I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I shall bere your noble fame, for ye spake a grete worde and fulfilled it worshipfully.”
Source: Malory: Complete Works
“I shall bestow you my love, and you give me yours.”
“I shall borrow two words used for a slightly different purpose by the great demographer Alfred Lotka to distinguish between the two systems of heredity enjoyed by man: endosomatic or internal heredity for the ordinary or genetical heredity we have in common with animals; and exosomatic or external heredity for the non-genetic heredity that is peculiarly our own - the heredity that is mediated through tradition, by which I mean the transfer of information through non-genetic channels from one generation to the next.”
Source: The Threat and the Glory: Reflections on Science and Scientists
“I shall carry to the Catacombs of Age,
Photographically lined
On the tablet of my mind”
“I shall charm him with such force that when I am done, he will be left lying limply on the ground, trying to remember his own name.”
Source: Clockwork Prince
“I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors.”
“I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history.”
“I shall cherish you, Mellonyfulgria, and protect you with all my strength. My heart, my body, my spear, shall be yours alone.”
His declaration robs me of words. If it had come from Garrett’s lips, I would have thought it a bunch of bluster and flowery language, and I’d have smiled and nodded and not believed a bit of it. But every time Pelayo speaks, now especially, a sweet sort of earnestness pours from him.
I find that I believe every single thing he promises.
It’s incredible. Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine anyone would say such a thing to me and mean it.”
Source: Married to a Merman
“I shall choose friends among men, but neither slaves nor masters. And I shall choose only such as please me, and them I shall love and respect, but neither command nor obey. And we shall join our hands when we wish,
or walk alone when we so desire. For in the temple of his spirit, each man is alone. Let each man keep his temple untouched and undefiled. Then let him join hands with others if he wishes, but only beyond his holy threshold.”
“I shall choose friends among men, but neither slaves nor masters. And I shall choose only such as please me, and them I shall love and respect, but neither command nor obey. And we shall join our hands when we wish, or walk alone when we so desire.”
Source: Anthem
“I shall claim full amends for every fall and stubbed toe, if you do not lead us well.”
Source: The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings
“I shall clasp my hands together and bow to the corners of the world. May your villages remain ignorant of tax collectors, and may your sons be many and ugly and strong and willing workers, and may your daughters be few and beautiful and excellent providers of love gifts from eminent families that live very far away, and may your lives be blessed by the beauty that has touched mine. Farewell.”
“I shall cling to the rope God has thrown me in Jesus Christ, even if my numb hands can no longer feel it.”
“I shall commit my thoughts to paper, it is true, but that is a poor medium for the communication of feeling.”
Source: Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
“I shall commit my thoughts to paper, it is true; but that is a poor medium for the communication of feeling. I desire the company of a man who could sympathize with me, whose eyes would reply to mine.”
Source: Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus
“I shall confess at the outset that it was only shortly after the beginning of this century that I entered active life - with a somewhat precocious capacity for involvement.”
“I shall consider human actions and desires in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes and solids.”
Source: Ethics
“I shall content myself with merely declaring my firm conviction that, for the seeker who would live in fear of God and who would see Him face to face, restraint in diet both as to quantity and quality is as essential as restraint in thought and speech.”
Source: All Men Are Brothers
“I shall continue to be anxious about him until he can permit himself some distraction and allow his wound to heal; nothing can do this but acceptance of the inevitable, lapse of time, and surfeit of grief.”
“I shall continue to exist. I may assume other disguises, other forms, but I shall try to exist.”
Source: Pale fire
“I shall continue to explore-the astonishment of living.”
Source: Four Plays
“I shall continue to invent new anti-slavery programmes around the world.”
“I shall cover the lands with my power! I shall name it snow, winter, and it will wipe out all life! I will watch his kingdom wither!”
Source: Hades and Persephone: The Golden Blade
“I shall crave for love at the bottom of the abyss,
until I find you...
(fragment from "Awaiting your arrival", chapter Hope)”
Source: The odyssey of my lost thoughts
“I shall create! If not a note, a hole./If not an overture, a desecration.”
Source: The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks
“I shall dance all my life. . . . I would like to die, breathless, spent, at the end of a dance.”
“I shall desire and I shall find
The best of my desires;
The autumn road, the mellow wind
That soothes the darkening shires.
And laughter, and inn-fires.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)
“I shall despair when I despair of myself, of God and humanity.”
“I shall despair. There is no creature loves me;
And if I die no soul will pity me:
And wherefore should they, since that I myself
Find in myself no pity to myself?”
“I shall develop the thesis that anyone acting communicatively must, in performing any speech act, raise universal validity claims and suppose that they can be vindicated.”
“I shall devote all my efforts to bring light into the immense obscurity that today reigns in Analysis. It so lacks any plan or system, that one is really astonished that there are so many people who devote themselves to it - and, still worse, it is absolutely devoid of any rigor.”
“I shall devote only a few lines to the expression of my belief in the importance of science it is by this daily striving after knowledge that man has raised himself to the unique position he occupies on earth, and that his power and well-being have continually increased.”
“I shall die here. Every last inch of me shall perish. Except one. An inch. It's small and it's fragile and it's the only thing in the world worth having. we must never lose it, or sell it, or give it away. We must never let them take it from us.”
“I shall die. I shall no longer feel the agonies which now consume me, or be the prey of feelings unsatisfied, yet unquenched ... Some years ago, when the images which this world affords first opened upon me, when I felt the cheering warmth of summer, and heard the rustling of the leaves and the chirping of the birds, and these were all to me, I should have wept to die; now it is my only consolation.”
Source: Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
“I shall die in the belief that to make France free, republican and prosperous, a little ink would have sufficed - and only one guillotine.”
“I shall die reading; since my book and a grave are so near.”
Source: John Donne: The Major Works
“I shall die very young...maybe seventy, maybe eighty, maybe ninety. But I shall be very young.”
“I shall die, but I will not kill.”
“I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death; I am not on his pay-roll.”
Source: Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems
“I shall discuss the broad patterns of hominoid evolution, an exercise made enjoyable by the need to integrate diverse kinds of information, and use that as a vehicle to speculate about hominoid origins, an event for which there is no recognized fossil record. Hence, an opportunity to exercise some imagination.”
“I shall do down in history as the man who opened a door!”
“I shall do everything it becomes me to do.”
Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“I shall do everything possible to see that she doesn't die. But I feel such an urge to put her to sleep then go off to sleep myself.”
Source: The Hour of the Star
“I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46
“I shall do one thing in this life-one thing certain-this is, love you, and long of you, and keep wanting you till I die.”
“I shall do what I can to make some provision that I might see you again, and Tessa again. For you are half my heart, and she is the other. As long as I have one of you to be my north star, my heart shall not die, and I shall remain your James Carstairs.”
Source: Clockwork Princess
“I shall doggedly work, wait and expect the minimum.”
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“I shall drink no # wine before it's time! OK, it's time.”
“I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.”
“I shall drive my chariot down your street and cry hey it's me.”