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 stay, not ever again – in a room or conversation or relationship or institution that requires me to abandon myself.”
Source: Untamed
“I will not steep my speech in lies; the test of any man lies in action.”
“I will not step down, I will not resign, ... I will work to the end of my term in office under the constitution. In the year 2000, there will be presidential elections under the constitution and I will not run in those elections.”
“I will not stop fighting against Islam until I have achieved freedom for our country.”
“I will not stop here to inquire whose duty it was—whether that of the white ex-master who had profited by unpaid toil, or the Northern philanthropist whose persistence brought on the crisis, or the National Government whose edict freed the bondmen; I will not stop to ask whose duty it was, but I insist it was the duty of some one to see that these workingmen were not left alone and unguided, without capital, without land, without skill, without economic organization, without even the bald protection of law, order, and decency,—left in a great land, not to settle down to slow and careful internal development, but destined to be thrown almost immediately into relentless and sharp competition with the best of modern workingmen under an economic system where every participant is fighting for himself, and too often utterly regardless of the rights or welfare of his neighbor.”
Source: The Souls of Black Folk
“I will not stop in our efforts to hunt down and kill the terrorists.”
“I will not stop living my queerness out loud.
I will not stop raining my good queer love down on the world until we all have a seat at the table.
Until expressions of love and identity are met with the wonder with which we should meet all evidence of goodness in a world as harsh and lonely as this one can be.
Until the glitter of generations of fragmented hearts just like mine are finally welcomed all the way home.”
“I will not stop singing
the Muses who set me dancing.”
Source: Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides
“I will not stop. I will not slow down. I will not pull over to ask for directions. I will build the road that takes me where I want to be and I will drive, drive, drive. I will drive until the vehicle around me breaks down, falls apart and tumbles into useless debris... and then I will walk.”
“I will not support efforts that kill jobs in my district and lack provisions for responsibly transitioning us toward a clean-energy economy.”
“I will not support putting American soldiers into Iraq as an occupying force. I don't think that is in our interest, and I don't think that would be smart to do. In fact, I think that would be a big red flag waving for ISIS to reconstitute itself.”
“I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.”
“I will not take "but" for an answer.”
Source: The Early Simple Stories
“I will not take 'but' for an answer. Negroes have been looking at democracy's 'but' too long.”
Source: The Early Simple Stories
“I will not take a salaried job unless I know it is regulated to 40 hours per week or less.”
“i will not take care of my fears today. i will not feed them or tend to them or give them any space. and if i do not take care of my fears today… what i feel tomorrow might be something a little bit like faith.”
“I will not take from those who have nothing.”
Source: A Curse So Dark and Lonely
“I will not take up your time, dear boy, with telling you what is the matter with me. Life is brief, and you might pass away before I had finished. But I will tell you what is NOT the matter with me. I have not got housemaid’s knee. Why I have not got housemaid’s knee, I cannot tell you; but the fact remains that I have not got it. Everything else, however, I HAVE got.”
Source: Three Men in a Boat (illustrated) + Three Men on the Bummel + Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow: The best of Jerome K. Jerome
“I will not take what you need to give me. I will take what you want to give me.”
“I will not talk of my own happiness,' said he, 'great as it is, for I think only of yours. Compared with you, who has the right to be happy?”
Source: Mansfield Park
“I will not talk to God about how big my problems are. I will talk to my problems about how big my God is. This is my declaration.”
“I Will Not Tease Rebecca Grimes
I have to write one hundred times:
"I will not tease Rebecca Grimes."
Okay, that's one. I'm far from done.
(This isn't gonna be much fun.)
"I will not tease Rebecca Grimes."
That's two. I'm paying for my crimes.
It's all because I pulled her hair
And put spaghetti on her chair.
Because I gave her goofy looks
And squirted mustard on her books,
I have to write one hundred times:
"I will not tease Rebecca Grimes."
That's three. Whoopee. It's going slow.
Just ninety-seven more to go.
"I will not tease" (I'm keeping score.)
"Rebecca Grimes." (Now that makes four.)
I'm soaked with sweat. My shirt is damp.
I think I'm getting writer's cramp.
"I will not, will not, will not tease
Rebecca Grimes!" Can I stop, please?
The teacher frowns, and that means no.
I still have sixty-six to go.
"I will-will-will not-not-not-not
Tease-tease-tease-tease..." It's getting hot.
"I will not tease Rebecca Grimes."
That's ninety-nine. The school bell chimes.
Just one more line and I'll be through.
Rebecca Grimes, this one's for you!
My final line will rhyme with "Grimes":
"I will not tease Rebecca...Slimes!"
Rebecca Slimes! Ha ha! That's great!
I'd better hide it. Oops! Too late!
The teacher sees what I wrote down.
She takes my paper with a frown.
I now must write one thousand times:
"I will not tease Rebecca Grimes.”
“I will not tell you our love story, because—like all real love stories—it will die with us, as it should.”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“I will not tire of declaring that if we really want an effective end to violence we must remove the violence that lies at the root of all violence: structural violence, social injustice, exclusion of citizens from the management of the country, repression. All this is what constitutes the primal cause, from which the rest flows naturally.”
“I WILL NOT TOLERATE MENTION OF YOUR ABNORMALITY UNDER THIS ROOF!”
Source: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
“I will not tolerate your faults. They are of no use to me.”
“I will not trade freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.”
“I will not trust you, I, Nor longer stay in your curst company. Your hands than mine are quicker for a fray, My legs are longer though, to run away.”
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream: In Full Colour, Cartoon, Illustrated Format
“I will not try to convince you to love me, to respect me, to commit to me. I deserve better than that; I AM BETTER THAN THAT...Goodbye.”
Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
“I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.”
Source: God's Message for Each Day: Wisdom from the Word of God
“I will not underrate the importance [of equipment]... But I insist that the trained mind is the first thing, and for scouting a fool on horseback is worth less than a wise man on foot.”
Source: National Life from the Standpoint of Science
“I will not use my legislative powers except in a very limited framework.”
“I will not use people's lives as bargaining chips.”
“I will not vote against the truths of the multiplication table.”
“I will not vote for a candidate who thinks you can 'pray away the gay,' I will not vote for a candidate who thinks that he has more rights to my uterus than I do, I will not vote for a candidate who thinks that it's okay to dump toxic waste in the ocean.”
“I will not vote to send my sons, or your sons, daughters, brothers, sisters or friends to fight for a stalemate.”
“I will not wage war against women and children! I have instructed my air force to limit their attacks to military objectives. However, if the enemy should conclude from this that he might get away with waging war in a different manner he will receive an answer that he'll be knocked out of his wits!”
“I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love.”
“I will not walk backward in life.”
Source: The Children of Húrin
“I will not waste my life! I will finish my course and finish it well. I will display the Gospel of the grace of God in all I do. I will run my race to the end.” - Paul”
“I will not waste time on second thoughts. My life will not be an apology. It will be a statement.”
Source: The Young Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions That Determine Personal Success
“I will not weep, she thought. I will not I will not I will NOT.
I had my chance.
Laurie asked me first.
He loved me first.
But I let him go, and I don't deserve him.
I didn't want him then, and I don't want him now.
Not now. Not ever.
But Jo, of all people, knew a story when she heard one. Especially when the ending had been gotten so wrong.”
Source: Jo & Laurie
“I will not write a lame follow-up. It could take me 20 years. But I will never turn in a book that I'm not happy with.”
“I will not write about anyplace in the world unless I've been there to personally research it”
“I will not yield to any man contrary to what is right, for fear of death, even if I should die at once for not yielding.”
“I will not, nor will I ever, publicly divulge sensitive intelligence sources and methods. For when that happens, our national security is endangered and lives can be lost.”
“I will now add what I do not like. First, the omission of a bill of rights providing clearly and without the aid of sophisms for freedom of religion, freedom of the press, protection against standing armies, restriction against monopolies, the eternal and unremitting force of the habeas corpus laws, and trials by jury in all matters of fact triable by the laws of the land and not by the law of nations.”
Source: The portable Thomas Jefferson
“I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to literature. ... The early machine was full of caprices, full of defects- devilish ones. It had as many immoralities as the machine of today has virtues. After a year or two I found that it was degrading my character, so I thought I would give it to Howells. ... He took it home to Boston, and my morals began to improve, but his have never recovered.”
“I will now direct the attention of scientists to a previously unnoticed cause which brings about the metamorphosis and decomposition phenomena which are usually called decay, putrefaction, rotting, fermentation and moldering. This cause is the ability possessed by a body engaged in decomposition or combination, i.e. in chemical action, to give rise in a body in contact with it the same ability to undergo the same change which it experiences itself.”
“I will now make a scorpion appear in Osama bin Laden's pants”