I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I only hope, for the sake of the rising male sex generally, that you may be found in as vulnerable and soft-hearted a mood by the first eligible young fellow who appeals to your compassion.”
Source: Oliver Twist
“I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.”
“I only hope that we never lose sight of one thing — that it was all started by a mouse.”
“I only hope that we shall not wait to adopt the program until after our astronomers have reported a new and unsuspected asteroid moving across their fields of vision with menacing speed. At that point it will be too late!”
“I only hope that when I am free, as they are free to go in quest, of the knowledge beyond the bounds of life, it may not seem better to me to rest.”
Source: Frost: Poems
“I only hope that wherever we might go, as far away from here as it can be, that we go there together.”
Source: Ariadne
“I only hope those rumors I hear about what goes on in prison are greatly
exaggerated.”
“I only hope to do well enough before I die to have a house as big as my rich Uncle Ed and Aunt Carole.”
“I only included things that everybody likes, like violence, flowers, children, women, friendship and death.”
“I only invoked what you already knew.”
Source: The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition
“I only judge people by the depth of their squat.”
“I only judge people in one way. I like them or I don't. But I don't have preconceived ideas.”
“I only just found you, I can't lose you now”
“I only just learned today that Wei Kingdom is so desperately short of men that the Fifth Princess must come steal—er... ‘request’ someone else’s husband.”
Source: Wangye, Your Consort Is a Walking Disaster: (Esthalis: Nire)
“I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out.”
“I only knew a few people, literally a handful of people, al of whom had been in the Party long before I was, all of whom were known by the FBI and were known to the Committee.”
“I only knew basic western trail riding. Nothing fancy.”
“I only knew classical music, which to me was the only true music. The only way I could survive at the bar was to mix the classical music with popular songs, and that meant I had to sing. What happened was that I discovered I had a voice plus the talent to mix classical music together with more popular songs, which at the time I detested.”
“I only knew that there was a certain rightness in life--the feeling you got when you did something the way you knew you should.”
Source: Dragonwings: and related readings
“I only knew that when they came back, they brought fear with them. Tracked in like mud across the carpet.”
Source: The High House
“I only knew the schoolbooks said he "died in the wilderness, of a broken heart."
"More than him has done that," said Antonia sadly, and the girls murmured assent.”
Source: My Ántonia
“I only knew to treat the male asshole as if it had a grenade buried inside of it that could ignite a deadly explosion of anger, trauma, and sexual confusion.”
“I only knew what was in my mind, and I wished to express it clearly”
Source: Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant: Volumes One and Two
“I only know from my own personal experience, and I personally feel that there's a cyclical nature to things, so you don't want to start making generalizations about how bad things have become in comparison to the old days.”
“I only know how little I know”
“I only know how to approach a place by walking. For what does a street photographer do but walk and watch and wait and talk, and then watch and wait some more, trying to remain confident that the unexpected, the unknown, or the secret heat of the known awaits just around the corner.”
“I only know how to be cruel or to laugh when I am discomposed.”
Source: The Queen of Nothing
“I only know how to be me and also become a new version of me each day otherwise what's the point of living life”
“I only know how to be one thing. And that’s me. Take it or leave it. I don’t really give a shit.”
“i only know
how to crave
skin against skin
and my heart against
a chest
like a fingerprint”
“I only know how to do me, so that's just what I'm going to do.”
“I only know how to play one role: me.”
“I only know how to play two ways: reckless and abandon.”
“I only know now that the scientists are wrong.
The earth is flat.
I know because I was tossed right of the edge and I've been trying to climb back up of 17 years. I've been trying to climb back up for 17 years but it's nearly impossible to beat gravity when no one is willing to give you a hand.”
“I only know now that the scientists are wrong.
The world is flat.
I know because I was tossed right off the edge and I've been trying to hold on for 17 years. I've been trying to climb back up for 17 years but it's nearly impossible to beat gravity when no one is willing to give you a hand.”
Source: Shatter Me
“I only know of one divinity - kindness.”
Source: Divane Dynamite: Only truth in the cosmos is love
“I only know of one divinity - kindness. Save kindness all else is fiction - from the fundamental facts of physics to the direst doctrines of scripture.”
Source: Divane Dynamite: Only truth in the cosmos is love
“I only know of one divinity - kindness. Save kindness all else is fiction - from the fundamental facts of physics to the direst doctrines of scripture.
Every construct of society must prove its worth in relation to kindness, in relation to uplift. If they can't, they require correction. And despite countless corrections if a construct fails to uphold the uplift of human condition before all else, it is the duty of the civilized beings to leave such construct behind as an appendage of human evolution.”
Source: Divane Dynamite: Only truth in the cosmos is love
“I only know one story. But oftentimes small pieces seem to be stories themselves.”
“I only know one thing, and that is I know nothing”
“I only know one thing: Everything I learned about the banking business, I learned in the banking towers of the Societe.”
“I only know one way to pitch. I really do.”
“I only know one yoga: 'You Go.'”
“I only know that all is lost, and that nothing can help me unless I inherit money, strike oil or go to work.”
Source: How to be a Hermit: Or, A Bachelor Keeps House
“I only know that all of those people would have sensed me that night, excluding the youngest of the children. I was the suggestion. I was the advice, my imagined feet walking into the kitchen and down the corridor.”
Source: The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition
“I only know that from wherever it is that we're going there can be no turning back”
Source: Katherine
“I only know that I feel tired, antiquated; I feel as though I had been living a long, long time.”
Source: Fathers and Sons
“I only know that I fired twice, or perhaps several times, without knowing whether I had hit or missed”
“I only know that I know nothing”
“I only know that I love you. That's your misfortune.”