I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I believe a calm dog is a happy, obedient dog that won't get into trouble.”
“I believe a champion wins in his mind first, then plays the game, not the other way around.”
“I believe a Christian can sin, but he does not have to. God never would have told us to reject evil acts if in point of fact we could not help but do them.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“I believe a constitution can permit the co-existence of several cultures and ethnic groups with a single state.”
“I believe a family can be like that sports team. A successful family wins as a team. But if its members are intent upon winning their own individual battles with one another, the team loses. A winning solution is to work out the differences and, when it's over, let it be over. Then they can get back in the game as a team.”
“I believe a family just isn’t complete without skeletons. My dearest momma clean bit off my daddy’s nose right around the time they divorced.”
Source: The Spy's Little Zonbi
“I believe a good leader brings out the best in people by listening to them, trusting in them, believing in them, respecting them and letting them have a go.”
“I believe a good memoir should have all of the narrative elements of a novel: character development, dialogue, descriptive language, and metaphor.”
“I believe a good writer can write a good book with any sort of character, in any sort of setting, but I prefer to write about the outsider. It might just be because I've been one (or perceived myself to be one) for so much of my life. But the simple fact of being marginalized immediately brings conflict to a story before the narrative even begins, and that's gold for a writer because it means that your character already has depth before events begin to unfold.”
“I believe a great company, whether improving a sector or creating a new one, needs to have an excellent product or service at its core; needs strong management to execute the plan and a good brand to give it the edge over its competitors. Providing quality service, combined with value for money and in an innovative way ensures you offer real value - and finally to be responsible to society and the planet.”
“I believe a great performer is someone who sounds just as great live as they do in the studio and vice versa. They should know how to work the stage.”
“I believe a healthy lifestyle is an extremely important thing which underpins solution to numerous important problems, including the health of the nation.”
“I believe a human being - if he or she wants to remain human, then he or she must do something with what we have seen, endured, witnessed.”
“I believe a human being carries his or her own holiness, which lies within the realm of the earth; there are no otherworldly explanations.”
Source: Images: my life in film
“I believe a joyful life is made up of joyful moments, gracefully strung together by trust, gratitude, inspiration, and faith.”
Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
“I believe a knowledge of the Bible without a college course is more valuable than a college course without a Bible.”
Source: Human Nature in the Bible
“I believe a large part of humanity will draw appropriate lessons from what is the wave of the future in the 21st century.”
“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.”
“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journeywork of the stars, And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren, And the tree toad is a chef-d'oeurve for the highest, And the running blackberry would adorn the parlors of heaven, And the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all machinery, And the cow crunching with depress'd head surpasses any statue, And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels!”
“I believe a lot about psychology, or I'd like to learn about it - I'm someone who likes to learn about everything.”
“I believe a lot in destiny and I think that if something didn't happen, it was for a reason.”
“I believe a lot in gangsta rap, I see in it a lot of positive things as it is. I believe it is only about doing politicization work. Revolutionary change will come from there, it won't come from conscious rap.”
“I believe a lot in instinct. One should never dull it by wanting to know everything. One shouldn't ask too many questions but do what one does properly, never rush, and never torment oneself.”
“I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.”
“I believe a lot in the relationship between performers. When you're supported by someone's eyes, you're not alone.”
“I believe a lot in the subject of the power our own bodies have as marginalized beings to be able to change the sense of things.”
“I believe a lot in what I do and in my work. I believe in me.”
“I believe a lot of disease comes from anxiety, loneliness.”
“I believe a lot of our lives are spent asleep, and what I've been trying to do is hold on to those moments when a little spark cuts through the fog and nudges you.”
“I believe a lot of people that are gay, had even had problems like I had in the past. I think they've been hurt by somebody from the opposite sex, and they don't know how to function right in those relationships.”
“I believe a man is better anchored who has a belief in the Supreme Being.”
“I believe a man is born first unto himself - for the happy developing of himself, while the world is a nursery, and the pretty things are to be snatched for, and pleasant things tasted; some people seem to exist thus right to the end. But most are born again on entering manhood; then they are born to humanity, to a consciousness of all the laughing, and the never-ceasing murmur of pain and sorrow that comes from the terrible multitudes of brothers.”
Source: The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence
“I believe a man is happier, and happy in a richer way, if he has ‘the freeborn mind’. But I doubt whether he can have this without economic independence, which the new society is abolishing. For economic independence allows an education not controlled by Government; and in adult life it is the man who needs, and asks, nothing of Government who can criticize its acts and snap his fingers at its ideology.”
Source: Some Everyday Thoughts
“I believe a man’s finest hour often comes when he is at his weakest. When he is broken, affronted and at a place of great emotional transparency. It’s there he has the rare insight of an inescapable truth…he’s merely a man. As his bravado washes away into a puddle of reflective tears, it reveals that he is merely flesh, blood and bones and amounts to very little without the love and guidance of our creator. It’s only then, that I believe, a man begins to truly find his way.”
Source: A Walk with Prudence
“I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.”
“I believe a No. 1 song starts happening when it's believable and validating.”
“I believe a novel must first of all be a good story. My hope is that the spiritual message is woven in so well, is such a part of the fabric of the story and of the characters' lives, that it is subtle but meaningful. This is difficult to do well and is something I constantly endeavor to improve.”
“I believe a novel should be as complicated and involved as you're capable of making it.”
“I believe a person of any fine feeling scarcely ever sees a new face without a sensation akin to a shock, for the reason that it presents a new and surprising combination of unedifying elements.”
Source: Religion, a Dialogue, Etc: Top of Schopenhauer
“I believe a person regardless of race should get the job.”
“I believe a personal relationship with God is healthy, but organized religion has potential for danger, in whatever faith.”
“I believe a politics of place emerges where we are deeply accountable to our communities, to our neighborhoods, to our home.”
Source: A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams
“I believe a radiant, light-filled tomorrow should be normal to the experience of living.”
“I believe a solid, really strong middle-class is the key to making the country in the best way.”
“I believe a strong NATO has been the bulwark of our defence in Europe. Obviously that's important in the UK national interest and I believe it's important in the US national interest”
“I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.”
Source: East of Eden
“I believe a stronger sense of empathy would tilt the balance of our current politics in favor of those people who are struggling in this society. After all if they are like us, then their struggles are our own. If we fail to help we diminish ourselves.”
Source: The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
“I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil.”
Source: Patrick Henry in his speeches and writings and in the words of his contemporaries
“I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. Everything we do is to improve it, if it happens in our day; if not, let us transmit to our descendants, together with our slaves, a pity for their unhappy lot and an abhorrence of slavery.”
Source: Patrick Henry in his speeches and writings and in the words of his contemporaries
“I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.”