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 hope that my life was lived in such a way that hell will rejoice at my death. But if it does, it will have missed the fact that everything that I had written will have left me very much alive.”
“It is my hope that our garden's story-and the stories of gardens across America-will inspire families, schools, and communities to try their own hand at gardening and enjoy all the gifts of health, discovery, and connection a garden can bring.”
“It is my hope that people today will see that, in another time, in another period, when we saw the need for people to speak up, to organize, to mobilize, and to do something about injustice, we came together.”
“It is my hope that photography may fall in line with all the other arts and with her infinite possibilities, do things strange and more fascinating than the most fantastic dreams.”
“It is my hope that the number of stem cell lines available for federally-funded research will be expanded so that the government can continue to participate in this vital research and provide hope to the millions of Americans with diseases that might be cured.”
“It is my hope that the pagan media and academic establishment will implode on the force of its own corruption and stagnation.”
“It is my hope that this book will help to demystify the origins of travel writing and show that when thousands of travelers follow a guidebook word-for-word, recommendation-for-recommendation, it not only harms contemporary international travel but can also do serious harm to places in developing countries.”
Source: Do Travel Writers Go to Hell?: A Swashbuckling Tale of High Adventures, Questionable Ethics, and Professional Hedonism
“It is my hope that we do not need to fall by our own hand before we realize that we can only stand by God’s.”
“It is my humble intention to compassionately allow everyone and everything, especially my self, to be exactly as we are...”
“It is my humble opinion that a lot of the civil rights protests—and indeed, a good portion of this fine country's problems, including the Civil War and the assassination of more than one president—can be attributed to the absence of air-conditioning.”
“It is my humble prayer that I may be of some use in my day and generation.”
“It is my hypothesis that the fundamental source of conflict in this new [post-Cold-War] world will not be primarily ideological or primarily economic. The great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of conflict will be cultural. Nation states will remain the most powerful actors in world affairs, but the principal conflicts of global politics will occur between nations and groups of different civilizations. The clash of civilizations will dominate global politics. The fault lines between civilizations will be the battle lines of the future.”
“It is my impression that 'pain-killing' drugs improve the patient's mood rather than take away the pain.”
“It is my impression that whenever resistance is markedly severe, it is at least as much a spiritual as a psychological problem. The person is unwilling to suffer the slightest dethronement of his or her ego in submission to any higher power, even when that power is merely labeled “life” or “reality.” Something is seriously out of whack at a radical level in such a person’s relationship to the world.”
“It is my inner conviction that the development of science seeks in the main to satisfy the longing for pure knowledge.”
Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein
“It is my intent to beget a good understanding between the chymists and the mechanical philosophers who have hitherto been too little acquainted with one another's learning.”
“It is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action.”
“It is my intention to make no provision herein for my son Christopher or my daughter Christina for reasons which are well known to them.”
“It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.”
“It is my intention to shut down the biologically toxic Space industry through scientific discovery.”
“It is my interpretation from the Koran that all people have equal rights. That means men and women, Muslims and non-Muslims too. Oppression doesn't exist in Islam. And in a society where all people have equal rights, that means all people should make decisions equally... This doesn't mean that we're changing God's law, It just means we're reinterpreting laws according to the development of science - and the realities of the times.”
“It is my job in life, apparently, to teach gawking, laughing girls lessons about kindness.”
Source: Holding Up the Universe
“It is my job in life to travel all roads, so that some may take the road less travelled, and others the road more travelled, and all have a pleasant day.”
“It is my job to make runs for the country and win. That is the job I have to do.”
“It is my job to make sure that these kids who are talented get every chance they can and not to be passed over; this is life or death for them.”
“It is my joy to share with present and future generations these stories so full of humor, warmth, and adventure – and so rich in the rural culture of the early 1900's.”
Source: The Little Alvernon Stories: Volume 2
“It is my judgment that any man or woman can do more to conform to the laws of God in one year in this life than they could do in ten years when they are dead. The spirit can only repent and change, and then the battle has to go forward with the flesh afterwards. It is much easier to overcome and serve the Lord when both flesh and spirit are combined as one. This is the time when men are more pliable and susceptible. We will find when we are dead every desire, every feeling will be greatly intensified. When clay is pliable it is much easier to change than when it gets hard and sets.”
“It is my judgment that had I spent the first two years trying to get a single-payer system, all those folks who now have health insurance that didn't have it would still be uninsured. And those are millions of people whose lives are impacted right now.”
“It is my judgment, therefore, that we should not make it difficult for the Gentiles who are turning to God”
“it is my lady! *sighs* o, it is my love! o, that she knew she were! she speaks, yet she sais nothing. what of that? her eye discourses; i will answer it. i am too bold, 'tis not to me she speaks; two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, having some business, do entreat her eyes to twinkle in their spheres till they return.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: From the text of Johnson, Steevens, and Reed: With the preface of Dr. Johnson, and a copious glossary. Complete in 1 volume
“It is my land, my home, my father's land, to which I now ask to be allowed to return. I want to spend my last days there, and be buried among those mountains. If this could be I might die in peace, feeling that my people, placed in their native homes, would increase in numbers, rather than diminish as at present, and that our name would not become extinct.”
Source: Geronimo's Story of His Life: As Told to S. M. Barrett
“It is my last night here, and I suddenly feel quite tearful, sitting up in my usual window.”
Source: Voyage on the Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady, R.M.S. Titanic, 1912
“It is my last wish to be burried sitting up.”
“It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.”
“It is my meditation all the day, and more than my meat and drink, to know how I shall make the Saints of God comprehend the visions that roll like an overflowing surge before my mind.”
“It is my melancholy fate to like so many people I profoundly disagree with and often heartily dislike people who agree with me.”
“It is my mind, with its store of images, that gives the world color and sound; and that supremely real and rational certainty which I can "experience" is, in its most simple form, an exceedingly complicated structure of mental images. Thus there is, in a certain sense, nothing that is directly experienced except the mind itself. Everything is mediated through the mind, translated, filtered, allegorized, twisted, even falsified by it. We are . . . enveloped in a cloud of changing and endlessly shifting images.”
Source: The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: The structure and dynamics of the psyche
“It is my mind, with its store of images, that gives the world colour and sound; and that supremely real and rational certainty which I call "experience" is, in its most simple form, an exceedingly complicated structure of mental images. Thus there is, in a certain sense, nothing that is directly experienced except the mind itself. Everything is mediated through the mind.”
“It is my misfortune - and probably my delight - to use things as my passions tell me. What a miserable fate for a painter who adores blondes to have to stop himself putting them into a picture because they don't go with the basket of fruit! . . . I put all the things I like into my pictures. The things - so much the worse for them. They just have to put up with it.”
Source: Picasso, Braque, Léger: masterpieces from Swiss collections
“It is my mission as a pilgrim to act as a messenger expressing spiritual truths. It is a task which I accept joyfully, and I desire nothing in return, neither praise or glory, nor the glitter of silver and gold. I simply rejoice to be able to follow the whisperings of a Higher Will.”
Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words
“It is my mission to change the world. I'm not kidding: Make no small plans, dream mighty things. I feel if we get enough people engaged in climate change, we will get enough people to change the world. We will revolutionize the way we produce electricity and provide clean water to people.”
“It is my mission to ensure that HIV-positive children and children with AIDS are no longer overlooked and that they begin receiving the treatment and care they deserve.”
“It is my mission to help in the breaking down of classes, and to make all men feel as if they were brethren of the same family, sharing the same rights, the same capabilities, and the same responsibilities. While my hand can hold a pen, I will use it to this end; and while my brain can earn a dollar, I will devote it to this end.”
“It is my mood which decides the weather, it is my mood which brings the tiny changes to humankind.”
“It is my most particular favourite type of dried leaves in hot water.”
“It is my nature to join in love, not hate.”
Source: Antigone
“It is my nature to strive to do my best. This does tend to take a toll on you.”
“It is my nature to thin where others read.”
“It is my necessary breath of life to understand and expression is the only justification of life that I can feel without prodding.”
Source: An Anthropologist at Work
“It is my object, in the following work, to travel over ground which has as yet been little explored and to make my reader acquainted with a species of Remains, which, though absolutely necessary for understanding the history of the globe, have been hitherto almost uniformly neglected.”
Source: Essay on the Theory of the Earth