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 yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of the earth, and that things are the sons of heaven. Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas: I wish, however, that the instrument might be less apt to decay, and that signs might be permanent, like the things which they denote.”
“I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.”
Source: Florence Nightingale to her Nurses: A Selection from Miss Nightingale's Addresses to Probationers and Nurses of the Nightingale School at St. Thomas's Hospital
“I am not you and all my choices have already been made, good and bad.”
Source: Conqueror
“I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J'aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.”
“I am not young enough to know everything.”
“I am not your bride," I say gently. "Not truly. You don't love me, nor I you. We are fated, but not in this way.”
Source: The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea
“I am not your dear; I cannot lie down: send me to school soon, Mrs. Reed, for I hate to live here.”
Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“I am not your dog that you whistle for; I’m not a stray animal you call over, and I am not, I never have been, nor will I ever be, your “baby”!”
Source: I'm Not Your "Baby": An Australian woman's tortured life of sexual harassment and assault
“I am not your dog, but if every time you saw me, you gave me a backrub, I would run to greet you, too.”
“I am not your door.' After a pause for thought, she added, 'But I might be my own.”
Source: Where the Drowned Girls Go
“I am not your enemy, but if you can't help me, the next time we meet, I might be.”
Source: The Prisoner’s Throne
“I am not your enemy, X-Men, nor do i consider you mine. True, my goal has ever been the conquest of earth-- but solely to create a world where our race, homo superior, can live in peace.”
Source: X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills
“I am not your God. Or if I am, I'm no God you can seek out for deliverance or explanation. I'm the kind of God who would eat you without compunction if I were hungry.”
“I am not your hero. I am not the other half of your soul who could never let anything bad ever happen to you. -trust your instincs first always, and me, if you choose, last.”
Source: Killing Sarai
“I am not your justification for existence.”
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
“I am not your king, impudent larva? Who then has created you?
Orestes: You. But you should not have created me free.”
“I am not your mother. I’m not looking for something else from life. I’m not looking for more. I’m not looking for a great adventure. I’m not looking, because I found it. You are my more. You are my great adventure.”
Source: Hero
“I am not your run-of-the-mill scholar. My philosophy comes from the streets. My science comes from the soil.”
Source: Woman Over World: The Novel
“I am not your sexless friend. I’m not your damn brother. I’m not your gay friend. And I sure as hell not am not thinking about anything right now except that your hands feel really good against my skin. So I’m going to kiss you, and you’re going to respond like the idea of my mouth on yours doesn’t make you want to cry – and you’ll like it”
Source: The Consequence of Loving Colton
“I am not your victim because you are not a predator any more than a bottle of scotch stalks an alcoholic.”
Source: Love Sick: One Woman's Journey through Sexual Addiction
“I am not yours, not lost in you,
Not lost, although I long to be
Lost as a candle lit at noon,
Lost as a snowflake in the sea.
You love me, and I find you still
A spirit beautiful and bright,
Yet I am I, who long to be
Lost as a light is lost in light.”
Source: Love Songs
“I am not yours, nor lost in you, not lost, although I long to be. Lost as a candle lit at noon, lost as a snowflake in the sea. You love me, and I find you still a spirit beautiful and bright, yet I am I, who long to be lost as a light is lost in light.”
Source: Collected Poems
“I am not, and have never been, in favor of boycotting Israel.”
“I am not, and have no interest in being, a musician of any kind.”
“I am not, and never have been, a man of the right. My position was on the left and is now in the centre of politics.”
“I am not, and never was, and never could have been, a brutal scoundrel.”
Source: The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated
“I am not, I repeat, NOT a lesbian - even though I'd like to be one when I grow up.”
“I am not, in fact, a superhero. Just a humble, mild-mannered civil rights attorney.”
“I am not, in the ordinary acceptation of the term, a good-natured man; that is, many things annoy me besides what interferes with my own ease and interest. I hate a lie; a piece of injustice wounds me to the quick, though nothing but the report of it reach me. Therefore I have made many enemies and few friends; for the public know nothing of well-wishers, and keep a wary eye on those who would reform them.”
Source: The plain speaker: opinions on books, men, and things [by W. Hazlitt].
“I am not, nor will I ever be interested in the possibility of defeat.”
“I am not, personally, a believer or a religious man in any sense of institutional commitment or practice. But I have a great respect for religion, and the subject has always fascinated me, beyond almost all others (with a few exceptions, like evolution and paleontology).”
Source: Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History
“I am not, sir, a bad person, though in truth I am not lacking in reasons for being one.
[Sp., Yo, senor, no soy malo, aunque no me faltarian motivos para serlo.]”
“I am not... totally unreceptive to colour providing it makes its appearance quietly, deferentially, and without undue fanfare.”
“I am nothing, and my nothingness gives me great value.”
Source: Saturnine
“I am nothing and should be everything.”
Source: Marx: Selected Writings
“I am nothing but a book of fiction which is written in very poetic way.”
“I am nothing but a corpse now, a body at the bottom of a well.”
Source: My Name Is Red
“I am nothing but a miserable, crushed worm, whom no one wants, whom no one loves, a useless creature with morning sickness, and abig belly, two rotten teeth, and a bad temper, a battered sense of dignity, and a love which nobody wants and which nearly drives me insane.”
“I am nothing but a soul in grief - a gravestone yet not set but wit flowers in mind.”
“I am nothing, but Brahma.”
Source: Smiling Brahma
“I am nothing but I must be everything.”
Source: On Religion
“I am nothing but novocaine. I am numb, a world of nothing, all feeling and emotion gone forever.
I am a whisper that never was.”
Source: Shatter Me
“I am nothing but oxygen and hydrogen,
A luminous sphere of plasma
Held together by helium and gravity,
And like a balloon I float on earth,
Waiting to be released back into the sky,
Waiting to go back in the reverse
Direction from which I came,
Traveling through a warm tunnel of light,
And out into a cold, dark abyss
Where I will explode into a thousand pieces.
I shall leave behind my body,
Just like air abandons the skin of a shattered balloon,
And the magnetic dust that carries my
Heart and spirit will lift us back
To congregate and shine
With the stars.
Home again,
In the fluorescent
Kingdom of the constellations,
I will once again be called by
My soul’s true name.
And my heart,
It will flicker again,
With every memory from its many
Lifetimes,
And with every wish
Made by a child.
SONG OF THE STAR by Suzy Kassem”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“I am nothing but oxygen and hydrogen, a luminous sphere of plasma held together by helium and gravity, And like a balloon I float on earth, waiting to be released back into the sky, where I will explode into a thousand pieces. I shall leave behind my body, just like air abandons the skin of a shattered balloon, and the magnetic dust that carries my heart and spirit will lift us back to congregate and shine with the stars. Home again, in the fluorescent kingdom of the constellations, I will once again be called by my soul’s true name.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“I am Nothing. He liked the name. It did not make him feel worthless; on the contrary, he began to think of himself as a blank slate upon which anything could be written. The words inscribed on his soul were up to him.”
Source: Lost Souls
“I am nothing, I am the servant of people, my interest is in benefiting others, my life is their keepsake'.”
Source: Servitude is Sanctitude
“I am nothing if not gracious," Will said. His eyes searched Jem's face, that face as familiar to him as his own. "And determined. You will not leave me. Not while I live.”
Source: Clockwork Princess
“I am nothing if not misanthropic," declared Sebastian.
"I think you mean philanthropic," said Henry.
"God, you are so perdantic."
"That would be pedantic."
"See! You're even perdantic about the word perdantic.”
Source: The Fish That Climbed a Tree
“I am nothing if not rational about what is worthy of my anxiety and what is not, and I refuse to live my life as if a giant bus is just around the corner, waiting to crush me the minute I step off the curb.”
“I am nothing like my past,
Before you swing your axe at me so fast.
There are questions you should ask .”
Source: Renegades And Other Soulful Poems