I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I knew where my father was too; my mother had shown me his resting place on the day of his funeral. It’s a bit far away, she told me, but we’ll both be joining him there someday, so we’re not likely to lose track of the spot. Your father is kind, she added, so he’s gone on ahead to see where we’ll be.”
Source: Mina's Matchbox
“I knew where the magnets were, behind the gyprock, and the magnets were very powerful. I think they had to be powerful for me, otherwise the reader wouldn't have a reciprocal experience. But I was very careful to bury them deeply, deeply in the plaster and paint over them. I didn't want anybody to directly access them, and that's gradually changed for me.”
“I knew where the margins were. I could expand a little bit inside them.”
“I knew wherever I was that you thought of me, and if I got in a tight place you would come-if alive.”
Source: Supplemental report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War: in two volumes ; supplemental to Senate report no. 142, 38th Congress, 2d session
“I knew who I was as a girl but I had to find who I was as a woman.”
“I knew who I was this morning, but I've changed a few times since then.”
Source: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
“I knew who Leonard Nimoy was, and that he embodied what Star Trek meant to all the fans. But it wasn't until I started doing my research for this movie, and started going to fan sites, that I began to fall in love with these characters.”
“I Knew why I felt at home. The spirit of freedom was hovering over that play yard as it did all over France at that time. A country was free again.”
“I knew why I had felt empty before: I needed to be true to myself and my calling. Being myself–and chasing my dreams–was enough.”
“I knew why love was always described with eternity. A single minute stretched out for lifetimes.”
Source: Death Before Daylight
“I knew- with a sudden, uncoiling clarity- that Nesta would buy Elain time to run. Not my father, whom she resented with her entire steely heart. Not me, because Nesta had always known and hated that she and I were two sides of the same coin, and that I could fight my own battles. But Elain, the flower-grower, the gentle heart... Nesta would go down swinging for her.”
Source: A Court of Thorns and Roses
“I knew with certainty now—I could say no, and he would stop. Above all, I felt the fierce beauty of the choice. I knew now what it was that had held me from falling into my desire to be with him fully: I first needed to make sure he was a man who would respect my 'No.”
“I knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that.”
“I knew words were like chains, they held me back . . . the act of description taints the description.”
Source: The Magus
“I knew you better than you knew yourself. I was terrified you’d do exactly what you did.”
Source: If We Were Villains
“I knew you could destroy me like no one ever had.
And I knew I'd let you.”
Source: As Muses Burn
“I knew you could find a certain relief in begging God, it had helped me, but on the other hand, God never answered directly and that was always depressing.”
“I knew you’d come around” Bain mused.
“Excuse me?” Izzy asked irritated by his smug tone, but she had been totally checking him out.
“You see something you like sweetheart, I can tell.” He smirked.
“You are incredibly arrogant” she accused.
“True.”
Source: Immortal Blood
“I knew you'd have him. I knew it the first time I laid eyes on you together.”
Source: Love on a Midsummer Night
“I knew you’d know,” Mom said in a stabilizing, more confident, yet still husky voice. A smile broke across her face in the simple relief of her only remaining child not being shocked by the death of her youngest. She smiled genuinely, perhaps for the first time since cradling Dustin’s body as the fire truck alarm blared towards the house in response to her 911 call. Her son had died that morning in her arms as she tried resuscitating him with her own breath, but the first indication of her daughter’s reaction was calm. The child raised to expect death met the first moments of the news with seeming serenity.”
Source: From My Mother
“I knew you"d never be American enough to help me reconstruct my life.”
Source: The Call of the Canyon
“I knew you'd ruin me ... I knew I'd be in over my head ... And now here I am, drowning in you and all that you are. And I'll be damned if I want to break the surface.”
Source: Luke
“I knew you had to go in and audition and maybe they'd hire you, and that's where you start. I had a good understanding about press: that it's the actor's responsibility to publicize his or her films.”
“I knew you not, but I knew you completely. I was in love with something of a memory, a memory that always was and always would be.”
“I knew you talked to books. I didn't realize they listened.”
Source: Sorcery of Thorns
“I knew you were a badass," continued Adrian. "But I didn't realize just how much until I saw you dropping guardians out there." "Does that mean you're going to be nicer to me?" I teased. "I'm already nice to you," he said loftily. "Do you know how badly I want a cigarette right now? But no. I manfully suffer through nicotine withdrawal—all for you.”
“I knew you were bad for me, and I still couldn’t let you go. I suffered because I kept going back. Every day, when I laid in your bed, I was her prey. I was used and abused. I was once a person with high self-esteem. The first day we crossed paths, I got caught in your web, and I didn’t even try to break free. You didn’t let me come up for air, because you kept drowning me with your lies and abuse one after another. You were a thorn in my side that caused me to bleed to death, but I never had the strength to take it out.”
~Love is respect ♥~”
Source: In Love With Blindfolds On
“I knew you were behind the tapestry,” he said. “I also knew the railing was about to give way. I was waiting for you, waiting for your fall.”
Waiting all my life for you, he added silently, waiting all my life for you to fall in love with me.”
Source: The Dark Knight
“I knew you were crazy, but I didn't realize that you were out of your goddamned mind!!”
“i knew you were going to try and kill yourself before you did it. i knew because before all this happened you were the only person my seven-year-old nephew with asperger's ever let hug him. you were eighteen and you were just shining, your even brown skin competing with the bright blue sky for my attention. god, you were perfect. i was in love with the idea that finally we had given birth to a generation that didn't have to spend their adult lives recovering from their childhoods. you weren't going to drown yourself in anything, you were just going to smile and fight in some mythological honourable way we'd all only imagined. then i found out your mama was about to die and every time you looked me in the eye i wanted to cry, because i knew there was a diagnosed train wreck coming your way and i didn't know how someone so perfect could survive.”
Source: Islands of Decolonial Love: Stories & Songs
“I knew you were in charge of me but my mind broke on its own.”
Source: In the Pines
“I knew you were the one when I realized your smile was my heaven, your laugh my favorite song, and your arms my home.”
Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
“I knew you were the perfect man for me the moment I laid eyes on you.”
Source: Final Play
“I knew you would do me good in some way, at some time--I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you.”
Source: Jane Eyre
“I knew you'd come,Claire.I knew you would.Dear God,you took your time.”
Source: Bitter Blood
“I knew you'd decide to be all right again.”
Source: the bell jar
“I knew you'd kiss me." "How?" I say. Because I didn't know myself. "Because I am in pain," He say's. "That's the only way I get your attention.”
“I knew your father before you did, and I don't think he'd be too proud of what you're doing right now.”
“I knew your mother so well I could play her part. The same with my own mother and my grandmother and my childhood best friend, Euna, who drowned my the lake by her cousin's house. There are no ghosts, but up here-- she gestured towards her head-- it's a haunted house.”
Source: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
“I knew your plan before you made it,” Eldora proclaimed, tossing her Wert from hand to hand… “You are somewhat of a mystery, one of Shakespeare’s cryptic sonnets, I reckon, but some lines are rather…obvious. You would be a terrible king.”
Source: Aizai the Forgotten
“I knew Zico hyung ever since I was a young child. I believe that hyung's actions in general show me a lot. It gives me help, but also stimulates me.”
“I knew, as every peasant does, that land can never be truly owned. We are the keepers of the soil, the curators of trees.”
“I knew, as sure as I knew my name, that tomorrow he would send me another coat, in a big fancy box, with a big bow on it. It would be the right size, it would be a top brand, and it would be warm. ............... It was cranberry red, with a removable liner, a detachable hood, and tortoiseshell buttons.”
Source: Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set
“I knew, deep down, that love, though a beautiful beginning, isn't enough. It's the practice of honoring and caring for another that's noble, not the emotion of love itself. The emotion is the easy part.”
Source: Charmed Thirds: A Jessica Darling Novel
“I knew, despite playing in the NBA, that I would have to prepare for another career or vocation for when my playing days were over, in order to maintain relevancy. I didn't want to become known for what I used to do.”
“I knew, even as we touched that I had never wanted anything more in all my life. All my crabbed cravings were as a cupful of pond water beside the vast ocean of longing I felt surging through me. My head swam; my eyes blurred. I burned from the inside out as if my blood and bones were consumed with liquid fire.”
“I knew, even at eight, that the confusion of values thrust upon me by parents, teachers, other children, nannies, camp counselors, and others would only worsen as I grew up. The years would add complications and steer me into more and more impenetrable tangles of rights and wrongs, desirables and undesirables. I had already seen enough to know that.”
Source: The Continuum Concept: Allowing Human Nature to Work Successfully
“I knew, however, that it would cost ten times what I had available in order to build a molecular beam machine. I decided to follow a byway, rather than the highway. It is a procedure I have subsequently recommended to beginning scientists in this country, where research strategy is best modelled on that used by Wolfe at the Plains of Abraham.”
“I knew, in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late: again, I might have missed my chance. But I would at least know I tried, that I took my heart and extended my hand, whatever the outcome. "Okay," he said. He took a breath. "What would you do, if you could do anything?" I took a step toward him, closing the space between us. "This," I said. And then I kissed him.”
Source: The Truth About Forever
“I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.”
Source: A Life in Photography