I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“In bed, I can go for hours. Oh yes, I love naps.”
Source: Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.
“In bed, I steal moments of tenderness when sex has finally exhausted me to the point where I’m too bone weary to fret anymore about the enormous capacity for evil that’s taken up squatter’s rights inside me. I touch him, put all those things I don’t say into my hands as I trace the red and black tattoos on his skin, the sharp planes and hollows of his face, bury my hands in his dark hair. He watches me in silence when I do, eyes dark, unfathomable.
I sometimes wake up to find he’s pulled me close to him and is holding me, spooned into my back with his face in my hair, and those hands that don’t speak like mine don’t speak move over my skin and tell me I’m cherished, honored, seen.”
Source: Burned
“In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.”
Source: To clothe the naked: and two other plays
“In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past—sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.”
Source: Adam Bede
“In bed," she said, as they lay in bed, "most men will believe anything you tell them.”
Source: The Mind Is Its Own Place
“In bed that night I invented a special drain that would be underneath every pillow in New York, and would connect to the reservoir. Whenever people cried themselves to sleep, the tears would all go to the same place, and in the morning the weatherman could report if the water level of the Reservoir of Tears had gone up or down, and you could know if New York is in heavy boots.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel
“In bed that night with the lights out and the cool room swimming with moonlight, Anthony lay awake and played with every minute of the day like a child playing in turn with each one of a pile of long-wanted Christmas toys.”
Source: The Beautiful and the Damned
“In bed watching Family Guy. Love this show.! So hilarious! Stewie is my favorite :) love his accent.”
“In bed we laugh, in bed we cry, and born in bed, in bed we die; the near approach a bed may show of human bliss to human woe.”
Source: The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series Edited with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical
“In beef trade issues, we base our decisions upon science.”
“In beginning the world, if you don't wish to get chafed at every turn, fold up your pride carefully, put it under lock and key, and only let it out to air upon grand occasions. Pride is a garment all stiff brocade outside, all grating sackcloth on the side next to the skin.”
“In behaving respectfully toward all that the land contains, it is possible to imagine a stifling ignorance falling away from us.”
Source: Arctic Dreams
“In being able to learn from his mistakes and grow, Eisenhower "was transformed from a mere person into a personage.”
Source: Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour
“In being everything for everyone, when am I anything for myself?”
Source: Miss Behave
“In being meaning, you naturally find meaning in everything.”
“In being realistic we do not always have to be pessimistic. Christ never blinked his eyes at bad things. But he never became so obsessed with human evil that he lost faith in man.”
“In being vulnerable, we reach for our greatest need while risking our greatest pain.”
“In being wildly natural we recover best from being unnatural, from being spiritual.”
“In being with dying, we arrive at a natural crucible of what it means to love and be loved. And we can ask ourselves this: Knowing that death is inevitable, what is most precious today?”
“In Belgium, secularism manifested itself in anticlericalism allied to the Freemasons. This led to the establishment of a secular university in Lubumbashi to counter the launch of the Catholic University, Lovanium, in Kinshasa. The first university courses were taught during the Second World War; this event is cut from the history of the country because it was the initiative of Catholic missionaries. For the same reasons, Jef Van Bilsen and the Manifesto of African Conscience of 30 June 1956 are cited as precursors of independence, without any mention of the Catholic bishops who had previously taken some distance from the Colony by calling for the political emancipation of Blacks and by condemning racism in all its forms. Such political rebellion by missionaries were common in Africa and it is still perpetuated within episcopal conferences.”
Source: The Greatest Fake News of All Time: Leopold II, The Genius and Builder King of Lumumba
“In Belgium, the magistrate has the dignity of a prince, but by Bacchus, it is true that the brewer is king.”
“In belief lies the secret of all valuable exertion.”
“In believing too much in rationality, our contemporaries have lost something.”
“In Belinda's dark Craftsman, we drank Riley's cocktails, then ate Belinda's impeccable entrées: roast vegetable lasagna, chicken piccata, shrimp and grits, roast pork with prunes.
"This pork is amazing," said Jennie, present for the first time in weeks. "But I move that from now on, we don't have red meat or pork---not because I'm vegetarian but because those farming practices are so bad for the environment."
In fact, I didn't cook pork or red meat at home (except for brisket at Passover) for precisely Jennie's reason. As a restaurant critic, I ate---or at least tasted---everything. And as a guest, I'd taken the no-asshole pledge and ate whatever my hosts put on the table, though I drew the line at eel. (Some things are too ugly to eat.)
Murmured protests came from the meat-and-potato contingent (Charlotte, Belinda, Sam, and Adrian), but even they agreed that we could stick with chicken and fish.
"And only fish on the safe lists---low-mercury, sustainably farmed," said Jennie.
Adrian said, "Best quit while you're ahead, Jen.”
Source: Search
“In beloved Iraq, blood is flowing between brothers, in the shadow of an illegitimate foreign occupation, and abhorrent sectarianism threatens a civil war.”
“In Ben's opinion, if you spent too long trying to look on the bright side you eventually became dazzled and couldn't see anything properly at all.”
Source: Death at the Sign of the Rook
“In Benedictine spirituality, work is what we do to continue what God wanted done....God goes on creating through us. Consequently a life spent serving God must be a life spent giving to others what we have been given.”
“in Bengal it was so easy to know who was who; more often than not, just to hear someone's name would reveal their religion, their caste, their village. Foreigners were, by comparison, so opaque: it was impossible to speculate about them.”
Source: Sea of Poppies
“In Bengal, Hindus are known to crack jokes at the expense of their gods and goddesses and that's what I did.”
“In Bergman's world I represented a sort of intellectual, skeptical, ironic person, rather cold and frustrated. When I went abroad and made films in Italy and other places, I was used in different ways. I was rather often cast as crazy people, maniacs. It was very good for me and it was fun because it is nice to play crazy people if you are not in reality. And I think perhaps that changed how Ingmar saw me. Suddenly I was on the more magical side of his world, playing the people with fantasies, variety, the artists.”
“In Berkeley, California is no sense of the "white way being the right way." Parents also come in every variety - mixed race marriages, gay partners, divorced moms. We all love our children and want to do right by them, and that's what matters most.”
“In Berlin I especially enjoyed the orchestral concerts, and I attended a large number of them. I formed the acquaintance of a good many musicians, several of whom spoke of my playing in high terms.”
Source: The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays
“In Berlin Jews controlled almost one hundred percent of the theaters and cinemas before the rise to power.”
“In Berlin, things are serious but not hopeless. In Vienna, they are hopeless but not serious.”
“In best understandings, sin began, Angels sinned first, then Devils, and then Man.”
Source: The Works of John Donne: Sermons. Letters. Poems
“In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual.”
Source: Religion of the Semites (Ppr)
“In better understanding our own character, it can make us less reactionary - as we can then perceive why we interact, rather than overreact.”
“In betting on races, there are two elements that are never lacking - hope as hope, and an incomplete recollection of the past.”
“In between 15 and 20 - probably at around 17 - my interests switched from hard rock to punk rock. And then by 20 they were circling out of punk rock back into Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, the stuff that I didnt get to when I was younger.”
“In between bites of banana, Mr. Remora would tell stories, and the children would write the stories down in notebooks, and every so often there would be a test. The stories were very short, and there were a whole lot of them on every conceivable subject. "One day I went to the store to purchase a carton of milk," Mr. Remora would say, chewing on a banana. "When I got home, I poured the milk into a glass and drank it. Then I watched television. The end." Or: "One afternoon a man named Edward got into a green truck and drove to a farm. The farm had geese and cows. The end." Mr. Ramora would tell story after story, and eat banana after banana, and it would get more and more difficult for Violet to pay attention.”
Source: The Austere Academy
“In between effect and cause and just beyond the range of normal sight, this glittering joker was dancing in the dragon's jaws.”
“In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.”
“In between one heartbeat and the next, I know my time in Boomertown is at an end.
And not even for my sake or Bailey’s, but for Ace’s. I came, I saw, and unlike Caesar, I did not conquer. But then, I never could have done that, anyway.
I think that’s the real secret to the Boomer generation.
They gave us a rigged game from the start. Gen X, Millennials and Zoomers played against the house. We were told we could win if we just worked hard enough, but most of us have lost out in some way or another.”
“In-between our memories and our dreams is the moment we are meant to live.”
“In between shooting for Awake, I was attempting to have my own pilot season. The audition for Anger Management actually came during a week that I was already testing for a couple other shows and we werent really letting any other shows into the mix.”
“In between that time, I've done book narrating, you know, books on tape for Dove Audio.”
“In between the Queen and the First Lady, Nancy Reagan, sat Tony Richardson, looking very calm. Later on it emerged that this was because, having not been apprised of the placement until he was about to sit down, he had died of fright. To have expired was to be fortunate.”
Source: Snakecharmers In Texas
“In between training sessions, I'll often watch DVDs of King Kong, Godzilla or Frankenstein, just to keep my mind on the task in hand and remind myself of the magnitude of the challenge.”
“In between waking up from bed in the morning and going back in the evening, let something happen. God will bless that “something” for you.”
Source: Become a Better You
“In between war and passivity, there are a thousand possibilities.”
Source: The Historic Unfulfilled Promise