I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I promised I'd save him, take him home! I promised him!" . . . Thomas hugged Chuck to his chest, squeezed him as tightly as possible, as if that could somehow bring him back, or show thanks for saving his life, for being his friend when no one else would. Thomas cried, wept like he'd never wept before. His great, racking sobs echoed through the chamber like the sounds of tortured pain. (pg 358 hardback)”
“I promised Ian’s wife, Julia, that I would video record Ian if I could and email the recording to her later.” Lachlan drew in an audible breath, and she couldn’t tell whether he was amused or worried. “You know Ian’s wife?”
Source: Hero of a Highland Wolf
“I promised in my head to leave you be. And when I saw you…I was supposed to be man enough to turn you away. Fuck, I’m not a horny teenager. It’s just you.” He finally did stand. “You break me. You break everything I think I stand for.”
Source: Return to Poughkeepsie
“I promised me that it will all be poetry. Instead, it was and was and was big nothing, materialized in loss.”
Source: SONG FOR YOU / CÂNTEC PENTRU TINE (Bilingual English–Romanian Edition / Ediție bilingvă engleză–română / 2025): Poems of Love, Madness & Resurrection / ... nebunie și renaștere
“I promised my daughter I'd name my first restaurant after her, but now the other kids are like, 'Dad, what about us?' I'm gonna have to open four restaurants!”
“I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.”
“I promised myself as a kid that I would not become that guy. So I have my finger on the pulse of what is going on and I love relevant music today. We are talking about artists like Kendrick Lamar, School Boy Q, Absoul, that whole crew. Of course Evidence and Alchemist, those guys are my brothers and I love those guys, they have been lifelong friends but I have always sort of looked up to them artistically.”
“I promised myself I would be that bird—rising above the storm, wings outstretched in hope, soaring toward the light of a new dawn.”
“I promised myself I would never be one of those people who complained about "Oh man, lots of people are interested in our movie and now I gotta talk about it."”
“I promised myself I wouldn't work again until I found something that excited me.”
“I promised myself that I'd never actually admit to listening to 'New Kids on the Block.'”
“I promised myself that if ever I had some money that I would savor a cigar each day after lunch and dinner. This is the only resolution of my youth that I have kept, and the only realized ambition which has not brought disillusion.”
“I promised myself that no matter where I went, what I did, I'd never take anything for granted again.”
Source: Summer Love: (InterMix)
“I promised myself that we’d have this little air-clearing chat today without my tongue ending up in your mouth.”
Source: It Must Be Your Love
“I promised myself then that I wouldn't let fear make me into someone I didn't want to be.”
Source: Reached
“I promised myself this would all end, at some point or another.”
Source: Show Them a Good Time
“I promised that from now on I would write only for the Lord.”
“I promised to always bring up a glass of water to her before we go to bed, and she promised to never let me dress myself.”
“I promised to bring change to Washington. The underlying reason for the economic mess we're in has been building for years. It's a fundamental imbalance in which the top 1 percent now gets almost a quarter of all national income. We haven't seen income and wealth this concentrated since the late nineteen twenties, and we all know what happened then - the Great Depression. We'll never really get out of the gravitational pull of the Great Recession until we fix this basic problem.”
“I promised to empower the taxpayer - instead of a handful of big government union bosses.”
“I promised to finish school, so I'll figure it out I guess. Besides, I'm on a special school for musicians and artists, so I'm not the only one with this life style.”
“I promised to have no partisan affiliation and no subsidy except advertising.”
“I promised to keep on going but maybe keep on going means coming back first.”
Source: The Knife of Never Letting Go
“I promised to tell you how one falls in love.”
Source: The English Patient
“I promised to touch your soul. I never said it would be painless.”
“I promised Todd [Willingham] that I would attend the execution. ... It was impossible for me to go. I was incapable of that sort of travel. Sitting in a chair that long, driving to Huntsville just wouldn't have happened. ... I'm sure I would have been there. It's something I know. I would not have denied him that, but the accident kept me from being there. At some level, the universe was giving me the excuse for not being there. ... The universe was like, "Oh, you don't have to watch this." ... It would have been a horrible thing, but I'm sure I would have gone.”
“I promised when I came out of the darkest hours of my life that I would be happy for the rest of my life and smile, because if you smile, the world smiles with you.”
Source: The Happiest Man on Earth
“I promised you that your voice would never be his undoing, that his death would never come at My hand. This wasn’t how I thought it would unfold, but the only way to show you how much I love you would be to keep this promise. It’s all I have left.
Her thoughts swirled, aligning into action.
You all will have to do the planning. I assume we’ll need to do the change near Maine. I will bring you there when you’re ready.
“I’ll take care of everything,” Miaka vowed. “I’ll leave as little to chance as possible.”
Go now. I need to prepare.
“Will You be all right?” I asked.
I must be. Go, dear girl. This is all I can give you. Now you can finally know how I love you.”
Source: The Siren
“I promote a healthy lifestyle.”
“I promote my own self-hatred.”
“I promote my value to others with passion and enthusiasm.”
“I promote peace and positivity.”
“I promote revolution against the Capitalists and the Social Marxists.”
“I promoted myself on Twitter and Facebook as hard as possible, nonstop. People started realizing that if they commented on my videos, I'd reply to their comment, so I started getting a lot more views and comments.”
“I promptly said that life was a random series of beautifully composed vignettes, loosely tied together by a string of characters and time.”
Source: Rooftops of Tehran: A Novel
“I pronounce us man and something-or-other. We’re married, big boy.”
Source: The Lord Won't Mind
“I pronounce you cured," he said. "My condition, however, is more critical. Alas. It's worsened considerably."
"What condition?" said Alice, testing her foot out, stamping it on the ground to see how sore it was.
"Being in love," he said, "with you."
Alice didn't look at him. "Since when?" she asked after a minute.
"Who can say? I think, probably, since the first second I laid eyes on you.”
Source: One Pill Makes You Smaller: A Novel
“I prophesy in the name of the Lord God of Israel, unless the United States redress the wrongs committed upon the Saints in the state of Missouri and punish the crimes committed by her officers that in a few years the government will be utterly overthrown and wasted, and there will not be so much as a potsherd left . . .”
“I propose . . . . The conformity of the proposed Constitution to the true principles of republican government.”
Source: The federalist papers
“I propose a conspiracy of orphans. We exchange winks. We reject hierarchies. All hierarchies. We take the shit of the world for granted and we exchange stories about how we nevertheless get by. We are impertinent. More than half the stars in the universe are orphan-stars belonging to no constellation. And they give off more light than all the constellation stars.”
Source: Confabulations
“I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.”
“I propose a limitation be put on how many sqares of toilet paper can be used in any one sitting. Now, I don't want to rob any law-abiding American of his or her God-given rights, but I think we are an industrious enough people that we can make it work with only one square per restroom visit, except, of course, on those pesky occasions where 2 to 3 could be required.”
“I propose a limitation be put on how many squares of toilet paper can be used in any one sitting.”
“I propose getting rid of conventional armaments and replacing them with reasonably priced hydrogen bombs that will be distributed equally throughout the world.”
“I propose in the following discussion to call one's own labor, and the equivalent exchange of one's own labor for the labor of others, the 'economic means' for the satisfaction of needs, while the unrequited appropriation of the labor of others will be called the 'political means'.”
Source: The State: Its History and Development Viewed Sociologically
“I propose that 100,000 degenerate Britons should be forcibly sterilized and others put in labour camps to halt the decline of the British race.”
“I propose that a teacher's pay be tied to merit, not tenure. And I propose that a teacher's employment be tied to performance, not just showing up.”
“I propose that an area of no more than 300 square miles, centered roughly upon Henley-on-Thames, has made this quintessentially British town Britain's 'small town and village murder capital'.”
Source: BINOCLARITY: A travel along the length of the River Thames and into the heart of the British psyche
“I propose that it only matters that you attempt to catch a fish. Doing so brings you close to nature.”
Source: A Meaningful Life - Fennel's Journal - No. 1
“I propose that the forces of corporate totalitarianism are deliberately destroying this entire world in order to sell their simulated version of it back to us at a profit.”