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 fear the night
When I know that today
I am bathed in a light
It cannot be stolen away”
Source: Hiding Bones: The Best Poetry of Hiding Skeletons & Literary Bones
“I do not fear the unknown. I do not even fear death--in the event that I've lived a good life. What I fear is a life of mediocrity.”
Source: Conversations With the Fat Girl
“I do not fear the unknown, I fear that what I do know will never take me anywhere.”
“I do not feel alone anymore. I have found love. Maybe I should say love has found me. Well, to be fair, we found each other. Yesterday, I didn’t have a home. Yesterday, I didn’t have a pillow where I could lay my head. Yesterday, it was hard to find peace. Yesterday, I wondered if morning would ever come. Yesterday, I was unable to love, dream, and trust. Yesterday, I didn’t understand life. Yesterday, I was walking in my shadow. I didn’t know if I had meaning or a purpose.”
Source: Pinwheels and Dandelions
“I do not feel an exile from America in any sense.”
“I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass.”
“I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad simplification.”
“I do not feel any less of a woman. I feel empowered that I made a strong choice that in no way diminishes my femininity.”
“I do not feel betrayed. ... He has a fine record. He is a national hero. (On Oliver L North's work)”
“I do not feel certain until I have confronted my initial solution with other solutions - although in fact the first solution often proves to be the right one.”
“I do not feel guilty of any war crimes, I have only done my duty as an intelligence organ, and I refuse to serve as an ersatz for Himmler.”
“I do not feel I could give up all for Christ, were I called to die.”
Source: Selected Letters
“I do not feel I have a legacy to protect.”
“I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.”
“I do not feel I truly belong to any group. I can walk into a gathering, even share a smile, yet I remain somewhat apart, drawn not to the crowd but to the rare few with whom a real bond can be formed. I live more through solitude than through society; independence is the air I breathe. It is not that I dislike people, I enjoy being around them, but I enjoy it most as an observer, not as one who throws himself fully into the noise. My heart does not find strength in the chatter of many; it longs for the depth of a single honest conversation. And so, in groups I often feel out of place, but in the presence of one kindred spirit I feel truly alive. I am steady in solitude, creative in my distance, yet always at odds with the world’s demand that I belong.”
“I do not feel inhibited or bound by what I am. That does not mean that I have never had bad scenes relating to being Black and/or a woman, it means that other people’s craziness has not managed to make me crazy.”
“I do not feel like an alien in this universe. The more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe is some sense must have known that we were coming”
Source: Disturbing the Universe
“I do not feel like writing verses; but as I light my perfume burner with myrrh and jasmine incense, they suddenly burgeon from my heart, like flowers in a garden.”
“I do not feel obliged in my reading. I read to be entertained and to relax, and to go into another world, not because it's good for me.”
“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”
Source: Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina
“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.”
“I do not feel superior to nineteenth-century gentlemen or twelfth-century knights”
Source: Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry
“I do not feel that I am the product of chance, a speck of dust in the universe, but someone who was expected, prepared, prefigured. In short, a being whom only a Creator could put here; and this idea of a creating hand refers to God.”
“I do not feel that I have a mandate from the entire world of football - the fans, the players, the clubs, the people who live, breathe and love football.”
“I do not feel that the West has really become less condescending toward foreign cultures than the Greeks and Romans were: it has only become more tolerant. Mind you, not toward Islam—only toward certain other Eastern cultures, which offer some sort of spiritual attraction to the spirit-hungry West and are, at the same time, too distant from the Western world-view to constitute any real challenge to its values.”
Source: The Road To Mecca
“I do not feel that we should allow a shortage of funds to prevent cities from financing needed projects.”
“I do not feel that we should set up PEOPLE as "models"; rather actions, thoughts, principles.”
“I do not feign hypotheses.”
“I do not fight against men, but against the system that is sexist.”
“I do not fight battles that cannot be won. Do not confuse that with cowardice.”
Source: The Drowned Cities: Number 2 in series
“I do not fight for free. But I was born to be a fighter.”
“I do not fight. I have never punched anyone.
I have stolen books once and once some paperclips, without really knowing why.
I almost killed three passengers in my car by looking for a cassette in the glove compartment while I was going one-eighty on the highway. I wanted to write a book entitled 'In the car', made up of remarks recorded while driving.
I have never filed a complaint with the police.”
Source: Autoportrait
“I do not fight with the world but the world fights with me.”
“I do not find fault with equality for drawing men into the pursuit of forbidden pleasures, but for absorbing them entirely in the search for the pleasures that are permitted.”
“I do not find God outside myself or conceive him except as my own and in me.”
“I do not find human nature either wicked or good, I find it driven forward by the same inevitable laws as the tides and the constellations”
Source: Confessions of Two Brothers
“I do not find illness an eminence, and I do not understand how people can use it to draw attention to themselves since the attention they draw is nearly always reluctantly given and unpleasantly carried out.”
“I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.”
“I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.”
“I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966
“I do not find it easy to talk to people I don't know.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice - With Audio
“I do not find myself making any use of the word sacrifice," said she. — "In not one of all my clever replies, my delicate negatives, is there any allusion to making a sacrifice. I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.”
Source: Emma
“I do not find myself making any use of the word sacrifice.”
Source: Emma
“I do not find the concept of consorting with unknown persons appealing.”
“I do not fix problems. I fix my thinking. Then problems fix themselves.”
“I do not focus on who is evil and who is the angel, I take account of myself that how to be, and must be best for all humans.”
“I do not follow closely anymore, since there is a limit to how much heartsickness one can bear.”
“I do not follow politicians on Twitter; if they want to lie to me, it will cost them a stamp.”
“I do not foresee 'spaceships' to the moon or Mars. Mortals must live and die on Earth or within its atmosphere!”
“I do not foresee a time when I shall feel that I have nothing to say.”