I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I assure you, my employers wish to be capturing him only. To kill him is to martyr him. To martyr him is to be advanceing his cause”
Source: X-Men Unlimited (1993-2003) #2
“I assure you, my employers wish to be capturing him only. To kill him is to martyr him. To martyr him is to be advancing his cause.”
Source: X-Men Unlimited (1993-2003) #2
“I assure you, my good Lestrade, that I have an excellent reason for everything that I do.”
Source: The Return of Sherlock Holmes
“I assure you my professions never go beyond my intentions.”
Source: The British Theatre: Or, a Collection of Plays, which are Acted at the Theaters Royal ... : With Biographical and Critical Remarks. Such things are. Every one has his fault. Wifes as they were. Lover's vows. To marry or not to marry
“I assure you that even the most beautiful women are not pretty all over. They have merely learned to use clothes deftly enough to give
others the impression that they are.”
Source: HOW TO DRESS FOR SUCCESS
“I assure you that I sleep anywhere, and always like a dormouse.”
Source: ANNA KARENINA
“I assure you that in all matters of discretion not involving food, we make etiquette tutors look like slobbering barbarians.”
Source: The Republic of Thieves
“I assure you that interest in Japanese culture in Russia is just as strong as interest in Russian culture in Japan.”
“I assure you that is possible to draw poisoned water from the clearest of wells.”
“I assure you that it is our desire and intention to keep the doors of consultation always and fully open. There must never be a final word between friends.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958
“I assure you that one who comprehends the truth of 'nothing to be attained' is already seated in the sanctuary where he will gain his Enlightenment.”
Source: The Zen Teaching of Huang Po: On the Transmission of Mind
“I assure you that some of the most awesome things God has ever done for me have come out of the most awful things I’d done to myself.”
Source: Believing God
“I assure you that the training that you get in a midget, in a sprint car and perhaps in a Silver Crown car is really the kind of experience that makes you into a damn good race driver.”
“I assure you that the world is not so amusing as we imagined.”
“I assure you that there's a lot involved in compositions with figures. ... It's like weaving... you must control and keep an eye on several things at once.”
“I assure you the thought never even crossed my mind, Lord.”
“Indeed? Then if I were you I’d sue my face for slander”
Source: The Color of Magic
“I assure you very explicitly, that in my opinion the conscientious scruples of all men should be treated with great delicacy and tenderness: and it is my wish and desire, that the laws may always be extensively accommodated to them, as a due regard for the protection and essential interests of the nation may justify and permit.”
Source: Speeches and messages to Congress, proclamations, and addresses
“I assure you we'll go on making our decisions without worrying whether it pleases or displeases the Soviet Union, China, America, France, or anyone else.”
“I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.”
“I assure you, Constable Morgan, I am quite sane, as I understand the word, perhaps the sanest person in this room, for I suffer from no illusions. I have freed myself, you see, from the pretense that burdens most men. Much like our prey, I do not impose order where there is none; I do not pretend there is any more than what there is, or that you and I are anything more than what we are. That is the essence of their beauty, Morgan, the aboriginal purity of their being, and why I admire them.”
Source: The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath
“I assure you, it would be much more pleasant for me to be an ordinary voter in peaceful Chechnya than the president of a republic at war.”
“I assure you, my children, that when a Christian carries out with love the most insignificant everyday action, that action overflows with the transcendence of God. That is why I have told you so often, and hammered away at it, that the Christian vocation consists in making heroic verse out of the prose of each day. Heaven and earth seem to merge, my children, on the horizon. But where they really meet is in your hearts, when you sanctify your everyday lives.”
“I assure you, my friends, I am cone sold stober.”
Source: Wizard's Castle
“I assure you, princess, if you saw the real me, you’d run for cover. (Zarek) Only if I knew you’d be waiting under that cover for me. (Astrid)”
“I assure you, where prayer focuses power falls.”
Source: As Iron Sharpens Iron: Building Character in a Mentoring Relationship
“I assure you, you will never survive on your wits alone.”
“I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.”
Source: Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations
“I assure you; while I look like a ghost, I'm no spirit or demon. I'm nothing but a girl struggling to make her way in an intolerant world. I bleed, I love, and someday, I'll die.”
Source: Strangely Beautiful
“I assured her that she would meet with immediate attention; and that English justice, which was no respecter of persons, would speedily and amply avenge her on the brutal ruffian who had plundered her little property. She promised me that she would; but she delayed taking steps the steps I pointed out from time to time: for she was timid and dejected to a degree which showed how deeply sorrow had taken hold of her young heart: and perhaps she thought justly that the most upright judge, and the most righteous tribunals, could do nothing to repair her heaviest wrongs.”
Source: Confessions of an English Opium Eater
“I assured myself that I'd seen the most wicked block perpetuated by man or beast.”
“I assured the prime minister, my administration will work hard to lay the foundation of peace in the Middle - to work with our nations in the Middle East, give peace a chance. Secondly, I told him that our nation will not try to force peace, that we'll facilitate peace and that we will work with those responsible for a peace.”
“I, at least come after making you wait.
(Hum intezaar karwa kar, kam se kam aa to jaate hain)”
“I at least felt the obligation to speak clearly [in 'The Last Tycoon']. This is pre-Brando and pre-James Dean. Nobody mumbled back then.”
“I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light I can command must be concentrated on this particular web, and not dispersed over that tempting range of relevancies called the universe.”
Source: Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life
“I at least want to keep having fun, and the rest we will see.”
“I at least wanted to appear strong and elegant in your eyes just like a manga heroine who’s too perfect to be real - Nana
The only person who will ever be my hero is you, Nana - Hachi”
“I ate 'umble pie with an appetite.”
Source: Works of Charles Dickens: The Pickwick papers
“I ate a big steak in 1988 and never felt worse. That was it, boom, over. Never again.”
“I ate a bug once. It was flying around me. I was trying to get it away. It went right in my mouth. It was so gross!”
“I ate a coconut crisp and the whole thing shriveled in my mouth, evaporating into nothing but pure taste. I held another up to the golden light as someone sat down across from me.
"I can't figure out this cooking technique. Do you think it's a meringue?" I asked.
"Actually, I believe it's freeze-dried."
My gaze leaped from the coconut crisp to the source of the foreign-sounding voice, smoother and younger than Michael Saltz's agitated lisp. Pascal Fox.
His black hair was slightly matted and spiked, hair that was- amazingly- a bit like mine, thick and straight in places, wispy and fine in others. He wore a cobalt-blue button-down shirt with the sleeves rolled up, exposing his tattoos. In the semi-dark, I made out a mural of forks and knives, cows and pigs, carrots and eggplants and squashes and melons, like a super-hot, toned supermarket. He seemed to be showing off the whole mural to me.
"Oh, hi!" I said.
"I remember you. You came to my restaurant about three weeks ago, right?"
"Wow," I said. "You have a good memory." I couldn't stop blushing and I regretted eating all that food. It was hard to feel pretty when I felt nine months pregnant.
"I don't remember everyone. Just the special people." He nudged his body an inch toward mine and my breath caught in my throat. Up close, I noticed he had a slightly crooked smile and somewhat stained teeth. I liked that he wasn't the perfect model he appeared to be in all the magazines. He was almost a regular person.”
Source: Food Whore
“I ate a lot of ice cream at the W. M. Keck Observatory! Everyone else was eating the free cooked breakfast. I would eat that and feel lousy on the very high altitude Mauna Kea summit. I felt better on the bowl of ice cream. I was well known for eating ice cream for breakfast!”
“I ate all of my husbands. First I ate their love, then their will, then their despair, and then I made pies of their bodies - and those bodies were so dear to me!”
Source: Deathless
“I ate and drank what I wanted in Paris. Butter, duck fat, liver fat, triple-cream brie, deep cherry-red wines, pear, clementine and lavender jelly, crème cakes, caviar, escargot in sautéed pine nuts and garlic butter. I did what the French did, I licked my fingers, didn't care if people saw, what they thought. Father would've hated it, would've told me I was uncouth. I ate everything up, ate his money, was delightful everywhere I went. I learned how to wrap my tongue around accented vowels, spoke to this stranger and that. Nobody knew me, didn't expect anything from me. I wanted to stay like that forever.”
“I ate apple pie and ice cream—it was getting better as I got deeper into Iowa, the pie bigger, the ice cream richer. There were the most beautiful bevies of girls everywhere I looked in Des Moines that afternoon—they were coming home from high school—but I had no time for thoughts like that…So I rushed past the pretty girls, and the prettiest girls in the world live in Des Moines.”
Source: Road Novels 1957-1960
“I ate breakfast in the kitchen by candle-light, and then drove the five miles to the station through the most glorious October colouring. The sun came up on the way, and the swamp maples and dogwood glowed crimson and orange and the stone walls and cornfields sparkled with hoar frost; the air was keen and clear and full of promise. I knew something was going to happen.”
Source: Daddy-Long-Legs
“I ate Cheerios all through 2020 and still wasn't happy!”
“I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness.”
Source: Retrospect: an omnibus of Aldous Huxley's books
“I ate everything - a lot of pizza, bags of chips and boxes of cookies. Now I love chicken, that's all I eat.”
“I ate fiberglass insulation. It wasn’t cotton candy like the guy said… my tummy itches.”
“I ate healthily, but there was no snacking, no drinking, no bread, no sugar, no smoking. Afterwards I had a pork belly roast.”