I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I did not know then, however, as I do now, the strongest reason for distrust. The gods never send us this invitation to delight so readily or so strongly as when they are preparing some new agony. We are their bubbles; they blow us up big before they prick us.”
Source: Till We Have Faces
“I did not know then that this is what life is - just when you master the geometry of one world, it slips away, and suddenly again, you're swarmed by strange shapes and impossible angles.”
Source: The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood
“I did not know there was any controversy. I don't get a lot of time to read the fan forums, etc. I was thrilled to have the opportunity to have more storylines. I was just so happy to step in and pick up some of the slack for Emily while she was pregnant. It was so important for Emily to concentrate on her health and the well-being of her baby. In the end ... she is a great mother and her baby is adorable. I did not realize there was any controversy. LOL!”
“I did not know till now how irresolute a character was mine.”
Source: Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh
“I did not know what breath meant until she died. It was everything that gave me quickness and life: it was thought, feeling, animation. Without it there was nothing.”
Source: Birdcage Walk
“I did not know what desire was until I saw you," she said to him.”
Source: Love on a Midsummer Night
“I did not know what it was to be happy for a whole day at a time, scarcely for an hour.”
“I did not know what my future was going to hold.”
“I did not know what to do when adults cried. It was something I had only seen twice before in my life: I had seen my grandparents cry, when my aunt had died, in hospital, and I had seen my mother cry. Adults should not weep, I knew. They did not have mothers who would comfort them.”
Source: The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“I did not know what to do with all that twenty-year old want, and who ever does?”
Source: Committed: A Memoir of Finding Meaning in Madness
“I did not know what to say to him. I felt awkward and blundering. I did not know how I could reach him, where I could overtake him and go on hand in hand with him once more.”
Source: The Little Prince
“I did not know what was in her that was mine, that I was searching for throughout my life.”
Source: Hang My Heart on the Shadows of Light: A Novel
“I did not know where to begin nor where to end, that's the truth of the matter.”
Source: First Love and Other Novellas
“I did not know whether I would ever speak to her or not or, if I spoke to her, how I could tell her of my confused adoration. But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.”
Source: Dubliners
“I did not know whether my wife was alive, and I had no means of finding out (during all my prison life there was no outgoing or incoming mail); but at that moment it ceased to matter. There was no need for me to know; nothing could touch the strength of my love, my thought, and the image of my beloved.”
Source: Man's Search for Meaning
“I did not know whose blood it was.
It was cold in my veins,
and I feared it would make me cold, too.”
Source: Love in Communism: A Young Woman's Adult Story
“I did not learn my theology all at once, but had to search constantly deeper and deeper for it. My temptations did that for me, for no one can understand Holy Scripture without practice and temptations...I t is not by reading, writing, or speculation that one becomes a theologian. Nay, rather, it is living, dying, and being damned that makes one a theologian.”
“I did not like 'The Hurt Locker.' It's a lazy way to make a movie, frankly. I could put you on the edge of your seat quite easily, and have you feel the tension for 2 hours, if every other scene practically is, 'Should we cut the red wire or the green wire?'”
“I did not like [Pablo Escobar] actions because I did not think it was right to have bombs placed in a non-discriminatory fashion throughout the entire country.”
“I did not like leaving them when they were little or big. You have to have priorities regarding what you will allow to take you away from your kid.”
“I did not like prizes at school. I didn't like tests or exams, or the 11+, or O-levels. Later I hated B.A.s and M.A.s. The reason I hated them is that I don't like being tested, failed or falsely praised by anyone.”
“I did not like that name "world music" in the beginning. I think that African music must get more respect than to be put in a ghetto like that. We have something to give to others. When you look to how African music is built, when you understand this kind of music, you can understand that a lot of all this modern music that you are hearing in the world has similarities to African music. It's like the origin of a lot of kinds of music.”
“I did not like the large amount of lightning in Florida.”
“I did not like the look of him at all. Something significantly ill-omened which I could not yet define emanated from him.”
Source: The Black Prince
“I did not like the man [Niels Bohr] when you showed him to me, with his hair all overhis head.”
“I did not like the nothing, and it is thus that I met the empty, the deep empty, the depth of the blue.”
“I did not like the way I looked in a pair of white pants.”
“I did not like this feeling of having feelings.”
Source: Darkly Dreaming Dexter
“I did not listen to the Beatles or watch Ed Sullivan on TV. I wasn't interested in fun or popularity back then.”
Source: Eileen
“I did not look for a work of art every time I went to a cinema. In fact, I doubt I could have learnt very much if I had seen nothing but masterpieces. - Satyajit Ray in Deep Focus.”
Source: Deep Focus: Reflections On Cinema
“I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually.”
“I did not lose her
The world won her
In myriad ways
私は彼女を失いませんでした
世界が彼女を勝ち取った
無数の方法で
मैंने उसे खोया नहीं
दुनियां ने उसे पा लिया”
“I did not lose myself all at once.”
Source: The Joy Luck Club
“I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water.”
Source: The Joy Luck Club
“I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.”
“I did not love cold harmony and perfect regularity of organization; what I sought was variety, mystery, tradition, the venerable, the awful. I despised sophisters and calculators; I was groping for faith, honor, and prescriptive loyalties. I would have given any number of neo-classical pediments for one poor battered gargoyle.”
Source: The Essential Russell Kirk: Selected Essays
“I did not love you out or boredom or loneliness or caprice. I loved you because the desire for you was stronger than any happiness.”
Source: Ocean Sea
“I did not make a pie,” Alec repeated, gesturing expressively with one hand, “for three reasons. One, because I do not have any pie ingredients. Two, because I don’t actually
know how to make a pie.”
He paused, clearly waiting.
Removing his sword and leaning it against the cave wall, Jace said warily, “And three?”
“Because I am not your bitch,” Alec said, clearly pleased with himself.”
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
“I did not make any big speeches but acted upon working against corruption.”
“I did not make any of the correct political reflections. I never do when things are happening. It seems to be always the case when I get mixed up in war or politics. I am conscious of nothing save physical discomfort and a deep desire for this damn nonsense to be over. Afterwards I can see the significance of events but while they're happening I merely want to be out of them.”
Source: Homage to Catalonia
“I did not make this film about Frank Abagnale because of what he did . . but because of what he has done with his life the past 30 years.”
“I did not marry the first girl that I fell in love with, because there was a tremendous religious conflict, at the time. She was an atheist, and I was an agnostic.”
“I did not matter what distant iron city had raised him. He had been made by Sorry-in-the-Vale, his bones as much a part of it as the valley and the woods. It was as if she had the whole town spread underneath her. Or the whole world, since right then he was the only part of it that mattered.”
Source: Untold
“I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative. I believe that to be so obvious and undeniable a fact that I hardly think any hon. Gentleman will question it.”
“I did not mean to argue that gender is fluid and changeable (mine certainly is not). I only meant to say that we should all have greater freedoms to define and pursue our lives without pathologization, de-realization, harassment, threats of violence, violence, and criminalization. I join in the struggle to realize such a world.”
“I did not mean to suggest that autism could be traced to Neanderthal genes. The point is that some genes that have been implicated in autism changed pretty significantly between the time Neanderthal line and human line split.”
“I did not mind the public criticism. That sort of thing has not changed any program I thought was good.”
“I did not move into developing or processing color. I stayed with black and white. I still think to this day that I prefer to work in black and white if it has to do with poetry or anything other than specific reality. I have worked in color when I thought it was the appropriate way to express the thought that I was working on”
“I did not myself know what I wanted: I feared life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped something of it.”
Source: A Confession: Easyread Edition
“I did not myself set a high estimation on wealth, and had the affectation of most young men of lively imagination, who suppose that they can better dispense with the possession of money, than resign their time and faculties to the labour necessary to acquire it.”
Source: The Complete Novels of Sir Walter Scott: Waverly, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, The Pirate, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering, The Antiquary, The Heart of Midlothian and many more (Illustrated): The Betrothed, The Talisman, Black Dwarf, The Monastery, The Abbot, Kenilworth, Peveril of the Peak, A Legend of Montrose, The Fortunes of Nigel, Tales from Benedictine Sources…