I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I am told since I am biracial, I am invalid. How is that?”
Source: Why Are You Obsessed with My Race?
“I am told so many ill things of a man, and I see so few in him, that I begin to suspect he has a real but troublesome merit, as being likely to eclipse that of others.”
“I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned.”
“I am told that our chroniclers' practice of inventing speeches for great persons whose lives they write is unscholarly.”
Source: The High Crusade
“I am told that tens of thousands of prayer meetings are being held on this day; for that I am deeply grateful. We are a nation under God, and I believe God intended for us to be free. It would be fitting and good, I think, if on each inaugural day in future years it should be declared a day of prayer.”
“I am told that the clinical definition of insanity is the tendency to do the same thing over and over again and expect different results.”
“I am told that the first comprehensible word I uttered as a child was 'home.”
Source: Home: a memoir of my early years
“I am told that the proximity of punishment arouses real repentance in the criminal and sometimes awakens a feeling of genuine remorse in the most hardened heart; I am told this is due to fear.”
Source: The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky
“I am told that the Saudis have organized 34 countries who want to join in the battle against terrorism.”
“I am told that there have been over the years a number of experiments taking place in places like Massachusetts Institute of Technology that have been entirely based on concepts raised by Star Trek.”
“I am told that there is a proverbial phrase among the Inuit: 'a long time ago, in the future.' Let the children see our history, and maybe it will help to shape the future.”
“I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to the universities go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene ... They are scum.”
“I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it. They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum.”
“I am told that very early on in this transition process, to expect that [Donald] Trump will announce his nominee for the Supreme Court.”
“I am told that you regret not what you did but what you didn't do; and so that's why I do everything, so as not to have any regrets.”
“I am told the settlement of $5 million I am being paid is the largest amount ever paid under the New York right to privacy law”
“I am told there are people who do not care for maps, and I find it hard to believe.”
Source: Treasure Island (Illustrated)
“I am told to demand millions of men and women from these new worlds, to make them take up arms in the Emperor's hordes, and I am told to call this a tithe, or recruitment, because we are too scared of the truth. We refuse to call it slavery.”
Source: Betrayer
“I am told to just be myself, but as much as I have practiced the impression, I am still no good at it.”
“I am told, in a dream you can only get the answer to all your questions through a dream. So in my dream, I fall asleep, and I dream, in my dream, that I'm having that absolute, revealing dream.”
“I am tolerably ignorant about Judaism, and much of what I do know about it seems hard to swallow, because it is so grounded in legalism, and adherence to rituals.”
“I am tolerant of all creeds. Yet if any sect suffered itself to be used for political objects I would meet it by political opposition. In my view church and state should be separate, not only in form, but fact. Religion and politics should not be mingled.”
“I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.”
“I am too alive to be bound by ideology,
I am too human to be bound by border.
Too civilized to pledge flagly allegiance,
I am the ultimate geopolitical defector.”
Source: Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets
“I am too alone in the world and not alone enough to make every moment holy.”
“I am too alone in the world, and yet not alone enough
to make every moment holy.
I am too tiny in this world, and not tiny enough
just to lie before you like a thing,
shrewd and secretive.
I want my own will, and I want simply to be with my will,
as it goes toward action;
and in those quiet, sometimes hardly moving times,
when something is coming near,
I want to be with those who know secret things
or else alone.
I want to be a mirror for your whole body,
and I never want to be blind, or to be too old
to hold up your heavy and swaying picture.
I want to unfold.
I don’t want to stay folded anywhere,
because where I am folded, there I am a lie.
and I want my grasp of things to be
true before you. I want to describe myself
like a painting that I looked at
closely for a long time,
like a saying that I finally understood,
like the pitcher I use every day,
like the face of my mother,
like a ship
that carried me
through the wildest storm of all.”
Source: Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
“I am too attached to my freedom.”
Source: "Darling, it's not only about sex"
“I am too busy thinking about killing myself.”
“I am too busy to waste time discussing people,
People who can't tell suffering from inconvenience.
My people are the meek, my people are the destitute,
My people are those too hungry to pass judgment.”
Source: Amor Apocalypse: Canım Sana İhtiyacım
“I am too busy with my cause to hate too absorbed in something bigger than myself. I have no time to quarrel, no time for regrets and no man can force me to stoop low enough to hate him.”
“I am too busy. I have not time for worry.”
“I am too complex for anyone to ever make an accurate judgment on who I am.”
“I am too conservative to use another studio than the one I am used to, so I "had" to travel all the way from France to Norway every time I wanted to record an album. That was about 3,500 km each way in a Lada Niva with a cruising speed of 90 kph.”
“I am too dark in my heart tonight.”
Source: Philippa Gregory's Tudor Court 6-Book Boxed Set: The Constant Princess, The Other Boleyn Girl, The Boleyn Inheritance, The Queen's Fool, The Virgin's Lover, and The Other Queen
“I am too far away from what I love and my distance is without remedy.”
“I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories
“I am too full of life
to be half-loved.”
Source: Questions for Ada
“i am too full of the sun to be mournful of the rain.”
Source: Udaari: a collection of poems
“I AM too good and I AM true :-)”
“I am too good for philosophy and not good enough for physics. Mathematics is in between.”
“I am too impatient to wait for temptation to come to me.”
“I am too inexperienced and ignorant to conduct myself with propriety in this town, where every thing is new to me, and many things are unaccountable and perplexing.”
Source: Evelina: or, The history of a young lady's introduction to the world
“I am too inquisitive, too skeptical, too arrogant, to let myself be satisfied with an obvious and crass solution of things. God is such an obvious and crass solution; a solution which is a sheer indelicacy to us thinkers - at bottom He is really nothing but a coarse commandment against us: ye shall not think!”
“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself”
“I am too many flavors for one f***ing spoon.
I want to erase the lines so I can be me.
If we do not speak, who will?”
“I am too mediocre to be now at Oxford (Apeejay House) and on going at India's best site in Publishing Interview of Authors.”
Source: Realization (Documents Based on Self-Scholarly Effects with Google Scholar Citations.): William Shakespeare, Rabindranath Tagore and John Keats: On Selected Works of the Legends.
“I am too much a moralist at heart, and really want to preach at people in some acceptable form, rather than entertain them.”
Source: The Crack-up
“I am too much in love with my lies and hypocrisies not to confess them fervently.”
“I am too much into what I'm doing in my work.”
“I am too much of a sceptic to deny the possibility of anything especially as I am now so much occupied with theology but I don't see my way to your conclusion.”
Source: Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley