I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.”
Source: Leaves of Grass
“I cannot be broken, and I am stronger than anything that can happen to me.”
Source: A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being
“i cannot be called upon to know a negative or to prove a negative. if there is a god and you prove it, that's fine. but you don't tell me you can't know that there isn't. i would say yes i know there isn't because i have been given no evidence.”
“I cannot be contained because I am the container.”
“I cannot be content with less than heaven.”
Source: Festus: a poem
“I cannot be content with less than heaven; Living, and comprehensive of all life. Thee, universal heaven, celestial all; Thee, sacrjd seat of intellective time; Field of the soul 's best wisdom : home of truth , Star-throned.”
“I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning.”
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
“I cannot be counted a great success in the marketplace of science fiction.
Source: M. Perkins, ST. JAMES GUIDE TO SF WRITERS”
“I cannot be defeated unless I decide that today is the day I stop trying.”
“I cannot be defined by what other people think.”
“I cannot be even myself, you have made your undying claim, and each part of my heart and soul is bewitched by your marks.”
“I cannot be exacting because I respect myself.”
“I cannot be grasped in the here and now,
For my dwelling place is much among the dead,
As the yet unborn,
Slightly closer to the heart of creation than usual,
But still not close enough.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of Paul Klee (Illustrated)
“I cannot be indifferent to the assassination of a member of my profession, We should be obliged to shut up business if we, the Kings, were to consider the assassination of Kings as of no consequence at all.”
“I cannot be known Better than you know me Your eyes in which we sleep We together Have made for my man’s gleam A better fate than for the common nights Your eyes in which I travel Have given to signs along the roads A meaning alien to the earth In your eyes who reveal to us Our endless solitude Are no longer what they thought themselves to be You cannot be known Better than I know you.”
“I cannot be made into the commentator for the unspoken black masses.”
“I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling”
“I cannot be other than what I am, and I am the choices of all my days.”
Source: The Fallen Sequence: An Omnibus Edition
“I cannot be separated from Rudy Giuliani, but I am also not Rudy Giuliani.”
“I cannot be silent when facing these evils against women and children.”
“I cannot be so arrogant as to categorize your mistakes as so massive that, by comparison, mine are simply trifling errors. For to do that is to make a far bigger mistake than whatever mistake it was that you made.”
“I cannot be so bad when everybody is so fond of me.”
“I cannot be subservient anywhere.”
“I cannot be understood in three minutes.”
“I cannot be what I am not.”
“I cannot be with someone who takes pleasure in inflicting pain on me, someone who can't love me”
“I cannot bear Netanyahu, he’s a liar.”
“I cannot bear not to know the end of a tale. I will read the most trivial things – once commenced – only out of a feverish greed to be able to swallow the ending – sweet or sour – and to be done with what I need never have embarked on. Are you in my case? Or are you a more discriminating reader? Do you lay aside the unprofitable?”
Source: Possession: A Romance
“I cannot bear successful people who are miserable.”
“I cannot bear that you / Should think me faithful, when I am untrue.”
“I cannot bear the language TV chefs use - they don't seem able to look at a plate of vegetables without accusing it of sexual activity.”
“I cannot bear to associate with the ordinary run of people. I have to surround myself with individuals who for the most part are more than a trifle insane”
Source: Infants of the Spring
“I cannot bear to look at a film that I made before 1990. Maybe 1985. There's no sense even trying to explain it. I really just can't watch myself. I see all the machinery at work and it just drives me nuts, so I don't look at anything.”
“I cannot bear to think that our young men are merely living four years in a country club and spending their lives wholly in a spirit of calculation and snobbishness.”
“I cannot become modest; too many things burn in me; the old solutions are falling apart; nothing has been done yet with the new ones. So I begin, everywhere at once, as if I had a century ahead of me.”
“I cannot begin to express how eager I am to see what you have in store for our country.”
Source: The Crown
“I cannot begin to tell you how many times I have come to prayer broken far beyond any conceivable hope of repair. I have likewise come without anywhere to turn simply because, much like myself, everything around me lies broken beyond repair. And I cannot tell you how many times God has taken that which is broken and has used it to do what could never have done should any of that had been whole.”
“I cannot believe homosexuality is that much fun. Heterosexuality certainly is not.”
Source: White Teeth
“I cannot believe how fine I am with being bald.”
“I cannot believe how much I love my kid. It's a beautiful thing.”
“I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”
“I cannot believe in an eternity of hell. I hope God will forgive me if I err; but in this matter I cannot say, "Lord help my unbelief."”
“I cannot believe in God when there is no scientific evidence for the existence of a supreme being and creator.”
“I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul. No, all this talk of an existence for us, as individuals, beyond the grave is wrong. It is born of our tenacity of life - our desire to go on living - our dread of coming to an end.”
“I cannot believe such monstrous energy of grief can lead to nothing!”
Source: Grendel
“I cannot believe that [Donald Trump] is actually in the debates.”
“I cannot believe that a republic could subsist if the influence of the lawyers in public business did not increase in proportion to the power of the people.”
“I cannot believe that any man who deserved fame ever labored for it; that is, directly. For, as fame is but the contingent of excellence, it would be like an attempt to project a shadow, before its substance was obtained.”
Source: .) (1850).
“I cannot believe that any religion has been revealed to Man by God. Because a revealed religion would be perfect but no known religion is perfect; and because history and science show us that known religions have not been revealed but have been evolved from other traditions.”
Source: God and My Neighbour
“I cannot believe that even mortal peril will not prevent you from being the way you are.”
Source: Red, White & Royal Blue