I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I can not explore the world with my own pocket money, but I will explore the world if I sat in the library.”
“I can not forget Melina Mercouri in black dress at 'Never on Sunday'.”
“I can not give you the reference of Ram Chandar or Krishna, because they were not historical figures. I can not help it but to present to you the names of (Hazrat) Abu Bakar (RA) and (Hazrat) Umar Farooq (RA). They were leaders of a vast Empire, yet they lived a life of austerity.”
“i can not go through the ocean. i can not drive the streets at night. i can not wake up in the morning without you on my mind. and so your gone and im haunted i bet you are just fine. did i make it that easy to walk right in and out of my life.”
“I can not help it; as I draw near to you, you, in your turn will draw near to others, and learn the rapture of that cruelty, which yet is love; so, for a while, seek to know no more of me and mine, but trust me with all your loving spirit.”
Source: In a Glass Darkly: Horror Collections
“I can not imagine a God ... made happy by my getting down on my knees and calling him 'great'.”
“I can not imagine a world without books.
My world will not be complete with the love for books.”
“I can not imagine my life if I didn't have a music program in my school.”
“I can not impress on my readers too strongly the necessity to be firm but kind to a puppy. His idea of your authority is forming, and if he knows you give in on the slightest whimper, you are wacked for life.”
“I can not kiss you
unless you unraveled
every line of my heart
and declared with your lips
the beauty of our unfading love.”
“I can not learn Philosophy and I can not take a glimpse of Wisdom all alone and by myself. All together we philosophize, because this is the best way to do it; nay, this is the only way to do it. Of course, other thinkers cannot teach me what I already know, but they can help me unlearn what I thought I knew or see what I haven’t seen clearly yet. As a solitary thinker, I would be a mere listener of the echo of my convictions.”
“I can not make love when there is a feeling. It would turn joy into lust, and its outcome would be a mental disorder rather than innate surrendering.”
“I can not regret what I have learned. Regardless of what you decide and what becomes of us, it will not change this belief, and whatever children I may have, I will try to teach them this: that life is meant to be more than existence. Fight for and hold on to your passion, whatever it is, but surrender gracefully when the passion is well spent. For it is through loss that we learn, and grief that we grow stronger, and living that we learn how to love. Everything is a choice, and by avoiding choices, one not only ensures that a wrong decision won't be made, but also steals a soul's chance to live, to learn, and to love.”
Source: Learning to Breathe
“I can not remember even thinking that I was deaf when I was dancing.”
“I can not sing the old songs now! It is not that I deem them low, 'Tis that I can't remember how They go.”
Source: Fly leaves, by C.S.C.
“I can not take life in my own hands. It is too heavy.”
Source: Yet Another New Land
“I can not travel into my past,
without consent of the future me.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity”
“I can not vote for the best candidate. I am not on the list.”
Source: The New Land
“I can not watch either of the "Paranormal" films alone.”
“I can not wish you success in your effort to reject the treaty because while it may win the fight it may destroy our cause. My plan cannot fail if the people are with us and we ought not to succeed unless we do have the people with us.”
“I can not, and will not judge, by what my eyes may see. For the skin on a man shall not reveal his true identity.”
“I can not, therefore, see how this can be imputed as a crime, or how any of the king's ministers can be blamed for his doing what the public has no concern in; for if the public be well and faithfully served it has no business to ask by whom.”
“i can nourish myself on nothing but truth”
Source: St. Thérèse of Lisieux: Her Last Conversations
“I can now focus on a huge audience through TV, books, cookware and foods.”
“I can now officially to the wife "It's work, darling" I have to watch racing. I have to watch every second. And actually, my wife who can't stand racing has got into it and once she understood the politics it becomes more interesting for non-racing people I think.”
“I can now rejoice even in the falsification of a cherished theory, because even this is a scientific success.”
“I can now say that the more I learnt about Islam, the more tolerant I became.”
“I can now say without hesitation the Marine Corps was the best foster home I ever had.”
Source: Leaving home: a memoir
“I can now see that our needs meshed perfectly: my need to be swept away by a man, to be held securely and adored by a man, and his need to find the girl who would be pliable and receptive to his idea of a couple, who wouldn't question his unspoken authority. I don't mean he wanted a mouse—and he knew very well he wasn't getting one.”
Source: The Memory of All that: Love and Politics in New York, Hollywood, and Paris
“I can now see to the bottom of my own depths, there is nothing stopping my gaze, no obstacle is in the way. And there is nothing there.”
Source: Monsieur Ouine
“I can now simply say that consciousness can be stretched out of the body like a giant piece of chewing gum without the need to have any defined diameter or length of the connection with the body, by Jozef.”
Source: How to Kiss the Universe: An Inspirational Spiritual and Metaphysical Narrative about Human Origin, Essence and Destiny
“I can now state that I have succeeded in operating a motive device by means of [cosmic rays]. I will tell you in the most general way, the cosmic ray ionizes the air, setting free many charges - ions and electrons. These charges are captured in a condenser which is made to discharge through the circuit of the motor.”
“I can now successfully drive a stick. That's a huge accomplishment.”
“I can occupy myself quite easily with what's going on inside me.”
“I can offer you everything you can ever have dreamed of.
Can you?, she asked sharply. A husband with a warm personality and human kindness and a sense of humor? Someone who loves people and children and frolicking and absurdity? Someone who is not obsessed with himself and his consequence? Someone who is not ice to the very core? Someone with a heart? Someone to be a companion and friend and lover? This is everything I have every dream of, your grace. Ca you offer it all to me? Or any of it? Any one thing?”
Source: Slightly Dangerous
“I can offer you my life, though it is a short life. I can offer you my heart, though I have no idea how many beats it shall sustain. But I love you enough to hope the rest of my life-whatever its length-happy, by spending it with you.”
Source: Clockwork Prince
“I can offer you my life, but it is a short life; I can offer you my heart, though I have no idea how many more beats it shall sustain”
Source: Clockwork Prince
“I can offer you only: this world like a knife”
Source: The Heart Is Strange: New Selected Poems
“I can officially state that my government and myself believe that all over Europe we need to open a debate on the 'drug question' in order to create more coherent and human policies with better perspectives. . . . The policy of criminalizing consumers has failed, creating many problems to our society.”
“I can often tell when drawings are done from photographs, because you can tell what they miss out, what the camera misses out: usually weight and volume - there's a flatness to them.”
“I can once more carry on a conversation with myself, and don't stare so into complete emptiness. Only in this way is there any possibility of improvement for me.”
Source: The Trial
“I can one day do dance, and the next maybe do a movie, and then maybe I can choreograph, or work with different photographers for fashion shoots, or different art forms. You're never stuck. You're going at a different level. You're sucking in things, rather than closing. You're trying things out.”
“I can only admire people who I have never met and are dead - because you know so much about anyone who is alive.”
“I can only answer for Chuck Grassley; I can't answer for anybody else.”
“I can only answer that I tried to tell the truth and, if not be objective, at least be fair; history is not served when reporters prize trepidation and propriety over the robust journalistic duty to tell the whole story.”
“I can only answer the question ‘What am I to do?’ if I can answer the prior question ‘Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?’”
Source: After Virtue
“I can only approach it as a woman. Masculinity has been depicted in very black-and-white terms. There never seems to be a wide range of emotional definitions of men.”
“I can only ask of those who care about me and the issues in my case to support me and spread the word about what is going on.”
“I can only assume that there’s only one thing more frustrating than not being able to find someone, and that’s not being found. I would want someone to find me, more than anything.”
Source: There's No Place Like Here