I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I may not know who I am, but I know where I am from.”
“I may not know why, but I do know why not and this is where I stand.”
“I may not lead the most dramatic life, but in my brain it's 'War and Peace' everyday.”
“I may not live long, for each day my strength diminishes, but so long as there is even a trace of strength and life left in me, I will keep on giving.”
Source: Monk Meets World
“I may not look it when I'm playing, but I think I'm a fun guy to hang with when I'm relaxing.”
“I may not look like much, but I'm an expert at pretending to be a ninja.”
Source: The Charley Davidson Series
“I may not personally approve of their choices. I may find their choices distasteful. Nevertheless, every choice a woman makes enriches me because it expands my range of alternatives-even if it is an alternative I can't imagine ever pursuing myself.”
Source: XXX: A Woman's Right to Pornography
“I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice”
“I may not remember anything about her, but I would bet her smile was my favorite part of her”
Source: Never Never
“I may not remember my name or what country I live in, but you and that pie is something I will never forget.”
Source: The Help
“I may not remember you, but my heart does.”
Source: Carbon
“I may not remember, but I never forget.”
Source: Social Crimes: A Novel
“I may not say it all the time or I may not pray as much as I need to, but I am not forgetting where I came from and how I got to be where I am today.”
“I may not seem the ideal person in your eyes, but I was your compass when you needed a direction.
I may not be your favourite memory, but one special flashback will always remind you of me.
I may no longer fit into your plan, but I am glad I was one of the ideas that helped rewrite your story.
I may not be the lamp you need in your foggy days, but the gleam I left in you will shine through the ages.
I may not have the courage to tell you it's over between us, but goodbyes are not my strongest words.
We may not want to keep in touch again, but I pray our paths lead us to our desired destinations.”
“I may not survive," Roderick said, resting his hand on the small of her back,"if I wait any longer to kiss you.”
Source: The Gift
“I may not understand your situation but I understand hurt”
“I may not understand, but I am willing to admire.”
“I may not unnerve myself while I can struggle against evil.”
“I may not want to appear different than every other rider on this field, but I already am.”
Source: Fourth Wing
“I may not worry as much as Prime Minister Eshkol does about Israel, but I worry as deeply.”
“I may not yet be as old as dirt, but dirt and I are starting to have an awful lot in common.”
“I may now add that civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind.”
Source: Civilization and Its Discontents
“I may only be four foot, eight inches, but all the more reason I've got to stand by every one of them. Now, where's my glitter?”
Source: Drum Roll, Please
“I may or may not have almost body slammed one of my bandmates for snoring.”
“I may paint flat, but I don't think flat.”
Source: Fasanella's City: The Paintings of Ralph Fasanella with the Story of His Life and Art
“I may play a total madman on TV, but I'm really just a very unbalanced guy at home. However, when it comes to stocks, I believe in being rigorous and methodical, not crazy. There's no madness to my method.”
“I may play some exhibition games so I don't want to quit the game of chess completely. I just decided and it's a firm decision not to play competitive chess anymore.”
“I may play the fool at times, but I'm more than just a pretty blond boy with an ass that won't quit.”
“I may pronounce the toughest thing in which you take part is:-
A Philosopher's Love.”
“I may quit the music business someday, but never the music.”
“I may remark parenthetically that the modern apparatus of the theory of small samples, once it goes beyond the determination of its own specially defined parameters and becomes a method for positive statistical inference in new cases, does not inspire me with any confidence unless it is applied by a statistician by whom the main elements of the dynamics of the situation are either explicitly known or implicitly felt.”
Source: Cybernetics Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine
“I may remind you that history is not a branch of literature. The facts of history, like the facts of geology or astronomy, can supply material for literary art; for manifest reasons they lend themselves to artistic representation far more readily than those of the natural sciences; but to clothe the story of human society in a literary dress is no more the part of a historian as a historian, than it is the part of an astronomer as an astronomer to present in an artistic shape the story of the stars.”
“I may repeat 'Do as you would be done by' till I am black in the face, but I cannot really carry it out till I love my neighbor as myself: and I cannot learn to love my neighbor as myself till I learn to love God;and I cannot learn to love God except by learning to obey him.”
Source: Mere Christianity
“I may return
If dissatisfied
With what I learn
From having died.”
“I may say I have restrained myself remarkably well to date.”
“I may say that B-love, in a profound but testable sense, creates the partner. It gives him a self-image, it gives him self- acceptance, a feeling of love-worthiness, all of which permit him to grow. It is a real question whether the full development of the human being is possible without it.”
“I may say that here, as in most cases where the operations of nature interfere with the designs of man, it is not by a direct intervention on our part that we may remedy the difficulties, but rather by a precise knowledge of their causes, which may enable us, if not to check, at least to avoid the evil consequences.”
Source: Report on the Florida Reefs
“I may say that I have forgotten a certain thing.
Partially false; it has just faded I know.
Unintentionally that thing might have prick-ed me more than the other things that I might have let go.
I will only understand its depth, if after years of persuasive erosions and new etch marks, I dream about you one fine night; having nothing to do with my present. Just some sweet-bitter memories might surface one day. And that one day I will regret and at the same time thank to have met you in my life.”
“I may say that I think greed about poetry is the only permissible greed - it is, indeed, unavoidable.”
Source: Selected Letters
“I may say that the only differences I expect to see revealed between the behavior of the rat and man (aside from enormous differences of complexity) lie in the field of verbal behavior.”
Source: The Behavior of Organisms: An Experimental Analysis
“I may say that this is the greatest factor: the way in which the expedition is equipped, the way in which every difficulty is foreseen, and precautions taken for meeting or avoiding it. Victory awaits him who has everything in order, luck, people call it. Defeat is certain for him who has neglected to take the necessary precautions in time, this is called bad luck.”
Source: The South Pole
“I may say this is a deluded generation, veiled with ignorance, that tho[ugh] popery and slavery be riding in upon them, do not perceive it; tho[ugh] I am sure there was no man born marked of God above another, for none comes into the world with a saddle on his back, neither any booted and spurred to ride him.”
“I may say this is a deluded generation, veiled with ignorance, that tho popery and slavery be riding in upon them, do not perceive it; tho I am sure there was no man born marked of God above another, for none comes into the world with a saddle on his back, neither any booted and spurred to ride him.”
“I may say,Trust is like a breakable pendant,made of pearly beads,Oh! when it breaks,the Angel face it turns a shame,the heart in drying vain,and forever the lips may detached,to never kiss you Deep?”
“I may see somebody in a club one night and go, Wow, she's the most attractive girl I've seen in a long time. Then I'll see her the next night and be like, Oh no, I don't think so.”
“I may seem happy, but I’m still hurting. A nasty, adulterous divorce will do that.”
Source: Wanted: An Honest Man
“I may seem small, but I’m way too big of a bull to get roped into your bullshit.”
“I may seem smaller than I look, but what people don't know about me is that I once weight-lifted my own weight when I was in high school, ran more miles than anyone else in Physical Education in my class in high school, and was trained by a Shaolin Kung Fu monk while being the only girl in class. I am also trained in archery and firearms. So when it comes to being physically small or petite and even looking like a girly girl; it doesn't matter. I am strong. I am awared and disciplined. And I can leverage the playing field because I am trained. - Kailin Gow in Strong by Kailin Gow”
“I may seem wise to you, but I know that I am still so far from reaching this beautiful land.”
“I may share pictures, meeting people,
But I never share pictures, helping people.
Kindness is reward in itself to be savored,
Kindness with selfie is shallowness despicable.”
Source: Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo