I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.”
“I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.”
“I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.”
“I care not that this moment’s lot was thin and sparsely dealt; all pleasures sweet can be forgot the instant they are felt.”
“I care not what black spiritual crisis we may come through or what delightful spiritual Canaan we may enter, no blessing of the Christian life becomes continually possessed unless we are men and women of regular, daily, unhurried secret lingerings in prayer.”
“I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!”
Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century
“I care not what subject is taught, if only it be taught well.”
“I care not what your education is, elaborate or nothing, what your mental calibre is, great or small, that man who concentrates all his energies of body, mind and soul in one direction is a tremendous man.”
Source: The Earth Girdled: The World as Seen To-day...Embracing Scenes and Experiences Among Semi-civilized as Well as Cultured Peoples of the World
“I care not where I go, or how I live, or what I endure so that I may save souls. When I sleep I dream of them; when I awake they are first in my thoughts.”
“I care not where my body may take me as long as my soul is embarked on a meaningful journey.”
“I care not whether a man is Good or Evil; all that I care
Is whether he is a Wise man or a Fool. Go! put off Holiness,
And put on Intellect; or my thund’rous hammer shall drive thee
To wrath, which thou condemnest, till thou obey my voice.”
“I care not whether a man is good or evil; all that I care / Is whether he is a wise man or a fool. Go! put off holiness, / And put on intellect.”
“I care not whether the soldiers are of Milesian, Teutonic, African or Angelo-Saxon descent. I despise the principle that make a difference between them in the hour of battle and of death.”
“I care not who controls a nation's political affairs, so long as I control her currency”
“I care not who hoes the lettuce of my country if I can eat the salad!”
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“I care not who makes th' laws iv a nation, if I can get out an injunction.”
“I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death.”
“I care nothing for all the political parties in the world except as they stand for justice.”
“I care only to know, if possible, the lasting meaning that lies in all religious doctrine from the beginning till now.”
Source: Life and letters
“I care passionately about equal rights [and] animal rights.”
“I care so deeply about this matter that I'm willing to take on the legal penalties, to sit in this prison cell, to sacrifice my freedom, in order to show you how deeply I care. Because when you see the depth of my concern, and how civil I am in going about this, you're bound to change your mind about me, to abandon your rigid, unjust position, and to let me help you see the truth of my cause.”
“I care so much about everything that I care about nothing.”
“I care so much about fashion that I don't care. I'm like anybody else - if I have an important place to go and I want to look good, I try on a thousand outfits and they all end up on my floor and I come out wearing jeans and Adidas.”
“I care so much about making things that are useful for people to have and listen to, but I don't care so much that I won't do whatever the hell I want. It's just one of those things.”
“I care so much less, now, about going up the ladder; if I cared about the ladder I would be doing it all very wrong.”
“I care so passionately about improving the quality of life for women and girls, not just here in the United States, but internationally as well. I am a single mom and I raised a daughter who is now a young adult.”
“I care,' Tamlin snarled. Lucien whooshed out a breath. 'I care if you die, if you're hurt, if you will be in danger every moment for the rest of our lives.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.”
Source: John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings
“I care very much about all of my characters, recurring or not. I try to imagine something about that person beyond his or her physical appearance. After creating them, part of my job is to inhabit them and try to see their world from their perspective.”
“I care very much about women and their progress. I didn’t go march in the streets, but when I was in the Arizona Legislature, one of the things that I did was to examine every single statute in the state of Arizona to pick out the ones that discriminated against women and get them changed.”
“I care what 51 percent of the people think about me.”
“I care what is actually true, even more than what I hope is true.”
Source: The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies---How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths
“I care what people think, but that doesn't change what I say. I am who I am.”
“I care what people who know me think of me.”
“I care," he said in a trembling voice. "I care so much that I do not know how to tell you without it seeming inconsequential compared to how I feel. Even if I am distant at times and seem as if I do not want to be with you, it is only because this scares me, too.”
“I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.”
Source: The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window
“I care. They bother me. And that's why I'm stupid. That makes me exponentially more stupid than stupid. I'm stupid to the power of stupid.”
“I cared about Ben, but I was never in love with him. I was in love with what it said about me that I had a boyfriend like Ben, and that's just different.”
Source: Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint
“I cared about Stephano a lot, or the idea of him at least. I can't separate people from the idea of us sometimes.”
Source: My First 500 Lovers
“I cared about them. I wanted them to feel better, to live better lives. And then it occurred to me - I cared about myself. I wanted me to live a better life, too Caring about myself was allowing me to care about others.”
Source: Immortal Beloved
“I cared about us. But the cold hard truth was, nothing I said or did could realign the stars.”
Source: The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale
“I cared for you more that you cared yourself. Something which I regret for you didn't deserve to be cared!””
“I cared for you out of love, not out of duty.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“I cared her, I adored her, I loved her a lot, But in the End it didn't matter at all..!!”
“I cared more about your happiness than your knowing the truth, more for your peace of mind than my plan, more for your life than the lives that might be lost if the plan failed. In other words I acted exactly as Voldemort expects we fools who love to act.”
“I cared not where or how I lived, or what hardships I went through, so I could but gain souls to Christ”
Source: An Account of the Life of the Late Reverend Mr. David Brainerd: Minister of the Gospel, Missionary to the Indians, from the Honourable Society in Scotland, for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge, and Pastor of a Church of Christian Indians in New Jersey. Who Died at Northampton in New-England, October 9, 1747, in the 30th Year of His Age. Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary, and Other Private Writings, Written for His Own Use; and Now Published
“I carefully choose people in my life and if you are not happy with it, then its your call to be angry, broken, disappointed and lose sleep over my choice, judgement & decision... no apologies.”
“I carefully evaluated every single document I disclosed to ensure that each was legitimately in the public interest. There are all sorts of documents that would have made a big impact that I didn't turn over, because harming people isn't my goal. Transparency is.”
“I carefully lay out the provisions. One thin black sleeping bag that reflects body heat. A pack of crackers. A pack of dried beef strips. A bottle of iodine. A box of wooden matches. A small coil of wire. A pair of sunglasses. And a half-gallon plastic bottle with a cap for carrying water that's bone dry. No water. How hard would it have been for them to fill up the bottle?”
Source: The Hunger Games
“I carefully lifted out of the pose and spoke up: Uh, Fran? When I'm doing the pose (camel), I have this feeling in my chest, kind of a scary, tight feeling.-Fran was adjusting someone across the room. She had a way of looking like a thoughtful seamstress when she made adjustments: an inch let out here, a seam straightened there, and everything would be just right. She might as well have had pins tucked between her lips and a tape measure around her neck. Without missing a beat or looking up she said, Oh, that's fear. Try the pose again.-Fear. I hadn't even known it was there.”