I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I see. Because I'm not hideous, not a drunkard, and appear to bathe regularly, you picked me. How you flatter me.”
Source: Silk
“I see before me the gladiator lie.”
Source: CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE
“I see before me the statue of a celebrated minister, who said that confidence was a plant of slow growth. But I believe, however gradual may be the growth of confidence, that of credit requires still more time to arrive at maturity.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches
“I see behind each mask that wonder a kindred soul.”
Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867
“I see being a woman in the world as a social problem. That's very urgently problematic in terms of it still being a man's world, and women's identities still being shaped by the way men look at them, and the way men can control what kinds of opportunities they can get based on how desirable the men find them, or how compliant. I don't think that's really changed a lot.”
“I see best in the dark.”
“I see bits and pieces of me in all the characters in my films.”
“I see black light (his last words)”
“I see blindness more as an ability and sight more as a disability because there are some people with sight who tend to judge others by what they see on the outside but I don't see that. I don't see the skin color, the hair style or the clothing people wear; I only see that which is within a person.”
“I see BLK DNM more as a creative project than a traditional fashion brand. The world doesn’t really need more Fashion Houses. I want to create something different – to be able to collaborate with great creative minds and thereby stretch the brand in different directions. I also believe that a brand should offer deeper content in this era. After all, the only reason to do all of this is to create energy and to inspire people.”
“I see bodies as individual things.”
“I see BOLD accessories as a woman's armor.”
“I see bright kids trapped in public schools that are just warehousing them. As an educator this makes me scared. As Secretary of State, this makes me terrified.”
“I see but one rule: to be clear.”
Source: The Charterhouse of Parma
“I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.”
Source: The Charterhouse of Parma
“I see by the papers that they are going to do away with all the nuisance taxes. That means that a man can get a marriage license for nothing.”
Source: Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding
“I see by the papers that you have once more stirred that pool of intellectual stagnation, the educational convention.”
Source: The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: In the school of anti-slavery, 1840 to 1866
“I see by your eagerness, and the wonder and hope which your eyes express, my friend, that you expect to be in formed of the secret with which I am acquainted. That cannot be.”
Source: Annotated Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus with English Grammar Exercises: by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)
“I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker.”
“I see capital through the flurry
On this Monday night twenty-first.
Some do-nothing has made up the story
That love exists on the earth.
And from laziness or from boredom
All believed, and thus they live:
Wait for meeting, fear the parting,
And sing songs of love.
But to others opens a secret
And upon them descends a still.
I by accident came upon this
And since then am as if I'm ill.”
“I see caring for somebody as a creative outlet. I like drawing little faces and writing little stories and hiding them in places. I don't think it's that hard to be thoughtful, especially when you do care about the person.”
“I see certain parallels between the debate over feminism where some women argue that women should not be forced to stay at home and take care of children [and debate about hijab]. And there are other women who are saying you are criticizing my decision as a free liberated women to stay home and take care of my children.”
“I see characters lying all the time in a lot of Hollywood movies. They can't do this because it would affect the movie this way or that or this demographic might not like it. To me a character can't do anything good or bad, they can only do something that's true or not.”
“I see children as kites. You spend a lifetime trying to get them off the ground. You run with them until you're both breathless. They crash . . . you add a longer tail . . . you patch and comfort, adjust and teach. You watch them lifted by the wind and assure them that someday they'll fly.”
Source: Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist
“I see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.”
Source: The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way
“I see Christ's love is so kingly, that it will not abide a marrow it must have a throne all alone in the soul.”
Source: Letters of Samuel Rutherford: With a Sketch of His Life
“I see Christianity in very humanistic terms.”
“I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a woman who's extremely vain. One of the great Catalan poets, Joan Maragall, wrote this famous poem in which he called Barcelona the great enchantress, or some kind of sorceress, and in which the city has this dark enticing presence that seduces and lures people. I think Barcelona has a lot of that.”
“I see clearly
I am tolerant
I am compassionate
I take responsibility for my perceptions”
Source: Live True: A Mindfulness Guide to Authenticity
“I see clearly that I have achieved practically nothing.”
“I see clearly that the thing the church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful; it needs nearness, proximity. I see the church as a field hospital after battle... The church sometimes has locked itself up in small things, in small-minded rules. The most important thing is the first proclamation: Jesus Christ has saved you.”
“I see climate change as one of the driving forces in the 21st century. With modern technology and globalization, we are much more connected than ever before. The world's warehouses are now container ships.”
“I see colors like you hear jet planes.”
“I see colour. I see colour everywhere. I see colour when I wake up. I see colour when I go to bed. And guess what ? I love all colours.”
“I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.”
“I see conflict. But the conflict is what makes it relatable. I'm conflicted; you're conflicted. I'm not perfect - nobody is. I'm just blessed to be able to express my conflict through song.”
“I see consensual S&M no differently than I see consensual anything: as beautiful, and never any one thing.”
“I see contemporary violence as a kind of sardonic response to the promise of consumer fulfilment in America.”
Source: White Noise: Text and Criticism
“I see corruption as a mortal enemy for young democracies.”
“I see country music, I see people who take care of their own. You've got 75 year-old guys on the road. That's what I was put here to do, y'know, so I wanna make sure I surround myself with people who are gonna take care of me. 'Cause I'm in it for the long run.”
“I see couples fighting about the stupidest things. You just have to rise above everything.”
“I see courage everywhere I go in Africa.”
“I see creative-writing classes as some sort of AA meeting. It is more of a support group for people who write than an actual course in which you learn writing skills. This support group is extremely important because there is something very lonely about writing.”
“I see crosses at every turn. My flesh shudders over it, but my heart adores them. Yes, I hail you, crosses little and great, I hail you, and kiss your feet, unworthy of the honor of your shadow.”
“I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.”
“I see dancehall reggae and hip-hop as fused together, When I was a kid, they were the two kinds of music that spoke to me and said 'Move!”
“I see danger—awake! It's terrible, it's horrible, and it's almost here! This is why my spirit was sent to earth. This is the job God has given me. This is the job I must do, so my hands will be free of your blood.”
“I see dead people. But, then by God, I do something about it!”
Source: The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd
“I see dead Presidents. Lincoln, Jefferson, Franklin, and Washington.”
Source: How to be a Finance Rock Star
“I see Death as the part of us that knows all the time that we're going to die, reminding us to live properly.”