I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure.”
“I believe my readers are crazy about their parents and want to be just like them when they grow up”
“I believe my religion is the truth, but I am not the truth and the truth doesn't belong to me I'm trying to belong to the truth.”
“I believe my research "validates" is the idea that "the water holds and transmits information." I believe that the more we properly understand water, the more we can expand our consciousness into other dimensions. The validation for me personally has been invaluable because to be honest I could not sense the invisible world through my own sensibilities. When people would speak of the inner world of our psychology I would wonder if that was even possible, but through seeing how our thoughts have an observable effect on water I no longer doubt and it's because of this validation.”
“I believe my signal of maturity as a filmmaker iswhen I'll actually acknowledge the fact that the first take is usuallythe best.”
“I believe my speed begins when I round first base.”
“I believe my theory of relativity to be true. But it will only be proved for certain in 1981, when I am dead.”
“I believe my voice is pretty much the same. I've written 75 books, so I'm better at it now than I was earlier in my career”
“I believe my woman shouldn't work outside the home.”
“I believe myself capable of great things.”
“I believe myself capable of great things. Some days it feels as if I can't do it alone. It is nice to know I don't have to.”
“I believe myself that romantic love is the source of the most intense delights that life has to offer. In the relation of a man and woman who love each other with passion and imagination and tenderness, there is something of inestimable value, to be ignorant of which is a great misfortune to any human being.”
Source: Marriage and Morals
“I believe myself that there's a great deal more interest and engagement among Americans than our politicians recognize.”
“I believe myself to be a worthwhile and inventive performer in my own right. [And] I want to be known for what I do best.”
“I believe myself to be a worthwhile and inventive performer in my own right. But I'm not in a league with Lenny [Bruce], certainly not in terms of social commentary.”
“I believe myself to be an artist. That was my calling, to do my work, and what's most important to me is to do the best work I possibly can. And that is what means the most, that is what will endure.”
“I believe myself to be the type of person who does not complicate his life. I have always lived my life without dramatizing things, whether the good things that have happened to me or the bad. I simply live those moments.”
“I believe myself to be writing a book on economic theory which will largely revolutionize - not, I suppose, at once but in the course of the next ten years - the way the world thinks about economic problems.”
“I believe nakedness shouldn't be kept in the dark.”
“I believe natural beauty has a necessary place in the spiritual development of any individual or any society. I believe that whenever we substitute something man-made and artificial for a natural feature of the earth, we have retarded some part of man's spiritual growth.”
Source: The house of life: Rachel Carson at work
“I believe natural health is a blessing from God that you can start enjoying right now, one simple step at a time.”
“I believe nature is a force of good. Good is not only a concept, it is a spirit”
“I believe nature's a lot smarter than anyone thinks. During the course of a man's life he develops a lot of pleasures and people he cares about. Then nature takes them away one by one. It's her way of preparing you for death.”
“I believe neither in luck nor in destiny,” he declared. “I trust only the science of probabilities. I have studied mathematical statistics, combinatorial analysis, mass function, and random variables, and they have never held any surprises for me. You don’t seem fully to grasp the destabilizing effect that someone like you can have on someone like me.”
Source: A Winter's Promise / The Missing of Clairdelune / The Memory of Babel
“I believe neither in what I touch nor what I see. I only believe in what I do not see, and solely in what I feel.”
“I believe neither the French nor the Dutch really rejected the constitutional treaty.”
“I believe nicotine is not addictive.”
“I believe nicotine plus caffeine equals protein.”
“I believe no amount of business school training or work experience can teach what is ultimately a matter of personal character. Businesses are not dishonest or greedy, people are. Thus, a business, successful or not, is merely a reflection of the character of its leadership.”
“I believe no challenge is more important to the character of America than restoring the right to life to all human beings.”
“I believe no gentleman would like to have his family affairs neglected because his wife was filling her head with crotchets and pothooks, and who, because she understood a few scraps of Latin, valued that more than minding her needle or providing her husband's dinner.”
Source: The Life and Works of Sarah Fielding
“I believe no matter how much you research a person's life. No matter how long you spend, the person always remains a mystery. I go by this quote that Mark Twain said about the definition of a biography: a biography is the clothes and buttons of a man or a woman but the real story is in the person's head and that you can never know. I don't think it's possible to get the whole picture, ever.”
“I believe no one can afford, endure or can stomach leaving half a life in the parking lot when she or he goes to work. It's a lousy way to live and a lousy way to work.”
Source: The Seven-Day Weekend: Changing the Way Work Works
“I believe no one can read the history of our country without realizing that the Good Book and the spirit of the Savior have from the beginning been our guiding geniuses.”
“I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward
“I believe no satirist could breathe this air. If another Juvenal or Swift could rise up among us tomorrow, he would be hunted down. If you have any knowledge of our literature, and can give me the name of any man, American born and bred, who has anatomised our follies as a people, and not as this or that party; and who has escaped the foulest and most brutal slander, the most inveterate hatred and intolerant pursuit; it will be a strange name in my ears, believe me.”
Source: Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit
“I believe no-one can insult you without your permission. Shilpa Shetty has paid the price for trying to desperately seek the approval of the West. It is pathetic how we can go on bended knees and lick the boots of Westerners in an effort to be part of their world.”
“I believe nobody really dies. We are energy and continue to exist. So where else would our spirits go than where there is the magnet of love, where we have a shared interest?”
Source: TREE OF LIVES: My rocky path out of the Wildwoods
“I believe nobody was ever so used by a friend as I have been by her ever since coming to the Crown.”
Source: Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion
“I believe not only in "special providences," but in the whole universe as one infinite complexity of "special providences.”
Source: Daily Thoughts (EasyRead Large Edition)
“I believe not only that religious faith will be victorious, but that it is vital to humankind that it shall be. We may differ in form and particulars in our religious faith. Those are matters that are sacred to each of our inner sanctuaries. It is our privilege to decline to argue them. Their real demonstration is the lives that we live.”
“I believe nothing happens by accident. My fame has happened for a reason. My fans are my kindred spirits in revolution. If anyone chooses to ignore the message or the messenger, they do so at their own risk. Believe it or not, there are many more people out there that understand what I am trying to do than society wants to admit. The way I live my life represents a much bigger part of America than anyone would care to imagine”
“I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic.”
“I believe nothing merely because Calvin taught it, but because I have found his teaching in the Word of God.”
Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 44: Sermons 2549-2602
“I believe nothing of my own that I have ever written.”
Source: Lo!
“I believe novels can have secrets from their author, a notion I imagine would appall Nabokov.”
“I believe now that certain events are inevitable. Not in a fateful way, for I have never had faith in anything but myself, but in the way of human nature.”
Source: The Last Romantics
“I believe now that the universe delivers random acts of kindness, and it's on us to decide what to do with them.”
Source: In a Holidaze
“I believe now, as I alway have, that America's strength is in 'We the People.'”
Source: Ronald Reagan
“I believe nuclear energy in Jordan will be done in such a way where it is a public-private partnership so everyone can see exactly what's going on.”