I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I consider non-violence to be compassion in action. It doesn’t mean weakness, cowering in fear, or simply doing nothing. It is to act without violence, motivated by compassion, recognising the rights of others.”
“I consider not what Parmenio should receive, but what Alexander should give.”
“I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments.”
Source: A Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia: From Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria
“I consider others as just brothers and sisters. Nothing barrier.”
“I consider Otto Rank to be one of the great spiritual giants of the twentieth century, a genius as a psychologist and a saint as a human being. Though vilified by his original community of Freudians, he never became bitter. He died a feminist and deeply committed to social justice, in 1939....His deep understanding of creativity makes him a mentor for all of us living in a postmodern world....I believe that Art and Artist, especially chapters 12 to 14, may well emerge as the most valuable psychoanalysis of the spiritual life in our time.”
“I consider Paine our greatest political thinker. As we have not advanced, and perhaps never shall advance, beyond the Declaration and Constitution, so Paine has had no successors who extended his principles.”
“I consider painting as a means of expression, not as a goal.”
“I consider parenting skills, those skills that help children: (1) develop clear and important goals; and (2) figure out flexible and persistent ways of achieving their goals.”
“I consider part of lower Manhattan to be hallowed ground. Nearly 3,000 people lost their lives in the World Trade Center towers... and for that reason alone, our nation should make absolutely sure that what gets built on Ground Zero is an inspiring tribute to all who loved the Twin Towers, worked in them, and died there.”
“I consider PirateBallerina to be the most credible news source in the Denver area.”
“I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue. But when I'm writing, the way the words sound is as important to me as what they mean.”
“I consider poetry my vocation, not my "career." My career is as a university professor; that's what pays the bills.”
“I consider promiscuity immoral. Not because sex is evil, but because sex is too good and too important.”
Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z
“I consider racism to be a medical problem. Racists need serious medical and psychiatric help, because they are killing themselves and making others suffer along with them.”
“I consider reading the greatest bargain in the world. A shelf of books is a shelf of many lives and ideas and imaginations which the reader can enjoy whenever he wishes and as often as he wishes. Instead of experiencing just one life, the book-lover can experience hundreds or even thousands of lives. He can live any kind of adventure in the world. Books are his time machine into the past and also into the future. Books are his "transporter" by which he can beam instantly to any part of the universe and explore what he finds there. Books are an instrument by which he can become any person for a while—a man, a woman, a child, a general, a farmer, a detective, a king, a doctor, anyone.
Great books are especially valuable because a great book often contains within its covers the wisdom of a man or woman's whole lifetime. But the true lover of books enjoys all kinds of books, even some nonsense now and then, because enjoying nonsense from others can teach us to also laugh at ourselves. A person who does not learn to laugh at his own problems and weaknesses and foolishness can never be a truly educated or a truly happy person. Also, probably the same thing could be said of a person who does not enjoy learning and growing all his life.”
Source: Letters to Star Trek
“I consider Ric Flair to be one of the great comedic minds. But I never got to see him growing up because that was back when they still had territories.”
“I consider Ronald Reagan one of the greatest U.S. presidents since the World War II because of his staunch resistance to Communism and his efforts to defend human rights.”
“I consider sex a misdemeanor, the more I miss, de meaner I get.”
“I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. 'Action sport' would be the least offensive categorization.”
“I consider social skills a bit like learning a language. I've been practising it for so long over so many years I've almost lost my accent.”
“I consider space to be a material. The articulation of space has come to take precedence over other concerns. I attempt to use sculptural form to make space distinct.”
Source: Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years
“I consider Space-X to be far more dangerous than the Chinese Space program.”
“I consider string theory to be the leading candidate for a theory of quantum gravity, although that does not mean I think it is likely to be the correct theory. I remain somewhat agnostic on this issue.”
Source: The Known Unknowns: The Unsolved Mysteries of the Cosmos
“I consider stubbornness to be one of my most endearing personality traits.”
Source: Vagabondess: A Guide to Solo Female Travel
“I consider taking a road trip with my husband to be the epitome of happiness. It's been so hectic lately that it's been hard to plan one, but we always drive to North Carolina, where he's from, for Christmas. We'll be doing that again soon.”
“I consider telling my brother, asking him for help. But tell him what exactly? I have no black eyes, no bloody noses to report: Cordelia does nothing physical. If it was boys, chasing or teasing, he would know what to do, but I don’t suffer from boys in this way. Against girls and their indirectness, their whisperings, he would be helpless.”
Source: Cat’s Eye
“I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11.”
“I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.”
Source: A Study in Scarlet
“I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. [...] It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. [...] It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.”
Source: A Study in Scarlet
“I consider that a most ignoble endeavor. The only way I would like to 'help' the great majority of people is the same way Carl Panzram 'reformed' people who tried to reform him. It would be most merciful to help them by relieving them of the life they seem to hate so much. People should be happy I'm not a humanitarian-or I'd probably be the most diabolical mass murderer the world has ever known.”
“I consider that all Jews in the Diaspora, and thus it is true in France, should everywhere they can lend their support to Israel. This is why it is also important that Jews take political responsabilities. .... In sum, in my functions and in my everyday life, through the whole of my actions, I try to make so that my modest stone is brought to the construction of the land of Israel.”
“I consider that I understand an equation when I can predict the properties of its solutions, without actually solving it.”
“I consider that interest is determined by the increment of produce which it enables a labourer to obtain, and is altogether independent of the total return which he receives for this labour.”
Source: The Theory of Political Economy
“I consider that it is on instruction and education that the future security and direction of the destiny of every nation chiefly and fundamentally rests.”
“I consider that my best performance ever was as Peer Gynt.”
“I consider that sex is part of life as much as architecture, fashion, art or food. Sex is life, simple. And I refuse to consider that sex should be hidden. When you hide sex, problems start because sex becomes dangerous.”
“I consider that success for anything, whether it's being a musician or a writer. As long as you can support yourself, you're successful. People need to change their idea of what success is.”
“I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and heaven without hell.”
“I consider that the Golden Rule requires that if I like a program I must share it with other people who like it. Software sellers want to divide the users and conquer them, making each user agree not to share with others. I refuse to break solidarity with other users in this way.”
Source: Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman
“I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not.”
“I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.”
“I consider that you will be doing me an honour, not I you. I am nothing and you have suffered and have come pure out of that hell, and that is a great deal”
Source: The Idiot
“I consider the 3 most cruelly produced foods to be from lobsters, dropped alive into boiling water, veal from calves separated from their mothers and kept in crates, and pate de foie gras.”
“I consider the 70s to be the youth of old age. So all you women out there who are afraid of getting older, just keep your orgasms in place, eat a lot of vegetables, take exercise, and you'll be fine.”
“I consider the Chinese government's policy among the most intelligent in the world.”
“I consider the coke a major cause. Of course, you could also make the argument that because cocaine speeds up the heart, it's good for you.”
“I consider the concept of a global mean temperature to be somewhat dubious. A single number cannot adequately capture climate c hange. This number, as I see it, is aimed mostly at politicians and journalists.”
“I consider the decision of my colleagues and friends to be the best birthday present.”
“I consider the Detroit Red Wings one of the greatest franchises in any sport. For a player to come in and play, it's so special to wear the jersey.”
“I consider the difference between a system founded on
the legislatures only, and one founded on the people, to be the true difference between a league or treaty and a constitution.”
Source: The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution: As Recommended by the General Convention at Philadelphia, in 1787. Together with the Journal of the Federal Convention, Luther Martin's Letter, Yate's Minutes, Congressional Opinions, Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of '98-'99, and Other Illustrations of the Constitution