I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I considered becoming a Christian... until I met one.”
“I considered becoming a priest very seriously. I wanted to travel the world. By the time I turned 16, I realized I was only in it for selfish reasons. And, more importantly, I didn't want to sacrifice the ladies!”
“I considered bringing forward information about these surveillance programs prior to the election, but I held off because I believed that [Barack] Obama was genuine when he said he was going to change things. I wanted to give the democratic process time to work.”
“I considered calling Grace to ask her what I should say to a reticent suicidal werewolf, but I'd left my phone somewhere. Car, maybe.”
Source: Linger
“I considered calmly that I was born to write.”
“I considered going into business or becoming a lawyer - not for the money, but for the thrill of problem-solving.”
“I considered going to film school; I took a course in film and was very interested in filmmaking as well as film writing.”
“I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.”
Source: The Poisonwood Bible
“I considered law and math. My Dad was a lawyer. I think though I would have ended up in physics if I didn't end up in computer science.”
“I considered letting my own meltdown come to the surface, but I had no way of knowing how long it would last once I let it, so I didn't. I put it in the black well instead, backing away so I wouldn't fall in.”
Source: Completely Normal
“I considered mores to be one of the great general causes responsible for the maintenance of a democratic republic . . . the term "mores" . . . meaning . . . habits of the heart.”
“I considered my home sanctuary from the judicial arena, far from the Fernoza Family legacy, and I had no intention of sharing it with anyone.”
Source: Dial QR for Murder
“I considered myself a Christian. But looking back on it, I guess I was more of a Kluggist. I was klugging my own spirituality. It was years before I would find out how dangerous that was.”
Source: Slow Brewing Tea
“I considered myself a little too old to have a babysitter but the girl who looked after me was playful as well as beautiful! At what age does a boy start noticing the opposite sex? Well, I didn’t mind Tiffany’s attention and always enjoyed when she looked after me! In turn, I could not keep my eyes off of her. In 1949, she married Raymond, who had been a Chief Petty Officer in the Navy during the Second World War. In time, they had a son whom they named after his father. Young Raymond unfortunately was later killed in an auto accident. The lesson I learned from this was that we are all mortal and that terrible things can happen to good people, or more directly, “Shit happens!”
“I considered myself a professional comedian because the club would pay me $20.”
“I considered myself liberated long before it became the fashion. First I liberated myself from debilitating habits, and went on to free myself of combative, aggressive thoughts. I have also cast aside any unnecessary possessions. This, I feel, is true liberation.”
Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words
“I considered myself most unfortunate because God had made me inhabit a female body in this world”
Source: The Book of the City of Ladies
“I considered Nat King Cole to be a friend and, in many ways, a mentor. He always had words of profound advice.”
“I considered people who didn't like my work to be in some way defective, deficient, lacking a sense of humor, and not understanding what was really going on.”
“I considered that my job- to convey to them that I understood their world.”
Source: The Photographer
“I considered that the painter's personality should be kept out of things, and therefore pictures should be anonymous. It was I who decided that pictures should not be signed, and for a time Picasso did the same.”
“I considered the attacks on London useless, and I told the Fuhrer again and again that inasmuch as I knew the English people as well as I did my own people, I could never force them to their knees by attacking London. We might be able to subdue the Dutch people by such measures but not the British.”
“I considered the British as our natural enemies, and as the only nation on earth who wished us ill from the bottom of their souls. And I am satisfied that were our continent to be swallowed up by the ocean, Great Britain would be in a bonfire from one end to the other.”
Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private
“I considered the case and realized that if something can exist in opinion without existing in reality, or exist in reality without existing in opinion, the conclusion is that of the two parallel lives, only opinion is necessary – not reality, which is only a secondary consideration.”
Source: The Devil's Church and Other Stories
“I considered the prevention of war as the test of our security policy; in addition to being able to rapidly and forcefully end any war forced upon us.”
Source: Yitzhak Rabin and Israeli national security: special memorial issue
“I considered the years in Hollywood nothing but an interim. What I always wanted was to be was a musical comedy star.”
“I considered writing a book too, but I think people don't like to read, to be honest - they want to watch. People want to see crazy things, so we decided to make a film ["Selling Isobel"] instead.”
“I consist of a little body and a soul.”
Source: Meditations
“I consist of body and soul - in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn't we speak like children? But the enlightened, the knowledgealbe would say: I am body through and through, nothing more; and the soul is just a word for something on the body.”
“I consistently encounter people in academic settings and scientists and journalists who feel that you can't say that anyone is wrong in any deep sense about morality, or with regard to what they value in life. I think this doubt about the application of science and reason to questions of value is really quite dangerous.”
“I consistently run into young adults who have quickly turned away from traditional jobs at great companies to try their hand at a start-up. I believe that some of this stems from the desire to strike it big like Mark Zuckerberg, but I also believe it is because starting a company has become far cooler than working in one.”
“I consoled myself with Granddaddy's words on the fossil record and the Book of Genesis: It was more important to understand something than to like it. Liking wasn't necessary for understanding. Liking didn't enter into it.”
“I constanly ask myself if all writing is a form of mourning.”
Source: Making Love with the Land: Essays
“I constantly caution our teams: 'Play your game, just play your game. Eventually, if you play your game, stick to your style, class will tell in the end.' This does not mean that we will always outscore our opponent, but it does insure that we will not beat ourselves.”
Source: They Call Me Coach
“I constantly doubt myself. I only feel confident in front of the camera.”
“I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.”
“I constantly felt (as I suppose many an ambitious girl has felt) a thumping from within unanswered by any beckoning from without.”
Source: The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters
“I constantly find myself changing my mind all the time. One day, I want to do just acting and just that. One day I want to do music and just that.”
“I constantly find myself participating in life, but leaving at the end of the day -
I need constant solitude to recharge my spirit, or this world will send me insane.”
“I constantly get out of my comfort zone. Looking cool is the easiest way to mediocrity. The coolest guy in my high school ended up working at a car wash. Once you push yourself into something new, and whole new world of opportunities opens up. But you might get hurt. In fact you WILL get hurt. But amazingly when you heal - you are somewhere you've never been.”
“I constantly have a devil on my shoulder telling me that what I'm doing is really horrible, and then somehow the lightning strike happens and everything comes together. I've just realized I have to live with that devil on my shoulder a little bit more.”
“I constantly have anxiety about being the lead of the show. I don't talk about it because it scares me. But I've always wanted to be part of something where I could work on a character in such a big manner, and you get offered that with all the trappings of being the lead of the show.”
“I constantly have to negotiate with my doubts.”
Source: Peter Doig: Charley's space
“I constantly looked for motherly protection.”
Source: On the outside looking in
“I constantly make fashion mistakes but I think it's good to take risks.”
“I constantly make lists and itineraries and then can't stick to any of them.”
“I constantly meet people who are doubtful, generally without due reason, about their potential capacity [as mathematicians]. The first test is whether you got anything out of geometry. To have disliked or failed to get on with other [mathematical] subjects need mean nothing; much drill and drudgery is unavoidable before they can get started, and bad teaching can make them unintelligible even to a born mathematician.”
“I constantly pack my pockets full of worthless trinkets, and in such misguided gorging I leave my heart empty and my soul emaciated because I have forgotten everything but trinkets.”
“I constantly remind myself that resting takes confidence. Anyone can train like a mad man but to embrace rest and to allow all the hard training to come out takes mental strength.”
“I constantly remind myself that there are terrible movies out there. I try to watch them, some of them, to give myself an understanding of what not to do.”