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 life should be lived so vividly and so intensely that thoughts of another life, or of a longer life, are not necessary.”
“I believe that life supports what supports more of life. In other words, motivation does matter. If you're just trying to take care of yourself, you're part of life and I believe life steps in and gives you a certain level of insight.”
“I believe that life-saving, essential drugs should be freely available and the innovator should be paid a suitable royalty payment for his invention.”
“I believe that living on the edge, living in and through your fear, is the summit of life, and that people who refuse to take that dare condemn themselves to a life of living death.”
“I believe that living out loud and not letting fear hold you back is the key to the fullest, most rewarding life possible”
Source: The Courage Quotient: How Science Can Make You Braver
“I believe that London is the most exciting food city in Europe.”
“I believe that love and forgiveness engages an incomprehensible healing force and sometimes true healing occurs, but always an emotional and spiritual healing happens.”
“I believe that love and laughter can only happen when one person takes the time to think about what would cause the other person to feel good.”
“I believe that love and peace are the right way to confront tyranny.”
Source: The Silence and the Roar
“I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.”
“I believe that love expands. As you give love out, it's received and reciprocated and it grows. That's the beauty of it.”
“I believe that love is a better teacher than a sense of duty, at least for me.”
“I believe that love is better than hate. And that there is more nobility in building a chicken coop than in destroying a cathedral.”
Source: Summer of my German soldier
“I believe that love is the choice we make to raise ourselves and others to the highest planes of existence.”
“I believe that love is the main key to open the doors to the "growth" of man. Love and union with someone or something outside of oneself, union that allows one to put oneself into relationship with others, to feel one with others, without limiting the sense of integrity and independence. Love is a productive orientation for which it is essential that there be present at the same time: concern, responsibility, and respect for and knowledge of the object of the union.”
Source: On Being Human
“I believe that love is the single, true prosperity of any moment.”
“I believe that love takes time. I believe there is such a thing as infatuation at first sight, but not love at first sight.”
Source: Were You Born for Each Other?: Finding, Catching, and Keeping the Love of Your Life
“I believe that love that is true and real creates a respite from death. All cowardice comes from not loving, or not loving well, which is the same thing.”
“I believe that love--not imitation--is the sincerest form of flattery. Your imitator thinks that you can be duplicated; your lover knows you can't.”
“I believe that luck is opportunity meeting preparation.”
“I believe that magic is art, and that art, whether that be music, writing, sculpture, or any other form, is literally magic. Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words or images, to achieve changes in consciousness… Indeed to cast a spell is simply to spell, to manipulate words, to change peoples consciousness, and this is why I believe that an artist or writer is the closest thing in the contemporary world to a shaman.”
“I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.”
“I believe that Man is not the most perfect Being but One, rather that as there are many Degrees of Beings his Inferiors, so there are many Degrees of Beings superior to him.”
“I believe that man is the product of natural evolution that is born from the conflict of being a prisoner and separated from nature, and from the need to find unity and harmony with it.”
Source: On Being Human
“I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.”
“I believe that man was created to enjoy himself, indeed, that he can claim it as his legitimate right. In fact, as long as he lives, man cannot help enjoying himself, even if he tries not... . Today the average person, when he hears the word pleasure, immediately thinks of something immoral. But nothing could be more wrong.”
“I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help a man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.”
Source: William Faulkner Reads
“I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among the creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of kindness and compassion.”
“I believe that man's noblest endowment is his capacity to change.”
Source: Findings
“I believe that management should focus on two particular areas. One is Gemba (shop floor) and the other is customer (not the shareholder).”
“I believe that Manila can be a reflection of your state of mind. Being a city of extreme contrasts it's easy to see how it can become an intense personal experience. Manila can be chaotic and spiritual, dirty and divine, gritty and gorgeous all at once. If you don't find beauty and poetry here, you will never find it anywhere.”
“I believe that mankind's destiny lies in the stars.”
“I believe that many lives around us now can reflect this strange pattern of migration and movement. The question is: are we aware of it, and do we embrace it as a kind of birthright? I do. And yet, I feel deeply connected to at least two homespaces - Jamaica and Ghana, and more recently, South Carolina.”
“I believe that many modern women, my mother included, carry within them a whole secret New England cemetery, wherein they have quietly buried- in neat little rows- the personal dreams they have given up for their families”
Source: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
“I believe that many of our pressing racial problems will be taken care of when we who are among the minorities will stand on our own feet and refuse to look to anybody else to save us from our situation.”
Source: Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
“I believe that many people are unhappy because they have not learned to be grateful. Some carry the burden of bitterness and resentfulness for many years. Some pass their days as though suffering a deep sadness they cannot name. Others are unhappy because life didn’t turn out the way they thought it would.”
“I believe that many people have forgotten what their roots are. This is one of the advantages of countries with a monarchy. The monarch offers identity across generations, and is a part of these roots and this native country.”
“I believe that many professing Christians are cold and uncomfortable because they are doing nothing for their Lord; but if they actively served him, their blood would begin to circulate spiritually, and it would be well with them.”
Source: The Complete Works of Charles Spurgeon, Volume 55: Sermons 3125-3177
“I believe that many who find that "nothing happens" when they sit down, or kneel down, to a book of devotion, would find that the heart sings unbidden while they are working their way through a tough bit of theology with a pipe in their teeth and a pencil in their hand.”
Source: God in the Dock
“I believe that Marrakech ought to be earned as a destination. The journey is the preparation for the experience. Reaching it too fast derides it, makes it a little less easy to understand.”
Source: In Arabian Nights
“I believe that marriage has a spiritual foundation because only a man and a woman can create life, which is a gift from God. So, while I believe that government should bestow benefits equally, I also believe that government must respect those - like myself - who believe that marriage has a religious foundation.”
“I believe that marriage has served society well, and I believe it is important to affirm that, that marriage between a man and a woman is the ideal. And the job of the President is to drive policy toward the ideal.”
“I believe that marriage is a representation of Christ and the church and when Christ and the church are unified, they are the strongest and most attractive to those that don't know Jesus.”
“I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman. But I also believe that gay and lesbians and gay and lesbian couples, those who have been in long-term relationships, deserve to be treated respectfully, they deserve to have benefits.”
“I believe that marriage is between one man and one woman, the same as I've believed all my life.”
“I believe that marriage is not just a bond but a sacred bond between a man and a woman. . . . I have had occasion in my life to defend marriage, to stand up for marriage, to believe in the hard work and challenge of marriage. So I [am] committed to the sanctity of marriage, or to the fundamental bedrock principle that exists between a man and a woman, going back into the mists of history as one of the founding, foundational institutions of history and humanity and civilization, and that its primary, principal role during those millennia has been the raising and socializing of children for the society into which they are to become adults.”
“I believe that marriage is not just a bond but a sacred bond between a man and a woman.”
“I believe that marriage is the union between a man and a woman. Now, for me as a Christian - for me - for me as a Christian, it is also a sacred union. God's in the mix.”
“I believe that marriage isn't between a man and woman; but between love and love.”
“I believe that mathematical reality lies outside us, that our function is to discover or observe it, and that the theorems which we prove, and which we describe grandiloquently as our "creations," are simply the notes of our observations.”
Source: A Mathematician's Apology