I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I know one gay ex-Mormon who is a talented, self-destructive alcoholic. Whenever he is drunk and going on a tear, we are back to the Mormon Church and his being thrown out of the Mormon Church and growing up with this sense of being evil.”
“I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.”
“I know one lab that studies nicotine receptors and all the scientists are smokers, and another lab that studies impulse control and they're all overweight.”
“I know one man who was impotent who gave AIDS to his wife and the only thing they did was kiss.”
“I know one of the reasons God gave me kids was to test my patience.”
“I know one or two things about fanaticism and death, and I reject them.”
“I know one thing - if I didn't have TV and theatre and radio, the world would be a much more boring place.”
“I know one thing - very few writers in Southern California get to write what they want to write. We are more or less worker ants, working for either film companies or tv companies or Internet companies. We do a lot of assigned work. Feelings hardly ever enter into it. If they do, they tend to be on a sort of soap opera level.”
“I know one thing about men," Bunny says with finality, leaving the room to check on A. "They never die when you want them to.”
Source: Split: A Memoir of Divorce
“I know one thing… Bible is Damn wrong about everything.”
“I know one thing for certain; it is much harder to tell whether you are lost than whether you were lost, for, on many occasions, where you are going is exactly where you are. On the other hand, if you often find that where you've been is not at all where you should have gone, and, since it's much more difficult to find your way back from someplace you've never left, I suggest you go there immediately and then decide.”
Source: The phantom tollbooth
“I know one thing for sho Heaven’s gotta have a ghetto
Cuz where else in death do I get to go?”
Source: Got the Flow: The Hip-Hop Diary of a Young Rapper
“I know one thing, liessa. A monster wouldn't care if they were one.”
Source: A Shadow in the Ember
“I know one thing, though: The Capitol can never take Lenore Dove from me again. They never really did in the first place. Nothing you can take from me was ever worth keeping, and she is the most precious thing I’ve ever known.
When I tell her that, she always says, “I love you like all-fire.”
And I reply, “I love you like all-fire, too.”
Source: Sunrise on the Reaping
“I know one thing you don't. I know the difference between Right and Wrong. They didn't teach you that at school.' Rose didn't answer; the woman was quite right: the two words meant nothing to her. Their taste was extinguished by stronger foods--Good and Evil.”
Source: The Collected Edition: Brighton rock
“I know one thing, that I know nothing.”
“I know one thing. If a NASCAR driver ever got on the court with me, they wouldn't be able to keep up. That would be like me driving a bus in a NASCAR race.”
“I know one thing: that you can do a lot of things but if you don't educate people into conscious anarchism it gets frittered away.”
“I know one thing: There are a billion Islamic people in the world today, and there will be about 2 billion by the time we're dead. They're not going to give up their religion.”
“I know only enough of God to want to worship him, by any means ready to hand.”
Source: Holy the Firm
“I know only one Church: it is the society of men.”
“I know only one method of operation: to be as honest with others as I am with myself.”
“I know only one thing. when i sleep, i know no fear, no, trouble no bliss. blessing on him who invented sleep. the common coin that purchases all things, the balance that levels shepherd and king, fool and wise man. there is only one bad thing about sound sleep. They say it closely resembles death.”
“I know only one truth, unselfishness, all else are memories of a primitive past.”
Source: Mucize Insan: When The World is Family
“I know only that I was born and exist, and it seems to me that I have been carried along. I exist on the foundation of something I do not know. In spite of all uncertainties, I feel a solidity underlying all existence and a continuity in my mode of being.”
Source: Memories, dreams, reflections
“I know only two tunes: one of them is "Yankee Doodle" and the other isn't.”
“I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is swell.”
“I know other actors who are relieved when their shows get cancelled, and I've never felt that way about 'Community.'”
“I know other astronauts share my feelings.... And we know the government is sitting on hard evidence of UFOs.”
“I know other worlds exist. I can see them in my peripheral vision.”
“I know our culture will sometimes understand a love for Jesus as weakness. There is this lie floating around that says I am supposed to be able to do life alone, without any help, without stopping to worship something bigger than myself. But I actually believe there is something bigger than me, and I need for there to be something bigger than me. I need someone to put awe inside me; I need to come second to someone who has everything figured out.”
Source: Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God
“I know our feelings can be so unbearable that we employ ingenious strategies – unconscious strategies – to keep those feelings away. We do a feelings-swap, where we avoid feeling sad or lonely or afraid or inadequate, and feel angry instead. It can work the other way, too – sometimes you do need to feel angry, not inadequate; sometimes you do need to feel love and acceptance, and not the tragic drama of your life. It takes courage to feel the feeling – and not trade it on the feelings-exchange, or even transfer it altogether to another person.”
“I know our kids will be OK, as long as they listen more to their mother than to me!”
“I know our nakedness means something. I know our nakedness is as much a form of trust as it a form of craving. This is what we look like when we are completely open to each other. This is where we go when we no longer want to hide.”
Source: Every Day
“I know our policies work best to lift young men and women up - regardless of their background - so that they can choose their own path and live lives of dignity, purpose, and meaning.”
“I know our Purpose is to love as when I love my body, I Radiate a Beautiful, Peaceful, Powerful Aura”
Source: Affirmations for Glowing skin
“I know ours is a world made by men for men, their dictatorship is so ancient it even extends to language.”
“I know paradise has many gates, just as hell does. One has to learn to distinguish between them, or one is lost.”
Source: The Dogs of Riga
“I know parental embarrassment usually stops somewhere at fifteen, but he just kept on giving me good reasons.”
Source: Stay
“I know part of what turns me on so hard, makes me so violent with lust, is that he's dangerous. I fell for the bad guy. I'm crazy about the one who's trouble. The alpha that doesn't play well with others and doesn't take orders from anyone.”
Source: The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned
“I know parts of all the decades come in and out of fashion, but you never get to wear an entire outfit exactly how it was.”
“I know patients who bring a dozen roses to the doctor's office. And, boy, the next visit, nobody forgets that. You come in and hey - 'Here's the lady who brought the roses' vs. 'Here's the lung cancer.'”
“I know peace exists. And we are always changing. It's scary.”
“I know people are fickle.”
“I know people are going to be suspicious about everyone now. I know I don't have anything to hide. I've never done anything. It's just a shame it's gotten to this point.”
“I know people are looking at whats happening in Washington and then they also look at events in Europe, in Greece and Portugal and other places and worry about that.”
“I know people are pretty well embarrassed just at the mention of colon cancer. Sticking a tube in you to find out what's wrong is not a nice thing. But I can tell them, a 30- or 40-minute test is worth it. We have to make them feel more comfortable about getting screened.”
“I know people are really big on vision boards. I was never that person. I was ALWAYS into DATA. I'd take inventory of everything I had, everything in my environment, all the tools at my disposal, then consider all capabilities, resources, and opportunities to learn, then finally make a step by step plan.”
Source: Daughter of the Culture: Radical Prose, Conversation, And Action
“I know people are really interested in everything that the celebrities are doing, even if you don't consider yourself a "celebrity." What always would drive me crazy is - I took ethics classes in college - and it always amazes me how there would blatantly be something that I did not say in quotation marks. If you're putting quotation marks around it, it better be exactly what that person said.”
“I know people are saying they like you. I'm not being insulted or pushed around or anything. People are coming up because they like me. Nevertheless, I can't be everybody's...none of us can. I hate saying no to people.”