I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children.”
“Inside every believe, there's a lie.”
“Inside every child is an 'emotional rani's waiting to be filled with love. When a child really feels loved, he will develop normally but when the love tank is empty, the child will misbehave. Much of the misbehavior of children is motivated by the cravings of an empty 'love tank”
“Inside every cowboy there's a lady who'd love to slip out.”
“Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.”
“Inside every failure, there's a success struggling to come out.”
“Inside every fat man, there's a thin man trying to get out.”
“Inside every fat person there's a thin person looking to get out - They've just eaten them.”
“Inside every great writer there is a naked girl trying to get out.”
Source: Katie in Love
“Inside every group, he decides, there are more groups. Circles within circles, and inside of those, more circles still, all of them infinitely divisible. You could spend your whole life wondering which ones you're in and which ones you're not and which ones really want you and which ones are holes that have no bottom.”
Source: Hall of Small Mammals: Stories
“Inside every human being there are treasures to unlock.”
“Inside every human being, there is unlimited time and space.”
“Inside every large program is a small program struggling to get out.”
“Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.”
“Inside every lump of coal there's a diamond waiting to get out.”
“Inside every man there is a poet who died young.”
“Inside every one of us is a garden, and every practitioner has to go back to their garden and take care of it. Maybe in the past, you left in untended for a long time. You should know exactly what is going on in your own garden, and try to put everything in order. Restore the beauty; restore the harmony in your garden. If it is well tended, many people will enjoy your garden.”
Source: Taming the Tiger Within: Meditations on Transforming Difficult Emotions
“Inside every person is a real person. Who is just as afraid or nervous or in need of empathy as anyone else. Make a person feel felt.”
Source: Just Listen: Discover the Secret to Getting Through to Absolutely Anyone
“Inside every reactionary mind there is a secret admiration for a progressive mind! This secret admiration sometimes causes the reactionary mind to evolve into a progressive one, or at least to display some progressive behaviour from time to time!”
“Inside every sane person there's a madman struggling to get out," said the shopkeeper. "That's what I've always thought. No one goes mad quicker than a totally sane person.”
“Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get out.”
“Inside every seed is the potential for an incredible harvest.”
“Inside every seventy-year-old is a thirty-five-year-old asking, 'What happened?”
“Inside every success there are remnants of failure, and in every failure there are pockets of success.”
Source: Fail More: Embrace, Learn, and Adapt to Failure As a Way to Success
“Inside every woman, is a crazy girl. And we all know what I'm talking about. That part of you that is entangled with insecurities, fears, and absolute insanity! The art of femininity lies in the molding, pounding, and defeating of that crazy girl on a daily basis! Look at any woman, and you're looking at a woman fighting a daily battle, wielding her weapons in war, every day! I have said it before and I'll say it again: it is never easy being a woman! And if we could only pound that crazy, insecure girl out of ourselves, it would make such the difference!”
“Inside every woman there is a Kali. [Hindu goddess who morphed into seven hidden beings to win a battle] Do not mistake the exterior for the interior.”
“Inside every working anarchy, there's an Old Boy Network.”
“Inside everybody's hiding something.”
“Inside everyone is a great shout of joy waiting to be born.”
“Inside everyone is a their own madness, a madness only courage can stand to, but even courage is never alone. He has Love, Hatred, Sadness, Confusion, Bravery, and in some special cases Intelligence.”
“Inside he was hurt. Not so much with Linda, but his failure to impress women generally with his abilities. There she was, an example: lending – no, giving –thirty thousand pounds to a smooth-talking old bastard, but she would not part with a penny to him after living with him for a year or more.”
Source: Get Rich or Get Lucky
“Inside her head or out in the desert was the same, and the air inside her throat was very dry to keep from crying and her neck sore from forcing herself not to look down, not to look back.”
Source: The Last Savanna
“Inside her mind, she felt increasingly adrift, as if their lovemaking had reached a realm that transcended the physical body. She saw herself float above her body, past her ceiling, through her roof, and higher and higher, the entire world pulsating and alive with sensations. Even these receded as she floated above her town, the pinpoints of the shop windows and car headlights downtown, then she was even higher, above the mighty Mississippi.”
Source: The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen
“Inside, Howl was still sitting on the stool. He sat in an attitude of utter despair. And he was covered all over in thick green slime. There were horrendous, dramatic, violent quantities of green slime – oodles of it. It covered Howl completely. It draped his head and shoulders in sticky dollops, heaping on his knees and hands, trickling in glops down his legs and dripping off the stool in sticky strands. It was in oozing ponds and crawling pools over most of the floor. Long fingers of it had crept into the hearth. It smelled vile.
“Save me!” Calcifer cried in a hoarse whisper. He was down to two desperately flickering small flames. “This stuff is going to put me out!”
Sophie held up her skirt and marched as near Howl as she could get – which was not very near. “Stop it!” she said. “Stop it at once! You are behaving just like a baby!”
Source: Howl's Moving Castle
“Inside I feel much like a 12-year-old or a 17-year-old who knows big words.”
“Inside, I found three things: a silver mirror, a silk handkerchief, and a glass flask of ointment. These items will help you on your journey. use them when need be. If you ever lose faith in yourself, the mirror will show your inner beauty. In case your reputation is stained, the handkerchief will remind you of how pure your heart is. As for the balm, it will heal your wounds, both inside and outside.”
Source: The Forty Rules of Love
“Inside I have been a stabber, a screamer, a die-er from way back.”
“Inside I knew he was meant to be the guy that taught me about life. Even if he broke my heart eventually.”
Source: The Rosemary Beach Collection: Rush and Blaire: Fallen Too Far, Never Too Far, and Forever Too Far
“Inside, I'm doing graceful cartwheels in my head, knowing full well that's the only place I can do graceful cartwheels.”
Source: Fifty Shades of Grey
“Inside I never said I wanted to do theatre or be an actor.”
“Inside, I screamed for help but the words knew better than to escape my lips.”
“Inside I was freaking out! OMG! His hair is falling out! This just got real.”
Source: Cancer Is for Older People: How Young Minds Beat an Old Disease
“Inside I'll always be an outsider”
“Inside, inside I had become like the distant sea, relentlessly churning, tossed about by squalls that tore away any sense of where the surface might be.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“Inside is where we meet everyone else; it's on the outside that we are truly alone.”
“Inside is your self. Inside is your home. Inside you will find lots of thoughts, feelings and memories.”
Source: Inside: A Visual Journey of Mindfulness for Curious Kids
“Inside it drives me crazy, my insecurities could eat me alive.”
“Inside, it’s a cauldron of energy with heads swinging in screw-faced joy to percussive Latin rhythms. The Panamanians are a good-looking, loose-hipped race, and they know it.”
Source: Long Lost Love: Diary of a Rambling Romeo: Outclassing the Men: Fearless females take the lead on this Epic Voyage
“Inside, it’s cool and grey. Dreary. A place for ghosts. She can picture them—still standing at the assembly line, ground down by punch cards and double-shifts.”
Source: Blackpines: The Antlers Witch: The Overcrowded Heart
“Inside it Scylla sits and yelps with a voice that you might take to be that of a young hound, but in truth she is a dreadful monster and no one—not even a god—could face her without being terror-struck. She has twelve mis-shapen feet, and six necks of the most prodigious length; and at the end of each neck she has a frightful head with three rows of teeth in each, all set very close together, so that they would crunch any one to death in a moment, and she sits deep within her shady cell thrusting out her heads and peering all round the rock, fishing for dolphins or dogfish or any larger monster that she can catch, of the thousands with which Amphitrite teems. No ship ever yet got past her without losing some men, for she shoots out all her heads at once, and carries off a man in each mouth.”
Source: Homer: The Odessey