I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I realized if I didn’t just go, I’d never go. Going was the key. It didn’t matter where I was headed just as long as I was headed somewhere. ~ Ben Davis”
Source: Undressed To The Nines
“I realized if you can change a classroom, you can change a community, and if you change enough communities you can change the world.”
“I realized in all the cases where I was happy with the decision I made, there were two common threads: Surround myself with the smartest people who challenge you to think about things in new ways, and do something you are not ready to do so you can learn the most.”
“I realized in order to be involved in health policy, you really had to understand more than the individual patient that we as physicians, are taught to think about.”
“I realized in that moment how wrong this all is.
Logan is incredible. He's everything I never even hoped to dream about, because someone so good couldn't exist.
Yet he's here.”
Source: The Risk
“I realized in that moment that physically speaking my talents were well beyond Joe [Namath’s] talents. So then I realized, ‘What am I doing here? This doesn’t make sense because it’s always going to be about Joe.’”
“I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque.”
“I realized in the past few weeks, that it doesn't matter how tired and fucked up you are when you do what you love to do and the things that give you satisfaction! Because in the end, it's all about love!”
“I realized it for the first time in my life: there is nothing but mystery in the world, how it hides behind the fabric of our poor, browbeat days, shining brightly, and we don't even know it.”
Source: The Secret Life of Bees
“I realized it in waves and we held on to each other crying and I thought, God we must look so lame, but it doesn't matter much when you have just now realized, all the time later, that you are still alive.”
Source: The John Green Collection
“I realized it might be possible to do such a thing, run for money, trot for wages on piece work at a bob a puff rising bit by bit to a guinea a gasp and retiring through old age at thirty-two because of lace-curtain lungs, a football heart, and legs like varicose beanstalks.”
Source: New and Collected Stories
“I realized it's impossible to compete against American brands when I am blocked from using the same apps and markets. And yet I did have many American users buying from me. I was simply within a huge disadvantage when compared to American users. That's why I write that this idea of "you can do whatever you want" that many motivational speakers promote is a big lie. It really depends on your geographic location. You will not see anyone else saying the same, because either they don't know or they lie to you. But the people who want to believe the lies, choose to lie to themselves, and these too are many. They watch YouTube videos and Instagram influencers living luxurious lives and never question themselves about these things or why they are American and Chinese. In many cases they don't even know the so-called models going to Dubai are high class prostitutes.”
“I realized it was happening, but most people didn't realize it was happening. I mean, because as a self-employed person, when there is a recession or a cutback in the economy, we feel it first. Because many self-employed people provide services that are nonessential.”
“I realized it was like a dating agency: the ions are the lost souls looking for mates; the electrolyte is the agency that can help them find each other.”
Source: Jewels: A Secret History
“I realized it was like looking into the sun—you shouldn't do it, because you'd turn your face away and be blind to everything else.”
Source: Picture Perfect
“I realized it wasn't necessary to work in the traditional methods of carving and casting.”
“I realized I’m in love. It's always been right in front of me.”
“I realized I’m not supposed to be pursuing impact, I’m supposed to be pursuing God. And when I pursue God I will have exactly as much impact as He wants me to have.”
“I realized
June had never been
just a month
music...
never just a tremble
on my lips
warmth was never
merely a blanket.”
Source: A touch, a tear, a tempest
“I realized just how much exercise and eating right make a difference in how you feel now and when you get older.”
“I realized late in life that my twin passions are music and people.”
“I realized marvelling at nature was a deep pleasure of mine.”
“I realized maybe Atlas wasn’t supposed to be my whole life. Maybe he was supposed to be a part of it. Maybe love isn’t something that comes full circle. It just ebbs and flows, in and out, just like the people in our lives.”
Source: Colleen Hoover Book Bundle
“I realized Michael was right. I mean, I am always writing in this journal. And I do compose a lot of poetry, and write a lot of notes and emails and stuff. I mean, I feel like I am always writing. I do it so much, I never even thought about it as a talent. It's just something I do all the time, like breathing.”
“I realized my dream and was proud to be a Superstar. I never won a title, but being hired by WWE and being a Superstar, to me, was like winning a championship.”
“I realized my family was funny, because nobody ever wanted to leave our house.”
“I realized my father's sister Joanne, who died at 19 had instilled her spirit in me.”
“I realized now that militancy in the best sense of the word was the only answer where the black man was concerned, that any black man who wasn't a militant in 1970 was either blind or a coward.”
Source: I Have Changed
“I realized only later that they were my first loves, these earthbound, dusty women, my first audiences and inspiration. Back then, even amid political violence and deprivation, hopes dashed over and over again, in the market, everything seemed so simple, so near, beyond the tentacles of the mighty who would want to crush us: a women's world with other rules.”
Source: What Storm, What Thunder
“I realized our kinks and coils grew up and out toward the sun. Shrinkage, although frustrating, is our protection from the sun. I viewed natural hair as our antenna and everything that connects us with the Most High.”
Source: Root Therapy: How to Love Your Hair
“I realized painting could look like a film, and a film like a painting.”
“I realized people would soon forget me once I was dead. I couldn't even say that this was hard to stomach; really, there's no idea to which one doesn't get acclimatized in time.”
Source: Collected fiction
“I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity.”
“I realized pretty quickly just how big and aggressive some of the mountains were down in Nagano Prefecture.”
“I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.”
“I realized protecting my children meant speaking truths I had buried for decades.”
Source: Broken Secrets
“I realized quickly, no matter how tightly I hugged my mother’s sweaters hanging in the coat closet in the hallway, breathing deep into the neck to catch her lavender scent, it
wasn’t enough. She was not here. Objects can never truly capture the whole essence of the person.”
Source: The Rack: Stories Inspired By Vintage Horror Paperbacks
“I realized relatively early on that I had no desire to be a mother whatsoever. I actually love children, but specifically other people's.”
“I realized right then and there, the world was real. The World was real.”
Source: Remaking History and Other Stories
“I realized some of the pitfalls of being well-known; it was nice if you were successful, but it made it just that much harder to take when you failed.”
Source: Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk
“I realized someone else might tell you you're pretty. I'd do anything to keep you away from that person.”
Source: The Summer of Me & You
“I realized something as I sat in that chair after he hit me, waitin for my kidneys to stop achin: if I didn't stand up to him then, I probably wouldn't ever stand up to him. So I did.”
Source: Dolores Claiborne
“I realized sometime in the early '80s that if I didn't do something - like planning for the future in a way, a kind of pension or something - that if I didn't do something there and then, I was going to be condemned to forever present my three years as a pop star, condensed, as a stage act for the rest of my life. Because that's normally what happens to people in the pop business.”
“I realized than an author cannot also be a producer.”
“I realized that a dancer's life is very short and I had so much of a creative energy in me that I needed outlets to do other things so that's when I started acting more and it all kind of blended together. When you're on stage you're acting and you're dancing, it started blended together now.”
“I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.”
“I realized that a lot of the great directors that I admire from [Ingmar] Bergman to [Fredrico] Fellini re always shooting, then going into the editing room, and shooting again.”
“I realized that a methane-oxygen rocket engine could achieve a specific impulse greater than 380.”
“I realized that a new phase of exile was beginning, that from now on there would be other periods, all different, each with its own anxieties, all shattering and overwhelming, and that I would be changing too, passing from one crisis to the next until I reached the moment of truth, unique and definitive — the day on which I would either stop being an exile and return home, or unavoidably, with sadness and resignation, become an immigrant.”
“I realized that a tree never says, "I have too many branches." It simply digs deeper roots, expands itself to catch more light, and extends itself in multiple directions so as not to be unevenly weighted.”