I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette.”
“I realize that I had the best of serious picture journalism.”
Source: Eve Arnold: in retrospect
“I realize that I live in the same environment that I did when I was a kid, but with less junk and better art.”
“I realize that I live on the bubble of insanity. I feel the weight of human suffering, loneliness and despair on me all the time. It's not getting easier; if anything, it's always right on the edge of my skin.”
“I realize that I’m far less familiar with my own privates than with Guy’s, and I’ve seen his only twice! I guess that’s to be expected, since girls can’t really look at ourselves without a reflection, whereas nothing’s hidden with boys. It seems unfair, but there’s also something neat about it being shrouded in secrecy.”
Source: Anatomy of a Single Girl
“I realize that I only have words and that, from time to time, as I hold them in my arms I am less lonely.”
“I realize that I really have to make music work for me as a career because I can't do anything else.”
“I realize that I want something more. Success is great, but then you also wake up in your hotel room at four in the morning and you're like, wouldn't it be nice to have someone here with me.”
“I realize that I was all error and deviation, that I never lived, that I existed only in so far as I filled time with consciousness and thought.”
“I realize that I will never fully understand the millions of bizarre ways that music brings people together.”
Source: Love is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time
“I realize that I won't have quite enough time to understand everything - but that hasn't stopped me wanting to understand as much as I can.”
“I realize that I'm a mature woman and one of these days, incredible diet or not, I'll be a little old lady.”
“I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and that's everybody's wish... I try to be a role model for black kids, white kids, yellow kids, green kids. This is what I felt was good about my personality.”
“I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody's wish.”
“I realize that I'm generalizing here, but as is often the case when I generalize, I don't care.”
Source: Dave Barry's Greatest Hits
“I realize that I'm in the twilight of my career.”
“I realize that I'm kind of a different person than I thought I was.”
“I realize that I've had a very idyllic vision of what spirituality looks like. Honestly, most of Western culture has an idyllic and simplified idea of what enlightenment entails.”
“I realize that idealism is out of sync with the cynicism of our age. Skepticism has come to be synonymous with sophistication, and glibness is mistaken for intelligence. In such an atmosphere, why bother aiming high? Far too many people don't. I just want to reassure people to have the courage to persevere, to keep following their hearts even when others scoff. Don't be beaten down by naysayers. Don't let the odds scare you from even trying.”
“I realize that if I wait until I am no longer afraid to act, write, speak, be, I'll be sending messages on a ouija board, cryptic comments from the other side. When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less important whether or not I am unafraid.”
Source: The Cancer Journals
“I realize that if I wait until I am no longer afraid to act, write, speak, be, I'll be sending messages on a Ouija board, cryptic complaints from the other side”
Source: The Cancer Journals
“I realize that if I were in that situation - living a hard life with people telling them they're not worthy of love - maybe I would be that strong and that brave.”
“I realize that if I were stable, prudent and static; I'd live in death. Therefore I accept confusion, uncertainty, fear and emotional ups and downs; because that's the price I'm willing to pay for a fluid, perplexed and exciting life.”
“I realize that in a happy life, making your bed should play a very small part, I don't know why this is so helpful to people getting started on a happiness project, but for some reason, making your bed - it's concrete, it's manageable. There's a big difference between having a bed that's unmade and a bed that's made. That little bit of outer order in people's lives seem to help them get started. So, that's a very small thing that you can do.”
“I realize that in everything I was saying, that underneath my words was essentially, "why can't we be less judgemental and more like me." Which is judgemental and arrogant, to try and change somebody else's perspective just so that the world can seem better for you. It's important that we have these contrasts in life - nothing was ever created by being the same.”
“I realize that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers.”
“I realize that it is an unpopular and unhumanitarian position, for which I have been excoriated by 'liberal' colleagues, but I think Plessy v. Ferguson was right and should be re-affirmed.”
“I realize that it is as one ages and loses one's natural force that one is at the mercy of heredity. The young are themselves: the aging, their parents' children.”
Source: The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner
“I realize that it's not that difficult to remember what people like, especially when you care about them.”
Source: The Bucket List to Mend a Broken Heart
“I realize that it's like spices in the kitchen. I need that turmeric. I'm sorry, but cinnamon isn't going to substitute . I feel that I can teach my listener about a new word they can use too. "Well, what words are part of my own community, even if I'm monolingual, that I'm not allowing myself to use in a public sphere?"”
“I realize that just my personality is, that I've gotta stay focused. I can't be too distracted.”
“I realize that Kenya and America are very different, but experiences like this warned me that my own favorite beliefs in the miracles of free enterprise and the boundless opportunities to be had in America were largely untrue.”
“I realize that labels are placed upon an individual to simplify him or her, but it is impossible to capture the essence of an individual by a few words.”
“I realize that life is risks. It’s acknowledging the past but looking forward. It’s taking a chance that we will
make mistakes but believing that we all deserve to be forgiven.”
Source: The Dead-Tossed Waves
“I realize that life isn't perfect - it can't be perfect. I can drive myself nuts trying to make it perfect, or I can just have a lot of fun with the kids.”
“I realize that many Christians have not been praying because they have not accepted the reality of war in which we find ourselves. There is a spiritual war mode that we must appropriate. It is an aggressive stance that we take against evil. It is governed by love for people, but it is fearless and uncompromising with the powers of darkness that manipulate people to fulfill evil plans.”
“I realize that many elements of the Buddhist teaching can be found in Christianity, Judaism, Islam. I think if Buddhism can help, it is the concrete methods of practice.”
“I realize that most of us live on the skin - on the surface - without appreciating just how wonderful it is simply to be alive at all.”
“I realize that my life is not the common ordinary person.”
“I realize that my ministry would someday come to an end. I am only one in a glorious chain of men and women God has raised up through the centuries to build Christ's church and take the Gospel everywhere.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“I realize that my opinion is my opinion, not everybody has to believe it and I never tried to shove anything down anyone's throat, but I was willing to take that to the trenches if you know what I mean. I took that opinion to the wall, often in public, often had to... I often had to fight in public with the very same people who I was trying to convince to play my records!”
“I realize that no one has been crueler to me than I have been to myself. The most dangerous place on earth is inside my head.”
Source: GuRu
“I realize that not everyone could be granted the chance of getting a decent closure – most people just deal with the decisions they made then on their own.”
Source: The Boyfriend Backtrack
“I realize that nothing belongs to her anymore and she belongs to everything.”
Source: I Am the Messenger
“I realize that nothing's as it seems.”
“I realize that of all people, I am no expert on parenting or marriage.”
“I realize that once I stopped fighting the technical process of how to move my body, I made it choreography.”
“I realize that people fly with small children all the time, and that babies are easier in some ways because all they do is sit/lie around anyway, but damn it's hard to keep a baby comfortable on any flight, much less a long one, particularly amid the looks of horror they will get from fellow passengers as it dawns on them that their 10- to 13-hour flight might come with a soundtrack of screaming baby.”
“I realize that people need something to believe in.”
“I realize that people still read books now and some people actually love them, but in 1946 in the Village our feelings about books--I’m talking about my friends and myself--went beyond love. It was as if we didn’t know where we ended and books began. Books were our weather, our environment, our clothing. We didn’t simply read books; we became them. We took them into ourselves and made them into our histories. While it would be easy to say that we escaped into books, it might be truer to say that books escaped into us. Books were to us what drugs were to young men in the sixties.
They showed us what was possible. We had been living with whatever was close at hand, whatever was given, and books took us great distances. We had known only domestic emotions and they showed us what happens to emotions when they are homeless. Books gave us balance--the young are so unbalanced that anything can make them fall. Books steadied us; it was as if we carried a heavy bag of them in each hand and they kept us level. They gave us gravity.”
Source: Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir