I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I believe that good questions are more important than answers, and the best children's books ask questions, and make the readers ask questions. And every new question is going to disturb someone's universe.”
Source: Do I Dare Disturb the Universe?
“I believe that good things come to those who work.”
Source: A View from Above
“I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.”
Source: Speeches of Gerrit Smith in Congress
“I believe that government is the servant of the people and not their master.”
“I believe that government is too large, costs too much, spends too much, and has too much regulatory power in our lives.”
“I believe that great success is possible in any field — from music to mathematics to macro trading.”
“I believe that great weirdness stalks the universe. That's not the issue with me, but it is not tacky. It is not tacky.”
“I believe that gut feelings, the sense of balance, and spatial self-perception are so firmly coupled to our biological body that we will never be able to leave it experientially on a permanent basis.”
“I believe that half the trouble in the world comes from people asking 'What have I achieved?' rather than 'What have I enjoyed?'”
“I believe that half the trouble in the world comes from people asking 'What have I achieved?' rather than 'What have I enjoyed?' I've been writing about a subject I love as long as I can remember--horses and the people associated with them, anyplace, anywhere, anytime. I couldn't be happier knowing that young people are reading my books. But even more important to me is that I've enjoyed so much the writing of them.”
“I believe that happiness can be found. If I thought otherwise, I should be silent and not make unhappiness the more bitter by discussing it.”
Source: Happiness - Essays On The Meaning Of Life
“I believe that happiness consists in having a destiny in keeping with our abilities. Our desires are things of the moment, often harmful even to ourselves; but our abilities are permanent, and their demands never cease.”
“I believe that happiness is something we create”
“I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody's life.”
“I believe that having an open mind is one of the most important qualities we can possess. Once our minds close, we stop evolving.”
“I believe that having something new happen, no matter how small, is what makes for a healthy day, no matter how many days may be left.”
“I believe that having something to hope for - even if it's just a better tomorrow- is the most powerful drug on this planet.”
Source: The Storyteller
“I believe that he [Jesus] is Lord of the government, and the church, and business and education, and, hopefully, one day, Lord of the press. I see him involved in everything. And that's why I don't want to stay just in the church, as such. I want the church to move into the world.”
“I believe that he knew more what he was doing. I might be absolutely wrong about this, but that was my impression.”
Source: Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007
“I believe that He was made man, joining the human nature with the divine in one person; being conceived by the singular operation of the Holy Ghost, and born of the blessed Virgin Mary, who, as well after as before she brought Him forth, continued a pure and unspotted virgin.”
Source: The Works of the Rev. John Wesley: The doctrine of original sin, and tracts on various subjects of polemical divinity
“I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry.”
Source: Notebooks: Selections Edited by Geoffrey Keynes and Brian Hill
“I believe that he who has less in life should have more in law.”
“I believe that he who sows utopia will reap reality.”
“I believe that he's a boring fighter.”
“I believe that here in South Africa, with all our diversities of colour and race; we will show the world a new pattern for democracy. There is a challenge for us to set a new example for all. Let us not side step this task.”
“I believe that here on this planet there are people on the future and the last thing they will say won't be "We are from the future". Even they won't said, there aren't idiots!”
“I believe that Hillary Clinton is one of the best prepared people in our history to enter the Oval Office, with her vision, her knowledge, her experience, her strategic thinking, her connection to the American people.”
“I believe that his death and resurrection transformed humanity's relationship with God.”
“I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject.”
“I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.”
Source: Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays
“I believe that history is capable of anything. There exists no folly that men have not tried out.”
“I believe that history is not made by cynics. It is made by realists who are not afraid to dream. Let us be these people.”
“I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young.”
Source: Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley
“I believe that homosexual acts between individuals are immoral and that we should not condone immoral acts... I do not believe that the Armed Forces of the United States are well served by saying through our policies that it's OK to be immoral in any way, not just with regards to homosexuality.”
“I believe that hope for the future depends on each of us taking nonviolence into our hearts and minds and developing new and imaginative structures which are nonviolent and life-giving for all.”
Source: The Vision of Peace: Faith and Hope in Northern Ireland
“I believe that horses bring out the best in us. They judge us not by how we look, what we're wearing or how powerful or rich we are, they judge us in terms of sensitivity, consistency, and patience. They demand standards of behavior and levels of kindness that we, as humans, then strive to maintain.”
“I believe that hospitality is central to the heart and ministry of Jesus and that to the extent we fail to extend this hospitality to gay people, the church will fail to walk in the way of Jesus.”
Source: Generous Spaciousness: Responding to Gay Christians in the Church
“I believe that how you feel is very important to how you look - that healthy equals beautiful.”
“I believe that human beings are desperate, always, to belong to something larger than themselves.”
“I believe that human overpopulation is the fundamental problem on Earth Today" and, "We humans have become a disease, the Humanpox”
“I believe that humanity has an uphill battle to wage in its fight to attain real health, and I honestly believe - from hard-earned experience - that homeopathy can offer some solution to this problem.”
“I believe that humanity now is desperately calling for new ideas. These new ideas must come from spiritual teachers and artists, from poets and philosophers, from educators and ecologists, from postal clerks and miners and traffic cops and nurses and waiters and musicians and cooks and cleaners and from...Regular People Everywhere. That is to say, from YOU.”
“I believe that humans adapt to circumstance. The Internet is quite an unprecedented circumstance, so it's going to take people a while to get their heads around it.”
“I believe that humans are on an evolutionary path where brain usage will escalate beyond the current 10% standard, and as we evolve, so will our “ESP” abilities. Today, more and more children are born already possessing these abilities, and it’s appropriate we adjust to the new world reality already happening.”
Source: Peace Warriors of the Galaxy: Journey to Lyrica: Book 1
“I believe that I am a child of God, endowed with a divine birthright. I believe that there is something of divinity within me and within each of you. I believe that we have a godly inheritance and that it is our responsibility, our obligation, and our opportunity to cultivate and nurture the very best of these qualities within us.”
“I believe that I am a hat designer, not a milliner.”
“I believe that I am first and foremost a human being, I, just as much as you, - or at least that I must try and become one.”
Source: A Doll's House
“I believe that I am God's exact intention. It's that balance of virtue and vice.”
“I believe that I am guided by chance encounters. I believe in the miracle of chance encounters.”
“I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.”
Source: A Season in Hell and Other Poems