I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I know that they [Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Florence Griffith-Joyner and even Wilma Rudolph] have paved the way and they have been a source of inspiration.”
“I know that they damaged you, and I still want you. I don’t even want to fix you. I just want you as you are. Broken. Misunderstood. Jerk. I want the real version, the dark version, the one who made me the saddest I’ve ever been in my life, but also the happiest.”
Source: Vicious Love
“I know that they're all unhappy because nobody loves the right person the way they should and because they don't understand that it's really their own self that they're mad at.”
“I know that things get worse before they get better because that’s what my psychiatrist says, but this is a worse that feels too big.”
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition
“I know that this is sport first and business second, and people have to do what's right for them.”
“I know that this is the internet, and we're all anonymous and all that, but really. It doesn't hurt to try to be nice.”
“I know that this might seem futile, but the dawn always follows the dark. And if you're right, and our ship is doomed to go down, then we'll sink together and I'll play us a lullaby on the ocean floor.”
Source: Before We Disappear
“I know that this process of ‘me changing my life’ doesn’t just end once I set fire to this list of things I hate about myself. Tonight isn’t as much of a new beginning as it is a violent end and I know the real work hasn’t even started yet.”
“I know that this story is true.”
“I know that this world is a world of Imagination and Vision.”
“I know that Thomas consented to this single picture only because he knew (had decided) that it was our last moment together. He smiled so that I could take his smile with me.”
Source: Lie With Me
“I know that through the grace of God, I am the founder of Manitoba.”
Source: The Queen Vs. Louis Riel: Accused and Convicted of the Crime of High Treason. Report of Trial at Regina.--Appeal to the Court of Queen's Bench, Manitoba.--Appeal to the Privy Council, England.--Petition for Medical Examination of the Convict.--List of Petitions for Commutation of Sentence, Ottawa
“I know that throughout their history, the people of the United States defended their freedom, their liberty, their justice, and their rights -- if need be -- with their lives. I think their courage is so admirable.”
“I know that to be a good player, you have to stay healthy, and you have to be as athletic as you can possibly be.”
“I know that to be a true fact because I read it in Heat magazine”
“I know that to paint the sea really well, you need to look at it every hour of every day in the same place so that you can understand its way in that particular spot; and that is why I am working on the same motifs over and over again, four or six times even.”
Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters
“I know that to personalize the Earth System as Gaia, as I have often done and continue to do in this book, irritates the scientifically correct, but I am unrepentant because metaphors are more than ever needed for a widespread comprehension of the true nature of the Earth and an understanding of the lethal dangers that lie ahead.”
“I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard.”
“I know that today, with a full tank, and with Annabel, that it's time to go.”
Source: A Place Like this
“I know that truly nothing is for sure.”
“I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.”
“I know that unlike that night, tonight I won't kiss her. Or touch her. Or even see her up close. Tonight, I'll listen. And that'll be enough.”
Source: Where She Went
“I know that unremitting attention to business is the price of success, but I don't know what success is.”
Source: Back-log studies and My summer in a garden
“I know that virtually every member of the Senate understands we just cannot turn our back on men and women who have put their lives on the line to defend us and who are hurting today.”
“I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you called home.”
“I know that we all fall down sometimes. But when you see someone like that, give him support and make him get up again”
“I know that we do not know enough. We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.”
“I know that we live after death and again and again, not in the memory of our children, or as a mulch for trees and flowers, however poetic that may be, but looking passionately and egocentrically out of our eyes.”
Source: Me
“I know that we often tremble at an empty terror; yet the false fancy brings a real misery.”
“I know that we shall meet problems along the way, but I'd far rather see for myself what's going on in the world outside, than rely on newspapers, television, politicians and religious leaders to tell me what I should be thinking.”
“I know that we sin but I do believe we try, we all try.”
“I know that we will be the sufferers if we let great wrongs occur without exerting ourselves to correct them.”
Source: My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962
“I know that we women are all justly accounted praters; they say in the present day that there never was in any age such a wonder to be found as a dumb woman.
[Lat., Nam multum loquaces merito omnes habemus,
Nec mutam profecto repertam ullam esse
Hodie dicunt mulierem ullo in seculo.]”
“I know that what I have done I can do again.”
Source: This Nation Under God
“I know that what keeps me interested in my job and in the medium in general that what makes every few months more interesting, or newly interesting every few weeks, is the idea that everything is changing, that the ideas that you think are sacrosanct and unimpeachable suddenly are up for grabs again.”
“I know that what's done … is done. No sense living in the past. The only way for me is forward. Always forward.”
Source: Doctor Who: Nightshade
“I know that "what´s up" is just something people say, but it´s a very hard thing to say anything back to.”
Source: Love Letters to the Dead
“I know that what you call 'God' really exists, but not in the form you think; God is primal cosmic energy, the love in your body, your integrity, and your perception of the nature in you and outside of you.”
“I know that what's happened in the election has changed American reality, and I understand that I have to change with it. I have to rethink how I live my life. I'm not a political essayist; I don't see that I would have any value cranking out articles for newspapers or magazines, because lots of people are doing that already.”
“I know that whatever power Shelby Steele has always comes out of the writing. I'm not the greatest television pundit or the best public speaker, so it's my writing that's most important.”
“I know that whatever you decide, you’ll be happy, Summer, and that is the only thing I could ever wish. Whatever happens in the rest of this summer, whatever happens the rest of your life, it’s important that you are happy, and stay that way. – Aunt Sookie”
Source: Loving Summer
“I know that when a door closes, it can feel like all doors are closing. A rejection letter can feel like everyone will reject us. But a closed door leads to clarity. It's really an arrow. Because we cannot go through that door, we will go somewhere else. That somewhere else is your true life.”
“I know that when a supersexy older girl with hips and breasts and nice hair wants to take off your glasses and to paint you a smoky eye she's merely trying to enroll you in a beauty contest she's already won. It's a kind of slummy, condescending gesture, like when rich people ask poor people where they summer. To me, this smacks of a blatant, insensitive "let them eat cake" type of chauvinism.”
“I know that when I am dying, looking back, it will be women that I regret having argued with, women I sought to impress, to understand...”
Source: Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
“I know that when I am dying, looking back, it will be women that I regret having argued with, women I sought to impress, to understand, was tortured by. Women I wish to see again, to see them smile and laugh and say, It was all as it should have been.”
Source: Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's
“I know that when I am up for it I will, and when I’m not in the mood to, I don’t make myself feel badly over it.”
“I know that when I get in there and I leave that cage I will leave with more than I came in.”
“I know that when I get stressed, I want to eat junk food. So now I just know - 'I'm stressed, I want to eat junk food, so I'm going to go work out instead, or eat something healthy.' It really works.”
“I know that when I grew up I was pretty sheltered, and didn't come to understand much about the world until I was in my really late teens and early twenties, and that process continues.”
“I know that when I have had whatever run-ins I have had throughout my career, I have had them because I have done the things that I feel like I need to do to be the best, and that is why I am in this sport, that is what drives me.”