I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I can predict with some sense of certainty how life will feel in a month. I can with the same logic remember with the same element of reality or truth what life was like a month ago. All perspectives on the past are entirely relative.”
“I can press when there needs to be pressed; I can hold hands when there needs to be - hold hands.”
“I can pretend it’s all pretend! I can be the life of your death and you can be the death of my life… what a trade-off!”
Source: Bittersweet Symphony
“I can pretend to be my own god, but I have an awfully hard time pretending that failing to be a god didn’t happen.”
“I can pretty much call anyone, whether at the White House, in a company or in the media. I have access, because of the silliness of the entertainment world and how people react to it. It gave me an enormous opportunity to do anything I really want to.”
“I can pretty much get in touch with my evil side pretty easily.”
“I can pretty much guarantee that if I do a show in a comedy club, there will be someone who will come out of the audience and tell me the worst joke ever. It's just a guarantee.”
“I can pretty much guarantee that you will at some point find yourself doing something that at one point you swore you'd never do. You'll do it for the sake of getting high, either directly or indirectly. Trust me. It will happen. You might think you know yourself better than anyone, but you have yet to become acquainted with your addiction. It will introduce itself in ways that you never thought were possible.”
“I can pretty much live without fast food. I haven't eaten McDonald's in so long, but it's okay.”
“I can pretty much say all of us know when 'Downton' is going to end. This is a show with a finite life.”
“I can pretty much spend an entire week talking about how the writing process works, to be honest! It can really vary from project to project and is often dependent on when you're brought on board, the genre, the platform and the narrative desires of the project.”
“I can pretty much take care of myself; I don't walk around with much fear.”
“I can promise that even having an imperfect one who loves you is better than having none at all.”
Source: 'Twas the Night After Christmas
“I can promise to be sincere, but I cannot promise to be impartial.”
Source: Gleams From..: Being Passages Selected and Translated from the Prose Writings of Goethe and from His Converstaions with Eckermann
“I can promise to be upright, but not to be without bias.
[Ger., Aufrichtig zu sein kann ich versprechen; unparteiisch zu sein aber nicht.]”
“I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart.”
Source: The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry: A Novel
“I can promise you none of these things. No sphere of usefulness: you are not needed there at all. No scope for your talents: only forgiveness for having perverted them. No atmosphere of inquiry, for I will bring you to the land not of questions but of answers, and you shall see the face of God.”
Source: THE GREAT DIVORCE A Dream By C. S. Lewis
“I can promise you none of these things. No sphere of usefulness; you are not needed there at all. No scope of your talents; only forgiveness for having perverted them. No atmosphere of inquiry, for I will bring you to the land not of questions but of answers, and you shall see the face of God. (pg 40)”
“I can promise you that the Spirit is a lot more anxious to help you than you are to be helped.”
“I can promise you that the world is a factory. The sun stirs it, the humans rule it. And I remain. I carry them away.- spoken by death”
Source: Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the Messenger
“I can promise you that when I go to Sacramento I will pump up Sacramento.”
“I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.”
“I can promise you this: If you really, sincerely, genuinely want God back, He hasn't moved. He's still there, just like always, ready to bear-hug you again, just like in the old days.”
Source: Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working
“I can promise you. If you work 12 hours, I will work for 13. If you work 14 hours, I will work for 15 hours. Why? Because I am not a ‘pradhan mantri’, but a ‘pradhan sevak’.”
“I can promote until I am blue in the face, but ultimately nobody knows what makes a hit.”
“I can prophecy that your grandchildren in America will live under socialism -- Our firm conviction is that sooner or later Capitalism will give way to Socialism. Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you.”
“I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.”
“I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became. It is for the harm, therefore, that my educators could have done me in accordance with their intentions that I reproach them; I demand from their hands the person I now am, and since they cannot give him to me, I make of my reproach and laughter a drumbeat sounding in the world beyond.”
Source: The diaries of Franz Kafka
“I can prove that the summit of Mauna Kea is unsafe for workers. I have yet to see the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) prove that the very high altitude mountain is safe for workers.”
“I can pull a bone out of my shoulder and dislocate it”
“I can punish you only by hurting myself.”
“I can push myself and you can push yourself, but competing, we push ourselves a little farther and we bring out our best even if one of us wins and one of us loses. The virtue of competition is that we both get better, not that one does. And that means we have great respect for the opponents, whether we win or whether we lose.”
“I can push through a lot of things, whether that's failure or success. I don't know how to explain it. I've learned how to overcome things that get thrown at you. In baseball, nothing's for certain, just like life. You have to roll with the punches. If you get knocked down, you need to stand up.”
“I can put a hip-hop beat to reggae. That is, I can have real reggae in the drums and in the rhythm, and on top of it I can put The Rolling Stones' feeling, anyone's feeling on top. Nobody has ever done this before, man.”
“I can put it no plainer than by saying that Bilbo was meant to find the Ring, and not by its maker. In which case you also were meant to have it. And that may be an encouraging thought.”
Source: The Lord of the Rings: One Volume
“I can put my legs behind my head and sing 'Happy Birthday.' Because that's something that me and my friends used to do when we were in gymnastics class as kids, and I can still do it. I was doing it since I was 8 and 9. They used to call me Gumby. Very bendy.”
“I can put my whole fist in my mouth! Wanna see?”
“I can put some chords together and maybe write a song, but I'm learning every day. And that's the fun part.”
“I can put two and two together, you know. Do not think you are dealing with a man who has lost his grapes.”
“I can put up a blog in 10 seconds.”
“I can quit boxing now and practically go into any kind of business and I'll be successful just as well as I was in boxing.”
“I can quite understand a man accepting laws that protect private property, and admit of its accumulation, as long as he himself is able under those conditions to realise some form of beautiful and intellectual life. But it is almost incredible to me how a man whose life is marred and made hideous by such laws can possibly acquiesce in their continuance.”
Source: The Soul of Man under Socialism
“I can quote a million people but in the end it only comes down to one thing
"Faith”
Source: The Bones of Our Existence, A Journal 2046
“I can quote you lots of chapters in verse from the bible that are terrible for women. But you can use the bible to either liberate or subjugate women. And it's the same with the Koran.”
“I can rap in a London accent, make weird faces, wear spandex, wigs, and black lipstick. I can be more creative than the average male rapper.”
“I can rap; that's what I was originally really good at.”
“I can rather effectively protect myself from failure by crafting genuinely convincing rationales that justify my unwillingness to try. But I might consider the fact that an action such as this is the real failure. And there’s no protection in that.”
“I can reach a kid who doesn't have any ability as long as he doesn't know it.”
“I can reach people the average person can't reach because I'm as grounded as I am.”
“I can reach the mass audience if I come from different perspectives on every song.”