I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I couldn’t decide whether it was better to be the art, or the artist.”
“I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
“I couldn’t get near what I wanted through seeing, recognizing and recreating, so I stood the problem on its head. I started studying squares, rectangles, triangles and the sensations they give rise to It is untrue that my work depends on any literary impulse or has any illustrative intention. The marks on the canvas are sole and essential agents in a series of relationships which form the structure of the painting.”
“I couldn’t get the words exactly right; I only remembered wishing that Jacob were my brother so that we could love each other without any confusion or pain.”
“I couldn’t have asked for more than God in deliberate grace has surprised me with!”
“I couldn’t help but think about school and everything else ending. I liked standing just outside the couches and watching them—it was a kind of sad I didn’t mind, and so I just listened, letting all the happiness and the sadness of this ending swirl around in me, each sharpening the other. For the longest time, it felt kind of like my chest was cracking open, but not precisely in an unpleasant way.”
Source: Paper Towns
“I couldn’t help it,” I said, knowing how lame that sounded. It was as bad as Angeline’s “it’s not my fault” mantra.”
Source: The Fiery Heart: A Bloodlines Novel
“I couldn’t leave Total behind.” “Total?” Iggy asked. “That’s what his card said,” Angel explained. “Totally a mutant dog who will probably turn on us and kill us in our sleep,” Fang said.”
Source: Maximum Ride Boxed Set #1
“I couldn’t live with myself if I thought nothing could get better.”
Source: All My Noble Dreams and Then What Happens
“I couldn’t miss Percy’s fifteenth birthday,” Poseidon said. “Why, if this were Sparta, Percy would be a man today!” "That’s true,” Paul said. “I used to teach ancient history.” Poseidon’s eyes twinkled. “That’s me. Ancient history.”
“I couldn’t move. It’s something I’m still ashamed of. You always wonder how you’ll handle a moment of crisis; if you’ve got what it takes to fight or if you’ve just been deluding yourself all along that somewhere deep inside you there’s steel beneath the magnolia. Now I knew the truth. There wasn’t. I was all petals and pollen. Good for attracting the procreators who could ensure the survival of our species, but not a survivor myself. I was Barbie after all.”
“I couldn’t remember the last time I had stayed up into the squeaky hours of the night because I couldn’t put a book down, and that was a tragedy.”
“I couldn’t see Pritkin’s face very well, just a pale blur against the shadows, but he didn’t sound happy. Some people thought he had only one mode... pissed off. In reality, he had plenty of them. Over the past few weeks, I’d learned to tell the difference between real pissed off, impatient pissed off and scared pissed off. I suspected that this was the last kind. If so, that made two of us.”
Source: Cassie Palmer Novels 1-5
“I couldn’t see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.”
Source: the bell jar
“I couldn’t sleep for two years, they tried to break my nerves. They used a lot of psychology to brainwash.”
“I couldn’t stand in front of any camera, and I couldn’t go to places where there were a lot of people. I thought people would criticize me if I smiled, or even if I just stayed still.”
“I counsel our children to do their critical studying in the early hours of the morning when they're fresh and alert, rather than to fight physical weariness and mental exhaustion at night. I've learned the power of the dictum, "Early to bed, early to rise." When I'm under pressure, you won't find me burning the midnight oil. I'd much rather be in bed early and getting up in the wee hours of the morning.”
Source: Teach Ye Diligently
“I counsel people to laugh at what other people perceive as failures. I tell them not to care if other people think their goals are crazy.”
Source: How Champions Think: In Sports and in Life
“I counsel thee, shut not thy heart, nor thy library.”
Source: The Works of Charles Lamb
“I counsel you, in the words of Jesus Christ, to "watch and pray I always lest ye enter into temptation; for Satan desireth to have you, that he may sift you as wheat" (3 Nephi 18:18). If you will earnestly seek guidance from your Heavenly Father, morning and evening, you will be given the strength to shun any temptation.”
“I counseled a 75-year-old married, bi-sexual man who was having a gay affair and was not having sex with his wife to continue his secret life because that seemed like the kindest thing to do. But a young woman embarking on married life, hoping to start a family with her husband, needs to at least know he's already living a double life.”
“I counseled many returning missionaries. I interviewed 1,700 missionaries all over the world. My advice to them is that you should study and prepare for your life's work in a field that you enjoy.”
“I count 'Underworld 4' as my training period for 'Total Recall.' I do think it was hard because I didn't realize how tired I was. It is quite a lot to sustain that kind of physical work over nine months altogether and by the end of it, I definitely felt like I had aged quite a bit in that year.”
“I count absolutely no chickens before they're hatched. In fact, I assume they're all dead in their shells, inside their eggs.”
“I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.”
“I count all the time on resonance. I call on this, you see.”
“I count everything. Even numbers, odd numbers, multiples of 10. I count the ticks of the clock i count the tocks of the clock I count the lines between the lines on a sheet of paper. I count the broken beats of my heart I count my pulse and my blinks and the number of tries it takes to inhale enough oxygen for my lungs. I stay like this I stand like this I count like this until the feeling stops. Until the tears stop spilling, until my fists stop shaking, until my heart stops aching. There are never enough numbers.”
Source: Unravel Me
“I count everything loss, to gain anything under the power of grace in Jesus Christ.”
“I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought, into which other men rise with labor and difficulty; he has but to open his eyes to see things in a true light, and in large relations; whilst they must make painful corrections, and keep a vigilant eye on many sources of error.”
Source: Representative Men: Seven Lectures
“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study
“I count him lost, who is lost to shame.”
“I count him lost, who is lost to shame.
[Lat., Nam ego illum periisse duco, cui quidem periit pudor.]”
“I count it a high honor to belong to a profession in which the good men write every paragraph, every sentence, every line, as lovingly as any Addison or Steele, and do so in full regard that by tomorrow it will have been burned, or used, if at all, to line a shelf.”
“I count it an honor to play with some guys that I've watched play on television, and may be in the Hall of Fame some day.”
“I count it as a certainty that in paradise, everyone naps.”
“I count it as a major victory to not only be on a series that's had a full season run, but to actually be on one that's gotten picked up for a second season.”
“I count life just a stuff
To try the soul's strength on.”
“I count Maxwell and Einstein, Eddington and Dirac, among "real" mathematicians. The great modern achievements of applied mathematics have been in relativity and quantum mechanics, and these subjects are at present at any rate, almost as "useless" as the theory of numbers.”
“I count my blessings every day, quite honestly, because I take nothing for granted.”
“I count my blessings every single day that I am an American.”
“I count my blessings far more than I count my money.”
Source: Not Dumb, Not Blonde: Dolly In Conversation
“I count my finger to make sure it's still there”
Source: Shatter Me
“I count my time by times that I meet thee;
These are my yesterdays, my morrows, noons,
And nights, these are my old moons and my new moons.
Slow fly the hours, fast the hours flee,
If thou art far from or art near to me:
If thou art far, the bird's tunes are no tunes;
If thou art near, the wintry days are Junes.”
Source: LYRICS AND OTHER POEMS,
“I count myself as one of millions of Americans whose life simply would not be the same without the libraries that supported my learning.”
“I count myself fortunate to be able to contribute to this work; and the great interest which the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has shown in my work and the recognition that it has paid to my past successes, convince me that I am not on the wrong track.”
“I count myself fortunate to be able to participate in the life of science in this era.”
“I count myself in nothing else so happy as in a soul remembering my good Friends”
“I count myself lucky to be fairly anonymous but occasionally have people tell me nice things.”
“I count myself lucky, having long ago won a lottery paid to me in seven sunrises a week for life.”
“I count myself one of the number of those who write as they learn and learn as they write.”