I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I thought I did until I looked at some old game films. (When asked if he played college football)”
“I thought I dreamed you." The words whisper from my parched throat. His head tilts to one side, his mouth shifting to something less sarcastic, more amused. "That may be the most enchanting thing I've ever been told after spending the night with a girl.”
Source: Good For You
“I thought I had a clear picture of death, but now I know it's a mystery and it will always be a mystery, although it is something we all have in common: everybody knows that life ends with death.”
“I thought I had a type but I don't really have a type anymore. I just look for a girl who doesn't take herself too seriously.”
“I thought I had an appetite for destruction, but all I wanted was a club sandwich.”
“I thought I had been a suffragist before I became a Poor Law Guardian, but now I began to think about the vote in women's hands not only as a right but as a desperate necessity.”
Source: My Own Story: Top Biography
“I thought I had escaped the monsters, that I'd left them locked up behind an electric fence. But the shadows were alive, and they had chased me here.”
“I thought I had everything until I found you.”
“I thought I had fallen in love with a woman a couple of times. Then I fell in love with a man, and realised that none of those things had been love.”
“I thought I had finished with romantic adventures, but half-way through life and well past the age for losing one's heart, I was suddenly swept off my feet by a new love, a passionate, tyrannical, all-absorbing emotion: the love of a garden.”
Source: The Glory of the Garden
“I thought I had found my true vocation and happiness, but in a strange way, they were just like my stepmother because they didn't want me to grow up either. This is really important you understand, Virginia, because I had gone from something very bad to something very good, but it was only halfway right. They loved me, but they wanted me to stay small like them.”
“I thought I had friends but in the end n*iggaz dies lonely.”
“I thought I had it all figured out. I thought of racism as an inanimate, immortal system, not as a living, recognizable, mortal disease of cancer cells that we could identify and treat and kill. I considered the system as essential to the United States and the Constitution. At times, I thought White people covertly operated the system, fixed it to benefit the total White community at the expense of the total Black community.
The construct of covert institutional racism opens American eyes to racism and, ironically, closes them, too. Separating the overt individual from the covert institutional veils the specific policy choices that cause racial inequities, policies made by specific people. Covering up the specific policies and policymakers prevents us from identifying and replacing the specific policies and policy makers. We become unconscious to racist policymakers and policies as we lash out angrily at the abstract bogeyman of "the system.”
Source: How to Be an Antiracist
“I thought I had learned how to have an intimate relationship. And I thought I'd learned how to be happy. Everybody has issues. For me, the challenge is intimacy, but I really didn't start to get that until I turned 60.”
“I thought I had lowered my standards pretty much, when I decided that any woman would be good for me as long as she respects me. It didn't took me long to realize that would never happen. I was being naive about the real state of the world. It's not that one shouldn't have low standards, or high, or medium, but that most people are such a disgusting representation of themselves, that they can't stop themselves being like this until they die. And maybe they do appreciate what they had when they lose it, but they quickly forget about it when getting it back. Forgiving people that apologize too often has been another naive behavior of mine.”
“I thought I had mono for a year...Turns out I was just really bored.”
“I thought I had my feet on the ground, but if someone tells you every day you're going to be the next big thing then...So then if you aren't, you think, 'Have I done something wrong?'”
“I thought I had nothing to be grateful for today, but then the universe became quiet a moment so I could hear my heart beat to the rhythm of my life.”
“I thought I had reached a point in life where everything would be smooth. But it is not. It just gets more jagged and pitted and filled with turns that take you into the dark recesses of your mind. It never seems to get easy.”
“I thought I had simple tastes. I don’t care about pearls or silver. I don’t need silk. I can live without cherries and bottles of Diamond Blend.’ Luca pressed up, incoherently wanting, and Matti obliged him with another bruising kiss. ‘But you,’ Matti breathed. ‘You are the most exquisite thing in this city, and I want you, and I’m going to have you.”
Source: Swordcrossed
“I thought I had swell ideas, and wonderful musicians, but the hell of it, no one else did.”
“I thought I had the world by the tail. It took me a few years to realize the closest I was to having the world by the tail was being a dingle berry on one of its ass hairs.”
Source: Deranged by Choice
“I thought I had to be perfect. I would often make choices I thought would make everyone else happy. I lived at a pace that was "good for my career," whether it was good for me or not. I have learned how important it is to check in with myself and listen, really listen.”
“I thought I had to live that partying lifestyle in order to be authentic, but in fact if you keep it up too long, all you're going to be is sloppy or dead.”
“I thought I had to make an impact on history. I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission. Posterity deals with us however it sees fit. But I gave it 20 years of my best shot.”
“I thought I had to show people that I would get in early, stay late or even all night, work on holidays. I didn't want to be the rich kid who was along for a free ride.”
“I thought I had too much money to be happy and normal. Thousand of pounds is just too much for a working person to handle all of a sudden, and I felt I didnt deserve it.”
“I thought I heard myself
being looked for what is it I said
what is it madam that you wish to
imply”
Source: Falling Awake
“I thought I heard the dark pounding its head
On a rock, crying: Who are the dead?”
Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976
“I thought I heard---" Gansey broke off. His eyes dropped to where Adam held Blue's hand. Again his face was somewhat puzzled by the fact of their hand-holding. Adam's grip tightened, although she didn't think he meant for it to.”
“I thought I knew a lot about music. Then you start digging and the deeper you go, the more there is.”
“I thought I knew a thing or two about people. Even had my list of universals. But I wondered. Maybe the world wasn't made of universals that could be summed up in neat little packages. Maybe there were just people. People who were tired and hurt and lonely and kind in their own way and their own time.”
“I thought I knew Elton John, but then it was like, "Woah, Elton's a pimp! He's really amazing." And since Billy and Elton are homies, I'm finally getting it - the two piano boys.”
“I thought I knew everything about everyone, but I guess sometimes I didn’t even really know myself.”
Source: Not Here to Be Liked
“I thought I knew everything about love and relationships in my 20s, the ignorance of youth is bliss. As you get older, you start to realise that you don't really know anything and life is a great traveling journey. Life is unexpected...you just never know whats going to happen.”
“I thought I knew it all. Again, I knew absolutely nothing.”
“I thought I knew love. Until you came - Soul Revolution”
Source: Coming Home
“I thought I knew madness, but I didn’t know it before you.”
Source: The Last Girl
“I thought I knew not only her habits but also her limits. This display of ferocity, of savage courage, made me realize that I was wrong. All my life I had known only a part of her.”
Source: Life of Pi
“I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.”
Source: Straight from the heart: my life in politics and other places
“I thought I knew what fear was, until I heard the words 'You have cancer'.”
Source: It's Not About The Bike: My Journey Back to Life
“I thought I knew what I wanted... I wanted answers. But when they came, I didn't know what to do with them.”
Source: Talon
“I thought I knew what loneliness was before he found me, but I had no clue. You don't know what real loneliness is until you've known the opposite.”
Source: The 5th Wave
“I thought I knew who you were, but I see now you were a lesson to learn, and all I am to you now is a bridge that’s been burned.”
“I thought I lost something this summer, but I just realized, I never needed it.”
Source: Falling for the Ghost of You
“I thought I lost you again. You couldn’t know what those four years were like. To not know where you were, who you were with, or if you were being treated well? I wasn’t sure for a long time if you were even alive. I don’t ever want to go through that again.” Vance... The Elder Effect”
Source: The Elder Effect
“I thought I lost you"
"You will never lose me." Paul kissed the top of her head. "And even if I have to leave, you must know that I will come back to you again. If you'll wait for me?”
Source: Wait for Me
“I thought I loved him when he went away; I love him now in another degree: he is more my own. [ . . . ] Oh! a thousand weepers, praying in agony on waiting shores, listened for that voice, but it was not uttered--not uttered till; when the hush came, some could not feel it: till, when the sun returned, his light was night to some!”
“I thought, I’m alive. I’m free. Now what the fuck am I going to do?”
“I thought I made a little movie. All the mail that I get is about how it changed lives and that’s wonderful.”