I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I know I am--that simplest bliss
The millions of my brothers miss.
I know the fortune to be born,
Even to the meanest wretch they scorn.”
“I know I began as a passion and have ended as a habit , like all husbands .”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“I know I believe in nothing, but it is my nothing.”
“I know I belong in Dauntless because everything I did in that aptitude test told me so. I'm loyal to my faction for that reason -- because there's nowhere else I could possibly be. But her? And you?" She shakes her head. "I have no idea who you're loyal to. And I'm not going to pretend like everything's okay.”
“I know I burn for you.Even in my sleep, the sleep of our people where there can be no thought,I burn for you.”
“I know I can act and it doesn't matter where you come from.”
“I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do”
“I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do. Financially, I've lost money and made money, but I know my way around financially. I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.”
“I know I can be bolshy and really unpleasant, and it always happens if I lose confidence in the people I'm working with. If I've got no confidence in what I'm doing and they don't provide me with some assurance that we're doing the right thing then I bully people. I'm a horrible bully.”
“I know I can be diva-ish sometimes, but I have to be in control. The nature of my life, the nature of what I do, is divadom, it really is.”
“I know I can be very standoffish . . .”
“I know I can cook, but the place where I cook... it's a mess! I'm very disorganized.”
“I know I can do it," Todd Downey said, helping himself to another ear of corn from the steaming bowl. "I'm sure that in time her death will be a mystery, even to me.”
Source: Four Past Midnight
“I know I can do so much more than this, I know that I could be a life force, could love with a heart full of soul, could feel with the power that flies men to the moon. I know that if I could just get out from under this depression, there is so much I could do besides cry in front of the TV on a Saturday night.”
“I know I can feel bad, when I get in a bad mood, and the world can look so sad, only you make me feel good.”
“I know I can get to the stage where I'm drinking a lot. I tend to be rotten and groggy all day and hanging out for the next drink and five o'clock, ping! I have to just stop.”
“I know I can handle dramatic roles, but I don't think I should have to play a young mother on crack to prove it.”
“I know I can hold two, maybe even three belts. So I have business to take care of back in and around my weight class.”
“I know I can never work in a comedy because I can't keep a goddamn straight face.”
“I know I can not paint a flower, I can not paint the sun on the desert on a bright summer morning but maybe in terms of paint colour I can convey to you my experience of the flower or the experience that makes the flower of significance to me at that particular time.”
Source: O'Keeffe
“I know I can only do as much as I can do... Although I have so many ideas of my own, I'm still very interested in helping to cultivate and encourage some promising new artists. But there are a lot of people and, unfortunately, a very small window.”
“I know I can serve Hawaii and our country well in the U.S. Senate, know we can mount a solid statewide campaign, know we have a good chance of prevailing.”
“I know I can still play at a high level.”
“I know I can still play, but it's like I told my wife, I'm just tired mentally. I'm just tired.”
“I know I can't be a Fangirl for my whole life, which is why I'll grow up to be a Fanwoman!”
“i know i can't do much, but i can do a little and i'm going to do as much of that as i can.
but if we all do that--
we can make a big difference.”
“I know I can’t drive a truck. And I can’t run a bank. And I can’t count. And I can’t lead a movement. But I can f*ck up your mind.”
“I know I can’t let this summer be the last happy summer we have at the beach house.", Loving Summer by Kailin Gow”
Source: Loving Summer
“I know I can't levitate my own weight at this height," said Simon.
"You can't if you think you can't," said Jinx. Without meaning to, he blinked, and the plank dropped several feet. He levitated again.
"That was certainly confidence inspiring," said Simon.
"I blinked”
Source: Jinx's Fire
“I know I can't own a hilltop, a meadow, or a mountainside. But keeping it a secret somehow makes it mine.”
“I know I can walk through the world, along the shore or under the trees, with my mind filled with things of little importance, in full self-attendance. A condition I can't really call being alive.”
Source: A Thousand Mornings: Poems
“I know I can't change the past, but I change the future. I can change, too. And I will.”
“I know I can't change the past. Not my mistakes or the mistakes of others. But I can begin by changing me.”
“I know I can't dance. I am the worst dancer. I have no rhythm. I just do step-and-snap. I love it in the privacy of my own home and every once in a while at a club. But singing and dancing are my two greatest fears.”
“I know I can't do everything myself. So I know I specialize in my melodies and I do some of my demo work. I pass it on to my producers who are much better at the production level”
“I know I can't make time slow down, can't hold our life as it is in a freeze frame or slow my children's inexorable journeys into adulthood and lives of their own. But I can celebrate those journeys by bearing witness to them, by paying attention, and, perhaps most of all, by carrying on with my own growth and becoming. Now it dawns on me that the only way I can figure out what I'm meant to be doing is to try to understand who I'm meant to be...I will not waste this life, not one hour, not one minute. I will not take for granted the blessing of our being here...I will give thanks.”
“I know I can't play funny roles in movies. I tried, and it didn't work.”
“I know I can't stay here forever”
“I know I can't tell you what it's like to be gay. But I can tell you what it's not. It's not hiding behind words, Mama. Like family and decency and Christianity.”
Source: Tales of the city ; More tales of the city ; Further tales of the city: an omnibus
“I know i can, be what i wanna be, if i work hard at it, I'll be where i wanna be”
“I know I cannot undo this. None of us can undo what we’ve done, or relive a life already recorded.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“I know I certainly wouldn't be writing books if it hadn't been for the feminist blogosphere, and I think that's a really amazing thing. And just the sheer power of outreach I think is incredible. It used to be that if someone was to get involved in feminism, it was probably because they were already interested. They were already interested in feminism; they were already interested in being an activist, and they found their way to like a NOW meeting or to a consciousness-raising group or something like that.”
“I know I chatter on far too much... but if you only knew how many things I want to say and don't. Give me SOME credit.”
“I know I come off differently than I think of myself. I'm always surprised by what people say about me.”
“I know I come off like a very outgoing person, and yeah, I'm outgoing, but there's also a part of me that still likes to be in my little shell sometimes.”
“I know I could be the host of 'SportsCenter' in two years if I changed my show today to sports.”
“I know I could do a better job of practicing what I preach, but I’ve also learned that if the message is true, don’t forget it, and forgive the messenger, even if he does.”
Source: Greenlights
“I know I could have saved your ashes to put into the ocean, but I wanted you to have the journey, all the way with the currents, to the open sea. And I know that when I finally get to see the waves washing on the shore, to hear them, I will feel you there.”
Source: Love Letters to the Dead
“I know I could never be in a pop band. I honestly have an appalling voice.”
“I know I could never forgive myself if I elected to live without humane purpose, without trying to help the poor and unfortunate, without recognizing that perhaps the purest joy in life comes with trying to help others.”