I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I didn't expect to recover from my second operation but since I did, I consider that I'm living on borrowed time. Every day that dawns is a gift to me and I take it in that way. I accept it gratefully without looking beyond it. I completely forget my physical suffering and all the unpleasantness of my present condition and I think only of the joy of seeing the sun rise once more and of being able to work a little bit, even under difficult conditions.”
“I didn't express my hurt because I didn't want to hurt you back by telling you that you need to behave better with me.”
“I didn't fail the test. I just found 100 different ways to do it wrong.”
“I didn’t fall in love with him, I fell into him, like gravity had been waiting for us all along.”
Source: The Sorceress of the crystal forest: A Dark Romantasy of Desire and Power
“I didn’t fall in love with you because of the sex. I had sex with you because of the love.”
Source: The Vow
“I didn't father two wonderful healthy daughters in order to miss my show because I'm getting more naan from the kitchen, Laura.'
'Stop pretending to be sexist, Dad. No one's falling for it. We know you're just lazy.”
Source: How to Be Second Best
“I didn’t fear you. I feared us. I feared what could have been. I feared what could be. I feared the connection we had between each other. The toxicity because I could grasp the danger.”
“I didn't feel anything at first when Miss Ethel told me, but now I think about it all the time. It's like there's a baby girl down here waiting to be born. She's somewhere close by in the air, in this house, and she picked me to be born to. And now she has to find some other mother." Cee began to sob.
"Come on girl. Don't cry," whispered Frank.
"Why not? I can be miserable if I want to. You don't need to try and make it go away. It shouldn't go away. It's just as sad as it ought to be and I'm not going to hide from what's true just because it hurts.”
Source: Home
“I didn't feel like I had control over anything else in my life, but food was something I could control, so I did.”
Source: Zayn
“I didn't feel lonely until there was something to yearn for. Loneliness and longing are two sides of the same coin.”
Source: The Ringmaster's Daughter
“I didn't feel strong. I felt like a big ball of wuss that wanted to curl up in my bed and never get out.”
Source: Black Oil, Red Blood
“I didn't feel that the pain had faded with time, but that I had become strong enough to bear it.”
Source: New Moon
“I didn't feel very lucky. Why me, I kept asking myself. Why had this happened to me?”
Source: Remember Remember
“I didn’t fight the world;
I silenced the one,
For whom it sang!”
Source: On My Way To Infinity: A Seeker's Poetic Pilgrimage
“I didn't figure things out, either, you know. So if you'e an idiot, I guess that makes two of us."
He seems relieved to hear me say that. I guess idiots love company.”
Source: Hallowed
“I didn't find out until I became a father. You don't just LOVE your children. You FALL in love with them.”
“I didn't find you .. I just got tripped in your destiny ...”
“I didn’t force you to be with me. I opened my heart, I gave my time, I trusted you when no one was even ready to listen to you, and you wasted it all, ruined it all. I stayed through your selfishness, I hoped through your lies, I forgave through your carelessness, and not once did you ever deserve any of it. The truth is, losing me isn’t your loss, it’s just life finally showing you what you were never worthy of because you are worthless.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“I didn't fully comprehend what a big part of my life he'd become. He'd become so...familiar to me. And now he's just gone. Not gone, still here, just not available to me, which might be even worse.”
Source: P.S. I Still Love You
“I didn't get a chance to reunite with my beloved. My tears and prayers seem to have no effect.”
“I didn’t get far when he was suddenly behind me. He looped his finger through my belt and practically
dragged me to the corner he’d been standing in.
“What the fu….”
“Stay still,” he ordered. “I need you to block the wind.”
I didn’t have any snappy comebacks, so I simply stood there, amazed by his gruffness. Hadn’t anyone ever taught him simple manners? When I looked at him, I thought that maybe they hadn’t. I could easily imagine him as a little Mowgli type, being raised by animals in the jungle.”
Source: Hearts of Fire
“I didn’t get the help I needed, so I became the help others need.”
“I didn't get the impression that the policeman cared much about the whole thing either. After another thirty minutes of ruthless interrogation ('Can you ve'fy you eat banan' pancake?') he let me go asking me not to leave Khao San within 24 hours”
Source: The Beach
“I didn’t get to that pudding in time. It had boiled dry. I think it’s really all right—just a little scorched perhaps. In case it tasted rather nasty I thought I would open a bottle of those raspberries I put up last summer. They seem to have a bit of mould on top but they say nowadays that that doesn’t matter. It’s really rather good for you—practically penicillin.”
Source: Mrs. McGinty's Dead
“I didn't give a fuck whether I found anything or not. The thing is, never to be too anxious. Everything comes in due time.”
Source: Tropic of Cancer
“I didn't give a shit about me, I was already ruined.”
Source: Twisted Games
“I didn't give it much thought back then. I just wanted to get all the words straight and collect my A.”
Source: Just One Day
“I didn't give up, I walked away
I had enough of accepting actions that were less than I deserved.
So...
I made a concious choice
To honour myself,
Before complementing another
&
If that's what; has made you undeniably mad, Than I know, the history of our connection is hidden in the truth of your heart and regardless of your outcome, I have made the right choice for me.”
“I didn't give you a parting kiss." I tried to ignore the audience of witches and concentrate on the kiss. Dominic jumped right in and helped me with a sexy lingering sizzling hot kiss. By the time we broke free, I was sure my cheeks were rose red. For a minute I felt like I might swoon and Dominic held my arm to keep me upright and pressed his lips against my cheek and whispered, "You sure know how to send a guy to the moon, Marissa.”
Source: The Vampire...In My Dreams
“I didn't go there lightly. I knew even then that this was the beginning of something very hard to reverse. But I couldn't do otherwise now: I was too possessed”
Source: Rules of the Wild: A Novel of Africa
“I didn’t go vegan to impress anyone. I did it for my health and stayed because I realised eating well doesn’t have to be complicated.”
Source: The Busy Vegan’s Guide to Eating Brilliantly: Because being busy shouldn’t mean missing out on good food
“I didn't grow up feeling smart and special, the world my oyster, born with a silver shucker in my hand. No one works harder than you, that's the way Zell and Juwon liked to put it. Everything I have is because I was the dutiful worker bee or because I have no other things to distract me, like girlfriends or wives, like mewling kids or family dogs or a love of weekend brunches and fantasy football, or a single, sad hobby, like solitaire or the Sunday jumble. I have this.”
Source: Give Me Your Hand
“I didn't grow up in a Norman Rockwell house... my house was more akin to Norman Lear.”
“I didn’t “grow” wise, spiritual, or happy.. I shrunk towards it. I didn’t add; I subtracted… There is wisdom in simplification… There is strength in recognizing that life is too short for nonsense… You find yourself spending time with people who make you laugh… Those who make you feel loved.. Simplify your life.. .that’s where happiness is found.”
“I didn't have a cell phone, and as a result I hadn't thought much about what one would do with them, other than irritate people around me.”
Source: The Samurai's Daughter
“I didn’t have a choice,” he says.
“Of course you had a choice, Riden. You just had a hard one. And you chose the easy option, which was to do nothing.”
“Easy? Do you think it was easy for me to watch you? Seeing you up there, knowing the pain you must be in, it … it made me feel—it would have hurt less if I had been the one hanging. I hated myself for what happened. And the only way I could punish myself was to force myself to watch you in pain. That was my punishment.”
Source: Daughter of the Pirate King
“I didn't have a drill, so I had to make my own. First I heated a long nail in the fire, then drove it through a half a maize cob, creating a handle. I placed the nail back on the coals until it became red hot, then used it to bore holes into both sets of plastic blades.”
Source: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
“I didn’t have a sign. Which makes me want to say that my origin as a writer lies in my reading, I think. What about you? Do you know why you became a writer?”
Source: La plus secrète mémoire des hommes
“I didn’t have a vocabulary for what he did to me, but then no one had been able to define the man himself. An enigma, an abomination, a wish on a star. He consumed me, and I drifted inside him, blissed out on the ride.”
Source: Don't Let Go
“I didn’t have any father to reach out to me. The persons who tried to steer me in the right direction, were the persons on the street and I still went the wrong way. Franco ‘Co’ Bethel, former gang leader and right hand man to Scrooge.”
Source: The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father
“I didn’t have any tools or methods to process my failures and disappointments so I could learn from them. Instead, I kept repeating the same mistakes and cycles over and over.”
Source: Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose
“I didn't have enough other people in my life to cover the loss of this many people at once. I didn't have spare aunties or cousins or grandparents. I didn't have backup. I didn't have insurance to cover a loss like this.”
Source: The Hypnotist's Love Story
“I didn't have friends. What I had were people who needed what I could do for them. I had rocks and trees. I had fire and ravens. And I had patterns.”
Source: Paper Targets: Art Can Be Murder
“I didn’t have memories, new I made, this,
beneath ancient evergreen Populus trees…
Yes, evergreen Populus trees always are,
yet with cold I’m not one that’s well known to spar…
With gentle headstrongness I made my own path,
with which I can get to the forest(, like Plath)…
In forests, folk sparce are, yet all of the trees,
growing like soldiers, to be many are free…”
Source: На чист Български...: Pristine Bulgarian sayings...
“I didn't have much in the world, but my fears were my own.”
Source: Ordinary Hazards
“I didn't have that kind of friendship, the forever kind of friendship that will last your whole life through, no matter what.”
“I didn't have the energy to scream at the flasher or yell for security. And besides, the 'security team' was just a bunch of tanned strippers in peekabook bikini briefs and heels. So I took matters into my own hands.
'Thank God you're here. Get on top of me right now and force-feed me all of that man meat!' I shouted at him. 'Your penis is irresistible to me! I must have it in my body right this minute!'
I started to back him into a corner. 'No, don't put it back inside your pants! I require all of the services you are offering me. I request that you inspect my vaginables and see if they meet your exacting standards!'
As I pulled my own pants down, he ran out of the building, never so scared in his life.”
Source: I Know I Am, But What Are You?
“I didn't have the faintest idea how to be seductive. I would just have to settle for flushed and self-conscious.”
Source: Eclipse
“I didn’t have the language to communicate that to this little girl - or to communicate that beauty - real, everlasting beauty - lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It lives in what we do for ourselves and for others.”
“I didn't have the right to show any feeling or goodwill.”
Source: The Stranger