I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I believe I can adapt to anything.”
“I believe I can do anything. If I decide I want to be a doctor tomorrow, I'm going to be a doctor.”
“I believe I can do things people think are impossible.”
“I believe I can even yet remember when I saw the stars for the first time.”
Source: Memories
“I believe I can make all the money I've missed. But I can't regain the time with fans and family.”
“I believe I can sing anything.”
“I believe I can steal Fairfax's reputation in six months. It is an empty edifice. It has collapsed.”
“I believe I could commit a crime. We all can. It depends on which situations we find ourselves in. In despair, I would steal food if my children were hungry.”
“I believe I could have had a career in the music industry without 'X Factor,' but it was an amazing platform that propelled me to where I am now.”
“I believe - I daily find it proved - that we can get nothing in this world worth keeping, not so much as a principle or a conviction, except out of purifying flame, or through strengthening peril. We err; we fall; we are humbled - then we walk more carefully. We greedily eat and drink poison out of the gilded cup of vice, or from the beggar's wallet of avarice; we are sickened, degraded; everything good in us rebels against us; our souls rise bitterly indignant against our bodies; there is a period of civil war; if the soul has strength, it conquers and rules thereafter.”
“I believe I did succeed in making Indian uslims look upon me as a friend: when I was nominated to be a member of the Rajya Sabha many said, "We have another Muslim in Parliament." Others who disliked my views called me an unpaid agent of Pakistan. I treated both views as compliments.”
Source: Truth, Love & A Little Malice
“I believe I did what honor dictated and that belief sustains me, except for a slight desire to be dead which I'm sure will pass.”
“I believe I do much better for the time being by first copying some good things than by working without that foundation”
“I believe I do my job the way I have to do it.”
“I believe I don't know what the future holds, but I know who holds the future. I know who and what holds the future. I trust that beyond this space and time, all is well, and all will be well.”
“I believe I encountered death, which was a bit too much for a seven-year-old.”
“I believe I got Lyme disease for a reason and if that is to help bring awareness, that is my mission and I will do the best that I can to do that.”
“I believe I have a calling. Do you know what that calling is? To stand up in a new and hard core, radical way for the Lord. In the process, if I insult a couple of people, if I offend a couple of people, and if I got to shake it up a little bit, as long as it is led by the Holy Spirit, amen.”
“I believe I have a lot to learn in life, still.”
“I believe I have a personal responsibility to make a positive impact on society.”
“I believe I have a responsibility that goes along with the money I make. I can help a lot of people.”
“I believe I have a sunny disposition, and am not naturally a grouch. It takes a lot of optimism, after all, to be a traveler.”
Source: Fresh Air Fiend: Travel Writings
“I believe I have an important message and we are fighting the same fight, which is the fight for freedom in Australia, in Holland and in Europe.”
“I believe I have demonstrated that the voters are characteristically ill-informed when voting on reducing social costs. Furthermore, their primary concern is with wealth transferred to themselves, rather than with social cost efficiency. Logically, this would mean that democratic government would be inefficient in reducing social costs.”
Source: The economics of politics
“I believe I have had the most trouble with a portrait which I painted in installments - the head on one canvas and the bust on another.”
Source: The complete short stories and humorous sketches of Mark Twain
“I believe I have lots of time. I have to believe that, that it won't come back, and that that's why I'm in good hands. But I also do live my life by putting nothing off.”
“I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race. That's bad enough for me.”
“I believe I have voted for both Democrats and Republicans. Am I either one? Absolutely not. Ladies and gentlemen, I am an American.”
“I believe I inherited my sense of music from my father. My father was an ear piano player; he could just hear something and play it.”
“I believe I know the only cure, which is to make one’s center of life inside of one’s self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with a kind of unassailable serenity—to decorate one’s inner house so richly that one is content there, glad to welcome anyone who wants to come and stay, but happy all the same when one is inevitably alone.”
“I believe I know why it is satisfying to me to hear someone. When I can really hear someone, it puts me in touch with him; it enriches my life. It is through hearing people that I have learned all that I know about individuals, about personality, about interpersonal relationships.”
Source: A Way of Being
“I believe I live in a black and white. I think things are like either black or white. I don't really believe that much in the gray. I think that there's gray for a lot of people, but I don't live in the gray. I realize whatever action I have or take, it's going to have a consequence -- either good or bad. So I live my life in a way where I don't have bad consequences. I just notice there's a lot people around me just live in the gray. I don't know, for me, I'm just really straightforward.”
“I believe I'll be the judge of how much peril you're worth," he said with a smile.
"You're daft."
"Again, besotted." he said, squeezing her hand. "I'll tell you of it in glorious detail if you can stay awake long enough to hear it."
She smiled at him, which eased his heart a bit.”
Source: Spellweaver
“I believe I love my guitar more than the others love theirs. For John and Paul, songwriting is pretty important and guitar playing is a means to an end. While they're making up new tunes I can thoroughly enjoy myself just doodling around with a guitar for a whole evening. I'm fascinated by new sounds I can get from different instruments I try out. I'm not sure that makes me particularly musical. Just call me a guitar fanatic instead, and I'll be satisfied.”
“I believe I may so, looking into my own heart, and speaking as in the presence of God, that I have never know one moment of bitterness or resentment.”
“I believe I never knew what the word round meant until I saw Earth from space.”
“I believe I never was more acceptable to my Master than when I was standing to teach those hearers in the open fields. I now preach to ten times more people than I would if I had been confined to the churches.”
“I believe I owe all the best parts of my adulthood to embracing my imperfections and showcasing them.”
“I believe I saw a woodcock. He had a long bill like putting a fire hydrant into a pencil sharpener, then pasting it onto a bird and letting the bird fly away in front of me with this thing on its face for no other purpose than to amaze me.”
Source: Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar
“I believe I shall never be old enough to speak without embarrassment when I have nothing to talk about.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln as Reflected in His Briefer Letters and Speeches
“I believe I understand anti-Semitism which is a very complex movement. I see it as a Jew, but without hatred or fear. I recognize what is anti-Semitism is rude jesting, vulgar jealousy of métier, hereditary prejudice; but also what can be considered as in fact legitimate defence.”
“I believe I've come to understand something. Love isn't always big and dramatic. It's big, it's deep, but it's also quiet and calm.”
Source: A Most Scandalous Proposal
“I believe I’ve got it covered,” Malik said with an admirably straight face and smooth tone. “But I wouldn’t mind taking a break before getting to the next round. Grabbing a bite to eat.”
Ethan glanced at me, questioning eyebrow arched. Have you infected him?
You’re hilarious, I said.”
Source: Dark Debt
“I believe I want adult sanity, which seems to me the only unalloyed form of heroism available today.”
“I believe I was a little bit in love with you”
Source: Eponine
“I believe I was ahead of my time.”
“I believe I was born an addict, and alcoholic. The first time I drank alcohol, I just wanted more and more. During my teens and early 20s I did not drink often, but when I did, it was with great gusto. That is, I always drank enough to get drink.”
“I believe I was born to breed.”
“I believe I was extremely greedy.”
“I believe I was impatient with unintelligent people from the moment I was born: a tragedy - for I am myself three-parts a fool.”
Source: My Life and Some Letters