I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I must be the only player in the world who ever injured himself for a tournament by stepping on a shell on the beach. I don't know what I'm going to do.”
“I must be too crazy to say no to a big adventure”
“I must be very clear in one thing... Being a pageant girl is not who I am or what defines me.”
“I must be wanting to be President. Every young man does. But I won't let myself think of it; I must not, because if I do, I will begin to work for it; I'll be careful, calculating, cautious in word and act, and so - I'll beat myself.”
“I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.”
“I must be willing to give whatever it takes to do good to others. This requires that I be willing to give until it hurts. Otherwise, there is no true love in me, and I bring injustice, not peace, to those around me.”
Source: In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers (Easyread Large Edition)
“I must be without remorse or regrets as I am without excuse; for from the instant of my upsurge into being, I carry the weight of the world by myself alone without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, whatever I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant.”
“I must bear it well as I may. As my sainted mother used to say, we never come to the kingdom of Heaven but by troubles.”
Source: The Lady Elizabeth
“I must beg you to indulge me in the matter of hyphens.... You will find that I have marked out a great many in the proofs. We arein danger of Germanizing our printing by using them so much, and I have a very decided preference in the matter.”
“I must beg your forgiveness, Father. For years I hated you for leaving me here alone. I told myself you'd got the death you deserved. That's why I never came to see you. Forgive me.'
My father never liked tears. He thought a man never cried for others, only for himself. And if he did cry, he was a coward and deserved no pity. I didn't want to cry for my father and betray him yet again.
'I would have liked you to have seen my name in a book, even if you couldn't read it. I would have liked you to have been here with me, to see that your son is managing to get on in life and has been able to do things that you were never allowed to do. I would have likd to have known you, Father, and for you to have known me. I turned you into a stranger in order to forget you and now I'm the stranger.”
Source: The Angel's Game
“I must begin by saying something about the old Germany. That Germany, too, suffered from superficial judgment, because appearances and reality were not always kept apart in people's minds.”
“I must begin with a good body of facts and not from a principle (in which I always suspect some fallacy) and then as much deduction as you please.”
“I must begin, not with hypothesis, but with specific instances, no matter how minute.”
“I must believe in something bigger than myself to do something bigger than myself. Otherwise, I will die never being more than who I was when I was born. And that is waste of everything that I was supposed to be.”
“I must beware of the photo, get what I can of it and then go.”
“I must bless, I must praise
That you, my swan, who have
All gifts that to the swan
Impulsive Nature gave,
The majesty and pride,
Last night should add
Your voluntary love.”
“I must brave the interior of the most tawdry and literally trumpery tower of them all ... the Trump Taj Mahal. For taking the name of the priceless mausoleum of Agra, one of the beauties and wonders of the world, for that alone Donald Trump should be stripped naked and whipped with scorpions along the boardwalk.- It is as if a giant toad has raped a butterfly.”
Source: Stephen Fry in America
“I must break out...
...start a new life...
been here for years...
might be getting into a rut...
something a bit more exciting...
more adventurous...
something with more of a challenge...
There's not much opportunity for self-advancement in toilets.”
“I must bridge the gap between adolescent glitter and mature glow.”
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
“I must bruise her, for all the commonplace wanting of him that ―were I an ordinary girl, with an ordinary heart ― I would surely feel myself.”
Source: Fingersmith
“I must catch up on procrastination.”
“I must caution you,” James said. “A compliment is forthcoming.” She was surprised into a laugh. He stared down at her steadily. His gray eyes were warm. “Last time, you requested adequate warning.” Her cheeks heated under the weight of his gaze. “Very well. If you insist.” “You look beautiful this evening,” he said. Her smile of amusement faded. For all his absurdity, he was heart-meltingly serious.”
Source: A Lady of Conscience
“I must cease living the false life of an imposter, and stop worrying about the future or risk sacrificing the joy of living in the moment. I am a seeker. I shall listen to the teaching my blood whispers and ecstatically accept life unfolding in whatever manner my innate material demands.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“I must change my life so that I can live it, not wait for it.”
“I must choose between despair and Energy──I choose the latter.”
“I must choose my words carefully in order to avoid any negative interpretation. Among politicians, this is a tactic known as lying.”
“I must cite an intrinsic condition of the universe. We set forth in any direction which seems convenient; each leads to the same place: the end of the universe.”
Source: Rhialto the Marvellous
“I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand.”
“I must complete my quest or I will die.”
Source: Dark Awakened
“I must complete the sacred mission.”
“I must confess a shameful secret: I love Chicago best in the cold.”
Source: The Devil In The White City
“I must confess I am a fop in my heart; ill customs influence my very senses, and I have been so used to affectation that without the help of the air of the court what is natural cannot touch me.”
“I must confess I don't own Harry Potter DVDs. My parents do. They have them all. And they like watching them. They've got all their home videos done in HD quality! They love it. But I struggle very much. I'm very self-conscious as an actor, anyway. I don't like watching my own performances, even in this recent one.”
“I must confess I knew very little about the trance scene, I'm more house and commercial dance but it was really interesting and different.”
“I must confess I took a couple or three jobs just for the money.”
“I must confess I've always had a couple of pinball machines in my home and really have enjoyed some of the old classics, like Fireball.”
“I must confess it was very unexpected and I am very startled at my metamorphosis into a chemist.”
“I must confess my distaste for any proposal to use public funds for the support of selected, and thereby, privileged, industrialists, the more particularly if this is to be based on bureaucratic views of what is good and what is bad by way of industrial development, but I have been studying the report referred to with some interest.”
“I must confess that I am deeply troubled. I fear that human beings are intent upon acting out a vast deathwish and that it lies with us now to make every effort to promote resistance to the insanity and brutality of policies which encompass the extermination of hundreds of millions of human beings.”
Source: The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell
“I must confess that I am interested in leisure in the same way that a poor man is interested in money.”
“I must confess that I am usually drawn to sadness, and loneliness has never been a stranger to me. But love tried to welcome me, but my soul drew back, guilty of lust and sin.”
“I must confess that I and a few others are burdened with heavy responsibilities regarding the future of criticism. I am certainly, if not the inventor, then at least one of the first systematizers of an absurd critical practice that, as soon as it had peeked its beak out of the nest, flapping its new wet wings, took flight in the minds of the young, becoming a wild ox and sowing avant-garde literature with the mighty tomes of what might as well be called the abstract bear.”
“I must confess that I have never found myself standing at some terribly critical juncture where I had to trade my life to insure your liberties. But there have been untold millions who found themselves standing on battlefields strewn with unimaginable horrors who had to face that very choice. And although words fall miserably short in framing a heart overflowing with appreciation, I want to thank those who at those moments and in those places decided to hand me my liberty through the sacrifice of their lives.”
“I must confess that I know nothing whatsoever about true underlying reality, never having met any.”
“I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world”
Source: The Island of Doctor Moreau: Top 100 Classic Novels
“I must confess that I too am a woman and that I am always prepared to applaud a woman who is more daring than I, and is equal to a man in fighting for freedom of behavior.”
Source: The writings of a savage
“I must confess that I'm not a great reader. At the moment I'm reading my son's 'Stig of the Dump' by Clive King and I've got a plant catalogue on the go.”
“I must confess that I've never trusted the Web. I've always seen it as a coward's tool. Where does it live? How do you hold it personally responsible? Can you put a distributed network of fiber-optic cable "on notice"? And is it male or female? In other words, can I challenge it to a fight?”
“I must confess that if I had been consulted whether to establish a Nobel Prize in economics, I should have decidedly advised against it.”
“I must confess, that my
heart is like a frozen lake,
only pretends to be firm,
to shroud its tearful ache.
So tread over this heart,
as often as you like,
but one of these days,
if it feels your warmth strike;
its cold, thin surface
will abruptly break asunder,
and then it won’t resist
from pulling you deep under.”