I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I deliver my Truth hot and hard.”
“I deliver very traditionally, and people aren't threatened. I think if I cursed or seemed wilder, I couldn't get away with the amount of very opinionated politics I get away with.”
“I delivered a clear and forceful message that although we recognize Russia's intelligence gathering will sometimes take place even if we don't like it, there's a difference between that than either meddling with elections or going after private organizations or commercial entities, and that we're monitoring it carefully, and we will respond appropriately if and when we see this happening.”
“I delivered leaflets for my dad and was paid £5 per thousand, which was slave labour.”
“I delivered lectures, and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance, both private equity and big venture capital funds.”
“I delivered my son. There were other people with me, but I was actively involved.”
“I delve into the mysterious and counterintuitive world of helmets and high-visibility gear later in the book. But it's worth immediately noting this: while they're not inherently bad, they're less a safety device for cycling than a symptom of a road network where no cyclist can truly feel safe.”
Source: How Cycling Can Save the World
“I demand a lot of myself. I want to learn. I can't sit back. I like a challenge, so I create a lot of challenges for myself.”
“I demand excellence from the people I work with.”
“I demand for the unmarried mother, as a sacred channel of life, the same reverence and respect as for the married mother; for Maternity is a cosmic thing and once it has come to pass, our conversation must not be permitted to blaspheme it.”
“I demand from you deeds of mercy which are to arise out of love for me. You are to show mercy to your neighbors always and everywhere. You must not shrink from this or try to excuse yourself from it.”
“I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles.”
Source: The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy
“I demand minimal for paid rehearsal and not always six weeks either.”
“I demand more from myself than anybody could ever expect.”
“I demand my kids be respectful, responsible and grateful. And they have to love the Lord with all their hearts.”
“I demand my right to a private life, just as I respect that right for everybody else.”
“I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character ... by which to distinguish between Man and Ape. I myself most assuredly know of none. I wish somebody would indicate one to me. But, if I had called man an ape, or vice versa, I would have fallen under the ban of all the ecclesiastics. It may be that as a naturalist I ought to have done so.”
“I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character... by which to distinguish between Man and Ape. I myself most assuredly know of none.”
“I demand perfection in what I do, and I practice very hard before I give a concert-sometimes three to six hours a day.”
“I demand pretty aggressive goal setting and a commitment to measured progress towards those goals because I don't like surprises. I don't even like good surprises.”
“I demand riches in definite terms; I have a definite plan for acquiring riches;I am engaged in carrying out my plan, and I am giving an equivalent,in useful service, of the value of those riches I demand.”
“I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema. I am not at all interested in anything in between.”
“I demand that every Storm Troop Leader, just as every political leader, should be conscious of the fact that his behavior and conduct must be exemplary. . . . I wish every mother to give her son to The Party without fearing that he may be ruined morally. . . . Storm Troop Leaders who behave unworthily in public are to be mercilessly removed.”
“I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style.”
“I demand the best. Sleep is forbidden. If you work for me, you have to roll how I roll. Im not really human. Im like a machine.”
“I demand the independence of woman, her right to support herself; to live for herself; to love whomever she pleases, or as many as she pleases. I demand freedom for both sexes, freedom of action, freedom in love and freedom in motherhood.”
Source: Emma Goldman: Made for America, 1890-1901
“I demand wisdom from my fingers: at least they must sound human, and not like spoons and forks! The piano, however, is not a human being. It lies halfway between a friend and a rock. More responsive than a rock. More predictable than a friend.”
Source: Figure It Out
“I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with.”
“I demanded two weeks of rehearsal because to me as an actor, that's the most important time.”
“I demolish my bridges behind me - then there is no choice but forward.”
“I demolish my bridges behind me...then there is no choice but to move forward”
“I demoted him from The Best Man Ever to just The Best Man I’d Ever Met. Superman would have charged out (hell, he’d have flown) to get Lois Lane cookies. I was pretty sure of it.”
Source: Rock Chick Revenge
“I denied Discordia and regret nothing; I have spat into the bodiless eyes of the Crimson King and rejoice; I threw my lot with the gunslinger and the White and never once questioned the choice.”
Source: The Dark Tower
“I denied it,
this new land. But love, I’ll concede this:
whatever state you are, I’ll be that state’s bird,
the loud, obvious blur of song people point to
when they wonder where it is you’ve gone.”
Source: Bright Dead Things
“I denne Skiærsmissel det artig tilgik,
Hver toge til takke den skade de fik,
Og ingen lod anden anmode;
Thi den Harpunerer behote sit Spiud,
Og Hvalen beholte sit Spæk og sin Hud,
De skiltes ad Venner og gode.”
Source: The Trumpet of Nordland
“I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point of invisibility. And I defend because in spite of all I find that I love. In order to get some of it down I have to love... too much of your life will be lost, its meaning lost, unless you approach it as much through love as through hate.”
Source: Invisible Man
“I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point of invisibility. And I defend because in spite of it all, I find that I love.”
Source: Invisible Man
“I denounced Donald Trump for not denouncing the kind of vitriol, the kind of violence that he has perpetrated with his angry rhetoric. And he knows exactly what he's doing. This is not the Donald Trump who denounced David Duke in 1991. This is a guy who's now soaking up this hate and his spilling it back out.”
“I deny being a slave to any one thing. In any situation we can choose who we are and choose who we want to be.”
Source: Flame in the Mist
“I deny nothing, but doubt everything.”
“I deny that art can be taught, or, in other words, maintain that art is completely individual, and that the talent of each artist is but the result of his own inspiration and his own study of past tradition.”
“I deny that either singers or conductors can "create" or work creatively - this, as I have always said, is a conception that leads to the abyss.”
“I deny that one's rational will can be undermined by physical sensation," she said. "One's brain is always in charge." Leo couldn't prevent the mocking smile that rose to his lips. "Good God, Marks. Obviously you've never participated in the act, or you would know that the major organ in charge is not the brain. In fact, the brain ceases working altogether."
- Cat & Leo”
Source: Married by Morning
“I deny that there's such a thing as a gay person. I deny there's such a thing as a heterosexual person.”
“I deny the fact that when I kill time, time is actually killing me”
Source: Amigo Warfare
“I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences, you are to tell the truth.”
Source: The table talk of Samuel Johnson
“I deny the power of the general government to making paper money, or anything else a legal tender.”
“I deny the resurrection every time I turn my back on the poor or become a cog in a system of injustice”
“I deny the right of Congress to force a slaveholding State upon an unwilling people. I deny their right to force a free State upon an unwilling people. I deny their right to force a good thing upon a people who are unwilling to receive it. The great principle is the right of every community to judge and decide for itself, whether a thing is right or wrong, whether it would be good or evil for them to adopt it; and the right of free action, the right of free thought, the right of free judgment upon the question is dearer to every true American than any other under a free government.”
Source: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
“I depart from life as from an inn, and not as from my home.
[Lat., Ex vita discedo, tanquam ex hospitio, non tanquam ex domo.]”