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 going to lay down in front of a bulldozer and protest the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) construction, as that is so dangerous! Instead, I will develop the science to shut down the known biologically toxic project in Hawaii.”
“I am not going to let anyone into America who is not vetted, who we do not have confidence in. But I am not going to slam the door on women and children.”
“I am not going to let Athens affect the rest of my life.”
“I AM NOT GOING TO LET FEAR BE MY LEADER.”
Source: Dying on The Inside and Suffocating on The Outside
“I am not going to live with regret for not having tried.”
Source: The Undead Pool
“I am not going to live, and I can choose to be as much for her as I can be, to burn as brightly for her as I wish, and for a shorter time, than to burden her with someone only half-alive for a longer time. i is my choice, William, and you cannot make it for me.”
Source: Clockwork Princess
“I am not going to make any commitments to the teachers union to do anything until they do something that's other than in their own self-interest. And everything they have done so far is in their self-interests, and that's it.”
“I am not going to make decisions based on barricades and blockades, nor am I going to make decisions based on the short-term volatility of the oil price.”
“I am not going to make promises I can't keep. I am not going to talk about big ideas like single-payer and then not level with people about how much it will cost.”
“I am not going to Mars unless they have a McD's dollar menu.”
“I am not going to play the victim.”
“I am not going to put my daughter under any sort of stresses.”
“I am not going to put the blame on you. But… guess what? I am still here.”
Source: Dying on The Inside and Suffocating on The Outside
“I am not going to respect... gray hairs unless there is wisdom beneath them.”
“I am not going to say I have been a saint. I have not been a perfect man. None is perfect but the Father, which is in Heaven.”
“I am not going to say I told you so, but I did.”
“I am not going to say that people who enter the military are doing anything wrong. As I often jokingly tell my students, "Many of my best of friends are in the military!" But it's true. Perhaps not in the Aristotelian sense of the word "friendship" but on so many other levels that matter, we are truly friends.”
“I am not going to say you are right because I could not take it if you smirked." "I do not smirk," Vikirnoff claimed. "Yes, you do. And I detest that after all these centuries, you are making sense. Frankly, its scary." "It is only that you are not making sense sunce you acquired a lifemate. I hope that does not happen to all men. It would be a shame." "Your sense of humor is not improving," Nicolae pointed out dryly. "I do not have a sense of humor." Vikirnoff answered. "I had not noticed," Nicolae teased.”
“I am not going to sell my soul for a fight. Some promoters don't believe in the philosophy that the fighters get the lion's share of a fight. They think they should be getting the lion's share for making the calls, for sitting on the chairs and discussing what is going to happen on the night. My father and I are the fighters - we don't believe in that.”
“I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.”
“I am not going to show you my art. I am going to share it with you. If I show it to you it becomes an exhibition, and in time it will be pushed so far into the back of your mind that it will be lost. But by sharing it with you, you will not only retain it forever, but I too will improve.”
“I am not going to sit here and say I am never going to drink again. That is not realistic.”
“I am not going to sit on my ass as the events that affect me unfold to determine the course of my life. I'm going to take a stand. I'm going to defend it.”
“I am not going to speculate about the emotions that might be involved in avian infidelity.”
Source: Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird
“I am not going to spend any time whatsoever in attacking the Foreign Secretary. If we complain about the tune, there is no reason to attack the monkey when the organ grinder is present.”
“I am not going to stress the usual argument that the police habitually mistreat Negroes. Every Negro knows this. There is scarcely any black man, woman, or child in the land who at some point or other has not been mistreated by a policeman. (A young man in Watts said, "The riots will continue because I, as a Negro, am immediately considered to be a criminal by the police and, if I have a pretty woman with me, she is a tramp even if she is my wife or mother.")”
Source: Down the Line: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin
“I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.”
“I am not going to talk about patriotism, duty, liberty, and the defense of freedom because that's all dung to a soldier.”
“I am not going to talk about religious beliefs, but about matters so obvious that it has gone out of style to mention them.”
“I am not going to tell people what I don't believe.”
“I am not going to tell you how I believe, but I do believe in God.”
Source: Quentin Tarantino: Interviews, Revised and Updated
“I am not going to tell you my name, not yet at any rate.' A queer half-knowing, half-humorous look came with a green flicker into his eyes. 'For one thing it would take a long while: my name is growing all the time, and I've lived a very long, long time; so my name is like a story. Real names tell you the story of things they belong to in my language, in the Old Entish as you might say. It is a lovely language, but it takes a very long time saying anything in it, because we do not say anything in it, unless it is worth taking a long time to say, and to listen to.”
“I am not going to think about it. It was ugly, but it’s over, and I’m not going to think about it.”
Source: Speak
“I am not going to think about the things I am not going to think about.”
Source: Endgame
“I am not going to use the federal government's authority deliberately to circumvent the natural inclination of people to live in ethnic homogeneous neighborhoods.”
“I am not going to wait and have us plunge back into a contentious national debate that has very little chance of succeeding. Let's make the Affordable Care Act work for everybody.”
“I am not gone but merely walk within you.”
“I am not good, and I told you so. Somehow I cannot forgive her for her neglect of me as a child, when I would have clung to her. Besides, I hardly ever heard from her when I was at school. And I know she put a stop to my coming over to her wedding. I saw the letter she wrote to Madame Lefevre. A child should be brought up with its parents, if it is to think them infallible when it grows up.”
Source: Wives and Daughters
“I am not good at aligning myself with any movement that comes along but also I don't like the thought of sitting back and doing nothing.”
“I am not good at dealing with the modern media. I have not felt I have been as effective as I should be.”
“I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect.”
“I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect. My gift, or fatal flaw, is for nostalgia. I have sometimes been accused of demanding perfection, of rejecting heart's desires as soon as I get close enough that the mysterious impressionistic gloss disperses into plain solid dots, but the truth is less simplistic than that. I know very well that perfection is made up of frayed, off-struck mundanities. I suppose you could say my real weakness is a kind of long-sightedness: usually it is only at a distance, and much too late, that I can see the pattern.”
“I am not good at small talk. I will hide in a cupboard to avoid chitty-chat.”
“I am not good. I am not kind. Maybe I am not even safe. But whatever you want from me, I will give you.”
“I am not good. Nor am I evil. I am no hero. Nor am I villain. I am AIDAN.”
Source: Obsidio
“I am not good. I am not virtuous. I am not sympathetic. I am not generous. I am merely and above all a creature of intense passionate feeling. I feel—everything. It is my genius. It burns me like fire.”
Source: Tender Darkness: A Mary MacLane Sampler
“I am not greedy of money myself, but the monotony of always screwing and paring is more tiresome than the monotony of riches.”
“I am not greedy, so I would gladly give a song to someone else to sing if it makes more sense.”
“I am not greedy. I do not seek to possess the major portion of your days. I am content if, on those rare occasions whose truth can be stated only by poetry, you will, perhaps, recall an image, even only the aura of my films.”
“I am not guilty, I am innocent.”