I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I know now that having regular checkups and mammograms are key to a healthy lifestyle.”
“I know now that he who hopes to be universal in his art must plant in his own soil. Great art is like a tree, which grows in a particular place and has a trunk, leaves, blossoms, boughs, fruit, and roots of its own. The more native art is, the more it belongs to the entire world, because taste is rooted in nature. When art is true, it is one with nature. This is the secret of primitive art and also of the art of the mastersMichelangelo, Czanne, Seurat, and Renoir. The secret of my best work is that it is Mexican.”
Source: My art, my life: an autobiography
“I know now that I can make it through more than I thought, with less than I thought. I know better than to believe that the changes are over, and I know better than to believe the next ones will be easier, but I've learned the hard way that change is one of God's greatest gifts and one of his most useful tools.”
Source: Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way
“I know now that I must have glowed for them. I was a flower in a greenhouse, unsullied by the air that everyone else was forced to choke on. Worldliness has its price - cynicism - which I lacked, almost wholly.”
Source: The Force of Such Beauty
“I know now that it is hard to live for long periods without trusting anyone or anything. It's like living without sleep; eventually it will kill you.”
Source: H is for Hawk
“I know now that it's the sweet, sweating smell of hope, which is opposite of hate; and it's the sour, stifled smell of greed, which is the opposite of love.”
Source: Shantaram
“I know now that it's really important to feel beautiful. There is a power to that.”
“I know now that love means showing up for one another and trusting that the other person always has your back. It means asking for help sometimes, and not thinking that means you look weak. Love means opening your heart to another, no matter the consequences.”
Source: Go the Distance
“I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I can see myself, and it has helped me to say what I want to say in paint.”
“I know now that no path is solitary, we all tread across other people's beginnings and ends.”
Source: Red Dust: A Path Through China
“I know now that revelation is from the self, but from that age-long memoried self, that shapes the elaborate shell of the mollusc and the child in the womb, that teaches the birds to make their nest; and that genius is a crisis that joins that buried self for certain moments to our trivial daily mind.”
Source: Autobiographies
“I know now that the mythic monster I created was largely a fiction.”
Source: Shark Life: True Stories About Sharks & the Sea
“I know now that the past tense is a cruel deception. Anything real is now and forever engraved on our bodies.”
Source: The Sea Once Swallowed Me: A Memoir of Love, Solitude, and the Limits of Language
“I know now that the Spirit is trying to birth something in my life when I find myself craving silence and darkness, when I find myself editing my circle down to just the trusted few whom I know will midwife me through this birth. It's nothing to fear; it's the time of transition.”
Source: Out of Sorts: Making Peace with an Evolving Faith
“I know now that there are men out there who are, for me, the whole package, who are supportive of my successes because they know I will be just as supportive of theirs. I'm less tolerant of foolishness now; I know that it's important I not tie myself up with the wrong person, because then I will miss the right person coming along.”
“I know now that true charity consists in bearing all our neighbors'defects--not being surprised at their weakness, but edified at their smallest virtues.”
“I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures. ...We tell the story to get them back, to capture the traces of footfalls through the snow.”
Source: Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship
“I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures.”
Source: Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship
“I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.”
Source: Novels, 1930-1935
“I know now that when the loving, honest moment comes it should be seized, and spoken, because it may never come again. And unvoiced, unmoving, unlived in the things we declare form heart to heart, those true and real feelings wither and crumble in the remembering hand that tries too late to reach for them.”
Source: Shantaram: A Novel
“I know now, what is the worst thing about broken heart. I am not dead.”
Source: Denting Lara
“I know now what was happening to me, what was overwhelming me, what was about to consume and almost destroy me. Didier had even given me a name for it - assassin grief, he'd once called it: the kind of grief that lies in wait and attacks you from ambush, with no warning and no mercy. I know now that assassin grief can hide for years and then strike suddenly on the happiest day, without discernible reason or exegesis. But on that day, ... almost a year after Khader's death, I couldn't understand the dark and trembling mood that was moving in me, swelling to the sorrow I'd too long denied. I couldn't understand it, so i tried to fight it as a man fights pain or despair. But you can't bite down on assassin grief and will it away. The enemy stalks you, step for step, and knows your every move before you make it. The enemy is your own grieving heart and, when it strikes, it can't miss.”
Source: Shantaram
“I know now why confusion in government is not only tolerated but encouraged. I have learned. A confused people can make no clear demands.”
Source: The Short Reign of Pippin IV: A Fabrication
“I know now why God gave us babies. They require constant attention, of course. They make messes and disturb the peace, but their cuteness and smiles are something the only reminder of God we have in the house.”
Source: The Letter Writer
“I know now why you cry, but it's something I can never do.”
“I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance.”
“I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“I know now: I do not hope for anything. I do not fear anything, I have freed myself from both the mind and the heart, I have mounted much higher, I am free .”
Source: Saviors of God
“I know nowadays the common wisdom is to celebrate diversity as long as you don't point out that people are different.”
“I know numbers are beautiful. If they aren't beautiful, nothing is.”
“I know O LORD, that a man's way is not in himself. That is not in a man who walks to direct his steps." Jeremiah 10:23”
“I know Obama, I like Obama, I voted for Obama.”
“I know of a brewer who sells more of his beer to the people who never see his advertising than to the people who see it every week. Bad advertising can unsell a product.”
Source: Confessions of an advertising man
“I know of a charm by way of a prayer that will preserve a man from the violence of guns and all manner of fire-weapons and engines but it will do me no good because I do not believe it”
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and his Son Pantagruel
“I know of a few multimillionaires who started trading with inherited wealth. In each case, they lost it all because they didn't feel the pain when they were losing. In those formative first few years of trading, they felt they could afford to lose. You're much better off going into the market on a shoestring, feeling that you can't afford to lose. I'd rather bet on somebody starting out with a few thousand dollars than on somebody who came in with millions.”
“I know of a number of people who are successfully earning to give. That isn't for everyone but for those with the ability to earn a lot of money and the character to resist the temptation to spend it on themselves, it can be a great way to do good.”
“I know of a wild region whose librarians repudiate the vain superstitious custom of seeking any sense in books and compare it to looking for meaning in dreams or in the chaotic lines of one's hands . . . They admit that the inventors of writing imitated the twenty-five natural symbols, but they maintain that this application is accidental and that books in themselves mean nothing. This opinion - we shall see - is not altogether false.”
Source: Ficciones
“I know of a world that is sunk in shame, Where hearts oft faint and tire; But I know of a Name, a precious Name, That can set that world on fire: Its sound is sweet, its letters flame. I know of a Name, a precious Name, 'Tis Jesus.”
“I know of but one garment which the fashionable social life of this country borrows of Christianity; it is that ample garment of charity which covers a multitude of sins--particularly fashionable sins.”
Source: PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS
“I know of few actresses who have this incredible talent for communicating with a camera lens. She would try to seduce a camera as if it were a human being.”
“I know of few men over 50 that seem to me entirely human, virtually none who has long exercised authority.”
“I know of musicians who have played together for decades who hate each other. The Modern Jazz Quartet for one.”
“I know of my sex appeal. I know about sexuality, and I know how to use it - tastefully, of course.”
“I know of no American who starts from a higher level of aspiration than the journalist. . . . He plans to be both an artist and a moralist -- a master of lovely words and merchant of sound ideas. He ends, commonly, as the most depressing jackass of his community -- that is, if his career goes on to what is called a success.”
“I know of no better answer to the foul practices that confront our young people than the teachings of a mother, given in love with an unmistakable warning.”
“I know of no better definition of love than the one given by Proust - Love is space and time measured by the heart.”
“I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.”
“I know of no better name than Anarchism.”
Source: Selected writings: poetry and criticism
“I know of no better or quicker way to step into my greatness than to step out of what's familiar.”
“I know of no better thermometer to your spiritual temperature than this, the measure of the intensity of your prayer.”
Source: Sermons on the Psalms