I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I now realize that a broken back, failed surgery, and Stage IV cancer are three of the greatest things that ever happened to me. Three of the most positive, transformative things that ever happened to me. They helped me become a vastly better person than I ever was, and I am eternally grateful for that.”
“I now realize that education is a last wild effort on the part of the authorities to prevent an overdose of leisure from driving the world mad. Learning is no longer an improver; it is merely the most expensive time-filler the world has ever known.”
“I now realize that I am a gay man before anything else. Other gays may think they're a Jew first, or black, or a banker, but I'm gay.”
“I now realize that I was very fortunate to have grown up in many different places, surrounded by all kinds of people, all kinds of points of view.”
“I now realize that just because you can take a punch does not mean you must stand in front of a fist, particularly not when the fist is your own.”
Source: Tapping the Power Within: A Path to Self-Empowerment for Women
“I now realize that the small hills you see on ski slopes are formed around the bodies of forty-seven-year-olds who tried to learn snowboarding.”
Source: My Teenage Son's Goal in Life Is to Make Me Feel 3,500 Years Old: and Other Thoughts on Parenting from Dave Barry
“I now realize that when you truly accept bass as (essentially) an emanation of God (at gut level), as the 'ground' of existence, let alone music, you make a friend of impermanence, everything vibrates, moves, is in a state of flux, therefore the fear of losing what you have, or of not getting what (you think) you want, diminishes. You will truly ride the rhythm. You will reside in the resonance of Om. To you the open 'E' string becomes spiritually vehicular. You can ride the sonic boom to heaven.”
Source: Memoirs of a Geezer: Music, Mayhem, Life
“I now realize there are millions of self-made millionaires who started with nothing. They dug inside themselves to find the answers and they succeeded. There is nothing anyone else can do that I can't do.”
“I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.”
Source: The Naked Civil Servant
“I now realized this woman was livid with anger. Not the sort that suddenly hits you then drains away. No. This woman, I could tell had been in a kind of white heat for sometime. It’s a sort of anger that arrives and then stays put at a constant level like a bad headache never quite peaking and refusing to find a proper outlet.”
Source: Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
“I now rejoice in my service to others and make best use of my skills and abilities to help others. I now open to light, receive the light, and share the light, for one and all.”
Source: How to Live a Magnificent Life: Becoming the Living Expression of Higher Consciousness
“I now rely on a scanner, which reproduces the passages I want to cite, and then I keep my own comments on those books in a separate file so that I will never confuse the two again.”
“I now remembered that Mrs. Todd had told me one day that Captain Littlepage had overset his mind with too much reading.”
“I now replace intensity with meaning.”
“I now resolved to go to bed early, with a firm purpose of also rising early the next day to revisit this charming walk; for I thought to myself, I have now seen this temple of the modern world imperfectly; I have seen it only by moonlight.”
Source: Travels in England in 1782
“I now say that the world has the technology - either available or well advanced in the research pipeline - to feed on a sustainable basis a population of 10 billion people. The more pertinent question today is whether farmers and ranchers will be permitted to use this new technology? While the affluent nations can certainly afford to adopt ultra low-risk positions, and pay more for food produced by the so-called "organic" methods, the one billion chronically undernourished people of the low income, food-deficit nations cannot.”
“I now see how gifts like courage, compassion, and connection only work when they are exercised. Every day.”
Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
“I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.”
Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
“I now see my life, not as a slow shaping of achievment to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery of a purpose which I did not know.”
“I now see Norman Thomas as indeed a liberal, but as a real, old-fashioned, unreconstructed liberal who believes in freedom and justice for everybody.”
Source: Discriminations: Essays & Afterthoughts
“I now see that I spent most of my life in doing neither what I ought nor what I liked.”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis,
“I now see the necessity of a beginning.”
“I now see the oneness and wholeness of my world, and bring uplifting compassion to others. I now help create and manifest positive, compassionate groups where we all help support each other’s journeys.”
Source: How to Live a Magnificent Life: Becoming the Living Expression of Higher Consciousness
“I now stop feeling guilty. I let myself out of that prison.”
“I now suffer from hearing loss and wonder how much high altitude work contributed to this condition?”
“I now suspect that just as a deer herd lives in mortal fear of its wolves, so does a mountain live in mortal fear of its deer. And perhaps with better cause, for while a buck pulled down by wolves can be replaced in two or three years, a range pulled down by too many deer may fail for replacement in as many decades”
“I now suspect that just as a deer herd lives in mortal fear of its wolves, so does a mountain live in mortal fear of its deer. And perhaps with better cause, for while a buck pulled down by wolves can be replaced in two or three years, a range pulled down by too many deer may fail of replacement in as many decades.”
Source: A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There
“I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia”
“I now think it takes more faith to name our need than to keep believing that something will happen and not doing anything about it. It takes faith, and great courage, to get help, to take the first painful step toward the dream that is in our hearts...I know now that you can look at bricks and cement for years, believing in the vision of a home, but until you get down on your hands and knees and start to build, it will remain a dream.”
Source: Loved Back to Life: How I Found the Courage to Live Free
“I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.”
Source: The Works of Ben Jonson
“I now truly believe it is impossible for me to make a bad movie.”
“I now understand more of our calling. The weakest instruments are chosen to do the greatest works so that the glory might go to God.”
“I now understand that life comes with no guarantees. There is risk at the heart of every decision we make. No matter how much we plan things—or not plan anything at all—life’s plans will always take precedence over our own.”
Source: The Merchant of Stories: A Creative Entrepreneur's Journey
“I now understand that my welfare is only possible if I acknowledge my unity with all the people of the world without exception.”
Source: I Cannot be Silent: Writings on Politics, Art and Religion by Leo Tolstoy
“I now understand that writing fiction was a seed planted in my soul, though I would not be ready to grow that seed for a long time.”
Source: Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother-daughter Story
“I now understand the need for faith - pure, blind, fly-in-the-face-of-reason faith - as a small life preserver in the wild and endless sea of a universe ruled by unfeeling laws and totally indifferent to the small, reasoning beings that inhabit it.”
“I now understand what Christ suffered in Gethsemane as well as any man living.”
“I now understand what Nelle Morton meant when she said that one of the great tasks in our time is to "hear people to speech." Behind their fearful silence, our students want to find their voices, speak their voices, have their voices heard. A good teacher is one who can listen to those voices even before they are spoken-so that someday they can speak with truth and confidence.”
Source: The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life
“I now understood darker emotions within themselves are not evil. It is the intent of the person who feels them that determines their fate.
~Nora~ The Light of Asteria”
Source: The Light of Asteria: Kailmeyra's Last Hope
“I now understood the secret of music and knew what makes it so infinitely superior to all the other arts: its incorporeality. Once it has left an instrument it becomes its own master, a free and independent creature of sound, weightless, incorporeal and perfectly in tune with the universe.”
Source: The City of Dreaming Books
“I now urge friends and acquaintances to have conversations with their aging parents and within their families while their parents are still relatively healthy and of sound mind.”
Source: A Chance to Say Goodbye: Reflections on Losing a Parent
“I now view food as energy for my mind and body rather than something to be scared of. It's fuel, not punishment. Because without it, I can't grow stronger, emotionally, mentally, and physically.”
Source: Unfiltered: No Shame, No Regrets, Just Me
“I now view life as a complex and unpredictable affair that cannot be mastered. It can be embraced. It can be negotiated more or less skillfully. But mastered? Not a chance.”
“I now view life events with a fresh new nonjudgemental perspective, and I try to understand the learning experiences which can be gained from these events. I embrace change.”
Source: How to Live a Magnificent Life: Becoming the Living Expression of Higher Consciousness
“I now want more time to devote to politics and more freedom to do so.”
“I now want to be a photographer of my time, and our common culture.”
“I now want to be playing parts more interesting to me and more exciting to me.”
“I now want to tell three stories about advances in twentieth-century physics. A curious fact emerges in these tales: time and again physicists have been guided by their sense of beauty not only in developing new theories but even in judging the validity of physical theories once they are developed. Simplicity is part of what I mean by beauty, but it is a simplicity of ideas, not simplicity of a mechanical sort that can be measured by counting equations or symbols.”
“I now warn the reader not to mock me and my mental daze. It is easy for him and me to decipher now a past destiny; but a destiny in the making is, believe me, not one of those honest mystery stories where all you have to do is keep an eye on the clues. In my youth I once read a French detective tale where the clues were actually in italics; but that is not McFate's way—even if one does learn to recognize certain obscure indications.”
Source: Lolita