I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I cannot have chaos erupting around me until I am prepared for it. I am a collector. I am an observer. I don't participate. My resources, and my standing, must be secure before I can allow the uncertainty of war to crash down upon us.”
Source: Skulduggery Pleasant -
“I cannot have God in my heart if he is not in my head. Before I can believe in, I must believe that.”
Source: Faith Alone: The Evangelical Doctrine of Justification
“I cannot have survival as my only goal. That would be too boring. My goal is to come back in my best running form. It is good for me to have that goal; it will help me.”
“I cannot heave my heart into my mouth. I love your majesty according to my bond; no more no less.”
Source: King Lear
“I cannot help but come to believe, there should be a disclaimer for the soul upon entering this life stating: This will destroy you but it is not the end. Every immortal thing must die once to learn that it is immortal. One life ends but another begins.”
“I cannot help but notice that there is no problem between us that cannot be solved by your departure.”
“I cannot help but remind myself that all that time, you knew the truth. You allowed yourself to slowly make terms with your decision, while I was kept in the dark - sensing the instability of your delicate ship, but desperately tugging at the sails anyhow. You quietly become acquainted with your little white lie, while I was building my entire life around it.
So when it was time for you to jump ship, you were safe. Held securely by the life raft you spent those months building, that I wasn't even able to see.
While I was left stranded on a ship that was sinking. My life drowning in water, eyes frantically searching for your hands to say goodbye.”
Source: where i am
“I cannot help but think a curious event is this life of mine”
“I cannot help but think it perilous to suffer these lands or the sources of their irrigation to fall into the hands of monopolies, which by such means may exercise lordship over the areas dependent on their treatment for productiveness.”
“I cannot help but think that great results would have been obtained had my views been thought better of; yet I am much inclined to accept the present condition as for the best.”
“I cannot help but wonder how many of us walk through our lives, day after day, feeling slightly broken and alone, surrounded all the time by others who feel exactly the same way.”
Source: The Slow Regard of Silent Things
“I cannot help but wonder if any parents ever actually schedule in adolescent drama on their day planners. Looks like a slow week, Sarah. I guess I can pencil in your eating disorder.”
Source: My Life Next Door
“I cannot help but wonder whether, by continuing and expanding the school lunch program, we aren't witnessing, if not encouraging, the slow demise of yet another American tradition: the brown bag. Perhaps we are beholding yet another break in the chain that links child to home.”
“I cannot help concurring with the opinion that an absolute democracy, no more than absolute monarchy, is to be reckoned among the legitimate forms of government.”
Source: Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches
“I cannot help esteem The 'Bird within the Hand' Superior to the one The 'Bush' may yield me Or may not Too late to choose again”
Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson
“I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.”
“I cannot help feeling there is something essentially wrong about love. Friends may quarrel or drift apart, close relations too, but there is not this pang, this pathos, this fatality which clings to love. Friendship never has that doomed look. Why, what is the matter? I have not stopped loving you, but because I cannot go on kissing your dim dear face, we must part, we must part.”
Source: The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
“I cannot help it - in spite of myself, infinity torments me.”
“I cannot help it; reason has nothing to do with it; I love her against reason-but who would as soon love me for my own sake, as she would love the beggar at the corner.”
Source: Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].
“I cannot help leaving my books behind me whenever God calls me hence; but in every other respect, my own hands will be my executors.”
Source: The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.
“I cannot help observing that beneath his defiance is fear. I know what it is to say the clever thing because you don't want anyone to know how scared you are. It doesn't make me like him any better, but for the first time he seems real. Not good, but real.”
Source: The Cruel Prince
“I cannot help others without helping myself. So then the question arises: who is really helping who? This leads to a space of appreciation, innocence, and humility.”
“I cannot help reflecting that if my father had been American and my mother British instead of the other way around, I might have gotten here on my own.”
Source: Irrepressible Churchill: a treasury of Winston Churchill's wit
“I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit.”
Source: Jane Austen's Letters
“I cannot help thinking that the best way of knowing God is to love many things. Love this friend, this person, this thing, whatever you like, and you will be on the right road to understanding Him better.”
Source: Vincent van Gogh
“I cannot help thinking that the death of the young is not in the plan of our being, and that we are ourselves greatly responsible for it. Indeed I believe we are at the beginning only of the art of living.”
“I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)
“I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.”
Source: A Room With a View (Diversion Classics)
“I cannot help wondering sometimes what I might have become and might have done if I had lived in a country which had not circumscribed and handicapped me on account of my race, that had allowed me to reach any height I was able to attain.”
“I cannot here avoid giving my most decided sufferage in favour of the moral qualities of maniacs. I have no where met, excepting in romances, with fonder husbands, more affectionate parents, more impassioned . . . than in the lunatic asylum, during their intervals of calmness and reason.”
“I cannot here withhold the statement that optimism, where it is not merely the thoughtless talk of those who harbor nothing but words under their shallow foreheads, seems to me to be not merely an absurd, but also a really wicked, way of thinking, a bitter mockery of the most unspeakable sufferings of mankind.”
“I cannot hide my anger to spare you guilt, nor hurt feelings, nor answering anger; for to do so insults and trivializes all our efforts. Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action. If it leads to change then it can be useful, since it is then no longer guilt but the beginning of knowledge.”
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
“I cannot hold a grudge against Mariah Carey. What people don't understand is that I've looked up to her for so many years.”
“I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.”
“I cannot hope that what I have to say will be very interesting to many.”
“I cannot hope to make you understand how the world is truly made,' he told her. 'Metaphor, then: the world is a weave, like threads woven into cloth.' His hand came out of his sleeve with a strip of his red ribbon.
'If you say so.'
'Everything, stone, trees, beasts, the sky, the waters, all are a weave of fabric,' he said patiently. 'But when you think, it is different. Your thinking snarls the fabric, knots it. If you were a magician, you could use the knot of your mind to pull on other threads. That is magic, and now you see how every simple it is. I wonder everyone does not become an enchanter.”
Source: Salute the Dark
“I cannot, however, but think that the world would be better and brighter if our teachers would dwell on the Duty of Happiness as well as the Happiness of Duty; for we ought to be as cheerful as we can, if only because to be happy ourselves is a most effectual contribution to the happiness of others.”
Source: The Pleasures of Life
“I cannot however help repeating Piety, because I think it indispensible. Religion in a Family is at once its brightest Ornament & its best Security.”
Source: The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1778-1802
“I cannot, I cannot,' cried Marianne; 'leave me, leave me, if I distress you; leave me, hate me, forget me! But do not torture me so. Oh! how easy for those who have no sorrow of their own to talk of extertion!”
Source: Sense and Sensibility
“I cannot illustrate huge differences between male and female spiritualities except in their starting points, style and fascinations along the way. This is significant, however, and has huge pastoral implications: men must be challenged in the world of doing; women must be challenged in the world of relating.”
“I cannot imagine a cat in an Obedience ring, running around in the hot sun and doing things on command. For it would not make sense. Whereas a dog is tolerant of your not making sense and only wants to fix things so you are happy.”
“I cannot imagine a Christian who does not know how to smile. May we joyfully witness to our faith.”
Source: The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation
“I cannot imagine a context that would some day, in some manner, make the monstrous crime of September 11 an understandable or comprehensible political act”
“I cannot imagine a genuinely happy home without music in it.”
“I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.”
Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein
“I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.”
Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein
“I cannot imagine a more perfect hell than being trapped inside my own mind.”
Source: The Body Electric
“I cannot imagine a more satisfying calling than my own: beauty, humanity, and history every day, combined with the cathartic joy of singing.”
Source: The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer
“I cannot imagine a place where there would not be room enough for someone as eager to learn as you.”
Source: The Dragons of Nova
“I cannot imagine a scenario where Donald Trump does better than Mitt Romney with the Hispanic vote.”