I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I suspect, too, that the modern debates represent the effort of candidates with widely-varying constituencies and special interests to please to tip the hat as quickly as possible to as many of the constituencies and interests as possible. That leaves no time for big-picture issues. Contrast this with Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas, where the subject was only ever slavery, and the discussion went right to the bedrock of what a democracy is all about.”
“I suspected [Richard Nixon] was very pro-Pakistan. Or rather I knew that the Americans had always been in favor of Pakistan - not so much because they were in favor of Pakistan, but because they were against India.”
“I suspected I had a new and undocumented disease and I was not surprised to find a rare disease was part of it!”
Source: Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue
“I suspected learning a language would be both useful and enjoyable (I love memorising lists of things), and would get rid of the embarrassment of being monolingual at 21. I'd been obsessed with reading for as long as I could remember, the only thing I'd ever thought I might want to be was a writer, but I was much better at crafting sentences than at stringing plots together.”
“I suspected my homosexuality, but I'd never acted out on it because I was afraid of sex. It's awful to be afraid of sex.”
“I suspected that there were things he knew that I had been waiting all my life to learn.”
Source: A Thousand Acres: A Novel
“I suspected that what happens in hotel rooms rarely lasts outside of them. I suspected that when something was a beginning and an ending at the same time, that meant it could only exist in the present.”
Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
“I suspected there would be a good-size crowd once the word got out about my hanging.”
“I suspected, however, that I wasn't homesick for anything I would find at home when I returned. The longing was for what I wouldn't find: the past and all the people and places there were lost to me.”
“I sustain myself with the love of family.”
“I sustained an injury by singing with the flu during the second performance of Andrea Chenier in Buenos Aires. I was very sick, with chills and sweats, but against my better judgement I let them talk me into singing. Of course I gave the performance everything I had and my voice was hurt. It was scary at first, but fortunately there was no permanent damage. I just had to be patient and wait for the voice to return. It took six weeks of physical recuperation and it took time to recover my confidence as well.”
“I sutona celog sneg je tiho pado,
umoran i gust.
Večeras bih nekog ugledala rado;
ali njega nema. Put je davno pust.
Samo s bledog neba beloj zemlji sleću
pahulje kroz zrak.
O, kako je bolno kad ti doći neće
neko koga čekaš, a spušta se mrak.”
“I suze me guše u grlu, ni zbog čega, zbog svega, zbog pjesme, zbog nje što je vidim, što nas ne vidi, što ne zna da je slušamo, što plače... Pa ona plače. Bez uzdaha, bez jecaja, samo suzama i tugom i pobjeđuje me tim najljepšim i najuzbudljivijim plačem što sam ga ikad čuo. I nije plač zapravo, već nezadržan prodor nečega što je u njoj, što je njeno, što je u muci koji ne znam i ne želim da znam. Traje kratko i u zasjenjenim očima ostao je samo mek trag tuge što se povukla, sakrivši se pod osmijeh bez snage.”
Source: Tišine
“I sve su vile, sve su kraljice, i sve su nevažne naspram nje.”
“I swallow any sort of apology. "screwing your neighbor." There. Said it. React, okay? pregnant pause becomes three weeks overdue. Four weeks. Time for a C-section. What? Oh, Kaeleigh, I'm so sorry. Are you sure...?”
“I swallow hard before
hearing that deep voice for the first time
since the beginning of class say, "I've got
my eye on you, Fangs.”
Source: Fangs and Paws
“I swallow hard. “No one will ever matter like you do, Lib.”
“No one will ever matter like you do either,” she whispers.”
Source: Book Lovers
“I swallow my words. I hide them deep behind my ribs, tucked neatly by my heart, with all the other words I keep.”
“I swallowed a hand grenade that never stops exploding.”
“I swallowed a sigh since, truthfully, I was glad she found the cabin.”
Source: Death Leaves a Shadow
“I swallowed all the doubt and all the disappointment and all the anger and they were almost too big, like vitamin pills that are difficult to get down even with water.”
Source: My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece
“I swallowed and took a deep breath. “You can always leave my service.”
“Don’t you see, Diana? If I did that, I’d break not one but two hearts. For I know you love me, though you haven’t said it yet.”
I closed the gap between us and put a steady palm on Eric’s chest. “Oh, Eric. You do know me. I love you so much, it sometimes terrifies me.”
Source: The Guard of Adriane
“I swallowed back a wave of concern as her focus jumped from my face to the indigo jewel at my chest. The blue light in the heart of the jewel glowed only faintly. A yank on the braided chain made me lurch forward and I heard Vada cry out in pain. When I looked, the vampiress was cupping her hand as if it hurt. I then understood what happened: she had attempted to grab the enchanted gemstone and it shocked her in the process. I flashed an accusatory glare at Vallatrece.
“Do you mean to steal from me?”
“Apparently no. It seems the stone has chosen you.”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
“I’m not surprised.”
“Well, it’s mine—that I do know. You can’t take it from me. No one can.”
“How many have tried?”
I refused an answer to the question. My silence was undaunting.
“Where did you get that pretty trinket anyway? Who gave it to you?”
“No one gave it to me; I found it.”
Vallatrece scrunched up her face, communicating that she didn’t believe me.
“And now that I have it,” I continued, “I no longer require your services.”
“You no longer require my services? Is that so?” Again, her cheeks dimpled with amusement at my words.
“Yes, it is so.”
Source: The Tarishe Curse
“I swallowed, feeling something inside me respond, a rush of warmth spreading through my veins. My own dragon, calling to Riley's, like he was her other half.”
Source: Rogue
“I swallowed hard, a hot flush blazing a trail across my skin. Reminded me of that old television show, Bonanza. You know, the one with the burning map and the lively western tune? Yeah, my skin was that map, but the song blaring in my head leaned more toward a “bow-chick-a-wow-wow” sound than anything else. Hormone overload!”
Source: Eve of Samhain
“I swallowed hard and realized that I was looking at the man I was in love with. The man who was set to ruin me.
It was in that moment that I realized that I'd survived many things, but Roman Protsenko was probably not going to be one of them.”
Source: Bane
“I swallowed hard and said as calmly as possible, “There’s been a murder. I don’t know what happened. The address is two-two-zero three Devonshire Court.”
Source: Dissolve
“I swallowed hard. It was my life. And it was my choice how I decided to live it.”
Source: The Cemetery Boys
“I swallowed hard, trying not to let my feelings show. To hide them, I grinned. “Ewan, I have something to tell you,” I whispered.
The lines around his mouth trembled. “Yes?”
“You won’t laugh.”
“Rapunzel… No, of course not.”
“Ewan… I love bacon.”
At that, Ewan laughed then placed his arm around my shoulder and pulled me close, planting a kiss on the top of my head. “Yeah. Me too.”
Source: Golden Braids and Dragon Blades: Steampunk Rapunzel
“I swallowed my heartbreak like a bitter pill”
Source: Loveish
“I swallowed the fear. It’s always there– fear– and if you don’t stay on top of it, you’ll drown. I swallowed again and stood tall, shoulders broad, arms loose. I was balanced, ready to move. My body said, “Yeah, you’re bigger and stronger, but if you touch this, I will hurt you.”
Source: Prom
“i swallowed the syllables of your name
and i was full.”
Source: this is how you know i want you.
“I swam a little bit in high school but I wasn't a jock.”
“I swam across the rocks and compared myself favorably with the sars. To swim fishlike, horizontally, was the logical method in a medium eight hundred times denser than air. To halt and hang attached to nothing, no lines or air pipe to the surface, was a dream. At night I had often had visions of flying by extending my arms as wings. Now I flew without wings. (Since that first aqualung flight, I have never had a dream of flying.)”
“I swam across the torrent of my madness, and pulled myself upon the shore of a new and better sanity.”
Source: A Face Like Glass
“I swam at school a lot. Long-distance swimming in pools, and diving, then when we moved to Hastings when I was 13 I used to swim in the sea all the time; I loved it out of season and when it was rough.”
“I swam in high school.”
“I swam in the open seas
and a faceless man counted the time
that nevermore belongs to me.
Do you feel the same?
Do you dream of a time
that bears another name?
You drew me in your own image
and I wrote your name all over my heart –
fiery lights are all I see behind my eyes.”
Source: Within the event horizon: poetry & prose
“I swam my brains out.”
“I swam the race like I trained to swim it. It is not mathematical. I just let my body do it. It is a lot easier if you let your body do what it is trained for.”
“I sware unto you my furtherance if I prevailed. But now is mine army passed away as wax wasteth before the fire, and I wait the dark ferryman who tarrieth for no man. Yet, since never have I wrote mine obligations in sandy but in marble memories, and since victory is mine, receive these gifts: and first thou, O Brandoch Daha, my sword, since before thou wast of years eighteen thou wast accounted the mightiest among men-at-arms. Mightily may it avail thee, as me in time gone by. And unto thee, O Spitfire, I give this cloak. Old it is, yet may it stand thee in good stead, since this virtue it hath that he who weareth it shall not fall alive into the hand of his enemies. Wear it for my sake. But unto thee, O Juss, give I no gift, for rich thou art of all good gifts: only my good will give I unto thee, ere earth gape for me."
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So they fared back to the spy-fortalice, and night came down on the hills. A great wind moaning out of the hueless west tore the clouds as a ragged garment, revealing the lonely moon that fled naked betwixt them. As the Demons looked backward in the moonlight to where Zeldornius stood gazing on the dead, a noise as of thunder made the firm land tremble and drowned the howling of the wind. And they beheld how earth gaped for Zeldornius.”
Source: The worm Ouroboros
“I swayed into him, drawn to his obsessive and insatiable raw need for me, which reflected the depth of my need for him”
Source: The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day
“I swear again, I would not be a queen
For all the world.”
“I swear and it comes off a little angry, no matter how funny I'm trying to do it. If I use certain words with a certain intensity, it's like 'Whoa whoa whoa, buddy buddy!'”
“I swear, Ava, from then on, you were like this madness inside my head, I never could get past. I knew then, you would be mine. You would always be mine.”
Source: Tragic Beauty
“I swear by my Clarisonic Mia 2! I use it every morning when I wake up and every night before bed.”
“I swear by Neutrogena facial wash - I never sleep in my makeup!”
“I swear by now I'm playing time against my troubles I'm coming slow but speeding”
“I swear by swadeshi as it affords occasion for ample exercise of all our faculties and it tests every one of the millions of men and women, young and old.”
Source: The Gospel of Swadeshi, by M.K. Gandhi
“I swear by that old expression, 'One monkey don't stop no show!' The reality is, we still have some good men out there, and we should hail those men as the kings they are.”