I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I should never stand alone in this desert world, but that manna would drop from heaven, if I would but rise with every rising sun to gather it.”
“I should no longer define myself as the son of a father who couldn’t or hasn’t or wouldn’t or wasn’t.”
Source: Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet
“I should not act better than anybody, but sure as hell, NOBODY’S better than ME!”
Source: Sacrifices Beyond Kingdoms: A Provocative Romance Torn Between Continents and Cultures
“I should not be a Christian but for the miracles.”
Source: Pascal's Pensees
“I should not be a man if this womanly helplessness did not just give
you a double attractiveness in my eyes.”
Source: A Doll's House
“I should not be disappointed when the level of my energy is insufficient as held against the size of my dreams, for it is then that I know with certainty that my dreams are both real and worthwhile.”
“I should not be interested in myself,” George Sand said, “if I had the honour of meeting myself.”
Source: George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings
“I should not be judged by a standard that's not applied to everyone else.”
“I should not be surprised if you were to be thought of as one of the prettiest girls in the room; there is a great deal in novelty.”
Source: The Watsons. Jane Austen's fragment continued and completed by John Coates
“I should not be surprised," said Mr. Graham, "that the day should come when men will refuse to believe in God simply on the ground of the apparent injustice of things. They would argue that there might be either an omnipotent being who did not care, or a good being who could not help, but that there could not be a being both all good and omnipotent or else he would never have suffered things to be as they are.”
Source: The Fisherman's Lady
“I should NOT be trading on the blood of my men.”
“I should not believe in a God who does not dance.”
“I should not dare to call my soul my own.”
“I should not have lied, but I did. Later, those lies came back to haunt me, bread cast on the water, tenfold.”
Source: Crazy Ladies
“I should not have loved my daughter as I did. Not in this world in which nothing lives for long. You children are flies. You are roses. You multiply and die.”
Source: Fever
“I should not have to flirt with someone while I'm trying to threaten someone else with a gun; it was too hard to do both.”
Source: Flirt: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“I should not have to keep fixing the damage done to us. It would be so easy to not hurt us and the Speakers can't even do that. It's more work to hurt us. It's more work to be cruel - and yet they continue.”
Source: The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
“I should not let any form of inner limitation like self-doubt, fear of failure, worry, anxiety, financial issues, loss of cognitive capacity or loss of will come in the way. I should aggressively push through all of them because there was nothing to be afraid of. The worst thing that could happen was already happening. These things were not at stake; what was at stake was far more serious, complex and fundamental in nature.”
Source: A Relentless Pursuit of the Truth - A philosophical guide to living a life of fulfillment and meaning
“I should not like to contemplate an existence, especially one that is going to continue forever, if I could not enjoy that existence with those whom I love. And so we build temples in the name of the Lord.”
“I should not like to leave an impression that all structural problems can be settled by X-ray analysis or that all crystal structures are easy to solve. I seem to have spent much more of my life not solving structures than solving them.”
Source: The collected works of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
“I should not like to preach to a congregation who all believed as I believe. I would as lief preach to a basket of eggs in their smooth compactness and oval formality.”
“I should not like to say ... that any kind of knowledge is not to be learned; for all knowledge appears to be a good.”
Source: The Dialogues of Plato
“I should not make any promises right now,
But I know if you
Pray
Somewhere in this world -
Something good will happen.”
“I should not mind anything at all.”
Source: The Jane Austen MEGAPACK TM: All Her Classic Works
“I should not mistake her calm probing for the absence of anger.”
Source: Between the World and Me
“I should not proceed by land to the East, as is customary, but by a Westerly route, in which direction we have hitherto no certain evidence that any one has gone.”
Source: Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America: From a Manuscript Recently Discovered in Spain
“I should not really object to dying were it not followed by death.”
“I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.”
Source: 1816-1828
“I should now find myself a wife!”
“I should only ever tell the king what he ought to do, not what he could do. For if the lion knows his own strength, no man could control him.”
“I should only have been as lucky as Valentino, in the movies - I didnt have to be a gigolo. In real life.”
“I should pay attention to what I know and not talk more just because I won a Nobel Prize.”
“I should perhaps warn you that I am about to faint from anxiety and general depression, though. The film I saw last night was especially grueling, a teen-age beach musical. I almost collapsed during the singing sequence on surfboard.”
Source: A Confederacy of Dunces
“I should point out that I have a picture of Asbel Kiprop as the screensaver on my phone. Is that embarrassing?”
“I should practice what I preach. It's a lot easier to show and teach people how to love themselves than it is to do it yourself. I still struggle with it sometimes. I wish sometimes I could always feel that I'm good enough, smart enough and gosh darn it, people like me!”
“I should prefer that you do not mention my name at all in connection with this case, as I choose to be only associated with those crimes which present some difficulty in their solution.”
Source: The Adventure of the Cardboard Box - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story
“I should prefer to die laughing, and, on more than one occasion, thought I might.”
Source: Familiar territory: observations on American life
“I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.”
“I should probably back out now before this blows up in my face. Then again, I look good with char marks on me. Yup, I’m so lighting this fuse. - Gucci, from "The Tiebreaker”
“I should probably be afraid. But instead a hysterical laugh bubbles inside me, because I just remembered something: Maybe I can’t hold a gun. But I have a knife in my back pocket.”
“I should probably bequeath the copyrights to my screenplay for Spies Like Us, just in case.”
“I should probably confess that I get bored easily, which explains my reluctance to work with formula, tropes, whatever.”
“I should probably confess that ice cream is my favorite food, and I eat it every night. When I go grocery shopping, I try to buy a new flavor, rather than reverting back to a favorite flavor. I'm on a mission to taste every flavor of ice cream out there!”
“I should probably get a stone. A stone would be good. A stone would save me, would salvage all the damage we had already done, all the things we had given up or lost.”
“I should probably never describe myself as adorable.”
“I should probably start with the blood.”
Source: The Book of Blood and Shadow
“I should probably warn you, my love isn't roses and champagne. I'm obsessive, jealous, and controlling, but I'm faithful and I'll be here when you need someone.”
Source: Home
“I should pursue only those habits that would make me feel freer and stronger.”
Source: Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives
“I should put a bullet in you right now, you stubborn jackass.”
“Good. I’ll have a scar to match the last time you stabbed me,” he snapped.”
Source: Resurrection
“I should rather have you than a heap of gold, even if it were very comfortable to sleep on," Temeraire said.”
Source: His Majesty's Dragon