I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I know very well what it is to be out of work and to be cheated by employers and I know what it is to be an employer.”
“I know Vikings isnt really based in magic, but it goes back to Old World spirituality and different religions, and a lot of voodoo.”
“I know virtually no one of my age who can remember a hug, or a smile from their father, or a 'Let's go play football.'”
“I know Vladimir Putin. He respects strength. He lied to our president's [Barack Obama] face; didn't both to tell him about warplanes and troops going into Syria. We need to speak to him from a position of strength.”
“I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.”
“I know we both didn't choose to change. I killed off the old me. But I'm not sure the new me is any better.”
Source: I Took a Plane to Die in Denver
“I know we can each do something, however small that act may seem to be. We can pay an honest tithe and give our fast and free-will offerings, according to our circumstances. And we can watch for other ways to help.”
“I know we can fix our problems. When there are people in the room who care more about doing the job they were elected to do than they worry about winning reelection, it is possible to work together, achieve principal compromise, and get results for the people who give us these jobs in the first place.”
“I know we can make it through anything, Rowen. The past couple of months have proven that to me. I know we could make it if we were far away from each other, I trust that. I have faith in that. The thing is… I don’t want to do it. I want to be near you. Every day. Every night. Why should I settle for you from far away when I can have you near me every morning when I wake up?”
Source: Near and Far
“I know we can still free souls. but we can't save everyone.”
Source: Remote Angel Volume 1
“I know we can't change the past, but we should at least want to.”
Source: Love You to Death
“I know we can't abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation.”
“I know we can't have a great architecture while it is only for the landlord.”
“I know we can’t always know what medical surprises may happen during childbirth. But my hope is to go fully natural – no epidural, no interventions.”
“I know we didn't accomplish anything, but it felt great to sit there and talk about our place in things.”
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“I know we didn't make an anti-Semitic film. This is what the Gospels are. And it's none of my business what other people think of me.”
“I know we haven’t been together for very long,” she said, “but I can’t imagine my life without you. You’ve dismantled every wall.”
Source: Stolen Hearts
“I know we just met today, but I gotta see you tomorrow. I know this is our first date, I don't expect you to swallow.”
“I know we loved each other, but distance can do strange things to people and before I was willing to tell you about it, I wanted to be certain that it would last”
Source: Nights In Rodanthe
“I know we met before you rescued me at the well. Were you my guard?'
He worked his jaw.
For a second she didn't think he would answer.
Then he shook his head. 'No. I'm generally better at doing damage than protecting.”
Source: A Curse for True Love
“I know we need more nuclear power in order - nuclear power, after all, is not dependent on fossil fuels and emits no greenhouse gases. I believe we're going to be able to have coal-fired plants that have zero emissions. We need to work on carbon sequestration technologies. I mean, there's a lot we can do together and achieve the objective, which a lot of people want, which is the reduction of greenhouse gases, and at the same time, have viable economic growth.”
“I know we only talked once-" "But it meant something to you." Our eyes met for only an instant. "It meant something to me, too. I just didn't realize - Well, I thought it was only me.”
“I know we play a part in the story of progressive music, but for us those influences are the real fathers, the ones that we were interested in.”
“I know we promised Haymitch, we'd do exactly what they said, but I don't think he considered this angle.' 'Where is Haymitch, anyway? Isn't he supposed to protect us from this sort of thing?' says Peeta. 'With all that alcohol in him, it's probably not advisable to have him around an open flame,' I say.”
Source: The Hunger Games
“I know we're fucked up, alright? I'm impulsive, and hot tempered, and you get under my skin like no one else. You act like you hate me one minute, and then need me the next. I never get anything right, and I don't deserve you...but I fucking love you, Abby. I love you more than I loved anyone or anything ever. When you're around, I don't need booze, or money, or the fighting, or the one-night stands...”
Source: Beautiful Disaster
“I know we've only known each other four weeks and three days, but to me it seems like nine weeks and five days. The first day seemed like a week and the second day seemed like five days. And the third day seemed like a week again and the fourth day seemed like eight days. And the fifth day you went to see your mother and that seemed just like a day, and then you came back and later on the sixth day, in the evening, when we saw each other, that started seeming like two days, so in the evening it seemed like two days spilling over into the next day and that started seeming like four days, so at the end of the sixth day on into the seventh day, it seemed like a total of five days. And the sixth day seemed like a week and a half. I have it written down, but I can show it to you tomorrow if you want to see it.”
“I know we will create a society where there are no rich or poor, no people without work or beauty in their lives, where money itself will disappear, where we shall all be brothers and sisters, where every one will have enough.”
“I know we'll lead the league in defense.”
“I know we're meant to be these hard-headed, money-obsessed professionals but we're still little boys at heart. Just ask our wives.”
“I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't.”
Source: The collected letters
“I know we're termites. But if all the termites got together, the house would fall down.”
“I know well enough how people in love drag the name of the loved one into every conversation, simply to utter that magical word, to savor it on the tongue.”
Source: The Rebel Angels
“I know well enough in advance that you'll find my paintings perfect. I know that if they are exhibited they'll be a great success, but I couldn't be more indifferent to it since I know they are bad, I'm certain of it.”
Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters
“I know well enough that there have been dogs so loving that they have thrown themselves into the same grave with the dead bodies of their masters.”
“I know well enough that very few people who are supposedly interested in writing are interested in writing well. They are interested in publishing something, and if possible in making a "killing." They are interested in being a writer not in writing. . . If this is what you are interested in, I am not going to be much use to you.”
Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
“I know well that happiness is in little things.”
Source: The Correspondence of John Ruskin and Charles Eliot Norton
“I know well that the greater and more beautiful the work is, the more terrible will be the storms that rage against it.”
“I know well that when Christ is nearest, Satan also is busiest.”
Source: The life and remains, letters, lectures, and poems of [the Rev] Robert Murray McCheyne
“I know well the coequal role of the Congress in our constitutional process. I love the House of Representatives. I revere the traditions of the Senate despite my too-short internship in that great body. As President, within the limits of basic principles, my motto toward the Congress is communication, conciliation, compromise, and cooperation.”
“I know well the delectable thrill of moving into a new house somewhere altogether else, in somebody else’s county, where the climate is different, the food is different, the light is different, where the mundane preoccupations of life at home don’t seem to apply and it is even fun to go shopping.”
“I know well there is no comfort for this pain of parting. The wound always remains, but one learns to bear the pain, and learns to thank God for what he gave. For the beautiful memories of the past, and the yet more beautiful hope for the future.”
“I know well what faith really means to people in their daily lives, as there are many people in my family whose lives are permeated by their faith: it dictates the way they behave and sustains them in tough times, of which we've had too many lately.”
“I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.”
Source: The Essays
“I know well, Monsieur, how much you have to endure in your present duty, and I ask Our Lord to strengthen you in your difficulties. It is in such circumstances that we acquire virtue; where there is no suffering, there is little merit. My wish is that God may grant us great indifference with regard to duties. O Monsieur, how sure we would then be of doing His Holy Will, which is our sole aspiration, and how much peace and contentment we would enjoy, or so it seems to me!”
Source: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents
“I know what "custody" [of the children] means. "Get even." That's all custody means. Get even with your old lady.”
“I know what "nothing" means, and keep on playing.”
Source: Play it as it Lays
“I know what a good man is because I saw it in my father.”
“I know what a good movie is.”
“I know what a good question would be for an actor. What's your least favorite thing that you've ever heard an actor say about acting? Or about being in a movie?”
“I know what a realist is, Mr. Gosse. Lyubov and I have talked about these words. A realist is a man who knows both the world and his own dreams. You’re not sane: there’s not one man in a thousand of you who knows how to dream. Not even Lyubov and he was the best among you. You sleep, you wake and forget your dreams, you sleep again and wake again, and so you spend your whole lives, and you think that is being, life, reality! You are not children, you are grown men, but insane.”
Source: The Word for World is Forest