I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I will hate the man you choose because he is not me, and love him if he makes you smile. No woman deserves the sure knowledge of widow’s black as her brideprice, you least of all.”
Source: The Wheel of Time: Books 1–4
“I will hate the man you choose because he isn't me, and love him if he makes you smile.”
“I will have a care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the heaviest of all servitudes; and this may be done by moderate desires.”
“I will have a foreign-handed foreign policy.”
“I will have a largely happier week if I get to do a physical stunt.”
“I will have a one-hour program called the Mission Watch, where I will describe details of the mission and give additional information about the lessons from space.”
“I will have a song that I'm in love with for a couple of months and then I'll go to something else. That's just constantly changing. And sometimes I will go back to old one that I haven't heard for a long time.”
“I will have an administrative system where there is no way to extricate red tape.”
“I will have both of you," he said. "My Sentinel and my city. And the GP will learn exactly how stubborn we both can be.”
Source: Wild Things
“I will have clients rather than people who just give me orders”
“I will have come home and home again every day of my life
to rest in the wilderness of your love.”
Source: Crushed Wild Mint
“I will have Derek Fisher wear all 5 of his rings the first time he comes in to talk to Carmelo.”
“I will have failed in this if in five years there are not many more people using public transport and far fewer journeys by car. It is a tall order but I want you to hold me to it.”
“I will have faith that, though I might not understand why adversity happens, by my conscious choice I can find strength, compassion, and grace through my trials.”
Source: Never Fear, Never Quit: A Story of Courage and Perseverance
“I will have here but one mistress and no master.”
“I will have my freedom.”
“I will have my voice: Indian, Spanish, white. I will have my serpent's tongue - my woman's voice, my sexual voice, my poet's voice. I will overcome the tradition of silence.”
“I will have no locked cupboards in my life.”
“I will have no man in my boat,” said Starbuck, “who is not afraid of a whale.” By this, he seemed to mean, not only that the most reliable and useful courage was that which arises from the fair estimation of the encountered peril, but than an utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.”
Source: Moby Dick
“I will have no man work for me who has not the capacity to become a partner.”
“I will have no more of books in which various characters tell their dreams; tell, with prodigious extension of memory and ruthless courtesy to details, dreams which, unlike yours and mine, have to do with the plot of the piece.”
Source: The Portable Dorothy Parker
“I will have no Parsons around me but such as drink deep, ride to Hounds and caress the Wives and Daughters of their Parishioners.A Virtuous Parson does nothing to test or exercise the Faith of his Flock.”
Source: After Many a Summer Dies the Swan
“I will have no problem coming to practice on time. The locker room is great, but we have to prove ourselves on the court.”
“I will have nothing to do with a bomb!”
“I will have nothing to do with a bomb! [Response to being invited (1943) to work with Otto Robert Frisch and some British scientists at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project to create the atomic bomb.]”
“I will have nothing to do with a God who cares only occasionally. I need a God who is with us always, everywhere, in the deepest depths as well as the highest heights. It is when things go wrong, when good things do not happen, when our prayers seem to have been lost, that God is most present. We do not need the sheltering wings when things go smoothly. We are closest to God in the darkness, stumbling along blindly.”
Source: Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage
“I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath.”
Source: The Fables of Aesop
“I will have one of the cleanest obits of any actress. I never did cheesecake like Ann Sheridan or Betty Grable. I just used my hair.”
“I will have papers. And whether it is one George or the other who rules in time - this land will be ours. And yours," he added softly, raising his eyes to Brianna's. "And your children's after you."
I laid my hand on his, where it rested on the box. His skin was warm with work and the heat of the day, and he smelt of clean sweat. The hairs on his forearm shone red and gold in the sun, and I understood very well just then, why it is that men measure time. They wish to fix a moment, in the vain hope that so doing will keep it from departing”
Source: The Fiery Cross
“I will have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love. Love above all. No... not the artful postures of love, not playful and poetical games of love for the amusement of an evening, but love that... overthrows life. Unbiddable, ungovernable - like a riot in the heart, and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture.”
Source: Shakespeare in Love: A Screenplay
“I will have reached the point of greatest strength once I have learned to wait for hope.”
“I will have spent my life trying to understand the function of remembering, which is not the opposite of forgetting, but rather its lining. We do not remember. We rewrite memory much as history is rewritten. How can one remember thirst?”
“I will have this done, so I order it done; let my will replace reasoned judgement.”
“I will have to admit, though, that I will never look at an apple in quite the same way.”
Source: Wizard's First Rule
“I will have to earn trust and respect from my kids.”
“I will have to forego the car and even the aeroplane when I move from place to place, for the crowds pressing around them will be too huge; I will have to move across the sky; yes, that too will happen, believe Me.”
“I will have to make tactical decisions, technical decisions and emotional decisions. This time it was a tactical one.”
“I will have to rely on that painful teacher, experience.”
Source: Hattie Big Sky
“I will have to sit with this thing that weighs on me like a stone. I will have to work to will each breath for as long as it takes, though it feel like eternity. In this waiting, there is beauty, if I am willing to hear it. In this waiting, there is witness. But it is hard. I am not in control.”
Source: North of Hope: A Daughter's Arctic Journey
“I will have won Wimbledon this year in 2013, and I will stop with that. It was magnificent. You will certainly see me at tournaments again, but not playing.”
“I will have you know, Brantley Thornton, that you will see her again. In some world, at some time, your two souls will coincide and abide forever in the stars. Because you, Brantley Thornton, were her entire galaxy. And as she waits for you, she will be counting all of the stars that fill this endless, star-brimmed sky.”
Source: Counting Stars
“I will have you know I practiced that speech. In front of a mirror before you got here."
"So what do you think it meant?"
"I'm not sure," Jace admitted, "but I know I look damn good delivering it.”
Source: City of Lost Souls
“I will have you without armor, Kaz Breker. Or I will not have you at all.”
Source: Six of Crows
“I will hear no talk that there are no intermediate-range weapons on the NATO side.”
“I will heighten my life by helping others heighten theirs”
“I will help the good fight continue until that long awaited moment arrives, when our rights are equal and when the political limits on love have been smashed.”
“I will help you approach if you approach, and to keep away if you keep away.”
“I will help-but only so much, only so far. It is not that I believe these children are less than my own. It is not that I believe I do not have a responsibility for them. It is just that in a world of haves and have-nots, I do not want to give up too much of what I have. I do not want to diminish the complexity and diversity of my life. Instead, I will choose to spend another seventy-five dollars on myself rather than send another child to school, and I will choose to do this over and over again. I no longer think of myself as a good person. I have adjusted to that.”
“I will here say to parents, that kind words and loving actions towards children, will subdue their uneducated nature a great deal better than the rod, or, in other words, than physical punishment.”
“I will hibernate with you anytime!”