I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I survive all those battles," she growled, "and I get defeated by a stupid chunk of rock!”
Source: Percy Jackson: The Complete Series
“I survive at the edge of friends circles.”
Source: Red Glove
“I survive by finding the sweet spot between reason and unreason, between the rational and irrational.”
Source: The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd
“I survive into my eighties, writing, and oddly cheerful, although disabled and largely alone. There is only one road.”
Source: Essays After Eighty
“I survive. I survived it all then and I'll survive the rest of it. Without your help.”
Source: Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko
“I survived a number of garage bands during my teens and early twenties, both as drummer and guitarist. It's nigh impossible for me to listen to music without parsing it.”
“I survived a potentially life-threatening childbirth-related complication after delivering my daughter. I learned that hundreds of thousands of girls and women die each year due to similar and often manageable complications. They die because they don't have access to critical maternity care that could easily save their lives.”
“I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.”
“I survived because the fire that burned inside of me burned brighter than the fire around me.”
“I survived being Australian of the Year because I knew already that it wouldn't be a true reflection of my worth. I knew it would be ugly, at least in part. I came equipped with a glimpse of fame that made me realise two profound things. One is that people's ideas of it will always be warped from the outside and there's little that can be done to control that. The other being that you don't have to let it warp you if you hold on to what is most dear. (p.298)”
Source: The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner
“I survived.'
But shadows darkened his face with the words. He bowed his head, leaning his brow against hers. That hateful halo pressed against her skin. 'Barely,' he admitted. She tightened her arms around him, shaking. 'The thought of you kept me going.”
Source: House of Flame and Shadow
“I survived my childhood by birthing many separate identities to stand in for one another in times of great stress and fear.”
“I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.”
“I survived the part that almost killed me.
What I didn’t know was what survival would cost my children.
This isn’t just my story.
It’s the story of choosing to break the cycle.”
Source: Broken Secrets
“I survived this torture which left me paralyzed for years. That's what that night was all about, mutilation, more than violence through sex. I really do feel as though I was psychologically mutilated that night and now I'm trying to put the pieces back together again. Through love, not hatred. And through my music. My strength has been to open again, to life, and my victory is the fact that, despite it all, I kept alive my vulnerability.”
“I survived. [When asked what he had done during the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution]”
“I survived, but it's not a happy ending.”
Source: The Things They Carried
“I survived, carried on, glad to be like a weed, a wild red poppy, rooted in life.”
Source: Inside/Out: Selected Poems
“I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.”
“I suspect any worries about genetic engineering may be unnecessary. Genetic mutations have always happened naturally, anyway.”
“I suspect anyone self-satisfied enough to refuse lawful pleasures: we are not sufficiently rich in our separate resources to reject the graces of the universe when offered.”
Source: The Journey's Echo: Selections
“I suspect anyway that the important things we learn we never remember because they become a part of us, we absorb them...we don't absorb multiplication tables.”
Source: Lanterns on the Levee; Recollections of a Planter's Son
“I suspect beneath that rough exterior, you are quite the gentleman”
Source: The Pumpkin King's Bride
“I suspect by the time the Beatles were writing the White Album, they didn't go, "'I Wanna Hold Your Hand!' I wanna play that!" It's like if somebody asked you to put on the clothes you wore in high school. Well, no. No!”
“I suspect COVID-19 hypoxia research will bring about the closure of the biologically toxic Mauna Kea Observatories.”
“I suspect each of us uses the past to prop up the bruised present. It’s a clumsy try for the comfort of normality.”
Source: Spiral Road
“I suspect guys who say, "I just send out for a sandwich for lunch," as lazy men trying to impress me.”
Source: Who struck John?
“I suspect he's sweet on Sophie and doesn't like to see her work too hard.' Tessa was glad to hear it. She'd felt awful about her reaction to Sophie's scar, and the thought that Sophie had a male admirer - and a handsome one like that- eased her conscience slightly. 'Perhaps he's in love with Agatha', she said. 'I hope not. I intend to marry Agatha myself. She may be a thousand years old, but she makes an incomparable jam tart. Beauty fades, but cooking is eternal.”
Source: Clockwork Angel
“I suspect I'm the only politician in America who won an election in this last cycle with TV ads saying I was going to try to pass the first single-payer system in America.”
“I suspect in Lenin's works there's everything, if you search well.”
“I suspect in most companies, the public relations person is down at No. 20 in the pecking order. But here, he is fighting incredibly important battles. If a negative story starts running away with itself in the press and is not dealt with fast, it can badly damage the brand, and so we put enormous weight on our PR people.”
“I suspect it is for one's self-interest that one looks at one's surroundings and one's self. This search is personally born and is indeed my reason and motive for making photographs.”
Source: Self Portrait
“I suspect it is for one’s self-interest that one looks at one’s surroundings and one’s self. This search is personally born and is indeed my reason and motive for making photographs. The camera is not merely a reflecting pool and the photographs are not exactly the mirror, mirror on the wall that speaks with a twisted tongue. Witness is borne and puzzles come together at the photographic moment which is very simple and complete. The mind-finger presses the release on the silly machine and it stops time and holds what its jaws can encompass and what the light will stain.”
“I suspect it is simply a feature of being an adult, what I will call being grown, or a grown person, to have endured some variety of thorough emotional turmoil, to have made your way to the brink, and, if you’re lucky, to have stepped back from it—if not permanently, then for some time, or time to time. Then it is, too, a kind of grownness by which I see three squares of light on my wall, the shadow of a tree trembling in two of them, and hear the train going by and feel no panic or despair, feel no sense of condemnation or doom or horrible align- ment, but simply observe the signs—light and song—for what they are—light and song. And, knowing what I have felt before, and might feel again, feel a sense of relief, which is cousin to, or rather, water to, delight.”
Source: The Book of Delights: Essays
“I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs books to make it through the day."
(Interview with The Booklovers blog, September 2010)”
“I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs books to make it through the day.”
“I suspect it was...the old story of the implacable necessity of a man having honour within his own natural spirit. A man cannot live and temper his mettle without such honour. There is deep in him a sense of the heroic quest; and our modern way of life, with its emphasis on security, its distrust of the unknown and its elevation of abstract collective values has repressed the heroic impulse to a degree that may produce the most dangerous consequences.”
“I suspect it's because Truman Democrats have been replaced by Gruber Democrats - self-styled elitists who feed lavishly at the public trough and think government should serve them, not the hoi polloi they disdain and deceive.”
“I suspect losing paper maps but gaining GPS and online maps is a similar step function: maps still exist, but they're vastly more useful, not to say permanently up to date, in their new form. Again, I won't be shedding any tears, but I'll keep a paper road atlas in the back of my car for another few years, I think, Just In Case.”
“I suspect many readers might associate [Bob Dylan] with one of the shortest phases of his career, the time from 1963 to '65 when he wrote his most famous "protest songs," like "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are a-Changin.'"”
“I suspect millions of people from my generation probably have comparable stories to tell: if not of sports simulations then of Dungeons & Dragons, or the geopolitical strategy of games like Diplomacy, a kind of chess superimposed onto actual history.”
Source: Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter
“I suspect most likely that more Nazis came to America. I was a student at Harvard during the early 1950s. There was practically no Jewish faculty there.”
“I suspect most of life takes place in the interstices of what's already been articulated.”
Source: Conversations with Samuel R. Delany
“I suspect most politicians feel overwhelmed because people's lives are a real struggle, full of unhappiness, and you would probably feel powerless to do anything about it.”
“I suspect most self-described 18-year-old Scandinavian women named Inga who collect and wear string bikinis are, in reality, more likely to be middle-aged, pot-bellied guys named Lou who collect and wear string cheese.”
“I suspect music is auditory cheesecake, an exquisite confection crafted to tickle the sensitive spots of... our mental faculties.”
Source: How the Mind Works
“I suspect Nargles are behind it.”
“I suspect people always thought I had a boyfriend, so nobody came after me.”
“I suspect people are going to vote for Max Burns because they know him as local boy who's got - share their values.”
“I suspect people channel-surf, as they tend to everywhere. But I'm told that we're not much on at the State Department, so we'll have to look into that.”