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 like eating meat because I have seen lambs and pigs killed. I saw and felt their pain. They felt the approaching death. I could not bear it. I cried like a child. I ran up a hill and could not breathe. I felt that I was choking. I felt the death of the lamb.”
“I do not like football, which I think of as a game in which two tractors approach each other from opposite directions and collide. Besides, I have contempt for a game in which players have to wear so much equipment. Men play basketball in their underwear, which seems just right to me.”
Source: Living Out Loud
“I do not like giving advice: it is incurring an unnecessary responsibility.”
“I do not like it when other people dress up. I like everyone to be THEMSELVES.”
“I do not like January very much. It is too stationary. Not enough happens. I like the evidences of life, and in January there are too few of them.”
“I do not like Melbourne in its present state.”
Source: A Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia: From Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria
“I do not like money, money is the reason we fight.”
“I do not like Moscow life. You live here not as you want to live, but as old women want you to.”
“I do not like new things of any kind, not even a new gown, far less a new acquaintance, therefore make as few as possible; one can but have one's heart and hands full, and mine are. I have love and work enough to last me the rest of my life.”
“I do not like odd things until I can understand them.”
Source: The Great Hunt: Book Two of 'The Wheel of Time'
“I do not like onions. It's so funny because I am probably one of the least picky eaters ever. Pretty much any type of new food, I'll try it, I'll eat it. But onions, and pork. Pork and onions.”
“I do NOT like patchwork,” said Anne dolefully, hunting out her workbasket and sitting down before a little heap of red and white diamonds with a sigh. “I think some kinds of sewing would be nice; but there’s no scope for imagination in patchwork. It’s just one little seam after another and you never seem to be getting anywhere. But of course I’d rather be Anne of Green Gables sewing patchwork than Anne of any other place with nothing to do but play.”
“I do not like people touching my underwear. That's just weird! I travel with a washer and dryer, and I like cooking on the bus, too.”
“I do not like poems that resemble hay compressed into a geometrically perfect cube. I like it when the hay, unkempt, uncombed, with dry berries mixed in it, thrown together gaily and freely, bounces along atop some truck-and more, if there are some lovely and healthy lasses atop the hay-and better yet if the branches catch at the hay, and some of it tumbles to the road.”
“I do not like postmodernism, postapocalyptic settings, postmortem narrators, or magic realism. I rarely respond to supposedly clever formal devices, multiple fonts, pictures where they shouldn't be—basically, gimmicks of any kind. I find literary fiction about the Holocaust or any other major world tragedy to be distasteful—nonfiction only, please. I do not like genre mash-ups à la the literary detective novel or the literary fantasy. Literary should be literary, and genre should be genre, and crossbreeding rarely results in anything satisfying. I do not like children's books, especially ones with orphans, and I prefer not to clutter my shelves with young adult. I do not like anything over four hundred pages or under one hundred fifty pages. I am repulsed by ghostwritten novels by reality television stars, celebrity picture books, sports memoirs, movie tie-in editions, novelty items, and—I imagine this goes without saying—vampires.”
Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
“I do not like scat porn! I refuse to comment on vomit porn. Nevermind, I have a vomit fetish; put this on goodreads.”
“I do not like sharing my sadness, it doesn't mean I don't trust, it's just that I don't want to be a bother.”
“I do not like sitting idly by when something clearly isn't right. I feel... not trapped but something like it, and I don't know what to about.”
Source: The Night Circus
“I do not like sports, unless you consider treating all humankind with love and respect a sport.”
“I do not like strangers because I do not like people I have never met before. They are hard to understand.”
“I do not like talking casually to people - it does not interest me - and most of them are unwilling to talk at all seriously.”
Source: BRING ME A UNICORN
“I do not like that I allowed my past to close me off. I do not like that I let circumstances rob me of the ability to have a normal relationship with a man, to have friends, to be happy. I do not like it, but I had felt myself powerless against it.”
“I do not like the aspect of carrying a gun, as if someone takes it from you, you may get shot.”
“I do not like the Broadway theatre because it does not know how to say hello. The tone of voice is false, the mannerisms are false, the sex is false, ideal, the Hollywood world of perfection, the clean image, the well pressed clothes, the well scrubbed anus, odorless, inhuman, of the Hollywood actor, the Broadway star. And the terrible false dirt of Broadway, the lower depths in which the dirt is imitated, inaccurate.”
“I do not like the darkness, but please don’t make the light too strong.”
Source: Romance of the Hebrew Calendar
“I do not like the idea of happiness - it is too momentary - I would say that I was always busy and interested in something - interest has more meaning to me than the idea of happiness.”
Source: Lovingly, Georgia: the complete correspondence of Georgia O'Keeffe & Anita Pollitzer
“I do not like the late resurrection of the Jesuits. . . . If ever any congregation of men could merit eternal perdition on earth, and in hell, according to these historians, though, like Pascal, true Catholics, it is this company of Loyolas.”
Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations
“I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.”
“I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
[Lat., Nolo virum facili redimit qui sanquine famam;
Hunc volo laudari qui sine morte potest.]”
“I do not like the phrase: Never cross a bridge till you come to it. The world is owned by men who cross bridges on their imaginations miles and miles in advance of the procession.”
Source: It's a Good Old World: Being a Collection of Little Essays on Various Subjects of Human Interest
“I do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music.”
“I do not like the reappearance of the Jesuits... Nevertheless, we are compelled by our system of religious toleration to offer them an asylum.”
“I do not like the reappearance of the Jesuits.... Shall we not have regular swarms of them here, in as many disguises as only a king of the gipsies can assume, dressed as printers, publishers, writers and schoolmasters? If ever there was a body of men who merited damnation on earth and in Hell, it is this society of Loyola's. Nevertheless, we are compelled by our system of religious toleration to offer them an asylum.”
“I do not like the Republican party, but I would vote for them in the next election if they promise to stop funding the Ukraine war.”
“I do not like the situation but must endure to fulfil the dream.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“I do not like the way people use the more and more magnificent fruits of technology to their filthy deeds.”
“I do not like the word tolerance, but could not think of a better one. Tolerance implies a gratuitous assumption of the inferiority of other faiths to one”
Source: Gita: The Mother
“I do not like them in a box. I do not like them with a fox.”
Source: The Boners Omnibus: 3 volumes in one
“I do not like this word "bomb." It is not a bomb. It is a device that is exploding.”
“I do not like to "interest" the public with myself.”
“I do not like to be a prophet. I like better to paint than to predict what the next painters will do. Though I have a feeling that consideration of order is very much in the air.”
“I do not like to be called a samurai, but I admit that I have an image of myself as a fighter. I would like to fight against all authorities and powers.”
“I do not like to be thought of as avant-garde or some kind of didactic artist.”
“I do not like to be unkind.”
“I do not like to call myself a Liberal, because there is so much that is wrong with liberalism. I also do not like to call my a Conservative for exactly the same reason. The fact that the theater of conservativism today seems to be such a haven for such an abundance of small minded, non-thinking, irrationalists is however making it very difficult for me to not adopt a harder stance.”
“I do not like to employ secretaries that have more wit than myself. I am afraid to make them write all my nonsense.”
“I do not like to encourage personalized politics, so we would not like it to be thought that just because certain political personalities were attacked, this means the situation is very grave. The true gravity of the situation comes from the fact that ordinary members of the NLD are repressed all the time. We don't want a completely paralyzed political organization, while a select few leaders are protected by international attention.”
“I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.”
Source: The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash
“I do not like to have people throw themselves away; but everybody should marry as soon as they can do it to advantage.”
Source: Mansfield Park: a novel
“I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.”