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 know who to
believe
but
one thing I do
know: when a man is
living
many claim relationships
that are hardly
so
and after he dies, well,
then it's everybody's
party.”
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
“I didn’t know you enjoyed tree climbing.'
'Tree reading actually. It’s an art which should not be conducted while lethargic….”
Source: Hearts of Gold Collection
“I didn't know you were a techie, Mulder.' said Scully...
'I used to fool around with ham radios when I was a kid,' Mulder said, not looking up from his work.
'Let me guess why,' said Scully. 'Ever succeed in making contact with a spaceship?'...
'No,' said Mulder. 'But it wasn't from lack of trying.”
Source: Darkness Falls
“I didn't know you were afraid of apples.'
'I'm not afraid of apples. That's ridiculous.'
But she was lying. He could see the pulse jump in her neck.
He'd frightened her, which was good. She should be scared of him.”
Source: A Curse for True Love
“I didn’t learn a thing,” I promised Alex. “You are still a mystery wrapped in a question mark wrapped in flannel.”
Source: The Hammer of Thor
“I didn't learn anything while I was talking.”
“I didn't learn strategy in an ivory tower; I forged it in the market's hellfire. The chaos of 2008 wasn't my end—it was my beginning. My work is for the trader tired of guessing, for the investor sick of helplessly watching their portfolio bleed. It's not about predicting the storm; it's about building an ark that's already proven it can float.”
Source: The Alchemy of Investment: Bull - Bear Cycles, Market Sentiments, and News Based Trading
“I didn't learn to be quiet when I had an opinion.
They reason they knew who I was is because I told them.”
“I didn't leave because I wanted to. I left because I had to.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“I didn’t leave early that morning. I waited for him to wake up and kiss me good morning. He said he was going to take a shower and I should come join him. I thought now was as good of a time as any and placed the ring on his corner table with my note.
It read:
My Love, I don’t know how you will accept my decision. I do love you with all my heart but you are not my first love. I am always going to be infatuated with my love for the sea. Accept my proposal after I have completed my education, claim my heart for thy own & obtain thy love in which it possesses.
With all My Love, Zara
-emerald eyes of the sea”
Source: Emerald Eyes of The Sea
“I didn't let her go. She went. It's not my fault.
She did it.
She could undo it.
This is feeling so fucking famliar.
Why do we even bother? Why do we make ourselves so open to such easy damage? Is it all loneliness? Is it all fear? Of is it just to experience those narcotic moments of belonging with someone else?”
Source: Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
“I Didn't Let Him Go.
I Stopped Loving Him.”
“I didn't let what I wanted to do become a made up memory that I looked back on years down the road and wished it was real.”
Source: Misadventurous
“I didn't like any of this. "What about you?"
He gives me a quick, odd look.
"Locke hasnt gotten around to seducing me yet, if that's what you're asking. I suppose I should be insulted.”
“I didn't like anything. Maybe I was afraid. That was it - I was afraid. I wanted to sit alone in a room with the shades down. I feasted upon that. I was a crank. I was a lunatic.”
Source: Women
“I didn't like Dali: now, like you, I do. Like you, I began to drink my Coke with a pinch of salt . Like you, I stopped bothering about ironed clothes. Like you, I sit with a dictionary while reading the papers. Like you, I sit on the compound wall after a bath.”
Source: Cobalt Blue
“I didn't like feeling things. Emotions were ever-shifting and devoid of logic, and they gave me no way to sink my blade into them.”
Source: The Serpent and the Wings of Night
“I didn’t like having to explain to them, so I just shut up, smoked a cigarette, and looked at the sea.”
Source: The Stranger
“I didn’t like his tone. In fact I didn’t like boys’ tone when they knew they were hot and tried to be rude to girls because they knew they were hot.”
Source: Coco Chan
“I didn’t like how my body seemed to be intent on sabotaging my brain, especially since my brain was so good at sabotaging itself.”
“I didn't like my head but I loved unskilled labor, manual labor. That kind of work let my mind alone, let it be free.”
Source: Based on a True Story: A Memoir
“I didn't like roses. They reminded me of the women in my life: beautiful and bright, but if you touched them they made you bleed.”
Source: Thief
“I didn't like showing weakness, not to anybody.”
Source: Double Down
“I didn't like to read the Bible, but I did like to hold it. I wondered if, for some men, that was the reason they became preachers.”
Source: Another Life
“I didn’t look at Thanet. I couldn’t because he would see the hurt on my face.
“He loves you,” Thanet said. “He’s hurting and it’s not just the Quinn thing. It’s being away from you and wondering if you’re hurting, too. Or if you’re having too much fun to hurt. What he really needed was to laugh, though. So we laughed…until he cried.”
That undid me. I looked at Thanet with so many questions on my lips.”
Source: Perfect Glass
“I didn't look back, I took Rhys's hand and faced ahead. He and I would have our own adventures, and I'd be brave as I could be. Meryl would visit sometimes and tell me her tales. I'd weave her adventures and mine into tapestries. I'd put both of us in them, back to back, Meryl fighting her monsters and I fighting mine. And perhaps one day someone would make up verses about us, and we'd be together again, the two princesses of Bamarre.”
Source: The Two Princesses of Bamarre
“I didn't look back. Sometimes, not looking back is the only mercy the world has left to show.”
Source: Magic for Nothing
“I didn't look down, but my face flooded with heat I hoped he couldn't see in the shade of the dock. I was wearing a white shirt. How rude of him to mention it like I was in a wet T-shirt contest.
I cleared my throat. "Does that distract you?" My voice came out lower than it should have.
"You've always distracted me," he breathed, his lips descending.”
Source: Andy and the Summer of Something
“I didn't lose anyone, for everyone that I lost was never really a loss, unless it was death well then I had to have words with God.”
“I didn’t lose everything in a day—I lost it one small justification at a time.”
Source: THE SILENCE THAT BROKE ME: I THRIVED IN THE PRESSURE COOKER — UNTIL I DROWNED
“I didn’t lose him. He’s not a set of keys, or an acorn”
Source: Oswald the Almost Famous Opossum
“I didn't love him anymore, but at the same time, I didn't hate him, either.”
Source: Fallen in a Dark Uneven Way
“I didn’t love until rejection which said nothing about him, but everything about me.”
“I didn’t love you to seek revenge.
I didn’t love you out of loneliness or unhappiness.
I didn’t love you for any of the misguided reasons that time might convince you I did.
I just loved you because you’re you.”
“I didn't make any mistake. I know that when he nearly asked me to marry him it was only on impulse
It is part if a follow-my-leader game of second-best we have all been playing - Rose with Simon, Simon with me, me with Stephen and Stephen, I suppose, with that detestable Leda Fox-Cotton. It isn't a very good game; the people you play it with are apt to get hurt.”
Source: I Capture The Castle
“I didn't make you come here." Jin's eyes bored into mine, but I wasn't backing down. He said I had traitor eyes. Let him see the betrayal there. Let him drown in it. "I didn't trick you and I didn't ask you to.”
Source: Rebel of the Sands
“I didn't mean it to sound so challenging, but I needed to try to reassure my friend. Gritting my teeth, I tried to think of some way to placate Gideon. It was as if I was standing in quicksand, the earth slipping away from my feet the more I spoke. A smart man would keep his mouth shut. I wasn't always a smart man.”
Source: Dead Man's Deal
“I didn’t mean to fall in love with you, but I did.
- Chelsea”
Source: Nothing But Trouble
“I didn’t mean to go after him, but no one was doing anything, and I’m probably the only one here who’s actually been in the woods for real.”
“Besides—he’s British. What do they know about camping and wilderness survival and all that?”...
There too busy drinking tea and playing cricket. He would have been lost without me”
Source: Never Cry Werewolf
“I didn't mean to hurt anyone, he tries to tell them. I just wanted to be seen, and loved for who I am. The problem was, it was all a misunderstanding. I pretended to be a good person, and then I couldn't stop.”
Source: You Know You Want This: Cat Person and Other Stories
“I didn't mean to hurt her.”
Source: Prince of Wolves
“I didn't mean to hurt you.' He grabs my hand, possibly to keep me from hitting him again. Our fingers lace together. 'No, it's not that, not exactly. I didn't think I could hurt you. And I never thought you would be afraid of me.'
'And did you like it?' I ask.
He looks away from me then, and I have my answer. Maybe he doesn't want to admit to that impulse, but he has it.
'Well, I was hurt, and yes, you scare me.' Even as I am speaking, I wish I could snatch back the words. Perhaps it is exhaustion or having been so close to death, but the truth pours out of me in a devastating rush. 'You've always scared me. You gave me every reason to fear your capriciousness and your cruelty. I was afraid of you even when you were tied to that chair in the Court of Shadows. I was afraid of you when I had a knife to your throat. And I am scared of you now.'
Cardan looks more surprised than he did when I slapped him.
He was always a symbol of everything about Elfhame that I couldn't have, everything that would never want me. And telling him this feels a little like throwing off a heavy weight, except that weight is supposed to be my armour, and without it, I am afraid I am going to be entirely exposed. But I keep talking anyway, as though I no longer have control over my tongue. 'You despised me. When you said you wanted me, it felt like the world had turned upside down.
'But sending me into exile, that made sense.' I meet his gaze. 'That was an entirely right-side-up Cardan move. And I hated myself for not seeing it coming. And I hate myself for not seeing what you're going to do to me next.'
He closes his eyes. When he opens them, he releases my hand and turns so I can't see his face. 'I can see why you thought what you did. I suppose I am not an easy person to trust. And maybe I ought not to be trusted, but let me say this: I trust you.”
Source: The Queen of Nothing
“I didn’t mean to leave you behind, California girl. Yet, I was afraid you would leave me behind. Alas, I’d rather run away than unveil my heart to you, just to be let down time and time again. For, it was never my intention to cut you out of my life. I just could not bring myself to you in the ways I needed to, and I could not let you know how much I needed you, nor could I tell the world. For, this kind of love surely would trigger the priests and knights to tear us apart. No matter, I will always long to look into your navy blue oceanic eyes, as you once looked into my sunset forest of hazel green.”
“I didn't mean to save him all my firsts. But it happened, and a part of me is glad that it did. Because he was the first boy to give me a gift. The first boy to kiss me. To want to become my friend not because I was popular, but because I was me.
He was the first boy who noticed the injured animal behind the camouflage of hostility and tried to give it water and shelter.”
Source: Pretty Reckless
“I didn’t mean to snore in your ear, but I wanted to inhale all of what was wrapped up in the comforter with me.”
Source: Book of She
“I didn't mean to start any uprisings," I tell him.
"I believe you. It doesn't matter. Your stylist turned out to be prophetic in his wardrobe choice. Katniss Everdeen, the girl who was on fire, you have provided a spark that, left unattended, may grow to an inferno that destroys Panem," he says.”
Source: Catching Fire
“I didn't mean to tell you," Mrs. Whatsit faltered. "I didn't mean ever to let you know. But oh, my dears, I did so love being a star!"
"Yyouu are sstill verry yyoungg," Mrs Witch said, her voice faintly chiding.
The Medium sat looking happily at the star-filled sky in her ball, smiling, and nodding and chuckling gently. But Meg noticed that her eyes were drooping, and suddenly her head fell forward and she gave a faint snore.
"Poor thing," Mrs Whatsit said, "we've worn her out. It's very hard work for her.”
Source: A Wrinkle in Time
“I didn't mean to upset you, Ms. Hamilton," his gaze shifted back to her. "It's a beautiful sight and I thought you'd like to see it." She gasped in delight at the vista before her. Distant purple mountains framed lush green meadows speckled with brown dots of cattle. A silver river threaded through clumps of trees. In the middle of the valley, ranch buildings clustered around a large white house. Elizabeth inhaled crisp air into her lungs...”
Source: Wild Montana Sky
“I didn’t mind because I had my own boxes —beautiful boxes that I’d imagined, created, and designed. My boxes were full of endless possibilities!”
Source: In the Land of Boxes
“I didn't mind that it was always about you, Darrow. That was what burned Tactus, but not me. I'm not in love with you like Mustang. I don't worship you like Sevro or the Howlers. I was a true friend. I was someone who saw your light and your dark and accepted both without judgement, without agenda...”
Source: Golden Son