I Quotes
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“I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.”
Source: Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words
“I shall easily show that it is impossible to tax further, ruinous to be always borrowing and not enough to confine ourselves to measures of economy.”
“I shall eat anyone who tries to steal my singing, springing lark!”
Source: The Singing, Springing Lark
“I shall either find a way, or make one (attributed)”
“I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.”
Source: The spectator
“I shall endeavor to marshal British opinion against a course of action which would bring in my opinion the greatest evils upon the people of India, upon the people of Great Britain and upon the British Empire itself.”
Source: Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963
“I shall endeavour still further to prosecute this inquiry, an inquiry I trust not merely speculative, but of sufficient moment to inspire the pleasing hope of its becoming essentially beneficial to mankind.”
“I shall endeavour to enliven Morality with Wit, and to temper Wit with Morality, that my Readers may, if possible, both Ways findtheir Account in the Speculation of the Day.”
Source: The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...
“I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachusetts; she needs none. There she is. Behold her, and judge for yourselves. There is her history; the world knows it by heart. The past, at least, is secure. There is Boston and Concord and Lexington and Bunker Hill; and there they will remain forever.”
“I shall ever despise the man who can be gratified by the passion which he never wished to inspire, nor solicited the avowal of.”
Source: Lady Susan
“I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.”
“I shall ever try to drive all evils away from my heart and keep my love in flower, knowing that thou hast thy seat in the inmost shrine of my heart.”
Source: Gitanjali
“I shall expect my husband to have no pleasures but what he shares with me; and if his greatest pleasure of all is not the enjoyment of my company - why - it will be the worse for him - that's all.'
'If such are your expectations of matrimony, Esther, you must, indeed, be careful whom you marry - or rather, you must avoid it altogether.”
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
“I shall fight on, I shall fight to win.”
“I shall find something worth pouring my all into. I wish I could paint and draw or play the trumpet.”
“I shall find you delightful; I think you're enchanting just as you are.”
Source: The Portrait of a Lady
“I shall forget before the flickers mate
Your look that is today my east and west.”
Source: Fatal Interview: Sonnets
“I shall forget you presently, my dear, So make the most of this, your little day, Your little month, your little half a year, Ere I forget, or die, or move away, And we are done forever; by and by I shall forget you, as I said, but now, If you entreat me with your loveliest lie I will protest you with my favorite vow. I would indeed that love were longer-lived, And vows were not so brittle as they are, But so it is, and nature has contrived To struggle on without a break thus far,-- Whether or not we find what we are seeking Is idle, biologically speaking.”
“I shall forgive all of my enemies, all of my traitors and all of my ill wishers but I shall not forgive one demon”
“I shall gain glory or die.”
Source: Beowulf. Testo originale a fronte
“I shall gather myself into my self again,
I shall take my scattered selves and make them one.”
Source: Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale
“I shall give a propagandist reason for starting the war, no matter whether it is plausible or not. The victor will not be asked afterwards whether he told the truth or not. When starting and waging war it is not right that matters, but victory.”
“I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return. When I left Queen's my future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the best does.”
Source: Anne of Green Gables: Classic Edition Republished by North Publishers
“I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.”
Source: Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…
“I shall give you a song, and you fill melody in it.”
“I shall give you hunger, and pain, and sleepless nights. Also beauty
and satisfactions known to few and glimpses of the heavenly life. None of these you shall have continually and of their coming and going you shall not be foretold.”
“I shall go
Up and down
In my gown.
Gorgeously arrayed,
Boned and stayed.”
Source: Selected Poems of Amy Lowell
“I shall go and sit under a tree…. Which tree, Mma?... Oh, there are many trees in this life, she said. It does not matter which tree you choose, as long as you choose the right one.”
Source: The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine
“I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning man's future, that prediction would be the contrary of reassuring.”
Source: The Treason of the Intellectuals
“I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.”
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“I shall go on some last wilderness trip, to a place I have known and loved. I shall not return.”
Source: Everett Ruess, a vagabond for beauty
“I shall go so far that people will be seized with terror at the sight of each of my works of 'living' art.”
“I shall go the way of the open sea,
To the lands I knew before you came,
And the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me
The memory of your name.”
“I shall go wherever I am asked to participate for freedom.”
“I shall have liberty to think for myself without molesting others or being molested myself.”
Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations
“I shall have more to say when I am dead.”
“I shall have my lasso, I shall lead the course;
I recognize it’s time to mount a different horse.”
Source: Where Pain Thrives
“I shall have one, too," he told her. "So that you don't feel alone." She tried not to smile. "That is most generous of you." "I am quite certain it is my gentlemanly duty." "To eat cake?" "It is one of the more appealing of my gentlemanly duties," he allowed.”
Source: Something to Hide
“I shall have peace, as leafy trees are peaceful when rain bends down the bough; And I shall be more silent and cold hearted than you are now.”
Source: Collected Poems
“I shall have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love, love, love, above all. Love as there has never been in a play. Unbiddable, ungovernable, like a riot in the heart and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture.”
“I shall have the liberty to think for myself.”
“I shall have the rights to give my statement and to take the meaning is left to you”
“I shall have to believe even though I cannot understand.”
Source: Under the Moons of Mars
“I shall have to go. But-" and here Frodo looked hard at Sam- "if you really care about me, you will have to keep that DEAD secret. See? If you don't, if you even breathe a word of what you've heard here, then I hope Gandalf will turn you into a spotted toad and fill the garden full of grass snakes."
Sam fell on his knees, trembling. "Get up, Sam!" Said Gandalf. "I have thought of something better than that. Something to keep you quiet, and punish you properly for listening. You shall go away with Mr. Frodo!"
"Me, sir!" cried Sam, springing up like a dog invited for a walk. "Me go and see Elves and all! Hooray!" he shouted, and then burst into tears.”
Source: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING
“I shall have to learn how to miss you.”
Source: The English Patient
“I shall have to miss forever some beautiful, wonderful things because of that wretched, lonely childhood. There will always be a lacking, a wanting -- some dead branches that never grew leaves. It is not deaths and murders and plots and wars that make life tragedy. It is day after day, and year after year, and Nothing. It is a sunburned little hand reached out and Nothing put into it.”
Source: I Await the Devil's Coming
“I shall hear in heaven.”
“I shall honour God in my heart.
And expressed it in humility of a humble service to humanity.”
“I shall humble myself before people and whimper at every word that I am a criminal? Yes, that's it, that's it, that's what they are sending me there for, that's what they want. Look at them running to and fro about the streets, every one of them a scoundrel and a criminal at heart and, worse still, an idiot. But try to get me off and they'd be wild with righteous indignation. Oh, how I hate them all!”
Source: Crime and Punishment
“i shall imagine life is not worth dying,if (and when)roses complain their beauties are in vain but though mankind persuades itself that every weed's a rose,roses(you feel certain)will only smile”
Source: AnOther E.E. Cummings