I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I certainly wouldn't be writing books if it hadn't been for the feminist blogosphere, and I think that's a really amazing thing.”
“I certainly wouldn't compare the rewards of watching one's children grow and mature with that of money piling up at the box office. Both are pleasant, but to varying degrees. As the old saying goes, you can't take an audience home with you. You can't depend on the loyalty of fans, who, after all is said and done, are just faceless people one seldom sees. And few stars have their fans forever. But a child is forever. That bond and relationship is timeless and doesn't depend on your looks, age or popularity at the moment.”
“I certainly wouldn't go back and blame feminism, because all that feminism was really trying to do, which was huge, was to create a new set of expectations, a new set of opportunities for women, and they did.”
“I certainly wouldn't say that my life is a disaster, but there have been moments where I've felt like that”
“I certainly wouldn't say that we loved the arms race. Trillions of dollars were used to stoke it. For our economy, which was smaller in size than the American economy, it was a burden. But one cannot agree with the statement that the arms race played the key role in the collapse of the Soviet Union.”
“I certainly wouldn't stand for policies that are gonna end up destroying America, this special place, because once this special place is destroyed and is no longer special, then where is everybody gonna go?”
“I certainly wouldn't want a song that I'd already written to be used on a commercial. That seems strange.”
“I chalk up the fact that I got diabetes to my body saying, 'Dude, you have been doing wrong for way too long!'”
“I challenge a man to a duel before allowing him near me, and then I take an arrow, dip it in poison, and drive it straight through his heart...But that's on a good day...when I purr and feel delightfully amorous. No need to mention what I'd do on a bad one.”
“I challenge anybody to say that I wouldn't know how to approach foreign policy because, unlike some of the other people, I at least have a foreign policy philosophy, which is an extension of the Reagan philosophy. Peace through strength, and my philosophy is peace through strength and clarity.”
“I challenge anybody to show me an example of bias in Fox News Channel.”
“I challenge anyone to tell me that there isn’t evil in this world. From the days of Cain and Abel we know all too well there will always be evil. But that evil shouldn’t take away our freedoms. In fact, the only way to defeat evil is by taking advantage of our freedoms.”
“I challenge anyone to understand Islam, its spirit, and not to love it. It is a beautiful religion of brotherhood and devotion.”
Source: Life of Pi
“I challenge anyone, even with a radar machine, to hit that slider.”
“I challenge every business person in America who has ever complained about the failure of the welfare system to try to hire somebody off welfare. And try hard.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995
“I challenge every business to be a better steward of capital.”
“I challenge every one of you who can hear me to rise to the divinity within you. Do we really realize what it means to be a child of God, to have within us something of the divine nature?”
“I challenge Hillary Clinton; take away your Secret Service. Take it away now! Take away your Secret Service! Dismiss them! Have no security around you. Have no guns around you, Hillary. I dare you! I dare you! Obama, same thing. Drop your guns, Obama! Take your Secret Service away, Obama. Take it all away! Leave the White House unguarded, Obama. Let everybody know there's no guns on the White House grounds, Obama. You know what would happen in 30 seconds? Both of those people would no longer be on planet Earth.”
“I challenge my mind to keep it on the saner side of crazy.”
“I challenge myself everyday to be the most positive and enthusiastic person I know.”
“I challenge myself everywhere, onstage, on the golf course. Hey, isn't that the point of it all? To keep getting better? Otherwise why do it?”
“I challenge myself to take at least one fashion risk a day, otherwise I get stuck.”
“I challenge record companies to show me evidence of a single penny they've lost due to Napster.”
“I challenge that loose-assed prick, otherwise known as Moss, to a fight.”
Source: Tempting Evil
“I challenge the challenges. I like to face the problems. I don't run away from them. Whatever loss I have to face it, I face it.”
“I challenge the Republican nominees and all Republicans to not just be the anti-illegal immigration party. That's not who we are and that's not who we should be we should be the pro-legal immigration party.”
“I challenge you my friend to discover the treasure you are freely given each day”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“I challenge you to a duel!” screamed the cat, sailing over their heads on the swinging chandelier.”
Source: The master and Margarita [by] Mikhail Bulgakov
“I challenge you to be dreamers; I challenge you to be doers and let us make the greatest place in the world even better.”
“I challenge you to be the best you can be! I challenge you to behave in ways you've never behaved.”
“I challenge you to find a more innocuous sentence containing the words sperm, suction, swallow, and any homophone of seaman. And then call me up on the homophone and read it to me.”
Source: Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
“I challenge you to go to any industrial farm. You'll see anti-microbial shoe dips, shower in shower out, plastic suits. Whenever we get scientists visiting our farm, they invariably remark about how seemingly nonchalant we are about bio-security. The industry is paranoid about bio-security because their animals and plants are fragile. If our farm plants and animals had as dysfunctional an immune system as that found in industrial facilities, I'd be paranoid, too.”
Source: The Marvelous Pigness of Pigs: Respecting and Caring for All God's Creation
“I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.”
“I challenge you to make your life the masterpiece you want to paint, the novel you want to read, the day you want to wake to.”
“I challenge you to say yes to whatever you are currently saying no to. Don’t let fear make you say no when God is leading you to say yes.”
Source: Live Fearless: A Call to Power, Passion, and Purpose
“I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.”
Source: Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ
“I challenge you, me. Die or live and be great.”
“I challenge you, to go to any school and open 50 lunchboxes, and I guarantee you there will be one or two cans of Red Bull, there'll be cold McDonald's and jam sandwiches with several cakes.”
“I challenge you. Be obsessed with improvement!”
“I challenge youth to cooperate with parents who are concerned about your reading and your viewing. Be concerned yourself about what you take into your mind. Young people, you would never eat a meal of spoiled or contaminated food if you could help it, would you? Select your reading and viewing carefully and in good taste.”
“I challenged Coleman and he accepted, he said he'd fight me. I pointed at Baroni and challenged him too, he looked at me with a bewildered look on his face and asked: "Me?", I said "Thats right, You!!" I also challenged Quinton Jackson and he looked at me and said "Me too?", and I responded. If you want some, there is some for you too!”
“I challenged God. I said, 'God, I know that I'm a sinner. I know that I won't probably have peace until You're in my heart. But I will not let You in my heart until You answer me, why? Why did you take my arms and legs? Why didn't You give me what everybody else has? God, until You answer me that question, I will not serve You.'”
“I challenged myself to write/direct a romantic comedy. People trash talk the rom com, but it's one of the oldest cinematic genres, with stellar origins like Twentieth Century and Trouble in Paradise. I think as audiences lost their innocence, the genre lost its suspense. To create suspense, you need obstacles, so I gave my couple an obstacle that very few people ever overcome: their own behavior and their past.”
“I challenged things that needed to be challenged at Purdue.”
“I change as the times change. I'm a reflection of what's around me without trying at all.”
“i change by not changing at all”
“I change clothes at least three times a day. It's the only way I can justify all the shopping I do. Prada to the grocery store? Yes! Gucci to the dry cleaner's? Why not? Dolce & Gabbana to the corner deli? I insist!”
“I change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else.”
Source: Dylan on Dylan: The Essential Interviews
“I change guitars as they come and go. I have one I played for almost a decade, but I've put it away. It was the first McCarty. Now, I'm playing one I grabbed off the line. I've been playing it ever since.”
“I change jobs like drinking water ... And as I grow accustomed to the new flavor of a drink I regard as delicious, yes, vital, something fades, life balks. So I break camp; I shed skins.”
Source: Fifth Sunday: stories