I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I realized that perseverence and step-by-step progress are the only ways to reach a goal along a chosen path.”
“I realized that poverty was a kind of captivity.”
“I realized that real love, the kind that lasts a lifetime, is never possessive. It’s never suffocating. It breathes. It lives. We feel it. But we also know how to let the attachment go.”
Source: Running Backward
“I realized that searching for a mentor has become the professional equivalent of waiting for Prince Charming. We all grew up on the fairy tale "Sleeping Beauty," which instructs young women that if they just wait for their prince to arrive, they will be kissed and whisked away on a white horse to live happily ever after. Now young women are told that if they can just find the right mentor, they will be pushed up the ladder and whisked away to the corner office to live happily ever after. Once again, we are teaching women to be too dependent on others.”
Source: Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
“I realized that searching for a mentor has become the professional equivalent of waiting for Prince Charming. We all grew up on the fairy tale "Seeping Beauty," which instructs young women that if they just wait for their prince to arrive, they will be kissed and whisked away on a white horse to live happily ever after. Now young women are told that if they can just find the right mentor, they will be pushed up the ladder and whisked away to the corner office to live happily ever after. Once again, we are teaching women to be too dependent on others.”
“I realized that searching was my symbol, the emblem of those who go out at night with nothing in mind, the motives of a destroyer of compasses.”
Source: Hopscotch, Blow-Up, We Love Glenda So Much
“I realized that she was my beloved witness, and I the receiver of her story. When I was a boy, she had showered me with love; now as a man, I could return that love.”
Source: Black Dog of Fate: An American Son Uncovers His Armenian Past
“I realized that so many clever people respect fashion so much.”
“I realized that so much of the pressure I was feeling was from outside sources, and I knew I wasn't ready to take that step into motherhood. [...] Being a biological mother just isn't part of my experience this time around.”
“I realized that social media can be powerful force for good in the world and that acts of kindness can be scaled globally.”
“I realized that sorrow is an important word for defining the world. It lies at the foundation of everything, it is the fifth element, the quintessence.”
Source: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
“I realized that success in most things depends on finding people stupid enough to volunteer to try doing them but smart enough to have a chance of succeeding.”
Source: Ascendant
“I realized that such small gestures - the way his mother had made me a cup of tea after our meal without asking, remembering that I didn't take sugar, the way Laura had placed two little bisquits on the saucer when she brought me coffee in the salon - such things could mean so much.”
Source: Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
“I realized that that was how heartbreak occurred. Your heart wants something, but reality resists it. Death is inert and heavy, and it has no relation to your heart's desires.”
Source: What We Lose
“I realized that the artists who managed to fight through this recession have a better shot at longevity than most. The recession was a test of your resolve and passion. I think as we come out of these rough times we will be more adept at survival and will have gained the skills necessary to make a long fruitful artistic career. There will still be those that fade away but we are more likely to grow and bend with the times and prosper.”
“I realized that the childish impression I had always had of my father, as Just Lawgiver, was entirely wrong. We were utterly dependent on this man, who was not only deluded and ignorant, but incompetent in every way. What was more, I knew that my mother was incapable of standing up to him. It was like walking into the cockpit of an airplane and finding the pilot and co-pilot passed out drunk in their seats. And standing outside the Lyceum, I was struck with a black, incredulous horror, which in fact was not at all unlike the horror I had felt at twelve, sitting on a bar stool in our sunny little kitchen in Plano. Who is in control here?> I thought, dismayed. Who is flying this plane?”
Source: The Secret History
“I realized that the collapse in reading books is in some ways a symptom of our atrophying attention, and in some ways a cause of it. It’s a spiral – as we began to move from books to screens, we started to lose some of the capacity for the deeper reading that comes from books, and that in turn, made us less likely to read books.”
Source: Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
“I realized that the deepest spiritual lessons are not learned by His letting us have our way in the end, but by His making us wait, bearing with us in love and patience until we are able to honestly to pray what He taught His disciples to pray: Thy will be done.”
Source: Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control
“I realized that the European dogma is not necessarily the only way to look at things.”
“I realized that the future of aviation, to which I had devoted so much of my life, depended less on the perfection of aircraft than on preserving the epoch-evolved environment of life, and that this was true of all technological progress.”
“I realized that the good stories were affecting the organs of my body in various ways, and the really good ones were stimulating more than one organ. An effective story grabs your gut, tightens your throat, makes your heart race and your lungs pump, brings tears to your eyes or an explosion of laughter to your lips.”
“I realized that the hair is there for a reason – it’s the leaf around the flower, the lawn around the house. You have to love the hair in order to love the vagina. You can’t pick the parts you want.”
Source: The Vagina Monologues
“I realized that the ignorance was profound. I don't mean that in a pejorative sense, it's just that people didn't know what the Shari'a was, as such. They knew that it was something good. I should say perhaps that the Shari'a, etymologically in Arabic, means a desert path to water. It means a path towards salvation, in the seventh-century context, to the desert people. If you have a path to water, that's the path you want to take to get you where you want to get to; where you should get to. And that much was clear but beyond that people didn't know what the rules were.”
“I realized that the knowledge I gained over this period in my life was power, and it felt like a waste not to share that wealth with the world, with people who could benefit,”
Source: The Dark Dictionary: A Guide to Help Eradicate Your Darkness, Restore Your Light, and Redefine Your Life.
“I realized that the legal system was corrupt when I went to court and the judge imposed a very short time limit on my evidence submission before removing my legal rights to free speech.”
“I realized that the longing for art, like the longing for love, is a malady that blinds us, and makes us forget the things we already know, obscuring reality.”
Source: The Museum of Innocence
“I realized that the most empowering important thing was actually simply taking care of myself.”
Source: Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
“I realized that the one person who could break my heart is the only one who should have it.”
Source: Just the Sexiest Man Alive
“I realized that the only possible response was to go to my wonderful local café, Maison Bertaux, check everyone was well, eat a little cake and then make art. To me, making art, and in particular public art, is always an assertion of our humanity and our strength.”
“I realized that the only purpose to revolution is to be able to love who you want, how you want, when you want and where you want.”
“I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal.”
“I realized that the people I want to impress most are already in my band. If I just do my best and try to write great songs and then collaborate with these guys and try to make a great record, that's my best path to success.”
“I realized that the people weren't just characters but they were people and they were getting to do something that was so fun and I wanted to be a part of it.”
“I realized that the reason why my head was so cluttered and why I was so unstable and not taking care of myself, all of these things, was that I was unhappy. If I wanted to get to a happier place and find some kind of peace, I was going to have to address problems with myself, things from my life up until that point that I hadn't dealt with: insecurities, fears, and those kinds of things.”
“I… realized that the revelation of my husband’s betrayal did not leave me feeling the despair of a wife with a broken heart: I was feeling the rage of a writer with a broken plot.”
Source: Untamed
“I realized that the search for the Knowledge has encouraged us to think of the House as if it were a sort of riddle to be unravelled, a text to be interpreted, and that if ever we discover the Knowledge, then it will be as if the Value has been wrested from the House and all that remains will be mere scenery.
The sight of the One-Hundred-and-Ninety-Second Western Hall in the Moonlight made me see how ridiculous that is. The House is valuable because it is the House. It is enough in and of itself. It is not the means to an end.”
Source: Piranesi
“I realized that the secret to golf isn't how low you shoot when it's going good, it's how to make your bad rounds better.”
“I realized that the studios didn't really understand their own system.”
“I realized that the "thing" and the "concept" were substituted for feeling and understood the falsity of the world of will and idea”
“I realized that the way I approached architecture was with a somewhat fashion brain. That didn't get me very good marks in school, because everyone thought fashion was lightweight. In architecture they say, "Well, why is the door pink? Where does it go? What does the pink mean? What does it symbolize? All the other doors are beige, why is that one pink?" I was like, "Well, it's pink because it's pretty."”
“I realized that the words I write and the stories I tell bring out the best in others, especially young girls looking for their voice.”
“I realized that the world did not exist for my benefit. It followed that the ratio of pleasant and unpleasant things around me would not change. It wasn't up to me. It was clear that the best thing to do was to adopt a sort of muddled cheerfulness.”
Source: Three plays
“I realized that the worst thing that could happen to me was about to happen to me.”
“I realized that there are just certain things in life that are private. I have things in my past - like everyone - that I'm not proud of.”
“I realized that there are no certainties in life. You can't manipulate fate.”
Source: Skinnydipping: A Novel
“I realized that there are some things about all of us, no matter where we're from, that we are connected and we are all still humans, and we are all still looking for the same sort of contentment in our life in one way or another. Some people are searching a little harder than others, granted. But we're not so different.”
“I realized that there is something else that is influencing people to behave like that, and that's the taking of the souls away from God. If you get people to sin, they get pushed further away from God and eventually God doesn't really own the soul anymore. The Devil owns the soul and that's where the danger comes in. Because in the end, there's no do-overs.”
“I realized that there was a thrilling undiscovered country to be explored in the mechanisms of the mammalian nervous system. Through it, one might approach the mystery of the mind.”
Source: Mystery of the Mind: A Critical Study of Consciousness and the Human Brain
“I realized that there was an actual job of making movies. They weren't created by elves.”
“I realized that there was an intellectual content in music, a kind of thinking, that I would never be able to hear.”