I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I will not accept your guidance and critique unless you are supportive and nurturing. On the other hand, you need to be continually demanding.”
“I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.”
“I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances, to the number of which they are themselves adding?joining with their greatest enemies in bestowing the harshest epithets on such works, and scarcely ever permitting them to be read by their own heroine, who, if she accidentally take up a novel, is sure to turn over its insipid leaves with disgust.”
Source: The Complete Novels of Jane Austen
“I will not agree to have this bill [to repeal DADT ] go forward, because our economy is in the tank.”
“I will not allow a Delia Smith cookbook in my house! It's all so precise with Delia, and it makes cooking seem so inaccessible.”
“I will not allow anxiety dictate the terms of my life”
Source: The Guide to Good Mental Health on the Autism Spectrum
“I will not allow anyone to take anything off my palette but if I do then within that, I can be creative.”
“I will not allow capitalism to diminish my experiences on earth”
“I will not allow it to be more man's nature than woman's to be inconstant.”
Source: Northanger abbey [followed by] Persuasion
“I will not allow my daughters to learn foreign languages because one tongue is sufficient for a woman.”
“I will not allow my mistakes of the past compromise my hope for the future.”
Source: Brain Drain - The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
“I WILL NOT ALLOW MY NEGATIVE FEELINGS TO CONTROL ME; I WILL REMAIN POSITIVE"
-Stephanie”
Source: Clean Up Your Home To Clean Up Your Life & Say Hello To Aromatherapy: Restore Your Sanctuary, Regain Your Peace, Ignite Your Senses
“I will not allow myself to be controlled by memories. I can start fresh today!”
“I will not allow myself to be so absorbed in the whirlwind of work as to forget about God. I will spend all my free moments at the feet of the Master hidden in the Blessed Sacrament. He has been tutoring me from my most tender years.”
“I will not allow myself to be threatened by any darkness that seeks to realize itself through my process”
Source: A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being
“I will not allow people to impose rules on me that don't make sense to me. And I live and work very much outside the literary world and the literary system. What they think and what they believe and what their rules are mean nothing to me.”
“I will not allow the Athenians to sin twice against philosophy.”
Source: The Philosophy Collection [97 Books]
“I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.”
Source: The Greatest Salesman in the World
“I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind.”
“I will not appear weak for you to maintain strength.”
Source: Kingdom of the Cursed
“I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.
I attack the monsters, the phantoms of imagination that have ruled the world. I attack slavery. I ask for room -- room for the human mind.”
Source: The Ghosts and Other Lectures
“I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“I will not attempt to deny the reasonableness and necessity of a party war; but in carrying on that war all principles and rules of justice should not be departed from.”
“I will not attempt to describe how I got through the next few days. There are desolations of the spirit which can only be hinted at. I sat there huge-eyed in the wreck of myself.”
Source: The Black Prince
“I will not avoid doing what I think is right, though it should draw on me the whole artillery that falsehood and malice can invent, or the credulity a deluded population can swallow.”
“I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts
“I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded.”
Source: A Writer's Diary
“I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony. I do not crave security. I wish to hazard my soul to opportunity.”
“I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony.”
“I will not be a Democrat or a Republican. They are the problem, not the solution. We need to abolish political parties in this country.”
“I will not be a slave to my image, nor will I be a slave to anyone else's interpretations of me.”
“I will not be a slut. I will not be a slut. Oh, I want so badly to be a slut.
Betrayed by her conscience which was as sex starved as the rest of her, Prudence moved into the room, knowing that she was about to do bad things.”
Source: Wicked Fairy Tales: The Curvy Collection
“I will not be a traitor of God to please the whole world.”
Source: Satyagraha (non-violent Resistance)
“I will not be a victim. I will not think like a victim. I am going to avenge all those little girls. I am going to win.”
Source: Ruthless
“I will not be able to rule without you. You and I have the same responsibility. I do, as Bolivia's number one servant. Servant - one who serves the nation, not one whom the nation serves.”
“I will not be afraid because I understand ... And understanding is happiness.”
“I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set themselves against me around about.”
“I will not be afraid to let my talent shine.”
“I will not be alone if I am my true self. Only by trading my true self for the companionship of another have I ever made myself alone. Because when I gave up my real self, I wound up resenting my "significant other" for "making me" do that-and it was this resentment that ate away at our relationship.”
“I will not be an ordinary man, because I have a right to be extraordinary.”
“I will not be another flower, picked for my beauty and left to die. I will be wild, difficult to find, and impossible to forget.”
“I will not be at the mercy of the telephone!”
“I will not be back after these messages”
“I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me;I will be concerned at my own want of ability.”
Source: The Ethics of Confucius
“I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success.”
Source: Ordination addresses and counsels to clergy
“I will not be distracted by noise, chatter, or setbacks. Patience, commitment, grace, and purpose will guide me.”
“I will not be doing any FHM or crazy Maxim magazines. I will leave that to the other actresses in Hollywood who want to shed their clothes because they think that's beneficial to them. I would much rather chose a creative way - like in a movie.”
“I will not be forced to marry!" Merida yelled.
She drew a claymore from the display stand, not because she thought she needed the long sword for protection, but because she felt more at peace with its heavy weight in her hand. Her mother had never understood her. She wanted Merida to be like her, a prim and proper royal lady. But Merida had never felt drawn to that life. She wanted to be free.
She relished the feel of the wind in her hair as she raced her horse across the glen. Delighted in the exhilaration of hitting a target from fifty paces away with her bow and arrow, or tumbling in the dirt with her three brothers.
She was her father's fierce lass, not her mother's proper princess.”
Source: Fate Be Changed
“I will not be forced to marry!" Merida yelled.
She drew a claymore from the display stand, not because she thought she needed the long sword for protection, but because she felt more at peace with its heavy weight in her hand. Her mother had never understood her. She wanted Merida to be like her, a prim and proper royal lady. But Merida had never felt drawn to that life. She wanted to be free.
She relished the feel of the wind in her hair as she raced her horse across the glen. Delighted in the exhilaration of hitting a target from fifty paces away with her bow and arrow, or tumbling in the dirt with her three brothers.
She was her father's lass, not her mother's proper princess.”
Source: Fate Be Changed
“I will not be governed by the tyranny of immediacy.”