I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I cannot pretend that I regard this with favor, but the purpose of life is not to do what we want but what needs to be done. This is what fate demands of us.
- Oromis”
Source: Brisingr
“I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.”
Source: Winston Churchill: His Life as a Painter : a Memoir by His Daughter
“I cannot pretend to do sculpture and make a woman the ridiculous pedestal of my pretensions. To render clothing poetic, yes--but one must preserve its dignity as clothing.”
Source: Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume
“I cannot prevent the French from being French”
“I cannot project the degree of hatred required to make those women run around in crusades against abortion. Hatred is what they certainly project, not love for the embryos, which is a piece of nonsense no one could experience, but hatred, a virulent hatred for an unnamed object...Their hatred is directed against human beings as such, against the mind, against reason, against ambition, against success, against love, against any value that brings happiness to human life. In compliance with the dishonesty that dominates today's intellectual field, they call themselves "pro-life".”
Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z
“I cannot prove that gods do not exist. Nor can I prove that the world and everything in it was not created by an entity or entities in the distant past. But I can tell you that in the millennia we elves have studied nature, we have never witnessed an instance where the rules that govern the world have been broken. That is, we have never seen a miracle. Many events have defied our ability to explain, but we are convinced that we failed because we are still woefully ignorant about the universe and not because a deity altered the workings of nature.”
“I cannot prove to you that God exists, but my work has proved empirically that the pattern of God exists in every man and that this pattern in the individual has at its disposal the greatest transforming energies of which life is capable. Find this pattern in your own individual self and life is transformed.”
“I cannot pursue my architecture without considering the minimization of energy consumption, simple and direct technologies, a respect for site, climate, place and culture. Together, these disciplines represent for me a fantastic platform for experimentation and expression. Of particular importance is the junction of the rational and the poetic resulting hopefully in works that resonate and belong to where they reside.”
“I cannot put this poison on my skin. I do not use anything synthetic.”
“I cannot raise a child to lie or to hide things. I wasn't raised that way, and I'm not going to raise a child to do that.”
“I cannot raise my worth too high; Of what vast consequence am I! "Not of the importance you suppose," Replies a Flea upon his nose; "Be humble, learn thyself to scan; Know, pride was never made for man.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Gay: In Three Volumes. Collated with the Best Editions:
“I cannot read a fortune cookie without breaking down and crying. I am sensitive.”
“I cannot read God's mind, however I can read God's Word.”
“I cannot really be responsible for other people's thought processes.”
“I cannot recall a more engaging passage in fiction, and I've been trying for almost eighteen seconds.”
“I cannot recall a period when I did not draw; and at school, the studies that were distasteful to me, mathematics and grammar , were retarded by the indulgence of teachers who were proud of my drawing faculties, and passed over my neglect of uncongenial subjects.”
Source: Let There Be Sculpture
“I cannot recall having believed, even as a child, that the purpose of reading fiction was to learn about the place commonly called the real world. I seem to have sensed from the first that to read fiction was to make available for myself a new kind of space. In that space, a version of myself was free to move among places and personages the distinguishing features of which were the feelings they caused to arise in me rather than their seeming appearance, much less their possible resemblance to places or persons in the world where I sat reading.”
“I cannot recall, in any of my reading, a single instance of a prophet who applied for the job.”
“I cannot receive all that God has for me, until I become all that He created me to be.”
“I cannot recognise either the Palestinian state or the Israeli state. The Palestinians are idiots and the Israelis are idiots.”
“I cannot reenact my trauma and think it will make me hurt less. I can’t bleed on people who didn’t cut me.”
Source: Jarring Sex
“I cannot refrain from saying that women must come to recognize there is some function of womanhood other than being a child-bearing machine.”
Source: What Every Girl Should Know
“I cannot refuse or accept anything blindly without any scientific proof.”
“I cannot regret it. They tell us in the temple that true joy is found only in freedom from the Wheel that is death and rebirth, that we must come to despise earthly joy and suffering, and long only for the peace of the presence of the eternal. Yet I love this life on Earth, Morgan, and I love you with a love that is stronger than death, and if sin is the price of binding us together, life after life across the ages, then I will sin joyfully and without regret, so that it brings me back to you, my beloved!”
Source: The Mists of Avalon
“I cannot rejoice enough in your suffering because of your stupidity and cowardice”
“I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other - and we still are.”
Source: Losing my virginity: how I've survived, had fun, and made a fortune doing business my way
“I cannot remember a night so dark as to have hindered the coming day.”
Source: The Public Life of Capt. John Brown, with an Auto-biography of His Childhood and Youth
“I cannot remember a time when I did not want to go to Africa to study animals.”
“I cannot remember a time when I was not enraptured or tortured by words. Always there have been words which, sometimes for their sound alone, sometimes for their sound and sense, I would not use. From a loathing of their grossness or sickliness, their weight or want of weight. Their inexactitude, their feeling of acidity or insipidity. Their action, not only on the intelligence but on the nerves, was instant.”
Source: The Crystal Cabinet: My Childhood at Salterns
“I cannot remember a time when I was not getting into fights.”
“I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them--with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself.”
Source: Stories, Essays, and Memoir
“I cannot remember a time when the Golden Rule was not my motto and precept, the torch that guided my footsteps.”
“I cannot remember back to a year in which I did not consider myself to be a writer, and the younger I was the bigger that capital 'W.”
“I cannot remember even my own lies,
how can I remember lessons of history”
“I cannot remember’ is the most frequent sentence that my girlfriend hears.”
“I cannot remember much, I cannot feel much. Maybe erasure is necessary. Maybe the human spirit defends itself as the body does, attacking infection, enveloping and destroying those malignancies that would otherwise consume us.”
Source: In the Lake of the Woods
“I cannot remember my past, my nose, or the colour of my eyes, or what my general opinion of myself is. Only in moments of emergency, at a crossing, at a kerb, the wish to preserve my body springs out and seizes me and stops me , here, before this omnibus. We insist, it seems, on living. Then again, indifference descends.”
Source: The Waves
“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
“I cannot remember the time when I have not longed for death. ... for years and years I used to watch for death as no sick man ever watched for the morning.”
Source: Florence Nightingale's Theology: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale
“I cannot remember
what I was before I tried
to become what I thought
I could in light of the
dark that swallowed me.”
“I Cannot Remember You
...engulfed in liquid amnesia
I cannot fight the tide”
Source: Enigmatic Evolution
“I cannot remember you
when the rain flows down -
I cannot remember you
and
my heart begins to drown ...”
“I cannot repay my fans for what they have done for me, they have given me so much love and that love has taken me to the number 1 position where I am today, the only thing I can do for my fans is to never stop workingю”
“I cannot resign myself to the decline of Europe, and of France.”
“I cannot resist making the observation that some people use statistics as a drunk uses a lamppost - more to lean on than for illumination.”
“I cannot rest from travel: I will drink Life to the lees: all times I have enjoyed Greatly, have suffered greatly, both with those That loved me, and alone.”
“I cannot rest from travel; I will drink Life to the lees.”
“I cannot rest, I must draw, however poor the result, and when I have a bad time come over me it is a stronger desire than ever.”
Source: Delphi Complete Peter Rabbit Tales (Illustrated)
“I cannot save the world, that's not what I'm trying to do. I guess I'm just trying to walk the walk and be an example to those that want it. Not everybody does, but if Mary J Blige can come out of that same hole you were in, then you can do it too - that's my goal: to do that without saying it, but actually live it.”
“I cannot save them all...but I will save all I can and hopefully it will be enough..." -Ava FMC "Queen of Blood and Shadow”
Source: Queen of Blood and Shadow