I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I analyzed you, though you did not adore me.”
Source: A woman of no importance. An ideal husband
“I and a friend of mine called Mannon talked together, and we both decided to walk this journey.”
“I and all the people I knew well, some of them fine people, had been sunk inside the communist conformity and lied to themselves or to others. And the 'liberal' or 'free' intellectuals could be and had been swung into witch-hunts of one kind or another very easily. Very few people really care about freedom, about liberty, about the truth, very few. Very few people have guts, the kind of guts on which a real democracy has to depend. Without people with that sort of guts a free society dies or cannot be born.”
Source: The Golden Notebook
“I and everyone else in this world live in what is probably the most difficult times that have ever been. We are facing total thermonuclear destruction; and, if you can make someone believe in a ghost or a demon or a vampire in the face of that, you are doing well. From my own personal point of view, I don't think just blood and guts is enough. At least, it isn't for me. Maybe it will turn someone's stomach; but, I'm not sure that is literature or even entertainment.”
“I and everything I love have come forth from the furnace of the stars by a process so full of unfathomable, life-giving grace that my earlier worrying strikes me as cheap.”
Source: Learning to Walk in the Dark
“I and haven't been unemployed for 20 years. I'm an exception to the rule.”
“I and I alone know how it happened,” said Josh, wiping his eyes with the back of his hand.
“You? You know how that unfortunate story happened?”
“You bet I know! Here, from this boulder that I sit on now, I fired that fateful shot.”
Source: Old Surehand
“I, and I only, am to blame for all their sins; I spoiled them. To-day they are as eager for pleasure as they used to be for sugar-plums. When they were little girls I indulged them in every whim. They had a carriage of their own when they were fifteen. They have never been crossed. I am guilty, and not they—but I sinned through love.”
Source: Père Goriot
“I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“I and me are always too deeply in conversation: how could I endure it,
if there were not a friend?
The friend of the hermit is always the third one: the third one is the float which prevents the conversation of the two from sinking into the depth.”
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“I and me are always too deeply in conversation.”
“I and most Australians want our immigration policy radically reviewed and that of multiculturalism abolished. I believe we are in danger of being swamped by Asians. Between 1984 and 1995, 40 per cent of all migrants coming into this country were of Asian origin. They have their own culture and religion, form ghettos and do not assimilate.”
“I and motherland are one. My name is Million, because for millions do I love and suffer agonies.”
Source: Forefathers' Eve
“I and my bosom must debate awhile, and then I would no other company.”
Source: Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes
“I and my colleagues here have been engaged in the pursuit of knowledge.”
“I and my companions suffer from a disease of the heart which can be cured only with gold.”
“I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.”
Source: Dicta and Contradicta
“I and other humans no difference.”
“I and others may be revolutionaries but we are disciples of Mahatma Gandhi, directly or indirectly, nothing more nothing less.”
“I and others of my sex find ourselves controlled by a form of government in the inauguration of which we had no voice.”
Source: The Victoria Woodhull Reader
“I and others on FIFA executive committee agreed to accept bribes in conjunction with selection of South Africa as host nation.”
“I and others were mistaken early on in saying that the subprime crisis would be contained. The causal relationship between the housing problem and the broad financial system was very complex and difficult to predict.”
“I and some colleagues came to the conclusion that as violence in this country was inevitable, it would be wrong and unrealistic for African leaders to continue preaching peace and non-violence at a time when the government met our peaceful demands with force. It was only when all else had failed, when all channels of peaceful protest had been barred to us, that the decision was made to embark on violent forms of political struggle.”
Source: One nation, one country
“I and the Father are not-two!”
“I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return.”
“I and this mystery, here we stand.”
Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856
“I and Trump were raised to believe that to whom much is given, much will be required. And so for the president-elect that meant that what - he describes himself this way, the kid from Queens would go to Manhattan Island and build the big buildings.”
“I and you and everyone else has to be a political activist.”
“I and you are not two but one, the space in-between is an illusion.”
Source: Hurricane Humans: Give me accountability, I'll give you peace
“I and you are not two but one,
The space in-between is an illusion.
The air you breathe is also in me,
Then why hang on to separation!”
Source: Hurricane Humans: Give me accountability, I'll give you peace
“I and you have one life and one chance to make it count for something meaningful. Humanity and the earth needs us to do whatever we can to make a positive difference. By aligning our life and our businesses with sustainability principles we will be able to protect the planet and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity.”
“I and you-We are infinate, rich, large, contradictory, living, breathing miracles-free human beings, children of God and the everlasting universe. That's what we do.”
Source: It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It
“I animated 20 years at Terry Toons. It's important to know that animators like pizza and a raise once in a while, and you've got to treat them with love.”
“I animated everything traditionally, on paper. I love how the texture of paper looks (it also matches textures of papier-mâché) and I love the tactile process.”
“I announce the great individual, fluid as Nature, chaste, affectionate, compassionate, fully armed; I announce a life that shall be copious, vehement, spiritual, bold, And I announce an end that shall lightly and joyfully meet its translation.”
Source: Leaves of Grass
“I anoint you with this sacred oil in the name of Brighid
Triple Goddess
Maiden, Mother, Crone”
“I answer a fan with a hearing heart first.”
“I answer not, and I return no more.”
Source: A Collection of the Writings of John James Ingalls: Essays, Addresses, and Orations
“I answer one of your letters, then lie in bed in apparent calm, but my heart beats through my entire body and is conscious only of you. I belong to you; there is really no other way of expressing it, and that is not strong enough.”
Source: Letters to Felice
“I answer questions the best I can.”
“I answer that, Even, as in the blessed in heaven there will be most perfect charity, so in the damned there will be the most perfect hate.”
“I answer the heroic question, 'Death, where is thy sting?' with 'It is in my heart and mind and memories.”
Source: Letter to My Daughter
“I answer your desires, I fulfill them beyond even your expectations and I obey whatever you demand.”
Source: Ink
“I answer, because I live among men and not among angels.”
Source: The Selected Papers of Thaddeus Stevens, Volume 2: April 1865-August 1868
“I answer, Socrates, that rhetoric is the art of persuasion in courts of law and other assemblies, as I was just now saying, and about the just and unjust.”
“I answered an ad, for a campus cartoonist at the university I was in, my freshman year. I was like, Oh, I can draw, and I'm sort of a funny guy. I should try this. Then they paid me to do a comic strip for the paper.”
“I answered her spiritually. And that is where Oprah [Winfrey]comes from. She comes from a place of the truth within her. And I think that's why we clicked. And I think that's why we still continue to click.”
“I answered my father's demands for sympathy with silence.”
“I answered that one learns to live, not by hearing of other lives, but by living; for words are infinitely less important than acts.”
“I answered the summons of the grand jury with pleasure, because I longed to help those of God's most unfortunate children whom I had left prisoners behind me. If I could not bring them that boon of all boons, liberty, I hoped at least to influence others to make life more bearable for them.”
Source: Ten Days in a Mad-House