I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I still believe there is a need to open up search and it will come eventually. It is very important to challenge the current models.”
“I still believe this Life is a good joke. And if you treat it that way, you will never stop laughing.”
“I still believe we wasted a golden opportunity to make significant changes in our country. I think people in America would have been ready and willing to do it, but the Bush administration took a kind of simplistic, almost moronic approach to it, all because people were so afraid.”
“I still believed firmly in chance at that time.”
Source: Demian
“I still believed he'd love me again somehow, love me that intense, thick way he did, the way that made everything good.”
Source: Gone Girl
“I still believed I could will my body to become what my mind knew it should be: free and strong as a coil of brass wire. My chest and belly felt swollen and full, and every movement reminded me of how wrong I felt. I moved slower. A chasm had opened between me and my skin, as though I were fumbling around in a too-big pair of gloves. The only words I had back then were for what I knew I wasn't—a girl. But how to explain this feeling that my body was a tracing of something else, and not all the lines matched up?”
Source: The Thirty Names of Night
“I still belonged to you long after you belonged to someone else.”
“I still bite my nails.”
“I still bother with runners I call hamburgers. They're never going to run any record times. But they can fulfill their own potential.”
“I still break racquets, but now I do it in a positive way.”
“I still buy actual books. The smell, having it in your hands - there's really no substitute.”
“I still buy CDs and DVDs, but generally for more obscure material.”
“I still buy nice pieces but, at the moment, they're presents for other people, so I only collect vicariously.”
“I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it.”
“I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.”
“I still can remember some of the poems and proverbs, I learnt in my childhood.”
“I still can't believe how much I can see of the woods. Each branch and leaf is lit up as if it's beneath a spotlight. This place feels like a fantasy, like any minute now we'll cross paths with a group of fairies, and Emma will simply wave hello at them, used to the sight.”
Source: North of Happy
“I still can't believe it's really you," he murmurs, running his fingers down my cheek. "This face...it's yours, isn't it?"
"The one I was born with," I admit, heat rising under my skin as I feel a surge of shyness. I look down at my hands. "Do you...like it?"
"Zahra."
I can't help but lift my gaze at the warmth in his tone. His eyes are shining, his lips slanted in a small smile.
"You're beautiful," he says. "I mean, you were beautiful before, of course, but knowing that this is the real you...I didn't think I could love you more, but I do.”
Source: The Forbidden Wish
“I still can’t believe it that you’re mine I know I don’t deserve you but, nothing could ever change the way that I feel about you.”
“I still can't believe it
This all feels like a dream
Don't try to disappear
...
Will you stop time
After this moment passes by
What if this becomes something that never happened, or I lose you
I'm afraid, afraid, afraid”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
“I still can't believe someone as hot as you has validation issues but I also know that being a very sensitive person on this planet is painful and some of us are built like sieves, or have holes where any external validation just pours right through and we never get full, and I also know it's ultimately an inside job anyway and no amount of external validation will ever be enough (though damn it can feel good in the moment, and it sort of makes me mad at god, actually, like, okay god, you built me like this so teach me how to validate myself in a way that feels as good as when a boy does it or the Internet does it, because there is always a cost when a boy does it or the Internet does it): a love story.”
Source: So Sad Today: Personal Essays
“I still can’t say what life is for, but it can’t be to pretend
that every part of it is knowable, or that what appears to be
to the naked eye or in the middle ground or documented on paper
approximates a person any better than a daisy does our sun.”
“I still can’t wrap my mind around crossing that line of human behavior – civilized people punching and fighting, making violence their communication of choice.
Is it because I’m a woman, I’ve never considered hitting someone who acted inappropriately? Even one of my best male friends, a gentle man, a believer in spirit and mankind, has thrown a few punches in his time.
As a writer, my weapons are words. The thought of hurting someone physically to prove my point has never and will never be an option for me. Well, let me amend that: if someone hurt my child in front of me, tiger-mother’s claws would come out.”
Source: Broken Pieces
“I still can't believe I won the Olympics. That's what I feel right now - completely alive as a human being. It's a really beautiful moment.”
“I still can't believe I'm an Olympic athlete.”
“I still can't believe it . . . him comin' here everyday, nobody realizin'. Still, that's life: lotta stuff happens under the waterline.”
“I still can't believe that I've achieved what I have. It's like I've lived a dream for about five years now”
“I still can't believe that some pseudocritics continue to accuse me of having murdered tango. They have it backward. They should look at me as the saviour of tango. I performed plastic surgery on it.”
“I still can't believe," Michael said, sotto voce, "that you came to the Vampires' Masquerade Ball dressed as a vampire.”
Source: Grave Peril: Book three of The Dresden Files
“I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing.”
“I still can't figure out what inspired me to do physics. But since I was nine or ten years old, I wanted to be like [Albert] Einstein. He was my hero. I knew no physicists. I knew no scientists. I had nobody around me. And I went to a convent that didn't even have higher mathematics and physics. I taught myself these subjects in order to get into university.”
“I still can't get over the idea that respectable adults now go to see superhero movies and that such films get reviewed in the 'New Yorker.' Clearly, I am seriously out of step with the times.”
“I still can't go over a subway grating without looking down to see if there is some money there.”
“I still can't quite believe it. Although there was something about the fact that it was a first-time writer, a first-time producer, and a first-time director all at the same time.”
“I still can't set up the ironing-board. A complete Luddite.”
“I still can't shake the Nebraska off of me.”
“I still can't spend a lot of money on records at collector prices. There's something in me that just won't allow me to do that. But I will trade my artwork, which I know is worth thousands of dollars.”
“I still can't understand how Cecil and my old tutor, Fitz, got along so well, when we often called Fitz 'the Genius' and avoided calling Cecil anything at all, so as not to be rude.”
Source: Chime
“I still can't understand why anyone cares about what I do or what I say.”
“I still cannot believe Gracie is all right with this. It’s a miracle. I’m sort of expecting it to be a big ruse and tomorrow Steph will wake up with meat in her bed spelling ‘Judas’.”
Source: Friendship Fails of Emma Nash
“I still cannot fathom how difficult it was for the women I met to find out that they were HIV-positive. It is such a courageous undertaking in countries where there is still considerable stigma about the disease. They got tested to ensure that their unborn babies would have a chance of life by being born free of the virus.”
“I still can’t believe [ Muhammad Ali ] knows my name. It astounds me he knows who I am. I first met Ali in 1976. I was locked up in a juvenile home and he came to visit. I’ve never forgotten it.”
“I still can’t say whether I ever want children….I can only say how I feel now--grateful to be on my own. I also know that I won’t go forth and have children just in case I might regret missing it later in life; I don’t think this is a strong enough motivation to bring more babies onto the earth.”
Source: Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything
“I still care about people but it would be so much easier not to care. I don't want to get too close; I don't like to touch things.”
Source: In the power of painting: a selection from the Daros Collection
“I still care deeply about so many thing. And so I'm going to be engaged. I'm going to be out there as - with a platform to talk about the things that I care about: foreign policy and, you know, violence against women, you know, the inequity in the tax structure.”
“I still care for you, you know.. That phrase again. Everyone cares for me. They just don't know how to love me.”
Source: Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy
“I still care, I still feel everything deeply. I still love the same. But now, I have learned to stay quiet. Because not every emotion needs to be expressed, specially when the one you show it to, doesn't care at all.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“I still carry deep sadness for my 18-year-old self, but I also hold onto the hope of God’s ongoing healing, acknowledging that it’s a lifelong journey. It’s okay to feel sorrow for the traumatic events in our lives while remaining expectant of God’s goodness.”
Source: Seen: Experiencing God's Tenderness After Brokenness
“I still carry the traumas of Adam
in my small but mighty atom.”
Source: a Song a Poem
“I still carry the weight of being a rape survivor, and of the demand that I forgive and forget to uphold the myth of the perfect black family. I carry the weight handed to me by the Black moral majority, who ignored my father's crimes and who knows how many other men's, who tried to buy off a terrified thirteen year old with a one-day trip to an amusement park. They were so desperate to project the image of the respectable, righteous, picture-perfect Black family to the world that they were willing to let women and girls in the picture suffer.”
Source: Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture