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 afraid of the priests in the long-run. Scientific method is the white ant which will slowly but surely destroy their fortifications. And the importance of scientific method in modern practical life--always growing and increasing--is the guarantee for the gradual emancipation of the ignorant upper and lower classes, the former of whom especially are the strength of the priests.”
Source: Aphorisms and reflections
“I am not afraid of the priests. They have tried upon me all their various batteries, of pious whining, hypocritical canting, lying and slandering, without being able to give me one moment of pain.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1808-1816
“I am not afraid of the problems but about the perception of the problems by the people.
Dr. Charles John Bhaskar T
Scientist and Social Activist”
“I am not afraid of the truth, if any one could tell it me, but I am afraid of parts of it impertinently uttered.”
Source: Essays in the Art of Writing(illustrated)
“I am not afraid of the word “no”, and I am not intimidated by “gatekeepers".”
“I am not afraid of the word tension.”
Source: Why We Can't Wait
“I am not afraid of tomorrow for I have seen yesterday, I have today and I know Him who holds tomorrow so I know tomorrow will be beautiful for me.”
Source: The Best Option
“I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.”
“I am not afraid of you. I do not fear you; you do not scare me. You are a big bully who is afraid, and scared of yourself!”
Source: Teachers Just Don't Understand Bullying Hurts
“I am not afraid of you," said he, smilingly.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“I am not afraid... Our own self is the only thing we should be afraid of.”
Source: Hydranos
“I am not afraid, said Noah
I was born for this".”
Source: I Was Born for This
“I am not afraid. Should I die, I will go before the Great Shepherd of Lhazar, break his crook across my knee, and say to him, "Why did you make your people lambs, when the world is full of wolves?" Then I will spit into his eye.”
Source: The Winds of Winter
“I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial.”
Source: The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
“I am not afraid that the people called Methodists should ever cease to exist either in Europe or America. But I am afraid lest they should only exist as a dead sect, having the form of religion without the power. And this undoubtedly will be the case unless they hold fast both the doctrine, spirit, and discipline with which they first set out.”
Source: The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.
“I am not afraid to admit, though slightly ashamed that I Google myself and I see people writing things about me and I get really proud and happy.”
“I am not afraid to appear in Israel, although when I come to a place like Israel, I know it's not a picnic by the Thames. I am aware of the tension and it saddens me.”
“I am not afraid to die because I know heaven is a place of artists, musicians and poets”
“I am not afraid to die, but I am afraid not to live.”
Source: Time to Save Medicine
“I am not afraid to die; I am only afraid of saying goodbye to you forever.”
“I am not afraid to dream. You first have to start with a dream. Build your castles in the air and give it foundation. Without a dream, you are not going to get anywhere.”
“I am not afraid to fail, I am scared to death of dying and having the Lord say to me.
'Angelica, this is what you might have done had you trust me more'.”
“I am not afraid to keep on living. I am not afraid to walk this world alone. Honey if you stay you'll be forgiven, nothing you can say will set me going home.”
“I am not afraid to say my relationship with my man is important, even vital, to who I am as a person.”
“I am not afraid to stop the puck with my head. I try to do it sometimes even in practice; not everyday but once in a while, I say to my teammates, shoot me in my head and I'll try to stop the puck. I am not afraid at all of the puck, so sometimes, if the shot comes at my head, it's an easier save to make with your head. Maybe the people think a different way, but for me, I do it with my head.”
“I am not afraid to walk alone.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“I am not afraid; I was born to do this.”
“I am not African because I was born in Africa but because Africa was born in me.”
“I am not after a status. I am the status.”
“I am not after Mr Neville or his money. I earn my own money. Money is what you earn when you grow up.”
Source: Hotel du Lac
“I am not against a little inflation.”
“I am not against AI substituting humans in jobs. Evolution has priority and humans always learn to compromise with it.”
Source: Reality Is Just A Possible Fantasy
“I am not against all forms of high-tech medicine. Drugs and surgeries have a secure place in the treatment of serious health conditions. But modern American medicine treats almost every health condition as if it were an emergency.”
“I am not against all wars-just whichever is current.”
“I am not against anyone. Neither am I here to speak in terms of personal revenge against the Taliban or any other terrorist group. I am here to speak for the right of education for every child. I want education for the sons and daughters of the Taliban and all the terrorists and extremists.”
“I am not against being pragmatic, because it is pragmatic to make a good pass, not a bad one. If I have the ball, what do I do with it? Could anybody argue that a bad solution like just kicking it away is pragmatic just because, sometimes, it works by accident?”
“I am not against Botox and I would never judge anyone else for getting any kind of surgical or nonsurgical procedure, but I think when you`re young there are other ways you can look after your skin. [...] Botox just wasn't necessary for me at this age.”
“I am not against digital at all.”
“I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.”
Source: Greatest Mystery Novels of Wilkie Collins
“I am not against Israel, I am against Zionists.”
“I am not against marriage -- I am for love. If love becomes your marriage, good; but don't hope that marriage can bring love. That is not possible. Love can become a marriage. You have to work very consciously to transform your love into a marriage. Ordinarily, people destroy their love. They do EVERYTHING to destroy it and then they suffer. And they go on saying, 'What went wrong?' They destroy -- they do everything to destroy it.”
“I am not against marriage. I lived with someone for 11 years. But we weren't in love, and I thought that was quite important.”
“I am not against Muslim schools. But as I believe in integration, I think we would be better off overall if we did not have denominational schools at all.”
“I am not against standardized tests. There are tests and tests and tests, and, to simplify, the ones I favor are criterion-referenced tests of skills, aligned with the curriculum. Social and emotional skills are important but skills are too. I find it heartbreaking that this is so often seen as an either-or choice. To get to the richness of studying literature, for example, you must first be an adept and confident reader. Whether you are is something a good test can measure.”
“I am not against teaching students how to take a test. Indeed, we want all of our students to have test-taking knowledge. However, the emphasis of teaching reading through the lens of preparing students for state-mandated tests has become so completely unbalanced that it is drowning any chance our adolescents have of developing into lifelong readers.”
Source: Readicide: How Schools are Killing Reading and what You Can Do about it
“I am not against the pharmaceutical companies. I love them. That's not the issue. The issue is, in some cases, when they do these clinical trials, they control the data. They analyze the data. In some cases, they even write the article. And that leads to at least the perception, if not the reality, that there's a conflict of interest.”
“I am not against the provision of the necessary medical assistance to Coloured and natives, because, unless they receive that medical aid, they become a source of danger to the European community.”
“I am not against working with Russia in areas of common interests at the same time. We're smart enough, or we should be smart enough to have a dual track policy. You know, walk and chew gum at the same time.”
“I am not agnostic. I am atheist. I don’t think there is no God; I know there’s no God. I know there’s no God the same way I know many other laws in our universe. I know there’s no God and I know most of the world knows that as well. They just won’t admit it because there’s another thing they know. They know they’re going to die and it freaks them out. So most people don’t have the courage to admit there’s no God and they know it. They feel it. They try to suppress it. And if you bring it up they get angry because it freaks them out.”
“I am not alive if I am only a wispy memory in someone’s fickle brain . . .”
Source: What Are You Crying About? Defeating Grief for Christians