I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I discovered surfing, which I absolutely fell in love with. That feels good and kind of keeps your body aligned, so does the salt water.”
“I discovered that a diplomat's life is largely entertaining and meeting people. At the end of the day there's nothing. So I gave up.”
“I discovered that a lot of the songs I like, they're fantasies, a vision of something, but you don't actually live there.”
“I discovered that all these rulers were men. What they had in common was an avaricious and distorted personality, a never-ending appetite for money, sex and unlimited power. They were men who sowed corruption on the earth, and plundered their peoples, men endowed with loud voices, a capacity for persuasion, for choosing sweet words and shooting poisoned arrows. Thus, the truth about them was revealed only after their death, and as a result I discovered that history tended to repeat itself with a foolish obstinacy.”
Source: Woman at Point Zero
“I discovered that being someone you are not is often easier than living with the person you are.”
Source: Indian Horse
“I discovered that Christianity does have the resources to meet the challenges posed by competing worldviews after all.”
“I discovered that close to half the planet is 'pristine.' We live in towns such as London, Paris or Sao Paulo and have the impression that all the pristine areas are gone, but they are not.”
“I discovered that compassion fatigue is a real thing. Emotions, so strong at first, can easily shift into apathy. The subsequent guilt is paralyzing; it can prevent us from ever doing anything and freeze us into inaction. No wonder some people live for themselves, unaware of or unengaged with those who desperately need help. When global problems overwhelm, the human tendency is to do nothing.”
Source: Doing Good Is Simple: Making a Difference Right Where You Are
“I discovered that everything you do is in response to a request or a suggestion made to you by some other party either inside you or outside. Some of these suggestions are good and praiseworthy and some of them are undoubtedly delightful. But the majority of them are definitely bad and are pretty considerable sins as sins go.”
Source: The Third Policeman
“I discovered that forgiveness is a path to freedom.”
“I discovered that Human Nature was not, as I had always supposed, a fixed and unalterable entity, that wars are not caused by a natural urge in men to fight, that ownership of land and factories is not necessarily the natural reward of greater wisdom and energy.”
“I discovered that I act because I really love to act. I don't act because maybe it will get me a magazine cover or that I can get on a talk show.”
“I discovered that I am not disciplined out of virtue but as a reaction to my negligence, that I am generous to conceal my meanness, that I pass myself off as prudent because I am evil-minded, that I am conciliatory in order not to succumb to my suppressed rage, that I am punctual only only to hide how little I care about other peoples time.”
Source: Memories of My Melancholy Whores
“I discovered that I am tired of being a person. Not just tired of being the person I was, but any person at all”
Source: Stories: Collected Stories
“I discovered that I felt at home and alive in the silence, which compelled me to enter my interior world and around there. Without the distraction of constant conversation, the words on the page began to speak directly to my inner self. They were no long expressing ideas that were simply interesting intellectually, but were talking directly to my own yearning and perplexity.”
Source: The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness
“I discovered that I had, in the past two decades, written a far greater amount in the essay form than I remembered. Certainly I have written enough of it to demonstrate that I harbor no disdain for literary journalism or just plain journalism, under whose sponsorship I have been able to express much that has fascinated me, or alarmed me, or amused me, or otherwise engaged my attention when I was not writing a book.”
Source: This Quiet Dust and Other Writings
“I discovered that I never really used Helvetica but I like to look at it. I like the VW beetle, too, although I've never driven one.”
“I discovered that I was part of a Parkinson's community with similar experiences and similar questions that I'd been dealing with alone.”
“I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath.”
“I discovered that if you find the language to talk to younger readers, children can accept anything.”
“I discovered that in a story I could safely dream any dream, hope any hope, go anywhere I pleased any time I pleased, fight any foe, win or lose, live or die. My stories created a safe experimental learning place.”
“I discovered that in life, one has got to serve to be observed, if one serve not, one will probably be reserved. Don't wisdom teach this?”
“I discovered that it is necessary, absolutely necessary, to believe in nothing. That is, we have to believe in something that has no form and no color - something which exists before all forms and colors appear. This is a very important point. No matter what god or doctrine you believe in, if you become attached to it, your belief will be based more or less on a self-centered idea. You strive for a perfect faith in order to save yourself. But it will take time to attain such perfect faith. You will be involved in an idealistic practice. In constantly seeking to actualize your ideal, you will have no time for composure. But if you are always prepared for accepting everything we see as something appearing from nothing, knowing that there is some reason why a phenomenal existence of such and such form and color appears, then at that moment you will have perfect composure.”
Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
“I discovered that it is necessary, absolutely necessary, to believe in nothing. That is, we have to believe in something which has no form and no color--something which exists before all forms and colors appear... No matter what god or doctrine you believe in, if you become attached to it, your belief will be based more or less on a self-centered idea.”
Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
“I discovered that it was a lonely world being a solo artist. Then I started working with another solo artist, Rod Stewart, and he used to tell me how lonely he was!”
“I discovered that joy is not the negation of pain, but rather acknowledging the presence of pain and feeling happiness in spite of it.”
“I discovered that magic tricks got me more attention from the girls in my class when I was nine - so a magician was born!”
“I discovered that maybe it was fate all along, that faith was just an illusion that somehow you're in control.”
Source: The Joy Luck Club
“I discovered that men were just like everyone else, really. They liked you if you were good-tempered and easy to talk to. And being a big girl meant other females trusted you more and confided in you.”
“I discovered that my girlfriend had been sending hundreds of dollars to her secret lover during the breakdown of our relationship. She had been complaining to me that she had no money and wanted me to contribute more to the household!”
“I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me.”
“I discovered that my insecurities and my flaws were things that I actually need to embrace, and I let them become my superpowers.”
“I discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well deserved reward of an ordered mind but just the opposite: a complete system of pretence invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature.”
Source: Memories of My Melancholy Whores
“i discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind, but just the opposite: a complete system of pretense invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature.”
“I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it.”
Source: Bear, man, & God: seven approaches to William Faulkner's The bear
“I discovered that our clan included loads of cousins and uncles and aunts and animals of every shape. I was taught that chaos and competition were family values. And I learned that we all loved the sea. Somehow, the sea was about us-our past, our exuberance, our frailty, our longing.”
“I discovered that people are not really afraid of dying; they're afraid of not ever having lived, not ever having deeply considered their life's higher purpose, and not ever having stepped into that purpose and at least tried to make a difference in this world.”
Source: Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership
“I discovered that politics is not entirely about agendas and manifestos of some old, sullen creep promising a better future of the country as a whole. Politics is being played everywhere and it starts from the very bedroom that you consider your safe haven.”
Source: Solemn Tales of Human Hearts
“I discovered that resolution of conflict comes from people being able to express their own feelings and their own needs in the face of another. Making agreements and setting goals without building upon the feelings of the parties involved is empty, because it does not consider the vulnerabilities of our own humanity.”
“I discovered that Robert Todd Lincoln was there for each of the first three assassinations. I wanted to write about the Lincoln Memorial, so when I found out he had attended its dedication, that helped focus it further.”
“I discovered that running actually gave me both physical and mental clarity. I love it.”
“I discovered that seventeen-year-old girls have such huge verbal energy that their brain drives them to expend it every twenty seconds. On the third day I decided I had to find her a boyfriend -- if possible, a deaf one.”
“I discovered that silent film is almost an advantage. You just have to think of the feeling for it to show. No lines pollute it. It doesn't take much - a gaze, an eyelash flutter - for the emotion to be vivid.”
“I discovered that some things are written for us. It's not that we can't change our ancestral bearings, or that the path or purpose of any of our lives is really written in stone. But what tends to happen sometimes is the path is so deeply inscribed in the birth that it becomes you and every variation away from it brings you back in ways that you are not controlling.”
“I discovered that sometimes the best way to stop my brain from seeking an answer is to tell it I am missing part of the equation.”
Source: Naked
“I discovered that success has very little to do with education or race or disposition; it has more to do with principles and following those principles.”
“I discovered that the best innovation is sometimes the company, the way you organize a company. The whole notion of how you build a company is fascinating." Steve Jobs”
“I discovered that the heart is a breakable thing, but also discovered my capacity to love another person.”
“I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of life's mystery and unpredictability, of life's generosity and beauty, a worthy object of repeated and ever changing contemplation.”
“I discovered that the more I hustled, the luckier I seemed to get.”