I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I realized how little I knew about my own country. I had grown up in the suburbs and, after college, I moved out of the country, so I didn't really know the place well. When I started following soldiers and their families back home, it provoked a lot of the questions about who we are as a nation, questions I realized couldn't be explored through the more limited framework of looking at the military at war and at home.”
“I realized how lonely I was when I read a really good book but had no one to discuss it with.”
“I realized how many of the memories that I had are still shaping my life.”
“I realized how subversive Ruth was then, not because she drew pictures of nude women that got misused by her peers, but because she was more talented than her teachers. She was the quietest kind of rebel. Helpless, really.”
Source: The Lovely Bones
“I realized how truly hard it was, really, to see someone you love change right before your eyes. Not only is it scary, it throws your balance off as well.”
Source: The Truth About Forever
“I realized how valuable the art and practice of writing letters are, and how important it is to remind people of what a treasure letters--handwritten letters--can be. In our throwaway era of quick phone calls, faxes, and email, it's all to easy never to find the time to write letters. That's a great pity--for historians and the rest of us.”
Source: I Love You, Ronnie: The Letters of Ronald Reagan to Nancy Reagan
“I realized I could do anything if I wanted it badly enough.”
“I realized I could either fall underneath it, or stand on top of it," [Lin-Manuel Miranda] said. "And that's how I think of nerves. They're a fuel source... You can get on top of them and it can power the ship, or don't get on top of them, and they blow up your ship.”
Source: The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times
“I realized I could only play-act at the spiritual life as long as my appetites were stronger than my empathy.”
Source: Main Street Vegan: Everything You Need to Know to Eat Healthfully and Live Compassionately in the Real World
“I realized I could really become hooked on these happy pills. They gave me a glorious feeling of general well-being and didn't make me fat, like alcohol. I wondered if there was any harm in being addicted to only these.”
Source: Magical Thinking: True Stories
“I realized I could run after finding out that my dad used to run and it gave me the morale that if he did it then maybe I could also run.”
“I realized I couldn't get bookings as a performing artist on the road, as it were, I could not make a living in music without going on the road, but I couldn't get booked without a new product. People say, "Where's your new album?" Well, I have no new album, and I'm not going to have a new album. They said, "What are you doing?" I'm performing music that I've done my entire life that I've never performed, and I'm promoting material that I haven't promoted.”
“I realized I’d been teetering on a cliff for a very long time now. I needed to find something stable to build my life on, something solid and reliable. I would need help, but after tonight, I realized I hadn’t ever been entirely alone in this battle. At first light, the moment the hue of the darkness began to lift, I forced myself to get up and take my first wobbly step towards freedom.”
Source: Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose
“I realized I’d learned something about myself. I was like ‘oh man, I’ve let this go’ now I’m starting to talk about it like it’s over and it hadn’t even begun.”
“I realized I didn't need to be scared of being alone. It's okay to be alone, to not be with someone. What I really should be scared of is being with the wrong person. The kind of person who tries to change you. Who makes you feel like you're doing everything wrong. Who makes you feel like you need his approval. It's better to be alone for the rest of your life than to spend forever with someone like that.”
Source: The other side
“I realized I didn't want to be a photographer. I gave it up, but I still worked that job in the restaurant and I found myself constantly hanging out in the kitchen.”
“I realized I don't have any friends in Web3 and NFTs. So, I made a post about it online and found them from the comments.”
“I realized I had been keeping people around even when deep down I knew they were bad for me. I had overridden myself.”
“I realized I had written maybe, I dunno, the first ever asexual love song. Where it's really just about a fear of dying alone - you need contact, you need love, you need empathy. You need this relationship but if there's no sex involved, people act like it's not a legitimate relationship.”
“I realized I liked being in the studio and working on translating the ideas into recordings.”
“I realized I love him just as much or more than I did four years ago. That I'm never live with him" She raised her head to look at her sisters with haunted eyes. "And I don't know if I can live without him.”
“I realized I love motivating and I love empowering and I love inspiring people. I did that as an athlete for 18 years, and I am able to do that as a motivational speaker now as well as doing work on television.”
“I realized I loved him after everything went wrong so I wallowed in self-pity and prayed I could wake up.”
“I realized I loved you, and I didn't want to be married to somebody I didn't love. I wanted to be married to you. It isn't all that complicated.”
Source: Rock Springs
“I realized I'm trapped in the embrace of the one who is breaking my heart.”
Source: Please Love Me
“I realized I need a certain kind of chemistry and a certain kind of look to be into someone, and like 1 percent of the population has it.”
“I realized I needed to address people, not just dress them.”
“I realized I needed to work with other people instead of doing everything myself.”
“I realized I never played a character that was skilled at anything, or skilled at anything that I couldn't become skilled at.”
“I realized I probably wouldn't make another film that cuts through commercial and creative things like 'Godfather' or 'Apocalypse.'”
“I realized I really liked the screen. I knew it was a challenge, but I wasn't afraid of risk”
“I realized I still had my eyes shut. I had shut them when I put my face to the screen, like I was scared to look outside. Now I had to open them. I looked out the window and saw for the first time how the hospital was out in the country. The moon was low in the sky over the pastureland; the face of it was scarred and scuffed where it had just torn up out of the snarl of scrub oak and madrone trees on the horizon. The stars up close to the moon were pale; they got brighter and braver the farther they got out of the circle of light ruled by the giant moon. I was off on a hunt with Papa and the uncles and I lay rolled in blankets Grandma had woven, lying off a piece from where the men hunkered around the fire as they passed a quart jar of cactus liquor in a silent circle. I watched that big Oregon prairie moon above me put all the stars around it to shame. I kept awake watching, to see if the moon ever got dimmer or the stars got brighter, till the dew commenced to drift onto my cheeks and I had to pull a blanket over my head.”
Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
“I realized I was a country person - I'm just not used to small spaces.”
“I realized I was afraid of living without him. How is it you have the right to destroy my life, I wanted to demand of him, but I’m not allowed a say in yours?
-Lou”
Source: Me Before You
“I realized I was afraid of living without him. How is it you have the right to destroy my life, I wanted to demand of him, but I’m not allowed a say in yours? But I had promised.”
Source: Me Before You: A Novel
“I realized I was an attractive older woman who never wanted to settle down.”
“I realized I was gay when I was a teenager and I couldn't imagine what it meant to be a gay adult. I just did the next thing that seemed right, and that led me from activism to media to the kind of media I'm in now. But I like where I've ended up.”
“I realized I was going to get through this disappointing service, and anyway, you have to be somewhere: better here, where I have heard truth spoken so often, than, say, at the DMV, or home alone, orbiting my own mind. And it's good to be out where others can see you, so you can't be your ghastly spoiled self. It forces you to act slightly more elegantly, and this improves your thoughts, and thereby the world.”
“I realized I was good at developing young people. Eventually I started to believe in young people. I think when you give a young person an opportunity, he always believes who gave him his first chance. You create a loyalty that lasts a lifetime.”
“I realized I was growing up or something like that. You have responsibilities...you've got to think about getting your act together. I didn't even know what it had been doing to me. I didn't realize how dangerous it was. People talked in terms of drugs and I used to think in terms of...well in Ireland, everybody drinks. Nobody gives it a second thought. You're Irish number one and you're a drinker number two. That's the first two things about us Irish.”
“I realized I was more convincing to myself and to the people who were listening when I actually said what I thought, versus what I thought people wanted to hear me say.”
“I realized I was never going to have any peace with myself unless I made an honest stab at trying to write.”
“I realized I was not a great musical technician, if I was going to make anything interesting it would have to come from the creative side of me and not the craft side of me.”
“I realized I was on a something island. 'How did I get here,' I wondered, surrounded by Nothing, "and how can I get back?”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel
“I realized I was the one suffering, I was going all the way to hell because I was trying to drag another person into the fire, yet I was already getting burnt.”
“I realized I was tired of singing about trees and flowers. I wanted to sing about real life. From then on, nobody could tell me anything was better than blues.”
“I realized I was trying to be friends with somebody who I used to be with but who I didn't get along with. I'm really big on that. I need to be friends with everyone that I've ever had a relationship with.”
“I realized I wasn't going to find a man until I was willing to expose myself to possible harm, to assume the risks of rejection and betrayal and heartbreak that came along with caring about someone. Someday, I promised myself, I would be ready for that kind of risk.”
Source: Sugar Daddy: A Novel
“I realized I would be forced to run away from home if someone tried to arrange a marriage for me. I didn't want to think about it.”
Source: The Pearl Thief
“I realized I would rather die because I betrayed them than live because I betrayed you”