I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I must have loved you a lot.”
Source: Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)
“I must have missed the fine print disclaimer in my school textbooks while learning about the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution. It must have read: Warning – by learning this material it will make you a future enemy of the state.”
“I must have my share in the conversation.”
Source: Exploring Pride and Prejudice (Includes Jane Austen's Original Novel): A Journey through the 1995 TV Series Starring Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle
“I must have no fear of failure. It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the Master Work.”
“I must have physical exercise, or my temper'll certainly be ruined.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy (Illustrated)
“I must have played every college and university at least three times, and that goes for most of the clubs. I'd be on the road six days a week, go home and change bags, and then be gone for another six days.”
“I must have read every issue of 'Punch' published in the 20th century, and I think in the process I picked up the true voice of English humour - that amiable, fairly liberal, laconic voice which you find in something like 'Three Men in a Boat.'”
“I must have seen more sunrises than any other actress in the history of Hollywood.”
“I must have some sort of record in failing to get into the charts.”
“I must have something to engross my thoughts, some object in life which will fill this vacuum, and prevent this sad wearing away of the heart.”
Source: Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women: Autobiographical Sketches
“I must have stood there for five minutes trying to talk myself into opening it. The unknown is a vast paralyzing limbo. I’d like to tell you that the monster under the bed is rarely as bad as your fear of it, but in my experience it’s almost always worse.”
Source: Bloodfever
“I must have the personal dialogue, the private time, with each painting in progress. I can't share it with anyone until it's done.”
“I must have the sun and warmth. I need to be in the sun - I'm a true island baby.”
“I must have told my cat I love him at least 123,456 times, but perceiving the words were just Noise Air, I liked to let my hands do my communicating. From my heart, down my arm, through my hand and into his body, each time I pet him I wanted him to feel my love.”
Source: Powdered Saxophone Music
“I must have true love or nothing.”
Source: Love-Letters to Victor Hugo: Works Of Hugo
“I must have truly been under his spell, believing anything is acceptable when you're in love.”
Source: The Bucket List to Mend a Broken Heart
“I must have women - there is nothing unbends the mind like them.”
“I must hold in balance the sense of the futility of effort and the sense of the necessity to struggle; the conviction of the inevitability of failure and still the determination to 'succeed'-and, more than these, the contradiction between the dead hand of the past and the high intentions of the future. If I could do this through the common ills-domestic, professional and personal-then the ego would continue as an arrow shot from nothingness to nothingness with such force that only gravity would bring it to earth at last.”
Source: Fitzgerald: My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920-1940
“I must honestly declare my conviction that, since the days of the Reformation, there never has been so much profession of religion without practice, so much talking about God without walking with Him, so much hearing God's words without doing them.”
Source: Holiness: It's Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots
“I must honor those who fight of their own free will, he said to himself. And I must try to imitate their courage by following my path as a pacifist, wherever it takes me.”
“I must hurry back to my house and my flowers in Monaco.”
“I must identify myself with Africa. Then I will have an identity.”
“I must indeed abide the Doom of Men whether I will or nill: the loss and the silence. But I say to you, King of the Numenoreans, not till now have I understood the tale of your people and their fall. As wicked fools I scorned them, but I pity them at last. For if this is indeed, as the Elves say, the gift of the One to Men, it is bitter to receive.”
“I must, indeed, have had a sorry taste to be intimate with a blotched wretch like you.”
Source: Snarleyyow or the Dog Fiend
“I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading.”
Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations
“I must just think aloud, so as not to keep the public waiting.”
Source: The Life of Captain Sir Richard F. Burton
“I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death.”
Source: The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics
“I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must never let it get snowed under or turned aside; I must make it the main object of life to press on to that other country and to help others to do the same.”
Source: Mere Christianity
“I must keep my head and not give in to desire, for desire is what causes women to drown.”
Source: The Dovekeepers: A Novel
“I must keep on rowing, not until I reach port but until I reach my grave.”
“I must keep on trying, just to keep the experiment going until I get tired of it all. Even if the last result is not necessarily the best, I stop when my interest in the problem wanes.”
“I must keep some standard of principle fixed within myself.”
Source: Conversations With Lincoln
“I must keep to my own style & go on in my own way.”
“I must know every aspect of my personal finances. Managing your money will help you make your money work for you.”
“I must know good yoga classes in about 25 cities on this planet.”
“I must know when it is enough. And I must trust God — again and again I was learning and relearning to trust the truth who had entered my sons’ nursery. The rusty and decrepit habit of trusting in only myself, only abiding in my own ability to make things happen, died hard and slow.”
Source: Becoming Mrs. Lewis
“I must know, he thinks. It must be clear to me. There is a world which is closed to him, a world of shadings, gradations, nuances, and subtleties. He is a genius and yet he is too explicit. June slips between his fingers. You cannot posses without loving.”
“I must lay down the law as I understand it, and as I read it in books of authority.”
“I must learn more about these people―try to understand them, put myself in their place. No, instead I am so busy keeping my head above water that I scarcely know who I am, much less who anyone else is.”
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“I must learn that the purpose of my life belongs to God, not me. God is using me from His great personal perspective, and all He asks of me is that I trust Him. ... When I stop telling God what I want, He can freely work His will in me without any hindrance. ... Self-pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it I cannot be used by God for His purpose in the world.”
“I must learn to be as the bear in a cage with the stick that pokes it always, through the bars. The bear acts as if the stick is made of air, and takes no notice of it, even when it is sharpened and draws blood. I must do the same.”
Source: Sinful Folk
“I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”
“I must learn to express the gentle vibration of things: the intrinsically rough texture. I must find this expression in drawings; in the way in which I draw my nudes here in Paris, more original and at the same time sensitively observed.”
“I must learn to let go, let it all go, center myself and open my mind. The ideals, concepts and ideas of the self being separate from the whole of all consciousness must change. We are one large family, you are I, and I am you.”
“I must learn to love the fool in me the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries.”
“I must learn what I can to teach what I must.”
“I must leave you, Claudia. 'Tis unlikely we will have another opportunity to speak alone again before tomorrow." His lips brushed against hers in a kiss so brief that it was over almost before she realized it began. "Do not kiss anyone else until then. I want you to save your kisses for me.”
Source: Betrothed
“I must let go now. Let you go. Love is too often the answer for staying. Too seldom the reason for going. I drop the line and watch you drift away. All along you thought the fiery current of your lover's breast pulled you to the deep. But it was my heart-tide releasing you to float adrift with seaweed.”
Source: Where the Crawdads Sing
“I must let go of my need for the world to love me.”
“I must let myself flow in a river of words, or I shall choke”
Source: White Nights: And Other Stories