I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I shall overcome any obscuration.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“I shall participate, I shall contribute, and in so doing, I will be the gainer.”
“I shall pass Dawn on her way to earth, as I seek for a path through space.”
Source: Songs about Life, Love and Death
“I shall pass over the somnambulism of desire, the abrupt resolution which sweeps away all others, the alacrity of a body which, finally, no longer obeys anything but itself. We often describe the happiness of a soul which disencumbers itself of the body; there are moments in life when the body disencumbers itself of the soul.”
Source: Alexis o el tratado del inútil combate
“I shall pass through life but once. Let me show kindness now, as I shall not pass this way again.”
“I shall play Scarlett O'Hara.”
“I shall plunge down into the abysmal horror of madness and death—or I shall walk upon the dawn.”
Source: A Sunny Place for Shady People
“I shall possess this woman; I shall steal her from the husband who profanes her: I will even dare ravish her from the God whom she adores. What delight, to be in turns the object and the victor of her remorse! Far be it from me to destroy the prejudices which sway her mind! They will add to my happiness and my triumph. Let her believe in virtue, and sacrifice it to me; let the idea of falling terrify her, without preventing her fall; and may she, shaken by a thousand terrors, forget them, vanquish them only in my arms.”
“I shall praise those faces which seem to project out of the picture as though they were sculptured, and I shall censure those faces in which I see no art but that of outline.”
“I shall pray for your soul,' promised Nessarose. I shall wait for your shoes,' Elphie answered.”
Source: Wicked
“I shall pray God to send charity into this hideous world, and sympathy for the weak, and love for the unhappy and unfortunate. I shall ask Him if it is indeed His will that a child should suffer and its soul be damned for a little blemish of the body.”
“I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.”
Source: On War
“I shall pursue a straight forward course deviating neither to the right or left so that comes what may I hope my real friends will never have to blush for me, so far as truth, honesty & fair dealings are concerned.”
“I shall really be very unhappy unless you give me the sort of courage that makes one forget he is afraid.”
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 reconsider human knowledge by starting from the fact that we can know more than we can tell.”
Source: The Tacit Dimension
“I shall refract myself, yes, I shall no longer be known as the prism.”
“i shall refuse to go to the moon,
unless i'm inoculated, against
the dangers of discriminate love.”
“I shall rejoice and give praise
from the mountain top
because God's reaching love
has finally found me”
Source: A Bright New Morning: An American Story
“I shall rejoin myself to my native country, with new attachments, and with exaggerated esteem for its advantages; for though there is less wealth there, there is more freedom, more ease, and less misery.”
Source: Memoirs Corespondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson Late, President of the United States: Now First Published the Original Manuscripts
“I shall remain a wanderer until mankind has learned the way of peace.”
Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words
“I shall remain on Mars and read a book.”
Source: The Illustrated Man
“I shall remain vigilant and unyielding in my pursuit of the enemies of the Coalition.
I will defend and maintain the Order of Life as it was proclaim by the Allfathers of the Coalition in the Octus Canon.
I will forsake the life I had before so I may perform my duty as long as I am needed.
Steadfast, I shall hold my place in the machine and acknowledge my place in the Coalition.
I am a Gear.”
Source: Aspho Fields
“I shall remember the look in Margot's eyes all my life.”
“I shall repeat a hundred times; we really ought to free ourselves from the seduction of words!”
Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
“I shall return, it vowed. I shall return.”
Source: The Way of Shadows
“I shall return, doubt it not. Such love as ours was not created to remain unfulfilled. Whatever may happen, believe and trust in me, as I shall in you, and keep the remembrance of me in your heart without sadness and without regret.”
Source: The First Sir Percy
“I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.”
Source: The Winter of our Discontent
“I shall risk nothing on an attempt to prove the transcendence of p. If others undertake this enterprise, no one will be happier than I in their success. But believe me, it will not fail to cost them some effort.”
“I shall say nothing
Of my insanity,
Which is that which
Keeps me sane.”
“I shall say nothing of my insanity, which keeps me sane.”
“I shall say, that I feel myself virtuous, because my soul is at rest.”
“I shall see the face of Mars, anyhow, and that will be a rare experience. It seems to me that a view of the heavenly bodies through a fine telescope, as well as a tour round the world, should form a part of a liberal education. How many run to and fro upon the earth, hunting for sights at great trouble and expense, but how few even think of that sublimer scenery of the sky which can be seen without stirring far from home! A peep at some distant orb has power to raise and purify our thoughts like a strain of sacred music, or a noble picture, or a passage from the grander poets. It always does one good.”
Source: A Trip to Venus
“I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.”
Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson
“I shall see you again, if I have to set the world on fire for that." - The Three Musketeers”
Source: The Four Musketeers
“I shall see you on Blackfriars Bridge, Tessa.”
Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess
“I shall seek God's mercy with all my might.”
“I shall seeThe hour of death draw near to me,Hope, blossoming within my heart. . . .”
“I shall seize fate by the throat.”
Source: Beethoven's Letters
“I shall set forth for somewhere, I shall make the reckless choice Some say when they are in voice And tossing so as to scare The white clouds over them on, I shall have less to say, But I shall be none.”
“I shall show that the place does not honor the man, but the man the place.”
“I shall show the cinders of my spirits Through the ashes of my chance.”
Source: Select Plays of William Shakespeare: In Six Volumes. With the Corrections & Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added, Notes
“I shall sit alone in a darkened room, sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything but a little grey old head, and in that little grey old head a peculiar vision of hideous blue and gold dangling things flashing in the light, and the smell of sweat, cat food and death.”
Source: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
“I shall sit here, vow to thee
Sing a riddle, for it may be
Of a time where conspiracy need not exist
In the hidden blanket of a winter kiss”
Source: A Candid Aim
“I shall sleep, and move with the moving ships, Change as the winds change, veer in the tide.”
“I shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom where the rose should grow.”
“I shall soon be laid in the quiet grave - thank God for the quiet grave”
“I shall soon be laid in the quiet grave--thank God for the quiet grave--O! I can feel the cold earth upon me--the daisies growing over me--O for this quiet--it will be my first.”
“I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?”
“I shall speak facts; but some will say I deal in fiction.”
“I shall speak of how melancholy and utopia preclude one another. How they fertilize one another... of the revulsion that follows one insight and precedes the next... of superabundance and surfeit. Of stasis in progress. And of myself, for whom melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.”