I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Idris: Are all people like this? The Doctor: Like what? Idris: So much bigger on the inside.”
“Idrith didn’t want to go back to his cold lonely room, with all its unanswered questions. He took the glass and sat down. For a long while they sat without speaking, watching the flames and sipping their drinks. Idrith would have felt at peace if it weren’t for the book in Harmion’s lap.”
Source: First Light
“Idylle hatte ich unsere gemeinsame Zeit bezeichnet. Illusion hätte es vielleicht besser getroffen.”
Source: Circe
“Idyllic haven, Magnificent Perspective,
Unique attraction.”
Source: Paradise Isle
“Idyth had kept no journals, no record of his missions, for in his modesty he had believed that to measure one’s life in such a way was to place too much emphasis on the individual when, in truth, a Jedi was nothing more than a sum of all that had come before and all that would come after, a vessel for the Force, with which it might seek balance.”
Source: Star Wars: Dark Legends
“IDÉE POUR UN COURT DOCUMENTAIRE
Des représentants de l'industrie alimentaire essayent d'ouvrir leurs emballages.”
“IE isn't secure and isn't standards-compliant, which makes it unworkable both for end users and Web content creators.”
“Ieder beschaafd land heeft ooit op een bepaald moment zijn koning afgezet of onthoofd, het is hoog tijd dat België ook een beschaafd land wordt.”
“Ieder kind dat we konden redden was er een.”
Source: Jo Mattens (1925-2023): Wereldreiziger in dienst van de missie
“Ieder mens is uiteindelijk altijd alleen, je bent eenzaam als je degene met wie je alleen bent, geen prettig gezelschap vindt”
Source: De mannentester
“Ieder woord dat ze spreekt is waar. Het is alleen niet de waarheid die me pijn doet, maar het gebrek aan medeleven.”
“Iedere inspanning die zelfverheerlijking tot uiteindelijk doel heeft, moet op een ramp uitdraaien.”
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
“Iedere lente wordt Laures graf groener, en nu herkent Amélie de plek juist aan zijn weelderige begroeiing, nergens zijn de planten hoger, bloeien ze mooier, en Laure breidt zich uit, alsof ze zich daar onder de aarde in een wijde jas heeft gehuld en met een glimlach haar armen spreidt om zelfs haar kleinste gast te verwelkomen.”
Source: Het lied van ooievaar en dromedaris
“Iedere minuut van mijn bestaan heeft een positieve betekenis gekregen omdat het in mijn macht ligt er iets goeds in te verrichten.”
Source: ANNA KARENINA
“Iedereen heeft vroeg of laat behoefte aan een plek om op adem te komen. Een plek die gastvrijheid verleent aan wat we bij ons dragen: wonden, schuldgevoel, verdriet, wanhoop, pijn, twijfels, spijt, verliezen, angsten. Een plek waar de tijd naast ons stilstaat om ons te steunen zonder ons uit de dagen, te beschuldigen of op te jutten. Waar geen gisteren is en geen morgen. Alleen maar een heel lang vandaag, heden, nu en verder.”
“Iedereen is samen maar samen is niet iedereen.”
“Iedereen is zo bang om eenzaam te zijn,
alsof aids en eenzaamheid de ergste dingen zijn
die een mens kunnen overkomen
besmettelijke ziekten zijn het
aids door bloed en lichaamsvloeistoffen die zich met elkaar vermengen
maar eenzaamheid is toch erger
daar word je mee besmet door lucht, vuur en water.
Kijk, een eenzaam mens! Pas op! Bescherm je!
Houd afstand!
Als je dichtbij komt
kun je worden zoals hij. Of zij.
Wie wil er nu eenzaam zijn? Eenzaamheid levert nul punten op.
Je moet veel en interesante vrienden om je heen verzamelen.
De telefoon moet vaak rinkelen. Je moet populair zijn, je moet bij vrolijke mensen horen.”
“Iedereen kent de uitdrukking 'Vedere Napoli e poi muori', oftewel 'Eerst Napels zien en dan sterven'. Met betrekking tot Rome zou ik een daaraan tegenovergesteld motto willen bepleiten, dat recht doet aan de even veelzijdige als vitale krachten die van deze stad uitgaan: 'Eerst Rome zien en dan leven.”
Source: De ontdekking van Rome
“Iemand toelaten in je leven betekent hem of haar permissie geven je te kwetsen, wat onherroepelijk zal gebeuren. Hij zal jou kwetsen, jij zal hem kwetsen. Hij zal jou teleurstellen, jij zal hem teleurstellen.”
Source: De mannentester
“Ien stopped her voice with more kisses, more promises of a world filled with only them.”
Source: Transcend
“ieri, pare che faceste all'altalena, e su, e giù, e io nel mezzo ad aggiustarmi e ad aggiustarvi a punto. Ah! avete creduto di giocarvi me, la mia vita? Avete fallito il colpo, cari miei! Io ho giocato voi.”
Source: Il giuoco delle parti
“Iertarea are puterea de a vindeca".”
Source: Ten Tiny Breaths
“Iets nieuws is niet per se waardevoller of wezenlijker.”
“Iets wordt pas onmogelijk als jijzelf alle mogelijkheden uitsluit,.. citaat uit 'Ooit keren de doden terug.”
Source: Kennis is geluk
“If
we continue to teach about tolerance and intolerance
instead
of good and evil, we will end up with tolerance of
evil.”
Source: The Prager Perspective
“If
you're an investor, you're looking on what the asset is going to do, if
you're a speculator, you're commonly focusing on what the price of the
object is going to do, and that's not our game.”
“If "freedom" means, first of all, the responsibility of every individual for the rational determination of his own personal, professional and social existence, then there is no greater fear than that of the establishment of general freedom.”
“If "gospel" means good news, then Jeremiah had some for sure. He saw the judgment coming, in horrifying technicolour. But he saw beyond it to the redeeming, restoring grace of God, and indeed he speaks of the "new covenant", which takes us to the heart of the gospel in Christ.”
“If "ifs" and "ands" were pots and pans, there'd be no work for tinkers' hands”
“If "man who supports his family, at all costs, even his own happiness" is Who You Are, then love your work, because it is facilitating your creation of a living statement of Self. If "woman who works at job she hates in order to meet responsibilities as she sees them" is Who You Are, then love, love, love your job, for it totally supports your Self image, your Self concept. Everyone can love everything the moment they understand what they are doing, and why. No one does anything he doesn't want to do.”
“If "Number rules the universe" as Pythagoras asserted, Number is merely our delegate to the throne, for we rule Number.”
Source: Men of Mathematics
“If "socialism" is defined as "ownership of the means of production"--and this is both the orthodox and the only rigorous definition--then the United States is the first truly Socialist country.”
Source: The Pension Fund Revolution
“If "there is no harm in asking," why guilt and fear when we do so?”
“If "Thou shalt not covet," and "Thou shalt not steal," were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society, before it can be civilized or made free.”
Source: The Political Writings of John Adams
“If $85 million is not enough to take care of my family and other generations of my family, then you’re stupid.”
“If 'Airplane!' comes on, it's like a comfort film. You can always guarantee a laugh watching that movie.”
“If 'all the Jewish women in Palestine are hysterical', presumably many of their menkind suffer from the same disability, which certainly does not promise well for the luckless Arab who is to live beneath their sway. How much of the trouble that has occurred already in Palestine may be attributed to this cause it is impossible to know.”
“If 'Black Balloon' had come out before 'The Mummy,' casting agents wouldn't have been able to see me for the first time in 'The Mummy.' But now that 'The Mummy' has come out before 'The Black Balloon,' that's a very good combination.”
“If 'bounded by a surface' is the definition of body there cannot be an infinite body either intelligible or sensible.”
Source: Physics
“If 'ecstasy' meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.”
Source: Cutting for Stone
“If 'everything happens for a reason,' then every act of evil is ultimately God's doing.”
“If 'extreme' means that I am unwilling to go to Washington, D.C., and do what President Obama tells me, then so be it. But I am certainly not going to Washington, D.C. to represent the interests of D.C. I'm going there to represent Colorado values.”
“If 'god' is a metaphysical term, then it cannot be even probable that a god exists. For to say that 'God exists' is to make a metaphysical utterance which cannot be either true or false. And by the same criterion, no sentence which purports to describe the nature of a transcendent god can possess any literal significance.”
“If 'Hamlet' had been written in these days it would probably have been called 'The Strange Affair at Elsinore.”
“If 'heartache' sounds exaggerated then surely you have never gone to your garden one rare morning in June to find that the frost, without any perceptible motive, any hope of personal gain, has quietly killed your strawberry blossoms, tomatoes, lima and green beans, corn, squash, cucumbers. A brilliant sun is now smiling at this disaster with an insenstive cheerfulness as out of place as a funny story would be if someone you loved had just died.”
Source: How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back: A New Method of Mulch Gardening
“If 'Life in Marvelous Times' can't get on the radio, then I don't need to be on the radio.”
“If 'little George Dubya Bush' wins, we are going to apply for Canadian citizenship.”
“If 'Mystery Train' is my Nixon book and 'Lipstick Traces' my Reagan book, 'Invisible Republic' is my Bill Clinton book. I really liked Clinton. He made me proud to be part of this country again. For all of his failings, the way he put all that he'd done in jeopardy, I supported him from beginning to end.”
“If 'New Girl' had been a movie, I don't know whether I would have been given the opportunity to do it.”
“If 'Obama-care' becomes fully implemented in 2014, it's going to bankrupt states.”