I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I was aghast that a woman called another woman “my wife.” When I asked, Papa said it was the remnants of ungodly traditions, the idea that it was the family and not the man alone that married a wife, and later Mama whispered, although we were alone in my room, “I am her wife, too, because I am your father’s wife. It shows that she accepts me.”
Source: Purple Hibiscus
“I was ahead in the slalom. But in the second run, everyone fell on a dangerous spot. I was beaten by a woman that got up faster than I did. I learned that people fall down, winners get up, and gold medal winners just get up faster.”
“I was ahead of the game with Long COVID because a similar sickness hit me in 2015 after a flu-like infection I caught from an international professor. I had a four year head start with the biological research! By 2021 I was starting to recover and recovered in 2022. Unfortunately, I cannot be healthy without the supplements I take. The supplementation is life long and is detailed in my book Long COVID Supplements.”
Source: Long COVID Supplements
“I was aiming for the cooks that I've talked to by teaching an online course and by traveling, listening to people who are really busy and harried but want to be cooking.”
“I was aiming to write fifteen hundred words that day. I only made it to four hundred, but on the bright side, I also won twenty-eight consecutive games of spider solitaire before I stopped to stir-fry some veggies for dinner.”
Source: Beach Read
“I was akin to Francis Bacon’s ‘Merchant of Light’ collecting experiences in the few days I spent with wonderful people and my dearest. Imbibing everything the mystically beautiful place revealed. I did it every year instead of every twelve years, as professed by Bacon. I brought with me the optimism, energy, compassion, humility, love and aroma of the wood and leaves. Best experiences of my life.”
Source: FT Legacy 1: Who is Frank Twine?
“I was alarmed at my doctor's report: He said I was sound as a dollar.”
“I was alive when the Dead Sea was just a lake that was feeling a little poorly.”
Source: City of Ashes
“I was alive, they were not. Go Me. (Touch the Dark)”
“I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.”
“I was all alone, you were all I had. Love you, you were all mine. Love me, I was yours right. I was yours right.”
“I was all braced for the wrath that was going to put grizzlies to shame, and this is what I get? I should infuriate you more often.”
Source: Eclipse
“I was all caught up with identifying with certain things. They just weren't very stimulating things.”
“I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of death.”
“I was all for setting up a separate Jewish state in Madagascar or Palestine or someplace, but not to exterminate them. Besides, by exterminating 4 million Jews - they say 5 or 6 million at this trial, but that is all propaganda, I am sure it wasn't more than 4.5 million - they have made martyrs out of those Jews. For example, because of the extermination of these Jews, anti-Semitism has been set back many years in certain foreign countries where it had been making good progress.”
“I was all in gold sequins for Million Dollar Mermaid, 50 feet in the air”
“I was all like rawr and grr but then I smelled it again and it was him and it was all kaboom!
I don’t even know! I don’t even know! You gotta smell him and then tell me why it’s all candy canes and pinecones and epic and awesome.”
Source: Wolfsong
“I was all limbs and I was very convinced that I must be uncoordinated, so I didn't want to try any sports. And the girls' basketball team was constantly like, "Please, please just come play."”
“I was all of these women. I've been a young mom; I've been a divorcée; I've been a single mom. I've been the working mom versus the nonworking mom.”
“I was all set to blow some crap up.”
“I was all too aware that there's an unspoken law that you should never start to cry if you have too many reasons to do so. I told myself that my tears were due tot he cold, and I believed myself.”
Source: The Hunger Angel
“I was all-state in four sports in New Jersey, but sometimes I couldn't get served at a restaurant two blocks from my high school. There were no job opportunities then... the only thing a black youth could aspire to be was a bellboy or a pullman or an elevator operator, or, maybe, a teacher. There was a time when all we had was black baseball.”
“I was allowed to have an imagination rather than a need to be entertained all the time by television or computers or anything like that. So, I think it's helpful to try and give your kids.”
“I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of power.”
“I was allowed to visit the king's library, where a scribe read to me some of your exploits and the history written in the annals of kings. I hope this does not displease you." She silently hoped she had not revealed something that might get Hegai in trouble.
The king smiled. "I am amazed that you had interest. I have no issue against you gaining such knowledge. No other wife has ever cared what I do."
She searched his gaze. "I would think it very odd not to care what my husband enjoys or gives his time to do. Your words surprise me."
He rose and took her hand in his. "And you surprise me, Esther.”
Source: Star of Persia:
“I was almost a wife but lost the man. I was almost recognisable as a friend. And then I wasn't. The nights when I flicked off the bedside lamp and found myself in the heedless, lonely dark. The times I thought, with a horrified twist, that none of this was a gift. Suzanne got the redemption that followed a conviction ... I got the snuffed-out story of the bystander, a fugitive without a crime, half hoping and half terrified that no one was ever coming for me.”
Source: The Girls
“I was almost always true to you.”
“I was almost angry that she'd made me see the unlovely truth of my house.”
Source: Shantaram
“I was almost impeached for getting cars off sidewalks which car owning upper classes had illegally appropriated for parking.”
“I was almost kind of trapped by my own success into only doing rock.”
“I was almost one of The Magnificent Seven. I love horses and guns.”
“I was almost persuaded to be a Christian. I thought I never again could be thoughtless and worldly. But I soon forgot my morning prayer or else it was irksome to me. One by one my old habits returned and I cared less for religion than ever.”
Source: The Letters of Emily Dickinson
“I was almost put out of business by a well-meaning corpse.”
“I was almost sad when we arrived a the squat, white clubhouse. It was halfway to dark by then, with both a moon and a sun sitting high in a sky that was sugar almond pink and shot with gold. The birds were singing valiantly against the coming night, swooping over the greens in long, drunken loops. The air was grassy, with a hint of flowers and earth, and the warm, sweet outbreath of the day sighed gently into our hair and over our skin. I felt like asking Raymond whether we should keep walking, walk over the rolling greens, keep walking till the birds fell silent in their bowers and we could see only by starlight. It almost felt like he might suggest it himself.”
Source: Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
“I was alone a lot as a kid, because my parents were divorced.”
“I was alone again in the unquiet darkness.”
Source: The Great Gatsby
“I was alone before you came and would be still more alone if you threw me over, but I can't bear the idea of your being too ashamed of me to introduce me to your parents.”
Source: Reunion
“I was alone for five years. Having a love is a gigantic bonus in life, but I wasn't unhappy when I was single, either.”
“I was alone, for twenty-five years. And I didn't give a shit, because I didn't know what I was missing.
Then, this stubborn, beautiful fucking brunette came barreling into my life and shoved her way through all the shadows.”
Source: Erasing Faith
“I was alone. I had no one. No mother, no father, no brothers, no sisters, no grandmas, no grandpas, no uncles, no aunties, no cousins, and no tribe. I’d seen the children at the orphanage laugh or cry when they received news about a family member. I would never receive such news and no family would laugh or cry for me. That day I understood with sharp clarity that I didn’t have a mother who wanted me.”
Source: Africa's Child
“I was alone in this discovery because it was my secret, my private exploration.”
Source: Hold My Hand
“I was alone, safe in the knowledge that my body had more or less ceased to exist in the face of this catastrophe. It was only much later [...] that I realised that no catastrophe, apart from maybe a final nuclear strike, would ever be big enough to free us from this curse. That even though we're in charge of this planet, we are its ugliest inhabitants, and that our longing for our own beauty will never cease, that we will never be content with the beauty in front of us. And yet I will never forget the feeling with which I ate that chocolate, [...] in that moment it was a sin without consequences. And I never gave up on the dream that one day my body wouldn't matter anymore.”
Source: The Appointment
“I was alone, with a stranger, inside the walls of a dark palace, in a strange snow-changed city, in the heart of the Ice Age of an alien world.”
Source: The Left Hand of Darkness
“I was alone with myself. And disgusting as I was it was better than being with somebody else, anybody else, all of them out there doing their pitiful little tricks and handsprings.”
“I was alone with myself, and we watched each other with steady, cold, inward eyes: the past and its consequence, the reality and its insubordinate dream.”
Source: The Pumpkin Eater
“I was alone with Pinto in the dark,
I cried so hard that I could not stop.
I squeezed my teary eyes shut,
I was chanting a question,
over and over and over again:
„Does true love exist? Answer!”
Source: BARCELONA MARIJUANA MAFIA
“I was already a wreck when I went in, and prison nearly destroyed what little was left of me. I was worse when I came out than I was when I went in, and was not positively changed in any way.”
“I was already at an age when putting off anything was a bad idea.”
“I was already beginning to realize that the only way to conduct oneself in a situation where bombs rained down and bullets whizzed past, was to accept the dangers and all the consequences as calmly as possible. Fretting and sweating about it all was not going to help.”
Source: Going Solo
“I was already devouring literature and I was the ripe old age of 15 when I decided to be an actor. I just thought plays were the most fantastic way of expressing life. I thought I'd discovered Shakespeare - 'hey, there's a new guy in town, don't know if anyone's read him.' I was just excited about the whole thing, from day one.”