I Quotes
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“I couldn't tell you what was happening on the TV screen. My eyes saw the pictures, but could not register what was happening, especially since my eyes kept falling on Luke. I knew that he knew that I was watching him because he grinned and threw a cookie at me without taking his eyes off the screen.”
Source: Accidentally on Purpose
“I couldn't think of anything helpful to say, so I resorted to humor, my shield of last resort. 'Just please tell me they don't have a dog and a picket fence.'
He smiled. 'No fence, but a dog, two dogs.'
'What kind of dogs?' I asked.
He smiled and glanced at me, wanting to see my reaction. 'Maltese. Their names are Peeka and Boo.'
'Oh, shit, Edward, you're joking me.'
'Donna wants the dogs included in the engagement pictures.'
I stared at him, and the look on my face seemed to amuse him. He laughed. 'I'm glad you're here, Anita, because I don't know a single other person who I'd have admitted this to.”
Source: Obsidian Butterfly
“I couldn't think of anything that didn't sound trivial, so I just nodded.”
Source: Shiver
“I couldn’t trust my own emotions. Which emotional reactions were justified, if any? And which ones were tainted by the mental illness of BPD? I found myself fiercely guarding and limiting my emotional reactions, chastising myself for possible distortions and motivations. People who had known me years ago would barely recognize me now. I had become quiet and withdrawn in social settings, no longer the life of the party. After all, how could I know if my boisterous humor were spontaneous or just a borderline desire to be the center of attention? I could no longer trust any of my heart felt beliefs and opinions on politics, religion, or life. The debate queen had withered. I found myself looking at every single side of an issue unable to come to any conclusions for fear they might be tainted. My lifelong ability to be assertive had turned into a constant state of passivity.”
Source: Get Me Out of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder
“I couldn’t trust my own mind anymore, which was
the scariest thing I’ve ever experienced.”
Source: You're Never Weird on the Internet
“I couldn't trust myself to slip up even once. No matter how much I wished I could look into his clear green eyes - the only place I'd ever found myself - one more time. Because once will never be enough. A lifetime would fall short.”
Source: Empower
“I couldn't under stand anything I saw in the picture at all. How could the players care, after the way they had humiliated themselves (and, of course, me) seven days - seven days - before? Why would any fan who had suffered at Wembley the way I had suffered stand up to cheer a nothing goal in a nothing match? I used to stare at this photo for minutes at a time, trying to detect somewhere within it any evidence of the trauma of the previous week, some hint of grief or of mourning, but there was none: apparently everyone had forgotten except me.”
Source: Fever Pitch
“I couldn't understand; cheating was the one thing I'd told her all those years ago would be unforgivable. She knew, she said, but that was part of what had been confusing her, that I would even have told her that, as if she weren't an actual human being with the freedom to act, but some character in a scenario in my head. There was a quality I had of making the people closest to me feel lonely, somehow. Some essential cold withholding at the core of myself.”
Source: City on Fire
“I couldn't understand him at first. Sure, I was a little too young to be very understanding of others, and hadn't met many people then...But I was really curious and kept thinking, 'Why does he work so hard?' Because Jimin really, really gives it his all in every single song. And I came to realize, 'This kid is absolutely serious about being onstage. And he's constantly worried people will be disappointed by his performance.' I'd though long and hard about Jimin this way, and it turned out, Jimin had also thought about me. And once I realized that I had things I was good at while Jimin had his things he was good at...I started to understand. It's just so fascinating to me. That complete opposites can be like, 'Wow, we really don't go together,' but once we saw how we made up for each other's deficiencies, we came to see each other with even more respect and admiration.”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
“I couldn’t understand how belief systems could be so important to people that they were willing to risk the destruction of the world to protect them. I came to realize that shared belief systems made people intelligible to one another—and that the systems weren’t just about belief.”
Source: 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
“I couldn't understand how boldness and sorrow, how you're so hard and do you really care for me? could be so thoroughly bound together. Nor could I begin to fathom how someone so seemingly vulnerable, hesitant, and eager to confide so many uncertainties about herself could, with one and the same gesture, reach into my pants with unabashed recklessness and hold on to my cock and squeeze it.”
Source: Call Me by Your Name
“I couldn't understand the dark and trembling mood that was moving in me, swelling to the sorrow I'd too long denied, I couldn't understand it, so I tried to fight it as a man fights pain or despair. But you can't bite down on assassin grief, and will it away. The enemy stalks you, step for step, and knows your every move before you make it. The enemy is your own grieving heart and, when it strikes, it can't miss.”
Source: Shantaram
“I couldn’t wait for success - So I went a head without it.”
Source: Enemy Called Average
“I couldn’t work out how to get home. Someone moved the mountains.”
Source: Tess of the Road
“I couldn't work out what she actually wanted. Whether being dead happened in a pretty box on Welsh Street or someplace else, it didn't make a difference. Dead was irreversible. It was permanent. You couldn't do anything about it, and still, Tate seemed determined to take it back, like with the right answer, she could fix everything.”
Source: The Replacement
“I couldn’t write about him and that scared me. It scared me because it made me question the reality of it. And if it’s real, was everything I’ve ever written subconsciously about him?”
“I couldn't add my talent, which is prodigious, to a defense of someone even accused of hurting a child.”
“I couldn't adjust to the racism in Florida.”
“I couldn't adjust to the racism in Florida. It was so blatant... I had never been so described as Florida described me.”
“I couldn't afford [buying Marvel]. I hope I have enough money for dinner tonight!”
“I couldn't ask for a better life.”
“I couldn't bare the idea of not being in regular communication with the audience I love - young women of color.”
“I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned how to do that from my dad.”
“I couldn't be a novelist for instance. It feels like a very lonely endeavor. I don't know that I could survive the solitude of that.”
“I couldn't be a one-woman show, since I wouldn't have anybody to bounce off from. Once you're out there, dribbling on, you have nobody to interrupt you. I love being part of a company, and telling a story.”
“I couldn't be a royal. It's like living in a supersonic goldfish bowl.”
“I couldn't be a White Sox fan because that was like being a Mets or a Yankees fan.”
“I couldn't be an ingenue today, because the business has changed. I remember when you could dress for a premiere just by putting on a cute top. Now you have to be perfect and fabulous in every way, or you're ridiculed.”
“I couldn't be anorexic because I like food too much, and I couldn't be bulimic because I hate throwing up too much.”
“I couldn't be fonder of you if you were my own son. But, well, if you lose a son, its possible to get another. There's only one Maltese Falcon.”
“I couldn't be happier about being a part of ‘Hunger Games’ and to play Katniss. I have a huge responsibility to the fans of this incredible book and I don’t take it lightly. I will give everything I have to these movies and to this role to make it worthy of Suzanne Collins’ masterpiece.”
“I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put an end to all those who questioned my motives for enlisting in the Army Reserve at the height of the Vietnam War.”
“I couldn't be happier to not be acting. I miss it, but I don't miss the auditioning or trying to get work.”
“I couldn't be happier with where my life's at right now. I have great partners, I have great stimulating relationships on the business side of things, I've been really busy and productive.”
“I couldn't be happier.”
“I couldn't be in a relationship and behave like somebody else or pretend I felt something I didn't feel. And that includes saying things I thought might jeopardize the relationship.”
“I couldn't be in a relationship without equality, generosity, integrity, spirit, kindness and humor. And awesomeness.”
“I couldn't be messing around and acting like an 11-year-old if we expected to compete well. I wanted to compete well, because it was great to see the looks in the eyes of menlike, "Wow, I am having a hard time beating this kid."”
“I couldn't be more blessed.”
“I couldn't be more chuffed if I were a badger at the start of the mating season!”
“I couldn't be more excited to return to the ING New York City Marathon.”
“I couldn't be more proud of my work as a progressive.”
“I couldn't be more proud to be standing with Donald Trump, who is standing for the right to life.”
“I couldn't be more thankful to get my start on a soap opera. It was the hardest job I ever had. Got to practice in front of the camera, like, every day.”
“I couldn't be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.”
“I couldn't be two faced. If I had two faces, I wouldn't wear this one.”
“I couldn't be with someone who is depressed all the time.”
“I couldn't bear a marriage in which one partner hinges on the other.”
“I couldn't bear it if anyone knew I had hardly any self-confidence at all.”
“I couldn't bear the road anymore. I'm sure that a lot of people who have been on the road a long time will say the same thing. After a while, waiting for bedroom service and planes - I wanted to go home.”