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 need an unstable relationship to teach me about the evils of broken promises. I had parents for that.”
“I did not need the air, but I liked it.”
Source: Breaking Dawn
“I did not need the chair, but I did need to be reminded that kindness lurks in even the weirdest little places.”
“I did not need to be 100% to do an event. I just had to be honest about where I was at.”
“I did not need to be perfect to be loved. I only needed to be seen.”
Source: The Quiet Between Us
“I did not need to know if he could love me. I needed to know if he could need me.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel
“I did not oppose unification, I knew unification would have to come, but not in the form in which it did come. There were two ways of doing it and they took it the radical way, the forceful way.”
“I did not particularly enjoy modeling. I felt I was only utilizing 10 or 20 percent of my abilities. In India, it's just another job.”
“I did not permit you to move, nor did I permit you to breathe.”
“I did not plan to have such a career in the fashion world. All that I wanted, was to have ten kids and raise them!”
“I did not plan to make the Cube.”
“I did not practice hours a day for eighteen years to have my success attributed to a myth.”
“I did not pray for any relief, but I prayed for strength to suffer with courage, humility and love.”
Source: The Practice of the Presence of God
“I did not pray Him to lay bare
The mystery to me,
Enough the rose was Heaven to smell,
And His own face to see.”
Source: Collected Poems
“I did not pretend to be a mortal. I showed my lambent, yellow eyes at every turn. None of it made a difference. I was alone and a woman, that was all that mattered.”
Source: Circe
“I did not raise my son, Sam, to celebrate Mother's Day. I didn't want him to feel some obligation to buy me pricey lunches or flowers, some annual display of gratitude that you have to grit your teeth and endure.”
“I did not read from a sense of superiority, or advancement, or even learning. I read because I loved it more than any other activity on earth.”
Source: How Reading Changed My Life
“I did not read Gone with the Wind, although I've seen the movie, and I read every book on Margaret Mitchell.”
“I did not read the Bible today. I am not very good at being religious and don't really feel too bad about not being too good. I do wish that I loved God and His creatures more.”
“I did not realise that when money becomes the core value, then education drives towards utility or that the life or the mind will not be counted as good unless it produces measurable results. That public services will no longer be important. That an alternative life to getting and spending will become very difficult as cheap housing disappears. That when communities are destroyed only misery and intolerance are left.”
Source: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
“I did not realize at the time, as I have discovered since, that anyone who attempts any thing original in this world must expect a bit of ridicule. Clarence Birdseye”
Source: Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man
“I did not realize how corrupt the USA was until I started interacting with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regarding illegal activities.”
“I did not realize that when money becomes a core value, then education drives towards utility or that the life of the mind will not be counted as good unless it produces measurable results. That public services will no longer be important. That an alternative life to getting and spending will become very difficult as cheap housing disappears. That when communities are destroyed only misery and intolerance are left.”
Source: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
“I did not really listen, fixing my eyes on the nearest tapestry, which showed a white unicorn sitting with its front hooves in the lap of a fair-haired maiden in a gorgeous medieval gown. The embroidered grass was studded with flowers, and the two overarching trees were hung with pomegranates. Small beasts- rabbits and squirrels and badgers- watched from the shelter of the forest, not noticing the hunters creeping closer with their dogs and spears. I stared at this tapestry for an hour every day and still I found new things in it- a nest of baby birds, a hunter who looked sad, a ladybird on a leaf.”
Source: Bitter Greens
“I did not recognise the man at the door and, in split-second time, I pointed the barrel of the fearsome looking weapon to the downstairs living room window, blew that out and then levelled it at the bedroom window above, and blew that out. The owner of the property literally shit his pants and slammed the door.”
Source: Psycho Steve
“I did not run away, I walked away by daylight….”
Source: Narrative of Sojourner Truth
“I did not run for office to be helping out a bunch of, you know, fat cat bankers on Wall Street.”
“I did not say anything. I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stock yards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.”
Source: A Farewell to Arms
“I did not say I liked politics. I hate them. I scorn them. I do not call upon you to like them or even respect them. I am simply telling you: DON'T IGNORE THEM.”
Source: Babi Yar, a Documentary Novel Complete, as Originally Published in Russia
“I did not say that language as a completed system emerged in an individual in an instant. But I cannot think of a coherent alternative to the idea that mutations take place in individuals, not communities, so that whatever rewiring of the brain yielded the apparently unique properties of language, specifically recursive generation of hierarchically structured expressions, would therefore have taken place in an individual, and only later been used among individuals who had inherited this capacity.”
“I did not see any major issues other than the jury substitutions. I can't know whether there's a problem there, until I read the transcript from the in-chambers conference, when those jurors were excused.”
“I did not see any way that I could possibly give birth to someone else and also give birth to myself. Far from feeling guilty, it was the first time that I had taken responsibility for my own life.”
“I did not see Pirahã teenagers moping, sleeping in late, refusing to accept responsibility for their own actions, or trying out what they considered to be radically new approaches to life. They in fact are highly productive and conformist members of their community in the Pirahã sense of productivity (good fishermen, contributing generally to the security, food needs, and other aspects of the physical survival of the community). One gets no sense of teenage angst, depression, or insecurity among the Pirahã youth. They do not seem to be searching for answers. They have them. And new questions rarely arise.”
Source: Don't Sleep, There are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
“I did not see that there was much more I could do for Jeff. He was now totally in the hands of other people. They would decide what he wore, what he ate, where he slept, what medication, if, any, he received. My fatherly duties had been reduced to the provision of a few small services, none of them basic. As a father, my role had almost disappeared.”
“I did not see the sense in chasing a little white ball around a field.”
“I did not set out to be a poster child for anything. I saw a mountain. I wanted to climb it.”
“I did not set out to be beloved and just, only strong." 'A King can be better than that," the Prince insisted. "And so we all begin, determined to better our fathers' performances, knowing we can change the very nature of humanity, make it better, cleaner. But then daggers strike in the night, and peasants revolt, and all manner of atrocities become a necessity as breakfast. Only Princes believe in the greater good. Kings know there is only Reign, and all things may be committed in its holy name.”
“I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.”
“I did not set out to explain the extinction of the dinosaurs. I'm a particle physicist, and I was actually thinking about dark matter along with some collaborators.”
“I did not set out to write another novel. One day I sat down with the thought of trying my hand at a piece of nonfiction, a personal memoir of youth, but over the next several weeks, without intending it, the work began evolving into what has become 'Tomcat in Love.”
“I did not share the enthusiasm of certain politicians for the National Front leader, it was because I had noticed, in the past, some strange contradictions between Mossadeq's declared ends and his actions. Officially he defended nationalist anti-colonialism and was the most intransigent patriot who declared that no concessions or advantages should be granted to foreign powers. He described his doctrine as a "negative balance" and in fact his greatest failing was that he was negative.”
“I did not slaughter any squalling babes, Sefa,” I said. Timur was a fully grown adult when I drowned him.”
Source: The Jasad Heir
“I did not sleep. I never do when I am over-happy, over-unhappy, or in bed with a strange man.”
“I did not speak. I have found in any Q&A, in court, in witness interviews, wherever, often the best thing you can do is wait, say nothing. The witness will want to fill the awkward silence. He will feel a vague compassion to keep talking, to prove he is not holding back, to prove he is smart and in the know, to earn your trust.”
Source: Defending Jacob
“I did not start IC and Inteam to have control over my music. I had control before and after.”
“I did not steal because I needed to. I stole to feed my insatiable ambition for influence.”
Source: The Thief and the Patriot
“I did not steal other people's work! I may have appropriated some styles, but I did not steal. My work is full... of homages to everyone in my medium - not theft!”
“I did not stop dancing; I did take two years off to get myself together.”
“I did not study science at school until I was 13, when I was totally turned on by a seemingly dreary old teacher who suddenly, unannounced, manufactured a huge explosion in the middle of a totally boring monologue. From then on, all of his class wanted to make explosions.”
“I did not succeed in everything I did. And even where it did seem I was succeeding it was not always the case. The human heart has a million facets.”