I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I believe everything is autobiographical. If it's not strictly about you, it's your peers, your obsessions, things that make you angry, or things that you've been watching or obsessing about. Preoccupying you for reasons you don't necessarily know, but it's about you. It says a lot about you. It's like when someone tells you their dream and you sit there going, "Do you realize how much you're revealing about yourself right now?" It's kind of embarrassing.”
“I believe everything is energy. I believe that the meal you serve yourself, you prepare, is energy. And if you serve it to your family, it's your gift of energy to them.”
“I believe everything is one thing only. That said, there are some questions in my life that I don't know.. I've stopped asking. At the very beginning of my life, I wanted to have answers for everything. And now I respect the fact that I can't have answers for everything.”
“I believe everything learned in college is an answer to a question that someone has posed. Questions get posed differently and the answers that come back transport us to places we never knew existed.”
“I believe everything negative that happens in your life is for a positive reason. If your heart breaks, you know that you are a human being and it happens. But you can't mope over it. There's only one life. You better get on ahead and fast. Fast enough not to let your past ever catch up with you.”
“I believe everything out of the common. The only thing to distrust is the normal.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Buchan (Illustrated)
“I believe everything to be just when a king ordains it.”
“I believe evil is a natural force, like a hungry virus, perpetually swirling through the air and seeking places to infiltrate. Most of us bar the door against it. Others welcome it in.”
Source: House of Glass
“I believe excellence is being able to perform at a high level over and over.”
“I believe Fabio Celoni's work vividly brings to life not only the mountains, the bazaars, the city of Kabul and its kite-dotted skies, but also the many struggles, conflicts, and emotional highs and lows of Amir's journey [from the The Kite Runner].”
“I believe Facebook is going all the way. They're going to reach a billion members and will be the biggest company in the world. It will be a platform everyone goes on the Internet through.”
“I believe facing the darkness is one of the most powerful ways to overcome the pain. Healing begins when you can finally name what hurts, and stop running from the darkness inside you.”
Source: The Storm Is In The Mind, Not In You: Release Emotional Suffering Step By Step
“I believe failure is the starting point of success. You can either run from it or learn from it. See opportunities from difficulties.”
“I believe faith is a human universal. We are endowed at birth with nascent capacities for faith. How these capacities are activated and grow depends to a large extent on how we are welcomed into the world and what kinds of environments we grow in. Faith is interactive and social; it requires community, language, ritual and nurture. Faith is also shaped by initiatives from beyond us and other people, initiatives of spirit or grace. How these latter initiatives are recognized and imaged, or unperceived and ignored, powerfully affects the shape of faith in our lives.”
“I believe faith is not certainty but the courage to live with uncertainty.”
“I believe fantasy and dreaming can be made a reality. You don't have to be rich. You don't have to be a VIP.”
“I believe fasting can suppress instead of trigger emotions. That's if you're used to it and doing it right.”
“I believe fear of what we do not know may be the devil's best tool, meant to keep us back from those we long to approach.”
Source: Rhiannon
“I believe feminism is grounded in supporting the choices of women even if we wouldn’t make certain choices for ourselves.”
Source: Bad Feminist: Essays
“I believe Fernand Point is one of the last true gourmands of the 20th century. His ruminations are extraordinary and thought-provoking. He has been an inspiration for legions of chefs.”
“I believe fervently in the nature, in truth and imagination, I believe in the blood, in life, words, and motivations.”
“I believe firmly in God's control in life.”
“I believe firmly in plodding. Productivity is more a matter of diligent, long-distance hiking than it is one-hundred-yard dashing. Doing a little bit now is far better than hoping to do a lot on the morrow. So redeem the fifteen minute spaces. Chip away at it.”
Source: Wordsmithy: Hot Tips for the Writing Life
“I believe firmly in the efficacy of religion, in its powerful influence on a person's whole life. It helps immeasurably to meet the storms and stress of life and keep you attuned to the Divine inspiration. Without inspiration, we would perish.”
“I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice.”
“I believe firmly that it was the Almighty's goodness, to check my consummate vanity.”
“I believe fitness should make you sweat, laugh, and maybe even trip over your own feet. Dance isn’t about perfection—it’s about showing up, shaking it out, and remembering that joy is the best kind of workout. Move_With_Ally”
“I believe flowers have souls. I have known roses that I expect to meet in heaven.”
Source: The Collected Works of Lucy Maud Montgomery: 20 Novels & 170+ Short Stories, Poems, Letters and Memoirs (Including The Complete Anne Shirley Series, Chronicles of Avonlea & Emily Starr Trilogy): Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of Windy Poplars, Rainbow Valley, Rilla of Ingleside, Emily of New Moon, The Story Girl, The Golden Road, Pat of Silver Bush, The Blue Castle & many more
“I believe for everyone who goes astray, someone will come to show the way.”
“I believe for freedom. I believe that people should express themselves the way they want, except as it does in the way that's not nice, but it is what it is.”
“I believe for God not to allow pain to happen in the world is for Him to extract free will from the world.”
“I believe for the first time in history, entrepreneurship is now a viable career.”
“I believe for the first time in my life I feel the feeling of not understanding and it’s not scary, it’s terrifying.”
“I believe forgiveness is possible for everybody, for everything, but I'm a Buddhist.”
“I believe four ingredients are necessary for happiness: health, warm personal relations, sufficient means to keep you from want, and successful work.”
“I believe four principles: Positive Intention, Belief In A Higher Power, Discernment (good vs evil), and Honest Observation, are keys to understanding and living a fulfilling life.”
“I believe framing reality is one of the only ways we can ever be sure it actually exists. In that regard, I feel as though I'm still learning who I am as an artist.”
“I believe friends enclose us, like a pair of parentheses. Each one knows us differently, each sustains us in a different way.”
“I believe from my many experiences that the spirit world is more real, more solid, than this earth in which we live. In truth, ours is a world of illusion. All that seems so solid is yet just a mass: molecules locked together, forming an impression of solid matter that in fact is not solid at all.”
“I believe from what I can see there is a good chance the shift will happen in humanity before it is too late.”
“I believe from what I have lately seen that we should be substantially safe were our Citizens Armed, but we have not as many Arms as we have Enemies in the State.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia I, Correspondence, 1780 - 1782
“I believe fuel cells will finally end the 100-year reign of the internal combustion engine. . . Fuel cells could be the predominant automotive power source in 25 years.”
“I believe fully in making fun of children. I believe very strongly that you should never make fun of an embryo or your ovaries. I am a big believer on breaking those rules. It's a case-by-case basis. But the thing is, there's so many ways to make a joke about something that is sort of maybe verboten or something.”
“I believe gangsta rap, as such, in its foundation is simply anti-systemic and transgressive.”
“I believe Georgia should aspire to nothing less than greatness And I believe greatness is within our grasp.”
“I believe German soldiers are good and decent, and if they did anything wrong it was because of military necessity.”
“I believe giving back is one of the greatest life lessons we can teach our children; that the world isn't all about them, and that through our actions people will really discover what kind of a person we truly are.”
“I believe global warming and climate change are real threats to our planet.”
“I believe God always listens to our prayers.”
“I believe God created sports for a good reason. It's recreation. It's something that we enjoy. It teaches us a lot as well... I believe God is a sports fan.”