I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I encourage people at this time, do not put your faith in any preacher, in any human system, but put your faith and trust in the Living God.”
“I encourage people in a lot of my messages that you've got to make the most of every day.”
“I encourage people to ask whatever question you're most interested in hearing the answer to.”
“I encourage people to embrace whatever it is that makes them different. Not being like everybody, setting your own trends, being your own person, that’s what makes you cool.”
“I encourage people to find and use the power of their voices just as much when I do not agree with those voices as when I do agree with them.”
“I encourage people to have a daily spiritual practice; that's the best way to take care of yourself. If you have that daily practice, it means you're getting divine guidance, and you're not being guided by your ego or your personality.”
“I encourage people to pick up small habits like taking a walk after meals... we've become way too sedentary. Just move!”
“I encourage people to play around, mix proportions, textures, seasons and prints, and to find what makes them feel their most comfortable and expressive.”
“I encourage people to read by encouraging them to read whatever they want.”
“I encourage people to remember that "no" is a complete sentence.”
Source: Protecting the Gift: Keeping Children and Teenagers Safe (and Parents Sane)
“I encourage playfulness and experimentation with both the camera and subject matter. Sometimes there is an obvious perspective, but it is important never to be satisfied with that.”
“I encourage readers recovering from a kidney transplant to heed the advice of their medical practitioners.”
Source: Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation
“I encourage readers to get informed and expand their perspective on war and global events. My life has been profoundly affected by the Bosnian War and genocide. I have made it my life mission to spread awareness about the excruciating impact it had on the lives of millions of Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims) and Bosnians. My goal is to honor Bosnian people who were raped, tortured, and murdered from senseless violence. Bosnians have literally gone through every form of degradation from Serbs.
They were beaten, harassed, discriminated against, threatened, thrown out of their homes, dismissed from workplaces, had their properties robbed, and had their businesses bombed. In addition, Serbs took passports, driver’s licenses, jewelry (among other valuable items), and money from Bosnian families. Religious institutions were completely obliterated. Villages were raided, pillaged, and burned.”
Source: Justice For Bosnia and Herzegovina
“I encourage students to check out different styles of yoga and different teachers even within one system. Seek the teacher that inspires you, and practice the yoga that makes you feel the best. You'll then find the authentic practice for your life and path.”
“I encourage students to pursue an idea far enough so they can see what the cliches and stereotypes are. Only then do they begin to hit pay dirt.”
“I encourage teachers to speak in their own voices. Don't use the gibberish of the standards writers.”
“I encourage the translators of my books to take as much license as they feel that they need. This is not quite the heroic gesture it might seem, because I've learned, from working with translators over the years, that the original novel is, in a way, a translation itself.”
“I encourage women and girls all over the world to stop mentally abusing themselves by comparing themselves to others and negative self-talk… To love and accept themselves for who THEY are because that’s true woman and girl power… There’s no greater love than the unconditional love that you give to yourself… Female power starts within!”
“I encourage you from the depths of my heart and being to know that you have the full capacity and the right to make changes that will enliven your awareness, raise the succulent joy in your heart, and experience the vitality that comes from living in balance.”
“I encourage you to accept that you may not be able to see a path right now, but that doesn't mean it's not there.”
“I encourage you to be a person who is not afraid of responsibility. In meeting resistance you will build your strength. If you only do what is easy, you will always remain weak.”
Source: Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle of Your Mind
“I encourage you to cultivate your curiosity and discover how your cultural lens on the world can influence your interactions with people of diverse cultural backgrounds.”
Source: Curious About Culture: Refocus your lens on culture to cultivate cross cultural understanding
“I encourage you to deliberately look for something to smile or laugh about every day, and be sure to share a smile or a laugh with someone else and brighten their day too!”
“I encourage you to find your punk-rock, your lucha-libre, your pro-wrestling”
“I encourage you to listen to the right voices in your life. There are plenty of people who will always be dissatisfied, no matter what you do. Be sure you are listening to the people who encourage development out of concern for you, not because you are otherwise not good enough for them.
Please don’t mistake this to mean you should only listen to people who tell you what you want to hear. There are people who love you or have a vested interest in your success and happiness, who may push you to improve because they want what’s best for you. Sometimes it is those who are toughest on us that love us the most.”
“I encourage you to live with life. Be courageous, adventurous. Give us a tomorrow, more than we deserve.”
“I encourage you to make money and to become enlightened. The two are not necessarily different. Have fun with whatever you do because we are only here for a while.”
“I encourage you to remember that you are, indeed, as the stars. You glow with the same intensity. The answers that you seek outside of yourself may very well be found within the cosmic intelligence inside you. Go ahead; show the world what you are made of! Sparkle, shine, light the way, and brightly blaze as you are meant to do.”
“I encourage you to seek the help of the Savior to resist temptation and to refrain from behavior that would cause you to have to repent or to have your Church membership called into question.”
“I encourage you to stop saying, "I just want to look not so bad" and instead say, "I want to look fabulous."”
“I encourage you to tend to the garden of your own heart. Plant seeds of love. Let light through. Till the soil in the dark and cut the weeds. Water yourself with kindness and compassion. By healing within, you stop attracting relationships that are unhealthy for you. Love yourself repeatedly until it becomes ritual; if you love yourself first, everything is possible. The cosmic orgasm is possible. I am speaking to everyone, not only singles; it’s easy to forget these steps when you’re in a relationship or partnership.”
Source: Cosmic Sexuality
“I encourage young people to refrain from putting themselves in dangerous situations in the name of validating themselves sexually.”
“I encouraged her to find a good man and clip his wings now that Frost wouldn’t be around to drive all her suitors away.”
Source: Yildun: Worldmaker of Yand
“I encouraged the cast to make up their own lines.”
“I encouraged the Chinese to support Pol Pot. I encouraged the Thailand|Thai to help the Khmer Rouge. The question was how to help the Cambodian people. Pol Pot was an abomination. We could never support him. But China could.”
“I end not far from my going forth By picking the faded blue Of the last remaining aster flower To carry again to you.”
Source: The Road Not Taken and Other Poems: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“I end this note with a saying of a great scholar, Abdul-Aziz bin Baz, who once said, "Reading is really Allah's early reward to the believer; a first reward before the Day of Judgment!”
Source: A Child Reads
“I end up discussing the weather when the weather is all around us and both I and whoever the stranger might be must surely have noticed it. We would be better off asking each other if our faces are still there.”
Source: Now That You're Back
“I end up feeling like a spy in the house of ethnicity, you know? Because people will talk around me as they would talk around the people in their cultural group. So I get to hear all the secrets and jokes and you know, I'm a part of every community because of the way I look.”
“I end up improvising in almost everything to some degree, 'cause it's often necessary on movies. The script is one thing, and it's this kind of theory of what you're going to do, and then you get there on the day and you realize, "Oh, the script is not appropriate to this room, the door's over here."”
“I end up liking politicians, both left and right, who talk about political matters as if they are addressing a bunch of adults, as if they are capable of handling both complexity and emotional responsibility.”
“I end up not buying a lot of things, because I find them ridiculous.”
“I end up saving the world, just to save you”
“I end up watching this movie about some girl who's supposed to be so smart and edgy and unpopular. She wears glasses, that's how you know she's so smart. And she's the only one that has dark hair in the school- a place that looks like Planet Blond.
Anyway, she somehow ends up going to the prom- hello, gag- and she doesn't wear her glasses, so suddenly she's all beautiful. And she's bashful and shy because she doesn't feel comfortable wearing a dress. But then the guy says something like, "Wow, I never knew you were so pretty," and she feels on top of the world.
So, basically, the whole point is she's pretty. Oh, and smart, too. But what's really important here is that she's pretty.
For a second I think about Katie. About her thin little Clarissa Le Fey.
It must be a pain being fat. There are NO fat people on Planet Blond.
I don't get it. I mean, even movies where the actress is smart- like they seem like they'd be smart in real life, they're all gorgeous. And they usually get a boyfriend somewhere in the story. Even if they say they don't want one. They always, always end up falling in love, and you're supposed to be like, "Oh, good."
I once said this to my mom, and she laughed. "Honey, Hollywood... reality- two different universes. Don't make yourself crazy."
Which made me feel pretty pathetic. Like I didn't know the difference between a movie and the real world.
But then when everyone gets on you about your hair and your clothes and your this and your that, and "Are you fat?" and "Are you sexy?" you start thinking, Hey, maybe I'm not the only one who can't tell the difference between movies and reality.
Maybe everyone really does think you can look like that. And that you should look like that.
Because, you know, otherwise you might not get to go to the prom and fall in love.”
Source: Head Games
“I end up writing about all kinds of things. I never make an attempt to write about anything in particular. I don't have a little list of topics to write about.”
“I end up writing something every day, since I develop six or seven things at the same time - soccer columns, this and that.”
“I end where you begin
And begin where you end;
You are my Earth’s horizon
And the axis on which it spins”
Source: Legacy
“I end with a word on the new symbols which I have employed. Most writers on logic strongly object to all symbols. ... I should advise the reader not to make up his mind on this point until he has well weighed two facts which nobody disputes, both separately and in connexion. First, logic is the only science which has made no progress since the revival of letters; secondly, logic is the only science which has produced no growth of symbols.”
Source: Syllabus of a Proposed System of Logic
“I end with these words: “In a thousand valleys, across years travelled, it is your voice that echoes in my heart. Desire and love are the treasures of my soul, where you are always found. A promise kept in purity and truth, as the storm is faithful when it’s past, the birds sing sweetly, and the grass and shrubs are the envy of all the greenery.”
Source: Through Shadows and Light: Myths of Families and Love
“I endeavor not to conceal that I believe there is a great mixture of desire in the passion which is called love--or rather, without any far-fetched strain on words, it may be called the companion of love.”