I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I am not Captain Save-A-Ho; I can only save one at a time, and that's me!”
“I am not caused by my history-my parents, my childhood and development. These are mirrors in which I may catch glimpses of my image.”
Source: We've had a hundred years of psychotherapy-- and the world's getting worse
“I am not celebrity rich, but I have a job, therefore I can help someone else in need, really, it's not that difficult.”
“I am not certain of the hereafter. Frankly, I'm not all that certain of the here.”
“I am not certain that Lord Carson and I will suit one another."
Mostly because she knew she was falling in love with his brother. But that she wouldn't share.
She couldn't believe she was speaking so boldly to her mother. To anyone, honestly.
Neither, at least according to their expressions, could her mother and Olivia.
"What do you mean?"
For once, her mother was actually asking her a question that didn't presuppose the answer.
"I mean," Eleanor said slowly, feeling how her chest was tightening at even the thought of saying something so undebutante-like, "that I do not wish to go driving with Lord Carson this afternoon. I mean that I would like to be unhampered by an engagement for just a bit more. That how you all are bearing down on me makes it feel as though I am a thing to be manipulated, not a person who could live her own life."
Her mother's mouth dropped open, while Olivia looked as though she didn't know whether to cheer or to slap her sister.
"Live your own life?" her mother said, her voice rising into a screech. Eleanor winced at the sound. "Your sister made it impossible for any of the rest of you to live your own lives, unless you plan on living your lives in penury and disgrace."
"It isn't that horrible," Olivia pointed out in a reasonable tone. "The worst that could happen is that we settle for gentlemen we actually like rather than gentlemen you and Father decide on for us."
Now Eleanor wished she could cheer for her sister.”
Source: Lady Be Bad
“I am not chaste."
Ruairi pased. She hadn't noticed the strained tone in her voice, but an inner torment began to gnaw at her. The harder she tried to ignore the truth, the more it persisted. She lowered her eyes and waited to be judged.
He lifted her chin with his finger and his eyes captured hers. "Then ye are in luck... because neither am I.”
Source: My Highland Spy
“I am not choosing one of your paths, I am making one of my own.”
“I am not choosing,” she said. “Not like this. Not in a room built by people who killed you and stole my brother and abused Rami.”
“Refuse, and fate will choose for you,” Ment-Hab warned.”
Source: The Last Dynasty Saga: Book I: Awaken the Lineage
“I am not Christ or a philanthropist, old lady, I am all the contrary of a Christ I fight for the things I believe in, with all the weapons at my disposal and try to leave the other man dead so that I don't get nailed to a cross or any other place.”
“I am not Christ or a philanthropist, old lady, I am all the contrary of a Christ.”
“I am not clear that God manoeuvres physical things? After all, a conjuring trick with bones only proves that it is as clever as a conjuring trick with bones”
“I am not clear what the U.S. means when they use the term "entity." For us here in Taiwan, we believe that we are a country, a democratic country.”
“I am not close to retirement. I still have a lot more that I can achieve. There are younger guys coming into F1, but I am not old and I'm not finished.”
“I am not closed off to anything right now. That is what I was saying about not having any more walls up. I don't want to deprive myself of any bit of life.”
“I am not collarbones or drunken letters never sent. I am not the way I leave or left or didn’t know how to handle anything,
at any time,
and I am not your fault.”
“I am not comfortable with abstract writing, stories that look like essays: you have to see, I need to see.”
“I am not coming to the Shire. You must settle its affairs yourselves; that is what you have been trained for. Do you not yet understand? My time is over: it is no longer my task to set things to rights, nor to help folk to do so. And as for you, my dear friends, you will need no help. You are grown up now. Grown indeed very high; among the great you are, and I have no longer any fear at all for any of you.”
Source: The Return of the King
“I am not commanding you, but I want to test the sincerity of your love by comparing it to the earnestness of others.”
Source: A Walk to Remember
“I am not committed in any way to the traditional concept of character - the concept of "character trait" as involving predictable behavior. I am committed to a view in the neighborhood - the view that the moral worth of one's actions depends on the quality of will expressed in them.”
“I am not compassionate/
or empathetic/
I wish people would stop assuming that of me/
just because I'm a girl/
who smiles occasionally”
Source: Broken Wrist Poetry
“I am not competing with anyone other than myself. I want to be excellent at whatever I do.”
“I am not concerned about being better than others, my only competition is with myself. My focus is on improving and becoming a better version of who I was the day before.”
“I am not concerned about how much educated I am or how much I know....i am only concerned about how much ignorant I am”
“I am not concerned about the 80 BMP consistency law of popular music. I'm concerned with other things, and they're very valid.”
“I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known.”
Source: The Ethics of Confucius
“I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.”
“I am not concerned with being liked or disliked. I am concerned with being respected”
“I am not concerned with dodging the odium of the word. The proposed definition of democracy is socialistic . . . (democracy) should be characterized not so much socialistic, as unscrupulously and loyally nationalistic.”
“I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. Yet these elegies are to this generation in no sense conciliatory. They may be to the next. All a poet can do today is warn. That is why the true Poets must be truthful.”
“I am not concerned with simply surviving. I am very concerned about improving. I start each day by examining yesterday's work and looking for areas where I can improve. I am always trying to draw the characters better, and trying to design each panel somewhat in the manner a painter would treat his canvas.”
“I am not concerned with truth, nor with conventional notions of what is beautiful.”
“I am not concerned with verisimilitude... I am not concerned with capturing reality. I am concerned with creating it myself.”
Source: Tracey Moffatt - laudanum: Katalog zur Ausstellung Tracey Moffatt - laudanum . Ulmer Museum 6. Juni - 18. Juli 1999, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein 11. Sept. - 24. Okt. 1999, Kunstverein Freiburg im Marienbad 14. Juli - 27. Aug. 2000
“I am not confident around people. Maybe, I have become slightly more confident over the years because
of my profession.”
“I am not confident that Europe can make it.”
“I am not confident unless I am playing someone else.”
“I am not confused about what I want to do in my life. I simply love to try and experience new things. Why are you so jealous.”
“I am not conscious of a single experience throughout my three months' stay in England and Europe that made me feel that after all East is East and West is West. On the contrary, I have been convinced more than ever that human nature is much the same, no matter under what clime it flourishes, and that if you approached people with trust and affection you would have ten-fold trust and thousand-fold affection returned to you.”
Source: The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas
“I am not conscious of working especially hard, or of 'working' at all. Writing and teaching have always been, for me, so richly rewarding that I don't think of them as work in the usual sense of the word.”
“I am not contain'd between my hat and boots.”
Source: Walt Whitman's
“I am not convinced that either the position, rewards or achievements have been worth the cost. My personal and married life and child raising have surely suffered from the professional attainments I have achieved.”
“I am not convinced that means [Donald] Trump is a lock to be the next president but it does suggest that what he has tapped into is both lasting and powerful.”
“I am not convinced that men and women were ever meant to share the same house, though some people can do it beautifully.”
Source: The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way
“I am not convinced that there is such a thing as a soul”
“I am not crazy. I am not a man that hates this country in which I was born. I want to see you get past what you are facing. America is facing that which will destroy her as a nation and break her power completely.”
“I am not creative, I'm just alive.”
Source: Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets
“I am not creative, I'm just alive,
Creativity is just a byproduct.
If you don't impose limits of norm,
Every blood vessel is creation-duct.”
Source: Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets
“I am not criticizing investing in the stock market; I am an investor.”
“I am not cruel, only truthful.”
Source: Selected Poems of Sylvia Plath
“I am not crying for you, stupid man. I am crying for me.”
Source: A Heart So Fierce and Broken
“I am not crying, but have tears in my heart.”