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 matter is not only a creation of mind or property of mind but a manifestation of mind in a tangible form as a means of creation, recreation, and preservation of life, which is the fundamental purpose of an otherwise abstract and almost sterile mind.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.”
Source: The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction
“I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived. I believe that all the best faculties of a mature human being exist in the child. . . that one of the most deeply human, and humane, of these faculties is the power of imagination.”
Source: The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction
“I believe that mediocrity is self-inflicted and that genius is self-bestowed.”
“I believe that meetings at the top level in a relatively informal atmosphere are always useful, and there is reason to hope that we will make progress in resolving the matters we will be considering.”
“I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark though the witches are all hung, and Christianity and candles have been introduced.”
“I believe that men are here to grow themselves into the best good that they can be - at least, this is what I want to do.”
“I believe that mental health services should be based on the premise that the origins of distress are largely social.”
“I believe that militarism--a standing army and navy in any country--is indicative of the decay of liberty and of the destruction of all that is best and finest in our nation. The steadily growing clamor for more battleships and an increased army on the ground that these guarantee us peace is as absurd as the argument that the peaceful man is he who goes well armed.”
“I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats. And if we didn't wear fur coats, those little animals would never have been born!”
“I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic.”
“I believe that modern life is moving too fast. A bullet travels quickly, but it usually comes to an abrupt and fatal end.”
Source: A Writer's Year: Fennel's Journal No. 3
“I believe that modern science supports free will, in showing that the brain can act spontaneously, not only in response to external stimuli.”
“I believe that more people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.”
“I believe that Mormon would have us understand that the path to the Savior is more circuitous and scenic than one might expect. In 3–4 Nephi, coming to Christ is what happens when the disciple focuses on other things. We make progress on the road not by speeding as quickly and efficiently as we can to our destination but by stopping to help others who have broken down along the way and by taking detours to search for those who are lost or stranded...Mormon’s focus on other-centeredness and outward-orientation invites the disciple to see salvation less as a goal that can be sought out for its own sake and more as a byproduct of trying to love and serve others. It is the accumulation of small and simple things made great by God.”
Source: 3rd, 4th Nephi: a brief theological introduction
“I believe that most caregivers find that they inherit a situation where they just kind of move into caregiving. It's not a conscious decision for most caregivers, and they are ultimately left with the responsibility of working while still trying to be the caregiver, the provider, and the nurturer.- Sharon Law Tucker”
Source: The Inspired Caregiver: Finding Joy While Caring for Those You Love
“I believe that most of us would like to be thought well of by horses.”
Source: The moment under the moment: stories, a libretto, essays and sketches
“I believe that most of what was said of God was in reality said of that Spirit whose body is Earth.”
“I believe that most people aren't that different from one another. Although we might appear to be different on the surface, I think ultimately we all go through the same struggles.”
“I believe that mothers should tell the truth, even - no, especially - when the truth is difficult. It's always easier, and in the short term can even feel right, to pretend everything is okay, and to encourage your children to do the same. But concealment leads to shame, and of all hurts shame is the most painful.”
Source: Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace
“I believe that movements start when individuals who feel very isolated and very alone in the midst of an alien culture, come in touch with something life-giving in the midst of a death-dealing situation. They make one of the most basic decisions a human being can make, which I have come to call the decision to live "divided no more," the decision to no longer act differently on the outside than one knows one's truth to be on the inside”
“I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag.”
“I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.”
“I believe that much of the maladjustment in our societies is caused, not by malevolence and corruption, but simply by ignorance.”
Source: THE ART OF TEACHING
“I believe that much of the secret of soul-winning lies in having bowels of compassion, in having spirits that can be touched with the feeling of human infirmities.”
Source: The Soul Winner
“I believe that music in itself heals and that everything is about the power of the mind. I thought if you are happy, you don't get ill. Your health is in your head. When you are satisfied with your work, you don't get ill.”
“I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium.”
“I believe that music is another form of news. Music is another form of journalism to me. So I have to cover all the areas.”
“I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.”
“I believe that music is God's voice.”
“I believe that music offers us possibilities for analysis, at least in my case, more profound in many ways, but at the same time that profundity is an accessible profundity that has atemporal repercussions.”
“I believe that music should be grown on trees, to be plucked like a fruit without the extravagance of harvest.”
“I believe that music surpasses even language in its power to mirror the innermost recesses of the human soul”
“I believe that Muslims that are in our society today are of course equal as anybody else, as long as they adhere to our laws, to our constitution, to our values.”
“I believe that my art gets across the point that I'm in this morality theater trying to help the underdog, and I'm speaking socially here, showing concern and making psychological and philosophical statements for the underdog.”
“I believe that my children, who are young, will look back on the early years of the 21st century in rather the same way I look back on the middle of the 20th: as a time when seemingly respectable people supported discrimination against Americans simply because those Americans were different from themselves.”
“I believe that my choosing my present course I do no dishonor to them, or to those who may come after me.”
Source: Pete Seeger in His Own Words
“I believe that my clothes can give people a better image of themselves - that it can increase their feelings of confidence and happiness.”
“I believe that my connection, to my higher power, is separate from everybody’s. I don’t believe that the Muslims have all the answers. I don’t believe the Christians have all the answer, or the Jews have all the answers...”
“I believe that my creative mind is my greatest weapon.”
“I believe that my father had some kind of direct experience of the spiritual nature of reality, maybe a vision, that he tried to convey perhaps unconsciously in his work- that there is a different, more loving and transcendent reality beyond this world of imagined conflicts.”
“I believe that my life's gonna see the love I give returned to me.”
“I believe that my observations have always led me to find that the so-called realist moves about the world with a closed mind, ringed as it were with concrete and cement, and that the so-called romantic is like an unfenced garden in and out of which truth can wander at will.”
Source: The Emperor's Tomb
“I believe that my own Christian faith does indeed make universal claims.”
“I believe that my parents helped me to keep my natural psychic abilities open. I think most kids see angels or fairies, and because my parents were such open people, I kept that alive.”
“I believe that my personal mission in life is to grow and contribute, so I am learning and growing every day.”
“I believe that my race will succeed in proportion as it learns to do a common thing in an uncommon manner; learns to do a thing so thoroughly that no one can improve upon what it has done; learns to make its services of indispensable value.”
Source: Up from Slavery
“I believe that my theory is correct; for whatever be the question upon which I am arguing, whether it be religious, philosophical, political, or economical; whether it affects well-being, morality, equality, right, justice, progress, responsibility, property, labor, exchange, capital, wages, taxes, population, credit, or Government; at whatever point of the scientific horizon I start from, I invariably come to the same thing—the solution of the social problem is in liberty.”
Source: The Law
“I believe that my whole creative life stemmed from this magic hour under the stars on that hilltop.”
“I believe that mycelium is the neurological network of nature. Interlacing mosaics of mycelium infuse habitats with information-sharing membranes. These membranes are aware, react to change, and collectively have the long-term health of the host environment in mind. The mycelium stays in constant molecular communication with its environment, devising diverse enzymatic and chemical responses to complex challenges.”
Source: Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World