I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I dare say you will try to make me believe that Editors are human. Now I deny that, for I myself have, in past days, had evidence to the contrary.”
Source: Caper-sauce: A Volume of Chit-chat about Men, Women, and Things
“I dare say, ladies and gentlemen, it's even worse in some people, it's worse than the mistake they make in just assuming that there is the world and everything in it, and then there's America. And this one special place just happened. No thought's given to how. No thought's given to replicating it, even. No, that's where it gets even worse. Where it gets even worse is that some of those who look at the United States for what it is, special, no place like it on earth. Want to tear it down for that specific reason just because it's unfair.”
“I dare suggest that the composer would do himself and his music an immediate and eventual service by total, resolute and voluntary withdrawal from this public world to one of private performance and electronic media.”
Source: The Collected Essays of Milton Babbitt
“I dare to be great. The man without imagination stands unhurt and hath no wings. This is my credo, this is my forte.”
“I dare to dream a dream, for tomorrow I shall make it my reality!”
Source: Impressions of My Mind: Tiny Reflections of Life!
“I dare to dream greatly; I dare to fail greatly. I dare to tolerate the ashes of my unfulfilled dreams, for I may dream again. I dare not tolerate the ashes of my unfulfilled life, for I may never live again.”
“I dare to dream, hope and cherish a life beyond these transitory portals of mortality.”
“I dare to hope that my compressed material, Packer packed as it is, might expand in readers minds to lift their hearts Godward in the way that a different form of hot airlifts balloons and their passengers skyward.”
Source: Concise Theology
“I dare to imagine a country where every child I hold in my hands, are all God's children, regardless of the color of their skin, regardless of whether they're boy or girl, regardless of religion, regardless of rich or poor, that every child I hold in my hands, will have the same chance to reach her full potential or his full potential. That is the goodness of our country. That is the essence of the American dream.”
“I dare to take my foundling hope as bone and drop it in the turbulent rise of your body.”
Source: rushes from the river disappointment (The Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series)
“I dare travel on a destiny defined path.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“I dare walk alone on my sacred path.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“I dare you all to write one more thing that you won't say to my face. Because I will make you say it. In that manner. That is a threat.”
“I dare you to be great! I challenge you to be great in every single thing you do!”
“I dare you to call Ask-A-Nurse and tell them you feel a presence in your womb region.”
“I dare you to look at the stars and remember all the promises the Holy One has whispered to you.”
Source: Thirsting for Water: Devotions to Awaken the Spirit and Quench the Thirsty
“I dare you to pray and you will see the power of the Almighty God.”
Source: Prayer: An Antidote for the Inner Man
“I dare you to read a book this weekend! War and Peace? To Kill a Mocking Bird? Catcher in the Rye? The Heart is a Lonely Hunter? For Whom the Bell Tolls? As i lay Dying? Giovanni's Room? The Bell Jar? These books changed my life. #artforfreedom #rebelheart”
“I dare you to say I’m not ugly.”
Source: Sing Me to Sleep
“I dare you to take a little pain. I dare you!”
“I dare you to take a risk on me, knowing that things won't always be the easiest and that I will struggle, although I have every intention of being the man you will always deserve.”
Source: Final Offer
“I dare you to try to shortcut success! It's not going to happen! There are no shortcuts to success!”
“I dare you to try trusting Jesus for 60 days. Or your money guaranteed back.”
“I dared not trust the case on the presumption that the court knows everything. In fact, I argued it on the presumption that the court didn't know anything.”
“I dared to dance along broken lines
and I cut myself -
only to rewrite the words with meaning.”
“I dared to look at eternity
and I lost all hope.”
“I dared to look at eternity
and I lost all hope;
for the things I keep
are fading
and the ones I never called mine
outgrew my own mind.”
“I dared to love your monster.
The wolf that gnashed its teeth.
I held it tightly in my arms.
Gently rocked it back to sleep.
But you simply were not ready
For a life without the beast,
And so instead, you walked away,
Choosing chaos over peace.”
“I dared, for the first and last time in my life, to express a theological conclusion: "But how can a necessary being exist totally polluted with the possible? What difference is there, then, between God and primogenial chaos? Isn't affirming God's absolute omnipotence and His absolute freedom with regard to His own choices tantamount to demonstrating that God does not exist?”
“I daren't come and drink," said Jill. Then you will die of thirst," said the Lion. Oh dear!" said Jill, coming another step nearer."I suppose I must go and look for another stream then." There is no other stream," said the Lion.”
Source: A Year with Aslan: Daily Reflections from The Chronicles of Narnia
“I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.”
Source: The Message To The Planet
“I daresay Freddy might not be a great hand at slaying dragons- but one has not the smallest need of a man who can kill dragons!”
“I daresay I was the worst bed partner in five continents.”
Source: The letters of Martha Gellhorn
“I daresay it seems foolish; perhaps all our earthly trials will appear foolish to us after a while; perhaps they seem so now to angels. But we are ourselves, you know, and this is now, not some time to come, a long, long way off. And we are not angels, to be comforted by seeing the ends for which everything is sent.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)
“I daresay one good concert justifies a week of satisfaction at home.”
“I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody else's advice.”
“I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.”
Source: Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)
“I daresay that your son or daughter has been sent as an answer to someone’s cry and that the enemy sees the greatness and the deliverer in him or her and is trying to prevent them from entering the world.”
“I daresay you care more about sleep than entertainment,” Sebastian said.
“Sleep is my entertainment.”
Source: Dearest Josephine
“I darted a contemptuous look at the stately models of superstition.”
“I darted away from Geir and jmped through the gaping hole in the wall Will's body had made. The settling dust choked me, but I made it through and ran to Will. He was struggling to his feet, leaning heavily on his sword as the point dug into the cold ground. When I reached him, I dropped my swords and wrapped my arms around his chest.
"I've got you," I said, helping him lift his torso the rest of the way up. I heard a sickening snap in his chest as he groaned, and I knew something was broken. He buried his face into my shoulder and growled in pain.”
Source: Angelfire
“I darted my eyes to hers. “Don’t let me go,” I told her, breathing hard. “No matter what you hear or what they say, don’t let me go.”
Source: Kill Switch
“I dashed to the library at the first opportunity; I refer to the venerable library of the University of Turin's Chemical Institute, at that time, like Mecca, impenetrable to infidels and even hard to
penetrate for such faithful as I. One had to think that the administration followed the wise principle according to which it is good to discourage the arts and sciences: only someone impelled by absolute necessity, or by an overwhelming passion, would willingly subject himself to the trials of abnegation that were demanded of him in order to consult the volumes. The library's schedule was brief and irrational, the lighting dim, the file cards in disorder; in the winter, no heat; no chairs but uncomfortable and noisy metal stools; and finally, the librarian was an incompetent, insolent boor of exceeding ugliness.”
Source: The periodic table
“I date guys who are five, 10, 15 years older than I am.”
“I date older men, and I date younger men. I have no rules about that.”
“I date this girl for two years-and then the nagging starts: 'I wanna know your name...'”
“I date, but the person I date most is myself, unfortunately.”
“I dated a guy for over a year who lied about his age the entire time. I found out after the fact and couldn't believe it! I even threw him a birthday party for the wrong age... I couldn't get over how hard he had tried to keep it a secret!”
“I dated a guy who played bad guys in movies all the time, and I think he was just a bad guy.”
“I dated a lot of girls all through high school, and in college I dated a young lady for about eight months.”