of creeks and the golden sands beneath the water thereof, with the dragon flies that skim the surface of said waters, and and the odors of the willows that dip into said waters, and the white clouds that float on high above the giant trees.”
“I leave to others the decision as to the good or evil tendencies of my character, but such as it is it shines upon my countenance, and there it can easily be detected by any physiognomist.”
Source: The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete
“I leave to others the sublime delights of riding in the storm, better pleased with sound sleep & a warmer berth below it encircled, with the society of neighbors, friends & fellow laborers of the earth rather than with spies & sycophants ... I have no ambition to govern men. It is a painful and thankless office.”
Source: A Jefferson profile as revealed in his letters
“I leave when I notice that my presence never brings you happiness,but brings you nothing than sadness, and I’ll says if my memories will ever take away your smile,make you cry then… Never think of me anymore.”
“I leave with sadness, but also with pride.”
“I leave you but the sound of many a word In mocking echoes haply overheard, I sang to heaven. My exile made me free, from world to world, from all worlds carried me.”
Source: The complete poems of George Santayana: a critical edition
“I leave you free to be yourself: to think your thoughts, indulge your tastes, follow your inclinations, behave in ways that you decide are to your liking.”
Source: The Way to Love: Meditations for Life
“I leave you free to imagine any dialogue you please. Choose whatever may charm you. Have it, if you like, that they hear the voice of the blood, or that they fall in love at first sight... Conceive the wildest improbabilities. Have it that the depths of their beings are thrilled at accosting each other in slang. Tangle them suddenly in a swift embrace or a brotherly kiss. Do whatever you like.”
Source: Our Lady of the Flowers
“I leave you love. I leave you hope. I leave you the challenge of developing confidence in one another. I leave you respect for the use of power. I leave you faith. I leave you racial dignity.”
“I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.”
“I leave you to your ceremony of grieving
Which is also of celebration
Given when an honored humble one
Leaves behind a trail of happiness
In the dark of human tribulation.
None of us is above the other
In this story of forever.”
Source: An American Sunrise
“I leave you, home,
when I'm ripped from the doorstep
by commerce or fate. Then I submit
to the awful subway of the world.”
Source: Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories
“I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all mean are created free and equal.”
“I leave, and the leaving is so exhilarating I know I can never go back. But then what? Do I just keep leaving places, and leaving them, and leaving them, tramping a perpetual journey?”
Source: Paper Towns
“I lectured that the family home was a deposit box of emotions, and that reading other people's diaries was just another opportunity to encounter yourself.”
Source: Home Remedies
“I led a comfortable life, went to good schools and was privileged in many ways, but my father worked hard. We never considered ourselves rich.”
“I led a sheltered life. I didn't know how to book a flight.”
“I led by three or four feet, with Biggy (John Biglow) surging closer on each stroke. I hated him in those last few seconds; he was the only reason my guts were being strewn over the water like an oil slick ... I pressed one last time, and looked at the finish-line flagman. In that instant the flag jumped down and then up. The up stroke, identifying the second place finisher, was for me. John Biglow was the victor. I stared into the green-brown water watching my bloody soul drop through the depths, slowly rocking back and forth, occasionally glinting in the light, and then finally disappearing.”
“I led her into the newsroom, removed the sheet, and pointed to the statue of the Bombinating Beast. She gestured to me that I should be the one to take it. I gestured back that she was the chaperone and the leader of this caper. She gestured to me that I shouldn't argue with her. I gestured to her that I was the one who had gotten us into the house in the first place. She gestured to me that my predecessor knew that the apprentice should never argue with the chaperone or complain and that I might model my own behavior after his. I gestured to her asking what the 'S' stood for in her name, and she replied with a very rude gesture, and I grabbed the statue and tucked it into my vest.”
Source: Who Could That Be at This Hour?
“I led me by the hand, as if to fill the niches in the memories in my oozing brain fluid. Without even a destination, we kept walking. Disgusting clouds were floating in the sky. I already know what will happen to me the next time I wake up.”
“I led my schoolmates in collecting pennies. We wanted to donate the pennies to the starving children in America.”
Source: Red Azalea: A Memoir
“I led such a sheltered life I didn't go out with girls until I was almost four.”
“I led the counselor, probation officer, my teachers, my parents, and everyone else to believe that I was a good kid who’d just slipped up and made a few blunders. I made them think I was putting my all into recovery when, in reality, the only thing I was putting my best effort towards was deceiving each of them. My intellect allowed me to maintain the style of life I wanted, right underneath their noses.”
Source: Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose
“I led the fight for the Clinton health care plan in 1994. We failed. I learned from that experience. What I learned is you can't pass a complicated government-run plan.”
“I led the fight here against apartheid as President of the ACTU, including particularly the Springbok tour in 1971. And that led to the banning of the South African cricket tour which had been scheduled - that was something that I sorted out with Sir Donald Bradman. That was interesting.”
“I led the league in go get 'em next time.”
Source: If These Walls Could Talk: Milwaukee Brewers: Stories from the Milwaukee Brewers Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box
“I led the life of so many other so-called respectable people,—that is, in debauchery. And like the majority, while leading the life of a debauche, I was convinced that I was a man of irreproachable morality.”
Source: The Kreutzer Sonata and Family Happiness
“I led the NFL in attempts the past two years and they really didn’t go out and get a quarterback to help me so I knew it’s going to be all on me again. I could see my mortality as a football player, that I’m not going to be able to do this much longer. It just became obvious to me that playing football for me is not going to be fun, not something I’m going to enjoy and it’s time for me to do something different.”
“I led the way toward the crowd, trying to look casual, like, Fly? Me? Nah.”
Source: Maximum Ride Boxed Set #1
“I led you here, only to bring you into something I would have spared you. Could I have known we would have what we dreamed of, only to watch it taken away?”
Source: Red Clay, Running Waters
“I left 'Saturday Night Live' without a film to go to, and I'd filmed 'Old School' while I was in my last season of the show, and that hadn't come out yet. I was a free agent, in a way, but I knew it was time to leave the show and test the water.”
“I left a lifetime of vigilance piled on the ground like a forgotten coat.”
Source: The Serpent and the Wings of Night
“I left a lot - a lot - of touchdowns on the field throughout the last two or three years.”
“I left a simple district piglet and returned as the murderous beast that they always suspected lay in wait.”
Source: Sunrise on the Reaping
“I left a stone in the sand where a feign once stood. Graceful days and heavy haze as I stood in so much pain. Feet locked, face pushed, shoved - I loved. I did.
But I grew, flew and went on through as I realized how you could love someone so. Beauty lies beneath the reality that we never need to be loved, but we like to be loved. We only need to give, become, love, drift and carry through an endless forever.
They’ll be here, there - somewhere, and it’s beautiful once you realize the feeling of selflessness.”
“I left acting for 15 years, and I think it's really nice to have another life. I took too much for granted when I was younger.”
“I left acting for 15 years, and I think it's really nice to have another life. I took too much for granted when I was younger. I didn't really want to be an actor. I didn't really love it. And so I made a lot of mistakes. Oddly, I care much more about it now. I feel like a complete novice.”
“I left advertising as fast as I could in 1961. And I haven't ever thought about going back.”
“I left Apple in April of 1984, pretty soon after the introduction of the Mac.”
“I left because the ground in which I could operate was shrinking, getting smaller and smaller. I felt it was better to carry on the struggle outside, rather than risk going to jail to rot there doing nothing. This I have done. But the struggle for liberation cannot be carried on outside the country; it is inside the country. That is where the battle is and where it will be won. When Fikile Bam came out of Robben Island after ten years, in his first letter to me he wrote: 'Mama, we have decided to remain in the country. The struggle is here and not outside.' This was in response to my efforts trying to get him out of the country. Fikile was right,”
Source: A Life's Mosaic: The Autobiography of Phyllis Ntantala
“I left behind
Believing in things I can’t see,
Now I find
Myself being lost
In the way you look at me,
Green eyes like eternity
Something like a deity,
I lose myself
And find all that we could be”
Source: Legacy
“I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.”
“I left Britain in the mid-1990s when TV was going down the cundy - another good Dundee word - because I wanted a film career. But as I get older, I find myself being drawn back to my roots, and I'm loving it.”
“I left Chicago many years ago to move to California. You can't help but live a healthy lifestyle here if you want to fit in. I find myself eating chicken and salad and chicken and salad and salad and chicken, like a monk.”
“I left Christianity because I wanted to be a moral person. That is why I left. I no longer believed in its lies.”
“I left college two months ago because it rewards conformity rather than independence, competition rather than collaboration, regurgitation rather than learning and theory rather than application. Our creativity, innovation and curiosity are schooled out of us.”
“I left Colombia because Univision brought me to the United States.”