I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I believe water will be the defining crisis of our century — from droughts, storms, and floods to degrading water quality. We'll see major conflicts over water and the proliferation of water refugees. We inhabit a water planet, and unless we protect, manage, and restore that resource, the future will be a very different place from the one we imagine today.”
“I believe Watergate shows that the system did work. Particularly the Judiciary and the Congress, and ultimately an independent prosecutor working in the Executive Branch.”
“I believe we [americans] are strongest as a nation, when the president and Congress work together.”
“I believe we accomplished a lot of good things while I was in office. We maintained a very good working relationship with both Republicans and Democrats during my tenure. Consequently, we had a very high batting average in dealing with Congress on some very controversial issues. Plus, we kept our nation at peace,
we obeyed the law, and we told the truth.”
“I believe we all agree that, for the health of Kansas, nothing is more important than education.”
“I believe we all come back from this life as the cats in Istanbul.”
Source: The Moral Judgement of Butterflies
“I believe we all create our paths before we are born to each lifetime, in partnership with a higher presence, the Source. I also believe, once born, we are given the highest gift of free will. Intuition is our link between our chosen journey on our life path and our earthly choices using free will.”
“I believe we all have a unique journey, whether its a journey of pure energy, if there's any intelligence within the journey. But I think each of us have our own way of dissipating or entering a new field.”
“I believe we all have access to a higher energy all the time. All we have to do is turn on the laptop in our life--whatever form that takes for each of us--and make the time and space to honor what we receive.”
Source: Soul Wisdom: A Guide to Miraculous Living
“I believe we all have different ways we came to the gay community and we can't and shouldn't be pigeon-holed into one cultural narrative which can be uninclusive and disempowering.”
“I believe we all have lists of shame. Long lists. We live with our constellation of shames quite privately. But they weigh us down. I wish I could abracadabra away shame. This is such a waste of our small time on earth. Our bodies are often the focus of shame. The shame of the body changing. Of the sexual body. Of the aging body. Not being able to do what you once could do. Even just looking at your skin as you age, the texture, the wrinkle, the sag, and somehow feeling ashamed and responsible for its changes.”
“I believe we all have one true love, somewhere in this world I do.”
“I believe we all have the Voice of Reason inside us...to gently lead us out of our own self-created hells.”
“I believe we all must face the fact of death. It is both gift and curse.”
“I believe we all need to be aware of the biases we have. I am aware of mine; I am a white woman who grew up in a middle-class American family with a mom and a dad who were both educators. I can't make it different - I wouldn't want to - and I don't want to pretend to be something I'm not.”
“I believe we all need to think about the power and impact of our words on others. Words are not 'just words', and whilst laughter can often be an important and powerful release, we have to consider how our humour is impacting on all those who are listening, and then decide just how much we give a fuck about whether we offend them or not. After all, some listeners might still be idiots.”
“I believe we all reach a moment in life when we know we need to move beyond where we are.”
Source: Leap With Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice
“I believe we all share a responsibility to build a healthier, more just and prosperous world.”
“I believe we are a species with amnesia, I think we have forgotten our roots and our origins. I think we are quite lost in many ways. And we live in a society that invests huge amounts of money and vast quantities of energy in ensuring that we all stay lost. A society that invests in creating unconsciousness, which invests in keeping people asleep so that we are just passive consumers or products and not really asking any of the questions.”
“I believe we are all born equal. You know, we are, whether you're a boy or a girl, you should have the same equal rights.”
“I believe we are all connected to other people. I am connected to people who are suffering. We all are.”
“I believe we are all geniuses-each in our own unique way.”
Source: The Shakti Gawain Essentials: 3 Books in 1: Creative Visualization, Living in the Light & Developing Intuition
“I believe we are being dishonest with language minority groups if we tell them they can take full part in American life without learning the English language.”
“I believe we are capable of great things.”
“I believe we are deluded about alternative energy. The key is, whatever we do, we're going to have to do on a very modest scale. It's all about scale. We're not going to build giant wind farms with Godzilla-sized turbines all over the place. That's a fantasy.”
“I believe we are entering into a period of political chaos. Out of that chaos is the potential for great evil, but there is also the possibility of great good.”
“I believe we are Five Dimensional Beings having an Eternity experience in a human body on a planet that is a challenge to master, and which gives us an opportunity to grow and evolve into Universal Citizens. Me? I'm an observer, yogi, and a toolmaker. An ordinary mystic.”
Source: Higher Consciousness Meditation: Living a Life of Inner Richness and Mastery
“I believe we are going to have to prepare ourselves for the difficult and patient task of outgrowing rigid and intransigent nationalism, and work slowly towards a world federation of peaceful nations. How will this be possible? Don't ask me. I don't know. But unless we develop a moral, spiritual, and political wisdom that is proportionate to our technological skill, our skill may end us.”
Source: Witness to Freedom: The Letters of Thomas Merton in Times of Crisis
“I believe we are going to move into a situation where the more effective conferences will be smaller, more specialized, more focused, with occasional large gatherings to get the attention of the larger world.”
“I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom.”
“I believe we are here to do good. It is the responsibility of every human being to aspire to do something worthwhile, to make the world a better place than the one we found.”
“I believe we are in a world where innovation in stuff was outlawed. It was basically outlawed in the last 40 years - part of it was environmentalism, part of it was risk aversion.”
“I believe we are more ready to embrace our lives in the here and now when we are able to recognize the continuity between the immanence of God in our world and eternity. Rather than simply waiting to be liberated to another time or place, we are being invited to collaborate in the healing and redemption of our world.”
Source: Soul Graffiti: Making a Life in the Way of Jesus
“I believe we are most likely to succeed when ambition is focused on noble and worthy purposes and outcomes rather than on goals set out of selfishness.”
Source: Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success
“I believe we are now in a struggle over whether or not we are going to save America.”
“I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.”
“I believe we are on the edge of a quantum leap into a whole new way of organizing and living as a human family.”
“I believe we are powerful but we don't use our minds to full capacity. Your mind is powerful enough to help you attain whatever you want.”
“I believe we are put on this earth to be of service. It's how I find meaning in my life. And it's fun!”
“I believe we are shown the path that is right as soon as we ask for it. Then we must live in the world and in some way express what we have learned.”
“I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.”
Source: Conversations with Maya Angelou
“I believe we are stronger together and we will go forward together.”
“I believe we are the only sentient beings in the universe, and I believe that 500 years from now, we will still be the only sentient beings around.”
“I believe we as a whole, need to make a single Rule book on basis of "One World one Community Rules - Regulation - Orders" for the Entire Mess/Chaos we have made yet. And also for our own Survival along with other Companion - Co-Existing Creatures within our Planet Earth. ~”
“I believe we came from nowhere. We show up, and we are now here. It's all the same. It just is a question of spacing.”
“I believe we came from nowhere. We show up, and we are now here. It's all the same. It just is a question of spacing. While we are in the "now here," we all contemplate where we are going. Where we are going is back to the "nowhere." We are going to rejoin the spirit from which all things emanate. These are the big questions for me - always.”
“I believe we can accelerate our acumen, performance and success by leveraging our associations and spending time with people better than us.”
“I believe we can and should have it all. Lower deficits but higher spending. More peace with a bigger military that goes off and kills terrorists and whatnot. A cleaner environment without forcing SUVs off the road.”
“I believe we can balance the scales if Tom Cruise would lower his quote by a mere $29 million... I assure you my salary would not make a difference. My annual salary is the budget for Altoids on one of Tom's movies.”
“I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966