I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I could never throw Love out of the window.”
Source: Illuminations, and Other Prose Poems
“I could never trust anyone who's well adjusted to a sick society.”
“I could never understand how someone would embark on their life without having first confronted and clarified the truly fundamental questions.”
“I could never understand how to build a computer, but the best I could hope for is to understand the people that do.”
“I could never understand how we could put 120,000 Japanese behind a fence in World War II. I remember being bewildered about that.”
“I could never understand the attraction of Bette Davis. I always preferred Jane Russell.”
“I could never understand what was going on in my dreams I couldn’t control the happenings, it’s like I just stood there glued to the ground watching everything around me move and evolve into different scenarios. I was a ghost of myself watching life unravel before my own eyes...”
“I could never understand why people cower from the word storm. Sounds like a good time, to me!”
Source: Addictarium
“I could never understand why the company did not cancel the launch of the DeSoto Solar Farm by President Obama, given how many dangerous technical problems it was having at the time.”
“I could never wear another uniform. I will forever be a Yankee.”
“I could never work in a recording studio where you have this lovely view and a beach and the waves are crashing. For me, it's all about being in a tiny room with little windows. It's almost like you have to be in a prison. And you can create beauty when you're in that sort of deprived environment, which is a re-creation of your formative years.”
“I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.”
Source: The Poisonwood Bible
“I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence. I can understand a wrathful God who'd just as soon dangle us all from a hook. And I can understand a tender, unprejudiced Jesus. But I could never quite feature the two of them living in the same house. You wind up walking on eggshells, never knowing which... is at home at the moment.”
Source: The Poisonwood Bible
“I could never wrap my head around why the world and the President that Republicans describe bears so little resemblance to the world and the President that I experience. And now I know why. There is a President Obama that only Republicans can see.”
“I could never write about strange kingdoms. I could never do Harry Potter or anything like that. Even when I did science-fiction, I didnt write about foreign planets and distant futures. I certainly never did fantasies about trolls living under bridges.”
“I could never write about the sort of people John Cheever or John Updike or even Margaret Atwood write about. I don't mean I couldn't write as well as they do, which of course I couldn't; they're great writers, and I'm no writer at all. But I couldn't even write badly about normal, neurotic people. I don't know that world from the inside. That's just not my orientation.”
“I could never write my memoirs, just because too many people are still alive and would be hurt.”
“I could never write. I would just be too lonely. What's great about acting is, it's so collaborative.”
“I could never, ever have an abortion.”
“I could never, ever talk to my father. I really loved him, but we couldn't talk about anything together. There was this really British thing that being even remotely emotional was absolutely verboten.”
“I could no longer afford to be jealous or unfriendly, because, as soon as I was, a bandage came down over my eyes, and I was bound hand and foot and cast aside. All at once a black hole opened, and I was helpless inside it. But when I was happy and serene, approached people with confidence and thought well of them, I was rewarded with light.”
Source: And There Was Light: The Extraordinary Memoir of a Blind Hero of the French Resistance in World War II
“I could no longer deny the truth. I was not invisible to him. I was contemptible... Perhaps I deserved it. Surely I didn't deserve to be loved, for, otherwise, wouldn't I have found someone to love me by now?”
Source: Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy
“I could no longer discern what was real and what was fake. Everything, including the present, seemed to be both too much and nothing at all.”
Source: The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
“I could no longer distinguish people from monsters”
Source: A Very Large Expanse of Sea
“I could no longer go without confessing these things. They are an indelible part of me, written in the hope of youth and the disillusionment of adulthood. I can no more deny them than I can breathe.”
Source: Monster
“I could no longer remember the way my mother's eyes looked before the slowing. Had they always been so red around the edges? Surely, those pockets of gray beneath her lower lashes were new. She still wasn't sleeping well, but perhaps what I was seeing was just age, a gradual shift that I'd failed to register. I sometimes felt the urge to study recent photographs of her in order to locate the exact point in time when she had come to look so weary.”
Source: The Age of Miracles
“I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)
“I could no more have stopped myself from feeling that sadness than you could stop yourself from smelling an apple that has been cut open on the table before you.”
“I could no more lie without noticing it than I could un-knowingly pass a kidney stone.
If there is another life after this one, I would like very much, in the next one, to be the sort of person of whom it could truly be said, “Forgive him— he knows not what he does.”
Source: Mother Night
“I could no sooner deny him that I could stop breathing.”
Source: Dark Alpha's Claim
“I could not accept from wisdom
what love taught,
woman is perfect.”
Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944
“I could not accept that organizational interpretations, based on shifting human reasoning, could ever be made equal in authority to the actual statements found in God's unchangeable Word.”
“I could not answer the ceaseless inward question-why I thus suffered; now, at the distance of-I will not say how many years, I see it clearly.”
Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“I could not ask for more than the love you give me... Cause it's all I've waited for... and I could not ask for more.”
“I could not ask forgiveness for something I had not done. As scapegoat, I could only bear the fault.”
“I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.”
Source: Love, Eleanor: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends
“I could not be a poet without the natural world. Someone else could. But not me. For me the door to the woods is the door to the temple.”
Source: Upstream: Selected Essays
“I could not be attracted to anyone that fragile.”
Source: Divergent
“I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter in all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both.”
Source: Sense and Sensibility
“I could not be leading a religious life unless I identified myself with the whole of mankind, and that I could not do unless I took part in politics.”
Source: All Men Are Brothers
“I could not be more determined and robust about this. I want more children to play cricket and to have the chance to compete. I want them playing on the correct pitches with hard balls and proper headgear.”
“I could not be satisfied unless some fruits did appear in my work.”
Source: The works of that eminent servant of Christ, John Bunyan: minister of the gospel and formerly Pastor of a Congregatin at Bedford
“I could not be so sure of Spring / Save that it sings in me.”
Source: Rivers to the Sea
“I could not bear the deep freeze settling around my bones at the thought that yet another attempt to get out of my life alive would end in disappointment. Time became palpable and viscous. Every minute, every second, every nanosecond, wrapped around my spine so that my nerves tightened and ached. I faded into abstraction. A self-generated narcosis created a painful blank where my mind used to be.”
Source: Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America
“I could not bear to be that close to him any longer. It was suffocating, I could hardly breathe, and all I could hear was the sound of my heart beating, and the sound of his completing it.”
“I could not become a dragon. I am an utter and complete failure.”
Source: Rhythm of War
“I could not become an American citizen. I would not like to become a citizen of a country that has capital punishment.”
“I could not become anything; neither good nor bad; neither a scoundrel nor an honest man; neither a hero nor an insect. And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless consolation that an intelligent man cannot seriously become anything, that only a fool can become something.”
“I could not believe how fast the night went. It wasn’t anywhere near dawn when the blaring sound of Reveille was piped throughout the building over the PA system. At first, I wasn’t certain of my surroundings and couldn’t understand the shouting that followed the bugle call, but it took only a few seconds before the full meaning of this hit home. I scrambled to get out of the bunk and my feet had barely hit the deck when our door flew open again. The beet red face of an upperclassman appeared, yelling at the top of his lungs, “Let go of your c--ks and grab your socks!” My first full day at Maine Maritime Academy had begun.…”
“I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.”
Source: Everything Is Illuminated