Top 100 The I Quotes
#1. Sara had given me the look. The don't fall asleep before I come to bed look. The I'm still not over the sight of our baby sleeping on your naked chest look. The you're getting very, extremely laid look. I fucking loved my life.
Christina Lauren
#2. I' and 'my' are two separate tracks. They never unite. One may say, 'this is my wife, we both are one [united]'. But we can't say they are 'one', can we? Both the 'I' are indeed separate, aren't they?
Dada Bhagwan
#3. From all of us Scarborough girls, greetings and thanks. This task required two, working together, trusting each other. It required the "us," not the "I." For that is true love, is it not?
Nancy Werlin
#4. In solitude, at last, we're able to let God define us the way we are always supposed to be defined - by relationship: the I-thou relationship, in relation to a Presence that demands nothing of us but presence itself. Not performance but presence
Richard Rohr
#5. This isn't the 'I wanna see other people' speech, is it? Because I'm not sharing you. No fucking way.
Jamie McGuire
#6. Sadly, I do my homework. I've a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before meeting with Kofi Annan. I read the Meltzer report, and then I'll read C. Fred Bergsten's defense of institutions like the World Bank and the I.M.F. It's embarrassing to admit.
Bono
#7. Did I ever tell you about the time I was working for the I.S. to help feed my family? Matalina had just had another set of quads and things were looking ugly. I had to take a job for hazard pay to babysit this witch no one else would touch. - Jenks
Kim Harrison
#8. The fragility of the intellectual is the same as the poet's:
It's all about the I and its desperate sense of the we.
Prageeta Sharma
#9. I want to take back at least half of the "I love you"s, because I didn't mean them as much as the other ones.
David Levithan
#10. It is what the "I" stands for - Information, Innovation, Insight, Improvement, or Influence, that needs to be represented by CIOs in the Boardroom.
Pearl Zhu
#11. Go through John's Gospel, and study the "believes," the "verilys," the " I ams; "and go through the Bible in that way, and it becomes a new book to you.
Dwight L. Moody
#12. One of my worries about America is the epidemic of depression we've been in. One of the possibilities about that is that the 'I' gets bigger and bigger, and the 'we' gets smaller and smaller.
Martin Seligman
#13. If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me: the 'I' and the 'self' that 'I' cannot live with. Maybe, I thought, only one of them is real.
Eckhart Tolle
#14. Get rid of the judgement ... get rid of the 'I am hurt,' you are rid of the hurt itself.
Marcus Aurelius
#15. The I-495 bridge over the Christina River in Wilmington, Delaware, is tilting.
Anthony Foxx
#16. I can only feel the 'I.'
I can know who I am not.
I can know what I am not.
But, who I am,
I cannot express;
I cannot describe it in words.
Santosh Lamichhane
#17. Dot the i's, cross the t's, answer the phones promptly, send out errorless invoices, and in general never forget that the devil is in the details.
Tom Peters
#18. What if someone picks on me?" I asked
Then I'll pick on them".
What if someone picks my nose?" I asked.
The I'll pick your nose, too" Rowdy said.
Sherman Alexie
#19. Cut the 'I'm a bad-ass demon' crap. You have a soul. That's more than what they had.
Ashlyn Mathews
#20. The I of the basic word I-Thou is different from that of the basic word I-It.
Martin Buber
#21. Why, if you only knew the secrets to which I'm privy!"
"My dear Lifeblesser, please trust me when I say the I have no desire to know any secrets which involve you and a privy.
Brandon Sanderson
#22.
but I find her personality annoying. It's like being molested by a sleeping bag that speaks in Comic Sans with little love-hearts over the i's.
Charles Stross
#23. Maybe that's what history is, you go from one I can't believe it the next. And sometimes the I can't believe its are good, and sometimes they're bad. But the sum total of positive ones always outweighs the negative ones.
David Levithan
#24. The only driver stronger than an economic argument to do something is the war argument, the I-don't-want-to-die argument.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#26. Now why, if freedom is striven after for love of the I after all - why not choose the I himself as beginning, middle, and end?
Max Stirner
#27. Compared to the you in my heart, the I in you is insignificant.
Kobo Abe
#28. I also know about running away," I said, when staying around is so much harder. And I know the happiness, the"-I searched for a word and had to settle on- "the joy when sticking around and fighting things mean I get to keep the people I love near me.
Faith Hunter
#29. For in this world, marked by sin, the gravitational pull of our lives is weighted by the chains of the "I" and the "self." These chains must be broken to free us for a new love that places us in another gravitational field where we can enter new life.
Pope Benedict XVI
#30. When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states.
Will Rogers
#31. The force that is running inside you is the same force running the solar system ... the moment you relax from the 'I' the 'other' will disappear ... you become 'one' with the truth.
Swami Nithyananda
#32. I'm thinking about the beautiful boy on the treadmill wearing the I STILL HAVE A DREAM T-shirt and realize that it might not have been ironic.
Bret Easton Ellis
#33. I don't think anybody's too big to fail. I think the - I think if what you've got is sort of a large number of institutions who are going to fail, then that ends up affecting the system.
Marc Lasry
#34. I knew that in the second letter he misspelled the word existence, replacing the second e with an a; in the fourth he forgot to dot the i in believe. I slept with them not under my pillow but clutched in my hand, with the sweat from my dreams leaking from my palms and smudging the ink.
Leslye Walton
#35. To say "I love you" one must know first how to say the "I".
Ayn Rand
#36. What has to be given up is not the I, but that drive for self-affirmation which impels man to flee from the unreliable, unsolid, unlasting, unpredictable, dangerous world of relation into the having of things.
Martin Buber
#37. I glanced across at him, and we silently exchanged the I wish I were sitting next to you too look.
Rebecca Donovan
#38. It's odd, and a little unsettling, to reflect upon the fact that English is the only major language in which "I" is capitalized; in many other languages "You" is capitalized and the "i" is lower case."
Sydney J. Harris
#39. There is no "I" for a person, for a beehive, for a corporation, for an animal, for a nation, for any living thing. The "I" of a vivisystem is a ghost, an ephemeral shroud.
Kevin Kelly
#40. I have no regrets in my life even the crazy things I've been in. It all made me the I am today and I wouldn't change anything. I'm happy with who I am!
Alan Cumming
#41. The parallels to modern physics [with mysticism] appear not only in the Vedas of Hinduism, in the I Ching, or in the Buddhist sutras, but also in the fragments of Heraclitus, in the Sufism of Ibn Arabi, or in the teachings of the Yaqui sorcerer Don Juan.
Fritjof Capra
#42. It is wrong to turn a man (a subject) into a thing (an object). By means of spiritual dialogue, the I-It relationship becomes an I-Thou relationship. God comes and goes in man's soul. And men come and go in each other's souls. Sometimes they come and go in each other's beds, too.
Saul Bellow
#43. A kiss, when all is said, what is it? An oath that's given closer than before; A promise more precise; the sealing of Confessions that till then were barely breathed; A rosy dot placed on the i in loving.
Edmond Rostand
#44. The I think, I am, is, since Descartes, the basic mistake of all knowledge; thinking is not my thinking, and being is not my being, for everything is only of God or of the totality.
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
#45. All which is regarded as 'my', belongs to the non-Self. 'I' is the Self and 'my' is of the non-Self; it is pudgal, the body-complex. There is nothing wrong with saying 'this is mine' in the worldly interactions, but the 'I', 'who am I?', must be decided from within.
Dada Bhagwan
#46. As a filmmaker you have to keep asking yourself the question are we really going to impress them [audience] either by the wow factor, the intelligence factor, the I didn't see that coming factor?
Lorenzo Di Bonaventura
#47. He looks at me in such a way that I know for sure-he's never looked at another girl quite like this.
And the I'm in his arms, and we're hugging and kissing, and we're both shaking,because we both know-this is the night we become real.
Jenny Han
#48. A little-recognized value of listening and inquiring relates to the realization that in human relationships, it is frequently not what the I've learned ... that it is best to give advice in only two circumstances: when it is requested and when it is a life-threatening situation.
Andy Rooney
#49. I'm telling you people; its a zombie attack. Z to the Oto the M to the B to the I,E. ZOMBIE ... -Bubba
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#50. Just wanted to let you know hat the i of my heart says hello to the you of yours .
Holly-Jane Rahlens
#51. Socialism" for the Nazis denotes the principle of collectivism as such and its corollary, statism - in every field of human action, including but not limited to economics. "To be a socialist," says Goebbels, "is to submit the I to the thou; socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole."9
Leonard Peikoff
#52. The challenge in all intimate relationships is to preserve both the "I" and the "we" without losing either when the going gets tough. If we're faced with a choice, we need to choose speech over silence, keep our behavior in line with our stated values and beliefs - and save ourselves first.
Harriet Lerner
#53. I know this, the Federal Reserve is private and the I.R.S. is screwing us.
Alex Jones
#54. Most of the major consumer-goods companies roll out their marketing programs in the I-4 corridor. It reflects what America looks like.
Bob Buckhorn
#55. The last man to try to run for president advocating a tax increase was Walter Mondale. He lost 49 states in 1984, and the "I'll raise your taxes" reputation haunted him all the way to Minnesota last year, where he lost his 50th state in the Senate election.
Dick Morris
#56. It wasn't the "I love you" she heard that made her let him go. It was the "Come with me" that she didn't.
Meghan O'Connor
#57. As long as a human being worries about when he will die, and what he has that is his,
all of his works are zero.
When affection for the I-creature and what it owns is dead,
then the work of the Teacher is over.
Kabir
#58. Remember, the only difference between 'marital' and 'martial' is where you put the 'i
Mitch Albom
#59. The 'I' [Je] who writes is alien to her own writing at every word because this 'I' uses a language that is alien to her; this 'I' [Je] experiences what is alien to her since this 'I' [Je] cannot be un ecrivain. J/e poses the ideological and historical question of feminine subjects.
Monique Wittig
#60. I would be a fully-paid-up member of the 'I Hate Paperwork Club' if I could summon the enthusiasm to fill in the application form.
John Dolan
#61. National Health Insurance means combining the efficiency of the Postal Service with the compassion of the I.R.S ... and the cost accounting of the Pentagon.
Louis Sullivan
#62. I wished to be an artist," Ivanya confides to Shara. "But it simply didn't turn out that way. I didn't have the ... I'm not sure. The imagination, I suppose, or the ambition, or both. You have to be a bit outside things to make something new, but I was always very much inside things.
Robert Jackson Bennett
#63. That is my theory to explain the I don't knows. It's human.
Gene Weingarten
#64. I had one kid with the birth control pill, I had one with the diaphram and I had one with the I.U.D. I don't even know what happened with my I.U.D. It never came out. But I have my suspicions because that kid picks up HBO.
Roseanne Barr
#65. The place where even the slightest trace of the 'I' does not exist, alone is Self.
Ramana Maharshi
#66. And a six-week cap on the relationship was perfect. He could enjoy the getting-to-know-you sex and the know-you-well-enough-to-push-the-right-buttons sex, but be gone before the I'm-falling-in-love-with-you-Mitch sex.
Shannon Stacey
#67. I didn't have a lot of ambition, which I think was a good thing. I mean, I was ambitious about quality, but I wasn't ambitious in the "I've got to get a pilot!" way. I never went out to L.A. for pilot season.
Justin Theroux
#68. The merger of globalization and the I.T. revolution means new products are being phased in and out so fast that companies cannot afford to wait until the end of the year to figure out whether a team leader is doing a good job.
Thomas Friedman
#69. Craziest thing I've done for love is getting married. I think it's crazy. I think it's crazy, crazy, crazy. I'm never going to say I wouldn't do it again but I have to make sure it's love and not settling for the 'I have to do this by a certain age,' which is kind of what I did.
Jenny McCarthy
#70. Ronnie's new nickname is IFF. The I'm F*%ked Foundation. He's a client and the president!
Pauly D
#71. Martin Luther King gave the 'I Have a Dream' speech, not the 'I Have a Plan' speech.
Simon Sinek
#72. FINANCE, n. The art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager. The pronunciation of this word with the i long and the accent on the first syllable is one of America's most precious discoveries and possessions.
Ambrose Bierce
#73. To me, a person's identity is composed of both an 'I' and a 'we.' The 'I' finds itself in love, work, and pleasure, but it also locates itself within some meaningful group identity - a tribe, a community, a 'we.' America is too big and bland a tribe for most of us.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
#74. Four lines, and the world went quiet.
I'm sorry for telling everyone about your mum, read the first line.
I miss being your friend, read the second.
Are you okay? read the third.
I see you, read the fourth, with the I underlined about a hundred times.
Patrick Ness
#75. Just as it is known
That an image of one's face is seen
Depending on a mirror
But does not really exist as a face,
So the conception of "I" exists
Dependent on mind and body,
But like the image of a face
The "I" does not at all exist as its own reality.
Nagarjuna
#76. That is not what I was saying, you crazy twit!"
"Cut it out! You do not to play the I'm-so-dark-and twisty-I deserve-to-be-punished card.
Heather Fleener
#77. When all is lost, ask the I.R.S. - they'll find something.
Douglas Horton
#78. Am I one or two? If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me: the 'I' and the 'self' that 'I' cannot live with.
Eckhart Tolle
#79. There is no 'my' in 'I'. 'My' is outside of the 'I'.
Dada Bhagwan
#80. I told you he'd freak out, she siad. didn't i?
ah, the i told you so, jace said. always a classy move
Cassandra Clare
#81. Your capacity to love is your capacity to experience the I of another.
Walter Starcke
#82. I didn't start writing in order to express myself. If anything the opposite was true. I was just as interested in negating the I and the ego.
Rob Chapman
#83. The key obstacle to reforming aid is public opinion.. Public opinion drives them into the "I care" photo opportunities that dominate aid.
Paul Collier
#84. Every bride and groom would do well to remember that in wedding, the we comes before the I.
Evan Esar
#85. I keep calling it the I-thought. It's a thought. There is no I. This gives you a clue.
Robert Adams
#87. I'm one of those goobers who comes out of the polling place actually wearing the 'I VOTED' sticker on my jacket.
Mary Roach
#88. Religion was created by insecure men to oppress women. Religion is the basis of all political ideas and it exempts the human being to find the "I" in them.
Mutabaruka
#89. I am not the I that you see. Most of these quotes do not belong to me.
Gautama Buddha
#90. Anytime you write something, you go through so many phases. You go through the 'I'm a Fraud' phase. You go through the 'I'll Never Finish' phase. And every once in a while you think, 'What if I actually have created what I set out to create, and it's received as such?'
Lin-Manuel Miranda
#91. I have always been very fortunate in my working life in terms of the, I say that like I've not been fortunate at all in my private life.
Chiwetel Ejiofor
#92. If you really know how to ask the question 'Who am I?' you will inevitably be delivered into that state of silence and pure consciousness that is your true Being. The question 'Who am I?' will ultimately deliver you into the 'I am' of you.
Leonard Jacobson
#93. I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.
Nikki Giovanni
#94. Whatever follows the "I am" will eventually find you.
Joel Osteen
#95. I want to be good to you." He rolls me to face him, and kisses me once before admitting, "I'm just fucking wild for you."
"I think I spotted that just now," I whisper.
"I mean," he clarifies, "the I love you kind of wild.
Christina Lauren
#96. I wonder whether, perhaps without realizing it, we seek out the books we need to read. Or whether books themselves, which are intelligent entities, detect their readers and catch their eye. In the end, every book is the I Ching. You pick it up, open it, and there it is, there you are.
Andres Neuman
#97. I believe the personal is the collective. One of the ironies of writing memoir is in using the "I" it becomes an alchemical "we." This is the sorcery of literature.
Terry Tempest Williams
#98. All can hear that still small voice within. Try it. Be still and know that the I AM within you is God, the Beloved. Listen ... then live by it.
Eileen Caddy
#99. The 'I think' which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the 'I breathe' which actually does accompany them.
William James
#100. And just what is Antoine Roquentin? An abstraction. A pale reflection of myself wavers in my consciousness. Antoine Roquentin . . . and suddenly the "I" pales, pales, and fades out. Lucid,
Jean-Paul Sartre
