I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love; I have learned to lose and to resign myself.”
“I know how irritating it is to have somebody else lay down rules for your moral uplift, but you've got to stand a great deal in order to make progress.”
“I know how it feels to be a woman because I am a woman. And I won't be classified as just a man.”
“I know how it feels to be broken, that's why all I do is heal, not break - lift, not loath - harmonize, not dehumanize.”
Source: Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather
“I know how it feels to be completely alone and helpless, and the last thing you want to hear in that situation is, 'It's going to be OK.' "The only thing that seems to really help is that someone else who has felt that low expressing those feelings to you.”
“I know how it feels to be someplace you no longer belong, or to no longer be in the place you do belong, because that place has ceased to exist. I know what it’s like to be robbed of your foundation walls, how difficult it becomes to stand firm or stand at all, to provide others with protection. It’s impossible to imagine; it must be experienced, although best avoided. I wouldn’t wish it upon anyone.”
Source: Pollaks Arm
“I know how it feels to go into a studio to start a record, and eight weeks later it's finished. I know how an intense schedule feels.”
“I know how it feels when people look right through you, or worse, see you as something or someone other than what you are.”
Source: Reached
“I know how it feels when you're coming into a new situation, that the other guys won the election.”
“I know how it fees to plead. I know how it feels to wish someone would give you a chance to help them.”
Source: Stunned
“I know how it goes. Six or seven months ago I was the manager of the year and I was going to be this and that, tactically this and tactically that, and now, because we have lost two world-class players, I am useless. But I accept that.”
“I know how it is, he said, his tone shifting. Voice warm and low. Intimate again. You like it this way. Sneaking around.
And it seemed to me he was offering a way out, and so I shrugged, nodded.
Say nothing more, he said, reaching for me. Saved from having to explain, I kissed him to stop talk, to stop thought.”
Source: Thirst for Salt
“I know how it is to grind, I know how it is to get up at 4 in the morning and do things, I know how it is for a label not to support you, I know how it is to be put on a shelf at a label but still keep my career alive.”
“I know how long I need to be working to make my dreams become a reality.”
“I know how long it took me to lose my weight, and people have got to understand it?s not always easy. If all this can help one child, we are doing our job.”
“I know how lucky I am. I never take it for granted. In this country [USA], anything can happen - anybody can be what they want to be. All I ever wanted was to be a good husband and father, a good chef, and to have my own restaurant. And the celebrity was never expected. Wouldn't have even dared dream of it. And here I am. So anyone's dreams can come true. And I'm very, very grateful for everything that's come my way. I thank everyone who enjoys what I do.”
“I know how Lupe Velez felt. You fight just so long and then you begin to worry about being washed up. You fear there's one way to go and that's down.”
“I know how many days in which I have just answered e-mail, had three phone calls and a two hour lunch. Poof, gone. They are not infrequent.”
“I know how many herds have
fled, and the curves
of carcasses stripped to bone by men, wind, and time. I do not know
that I am gone.”
“I know how men in exile feed on dreams.”
Source: Agamemnon in Plain and Simple English (Translated)
“I know how men think when they're not responding to questions in a clinical study.”
“I know how Mesut Ozil takes penalties.”
“I know how mirrors work. They're all in league with the cosmetics trade. They tell a woman lies. Drawing her gaze from one imagined flaw to another, until all she sees is a constellation of imperfections. If you could get outside yourself, borrow my eyes for just an instant... There is only beauty.”
“I know how models are built, because I build them myself, so I know that I'm embedding my values into every single algorithm I create and I am projecting my agenda onto those algorithms.”
“I know how much embarrassment hurts, and I love it as a theme because you can keep digging a hole. It's just an endless well, embarrassment.”
“I know how much I love Echo. After what we’ve done...my heart aches...I f*cking worship her now.”
Source: Breaking the Rules
“I know how much more I need to do to be where I want.”
“I know how much respect I have for people of all different faiths, but especially for my family, who are the most important people in my life, and who are still practicing, and deeply religious.”
“I know how my body operates differently from what it did when it was 30 and when it was 20. As unhealthy as I am, I'm weirdly aware of exactly how my body functions.”
“I know how painful it can be letting someone you think you love go, but that I don’t believe there’s only one person in the world for each of us. It’s too fanciful, too limiting.”
Source: One Day in December
“I know how painful it is to utter the word goodbye; that's why you parted in silence. There is nothing to be sad about. Nothing. I can only pray for you. May you remain as beautiful as you were when I saw you the last time, and as strong as well.”
“I know how pathetically inadequate my medium [painting] is, but unfortunately I dispose of no other.”
“I know how people are, with their habits of mind. Most will sail through from cradle to grave with a conscience clean as snow...I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.”
“I know how quickly he scrubbed me out of his life. I don't want to know how fast he got the shrapnel out of his heart.”
“I know how ridiculous this sounds because of the job I do but I don't believe in romanticism and make-believe.”
“I know how sad it is when you won't be able to realize your dream.
But do you know what's great about dreams?
You can always have a different dream. Just like the way
you dream every night in your sleep, you can just dream another dream.
You're not throwing your dream away, but having a different dream.”
“I know how sobering and exhausting parenthood is. But the reality is that our children's future depends on us as parents. Because we know that the first years truly last forever.”
“I know how strong you are, Nina. My death will not be the thing that defeats you.”
Source: King of Scars
“I know how stupid people can be. I've played in front of 5,000 people that bought a ticket to my concert, and some guy who's bought a ticket decides he's going to throw a bottle at my head. That's a simple act of stupidity. That's not even defiance.”
“I know how syrupy this sounds, how dull, provincial, and possibly whitewashed, but what can I do? Happy childhoods happen”
Source: Belong to Me
“I know how teams work. I've been doing this for 30 years.”
“I know how that is--
how the worst thing
is right where you
least expect it to be--
in your lungs,
in your chest,
in the attic
of the house
right across the street.”
Source: Three Things I Know Are True
“I know how the Academy Awards works: It's a card game, and I'm in the toss-up category.”
“I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti want to see the vote of the people respected.”
“I know how the birds fly, how the fishes swim, how animals run. But there is the Dragon. I cannot tell how it mounts on the winds through the clouds and flies through heaven. Today I have seen the Dragon.”
“I know how the game is played, and I'm always working on it.”
“I know how this feels: the tightening of the chest, the panic, the what-have-I-done-wait-I-was-kidding. Eating disorders linger so long undetected, eroding the body in silence, and then they strike. The secret is out. You're dying.”
Source: Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
“I know how this sounds; I mean, now I know how it sounds.”
Source: Topics of Conversation
“I know how to be sour. I know that taste.”
“I know how to be strong. I know how to be ruthless. It's part of my nature. I wouldn't be an actor if I wasn't.”