I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I’ve never been motivated by money – it doesn’t drive Me.”
“I've never been much for tears, anyway.”
Source: Velvet, Vol. 3: The Man Who Stole the World
“I’ve never been nearly as alone as I always say I am”
Source: Hausfrau
“I've never been one to hold grudges. But forgiveness and trust are two very different things, not that I'm inclined to hand over either.”
Source: All of Me
“I’ve never been one to over-romanticize the past. I find greater value in learning from history than I do reminiscing about events or moments I can never get back. (Reclaiming the Black Church: A Call to Restore Leadership, Unity, and Purpose – blog)”
“I’ve never been one to trade my authenticity for acceptance or applause.”
Source: Brotherhood is a VERB!: Not Just Another Damn Leadership Book
“I've never been part of a tie. You didn't lose, but you didn't win.”
“I've never been scared of the dark, but I'm still terrified of what's in it.”
“I've never been so aware that I am made up of bones and skin and I can practically feel my bones inching closer to the surface of my skin aching to get even closer to his.”
Source: My Heart and Other Black Holes
“I've never been somewhere I belonged, but there are places where I think I could be happy. Like San Francisco. Well, do art museums count? Because I feel like I belong in them.”
Source: I'll Meet You There
“I’ve never been that comfortable with words—I always think in pictures, express myself with images”
Source: The Silent Patient
“I've never been the most important person to anybody - not even myself.”
“I've never been the most important thing to anybody - not even myself.”
“I've never been this deliriously happy in my entire life. Tori, you are the sun, moon and stars in my world,” he said, gazing into her big beautiful eyes. Falling in love with her had made him feel more alive than he had in years, and he realized even more acutely what had been missing in his life.
“And you are mine,” she echoed, and they made love again. Afterward, she let out a contented sigh as she lay encircled in his arms, her head resting on his chest as she drifted off to sleep to the beating of his heart.
That's How You Know by Julie Simmons (Chapter 14)”
Source: That's How You Know
“I've never been this dirty. I've never been this sweaty and disgusting. I've never been this afraid, this thirsty, this alone".
"I haven't been a good leader, but--people are counting on me to take them to safety. I don't know if I'm twelve or twenty or if I'm twenty and I don't think age matters anymore-------
There is a way out. I will find a way out.”
Source: Alive
“I’ve never been this happy,” I whispered, a little scared by it.
Caine must have heard the fear, because he kissed my neck, tightened his hold on me, and said, “Me neither. But we’ll get used to it.”
“Promise?”
He lifted his head to meet my gaze. “No, because on second thought I don’t want to get used to it. If you get used to it—”
“You forget to be thankful for it,” I finished.
He nodded slowly. “Yeah.”
“I’ve never been this nervous before. Why aren’t you here yet?”
Source: As I Stand Here At The Altar
“I've never been thrown out of a pub, but I've fallen into quite a few”
Source: Philosophical Uplifting Quotes and Poems
“I've never been to veterinary school.”
Source: Eclipse
“I've never been very good at giving people what they want.”
Source: Spooked.
“I'VE NEVER BEEN VERY SURE ABOUT WHAT IS RIGHT, said Bill Door. I AM NOT SURE THERE IS SUCH A THING AS RIGHT. OR WRONG. JUST PLACES TO STAND.”
Source: Reaper Man
“I’ve never been with a boy who hasn’t seen me naked.
It’s always the squeaky futon, bear-it-all, turn-off-the-lights quickstep.
Don’t chalk it up to “daddy issues.”
Maybe I’m sick of keeping private parts private.
I don’t want rainwater secrets on my lips, tasting of “don’t make too much noise”.
October’s dust in my lungs, maybe I don’t want bits of four AM lingering in my subconscious.
Smokers breathe in fire, coat their insides in ash. Is that suicide or arson?
Listen to me, listen to me. I’m alive. I’M ALIVE.
I’m naked and bruised, but I’m alive.
I’m not a piece of fruit. Don’t press into my flesh, looking for soft spots.
My whole body is tender and rotten, but I’m alive.
I’m alive and just because you can see it all, doesn’t mean you know it all”
Source: Sixteenth Notes: the breaking of the rose-colored glasses
“I’ve never been your boss, Alayna. If anything, you’re the one who owns me.”
Source: Found in You
“I've never before had the opportunity to spend long enough with a single human to learn an individual's dialect of expression. It is a fascinating but imperfect language”
Source: The Crying Machine
“I've never begged. not for anything... except my mother's love.And that was a useless waste of time.”
Source: Fly Away
“I've never believed in God. But if I had, I'd tell him to go fuck himself. Those days spent with Elli in the basement trying to knock her up worked. I'm forever in my father-in-law's and Tyson's debt for coming and dragging me out of Carnage. But God laughed and said watch this. He gave me a daughter who's just like me. Hardheaded, stubborn, and a pain in my ass. Then to make it worse, he said let's make her look just like her mother.”
Source: The Sinner
“I've never bonded with anyone before. I didn't know that day on the field that standing up to him the way I did could earn his respect. He might have been an asshole homophobe but he was my asshole homophobe and probably the first real friend I ever had. I love him. Don't tell him. He wouldn't want to hear it.”
Source: Bootleg Diva: Confessions of a Quarterback Princess by Levi Brody
“I’ve never cared for kisses on the cheek. That’s the sort of thing you expect from a parent, a sister, or an aunt with bad teeth. It’s about as satisfying as pouring whiskey into your sock.”
Source: Smoke
“I've never considered the possibility of defeat. I've never planned for it. That's the job for those people who plan for such things. My job is to only plan for success...victory; it has my complete focus.”
“I've never ditched. I don't understand how he can just shrug everything off.”
Source: Anna and the French Kiss
“I've never done it before—I don't like doing things I've never done before.”
Source: I Never Liked You: A Comic Strip Narrative
“I've never done this when it was an act of love.”
Source: Sins of Summer
“I've never enjoyed being fully present, a muted reality has been the landscape I've preferred and mainly inhabited forever. Sure, feeling is good, but not too much, and if someone is able to get away with suffering devastating loss, massive regret, heartache, physical agony, mental instability, isolation, humiliation, abuse, incarceration, depression, tragedy etc. with a blanket of chemical protection, then who can say it's wrong?”
Source: Devil in a Coma
“I've never ever missed anyone in my life. I genuinely do not understand the emotion. People have told me they missed me a thousand times. People have asked me if I miss them probably a hundred. I don't get it.”
Source: The Castling
“I've never experienced true love until I loved my own child.”
“I've never feared death before. I’ve always been willing to die. Sometimes I even welcomed it, wishing for this all to be over and finally find peace in an endless sleep. But when I look at you, I see possibility, and I start to do what I know better than to do—I wonder”
Source: Infinite Dolls
“I've never felt anything like it. I usually have trouble..."
"Coming?"
"Well, yes, I mean, it's fine by myself. But hard. At other times. With people. But this time it wasn't... difficult."
"Well, great. He's had a lot of practice."
"Don't be mean."
"I'm not, but you want me to act like great sex is the end of the world."
It is the end of the world, I thought. "No. But it feels big. I can't explain it, I feel, womanly or something."
"You think it's womanly to get fucked?" She had her clawed tones out and I retreated.
"I don't want to argue about gender theory. I just feel like something real happened. And I wanted someone to talk to about it. Like a friend."
"Let me guess," she said, tapping the spoon against the tablecloth. "He beat you up a little bit, called you a slut, and you thought that was really edgy, another spoiled white girl who wants to get slapped around because she always got everything she wanted."
"Fuck, Ari." I shook my head. "It must be hard. To have already sized up the world, to already have written it off completely. Is it just so fucking boring all the time?"
"Pretty much, Skip."
"I would rather be called a slut by him than deal with the shit I get from the women here." I picked up my bowl. "Also, you're fucking white. By the way. And you don't get a medal for being gay.”
Source: Sweetbitter
“I’ve never felt like this before. If this isn’t friendship, what is it?”
Source: Card of Truth
“I've never felt more like me than when I'm with you. You make my world make sense.”
“I’ve never felt remorse before. It’s disgusting.”
Source: We Were One Once
“I've never felt so... light.”
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
“I've never felt stronger than when I was packing up my room at Richard's place. [...] I've also never felt sadder. Sad but strong. You can be both. And I am.”
Source: When We Collided
“I've never felt that I was making any of this up—not the name, Earthseed, not any of it. I mean, I've never felt that it was anything other than real: discovery rather than invention, exploration rather than creation. I wish I could believe it was all supernatural and that I'm getting messages from God. But then, I don't believe in that kind of God. All I do is observe and take notes, trying to put things down in ways that are as powerful, as simple, and as direct as I feel them. (p 78)”
Source: Parable of the Sower
“I've never felt that the American Dream was owed to me. I never felt that I was entitled to this Dream. This is why I laid the cobblestone before me for this Dream to be achieved.”
Source: I Deal to Plunder - A ride through the boom town
“I've never felt the need to find out who I am, where I come from, or why I was abandoned. I know who I am, where I come from; most of all I know that I wasn't abandoned. Kidnapping might be too strong a word to use for how our adoption transpired, but sometimes that's what it felt like.”
Source: Sluta aldrig gå - Från gatan i Sao Paulo till Vindeln i Norrland
“I've never gone to bed with any monsters, I only woke up with a few dozen or so.”
Source: Devil in a Coma
“I've never grown roses myself - they are too much work for something you can't eat.”
Source: Recipes for Love and Murder
“I've never had a friend before you," Evan croaks. "So, you know, thanks for that, I suppose. It—it was nice while it lasted."
"You—" Regulus fumbles for Evan's hand, and their fingers clasp around each other, slipping from the blood. "I'm—Evan—"
Evan hums, and he's slurring when he says, "Your turn, lover boy."
"I miss my brother," Regulus confesses in a whisper”
Source: Crimson Rivers
“I've never had a home before." That must have been all the sweets talking; I'd never have told him otherwise. "I mean, staying with Li, I never felt like I belonged. That's all."
Sam touched my wrist, making me shiver. "You always have a home with me.”
Source: Incarnate
“I’ve never had a job I was afraid to lose, a bill I worried about paying or met a person hoping I was good enough for. To me that is true freedom.”