I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It is my desperate wish to walk in something bigger than myself simply because to walk in myself is to live a life of small circles and ever-tightening walls. I am dying to walk in something bigger than all of mankind combined because in walking with mankind I am repeatedly faced with the very same circles and exact same walls. I wish neither of these. Rather, I want to walk in God because in Him there are no circles, walls are unknown, and horizons are the theme of everything He does.”
“It is my disposition to maintain peace until its condition shall be made less tolerable than that of war itself.”
Source: Thomas Jefferson: selections from his writings edited, with an introduction
“It is my dominant intent to be good to me.”
“It is my dream that the entire Tibetan plateau should become a free refuge where humanity and nature can live in peace and in harmonious balance. It would be a place where people from all over the world could come to seek the true meaning of peace within themselves, away from the tensions and pressures of much of the rest of the world”
“It is my dream to have a controlling stake of Arsenal.”
“It is my duty as a free man to read so I'm not blind being lead around by my nose”
Source: Iron Gold
“It is my duty to be a father to my kids.”
“It is my duty to prevent, through the independence of Cuba, the U.S.A. from spreading over the West Indies and falling with addedweight upon other lands of Our America. All I have done up to now and shall do hereafter is to that end.... I know the Monster, because I have lived in its lair--and my weapon is only the slingshot of David.”
“It is my duty to say: Something has to change. I say that very directly, in clear words so that nobody can misunderstand me. And I believe in our new initiative for continuing education and vocational training. For French people who are socially disadvantaged, this means real recognition and support.”
“It is my duty to voice the sufferings of humankind, the never-ending sufferings heaped mountain high. This is my task, but it is not an easy one to fulfill.”
“It is my duty, gentlemen, to inform you that women are dictators
all, and I recommend to you this moral:
In real life it takes only one to make a quarrel.”
Source: The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash
“It is my earnest desire that some of you should carry on this scientific work and keep for your ambition the determination to make a permanent contribution to science.”
Source: The Discovery of Radium: Address by Madame M. Curie at Vassar College, May 14, 1921
“It is my entire visual art practice: I eat, sleep, think, write about and do drawing.”
“It is my estimation that all workers on the 1.4 billion dollar Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) atop Mauna Kea, Hawaii, will develop some form of biological damage that will reveal itself years after the first exposure to the very high altitude mountain occurred.”
“It is my expectation that a wide range of construction workers will lose their long term health to High Altitude Observatory Disease (HAOD) from working on the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) project atop Mauna Kea.”
“It is my expectation that climate change will lead to a world filled with sickened humans.”
“It is my expectation that if I call 911 for the police that I will be blatantly harassed.”
“It is my expectation that Teacher Education for Democracy and Social Justice will become a rich resource for continuing this multi-layered conversation-from democratic belief to democratic action-that is the hallmark of educational renewal.”
“It is my expectation that the next world war will be a war on radiation, started by countries that have recognized the dangerous man-made global radiation environment created by modern western governments.”
“It is my expectation that the suicide rate will go up in a 5G wireless radiation world.”
“It is my expectation that wireless WiFi streaming of movies on airplanes will increase the rates of illness and disease in pilots, cabin crew and frequent fliers.”
“It is my expectation that working in the biologically toxic field of high altitude professional astronomy has put cancer into my future.”
“It is my expectation when I call 911 to my residence that I will be protected by the attending police officer and not blatantly harassed.”
“It is my experience both as an artist and as a teacher that when we move out on faith into the act of creation, the universe is able to advance. It is a little like opening the gate at the top of a field irrigation system. Once we remove the blocks, the flow moves in.”
Source: The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
“It is my experience that if a person practices self discovery with intent, they will be successful. Success is an outer sign that they are channeling energy correctly.”
“It is my experience that in some areas [my poodle] Charley is more intelligent that I am, but in others he is abysmally ignorant. He can't read, can't drive a car, and has no grasp of mathematics. But in his own field of endeavor, which he is now practicing, the slow, imperial smelling over and anointing on an area, he has no peer. Of course his horizons are limited, but how wide are mine?”
“It is my experience that marriage does not make one happier. It destroys the illusion that has been the essence of one's previous existence, that there existed something like a soul-mate. The feeling of not being understood is heightened in marriage by the fact that one's entire life beforehand had the aim of finding a being who would understand one. But isn't it better to exist without such an illusion and look this great lonely truth straight in the eye?”
“It is my experience that most claims of national security are part of a campaign to avoid telling the truth.”
“It is my experience that no one, in the course of conversation, can fail to give themselves away sooner or later. Everyone has an irresistible urge to talk about themselves.”
Source: Murder on board: including The mystery of the Blue Train, What Mrs. McGillicuddy saw! [and] Death in the air
“It is my experience that no real change will occur in the radiation polluting industries until the masses become so sick that there will not be enough healthy workers to staff the corporations.”
“It is my experience that once you return to the Joy Giver, joy isn’t far behind.”
Source: The 40-Day Sugar Fast: Where Physical Detox Meets Spiritual Transformation
“It is my experience that people who don't participate in society, who don't have jobs, who don't have friends, are just very stuck in irresponsibility and cultism and all kinds of nonsense.”
“It is my experience that proofs involving matrices can be shortened by 50% if one throws the matrices out.”
Source: Geometric Algebra
“It is my experience that the best way to deal with American politics is 50 milligrams of Zoloft 3 times a day.”
“It is my experience that the world itself has a role to play in our liberation. Its very pressures, pains, and risks can wake us up -release us from the bonds of ego and guide us home to our vast true nature.”
“It is my express wish that in awarding the [Nobel Prizes] no consideration be given to the nationality of the candidates, but that the most worthy shall receive the prize, whether he be Scandinavian or not.”
“It is my eyes which see, and the sight of my eyes grants beauty to the earth.”
Source: Anthem
“It is my eyes which see, and the sight of my eyes grants beauty to the earth. It is my ears which hear, and the hearing of my ears gives its song to the world. It is my mind which thinks, and the judgement of my mind is the only searchlight that can find the truth. It is my will which chooses, and the choice of my will is the only edict I must respect.”
Source: Study Guide: Anthem (Study Gudie and Book)
“It is my faith and conviction that the Constitution came not alone of the brain and purpose of man, but of the inspiration of God.”
“It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.”
“It is my fate that some of my questions will never be answered.”
“It is my fate to be considered an authority, since I spent my youth rebelling against it.”
“It is my fault".
"You're right. It is". At that Jace looked up in absolute astonishment. Surprise at being agreed with battled with horror and relief in equal measures.
"Is it?"
"The harm is not deliberate, of course. But you are like me. We poison and destroy everything we love. There is a reason for that".
"What reason?"
Valentine glanced up at the sky. "We are meant for a higher purpose, you and I. The distractions of the world are just that, distractions. If we allow ourselves to be turned aside from our course by them, we are duly punished."
"And our punishment is visited on everyone we care about? That seems a little hard on them."
"Fate is never fair[...]”
Source: City of Ashes
“It is my favorite thing, I think, that I have ever seen. Sometimes I catch myself staring at it and forget my duties. It seems big enough to contain everything anyone could ever feel.”
Source: All the Light We Cannot See
“It is my feeling that a story is not finished until it is read, and that the reader finishes it through his or her life experience, prejudices, worldview and thoughts.”
“It is my feeling that as we grow older we should become not less radical but more so. I do not, of course, mean this in any political-party sense, but rather in a willingness to struggle for those things in which we passionately believe. Social activism and the struggle for social justice are often thought of as the natural activities of the young but not of the middle-aged or the elderly. In fact, I don't think this was ever true.”
“It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.”
“It is my fervent goal and hope... that we will someday no longer have to rely on nuclear weapons to deter aggression and assure world peace. To that end the United States is now engaged in a serious and sustained effort to negotiate major reductions in levels of offensive nuclear weapons with the ultimate goal of eliminating these weapons from the face of the earth.”
“It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me.”
“It is my firm belief that action on the issues that matter for Africa must emerge from within Africa itself.”