I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I am not a terrorist, but neither am I a pacifist. I am simply a regular guy from the Palestinian street advocating only what every other oppressed person has advocated-the right to help myself in the absence of help from anywhere else.”
“I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.”
“I am not a theologian or a scholar, but I am very aware of the fact that pain is necessary to all of us. In my own life, I think I can honestly say that out of the deepest pain has come the strongest conviction of the presence of God and the love of God.”
“I am not a theologian, nor am I a priest or a minister, but I think building walls is fundamentally contrary to what made this country what it is. We're a pluralistic society in its functions.”
“I am not a therapist. I am not a spiritual leader. These elements are in the art: it is therapeutic, spiritual, social and political - everything. It has many layers. But art has to have many layers. If it doesn't, then forget it.”
“I am not a thing. I am not your possession. I am a human being."
- CBI Agent Sam Rose”
Source: Convergence Point
“I am not a thing to be controlled by you,' Nesta said icily. Everything in her life, from the moment she was born, had been controlled by other people. Things happened to her; anytime she tried to exert control, she'd been thwarted at every turn- and she hated that even more than the King of Hybern.
'That's why you're going to train at Windhaven. You will learn to control yourself.'
'I won't go.'
'You're going, even if you have to be tied up and hauled there. You will follow Cassian's lessons, and you will do whatever work Clotho requires in the library.”
Source: A Court of Silver Flames
“I am not a time waster… I don't have any time to lose.”
“I am not a titleholder; I don't steal; I don't lie...”
Source: The New Land
“I am not a Tory moderniser for I believe marriage can only be between a man and a woman. I shall not surrender my principles. I believe this bill is wrong. The consultation process was a complete sham. It is opposed by the established church. It has caused deep and needless divisions within the Conservative Party. There is no mandate for it. There are huge potential consequences... and the nation faces much more serious challenges which the government needs to address”
“I am not a total, complete nitwit when it comes to selling books. I promise you there will be unexpected things. Some of them I don't know yet. She's writing it all herself.”
“I am not a trained writer and I don't think anyone would accuse me of being a funny person. But I feel God has truly blessed me.”
“I am not a tree grown in the concrete jungle to bring rain, I am a tree grown in the wild forest to bring fire”
“I am not a twenty-two-year-old boy; I am not a besotted fool. If you think to jilt me, think again. For I will not turn tail and run the other way as he did, oh no. I will find you, and I will drag you to the altar on your back if need be, no matter how you might be screaming. No matter how scandalous it might be.”
Source: Scandalous Love
“I am not a typical human being. I am me and don't try to be anything but that because God didn't give us all different fingerprints if he wanted us all to be the same. lol -- TAMMY WOOSTER”
“I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.”
“I am not a ventriloquist.”
“I am not a very good man, Effie, but I think that I am a better one than you have given me credit for being.”
Source: Sherlock Holmes. The best stories
“I am not a very nice character. You must get to know me some time.”
Source: The Black Prince
“I am not a very sentimental man; and the best sentiment I can think of is, that if you collect the signatures of all persons who are no less distinguished than I, you will have a very undistinguishing mass of names.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations
“I am not a very timid type. It's very important to some people, but not to me. I have a simple philosophy: worry about those things you can fix. It you can't fix it, don't worry about it; accept it and do the best you can.”
“I am not a veteran environmentalist. I don't live in a house made of recycled tires, I've never handcuffed myself to a tree, and I don't grow my own organic rutabaga.”
“I am not a victim, I am not a sinner, and I am no different than any other human selling their time and youth every day to a cluttered, blue-collar job. Accept the truth. You prefer to die under the weight of chronic stress and suffer from depression to get paid at the end of the month… and I… work my ass off stress and anxiety, free and enjoying it. We all are prostitutes, one way or another.”
Source: Slut Vomit: An Anthology of Sex Work
“I am not a victim. No matter what I have been through, I'm still here. I have a history of victory.”
Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
“I am not a victim of circumstance, situation, nor any external condition of life. I am an active participant in the creation of my reality, meaning, I am actively participating in the creation of what I think, what I feel, what I spend my time on, who I spend my time with, what I consume mentally and physically, and all the blessings and contrastive experiences that come my way. Every effect has a cause and every cause has an effect, all of which include me because it is my life to live, my life to use, and my life to enjoy.”
“I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human.”
“i am not a victim of my life
what i went through
pulled a warrior out of me
and it is my greatest honor to be her”
Source: Home Body
“I am not a victim. I am an angry survivor.”
Source: Dear Austen
“I am not a villain.I'm an only-child narcissist monster, but I wish no ill, nor do I wish for world domination; what a hassle that would be!”
“I am not a vine, I am that strong independent tree which can grow in all directions and nurture”
“I am not a violent person. I actually don't like to hurt people.”
“I am not a violent person. I am a product of the Flower Power '60s. I have actually worn bell-bottomed jeans.”
“I am not a Virginian, I am an American.”
“I am not a visitor. I am more of a trespasser, interested in secret little deaths of people who think they are alive, people who are inching towards death with each breathing moment, people who don't realize that life is just a temporary phase of a long journey, like I never did when I was alive, people who will soon become trespassers like me. Why do I think that this phase of trespassing is permanent? Maybe I too am just as stupid as these humans to think I am wiser than them!”
Source: Litost: Sliced Stories
“I AM NOT A WAITER. I HAVE BEEN A STUDENT, A SCIENTIST, A SOLDIER, MY WIFE IS CALLED ALSANA, WE LIVE IN EAST LONDON BUT WE WOULD LIKE TO MOVE NORTH. I AM A MUSLIM BUT ALLAH HAS FORSAKEN ME OR I HAVE FORSAKEN ALLAH, I'M NOT SURE. I HAVE A FRIEND—ARCHIE—AND OTHERS. I AM FORTY-NINE BUT WOMEN STILL TURN IN THE STREET. SOMETIMES. (3.81)”
Source: White Teeth
“I am not a warrior because I know what to do in a fight. I am a warrior because I know how to behave in every situation.”
Source: BUSHIDO: The Way of the Warrior
“I am not a wealthy woman. I wish to hell I was, but I never had a wealthy man.”
“I am not a whole, only disjointed pieces held together the way two ventricles taped to an aorta won’t beat.”
Source: Survived By: A Memoir in Verse + Other Poems
“I am not a ‘wise man,’ nor . . . shall I ever be. And so require not from me that I should be equal to the best, but that I should be better than the wicked. It is enough for me if every day I reduce the number of my vices, and blame my mistakes.”
“I am not a witch. I'm nothing you've heard. I'm you.”
“I am not a wolf in sheep's clothing, I'm a wolf in wolf's clothing.”
“I am _not_ a woman from your village."
His eyes narrowed. "No, you are not, for if you were, you would be grateful for the better fate Connor has won for you with his blood. Rather than thinking only of yourself, you would be beside him now, tending his hurts.”
Source: Defiant
“I am not a woman staying at home.”
“I am not a woman. I am a force of nature.”
“I am not a women that takes anything for granted, I'll lay endlessly With you and talk about meaningful and logical, I'll watch the stars at midnight and the way they twinkle back; to let me know they see me too, I'll wind the window down just to feel the breeze, I'll turn the music up when I love a song, I'll sit with the ocean when I feel lost, I'll cry when my heart hurts & I'll listen to you when yours is hurting too, I know the kind of women I am, and im not shy in showing her to the world.”
“I am not a writer except when I write.”
“I am not a writer, I am an anomaly.”
Source: Mucize Misafir Merhaba: The Peace Testament
“I am not a writer, writers have limits, I have none, I only have responsibility, the responsibility to unite the world.”
Source: Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables
“I am not a writer, but I feel that when our production company is successful, we'll be able to give some young writers with fresh voices an opportunity to put their work out there.”
“I am not a yachting person, by nature, but I have just enough experience on the sea under sail to feel a certain nostalgia for it when I see a big white racing yacht heeled over at cruising speed on the ocean, and I can still tie a mean bowline knot on just about anything in less than 10 seconds.”
Source: Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness