I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I SHALL JOIN YOUR PURPOSE, NOT YOU. IT WOULD BE DIFFICULT TO HATE ME.
मैं आपसे नहीं आपके मक़सद से जुडूंगा। मुझसे नफ़रत करना नामुमकिन होगा”
“I shall keep my book on the table here, and read a little every morning as soon as I wake, for I know it will do me good, and help me through the day.”
Source: The Complete Little Women Series: Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys: The Beloved Classics of American Literature: The coming-of-age series based on the author’s own childhood experiences with her three sisters
“I shall know you, secrets by the litter you have left and by your bloody footprints.”
Source: Sun-up, and Other Poems
“I shall last a year, and but little longer: we must think to do good work in that year. Four things are laid upon me: to drive out the English; to bring you to be crowned and anointed at Reims; to rescue the Duke of Orléans from the hands of the English; and to raise the siege of Orléans.”
Source: Joan of Arc: Self Portrait
“I shall laugh my bitter laugh.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Nikolai Gogol (Illustrated)
“I shall laugh myself to death at this puppy-headed
monster!”
Source: Arden Shakespeare Complete Works
“I shall lead you through the loneliness, the solitude you will not understand; but it is my shortcut to your soul.”
“I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.”
“I shall leave you to your Sisyphean task."
"What does that mean?" he heard Daisy ask.
Lillian replied while her smiling gaze remained locked with Marcus's. "It seems you avoided one too many Greek mythology lessons, dear. Sisyphus was a soul in Hades who was damned to perform an eternal task... rolling a huge boulder up a hill, only to have it roll down again just before he reached the top."
"Then if the countess is Sisyphus," Daisy concluded, "I suppose we're..."
"The boulder," Lady Westcliff said succinctly, causing both girls to laugh.
"Do continue with our instruction, my lady," Lillian said, giving her full attention to the elderly woman as Marcus left the room. "We'll try not to flatten you on the way down.”
Source: It Happened One Autumn
“I shall lend credit to nothing against my people which parents would not believe against their own children.”
“I shall lie folded like a saint,
Lapped in a scented linen sheet,
On a bedstead striped with bright-blue paint,
Narrow and cold and neat.”
Source: Selected Works of Elinor Wylie
“I shall listen to my heart and it shall save me. I shall listen to my heart and I'll be free.”
Source: The Lava in My Bones
“I shall live alone. Always alone. In a house or a tree.'
Fuchsia started to chew at a fresh grass blade.
'Someone will come then, if I live alone. Someone from another kind of world - a new world - not from this world, but someone who is different, and he will fall in love with me at once because I live alone and aren't like the other beastly things in this world, and he'll enjoy having me because of my pride.”
Source: Titus Groan
“I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.”
“I shall live forever and ever and ever ' he cried grandly. 'I shall find out thousands and thousands of things. I shall find out about people and creatures and everything that grows - like Dickon - and I shall never stop making Magic. I'm well I'm well”
Source: The Secret Garden (Illustrated Edition)
“I shall live forever. And I don't mean in a metaphorical sense. I don't mean I'll live forever in the hearts and minds of my readers. I mean I will literally live forever, drawing as I do from your pain and suffering.Your pain makes me strong.”
“I shall live here in the rains,
There in winter,
Elsewhere in summer," muses the fool,
Not aware of the nearness of death.”
Source: The Dhammapada
“I shall live this day as if it is my last. And if it is not, I shall fall to my knees and give thanks.”
Source: The Greatest Salesman in the World
“I shall live to see the goodness of God in the land of the living, Amen!”
“I Shall Look At The World Through Tears. Perhaps I Shall See Things That, Dry-Eyed, I Could Not See”
Source: Lament for a Son
“I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings.”
“I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings." -from the Fox-”
“I shall look for whatever success may attend my public service; and knowing that "except the Lord keep the city the watchman waketh but in vain," with fervent supplications for His favor, to His overruling providence I commit with humble but fearless confidence my own fate and the future destinies of my country.”
Source: The Selected Writings of John and John Quincy Adams
“I shall look forward to a pleasant time.”
“I shall love him for ever!" she cried.
"And he?"
"For ever, too!"
"He had better.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray & Other Fantastic Tales
“I shall love my kind of love anyway, doggedly, for I must certainly do the best I can with my own nature and if my nature is to love too well or from afar or to be grateful for crumbs...well, so be it.”
“I shall make it my business to take my chances in the matter of libel suits.”
“I shall make it my chief business to see that the [royal] executive power has its place in the constitution.”
“I shall make it the most agreeable part of my duty to study merit, and reward the brave and deserving.”
Source: (v. 2) Comprising official letters relating to the French War, and private letters before the American Revolution
“I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea.”
“I shall make you feel all the joy, the terror in loving who you are.”
Source: Light from Uncommon Stars
“I shall mention in passing just one example of a gift from the Arabs that I for one am rather grateful for: coffee -- especially as it was originally banned in Europe as a 'Muslim drink.”
Source: Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science
“I shall miss all the people in it and the great fun we had doing it. I enjoyed playing the character very much. It was a very, very special character and a very special series. And the camaraderie of it all. I loved it.”
“I shall ne'er chase rainbows again,
Knowing no pot o' gold awaits at the end.
My Irish treasure is not there.
For ye, my love, abide with me here.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I've had.”
Source: The Magic Mountain
“I shall need, too, the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our fathers, as Israel of old, from their native land and planted them in a country flowing with all the necessaries of comforts of life.”
Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State
“I shall need, too, the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our forefathers, as Israel of old.”
Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State
“I shall never advise you to read, I shall ever advise you to learn”
“I shall never again admire a merely brave man.”
“I shall never alter my ways, not even if I have to die many times.”
Source: The Works of Plato: The Trial and Death of Socrates
“I shall never ask, never refuse, nor ever resign an office.”
“I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.”
“I shall never be as old as I was between 20 and 30.”
“I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.”
“I shall never be ashamed to quote a bad author if what he says is good.”
“I shall never be converted, and I shall remain true to my old religion of the classics until my life's end.”
“I shall never be myself again until I have seen Marguerite. It is perhaps the thirst of the fever, a sleepless night’s dream, a moment’s delirium; but though I were to become a Trappist, like M. de Rance’, after having seen her, I will see her.”
Source: La dame aux camélias
“I shall never be persuaded that God hath shut up all light of learning within the lantern of Aristotle's brain.”
“I shall never be quite happy until New York becomes a place to which I go often, rather than leave seldom.”
Source: Lady Be Good: The Life and Times of Dorothy Hale
“I shall never be shaken.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!