I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I have traveled with Jessy Dixon for the past several years and never have I been with an artists with more heart. He is the real thing.”
“I have travelled a great deal - to Afghanistan, Iran, Egypt - and can very well differentiate between moderate Muslims and Islam.”
“I have travelled all over the world and one thing that amazes me is that I can communicate with people. My story may be different but emotionally we are all the same.”
“I have travelled and been pretty much a one man operation for most of my career, and I think it'll continue to be that way.”
“I have travelled around the globe. I have seen the Canadian and American Rockies, the Andes, the Alps and the Highlands of Scotland, but for simple beauty, Cape Breton outrivals them all!”
“I have treated many artists. There are among them many neurotics, so many that one finally comes to believe that one cannot be an artist without being neurotic. Again I found in them that inner conflict which is characteristic of modern man: the conflict between a right intuition (namely, that their vocation has fundamental importance for the destiny of humanity) and a false idea (namely, that art is superfluous luxury).”
Source: The Whole Person in a Broken World
“I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.”
“I have tremendous admiration for everyone who enters the political arena so long as their goal is to do what they believe is right for the people of New York.”
“I have tremendous confidence in the ability of government institutions and the American people to do what is right to make sure that our democracy stays on the right track.”
“I have tremendous confidence in the capacity of the poor to transform not only their own lives but also to build a just, humane, and democratic society.”
“I have tremendous empathy for people who are faced with any kind of a chronic problem. Sometimes when we're in this situation, it's as though our mind has us believe that if we ruminate about the pain we'll find a way out.”
“I have tremendous faith in theuniverse. I feel at home on this planet. Even though it's a very big world out there, I plan on walking right through the middle of it unharmed.”
“I have tremendous faith that there will be greater films to come.”
“I have tremendous respect for fighters and I always tell people that boxing in movies is one thing but when you get into the ring for real, even the worst heavyweight in the world is going to murder you. You've just got to appreciate the pain and the suffering and the glory and skill that goes into what they do. That's why I love the sport so much.”
“I have tremendous respect for film composers.”
“I have tremendous respect for women.”
“I have tremendous respect for women. I love them. I don't know why they want to step down.”
“I have tried (I am not sure how successfully) to write plain tales. I dare not say they are simple; there is not a simple page, a simple word, on earth -\-\ for all pages, all words, predicate the universe, whose most notorious attribute is its complexity.”
Source: Brodie's Report: Including the Prose Fiction from In Praise of Darkness
“I have tried 99 times and have failed, but on the 100th time came success.”
“I have tried a little kinky stuff. A woman called me and said, 'I have mirrors all over my bedroom. Bring a bottle.' I brought Windex.”
“I have tried all my life to look after my skin, so I never do things like go to bed with make-up on. I also always use moisturisers. But I certainly do not believe in Botox or anything like that. The thought of it just makes me think 'urgh'.”
“I have tried and failed to lead a conventional life. When I try to be like other people, I fall out of bed.”
Source: The Tattooed Woman
“I have tried and I cannot find, either in scripture or in history, a strong-willed individual whom God used greatly until He allowed them to be hurt deeply.”
“I have tried at every point to seek God's wisdom on the decisions I made, and I made it my business to speak up on behalf of the things God tells us are important to Him.”
“I have tried at times to place humans in perspective against the vastness of universal time and space. I have been concerned with where we, as a race, may be going and what may be our purpose in the universal scheme — if we have a purpose. In general, I believe we do, and perhaps an important one.”
“I have tried being surreal, but my frogs hop right back into their realistic ponds.”
“I have tried drugs and a little of everything else, and there is nothing in the world more soul-satisfying than having the kingdom of God building inside you and growing.”
“I have tried every amp, distortion box, gadget etc. that has ever been made since 1967 to present and nothing has sounded like the Tonebone. It has become an incredible asset to my sound and I recommend this to anyone who is looking for that NATURAL warm sound with sustain for days and days! Buy this now!”
“I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.”
Source: Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left
“I have tried getting up early, and I have tried getting up late-and the latter agrees with me best.”
Source: Early Tales & Sketches, Vol. 2: 1864 -1865
“I have tried hard - but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was no use anywhere else. What can one do when one finds out that one only fits into one hole? One must go back to it or be thrown out into the rubbish heap - and you don't know what it's like in the rubbish heap!”
Source: The House of Mirth
“I have tried if I could reach that great resolution . . . to be honest without a thought of Heaven or Hell.”
“I have tried in my way to be free.”
“I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.”
“I have tried many times to express my feelings, but at each attempt, I find myself tongue-tied.”
Source: Bloodline
“I have tried my best to keep my country alive by writing about it.”
“I have tried my entire life to do what I can to support children and families.”
“I have tried my hand at bribery, blackmail, and deceit. And I've served time for everything, cept beggin on the street.”
“I have tried my whole life to represent my Mexican roots with honor and pride.”
“I have tried raising money by asking for it, and by not asking for it. I always got more by asking for it.”
“I have tried reading the Bible but that's a tough read there. I watch a lot of religious documentaries. I have a keen interest in religion for someone who's not religious.”
“I have tried sedulously not to laugh at the acts of man, nor to lament them, nor to detest them, but to understand them.”
“I have tried sex with both men and women. I found I liked it.”
“I have tried so hard to do the right.”
“I have tried so hard to escape this, but my path was always leading here. I took every turn I could. I found faith and God. I found a new home and country, even new tongues and a new name. But I cannot escape becoming a Dracul. The cruelty, the willingness to destroy everything else in pursuit of a goal. I know what she would do. I know what I need to do. But I do not want to do it.”
Source: Bright We Burn
“I have tried therapy a couple of times, but it hasn't worked.”
“I have tried to answer the question which sent me to Samoa: Are the disturbances which vex our adolescents due to the nature of adolescence itself or to the civilization? Under different conditions does adolescence present a different picture?”
Source: Coming of Age in Samoa
“I have tried to avoid long numerical computations, thereby following Riemann's postulate that proofs should be given through ideas and not voluminous computations.”
“I have tried to be a leader. I have tried in my role of being one of the first women at Google, let alone the first woman to have a baby, to really try to set the tone that this is a great place to work for diversity reasons.”
“I have tried to be a man of letters in love with ideas in order to be a wiser and more loving person, hoping to leave the world just a little better than I found it.”
Source: The Cornel West Reader