I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I do not avoid violence because I fear war, nor do I seek danger for the thrill of it. I have learned to master my emotions-for the man who cannot rule himself is already defeated. True strength is a storm that chooses to remain still.”
“I do not become surprised if I feel compassion, sympathy, and respect for someone or something, and someone else criticises and abuses me for that. I understand it.”
“I do not begin my novel at the beginning, I do not reach chapter three before I reach chapter four, I do not go dutifully from one page to the next, in consecutive order; no, I pick out a bit here and a bit there, till I have filled all the gaps on paper. This is why I like writing my stories and novels on index cards, numbering them later when the whole set is complete. Every card is rewritten many times.”
“I do not begin to think that I could possibly understand its inner-workings and the deepest truths of the cosmos with the 28 years that I have lived in Central New Jersey of the United States of America.”
Source: #Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times
“I do not begrudge Bill Clinton's working for his wife, but the one thing I would say is really important to President Clinton to think about right now, because of the larger megaphone he has as a former president, he really needs to be careful with the truth.”
“I do not believe 'Newsweek' is the only catcher in the rye between democracy and ignorance, but I think we're one of them, and I don't think there are that many on the edge of that cliff.”
“I do not believe a person can take two issues from Scripture, those being abortion and gay marriage, and adhere to them as sins, then neglect much of the rest and call himself a fundamentalist or even a conservative. The person who believes the sum of his morality involves gay marriage and abortion alone, and neglects health care and world trade and the environment and loving his neighbor and feeding the poor is, by definition, a theological liberal, because he takes what he wants from Scripture and ignores the rest.”
“I do not believe abortion should be legal.”
“I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don't see why anybody does.”
“I do not believe any person is born knowing how to be human. Everyone has to learn their letters and everyone has to learn how to be alive.
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Maybe it's not a lesson so much as it's a magic trick. You can make a little girl into anything if you say the right words. Take her apart until all that's left is her red, red heart thumping against the world. Stitch her up again real good. Now, maybe you get a woman. If you're lucky. If that's what you were after. Just as easy to end up with a blackbird or a circus bear or a coyote. Or a parrot, just saying what's said to you, doing what's done to you, copying until it comes so natural that even when you're all alone, you keep on cawing __hello, pretty bird__ at the dark.”
Source: Six-Gun Snow White
“I do not believe any power can possess the mind of a man or woman... I believe in God-given free will, you see. I think nothing is forced on us, except by other people like ourselves. I think our choices are our own.”
Source: Silver on the Tree
“I do not believe any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States.”
“I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart”
“I do not believe anyone has reached such perfection, surpassing all others, except Christ, to whom God immediately revealed - without words or visions - the conditions which lead to salvation.”
“I do not believe anything very certainly, but everything very probably.”
“I do not believe being gay or lesbian is a choice.”
“I do not believe every problem can be cured with a kitten. I do believe in love. And perhaps love can't cure every problem, but it makes the wounds heal a bit faster, with fewer scars.”
Source: The Wallflower Wager
“I do not believe evil men are led by God. I believe there are plots of evil. We live in a sinful world, and there are a lot of things that happen as a result of sin.”
“I do not believe Federal Government fear me at all, they know the truth. They know I am not a dangerous person, they hold me as a hostage to discourage other people from possibly standing up to their valued system. In their minds, right or wrong the public is expected to lay down for them. You see examples of this, at the Ruby Ridge massacre and the Waco massacre, where they killed all those children and group members.”
“I do not believe God is responsible for my sins, some people may. But I believe that my own weaknesses are father-filtered and just as much as God touched Jacob's hip and he walked with a limb the rest of his life, that I have certain emotional weaknesses that are there to keep me dependent on God.”
“I do not believe great organizations have ever been built by trying to emulate another, any more than individual greatness is achieved by trying to copy another 'great person'.”
“I do not believe guilt is inherited, but responsibility is, and there is nobody alive today whose existence has not been shaped by colonialist, racist forces. That is a legacy we all live with, and we should all deal with the consequences. If you have benefitted, then soaking yourself in remorse and guilt does not help anyone. What you can do, though, is ask constantly how you have felt those benefits. At whose expense were they gained?”
Source: The Whole Picture: The Colonial Story of the Art in Our Museums... and Why We Need to Talk About It
“I do not believe having a baby is punishment.”
“I do not believe I am exaggerating in affirming that the empire of Russia is a country whose inhabitants are the most miserable on earth, because they suffer at one and the same time the evils of barbarism and of civilization.”
“I do not believe I can no longer dress people, but it's more about dressing their insides. Everyone is affected by healthcare. Everyone is affected by education. And for me, a personal inspiration is the preservation of culture.”
“I do not believe I could have built FedEx without the skills I learned from the Marine Corps.”
“I do not believe I have any immortality. The greatest evil in the world today is the Christian religion”
“I do not believe in a child world. It is a fantasy world. I believe the child should be taught from the very first that the whole world is his world, that adult and child share one world, that all generations are needed.”
“I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.”
“I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing.”
“I do not believe in a God who would set up rules and commandments only to wait for us to fail so He could punish us. I believe in a Heavenly Father who is loving and caring and who rejoices in our every effort to stand tall and walk toward Him. Even when we stumble, He urges us not to be discouraged-never to give up or flee our allotted field of service-but to take courage, find our faith, and keep trying.”
“I do not believe in a label on a shirt or a dress should tell me that I can't wear a T-shirt or a pant because it should say "women's"or "men's" on it, you know? That's just not how it should work.”
“I do not believe in a mixture of good and evil in the world, or in myself. All is Good.”
Source: Scientific Christian Mental Practice
“I do not believe in a personal connection to God; that's where it gets transcendental.”
“I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly.”
Source: Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives
“I do not believe in a personal God.”
“I do not believe in a religion that cannot wipe out the widow's tears or bring a piece of bread to the orphan's mouth.”
“I do not believe in a simplistic and inflammatory view of good and evil. I believe this is a big world full of men, women, and children who struggle to eat, to love, to work, to protect their families, their beliefs, and their dreams.”
“I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.”
“I do not believe in adding enrichment merely for the sake of enrichment. Unless it adds clearness to the enunciation of the theme, it is undesirable, for it is very little understood.”
Source: Drawings and Plans of Frank Lloyd Wright: The Early Period (1893-1909)
“I do not believe in an atonement which is admirably wide, but fatally ineffectual.”
“I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.”
“I do not believe in Belief.”
“I do not believe in censorship, but I believe we already have censorship in what is called marketing theory, namely the only information we get in mainstream media is for profit.”
“I do not believe in collective guilt.”
“I do not believe in communism any more than you do but there is nothing wrong with the Communists in this country. Several of the best friends I have got are Communists.”
“I do not believe in confining children to things they understand. They want, and they need, the thing they do not understand.”
“I do not believe in death without resurrection. If they kill me I will rise again in the people of El Salvador.”
“I do not believe in democracy, but I am perfectly willing to admit that it provides the only really amusing form of government ever endured by mankind.”
Source: Mencken Chrestomathy
“I do not believe in doing for pleasure things I do not like to do.”
Source: There ought to be a law--