I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I see the experience of pictures as a kind of cycle, a kind of circular motion in which you're in the world, then you enter the picture and you're in a different world (it's not the same as the one you live in, but recognizable as one you might live in). And then you're returned to your world with an enlarged sense of its possibilities.”
“I see the face of a child. He lives in a great city. He is black. Or he is white. He is Mexican, Italian, Polish. None of that matters. What matters, he's an American child.”
“I see the fat woman is right. I saw how you looked at him – Billy Dee. He’s your lover. Compared to my harmless affairs that man’s a monster.”
“I AM NOT FAT,” yelled Caroline. Something glittered in her eyes. Anna hissed, and Mary remembered that she carried a concealed knife.”
Source: The Swan Lake Murders
“I see the fight against sexism, racism, poverty, and even war finding their union not in synonymity but in their ultimate goal — a world more humane.”
Source: We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
“I see the first flicker of warmth in his eyes, and I understand something then. At some point, if I continued using dark power and went fully dark— I’d join you in hell. Black eyes flash crimson. And I’d prefer not to. So, toe the motherfucking line, and don’t make me cross it, Ms. Lane.”
Source: Kingdom of Shadow and Light
“I see the first lady as another means to keep a president from becoming isolated.”
“I see the friends I made over the years who have become family today, people I became acquainted with who have achieved so much in their lives. They taught me something with each meeting.”
“I see the future of Brazil as the future of the planet.”
“I see the future of psychology orienting around teaching individuals, couples, and families how to be present and connect with each other in nourishing ways.”
“I see The Gap ads as being a great example of how branding has changed. Those Gap campaigns are pop culture. They've been incredibly powerful. They have had the kind of effect on culture that a hit band has. Just look at The Gap's Khaki swing ads, which were music videos. They had this tremendous impact on the industry - suddenly everything started looking like Gap ads and it became difficult to know who was co-opting whom and who was creating culture.”
“I see the glass half full and thank God for what I have.”
“I see the glass half full...but of poison.”
“I see the glow before I see her. The orange light is so strong it’s hard to believe the house isn’t on fire, but when feet appear at the top of the staircase, I can finally see that the light isn’t coming from the house. It’s coming from her.
My heart beats so fast I can’t tell the pulses apart—it’s one harsh thrum inside my head. If I’m a Smurf, this girl is an Oompa Loompa. No. Not even. It looks like she walked out of a horror movie. She really is on fire, burning from the inside out.
I’m staring, but I can’t help it. Everyone would be staring if they could see what I see.”
Source: Sing Sweet Nightingale
“I see the God complex around me all the time in my fellow economists. I see it in our business leaders. I see it in the politicians we vote for - people who, in the face of an incredibly complicated world, are nevertheless absolutely convinced that they understand the way that the world works.”
“I see the gods—the names, images, stories—as the poetic encapsulation of our human experience, our relationship with the ineffable forces that shape human life. While this makes the gods no thing, it does not make them nothing. I see the gods as representing very real, powerful, even dangerous forces. I believe the gods are real. It doesn’t matter what we call them or don’t call them. They are real and dangerous, and we will contend with them. This for me is the message of the Bacchae. - M. J. Lee, "Being Human When Surrounded by Greek Gods”
Source: Godless Paganism: Voices of Non-Theistic Pagans
“I see the good in the world because I choose to. I don't imagine that it's there; it's there waiting to be noticed.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“I see the goodness and beauty in everyone, and everything is a gift given for me and for all of us. If you don't love it, question your mind until you do.”
“I see the great continuities in New Zealand history as being decency and common sense and up until now when we've confronted these things we've been able to talk them through, and I'm sure we will with this issue as well.”
“I see the hitter when he's moved in the box, like when he's moved closer to the plate or changed his stance. I see when the batter has moved his feet, and then I make my own adjustment.”
“I see the horizon. A light blue, a beautiful band. This is the Earth. How beautiful it is! All goes well.”
“I see the horrible way some stars deal with other people, and I don't know how they get away with it. Maybe it comes back to them in a different karma.”
“I see the human being is an incredible machine, totally undiscovered in many ways. Every one of us has a hidden tank of energy that comes out when it is needed.”
“I see the human in everyone and everything. No one is more important than anyone else; I still hang out with my high school friends.”
“I see the impossible work being done by of my friends at the federal agencies, the Pentagon, NATO, Five Eyes and the intelligence community. They are doing the impossible, for the ungrateful and with a fraction of the budgets required to render a viable defense.”
“I see the inner me. That's why I cut myself.”
“I see the insurance issue, the coverage of people for healthcare in our country as a huge moral issue. The richest country in the world to have 47 million people without health insurance is ridiculous.”
“I see the Internet as the next big deal - I wanted to get in on it early on so I wouldn't get behind it all.”
“I see the invisible spirits, where demons still find it livable. I need a hug to hold my soul inside my body.”
“I see the invisible. I believe the incredible. I attempt the impossible.”
“I see the iPad as a wonderful new drawing medium, but I am at a loss as to how to make it pay.”
“I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent. It's a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.”
“I see the job of directing as being one of creating the right atmosphere, creating an environment where people can realize their full potential.”
“I see the joy in life and I see the joy in simple things. I over-compliment. I over-praise. I over-express my feelings toward people because I never got it in my family. I am the first to hug somebody, because I wasn't hugged.”
“I see the kids and I feel like taking them all away to a safe place to hide until the war stops and the hunger stops and El Cua becomes strong enough to give them the care they deserve.”
“I see the Koran very much as an outsider. It stands in the great prophetic tradition of trying to return people to the basic principles of spirituality. Taken for its time, it was an extraordinarily progressive declaration of principle. It is also extraordinary for a Christian to read: for example, there are more references to Mary than in the Gospels. The tragedy is that it has been so warped and misapplied.”
“I see the liberty of the individual not only as a great moral good in itself (or, with Lord Acton, as the highest political good), but also as the necessary condition for the flowering of all the other goods that mankind cherishes: moral virtue, civilization, the arts and sciences, economic prosperity.”
Source: Salutary neglect
“I see the light at the end of the tunnel, so I'm going hard.”
“I see the light in your smile.”
“I see the magic I come from. I know that I have found home. Within myself, in your eyes, with you - The Dancer”
Source: Coming Home
“I see the main problem as a spiritual one, not a resource problem, or a problem with this or that government, but a larger problem centered around human beliefs, the troublesome elements founded in our mythology. Our problematic mythology is collapsing all around us. It is a mythology that is predatory.”
“I see the main problem of my life, and indeed anybody's life, as the balancing of competitive freedoms ... a sense of mutual obligations that have to be honored, and a legal system which can be trusted to step in when that sense fails.”
Source: Woman as Artist and Thinker
“I see the meaning of apocalypse as an unveiling of our deeper self.”
“I see the mind of the five-year-old as a volcano with two vents: destructiveness and creativeness.”
“I see the moon in the sky. It's bright and I wonder why, people have dark intentions and truths are hidden. Beware the smile without a laugh.”
“I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver. Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays
“I see the moonrise in the fire, the night in the sun. All the while disastrously aware his hand still burns on top of mine.”
Source: A Moonrise in the Fire
“I see the most effective teacher being the one who facilitates learning in the same way a gardener facilitates growth, as opposed to the one who is just giving instruction.”
Source: Principles of a Poinciana School
“I see the mycelium as the Earth's natural Internet, a consciousness with which we might be able to communicate. Through cross-species interfacing, we may one day exchange information with these sentient cellular networks. Because these externalized neurological nets sense any impression upon them, from footsteps to falling tree branches, they could relay enormous amounts of data regarding the movements of all organisms through the landscape.”
Source: Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World
“I see the necessity of preaching a full and present salvation from all sin.”
Source: The Arminian Magazine: Consisting of Extracts and Original Treatises on Universal Redemption
“I see the necessity of sacrificing our opinions sometimes to the opinions of others for the sake of harmony.”
Source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson