I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I must feel and let go in order to grow.”
“I must feel certain that not only at the moment of my death shall I be able to account for the time I have lived; I ought to be ready at every moment of my life to confront myself and say - This is what I have done.”
Source: Self-Portrait Of A Hero: The Letters Of Jonathan Netanyahu
“I must feel the fire of my soul so my intellectual blues can set others on fire.”
“I must fight against the regret that would see me defeated. I cannot change what has happened, but it needn’t separate me from a happy future.”
Source: A Lady of Secret Devotion
“I must
fight till I have conquered in myself what
causes war, but I would not believe it.”
Source: Nevertheless
“I must fight unto the death the unholy attempt to impose British methods and British institutions on India.”
Source: Gandhigrams
“I must fight with all my strength so that the little positive things that my health allows me to do might be pointed toward helping the revolution. The only real reason for living.”
“I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment.”
Source: The Collector
“I must find a truth that is true for me.”
“I must find myself a life, a new life, even if all of life consists only of an endless search for life. What is respect compared to this other thing: being happy and having satisfied the heart’s pride. Even being unhappy is better than being respected. I am unhappy despite the respect I enjoy; and so in my own eyes I don’t deserve this respect; for I consider only happiness worthy of respect. Therefore I must try whether it is possible to be happy without insisting on respect.”
Source: The Tanners
“I must find you. So I travel to the depths of hell and conquer perverse monsters and repulsive demons and the deceitful vicious devil himself to find the truth.”
Source: Love Quotes
“I must firmly adhere to the views I have held and practice, that Socialism to succeed must be practical, tolerant, cohesive and consciously compromising with Progressive forces running, if not so far, in parallel lines towards its own goal.”
“I must first have the sense of God's possession of me before I can have the sense of His presence with me.”
Source: The Normal Christian Life
“I must first know myself, as the Delphian inscription says; to be curious about that which is not my concern, while I am still in ignorance of my own self, would be ridiculous. And therefore I bid farewell to all this; the common opinion is enough for me. For, as I was saying, I want to know not about this, but about myself: am I a monster more complicated and swollen with passion than the serpent Typho, or a creature of a gentler and simpler sort, to whom Nature has given a diviner and lowlier destiny?”
“I must first possess an understanding of who the person is before I can create a vision of what they can become, for the truly discerning person knows that the former has already laid the groundwork for the latter.”
“I must follow my Lord. No matter what. I must renew my allegiance every morning. It is His voice I must listen to, not the voices of those around me, however strident, however persuasive. It is His Word that must govern my life, not the words of others. God Himself has written a Book (think of it!) that must be the authority in my life.”
“I must follow the inscrutable exhortations of my soul.”
“I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?”
“I must follow them. I am their leader.”
Source: Conflicts of Principle
“I must for myself insist that when finished, that is when all the parts are in place and are working, that now it has become an object and will therefore have its boundaries as definite as the prow, the stern, the sides, and bottom bound as a boat.”
Source: Selected Writings
“I must forever imagine myself comparing every man I meet to Mr. Darcy and finding the otherwise worthy gentleman wanting.”
Source: A Lasting Love Affair: Darcy & Elizabeth
“I must forget you forever; that kind face, beautiful smile and heartbreaking black eyes, I should have known that, angels are not made for humans.”
Source: A moment with God ; Poetry
“I must forgive without noise or fuss.”
Source: The African Sermons
“I must frankly admit that... I should probably lose all interest in life and would rather not be a German at all. But since, thank the Lord, this cannot be done, we have no need to be surprised that the health, unspoiled people avoid 'bourgeois mass meetings' as the devil holy water.”
Source: Mein Kampf
“I must furnish those, who would protect or save life, with an energy source, which produces energy so cheaply that nuclear fission will not only be uneconomical, but ridiculous. This is the task I have set myself in what little life I have left.”
Source: The Energy Evolution – Harnessing Free Energy from Nature: Volume 4 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger’s Eco-Technology Series
“I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.”
“I must get out all my ambitions and dust them.”
Source: ANNE SHIRLEY Complete Series - ALL 14 Books in One Volume: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more: Including the Memoirs & Letters of Lucy Maud Montgomery
“I must give myself permission not to like myself. It's ok. Plenty of other people don't like me either. And I have much higher standards.”
“I must give up seeing people, I told myself.”
Source: Earthly Powers
“I must give you a piece of intelligence that you perhaps already know, namely that the ungodly arch-villain Voltaire has died miserably like a dog, just like a brute. That is his reward!”
Source: The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1769-1791)
“I must give you this warning: your journeys will rarely ever go as you plan. You will make mistakes, and you will feel lost. Whenever that happens, look to the light and keep moving forward in faith.”
Source: Rip Van Winkle and the Pumpkin Lantern
“I must go deeper and even stronger into my treasure mine and stint nothing of time, toil, or torture.”
“I must go down to the sea again For the call of the running tide It's a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied.”
“I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.”
“I must go down to the seas again to find where I buried the hatchet with Yesterday.”
“I must go forward where I have never been instead of backwards where I have”
“I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.”
Source: Collected Stories of Carson McCullers
“I must go in, the fog is rising.”
Source: The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson
“I must go on living. And, though it may be childish of me, I can't go on in simple compliance. From now on I must struggle with the world. I thought that Mother might well be the last of those who can end their lives beautifully and sadly, struggling with no one, neither hating nor betraying anyone. In the world to come there will be no room for such people. The dying are beautiful, but to live, to survive – those things somehow seem hideous and contaminated with blood.”
“I must go," she says, leaning in to kiss him one last time. "Try to remember me."
He laughs, the sound breezy and light as he pulls her close, leaves ghosts of charcoal fingers on her skin. "How could I possibly forget?”
“I must go there today -
Tomorrow the plum blossoms
Will scatter.”
Source: Dewdrops on a Lotus Leaf: Zen Poems of Ryokan
“I must go through life a jack of all trades, and wanting. Am I to be cursed with dilettantism till I die? [...] Am I, the most inveterate and consistent worshipper of the shrine of Beauty in all my life never to accomplish something beautiful?”
Source: Violet to Vita: The Letters of Violet Trefusis to Vita Sackville-West, 1910-1921
“I must go to Nature disarmed of perspective and stretch myself like a large transparent canvas upon her in the hope that, my submission being perfect, the imprint of a beautiful and useful truth would be taken.”
Source: Rabbit Angstrom: a tetralogy
“I MUST go to what desperately frightens me - the chance of failure.”
“I must go, uncertain of my fate; but I shall return hither, or follow your party, as soon as possible. A word, a look will be enough to decide whether I enter your father's house tonight or never.”
“I must go, not only to those who need me, but to those who need me most.”
“I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.”
“I must have 25 AT&T iPhones, maybe more than that. I've got plenty of Verizons. I just don't have them in the small size.”
“I must have a drink of breakfast.”
“I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. ~Mark Twain, "The Innocents Abroad”