I Quotes
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“I, personally, would be shocked if we went to the end of the tape now and I didn't have at least one... Look, even if I don't get one directly, eventually they're just going to have to give me one when I get old. So no matter how you slice it, I'm getting one.”
“I, Philip Kearny, an old soldier, enter my solemn protest against this order for retreat.”
“I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared”
“I, quite frankly, am grateful for every day. I don't take anything for granted.”
“I, quite literally, woke up from a coma, from having tried to kill myself and it was very clear to me what my psychiatrist had been saying for years. The choice is not between a drug that has side effects or not, life is not ideal. Yes, your drug has side effects and yes if you don't take it you're going to die.”
“I, retired in prayer, will always be with you, and together we will move ahead with the Lord in certainty. The Lord is victorious.”
“I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.”
“I, serial number 30743, Lieutenant General in reserves Yitzhak Rabin, a soldier in the Israeli Defense Forces and in the army of peace, I, who have sent armies into fire and soldiers to their death, say today: We sail onto a war which has no casualties, no wounded, no blood nor suffering. It is the only war which is a pleasure to participate in - the war for peace.”
“I, serial number 30743, Major General Yitzhak Rabin, am a soldier in the army of peace.”
“I, sir, have always conceived - I believe those who proposed the constitution conceived,and it is still more fully known, and more material to observe, those who ratified the constitution conceived, that this is not an indefinite government deriving its powers from the general terms prefixed to the specified powers - but, a limited government tied down to the specified powers, which explain and define the general terms.”
Source: James Madison's
“I, sort of, got into comedy accidentally, and it got bigger than I wanted it to.”
“I, talking about my children, of course I wanted them to succeed in life, they have to choose whatever job or occupation that they want, I will not try to influence.”
“I, the dreamer clinging yet to the dream as the patient clings to the last thin unbearable ecstatic instant of agony in order to sharpen the savor of the pain's surcease, waking into the reality, the more than reality, not to the unchanged and unaltered old time but into a time altered to fit the dream which, conjunctive with the dreamer, becomes immolated and apotheosized”
Source: Absalom, Absalom!
“I, the fiery life of divine wisdom, I ignite the beauty of the plains, I sparkle the water, I burn in the sun, and the moon, and the stars.”
“I, the lone inhabitant of my body and life, am inescapably large to myself, but also ridiculously, inconceivably small.”
“I, the man of color, want only this: That the tool never possess the man. That the enslavement of man by man cease forever. That is, of one by another. That it be possible for me to discover and to love man, wherever he may be.”
Source: Black Skin, White Masks
“I, the soul called Wanderer, love you, human Ian. And that will never change, no matter what I might become.”
“I, the soul named Wanderer, love you, human Ian and that will never change no matter what I might become. If I were a Dolphin or a Bear or a Flower, it wouldn't matter. I would always love you, always remember you. You will be my only partner." - Wanda, The Host”
“I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam.”
Source: Muslim Political Thought: A Reconstruction
“I, therefore, O Caesar, do not publish this work, merely prefixing my name to a treatise which of right belongs to others, nor think of acquiring reputation by finding fault with the works of any one.”
“I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated
To closeness and the bettering of my mind.”
Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators
“I, Tivadar Kosztka, who gave up his prime of youth for the rebirth of the world, accepting the call of the invisible Spirit, had a regular civil job, comfort, wealth then... Going to Paris in 1907 I oppositely standed alone in front of millions with only the result of the divine providence, and I beat the vanity of the world hollow, but I haven't killed 10 million people, only sobered them. I haven't made commercials from things, because I didn't care for the pedlar's press; I retired from the world instead, going to the top of the Lebanons, and I painted cedars.”
“I, to you, am lost in the gorgeous errors of flesh.”
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“I, too, am against the dismantlement of Iran.”
“I, too, am beginning to feel an immense need to become a savage and create a new world.”
“I, too, am deeply concerned with an overarching idea that dramaturgs are now authors . . .. I am not taking the position that all dramaturgs own copyright, deserve special billing credit, or should receive remuneration akin to that of the playwright. I know from my ears at the Dramatists Guild that almost everyone a writer encounters has suggestions of how to write and rewrite the play or musical to make it work.”
“I, too, am going to go away soon,' she says, 'I am weary and weary of my weariness. Everything is beginning to be a little empty and full of leave-taking and melancholy and waiting.”
“I, too, am indignant when the worthy Homer nods; yet in a long work it is allowable for sleep to creep over the writer.
[Lat., Et idem
Indignor quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus;
Verum opere longo fas est obrepere somnum.]”
“I, too, await
The hour of thy great wind of love and hate.
When shall the stars be blown about the sky,
Like the sparks blown out of a smithy, and die?”
Source: Early Poems
“I, too, believe in fidelity. But how can I be true to one woman without being false to all the others?”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“I, too, dislike it. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it, after all, a place for the genuine.”
“I, too, find the flower beautiful in its outward appearance. But a deeper beauty lies concealed within.”
Source: The new art--the new life: the collected writings of Piet Mondrian
“I, too, have felt that the war goes on and on. When my son, Ian, died at El Alamein-- side by side with... visitors offering their condolences, thinking to comfort me, said, "Life goes on." What nonsense, I thought, of course it doesn't. It's death that goes on; Ian is dead now and will be dead tomorrow and nexe year and forever. There's no end to that. But perhaps there will be an end to the sorrow of it.”
Source: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel
“I, too, have stars/ and blue depths.”
Source: The Dream We Carry: Selected and Last Poems of Olav H. Hauge
“I, too, often shrivel the grey shreds,Sniff them and think and sniff again and tryOnce more to think what it is I am remembering,Always in vain. I cannot like the scent,Yet I would rather give up others more sweet,With no meaning, than this bitter one.”
Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Edward Thomas (Illustrated)
“I, too, saw God through mud”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Wilfred Owen (Illustrated)
“I, too, saw God through mud - The mud that cracked on cheeks when wretches smiled. War brought more glory to their eyes than blood, And gave their laughs more glee than shakes a child.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Wilfred Owen (Illustrated)
“I, too, seem to be a connoisseur of rain, but it does not fill me with joy; it allows me to steep myself in a solitude I nurse like a vice I've refused to vanquish.”
Source: Three Junes
“I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong. Tomorrow, I'll be at the table When company comes. Nobody'll dare Say to me, "Eat in the kitchen," Then. Besides, They'll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed-- I, too, am America.”
“I, too, was carrying around my own fate. All the things I couldn't know sat somewhere inside, embroidered into me-maybe not quite fixed to the point of inevitability but waiting, in any event, for a chance to unspool.”
Source: A House in the Sky
“I, uh, don't think I'm, y'know, so different than your average, y'know, average.”
“I, uh, don't think it's quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.”
“I, uh...I have a television, so I'm going to spend some time here to tell you some things. [To orchestra conductor:] And, and...and sir, you're doing a great job, but you're so quick with that stick, so why don't you sit. 'Cause I may never be here again.'”
“I, um, I have this problem. I broke up with my boyfriend, you see. And I'm pretty upset about it, so I wanted to talk to my best friend. [...] The thing is, they're both you.”
“I, unfortunately, take the subway a lot. It's not my preference, but it is my lot in life.”
“I, who am king of the matter I treat, and who owe an accounting for it to no one, do not for all that believe myself in all I write. I often hazard sallies of my mind which I mistrust.”
Source: Complete Essays
“I, who called love my hope for love.”
Source: The Passion According to G.H.
“I, who fall short in managing my own affairs, can see just how it would profit my neighbor if I managed his.”
Source: Plain Anne Ellis: More about the Life of an Ordinary Woman
“I, who had been in favour of nuclear energy for generating electricity ... I suddenly realised that anybody who has a nuclear reactor can extract the plutonium from the reactor and make nuclear weapons, so that a country which has a nuclear reactor can, at any moment that it wants to, become a nuclear weapons power. And I, right from the beginning, have been terribly worried by the existence of nuclear weapons and very much against their use.”
“I, who had had my heart full for hours, took advantage of an early moment of solitude, to cry in it very bitterly. Suddenly a little hairy head thrust itself from behind my pillow into my face, rubbing its ears and nose against me in a responsive agitation, and drying the tears as they came.”