I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I'm afraid that what most people don't know about me is that I'm very close to my brother and sister, who are 16 and 13, and I think I'm a pretty good big sister to them.”
“I'm afraid that whatever I touch is spoilt by the contact." "I'm not scared of being spoiled," Val said.”
Source: Valiant
“I'm afraid that's in the nature of modern politics - it's as much conducted by abuse as argument.”
“I'm afraid that's inappropriate behavior for the schoolyard," Xavier teased. "I know my charm is hard to resist, but please tray and control yourself.”
Source: Halo
“I'm afraid that, in this chapter we must talk about sex in a very explicit manner, because we want to expand the Frontiers of Human Understanding and also we want to sell as many books as possible to adolescent boys.”
Source: All the Dave Barry you could ever want: four classic books in one from America's foremost humorist
“I'm afraid the 'Doctor Who' door is probably closed because of me being in 'Torchwood.'”
“I'm afraid the negative things are always the great subjects. Failure is much more interesting than success.”
“I'm afraid the parenting advice to come out of developmental psychology is very boring: pay attention to your kids and love them.”
“I'm afraid the President election is going to be rigged. I have to be honest.”
“I'm afraid the SS's relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.”
Source: Christopher Hitchens: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations
“I'm afraid the workings of J.J. Abrams' mind falls outside the predictive capacity of any coherent theory.”
“I'm afraid there are no replays or second chances in amateur or professional golf, and that's the way it should be.”
“I'm afraid there's a big confusion in the world between nuclear power and nuclear arms.”
“I'm afraid there's nothing we can do about the journalists; we can only hope that they will die off as the deerflies do towards the end of August.”
“I'm afraid they're in love," he said, concerned. "They don't want to leave you." He lifted one hand from her waist to gently brush a pair from her neck, where their wings fanned against her jaw. Melancholy, he said, "I know just how they feel.”
“I'm afraid they've left their legs at home.”
“I'm afraid to answer that. I've heard that when I speak, it makes American women wish to strike me with umbrellas.”
Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess
“I'm afraid to be afraid in a crucial moment.”
“I'm afraid to be alone, I'm afraid not to be alone. I'm afraid of what I am, what I'm not, what I might become, what I might never become. I don't want to stay at my job for the rest of my life, but I'm afraid to leave. And I'm just tired, you know? I'm just so tired of being afraid.”
“I'm afraid to be on this shore a trunk without limbs, and what I most regret is not to have flower, pulp, or clay for the worm of my suffering.”
“i'm afraid to breathe in case i break the spell”
Source: The Sara Gruen Collection: Water for Elephants - At the Water's Edge - Ape House
“I'm afraid to do theater now.”
“I'm afraid to go into myself and see what's going on in there.”
“I'm afraid to laugh out loud, because there's so much information.”
“I'm afraid to live and afraid to die.”
“I'm afraid to live any place but in expectation. I'm no life-risk.”
Source: The Favourite Game
“I'm afraid to look in the mirror. I'm afraid I'm going to see an old lady with white hair, just like the old ladies in the park. Alittle bundle in a black shawl just waiting for the coffin.”
“I'm afraid to speak or move for fear that all this wonderful beauty will just vanish... like a broken silence.”
“I'm afraid to start plastic surgery. And my breasts are so versatile now, I can wear them down, up, and side to side.”
“I'm afraid to walk in public, because people look at me. But I'm not going to stop. I'm afraid because if I want to commune with my friend Shad (Meier), I have to ask him to cut my chicken for me. But I did it. And I'm afraid to go back and see my teammates and coaches because I know that I'll feel envy. But I'm going to do it anyway. Because fear is just a feeling, and if you can acknowledge that fear, digest that fear and overcome it, the rewards are incredible.”
“I'm afraid to win, and afraid to lose; I hate a draw and can't stop competing; otherwise I'm fine.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“I'm afraid too many of us Christians don't know what we really believe. Like a cork in the ocean, driven and tossed by the waves, we bounce from opinion to opinion... We've become activity junkies, seldom stopping long enough to decide what really matters to us, too busy to determine what's really worth living for, let alone worth dying for.”
“I'm afraid we get a great deal of our exposure to art through magazines and through slides and I think this is dreadful, this is anti-art because art is direct experience with something in the world and photography is just a rumor, a kind of pornography of art.”
“I'm afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I have, from others.”
“I'm afraid we'll see reporters stop chasing quotes around the same time dogs stop chasing cars.”
“I'm afraid what we are building today will not have the same impact and sustainability of the architecture of a 100, 500 or 1,000 years ago. The buildings of those days were miracles. We don't perform such miracles today. So we should be a little more modest. For my part, I'll be glad to show one of my buildings one day to my grandchildren and say: I'm proud of that.”
“I'm afraid when too many people know too much about you, it actually makes us all a lot more boring because you're afraid to express yourself.”
“I'm afraid you can't create tragedy out of abnormal psychology.”
Source: Confessions of a cultist: on the cinema, 1955-1969
“I'm afraid you will have to fly holding the rock with its heavy chain.”
Source: The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
“I'm afraid you've thought me a bigger fool than I am.”
Source: The Painted Veil
“I'm afraid, as true as love is, it is tested by circumstance and sometimes you don't make the best choices. As much as the fans claim [that] all they want is just want people sitting around and having a nice time together, trust me, you would not be watching the show if there wasn't conflict, if there wasn't drama, if there wasn't jeopardy. And it's not just physical jeopardy, it's romantic jeopardy as well.”
“I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security.”
“I'm afraid, is that there are a number of groups who really don't want a fair-minded judge who has an openness to both sides of the argument. Rather, they want judges who will impose their liberal agenda on the American people; views so liberal that they cannot prevail at the ballot box.”
“I'm afraid," Professor Piper said, "afraid that you're never going to discover what you're truly capable of. That you won't get to see-that I won't get to see-any of the wonder that's inside of you.”
Source: The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On
“I'm afraid. I know L. I don't want you to get hurt. I won't. What if you do. I'll wait for you. Even if I'm dark? Even if you're very very dark.”
“I'm afraind of losing my sense of trying to always be better. I love competition against myself.”
“I'm African American / I'm African / I'm black as the moon.”
“I'm African American, I'm a lot of other things, a musician and an artist. But that woman part holds the most pain for me. And therefore, obviously, the most lessons.”
“I'm African-American by my culture, not by my color. Race does not exist.”
“I'm after a snake and please God I'll scotch it.”
Source: King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa