I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I'm not as interested in dispensing knowledge on how to make a living ass I am in helping young people learn how to make a life...”
“I'm not ashamed of being partial to her." He sat straighter in his chair. "I am partial to her. Utterly.”
Source: Sense and Suitability
“I'm not ashamed of heroic ambitions. If man and woman can only dance upon this earth for a few countable turns of the sun... let each of us be an Artemis, Odysseus, or Zeus... Aphrodite to the extent of the will of each one.”
Source: Rooftop Soliloquy
“I’m not ashamed of my upbringing, but the more you tell a person about yourself, the more power you hand over. And I particularly avoid sharing Mom with strangers, like the memory of her is a newspaper clipping and every time I take it out, she fades and creases a little more.”
Source: Book Lovers
“I'm not ashamed of myself. I'm ashamed that the world isn't good enough yet. Because it should be.”
Source: You Don't Live Here
“I’m not ashamed to use my face, my voice, or my story to open doors and get our message out into the larger world. I try to create a “soft” introduction to engage people and bring them into the world of burns”
Source: Remarkably Intact: Angels Are No Strangers to Chains
“I’m not asking for anything beyond your company in sleep. Just let me rest with the sound of your heartbeat beside mine.”
Source: Hawksong
“I’m not asking for forever here, Ben. I just want one night before the rest of the world intrudes.”
I move my finger, nervous about what he’ll say.
“What if the thought of forever is suddenly not sounding so bad?”
Source: An Unlikely Romance - Ben & Mason
“I’m not asking for much. A more tender world
with less hatred strutting the streets.
Perhaps a downtick in state-sanctioned violence
against civilians. Wind through the trees.
Water under the bridge. Kindness.”
“I’m not asking for your forgiveness. I have done no wrong according to my kind. I never meant to turn you. I just wanted to have a little fun with you before they took you away.”
Source: Corcitura
“I’m not asking him to love me, am I?
I’m only asking him to use me, use my body, and he won’t even do
that. And I’m too hurt and too much in love with him so I’ve lost my mind
over it.”
Source: My Darling Arrow
“I'm not asking you for a second chance. I know better than that. But you've got no right to ask me to settle for sex then expect me to give up the one thing that's kept me going. I gave you up, now I'm taking what's left.”
“You didn't give me up,” she tossed back. “You never wanted me.”
“I never wanted anything the way I wanted you. I loved you.” He dragged her painfully to her toes. “I've always loved you. I cut my own heart out when I sent you away.”
Source: The Reef
“I’m not asking you to be bad, I’m asking you to be bad for me.”
Source: The Darkest Night
“I’m not asking you to believe in God, for the choice to believe in men will reveal God soon enough.”
“I'm not asking you to come reverently or unquestioningly; I'm not asking you to be politically correct or cast aside your sense of humor (please God you have one). This isn't a popularity contest, it's not the moral Olympics, and it's not church. But it's Writing, damn it, not washing the car or putting on eyeliner. If you can take it seriously, we can do business. If you can't or won't, it's time for you to close the book and do something else. Wash the car, maybe.”
“I'm not asking you to come-"
"Thanks." Vol studies herself in the cracked mirror and secures the braid with the tie.
"I'm telling you to come." Kira's mouth hardens. "This is not optional.”
Source: Endgame
“I'm not asking you to go with me. I don't want you to go with me." That's a straight-up lie, because I have no idea if I have the ability to do this. Even more important than ability is whether or not I have the courage. This revelation makes me feel ashamed. I'm a grown woman, and it's time to prove- if not to everyone else then at least to myself- that I can do things on my own. Janice said that Jonathan needs me to step up, to be the kind of person he can depend on not to retreat when things get rough. This time, I won't hide in my childhood bed hoping the world will right itself. Jonathan would do anything to help me, but now he's the one who needs help, and I'm going to dig deep and be the one to give it to him.”
Source: The Girl He Used to Know
“I’m not asking you to save the world…” My eyes flooded with tears. “I’m asking you to save your friend!”
Source: Mortal Tether
“I'm not asking you to walk in my shoes; I'd never wish my afflictions on anyone. But could you walk beside me on secure ground and reach to hold my hand?”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“I’m not aspiring to be someone else – If I’m me for the rest of my life then so be it”
Source: Life Through the Eyes of an Insider: 101 Poems to Help You Understand Life Better
“I’m not at all sure that I’m not a little jealous of her… we women are such cats, aren’t we? Scratch, scratch, miauw, miauw, purr, purr…”
Source: Three Act Tragedy
“I'm not athletic and have no desire to work out, so I watch what I eat. Correction: I eat what I want and feel guilty about it later.”
Source: Fracture
“I'm not Barbara Gordon. I have to keep remembering that. Tonight, I'm not Barbara. Tonight, I'm not the Police Commissioner's daughter.
Tonight, I'm the one who pored over the details of the confidential police and reports when her dad wasn't looking.
I'm the one who recognized the vintage costumes you wear.
Tonight?
Tonight, I'm Batgirl.”
“I’m not beautiful. My mother—”
“I know. Your mother was a knockout, and you’re paper bag ugly... Sorry to upset all those cherished illusions of yours, but I don’t see it your way.”
“That’s because you didn’t know her.”
“Could your mother have led tiger back into its cage?”
“Maybe not that, but she was very good with men. They’d do anything for her.”
“This man will do anything for you.”
Source: Kiss An Angel
“I’m not beholden to the confirmation of your prejudices; to be perfectly frank, the prospect of confining the female characters in my story to placid, helpless secondary places in the narrative is so goddamn boring that I would rather not write at all.”
“I'm not big on promulgating universal principles, but this seems to be one: confront your fears and they transform.”
Source: Saltwater Buddha: A Surfer's Quest to Find Zen on the Sea
“I'm not bigoted enough to twist facts to suit what I've been taught.”
Source: Chocky
“I'm not bigoted enough to twist the facts to suit what I've been taught.”
Source: Chocky
“I'm not blaming you," he stated firmly. "I'm just trying to think. God, Kate, there are times when I think you hate me. When I think you would do anything to get rid of me. And then... then there's last night. And all of the other times like it. I have never been more alive than when I'm with you.”
Source: Every Wrong Reason
“I'm not Bonnie™ or Chloe. I'm the essence of her, the nontrademarked person the camera can never capture and my parents have no right to sign over. There is a sovereign nation encased in this skin that MetaReel can never trademark.”
Source: Something Real
“I’m Not BOSSY… I Just Make Passionate Suggestions.”
“I’m not bound by any God-ordained rules. I’m a rebel. I follow my own path.”
“Then follow it out into the marshes and drown yourself, why don’t you?”
“The marshes dried up” was Carver’s matter-of-fact answer.”
Source: Deadmarsh Fey
“I'm not brainwashed." I wish everyone would stop using that word to describe me.
"That's exactly what someone who's been brainwashed would say.”
Source: Unchanged
“I'm not brave,' Ava replied huskily. 'If you only knew how afraid I really am. Sometimes I think I am afraid of everything.' 'But isn't that what being brave is all about? Being afraid, but doing it anyway?”
Source: The Beast's Garden
“I'm not brave enough to be jealous.”
Source: A Desolation Called Peace
“I’m not brave enough to love you
The same way
You’re not strong enough to take me on.”
Source: The Last Time I'll Write About You
“I’m not brave. I just refuse to be a coward.”
“I’m not brave. I’m paying penance. There’s a difference.” -Dr. Reese Dante”
Source: Anubis
“I’m not brave; it’s just that all other choices have been thrown out the window.”
Source: Counting by 7s
“I’m not broken, just scarred.”
Source: Rock Chick Reckoning
“I’m not broken. Not really,” I sighed. “My name is Novaleigh. Novaleigh Darrow.”
Source: Falling Out of Focus
“I’m not built for long-term romance. But you are my long-term unromance, my dearest friend, my family.”
Source: When the World Tips Over
“I’m not buried in that plot, Karoline. Some woman claiming to be me from the future is.”
“Why do they call it a plot, anyway?”
“Because this is how every story ends.”
“I'm not capable of being casual with you, Lily.”
Source: It Ends with Us
“I’m not capable of turning you down,” he said on a pained laugh, gaze devouring her breasts. “I’m going to take you to my bed and pleasure the fuck out of you. But the panties stay on. It’s nonnegotiable.”
Her entire system rebelled against his words. How could he touch her, kiss her like this, and refuse to take it all the way? It didn't make sense. Men didn't have that kind of willpower, did they? She certainly didn’t have that kind of willpower. “W-what? Is it too late to give a different answer about why I changed my mind?”
“Yes. But don’t worry, baby.” Before she could
register his intention, he’d swung her up into his arms.
“Even with your panties on, it’ll still be the best sex of your life.”
Source: His Risk to Take
“I'm not certain. Something to do with special-needs families getting healthy babies."
Allison caught her breath at that. It was true, one of the regulations of the Chinese government. She had expected a child with some sort of hand- icap a heart murmur, a hernia, or simply an older child, a toddler- something besides a healthy infant. Under Chinese law adoptive parents had to be at least thirty-five and have no other children in order to qualify for healthy babies. Otherwise they qualified only for the special-needs children. But the rule was loose and so many babies needed adoption that somehow everyone in their group had gotten a healthy infant. Of course, no one questioned it and the issue hadn't arisen during their trip.”
Source: China Run
“I’m not certain that the greatest thrill was actually being rescued. Rather, I think that the greatest thrill was finally realizing that I would be. And the cry of an infant two thousand years ago was that realization.”
“I’m not certain what I notice first, the bright flickering light that illuminates the darkness underneath my eyelids, or the shrill screams that pull me form the dredges of sleep. Either way, I’m awake. And afraid.”
Source: Winter Wonders
“I'm not certain whether I now believe in predestination or not, but that night I firmly believed in it. The proof had been striking, and regardless of the fact that I had ridiculed our forebears and their complacent astrology, I found myself thinking as they did--but I caught myself in time on this dangerous road, and having made it a rule never to reject anything categorically and never to believe in anything blindly, I cast metaphysics aside and began to watch the ground under my feet.”
Source: A Hero of Our Time
“I'm not certain whether I now believe in predestination or not, but that night I firmly believed in it. The proof had been striking, and regardless of the fact that I had ridiculed our forebears and their complacent astrology, I found myself thinking as they did--but I caught myself in time on this dangerous road, and having made it a rule never to reject anything categorically and never to believe in anything blindly, I cast metaphysics aside and began to watch the ground under my feet. Such caution was timely, for I nearly stumbled over something thick and soft but apparently dead.”