I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I shall speak of love...
and of hate.
It is truly a marvel, but I tell you, hatred and love may live cramped together, crouching in the same heart.”
Source: Yvain: The Knight of the Lion: A Graphic Novel
“I shall speak only of the part I have stayed in- the districts of Lakes Ochrida and Presba. Here there are Greeks, Slavs, Albanians, and Vlahs. Of Turks, except officials and such of the army as may be quartered on the spot, there are few. The Albanians, I believe, are all Moslem. Should there be any Christians they would be officially classed as Greeks. A large part of the land near Lake Presba is owned by Moslem Albanians as ' chiftliks '(farms).”
“I shall spend every moment loving. One who loves does not notice her trials; or perhaps more accurately, she is able to love them. I shall do everything for Heaven, my true home. There I shall find my Mother in all the splendor of her glory. I shall delight with her in the joy of Jesus himself in perfect safety.”
“I shall sprinkle pale pencil marks through it pointing out the best passages to some booklover yet unborn.”
Source: 84, Charing Cross Road
“I shall stand for freedom of thought and expression in a place where it has been trampled and penalized.”
“I shall start at the beginning. Though of coarse, the beginning is never where you think it is.”
“I shall state my thesis plain. The first poets were gods. Poetry began with the bicameral mind.”
Source: The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
“I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.”
Source: Disjecta: miscellaneous writings and a dramatic fragment
“I shall stay here as long as I may, I don't want to think — I needn't think. I don't care for anything but you, and that's enough for the present. It will last a little yet. Here on my knees, with you dying in my arms, I'm happier than I've been for a long time. And I want you to be happy — not to think of anything sad; only to feel that I'm near you and I love you. Why should there be pain? In such hours as this what have we to do with pain? That's not the deepest thing; there's something deeper.”
Source: The Portrait of a Lady
“I shall stick to my resolution of writing always what I think no matter whom it offends.”
“I shall stick to our vow: never, never under any circumstances, to say anything unbecoming of the other...The trouble, of course, is that most successful men are prone to some form of vanity. There comes a stage in their lives when they consider it permissible to be egotistic and to brag to the public at large about their unique achievements.”
Source: Conversations With Myself
“I shall strike the stars with my uplifted head.”
“I shall strip away layer after layer of grime -- the toffee-colored varnish and caked soot left by a lifetime of dissembling -- until I come to the very thing itself and know it for what it is. My soul. My self.”
“I shall strive not to be guilty of adding any fuel to the flames of hatred and passion which, if continued to be fed, promise to burn up whatever is left by the war of decent human feeling in Europe.”
“I shall strive to inculculate in my men the spirit of the chase.”
“I shall struggle against the decline of body and brain and heart so long as a shadow of force is left me, so long as they leave me a spark of life. I must see the end of this dark tragedy.”
Source: Five Years of My Life: The Diary of Captain Alfred Dreyfus (Select Bibliographies Reprint)
“I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell.”
“I shall survive!
Nothing is as resilient as me.”
Source: Conscious Cures: Soulutions to 21st Century Pandemics
“I shall sustain a massive erection, that’s what, and I shan’t be answerable for the consequences. Some kind of ejaculation is almost bound to ensue and if either of you were to become pregnant I should never forgive myself.”
Source: The Liar
“I shall take all the troubles of the past, all the disappointments, all the headaches, and I shall pack them in a bag and throw them in the East River.”
“I shall take my present leave - but not without resorting once more to the benign Parent of the Human Race in humble supplication [prayer] that since he has been pleased to favour the American people, with opportunities for deliberating in perfect tranquility, and dispositions for deciding with unparellelled unanimity on a form of Government, for the security of their Union, and the advancement of their happiness; so his divine blessing may be equally conspicuous in the enlarged views, the temperate consultations, and the wise measures on which the success of this Government must depend.”
“I shall take my voice wherever there are those who want to hear the melody of freedom”
Source: Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974
“I shall take my voice wherever there are those who want to hear the melody of freedom or the words that might inspire hope and courage in the face of fear. My weapons are peaceful, for it is only by peace that peace can be attained. The song of freedom must prevail.”
“I shall take the heart. For brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.”
Source: The Wizard of Oz
“I shall teach you the best way to say Torah. You must cease to be aware of yourselves. You must be nothing but an ear that hears what the universe of the word is constantly saying within you. The moment you start hearing what you yourself are saying, YOU must stop.”
Source: Ten Rungs: Collected Hasidic Sayings
“I shall tell him that when he comes back,' she thought and smiled. But just then she recollected that now she had no one to tell anything funny to.”
Source: ANNA KARENINA
“I shall tell my doctors baseball has more curative powers than all their medicine.”
“I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.”
“I shall tell you about God once you've reached your imaginary heaven. Then, give me a call.”
“I shall tell you everything you need to know about Lavinia, and you will...teach me how to dance."
His grin was wicked again. "Among other things.”
Source: The Untamed Earl
“I shall tell you what I believe. I believe God is a librarian. I believe that literature is holy...it is that best part of our souls that we break off and give each other, and God has a special dispensation for it, angels to guard its making and its preservation.”
Source: Chasing Shakespeares
“I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.”
Source: The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by the Late George Steevens, Esq. ; with Glossarial Notes
“I shall think of you at sunset, and at sunrise, again; and at noon, and forenoon, and afternoon, and always, and evermore, till this little heart stops beating and is still.”
Source: Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson
“I shall think of you
Whenever I am most happy, whenever I am Most sad, whenever I see a beautiful thing.
You are a burning lamp to me, a flame
The wind cannot blow out, and I shall hold you High in my hand against whatever darkness.”
Source: Collected Poems
“I shall tread in the footsteps of my illustrious predecessor.”
“I shall treat the nature and power of the Affects, and the power of the Mind over them, by the same Method by which, in the preceding parts, I treated God and the Mind, and I shall consider human actions and appetites just as if it were a Question of lines, planes, and bodies.”
Source: Complete Works
“I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.”
Source: Collected stories and other writings
“I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as a poet.”
“I shall use such influence as I have in emphasizing the basic truths common to all denominations, in lowering denominational barriers and in promoting effective cooperation among Christians of whatever creed.”
“I shall venture to affirm, that there never was a popular religion, which represented the state of departed souls in such a light,as would render it eligible for human kind, that there should be such a state. These fine models of religion are the mere product of philosophy. For as death lies between the eye and the prospect of futurity, that event is so shocking to nature, that it must throw a gloom on all the regions which lie beyond it; and suggest to the generality of mankind the idea of Cerberus and Furies; devils, and torrents of fire and brimstone.”
Source: Dialogues and Natural History of Religion
“I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.”
Source: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
“I shall weave a suit of leaves. At once. With acorns for buttons.”
“I shall work for the Republican party and call on all women to join me, precisely... for what that party has done and promises to do for women, nothing more, nothing less.”
“I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring, as is proper and correct, and Alexander Pope was inevitably Alexander Pope. Colley Cibber was a silly little man without much elegance and Shelley was very Percy and very Bysshe.”
“I shall write no more. Writing the truth for readers nourished on publicity rubbish is a useless exercise.”
Source: Lulu in Hollywood
“I shall yield a rifle of fury, loaded with the justice of time and the raging storm of my soul!”
Source: The Crossing Hour
“I shall, of course, die with nonviolence on my lips.”
Source: Collected Works
“I shampoo only once a week or so, with tree tea oil shampoo. And when I slap moisturizer on my face - just some stuff I bought in the grocery store - I pile it through my hair.”
“I shan't hazard a guess, my guesses are hazardous!”
Source: Close: Set in suburban London during the glorious electric eighties, Close is the story of three forty-something friends.
“I shan't mind if you don't," he agreed. "But I'll not let you go, Prudence. Til not pester you, but know this: I will wait until you choose to listen to your heart."
"Pshaw." It was a feeble effort. She took a deep breath and tried again. "Humbug! How can you presume to know my heart?"
He smiled a slow, devastating smile. "You are my heart." He lifted her hand and kissed it. "And our hearts beat in tune. I know it—I, who used not to believe in such things. And you know it.”
Source: The Perfect Rake