I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I may be the only person, the only presidential candidate who never carried the state in which he was born.”
“I may be the person who put "dieselpunk" into the conversation. I have always been a reader who reads in a really broad way. I read genre writers and I read literary fiction and I read books by dead people.”
“I may be the prat in the hat, that's cool, but I drive an Aston Martin DB5.”
“I may be the wrong person for my life.”
“I may be too young to be lonely, but I am too lonely to be young.”
“I may be ugly and clumsy, but one thing I'm not, I'm not retarded.”
Source: The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
“I may be uninspiring, but I'll be damned if I'm alien.”
“I may be weakened but my will is never broken my heart is always vibrant and my mind aways open.”
“I may be wearing a mask,
But I'm smiling if you ask!”
Source: Pierrot Love: When A Call From The Other Side Takes Its Own Side
“I may be wearing makeup, but I can throw a fastball by you at the same time.”
“I may be wearing the world’s ugliest khaki shorts, and I may have just had a total mental breakdown in front of a really hot guy, but at least I don’t have to humiliate myself in front of tourists. It’s my lucky day.”
Source: When Summer Ends
“I may be writing well, I may be writing poorly, but I enjoy the act of writing and sometimes when it turns out okay, I feel an elation that is incomparable.”
“I may be wrong and you may be right, and by an effort, we may get nearer to the truth”
Source: The Open Society and Its Enemies
“I May Be Wrong but I Doubt It.”
“I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but holding it a sound maxim, that it is better to be only sometimes right, than at all times wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.”
Source: Speeches and Writings 1832–1858
“I may be wrong, but I'm never in doubt.”
“I may be wrong, but it seems rare in our age to find a widely praised person whose own mouth is not the source of that praise.”
“I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.”
“I may boldly speak In right, though proud oppression will not hear me!”
“I may bring other women here, to this place, and I may tell them I love them, and make love to them. But they will be impostors. And I will be a ghost. Because it means I will have lost you. My body, my brain, my lungs, my stomach, my guts, legs, arms will be here but I won't be. I will be out there, looking for you. And if we meet somewhere, at a restaurant, or a party and I'm with someone, I want you to know that they are by my side only because you are not. And she will be beautiful. And I will be laughing and smiling and she will be laughing and smiling, but she will be laughing at a lie. Because all I will have done to that person is lie to them. All I will do to anyone else, forever, from this moment forward, anyone who isn't you, is lie. I have no choice.”
Source: The River
“I may buy the Alamo and give it back to Mexico.”
“I may cause someone to feel badly, not because I'm doing something to them, but because the way in which I see might cause pain. But I am not doing the hurting.”
“I may chance have some odd quirks and remnants of wit broken on me, because I have railed so long against marriage: but doth not the appetite alter? a man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of his humour? No, the world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.”
“I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.”
“I may command where I adore.”
“I may conclude this chapter by quoting a saying of Professor Agassiz, that whenever a new and startling fact is brought to light in science, people first say, 'it is not true,' then that 'it is contrary to religion,' and lastly, 'that everybody knew it before.'”
Source: The Geological Evidence of Man
“I may contradict myself, but at least I don't contradict myself.”
“I may cry ruining my make up, Wash away all things you've taken.. I don't care if I don't look pretty, Big girls cry when their hearts are breaking.”
“I may cut my coat to follow fashion, sir, but not my conscience.”
Source: In the Garden of Iden
“I may deserve your disappointment as well as a lecture and strict discipline, but what I need is your understanding, your guidance, and your unconditional love.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.”
Source: A Season in Hell & Illuminations
“I may die young, but at least I'll die smart.... If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart...Best advice I can ever give you.”
“I may die young, but at least I'll die smart.”
“I may die, but the Republic of 1916 will never die. Onward to the Republic and liberation of our people.”
Source: Skylark Sing Your Lonely Song: An Anthology of the Writings of Bobby Sands
“I may disagree with you, but I am not against you.”
Source: Thelema: Book 0 - The Fool
“I may disappear in your happy days, in difficult times I'll surely appear.”
Source: Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets
“I may disclose a secret: Internally, we replace the word "Quantum" with the word "Wrong.”
Quantum Theory = Wrong Theory.
Quantum Processor = Wrong Processor.
Quantum Mechanics = Wrong Mechanics.
We don't use the word Quantum internally.
You define it? You are wrong. Everyone wrong. Quantum means: "We don't know what this means, although we can kind of make it work.”
Source: Adventures With A.I.: Age of Discovery
“I may discuss contemporary cinema, how to shop at a mall without losing energy, how to use the power of mind to increase career and academic success, the Zen of sports, reincarnation, karma, sex, the experience of "suchness" or a new book by Stephen King.”
“I may do some good before I am dead--be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.”
Source: Jude the Obscure
“I may doubt the truths of the world, but never again will I doubt whether or not the person that I am, or may be, is loved or worthy of love. I know myself, and I don't. Both can be true.”
Source: Ophelia After All
“I may drink too much and play too loud, hang out with a rough and rowdy crowd. That don't mean I don't respect my mama or Uncle Sam.”
“I may drive in a few races next year if someone needs a substitute driver ... (but) if I were never to drive again, I have had a great career.”
“I may enter a zone of transcendence, in which I marvel at all the accidents of fate, since the beginning of life on earth, that led to my genes being created and my standing in this particular garden in a contemplative and imagining mind. I’ve been reading recently how reflection evolved. what a fascinating solution to the rigors of survival…how amazing that a few basic ingredients- the same ones that form the mountains, plants, and rivers- when arranged differently and stressed could result in us.
More and more of late, I find myself standing outside of life, with a sense of the human saga laid out before me. it is a private vision, balanced between youth and old age, a vision in which I understand how caught up in striving we humans get, and a little of why, and how difficult it is even to recognize, since it feels integral to our nature and is. but I find it interesting that, according to many religions, life and begins and ends in a garden.”
Source: Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden
“I may err but I am not a heretic, for the first has to do with the mind and the second with the will!”
“I may err in judgment, but I hope not in intention.”
“I may err in my measures, but never shall deflect from the intention to fortify the public liberty by every possible means, and to put it out of the power of the few to riot on the labors of the many.”
Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence
“I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.”
“I may eventually wear high heels because I choose to, not because you made me.”
“I may fall here in the Senate chamber, but I will. never make any compromise with any such men.”
“I may fight the British ruler, but I do not hate the English or their language. In fact, I appreciate their literary treasures.”