I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I must work hard - not to climb the ladder, but to do important work.”
Source: Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone
“I must work hard to make my singing above reproach; there must be no faults which hard work would take care of.”
“I must work harder to achieve my goal of not seeking approval from those whose approval I'm not even sure is important to me.”
“I must work, so as not to be a fool, to get on, to become a journalist, because that's what I want!... I can't imagine that I would have to lead the same sort of life as Mummyand all the women who do their work and are then forgotten. I must have something besides a husband and children, something that I can devote myself to!”
“I must write each day without fail, not so much for the success of the work, as in order not to get out of my routine.”
Source: Tolstoy's Diaries
“I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.”
Source: Locked rooms and open doors
“I must write now and quickly, before I begin to prefer the perfect version that lives in my head.”
“I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.”
“I must write. If I stop writing my life will have been an abject failure. It is that already to other people. But it could be an abject failure to myself. I will not have earned death.”
Source: Tales of the wide Caribbean
“I must yield to you, for you are irresistible.”
Source: The Complete Plato
“I must've got whacked on the head.
He presented a totally false person for me to fall in love with.”
“I must, before I die, find some way to say the essential thing that is in me, that I have never said yet -- a thing that is not love or hate or pity or scorn, but the very breath of life, fierce and coming from far away, bringing into human life the vastness and the fearful passionless force of non-human things.”
Source: My Philosophical Development
“I must, then, repeat continually that we are forever sundered - and yet, while I breathe and think, I must love him.' - Jane Eyre”
Source: Jane Eyre
“I must. I have fought my last battle. When I saw the Clan at Sunningrocks, the strong helping the weak...and I knew you and the others had gone to confront the pack...I knew my Clan was loyal. I knew StarClan had not turned their backs on us. I knew...I knew that I could not leave you to face the danger alone.”
“I muttered a swear word to myself. After I heard Angel cussing like a sailor when she stubbed her toe, my new resolution was to watch my language. All I needed was a six-year-old mutant with a potty mouth”
“I myself always want to talk about "poetry," not "the poem."”
“I myself am a ball of unfocused longing. When I'm quiet I can hear my heart yearning for impossible things.”
Source: Summer Romance
“I myself am a Buddhist, not a Christian. But I cannot help but think that if Christ ran a public establishment, it would be open to all, and He would be the last to refuse service to anyone. It is, simply put, the most un-Christian of notions.”
“I myself am a builder and get totally excited about building Yahoo! as a brand and building it into a bigger and better company. That's what I intend to do.”
“I myself am a great James Dean fan. He had this aura and enigma about him.”
“I myself am a person who has never resigned myself, who is absolutely never resigned, who can’t imagine it at all. I simply observe, and I observe in so many people, and often very quickly, a resignation that terrifies me, that’s it.”
“I myself am a product of the 60s; I centered my life around sex, drugs and rock and roll until I hit rock bottom and accepted Jesus as my Savior. My mission today is to go forth and tell people about why I follow Christ and also what the Bible teaches, and part of that teaching is that women and men are meant to be together. However, I would never treat anyone with disrespect just because they are different from me. We are all created by the Almighty and like Him, I love all of humanity. We would all be better off if we loved God and loved each other.”
“I myself am a supporter of multilingualism, but multilingualism without a true understanding of universal language will only make us blind and ultimately ineffectual in realizing that very ideal.”
Source: The Fall of Language in the Age of English
“I myself am a very nonviolent person and only resort to violence when I absolutely have to.”
“I myself am a very, very peaceful person. Throughout our history, from our own American revolution to the resistance against apartheid in South Africa, to labor strikes in the US, people have resorted to violence to achieve a more progressive society, from time to time.”
“I myself am an absolute abyss.”
“I myself am best
When least in company.”
Source: The Works of Shakespeare: Twelfth-night; or, What you will. The merry wives of Windsor. The taming of the shrew. The comedy of errors
“I myself am consummately middle class. We grew up in upper-middle-class suburbs in Oklahoma City, and thats very much the same ethos as what Richard Yates and John Cheever wrote about.”
“I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially to the extent to which it has been applied, will be one of the greatest jokes in the history books of the future. Posterity will marvel that so very flimsy and dubious an hypothesis could be accepted with the incredible credulity it has.”
“I myself am doing a full year of experiments every seven years, but I'm sure many other divisions are possible, depending on the field, the possibilities, and personal preferences. One hour a day or a day a week.”
“I myself am frustrated in just where sports are at. It's a hard thing when you're out there working every day, and you know that someone else is cheating and they may not necessarily get caught.”
“I myself am hell;
nobody's here”
“I myself am just an ordinary woman. I simply had no choice.”
“I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.”
“I myself am made up of so many people.”
Source: Etty Hillesum: An Interrupted Life and Letters from Westerbork
“I myself am mixed race - my mother is Korean, and my father is an American Jew - so I've always felt other.”
“I myself am more and more inclined to agree with Omar and Satchel Paige as I grow older: Don't try to rewrite what the moving finger has writ, and don't ever look over your shoulder.”
“I myself am Muslim and I stand on the side of an open society.”
“I myself am not afraid of ghosts; I am afraid of people.”
“I myself am not comfortable with the notion of secularists congregating in groups, except perhaps for defensive purposes: the last thing a secularist should wish to do is to act like a religion, with its rigid hierarchies, its suppression of divergent opinion, and, above all, its ruthless attempts (now mercifully inhibited by laws) to outlaw "heresy" by brute force. Opinions must be changed, one at a time if necessary, but if there are those who wish to persist in religious belief, they should certainly be allowed to do so.”
“I myself am part of the weather and part of the climate and part of the place … It is certainly part of my life of prayer.”
Source: Turning toward the world: the pivotal years
“I myself am pursuing the same instinctive course as the veriest human animal you can think of I am, however young, writing at random straining at particles of light in the midst of a great darkness without knowing the bearing of any one assertion, of any one opinion. Yet may I not in this be free from sin?”
Source: The Complete Works of John Keats
“I myself am quite absorbed by the delicate yellow, delicate soft green, delicate violet of a ploughed and weeded piece of soil.”
Source: Further Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1886-1889
“I myself am still learning how to be me and that's OK. It can take a really long time to become the person you really want to be. Be who you are. It's the greatest gift we can give to ourselves, our community and our world.”
“I myself am usually to be found lying on the bed imitating the dead Chatterton, killing time by reading book after book (the only reliable otherworlds i´ve discovered so far).”
Source: Human Croquet
“I myself and my wife - in order to escape the disgrace of deposition or capitulation - choose death. It is our wish to be burnt immediately on the spot where I have carried out the greatest part of my daily work in the course of a twelve years' service to my people.”
“I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.”
“I myself believe that there is in every painter's life a period of making absurdities. In my case I think that period is already long past.”
“I myself believe that there will one day be time travel because when we find that something isn't forbidden by the over-arching laws of physics we usually eventually find a technological way of doing it.”
“I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.”