I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I envision a day when every city and town has front and back yards, community gardens and growing spaces, nurtured into life by neighbors who are no longer strangers, but friends who delight in the edible rewards offered from a garden they discovered together. Imagine small strips of land between apartment buildings that have been turned into vegetable gardens, and urban orchards planted at schools and churches to grow food for our communities. The seeds of the urban farming movement already are growing within our reality.”
“I envision a future where there'll be 300 million reporters, where anyone from anywhere can report for any reason. It's freedom of participation absolutely realized.”
“I envision a trendy upscale diner, not too expensive, where you can get well-made, beautifully presented homestyle cooking- savory meat loaf, steaks, roasted chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy, wiener schnitzel, pie à la mode, little baskets of five different kinds of homemade bread.”
Source: Girl Cook: A Novel
“I envision a valley, beyond red and blue, beyond flags and barbwires, beyond capitols and churches, where our descendants will sit together around a campfire and tell each other stories of the olden days - "remember when our ancestors used to live in tribes - they called it religion, nation, race and all that - how silly right!" I work towards that future.”
Source: The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America
“I envision a world filled with women traveling alone and meeting each other on the path.”
“I envision a world in which the vast majority of us are actively striving toward our potential as human beings by spending our lives serving others through mediums we are most passionate.”
“I envision a world where everyone eagerly embraces their work, feeling passionate and purpose-driven by what they do.”
Source: Dream Job Discovery – How to Find a Job That Fuels Your Passion and Inspires Your Purpose
“I envision some years from now that the majority of search queries will be answered without you actually asking. It'll just know this is something that you're going to want to see.”
“I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.”
“I envision the future sunny and with love, harmony and oneness. I think Hollywood is changing.”
“I envisioned a world, and I aspired to be a part of that world.
I existed in that world like, My every particular visualization is the reality.
I conceived of the world on the paradigm of Simulation.
Then, the next step was straightforward for me, and I wrote down the world that I imagined, Simulated, and visualized under the formation of The Prime Thinker.”
Source: Prime Thinker: Chronological Protocol of the Multiverse
“I envisioned all these people who had been admired for having been freaks in their own time, and I saw myself in line with them.”
“I envisioned huge piles of the Elf Hotel flying off the belt, taking down everybody in sight. I had seen pictures of that Elf Hotel - it had sharp candy-cane spires that could easily impale someone. If anyone was ever going to be killed by an Elf Hotel, it would be my parents.”
“I envisioned it all:
how we would grow together,
how we’d mend every rift with tenderness,
how each of us would be the guardian of the other's heart,
how we'd chase our dreams side by side,
how we'd weather every storm that tried to shake our peace,
how... and how... and how...
I envisioned everything—
everything but the ending.
I forgot you were quietly sketching a different journey...
one that didn’t include me.”
“I envy all suffering, because suffering is necessary to become spiritually beautiful.”
Source: The Gargoyle
“I envy animals for two things - their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them.”
“i envy anyone who accepts love
without practice my mouth opens
most often to let out humid silence
fear of loss worries at the hem
of my heart i hear it hum soft
still”
Source: Poems to Carry in Your Pocket
“I envy because of the heart.
I glutton because of the heart.
I covet because of the heart.
I am prideful because of the heart.
I sloth because of the heart.
I rage because of the heart.
Because of the heart,
I lust for everything about you.”
“I envy certain writers, because there are writers who do go into a kind of different zone, where the writing isn't controlled anymore.”
“I envy children who know that they're going to become doctors, know they're going to go into the forces or whatever. I think choice is one of the hardest things, but that's what I try to give my children, to say you can do anything.”
“I envy drummers. It must be the ultimate to sing and play drums at the same time. Phil Collins, no wonder he's so f... happy.”
“I envy her ability to tell the entire world what she feels. One day, I'll find a way, too.”
Source: Please Love Me
“I envy her. No one in my family cares about literature at all. My mother views my love of reading with the same vague bafflement with which she viewed my former interest in running— a hobby one might reference in polite conversation, but ultimately unnecessary.”
Source: A Lesson in Vengeance
“I envy him for it, sure he’s dreaming of Cassie.”
Source: Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
“I envy musicians their ability to live their art and share it with an audience, in the moment. From a filmmaker's standpoint, that's so rare and pure in a way that I'm sure is way more complicated than it appears.”
“I envy my dad and his faith. I envy all people who have someone to beseech, who know where they're going, who sleep under the fluffy white comforter of belief.”
“I envy my daughter's childhood.”
“I envy my Jewish friends the ritual of saying kaddish - a ritual that seems perfectly conceived, with its built-in support group and its ceremonious designation of time each day devoted to remembering the lost person.”
“I envy neither the heart nor the head of any legislator who has been born to an inheritance of privileges, who has behind him agesof education, dominion, civilization, and Christianity, if he stands opposed to the passage of a national education bill, whose purpose is to secure education to the children of those who were born under the shadow of institutions which made it a crime to read.”
“I envy no man that knows more than myself, but pity them that know less.”
Source: Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and Other Papers
“I envy no man's nightingale or spring;
Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme,
Who plainly say, My God, My King.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“I envy no quality of the mind or intellect in others; not genius, power, wit, nor fancy; but, if I could choose what would be most delightful, and, I believe, most useful to me, I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing.”
“I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the summer woods.”
“I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the summer woods: I envy not the beast that takes His license in the field of time, Unfetter’d by the sense of crime, To whom a conscience never wakes; Nor, what may count itself as blest, The heart that never plighted troth But stagnates in the weeds of sloth; Nor any want-begotten rest. I hold it true, whate’er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; ‘Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.”
“I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.”
“I envy people of faith. I'm incapable of believing in anything supernatural.”
“I envy people that have separate lives - that their job is one thing, their personal life is another. I've never been able to have that going on for me. I always try and keep some distance. I mean you can never give everything, so there is some distance, but it's pretty raw on some levels.”
“I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.”
Source: Business Plan: Building Brand Identity: An Indie Author's Advertising Plan
“I envy people who are so sure of everything.”
“I envy people who can just look at a sunset. I wonder how you can shoot it. There is nothing more grotesque to me than a vacation.”
“I envy people who can think, 'No, I'm not going to work today' when they have a huge pile of deadlines stacking up.”
“I envy people who could just have one drink and not go look for cocaine afterwards.”
“I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.”
“I envy people who have the capacity to sit with another human being and find them endlessly interesting, I would rather watch TV. Of course this becomes eventually known to the other person.”
Source: Postcards From the Edge
“I envy people who know how to talk to her, my heart begins to pound whenever I see her and she forces me to forget all what I have had rehearsed in my mind. For me, not being able to tame my heart is the one failure I cherish the most.”
“I envy people who write easily. I enjoy the process, but it's not easeful for me.”
“I envy people with dreams and passions, but I don't think that way. I still don't have a 'bliss' to follow. For people like me - I suspect that's most people - holding out for a 'dream' or a 'passion' is paralyzing. I just like having work I enjoy that feels meaningful. That's hard enough... but it's enough.”
“I envy Pete Sampras's dullness. I wish I could emulate his spectacular lack of inspiration.”
“I envy stupidity, stupidity is eternal.”
“I envy that man who passes through life safely, to the world and fame unknown.”