I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.”
Source: On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
“I was not born to be free---I was born to adore and obey.”
“I was not born to be prime minister, and I'm not going to stay here until the end of my life. I'm too young for that.”
“I was not born to crush my own kind.”
“I was not born to drown”
Source: The Lumineers Cleopatra | Piano Vocal Guitar Songbook | Indie Folk Pop Sheet Music Book with 14 Official Songs | Piano Vocal Guitar Arrangements for Performers, Teachers, and Students | Hal Leonard
“I was not born to get stuff done. I was born to dream it and then move towards it.”
Source: The Astonishing Power of Emotions: Let Your Feelings be Your Guide
“I was not born to live up to society's expectations of who I should be but rather I define my own individuality and my uniqueness for I chose to follow the path of being an extraordinary instead of just being ordinary.”
“I was not born to raise yet another sect, the world is infested with plenty sects already. I was born to raise Gods to step across those sects and make the whole world their family.”
Source: Solo Standing on Guard: Life Before Law
“I was not born to share the hate, but love.”
“I WAS NOT BORN TO TAKE YOU TO THE OTHER END OF LIFE. IT'S A CHANCE THAT WE ARE TOGETHER ON THIS JOURNEY.
SO MUCH THAT IS. DON'T MULL OVER WHAT IS NOT.”
“I was not born to wait.”
Source: Double Down
“I was not born under a rhyming planet, nor I cannot woo to in festival terms.”
“I was not born with a gold or silver spoon in my mouth. If i'm here today looking all successful and standing proudly, its because of the recipe i concocted throughout my life. The ingredient?
No big secret; hard-work, dedication,sacrifices, knowledge of my teachers and blessing of my parents. Yes, my friend i'm a self made man.”
“I was not born with a hunger to be free, I was born free.”
Source: Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations
“I was not born with a silver spoon, but an old rusty steel spoon bent all out of shape. Over the year's I made that old spoon straight again. I polished that spoon so hard, now my spoon shines just as if it were made of newly minted silver...!”
“I was not born with a silver spoon in my mouth, nor did I have access to information like you do today via the internet. I had to learn everything the hard way. And I had to become a scientist the old-fashioned way, which is, not through academia, but through trial and error. And my hardship opened up unforeseen gateways of perception in my mind. And through these gateways, today the whole world is able to see its inner self.”
Source: I Am The Thread: My Mission
“I was not born with English in my pocket.”
Source: Conceptualizing and measuring human anxiety on the Internet
“I was not born with enough middle fingers.”
“I was not boy crazy. Really, I wasn't. But I was lonely, I guess.”
Source: The Summer I Learned to Fly
“I was not bruised.'
The prince eyed me. 'I do enjoy your lies.”
Source: Fall of Ruin and Wrath
“I was not called to be a preacher. I am a speaker who is a Christian. I'm not a Christian speaker.”
“I was not chosen to be president to restore capitalism to Cuba. I was elected to defend, maintain and continue to perfect socialism, not destroy it.”
“I was not comfortable worshipping another Jew.”
“I was not considered beautiful before I was a feminist. I was a pretty girl before, but suddenly, after I was publicly identified as a feminist, I was beautiful. So, many people were really commenting on what they thought feminists looked like.”
“I was not content at home. . . I wanted to live like a colorful butterfly in the sun.”
“I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff.”
“I was not content to just believe in Satan. I wanted to be his chief or staff.”
“I was not
created from the rib of a man
but from songs of trees
and tales of distant seas”
Source: Murmurations
“I was not created to be occupied by eating delicious foods like tied up cattle.”
“I was not cut out to be a rebel.”
Source: Self-portrait
“I was not depressed when they got me out. I have always taken my dismissals as part of the game.”
“I was not descending in a plane, coming Home.
I was watching an alien world as it ascended towards me - and one that I could never begin the process of readjusting to, because I knew that I would just as soon be returning to another world, whose normality was as alien to this home as I now was.”
Source: Among You: The Extraordinary True Story of a Soldier Broken By War
“I was not developmentally disabled, but didn't mature at the same rate other kids did.”
“I was not disturbed by the fact that the memories made me nostalgic, because I could never bring back the events, or that they made me sad, because they reflected only the positive side of experiences that had their negative side as well. Such is always the case with happy memories. What disturbed me was that they made me more than nostalgic and sad: they made me tired. Deeply, dumbly, blackly tired. (141)”
Source: Homecoming
“I was not elected to produce a pile of vetoes.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, William J. Clinton, 1995, Bk. 1, January 1 to June 30, 1995
“I was not elected to serve one party.”
“I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.”
“I was not enjoying this any longer but I kept turning towards it, and I could not explain why. Was it just because my friends did drugs? Was it because of social pressure or loneliness? Was it because of dependency and habit? For some reason, any alternative seemed better than sobriety. I kept telling myself that I chose this path because it was more fun, more interesting, and more eventful. I told myself that the people who failed to choose it were just afraid to let go and live. Then I would go and have the craziest adventures, and each one would propel me deeper into this lifestyle. Somewhere deep down, I knew that I was lying to myself, and yet each escapade pulled me deeper into
my own little biosphere of lies and delusions.”
Source: Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose
“I was not especially enthusiastic about opera when I was young, and I thought I would never write one. I felt it was an art form of the past, with expensive singers exposing their high notes, and bad theater, and ridiculous stories which don't concern us. But then little by little I realized that it can be defined very differently, that on the contrary opera can be something profound and not superficial - a wonderful meeting point for all the other arts.”
“I was not even allowed to mention the name Madonna in my household - just because I think the '80s and '90s were so Madonna-filled. She was going through so many evolutions at that time.”
“I was not ever hitchhiking alone. I've done solo train trips but I've never driven myself alone.”
“I was not exploiting any real individual's story in writing ROOM, of course I was aware that my novel, by commenting on such situations, would run the risk of falling into those traps of voyeurism, sensationalism and sentimentality.”
“I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying.”
“I was not familiar with the book [before filming in The Outsiders] , though. Interestingly, The Outsiders had not reached the point where it is now, where it's required reading in sixth and seventh grades. In my sixth and seventh grade, we did not, but today everyone does.”
“I was not fortunate enough to run into Obama. We were at the same church per se, but I would never be there when he was there.”
“I was not given to looking at life in a rosy light.”
“I was not going to allow myself to really believe that I was free until I was actually free.”
“I was not going to be a stupid girl singer. I was going to be way more than that.”
“I was not going to be an actor. I was an engineer in physics. That's what I did: I graduated with a physics degree, and I had become a little bit distressed that I'd have to work for somebody - anybody! And I thought, "I'm not going to make a mark on anything. If I can't express myself, then I don't know what the heck I'm going to do with this life." I think it was just one of those germs that said, "No, no, no, you've got to say things. You've got to tell people things. You've got to express your opinion in this life, because that's how you started."”
“I was not going to kick back and wait for the unknown. I was going to dive in and become a full-time healing junkie.”