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 need a thousand souls, I only need one, which is my master's.”
“I do not need a tongue for her to read the rage in my eyes.”
Source: The Stolen Heir
“I do not need any friends. I prefer enemies. They are better company and their feelings towards you are always genuine.”
Source: Dylan Thomas, the complete screenplays
“I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.”
“I do not need anyone to save me, find out who is there to save you”
“I do not need drugs to be a genius, do not take a genius to be human, but I need your smile to be happy.”
“I do not need help destroying my relationship. I was raised by my father. I've completed a thirty-year seminar on the power of destroying relationships.”
“I do not need him anymore. I do not need anyone. Yet I cannot deny that I want him. And maybe it's okay to want something that isn't good for you. He wants his war and rum, and I, I want him.”
Source: Meraki: A Syren Story
“I do not need some guy around in order to get inspiration, in order to make a great record, in order to live my life, in order to feel okay about myself. And I wanted to show my fans the same thing.”
“I do not need someone to complete me, but if you wanted to, we could walk next to each other into whatever is coming next.”
“I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.”
“I do not need the musing of the philosophers to tell me what I am doing. It would be more interesting to let me know why I am doing it.”
“I do not need the written code of a spiritual belief to act like a decent human being.”
Source: Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files
“I do not need to be a daughter of a pastor, celebrity, influencer, president, CEO, or well-known minister to witness and experience miracles, and have what I need, but being a child of God is enough to advance His kingdom in ways I cannot even think or imagine”
Source: Anong Nangyari Sa Akin?
“I do not need to compete for attention, I merely require competent attention...”
“I do not need to establish a deep, lasting, time-consuming personal relationship with every student. What I must do is to be totally and nonselectively present to the student-to each student-as he addresses me. The time interval may be brief but the encounter is total.”
Source: Caring, a Feminine Approach to Ethics & Moral Education
“I do not need to find happiness. I can create happiness all on my own.”
“I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it.”
“I do not need to grow up or train in the gym in order to beat the devil, when I know that my God can beat him for me.”
Source: Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
“I do not need to know all things. I remind myself that it is sufficient that I know what I know and know that without believing that I will always know what I know or that what I know will always be true.”
Source: Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
“I do not need to know you,” he hissed. “If you are what Aldrich thinks you are, I will need you to be better, for the sake of my country. I will not lose to Lynx because you will not try. Remember, you are not my first choice for a dynast, you are my only choice. So, climb out of the hole you have been hiding in, and be significant.”
Source: The Heiress of Sole
“I do not need to love you to prove that I love myself!!”
“I do not need to play in the Champions League to be happy”
“I do not need to understand words to know he is disappointed I am not a boy. Some things need no translation. And I know, because my body remembers without benefit of words, that men who do not welcome girl-babies will not treasure me as I grow to woman - though he call me princess just because the Guru told him to.
I have come so far, I have borne so much pain and emptiness!
But men have not yet changed.”
Source: What the Body Remembers
“I do not need wireless access to Wikipedia. I would prefer to stir-fry my own small intestines than to have continual access to a site where the entry for Klingon is longer than the entry for Latin.”
“I do not need your guilt, nor do I care for it. This is not about you. If you feel guilty, then use that to change things for the better. Otherwise, your feelings mean nothing.”
Source: Dominion
“I do not now begin, - I still adore Her whom I early cherish'd in my breast; Then once again with prudence dispossess'd, And to whose heart I'm driven back once more. The love of Petrarch, that all-glorious love, Was unrequited, and, alas, full sad.”
Source: The Poems of Goethe
“I do not now so much as wish to have the Strength of Youth again that I wish'd in Youth for the Strength of an Ox or Elephant. For it is our Business only to make the best Use we can of the Powers granted us by Nature.”
“I do not object to retouching, dodging or accentuation as long as they do not interfere with the natural qualities of photographic technique.”
“I do not object to the construction of rail roads and canals.”
“I do not object to the phenomena, but I do object to the parrot.”
Source: Cold comfort farm
“I do not offer wrongdoers a taste of their own medicine. I awaken their thirst for a second chance and let them drink from the bowl they once poisoned.”
“I do not often attack the Labour Party, they do it so well themselves.”
“I do not often follow my characters off on tangents or change my story on a whim. I have an outline which I follow quite sternly...for a good long while. Then it turns out in some way to be insurmountably wrong and I am forced to re-think every component. Usually at this point I throw hundreds of pages away.”
“I do not often laugh, sir, as you may perceive by the air of my countenance; but nevertheless, I retain the privilege of laughing when I please.”
Source: The three musketeers, tr. by W. Robson
“I do not often reveal weakness in my writing. I tell stories in magnificent terms; I am, as a person, the ultimate case study in hyperbole. I tell stories borne from passion or anger or righteous conviction, I want to incite a revolution in your heart; I tell stories that are godly and Grand, I am the Great Gatsby of impressive tropes and fiery forging chaos strummed into smooth endings with an adjective; I am a teller of magnificent fables; I am a glutton of adjectival delicacy, I construct empires in paragraphs where villages are more appropriate; you ask me for an apple, I give you ten, then if you hesitate to speak, I will give you six more.”
“I do not oppose the insane asylum - but I abhor and condemn the cutthroat system that robs man of his reason, drives him to insanity and makes the lunatic asylum an indispensable adjunct to every civilized community.”
“I do not oppose violence simply because it is counterproductive. I oppose it because it betrays animal rights philosophy. Those who resort to such tactics really have not understood that animal rights is about the extension of moral concern to all sentient beings--humans obviously included.”
“I do not outline. There are writers I know and count as my friends who certainly do it the other way but for me part of the adventure is not knowing how it's going to turn out.”
“I do not over-intellectualise the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.”
“I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.”
“I do not overlook the fact that the appearance of these new, free nations in the European political community not only celebrates the return of the prodigal son but also creates new sources of friction here and there”
“I do not overlook the fact that there are irrationalists who love mankind, and that not all forms of irrationalism engender criminality. But I hold that he who teaches that not reason but love should rule opens up the way for those who rule by hate. (Socrates, I believe, saw something of this when he suggested that mistrust or hatred of argument is related to mistrust or hatred of man).”
“I do not own a gun because the only person I would shoot with it is myself.”
“I do not own a gun in the USA because I recognize that it may get you legally killed by law enforcement.”
“I do not own a single security anywhere that doesn't pay a dividend, and I formed a mutual-fund company with that very simple philosophy.”
“I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.”
“I do not paint in front of but from within nature.”
Source: Arshile Gorky: 1904-1948, a Retrospective
“I do not paint nature. I am nature.”
“I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.”
Source: After The Scream: The Late Paintings of Edvard Munch