I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I am my wrinkled happy skin,
A signature I’ve learnt to win.
A memory I bring to blue,
My depth from what I have been through.
From tenderness I’ve gained sweet brush
Besides the strings from grieving’s touch.
They are the wisdom’s merry page,
The richest velvet of my age.”
Source: There are no goodbyes for us: Poems
“I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out. I do not believe that, on the balance, religious belief has been a force for good. Although I am prepared to admit that in certain times and places it has had some good effects, I regard it as belonging to the infancy of human reason, and to a stage of development which we are now outgrowing.”
Source: Sceptical Essays
“I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out.”
Source: Sceptical Essays
“I am myself a gentleman of the press, and have no other escutcheon.”
“I am myself a professional creator of images, a film-maker. And then there are the images made by the artists I collect, and I have noticed that the images I create are not so very different from theirs. Such images seem to suggest how I feel about being here, on this planet. And maybe that is why it is so exciting to live with images created by other people, images that either conflict with one's own or demonstrate similarities to them.”
“I am myself an empiric in natural philosophy, suffering my faith to go no further than my facts. I am pleased, however, to see the efforts of hypothetical speculation, because by the collisions of different hypotheses, truth may be elicited and science advanced in the end.”
Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont
“I am myself and I am here.”
“I am myself and what is around me, and if I do not save it, it shall not save me.”
“I am myself by inclination an investigator.”
“I am myself for a living. I don't animate a character.”
“I am myself
I do as I know
I know what is true
I live as my authentic self”
Source: Live True: A Mindfulness Guide to Authenticity
“I am myself impressed by the great social advantages of increasing the stock of capital until it ceases to be scarce.”
Source: The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes
“I am myself my own commander.
[Lat., Egomet sum mihi imperator.]”
“I am myself persuaded, on the basis of extensive study of the historical evidence, that... the severity of each of the contractions - 1920-21, 1929-33, and 1937-38 - is directly attributable to acts of commission and omission by the Reserve authorities and would not have occurred under earlier monetary and banking arrangements.”
Source: Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition
“I am myself so exceedingly Nordic, as far as physical constitution is concerned, that I can enjoy almost any weather except what is called glorious weather. At the end of a few days, I am left wondering how the men of the Mediterranean ever managed to do almost all the most active and astonishing things that have been done.”
“I am myself the matter of my book.”
“I am myself when I get up, I am myself throughout the day and I am myself when I go back to sleep, you probably might have met someone else when I was asleep and claimed it to be changed me.”
Source: Just the Way I Feel
“I am myself. That is not enough.”
Source: Collected Poems
“I am myself: a light. In me you find your fate. So be not blind to the truth shining from my glow.”
“I am mystified why the USA is sending massive amounts of very expensive weapons to Ukraine when it cannot adequately fund its own disability system!”
“I am mystified. I know only one person who voted for Nixon.”
“I am N!ai. When the white people first came, I was already a young woman with breasts. Before the white people came, we did what our hearts wanted. We lived in different places, far apart, and when our hearts wanted to travel, we traveled. We were not poor; we had everything we could carry. No one told us what to do.
Now the white people tell us to stay in this place. There are too many people. There’s no food to gather. Game is far away, and people are dying of tuberculosis.
But when I was a little girl, we left sickness behind us when we moved.”
“I am N!ai. When the white people first came, I was already a young woman with breasts. Before the white people came, we did what our hearts wanted. We lived in different places, far apart, and when our hearts wanted to travel, we travelled. We were not poor; we had everything we could carry. No one told us what to do.
Now the white people tell us to stay in this place. There are too many people. There’s no food to gather. Game is far away, and people are dying of tuberculosis.
But when I was a little girl, we left sickness behind us when we moved.”
“I am naive when it comes to love, you know what I mean? I do believe in falling in love at first sight and things like that.”
“I am naive. I make mistakes - But I don't give a rat's arse how I am perceived!”
“I am naked as I type this. I was naked writing the whole damn book.”
Source: Echopraxia
“I am nameless, I am timeless, I am deathless, for I am the indestructible force of humanhood, and one biological vessel isn't enough for the fulfillment of this force, it'll continue to fasten onto every potential vessel through time till all traces of divisiveness and superstition are abolished from the world.”
Source: Time to End Democracy: The Meritocratic Manifesto
“I am naturally a thin person and I am 5'1" and putting on five or 10 pounds, that looks like a lot on me.”
“I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel. And yet I have never understood that the Presidency conferred upon me an unrestricted right to act officially upon this judgment and feeling.”
“I am naturally extremely proud to be selected as European Ryder Cup captain for 2016, european Ryder Cup has been a massive part of my life and my career so to have the chance to lead Europe next year is a huge honor.”
“I am naturally fond of adventure, a little ambitious, and a good deal romantic - but patriotism was the true secret of my success.”
“I am naturally pretty shy. I've come out of it a pretty good bit because I'm kind of a strange combination of being really shy and also being a born entertainer. I've got both in me and I guess it depends on my surroundings as to what's going to come out more prominently.”
“I am naturally taciturn, and became a silent and attentive listener.”
Source: Stories of Waterloo
“I am nature, and I am grateful.”
Source: Joyful Living: 101 Ways to Transform Your Spirit and Revitalize Your Life
“I am nature. Nature is me. What I create is what I must create. That I create it is fundamental. I am both anonymous and very precious since I belong to all growth which is life. Therefore I must grow well. What I shape I must shape well.”
“I am natures greatest miracle. Since the beginning of time never has there been another with my heart, my eyes, my ears, my hands, my hair, my mouth. None that came before, none that live today, and none that come tomorrow can walk and talk and move and think exactly like me. I am a unique creature.”
Source: The Greatest Salesman in the World
“I am near fourteen and have never yet seen a hanging. My life is barren.”
Source: Catherine, Called Birdy
“I am neither a believer, nor an atheist. Believers care about the existence of God, atheists care about the nonexistence of God. I care about neither. I only care about human existence. I only care about the uplift of human condition.”
Source: Divane Dynamite: Only truth in the cosmos is love
“I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.”
“I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste.”
“I am neither a free-trade man, willing to collect all the money we have to raise by direct tax upon the people, nor am I willing to lay a tax simply for protection when the Government does not need the money.”
“I am neither a pessimist nor an optimist. I am a realist, and the reality in Iraq is that it has been very hard and it continues to be hard.”
“I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like.”
“I am neither a Whig nor Tory. My politics are described in one word and that word is England.”
“I am neither accusing President Obama of having committed high crimes and misdemeanors nor advocating his impeachment.”
“I am neither an accountant nor a lawyer, and I am not sure that I would be able to make sense of all this even if I were. After talking with each of the Crickets, with Petty, with the Holleys and Maria Elena and others who were close to the situation, it is my own judgement that Holly and the Crickets never received much of what was rightfully theirs--although they may well have been paid all that was legally due to them. In the entertainment industry, even more than in other businesses, what is fair and what is legal are often worlds apart. This is just my opinion and others may conclude differently.”
Source: Remembering Buddy: The Definitive Biography Of Buddy Holly
“I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist. Jesus Christ is risen from the dead.”
“I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.”
“I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.”
“I am neither Charlie Hebdo staff nor their killers. I am neither the supporters of Charlie Hebdo nor the supporters of their killers. The killed and the killers are no longer, but I still am. My duty as a conscientious writer who didn’t know these people in person is not to be them. It is not to vilify or sanctify any party. And it is certainly not to assume what their message was and reduce that message to a short slogan like “Je suis Charlie.” Our role is to interrogate all actors involved in the crime—including the hidden ones—and try to understand not just how things are, but how they have become the way they are.”