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 want to be mistreated, I did not want to be deprived of a seat that I had paid for. It was just time… there was opportunity for me to take a stand to express the way I felt about being treated in that manner. I had not planned to get arrested. I had plenty to do without having to end up in jail. But when I had to face that decision, I didn't hesitate to do so because I felt that we had endured that too long. The more we gave in, the more we complied with that kind of treatment, the more oppressive it became.”
“I did not want to be taken for a fool-the typical French reason for performing the worst of deeds without remorse.”
“I did not want to be the accompanist to an operatic star. But I was at a very high level for a 16-year-old, and I maintained that. So really good, but more impressive than classically trained. So I had to take a crash course in classical technique because I really wanted to get away with playing this character [in Florence Foster Jenkins] without people saying, "That's not really accurate."”
“I did not want to be the best black man of the year; I wanted to be the best man of the year.”
“I did not want to be the stereotype of either Bollywood or what Indian actors are usually offered. The exotic, beautiful girl, or the academically inclined nerd. And I wanted to play a lead... I didn't settle for less.”
“I did not want to die, but desperately wanted to be anywhere but there; the pain was unbearable. Yet in that vision, or whatever it was, I felt that the intertwined knots were the connections with the people we loved, and that nothing else could have kept us in this world.”
Source: Why Religion? A Personal Story
“I did not want to die.
I did not want to be eaten.
I did not want to go into that sweet darkness.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“I did not want to fight. I had to fight. If I didn’t, everyone else would have picked on me. Not only would I have had one bully, but maybe two, three, four or who knows how many. I had to do what I had to do since the principal, assistant principal, and my teachers weren’t doing anything about it.”
Source: Teachers Just Don't Understand Bullying Hurts
“I did not want to leave her, but this was it, this is what life is, you have to pay for everything that has happened to you. Whether good or bad you have to pay for it, it would be anything, or something or someone you love.”
Source: Friendship, Love & Sacrifice
“I did not want to leave the Mets and I did not want to leave New York.”
“I did not want to let this opportunity pass, and I took the responsibility to prepare myself. I did it in the earnest. It was a penance of six months. I would regularly wake up at 4 a.m. to brush up my knowledge of launch vehicle technologies and systems and prepare myself... I firmly believed that even if I did not make it, my learning would never go to waste.”
Source: My Odyssey: Memoirs of the Man behind the Mangalyaan Mission
“I did not want to live out my life in the strenuous effort to hold a ghost world together. It was plain as the stars that time herself moved in grand tidal sweeps rather than the tick-tocks we suffocate within, and that I must reshape myself to fully inhabit the earth rather than dawdle in the sump of my foibles.”
Source: Julip: A Novel
“I did not want to lose sight of the fact that for every criminal I have to deal with, no matter how big or small the crime, there is a victim involved. Those victims are the ones that I will strive to serve as an [police] officer.”
Source: Victims and Survivors
“I did not want to make the widow record. I still haven't made the widow record.”
“I did not want to move. For I had the feeling that this was a place, once seen, that could not be seen again. If I left and then came back, it would not be the same; no matter how many times I might return to this particular spot the place and feeling would never be the same, something would be lost or something would be added, and there never would exist again, through all eternity, all the integrated factors that made it what it was in this magic moment.”
Source: Cemetery World
“I did not want to provide a blueprint or roadmap for the terrorists, saying 'Here are our new security procedures'.”
“I did not want to put myself on the line, as an Australian playing Britains greatest comic actor. The fans of Sellers are obsessive, possessive - and aggressive. I did not want to risk their anger - or my own reputation.”
“I did not want to raise a genetically compromised child. I did not want my children to have to contend with the massive diversion of parental attention, and the consequences of being compelled to care for their brother after I died. I wanted a genetically perfect baby, and because that was something I could control, I chose to end his life.”
“I did not want to reject religion as nonsense because life seemed to have no ultimate purpose without it, and most of the good people I knew were Christians.”
“I did not want to spend days on end in a car with someone who made no secret of not liking me, even though he got along with almost everyone else. Something about the two of us was like mixing Diet Coke and Mentos—guaranteed instant eruption”
Source: Conventionally Yours
“I did not want to spend my time reading about people who never were, doing things they never did.”
Source: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
“I did not want to think so much about her. I wanted to take her as an unexpected, delightful gift, that had come and would go again — nothing more. I meant not to give room to the thought that it could ever be more. I knew too well that all love has the desire for eternity and that therein lies its eternal torment. Nothing lasts. Nothing.”
“I did not want to turn to playing golf because golf is about as much exercise as shuffling cards.”
Source: Time Flies
“I did not want to write a story about the invasion of Earth, so I had to create a race capable of living nearby, which meant to either on the Moon, on Mars, or on Venus. I picked Venus.”
“I did not want to write, but I had to resign myself to it in the end.”
Source: Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
“I did not want vocal groups. I was not interested in singing with a group because there's too much problem with groups in the first place.”
“I did not want windows, only skylights. I chose my painting wall as it has the best morning light.”
“I did not wanted to become the victim, so became the bully.”
“I did not weep, and it pained me that i could not weep. But I had no more tears. And, in the depths of my being, in the recesses of my weakened conscience, could I have searched it, I might perhaps have found something like--free at last!”
Source: Night
“I did not willingly let half of my soul leave my body. It was torn from me. I still hear the ransomed moans. It calls to me for rescue, yet clings to its abductor.”
Source: Abandoned Breaths
“I did not win and in fact I was called into the principal's office for a consultation with my parents. But that was the beginning of my literary career.”
“I did not worry about what a man or woman personally believed, but the nation's official religion should be outwardly practiced by all its citizens. A religion was a political statement. Being a Calvinist, a papist, a Presbyterian, an Anglican labeled a person's philosophy on education, taxes, poor relief, and other secular things. The nation needed an accepted position on such concerns. Hence the fines for not outwardly conforming to the national church.”
Source: Elizabeth I
“I did not write about that kind of insecurity and anxiety between myself and my brothers, because my father was the dominant male figure as I was growing up in that home.”
“I did not write half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed”
“I did not write it [Coming of Age in Samoa] as a popular book, but only with the hope that it would be intelligible to those who might make the best use of its theme, that adolescence need not be the time of stress and strain which Western society made it; that growing up could be freer and easier and less complicated; and also that there were prices to pay for the very lack of complication I found in Samoa - less intensity, less individuality, less involvement with life.”
“I did not, however, commit suicide, because I wished to know more of mathematics.”
Source: Autobiography
“I did not, I could not and I will never invite Obote, ... This is because Obote is someone who made a lot of mistakes in our history.”
“I did not, like my children and people today, grow up with television as part of my life.”
“I did not, thank the Lord, have to have a hysterectomy.”
“I did nothing but work. I made work my hobby. I was lucky that way.”
“I did nothing that I might not have done better.”
“I did nothing to deserve God's love; in fact, I was living as an orphan, without hope. Yet God chose to pursue a relationship with me, and through the death of his son Jesus, I was adopted into God's family.”
“I did nothing to prepare. If I was not ready now, when would I be? I did not even walk up to the peak. He could come here, upon my yellow sands, and face me where I stood.
"Father", I said, into the air, "I would speak with you.”
Source: Circe
“I did nothing wrongEverything I've done at this university I did the right way.”
“I did nothing. The Word did it all.”
Source: The eight Wittenberg sermons, 1522 ...
“i did'nt even mind her when she was with me,
she cared, but i did'nt,
i was so addicted to her,
i concealed, never showed,
and now,
so far,
so close, no one knows”
“I did, of course, on both counts, and started going out with the boy I lost my virginity to - all of it. He lost his to me too, except that neither of us felt we had lost anything - just discovered the meaning of life and love and everything else unnecessary in between.”
Source: This is Not My Beautiful Life: Love, Happiness and Other Great Expectations
“I did once leave one of [my kid] watching something on YouTube, something completely innocuous, and I went out of the room and the algorithm kept playing the next thing and the next thing and somehow worked its way around to showing him the trailer for John Carpenter's The Thing - at which point I walked back in. He wasn't happy.”
“I did once shatter a chandelier. I was singing with my college choir in Wales. I was the soloist and I hit the high note and there was this massive bang and all this glass came down from the ceiling. I'd like that to be my party trick if I can perfect it.”
“I did one interview with the Atlantic. It was very interesting; I could write an entire book on that one experience. I've never had any type of public persona outside of the face recognition I have with this job, so I was really ill prepared to have this conversation. I think the real story was that it became a source for a flurry of other derivative stories. I remember the Post headline said "Marcarelli's Bizarre Life," which to me is code for gay, primarily.”