I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only moral ones. Second, just as despair can come to one another only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.”
“I have learned two things in my life: there is a God, and I am not him.”
“I have learned,
we are not our happiest when we get what we want--
then we are prone to pick--
aware of all the flaws and tradeoffs
in our realized-but-imperfect fantasy.
We are our happiest
when we have hope.”
“I have learned well
the roles and scripts we people
create for ourselves,
and how afraid most people are of stepping outside them,
more comfortable (even if more miserable)
to keep their bubbles in place,
even if those bubbles are delusions of grandeur that lead to illusions
of impossibility,
even when shown there is another way,
a way that is more challenging, but also more gratifying.”
“I have learned what must be, and therefore have come to see the whole horror of what is.”
Source: Tolstoy: Tales of Courage and Conflict
“I have learned when two Republicans are talking about legalizing drugs to shut up.”
“I have learned yet again (this has been going on all my life) what folly it is to take any thing for granted without examining it skeptically.”
Source: Dark Age Ahead
“I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things follow.”
Source: The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
“I have learned, as has many another better writer, to summon inspiration to my call as soon as I begin my day's stint, and not to hang around waiting for it. Inspiration is merely a pretty phrase for the zest to work. And it can be cultivated by anyone who has the patience to try. Inspiration that will not come at its possessor's summons is like a dog that cannot be trained to obey. The sooner both are gotten rid of, the better.”
“I have learned, by some experience, that virtue and patriotism, vice and selfishness, are found in all parties, and that they differ less in their motives than in the policies they pursue.”
Source: speach in the senate
“I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory... And why not? Victory is good for you, and don't let anybody tell you different.”
Source: Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness
“I have learned... adversity can be one of the greatest gifts of all.”
“I have learnt a good deal from my own talk.”
“I have learnt a lot about my body since my heart attack. I don't drink as much now as before.”
“I have learnt a very important lesson about eliminating time wasters in my life ~ and the lesson is to ALWAYS INVEST TIME ON PURPOSE.”
“I have learnt how to live…how to be in the world and of the world, and not just to stand aside and watch.”
“I have learnt more from my failures than my successes.”
“I have learnt not to make plans in life, because a lot of time you make a plan that is not going to work for you”
“I have learnt not to make plans in life, because a lot of time you make a plan that is not going to work for you. Right now I am working on my career and trying to be genuine to my work. If you respect what you have got, God will give you what you need.”
“I have learnt so much over my 40 years of business which would have been valuable to me when I was younger.”
“I have learnt that a good marriage is healing for the soul, something to relish. But a bad marriage is long-suffering, a thing to be endured. The only good thing about marriage is that it’s perishable like human life.”
Source: One and a Half Wife
“I have learnt that all our theories are not Truth itself, but resting places or stages on the way to the conquest of Truth, and that we must be contented to have obtained for the strivers after Truth such a resting place which, if it is on a mountain, permits us to view the provinces already won and those still to be conquered.”
“I have learnt that I am incapable of packing the right amount of clothing, probably because I start 10 minutes before I'm supposed to leave, and that I truly hate airports.”
“I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.”
“I have learnt that there are kind wonderful people in every country in the world”
“I have learnt that we expect honesty and genuineness from others, while not being honest and genuine with our own self.”
“I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world.”
Source: All Men Are Brothers
“I have learnt through doing interviews throughout my life that the way that somebody can write about something can change entirely how it was meant, or what actually happened.”
“I have learnt to appreciate the clarity of English language.”
“I have learnt to be a congratulator and not a hater!”
“I have learnt to be even more patient.”
“I have learnt to expect that it will rarely fall to the lot of imperfect man to retire from this station with the reputation and the favor which bring him into it.”
Source: The Essential Jefferson
“I have learnt to hide my true feelings behind a mask of obedience, and sometimes feigned ignorance. It has become a part of my nature, allowing my thoughts to remain my own even if my actions, words and demeanour are often at the command of others. Don’t we all wear masks, either to protect ourselves or to deceive others?”
Source: The Engraver's Secret
“i have learnt to live to please myself first instead of other people, when I lived to please others, I lay late in bed with my eyes open in the dark wondering who I was, now I know myself”
“I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!”
Source: Confessions
“I have lectured at the U.N. and travelled widely, giving lectures on human rights and gender inequalities in universities. But this is a life I do not wish to live. I don't want to be a showcase, I want to be in a battlefield where I can stand beside the oppressed and the poor.”
“I have lectured at Town Hall N.Y., The Library of Congress, Harvard, Yale, Amherst, Wellesley, Columbia, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Louisiana State University, Colorado, Stanford, and scores of other places.”
“I have led a pretty colorful life.”
“I have led an extraordinary life on this planet, while at the same time travelling across the universe by using my mind and the laws of physics. I have been to the furthest reaches of our galaxy, travelled into a black hole and gone back to the beginning of time. On Earth, I have experienced highs and lows, turbulence and peace, success and suffering. I have been rich and poor, I have been able-bodied and disabled. I have been praised and criticised, but never ignored. I have been enormously privileged, through my work, in being able to contribute to our understanding of the universe. But it would be an empty universe indeed if it were not for the people I love, and who love me. Without them, the wonder of it all would be lost on me.
And at the end of all this, the fact that we humans, who are ourselves mere collections of fundamental particles of nature, have been able to come to an understanding of the laws governing us, and our universe, is a great triumph. I want to share my excitement about these big questions and my enthusiasm about this quest.”
Source: Brief Answers to the Big Questions
“I have led an unusual life. I have buried a father killed at age 50 and two brothers killed in the prime of their lives. I raised my children as a single mother when my husband was arrested and held for eight years without a conviction - a hostage to my political career.”
“I have led her home, my love, my only friend. There is none like her, none, And never yet so warmly ran my blood, And sweetly, on and on Calming itself to the long-wished for end, Full to the banks, close on the prom- ised good.”
“I have led the way for moving women from traditional roles to strategic positions and inspired girls and women throughout Africa to seek leadership positions.”
“I have left all my business and all my husbands; I have taken with me only fair weather and my children, which is as much as I want.”
“I have left my balls to Robespierre and my legs to Couthon. That should help the Committee of Public Safety for a while.”
“I have left my book, I have left my room, For I heard you singing Through the gloom.”
Source: James Joyce The Dover Reader
“I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.”
“I have left out what I don't remember or don't know. Temperament, fear, shyness, obedience, kindness.”
“I have left the federal government and the German Bundestag; I have resigned from all my positions in the Social Democratic Party of Germany.”
“I have left the obvious, essential fact to this point, namely, that it is the Russian Armies who have done the main work in tearing the guts out of the German army. In the air and on the oceans we could maintain our place, but there was no force in the world which could have been called into being, except after several more years, that would have been able to maul and break the German army unless it had been subjected to the terrible slaughter and manhandling that has fallen to it through the strength of the Russian Soviet Armies.”
“I have legally used the tax laws to my benefit and to the benefit of my company, my investors and my employees. I mean, honestly, I have brilliantly - I have brilliantly used those laws.”