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 permit thirty men to travel four hundred miles to agitate a bag of wind.”
“I will not play at tug o' war.
I'd rather play at hug o' war,
Where everyone hugs
Instead of tugs,
Where everyone giggles
And rolls on the rug,
Where everyone kisses,
And everyone grins,
And everyone cuddles,
And everyone wins.”
Source: Where the Sidewalk Ends
“I will not play at tug o' war, I'd rather play at hug o' war”
“I will not play it safe!
I want to experience the length, depth, and breadth of life.
I'm not just here for the victories... I'm here for the scars.”
“I will not play just an evil part. In fact, I got offered $7 million several years ago to play the part that Faye Dunaway played in 'Supergirl.' I was kind of insulted. I was impressed with the money, but I said, 'Why are you asking me to play an evil witch? Do I come across as an evil witch to you?'”
“I will not play tug o' war. I'd rather play hug o' war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses, and everyone grins, and everyone cuddles, and everyone wins.”
“I will not pray clarity for you. Clarity is the crutch of the Christian. But I will pray trust for you, that your trust will increase.”
“I will not pretend that if I had to choose between communism and Nazism I would choose communism.”
Source: The Yankee Marlborough
“I will not pretend to justify this espionage I carried on, and I will say openly that all these signs of a life full of intellectual curiosity, but thoroughly slovenly and disorderly at the same time, inspired me at first with aversion and mistrust. I am not only a middle-class man, living a regular life, fond of work and punctuality; I am also an abstainer and a nonsmoker, and these bottles in Haller's room pleased me even less than the rest of his artistic disorder.”
Source: Steppenwolf
“I will not promise boys positions, I will not promise any of you football success, I will demand discipline, character, respect, and work ethic throughout the program. If I succeed in getting people to believe then success will follow.”
Source: Team Of One: We Believe
“I will not promise what I cannot deliver. And I will never hide the cost of what I propose.”
“I will not propose to you that my way is best. The decision is up to you. If you find some point which may be suitable to you, then you can carry out experiments for yourself. If you find that it is of no use, then you can discard it.”
Source: Illustrated Teachings of the Dalai Lama
“I will not quarrel with a slight mistake, Such as our nature's frailty may excuse.”
“I will not quit this game because of what the media has done to me.”
“I will not raise taxes on anyone making $250,000 or less.”
“I will not raise you up and give you a gun. I will not take you shooting and fawn over how great your aim is. I won’t tell you how brilliant you can be or how many Marinos you can murder if you really put your mind to it. I won’t walk you into danger and clap as you shoot to kill. I will take the gun from you and tell you you’re a thousand times better without it. I will always take the gun from you, Sophie. I will always tell you that you don’t need it. I will always support you, but I will never support that. Never.”
Source: Mafiosa
“I will not reach my full potential as a man unless I find my partner.”
“I will not refuse to do the something I can do.”
“I will not rent your skin”
Source: A Drop of You
“I will not resign because my resignation will not resolve anything.”
“I will not resolve a land dispute if civil groups or politicians are involved in the land disputes.”
“I will not rest until I have transformed the landscape of American politics.”
“I will not rest until no child goes hungry. All is possible.”
“I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.”
“I will not rule out anything. I don't speculate on my own future. I'll wait and see what happens.”
“I will not say anything about my father. Period. I don't have a dad.”
“I will not say I am sorry, but I can tell you that I grieve.”
“I will not say I failed 1000 times, I will say that I discovered there are 1000 ways that can cause failure”
“I will not say my life passed before my eyes. I wish it had. That would've taken several months, giving me time to figure out an escape plan.”
Source: The Hidden Oracle
“I will not say nothing. I will defend my church and my religion when it is insulted and spit on.”
Source: James Joyce The Dover Reader
“I will not say sorry and be pardoned for doing a godly act.”
“I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they're not alive.”
“I will not say the fact that there are no European Union observers at an election means that it will not be fair and free.”
“I will not say with Lord Hale, that "The Law will admit of no rival" . . . but I will say that it is a jealous mistress, and requires a long and constant courtship. It is not to be won by trifling favors, but by lavish homage.”
Source: The Miscellaneous Writings: Literary, Critical, Juridical, and Political of Joseph Story, Now First Collected
“I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil.”
Source: The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings
“I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.”
“I will not sentence myself to such a living death.”
Source: Circe
“I will not serve Allah like a laborer, in expectation of my wages.”
“I will not serve God like a labourer, in expectation of my wages.”
Source: The Way of the Sufi
“I will not serve God like a labourer, in expectation of my wages. Rabia”
Source: The Way of the Sufi
“I will not settle for a diluted version of love.”
“I will not shoot myself
In the head, and I will not shoot myself
In the back, and I will not hang myself
With a trashbag, and if I do,
I promise you, I will not do it
In a police car while handcuffed
Or in the jail cell of a town
I only know the name of
Because I have to drive through it
To get home.”
Source: The Tradition
“I will not sleep fine if Donald Trump wins and I will not sleep fine is Hillary Clinton wins. Whether you are looking at nuclear weapons, whether you are looking at expanding wars and their blowback, which will not stop as long as those wars continue to expand, or whether you're looking at the climate, in my view, we have no choice. This is an existential moment. We are deciding not only what kind of world we will have, but whether we will have a world or not. I think it's very important to get outside this box that tells us we are powerless, when in fact, we are powerful.”
“I will not sleep
If that's what it takes
To not wake up
As my mother”
Source: Hold Me Under: Poems to Drown to
“I will not speak of the woman,
round and heavy, like me,
who will give birth to a child she’ll be ashamed
to name.”
Source: I Will Be Silent
“I will not speak to Vladimir Putin personally until we've rebuilt the 6th Fleet a little bit right under his nose; rebuilt the missile defense program in Poland right under his nose; and conducted a few military exercises in the Baltic states.”
“I will not spend the money for myself. I will rather spend it in special business on a no-profit-no-loss policy. We will also establish an eye hospital where even beggars will be given treatment at the cost of Taka 10-20.”
“I will not stagger from expedient to expedient.”
“I will not stand by while the special interests use the same old tactics to keep things exactly the way they are ... Not this time. Not now.”
Source: The President's Address Before a Joint Session of Congress: Message from the President of the United States Transmitting the President's Address Before a Joint Session of Congress
“I will not stand here to be insulted by you, hedgepig," Mangiz fumed. "Then stand somewhere else and I'll insult you there, featherbag!!”