I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil.”
“I oto zew doszedł Bucka, nieomylny, zdobyty, prawdziwy. Siadł więc również i również zawył.”
Source: The Call of the Wild
“I ought never to act except in such a way that I could also will that my maxim should become a universal law.”
“I ought not to doubt the steadiness of your affection. Yet such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest, and thus it is, that i always feel revived, as by a new convinction, when your words tell me I am dear to you; and wanting these, I relapse into doubt and often into despondency.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ann Radcliffe (Illustrated)
“I ought not to fear to survive my own people so long as there are men in the world; for there are always some whom one can love.”
Source: The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
“I ought not to have listened to her,' he confided to me one day. 'One never ought to listen to the flowers. One should simply look at them and breathe their fragrance. Mine perfumed all my planet. But I did not know how to take pleasure in all her grace.”
Source: The Little Prince:
“I ought not to have stirred, I was swept into the dance, caught up in the whirling movement of things. Being in Time means running after the present. You run after things, you run with things, you flow away.”
Source: Fragments of a Journal
“I ought to be jealous of the tower. She is more famous than I am.”
“I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel.”
Source: Frankenstein
“I ought to break this trophy into 32 pieces”
“I ought to break your neck!" Clayton interrupted. Too late, Whitney realized that she shouldn't have been standing all this time on her "injured" knee. "Allow me to congratulate you on a fine day's work, Madam," he said sternly. "In less than twelve hours, you've brought Whitticomb to your side and Cuthbert to your feet.”
“I ought to come up there and break your shuck nose.”
Source: Maze Runner 3: The Death Cure
“I ought to file charges of uncommon stupidity against you for letting her try this alone." ~ Newt, Black Magic Sanction, Kim Harrison”
“I ought to get some shut-eye. All this thinking isn't doing me any good. Something good might happen tomorrow, anyway. Today's over now. I can't do anything about that. Tomorrow's what's important now. What will I do tomorrow?”
Source: Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash: Volume 1
“I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.”
Source: Essays (Annotated Edition)
“I ought to grow up successfully, and I'm sure it will be my own fault if I don't. I feel it's a great responsibility because I have only one chance. If I don't grow up right I can't go back and begin over again.”
“I ought to have more love before I die. I've not had enough.”
“I ought to have read more, for I find I don't know anything, and it mortifies me”
Source: Little Women
“I ought to have seized the initiative in 1938 instead of allowing myself to be forced into war in 1939; for war was, in any case, unavoidable. However, you can hardly blame me if the British and the French accepted at Munich every demand I made of them! (14th February 1945)”
“I ought to of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn't ought to of let no stranger shoot my dog.”
Source: Of Mice and Men
“I ought to pray before seeing any one. Often when I sleep long, or meet with others early, it is eleven or twelve o'clock before I begin secret prayer. I feel it is far better to begin with God-to see His face first, to get my soul near Him before it is near another.”
Source: The life and remains, letters, lectures, and poems of [the Rev] Robert Murray McCheyne
“I ought to reflect again and again, and yet again, that the beings that I have to steer are just as inevitable in the scheme of evolution as I am myself; have just as much right to be themselves as I am entitled to; and they all deserve from me as much sympathy as I give to myself.”
“I ought to rejoice in the fact that our principal rival has died, but I don't.”
“I ought to respect myself for my friends' sake, and my children's. It is time, at fifty-six, to begin, at least, to know oneself, - and I do know what I am not, and your regard for me has at least awakened me to believe in the possibility that I may yet make some impression with my "light" - my "dews" - my "breezes" - my bloom and freshness, - no one of which qualities has yet been perfected on the canvas of any painter in the world.”
“I ought to spend the best hours of the day in communion with God. It is my noblest and most fruitful employment, and is not to be thrust into any corner.”
Source: Memoir and Remains of the Rev. Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Minister of St. Peter's Church, Dundee
“I ought to warn you that my verse is of no interest to people who can think.”
Source: Trains and buttered toast: selected radio talks
“I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.”
“I oughtn’t to have eaten so much,” Richard groaned, laying a hand on his slim midsection. “Not when I am not marching to burn it off.” “You might march, if you wish,” Darcy remarked, from his seat in the corner. “Rise with the rooster and plot a route around the grounds. I shall give Georgiana leave to heckle you, if you are missing regimental life so sorely.” Richard grinned. “Thank you, no. I have been on the receiving end of Georgiana’s heckling before and she is a crueller drill-sergeant than any who wears colours. No, I shall embark on some easier exercise, I think. Perhaps a ride.”
Source: Mr Darcy's Summer Surprise
“I outline fairly extensively because I'm usually dealing with real events. I don't need to give myself as much information as I used to, but I still like to have two pages of outline for every projected 100 pages of manuscript.”
“I outlived the bastards.”
“I outwit them, and then I outhit them”
“I over analyze situations because Im scared of what may happen if I'm not prepared for it.”
“i over love.
i under love.
i am either a flood
or i am nothing.”
Source: you are safe here.
“I over-think stuff a lot.”
“I overanalyze things way too much, to the point where it affects my life. Like, when I'm talking to a boy, I'll overanalyze a text message he sent. And I have to think to myself, 'Just chill out. Some guy sent me a text message. That's all. Don't read something into it that's not there. Just be glad he sent you a text message!'”
“I overcame my fear of loneliness when you showed me how lonely I can be when you’re around.”
Source: Lurking Shadow
“I overcame my fears and troubles simply by praying and learning to calm down when scary things were happening - I formed certain mantras which helped me become pro-active vs. reactive, such as :
What's the problem? What's the solution?
Time Energy Money
What do I get? What do I give?
Shrink It. Fix it. Grow it.”
“I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“I overcame size with mechanics.”
“I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.”
“I overcome failure by doing it again and trying not to make the same mistake.”
“I overcome the fear of losing.
I overcome the fear of changing.
I let go of what is going.
I allow what is coming.”
Source: 365 Mantras for today: Find your inner peace, light up the world around you with the power of positive thoughts
“I overhaul myself for my roles. Sooner or later, I will get my due.”
“I overhead Jove, one day,' said Silenus, 'talking of destroying the Earth; he said it had failed; they were all rogues and vixens, who went from bad to worse, as fast as the days succeeded each other. Minerva said she hoped not, they were only ridiculous little creatures, with this odd circumstance, that they had a blur, or indeterminate aspect, seen far or seen near; if you called them bad, they would appear so; if you called them good, they would appear so; and there was no one person or action among that which would not puzzle her Owl, much more all Olympus, to know whether it was fundamentally bad or good.”
“I overheard Nona talking about my little buds and how she remembered back when she was developing into a woman, and that was enough for me.”
Source: Ink
“I overreacted to praise, signing an autograph. I'd write a check to buy it back.”
“I overthink a lot of things.”
“I overthink!
How I process thoughts.
Just like how ruminants go through the process of regurgitation. yea, I fetch back events in consideration of different scenarios and perspectives, then I come up with a hypothesis where I rationalize and evaluate every possible outcome, in comparison with facts, then I go with the most accurate.”
“I overthink.
I over love.
I over feel.
I am the sea or I am nothing”
“I overthink.
I overfeel.
I overlive.
I overdie.”
Source: Caro Jovem Adulto