I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I take responsibility for what happened at Enron, both good and bad. But I cannot take responsibility for criminal conduct that I was unaware of.”
“I take responsibility only for the future, not the past. The past can't hurt you the way the future can.”
“I take risks - that's my life on the slopes and off.”
“I take risks, if you want to call it a risk. All the people running for president, last time, you know, they all came to visit me or meet me. They all wanted my endorsement and I endorsed [Rick] Perry at that time. He wasn't that well-liked either, but you have to do what you have to do.”
“I take running for president and being president really seriously. It's a - maybe the toughest job in the world, right? And I knew that there was unfinished business from the successful two terms of President Obama, whom I had served, but that we needed to go further on the economy, on health care, and so much else.”
“I take same picture twice, First with my heart then camera.”
“I take sanctuary in an honest mediocrity.”
“I take seriously the concerns that voters are expressing. There's a lot of disappointment, fear, even anger, among people who believe that the economy has failed them, their government has failed them, politics has failed them. They have every right to be concerned.”
“I take seriously the idea that we are African Apes who (at least for the moment) dominate the planet, but our psychology is pretty much what it was when we were living in small groups on the savanna.”
“I take showers to think.”
“I take simple everyday things that happen to me and I figure it happens to a lot of other people and I make simple rhymes out of them.”
“I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity.”
“I take skincare very seriously because I figure prevention is better than cure when it comes to ageing. Skincare tutorials are my guilty pleasure. Each night, I apply serum, vitamin C and enriching collagen night cream to my face. I mean, this does mean I look quite slimy of an evening”
Source: Stay Another Day
“I take smack because I enjoy it. I enjoy all it makes me feel. I don't do it to be in with the in crowd. I can rock out with it.”
“I take small, shallow breaths, even though my lungs are begging for more air. I feel the heat of Ten’s controlled breaths against my face. As we stand there, it feels as if an electric charge is growing between us, so powerful that it would shock us if we moved even a millimeter closer together. And yet I feel like I want to.”
Source: Above the Sky
“I take so little interest in my daily life, that I hardly remember to eat and drink.”
Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“I take solace in knowing that some of the steps I took can help other people.”
“I take some pride in... representing myself exactly how I would like to have my son remember me to his kids.”
“I take something that happened to me in 1983, and I make it happen to somebody else in 1943. I pick my life apart that way, try to understand it better by writing straight through it.”
Source: The Rainbow Rowell YA Collection
“I take sounds and change them into words.”
“I take space to be the central fact to man born in America. I spell it large because it comes large here. Large and without mercy.”
“I take square aim at an unbiblical churchianity that has resulted in a church-centric religion that fails to reflect the heart of God for people.”
“I take that as an insult, even at 36.”
“I take that back. If Hank wants to shoot Scott, he has my blessing.”
Source: The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale
“I take the academic education as seriously as the physical education. That's why I tell parents that the schools can't do it all themselves. The parents can't come home from work and turn on the TV. That's not being a good parent.”
“I take the assumption that every religion has been rooted in some mystical or transcendent experience. From that assumption, I just look at all the different systems as metaphors or doorways to God.”
“I take the ball, I go wide, I cross, I shoot, but when the moment beckons, I am ready to make the difference.”
“I take the Bible far too seriously to take it literally.”
“I take the Bible literally, but not seriously.”
“I take the book stopped at a fold, deliver myself to its pace, to the breathing of the other storyteller. If I am someone else, it's also because books move men more than journeys or tears.
After many pages you end up learning a variant, a different move than the one taken and thought inevitable.
I break away from what I am when I learn to treat my own life differently.”
“I take the choice out of exercise. It's not an option.”
“I take the comb from a pocket of my new dress and then hesitate. If I begin to untangle my nimbus of snarls, he will see how badly my hair is matted and be reminded of where he found me.
He stands.
Good. He will leave, and then I will be able to wrangle my hair alone.
But instead he steps behind me and takes the comb from my hands. 'Let me do that,' he says, taking strands of my hair in his fingers. 'It's the colour of primroses.'
My shoulders tense. I am unused to people touching me. 'You don't need to-' I start.
'It's no trouble,' he says. 'I had three older sisters brushing and braiding mine, no matter how I howled. I had to learn to do theirs, in self-defence. And my mother...'
His fingers are clever. He holds each lock at the base, slowly teasing out the knots at the very end and then working backward to the scalp. Under his hands, it becomes smooth ribbons. If I had done this, I would have yanked half of it out in frustration.
'Your mother...,' I echo, prompting him to continue in a voice that shakes only a little.
He begins to braid, sweeping my hair up so that thick plaits become something like his circlet, wrapping around my head.
'When we were in the mortal world, away from her servants, she needed help arranging it.' His voice is soft.
This, along with the slightly painful pull against my scalp, the brush of his fingertips against my neck as he separates a section, the slight frown of concentration on his face, is overwhelming. I am not accustomed to someone being this close.
When I look up, his smile is all invitation.
We are no longer children, playing games and hiding beneath his bed, but I feel as though this is a different kind of game, one where I do not understand the rules.
With a shiver, I take up the mirror from the dresser. In this hair, and with this dress, I look pretty. The kind of pretty that allows monsters to deceive people into forests, into dances where they will find their doom.”
Source: The Stolen Heir
“I take the Constitution very seriously. The biggest problems that we're facing right now have to do with [the president] trying to bring more and more power into the executive branch and not go through Congress at all. And that's what I intend to reverse when I'm President of the United States of America.”
“I take the debate on the method of promoting democracy seriously”
“I take the definition and title of my job - Representative - seriously. Thats what I will be above and beyond everything else.”
“I take the ethical truths to be the stable elements that emerge out of ethical progress and that are retained under further ethical progress.”
“I take the fact that films cost a lot of money very seriously, but once in a while to have somebody say, This is a big scene, take your time with it, is important. That's John Sayles.”
“I take the family shopping round. The markets of the world.”
“I take the fan response very seriously and respond personally to my fan mail.”
“I take the good with the bad, and I try to face them both with as much calm and dignity as I can muster.”
“I take the good with the bad. I can't love people in slices.”
“I take the greatest lesson from compassion - it takes away all the conceit out of my life.”
“I take the horsemanship very seriously and I treat it with the same integrity that one would any of the fine arts.”
“I take the invasion of my personal space very seriously...”
“I take the juice of two bottles of whisky.”
“I take the kids skiing every year, and my husband doesn't always go. The way I grew up, that's very normal. My mom would take us skiing, but my dad hates cold weather.”
“I take the kids to church and Sunday school. They love it. I really think it's important for a child to feel that there are things that are bigger than your life out there.”
“I take the literary or textual aspect really seriously and I really enjoy writing weird album titles. I did a PhD; I enjoy writing.”
“I take the longest to get ready of anyone. I've been going in two hours before the show every performance.”
“I take the love of God and self-denial to be the sum of all saving grace and religion.”
Source: The practical works of ... Richard Baxter, with a life of the author and a critical examination of his writings by W. Orme