I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It is my annual day of sobbing. What are these
brown hands for if not to bury my eyes in the
ancient rivers of wrongs?”
“It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?”
“It is my aspiration that health finally will be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but as a human right to be fought for.”
“It is my assertion that divergent thinking is infinite. The primary reasoning in support of my position can be explained when one considers the function of convergent thinking: to identify a single, well-defined solution (or a finite set of solutions) to a question, problem, or challenge. Therefore, if convergent thinking and divergent thinking work in opposition, then the latter must be infinite.”
Source: Questioning Creativity: Modern Explorations In Creative Thinking
“It is my assessment that most police officers who spend their days driving around USA cities will have some level
of radiation sickness and this is concerning!”
“It is my assumption that growth in faith is the root of all spiritual growth and is prior to all disciplines of works. True spirituality is not a superhuman religiosity; it is simply true humanity released from bondage to sin and renewed by the Holy Spirit. This is given to us as we grasp by faith the full content of Christ's redemptive work: freedom from the guilt and power of sin, and newness of life through the indwelling and outpouring of his Spirit.”
“It is my baby and if I want to bring it out to play again, I will.”
“It is my bad luck that this has happened to me.' No, you should rather say: 'It is my good luck that, although this has happened to me, I can bear it without pain, neither crushed by the present nor fearful of the future.' Because such a thing could have happened to any man, but not every man could have borne it without pain. So why see more misfortune in the event than good fortune in your ability to bear it?”
Source: Meditations
“It is my belief CAFTA will be beneficial for Alabama and the United States as a whole.”
“It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge.”
Source: Lord Jim
“It is my belief one should not belittle the artist; while, however glorious his fame may seem, his time on Mount Olympus as an honourable guest of Zeus is short. It's a pity, but all too eager will the common folk drag him from this etherial heights to the low and trodden earth.”
“It is my belief that any indentations that my knuckles may have left on the door of heaven found their origins from those that my knees have left on the floor of my room.”
“It is my belief that books are living things.”
Source: The Poison Eaters: and Other Stories
“It is my belief that children are full of understanding and know as much as and more than adults, until they are about seven, when they suddenly become stupid, like adults.”
Source: Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography, 1949 -1962 (Text Only)
“It is my belief that everything you need to know about the world can be learned in a church choir.”
“It is my belief that exciting things happen when a variety of overlapping activities designed for all people-the old and the young, the blue and white collar, the local inhabitant and the visitor, different activities for different occasions-meet in a flexible environment, opening up the possibility of interaction outside the confines of institutional limits. When this takes place, deprived areas welcome dynamic places for those who live, work and visit; places where all can participate, rather than less or more beautiful ghettos.”
“It is my belief that, given the necessary physical likeness, it was far easier to pretend to be king of Ruritania than it would have been to personate my next-door neighbor.”
Source: The Prisoner of Zenda
“It is my belief that High Altitude Observatory Disease (HAOD) may be triggered by a single exposure to 13,797 feet.”
“It is my belief that if you have children and you serve overseas, that if you should die, your children should get a free education.”
“It is my belief that in our mad world where there is so much pain, rivalry, hatred, violence, inequality, and oppression, it is people who are weak, rejected, marginalized, counted as useless, who can become a source of life and of salvation for us as individuals as well as for our world. And it is my hope that each one of you may experience the incredible gift of the friendship of people who are poor and weak, that you too, may receive life from them. For they call us to love, to communion, to compassion and to community.”
“It is my belief that industry and government around the world should work even more closely to protect the privacy and security of Internet users, and promote the exchange of ideas, while respecting legitimate government considerations.”
“It is my belief that it is not the fact that he traveled as much as he did during the past few months as much as what he said and how he said it that hurt him.”
“It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.”
Source: Following the Equator:
“It is my belief that one of the most exciting things about the World Wide Web is that they allow minds, as Spock might say, to meld. The transfer of consciousness through a variety of mediums is nothing new.”
“it is my belief that one should learn patience in a foreign land, for I take it that this is the true measure of travel. If one does not suffer some frustration of the ordinary reflexes, how can one be sure one is really traveling?”
“It is my belief that one's salary is between an individual and the IRS.”
Source: Anchorwoman
“It is my belief that people who speak of high school with a sugary fondness are bluffing away early-onset Alzheimer's.”
Source: I Was Told There'd Be Cake
“It is my belief that politicians should not be stepping into the realm of history. Rather, politicians should be taking a future-oriented perspective.”
“It is my belief that someone can never be lesser for loving more”
“It is my belief that tax credits only go to people who are making money, and they generally keep it.”
“It is my belief that the basic knowledge that we're providing to the world will have a profound impact on the human condition and the treatments for disease and our view of our place on the biological continuum.”
“It is my belief that the important memories should be good ones, with the people who care about you.”
Source: Alice in the Land of Clovers
“It is my belief that the most challenging photographs are those that create a tension between what we refer to as the real and the imaginative.”
“It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.”
Source: Cry, the Beloved Country
“It is my belief that the problem of bringing peace to the world on a supranational basis will be solved only by employing Gandhi's method on a larger scale.”
Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein
“It is my belief that the World (or, if you will, the House, since the two are for all practical purposes identical) wishes an Inhabitant for Itself to be a witness to its Beauty and the recipient of its Mercies.
If I leave, then the House will have no Inhabitant and how will I bear the thought of it Empty?”
Source: Piranesi
“It is my belief that there are "absolutes" in our Bill of Rights, and that they were put there on purpose by men who knew what words meant and meant their prohibitions to be "absolutes."”
“It is my belief that there is a greater understanding than ever that women need to be equal participants in our homes, in our societies, in our governments, and in our workplaces.”
“It is my belief that there is a tendency among the so-called 'modern' or 'hip' jazz musicians to consider styles other that their own, 'corny', and it is my contention that in actuality it is these musicians who are producing that which in future years perceptive critics will deem 'corny'.”
“It is my belief that we all have the need to feel special. It is this need that can bring out the best in us, yet the worst in us.”
“It is my belief that we as human beings have a need to tell stories - I think it's evolutionary. So you can think of the short story as a literary form, or you can instead think of stories.”
“It is my belief that we need a new transnational sustaining 'myth' that can impart value and respect. It is my further belief that we are coming to see our universe and life as creative, without a directing agency. Meaning emerges with life. If this view becomes widespread, it has the promise to become the sustaining myth we need to sustain in turn an emerging global civilization.”
“It is my belief that what a child reads determines the kind of education they will receive, not just that they know how to read and have access to books.”
Source: Homeschooling on a Budget
“It is my belief that whereas the twentieth century has been a century of war and untold suffering, the twenty-first century should be one of peace and dialogue. As the continued advances in information technology make our world a truly global village, I believe there will come a time when war and armed conflict will be considered an outdated and obsolete method of settling differences among nations and communities.”
“It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.”
Source: Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume I
“It is my belief, based partly on personal experience but partly also arrived at by looking around at others, that childhood lasts considerably longer in the males of our species than in the females.”
“It is my belief, that we should not be too sure of having found Christ in ourselves until we have found him also in that part of humanity that is most remote from our own.”
“It is my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the most amusing.”
Source: The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill
“It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies.”
“It is my belief...that the talents every child has, regardless of his official 'I.Q,' could stay with him through life, to enrich him and everybody else, if these talents were not regarded as commodities with a value in the success-stakes.”