I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Infants need the most sleep, and, what is more, get it. Stunning them with a soft, padded hammer is the best way to insure their getting it at the right times.”
Source: My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew
“Infants never learn to soothe themselves to sleep. They learn, abandoned in seclusion, that no matter the volume of their despondence, no matter the force of their tears, when they are alone and frightened, no-one will ever come to their rescue. Infants do not soothe themselves. They merely surrender. And it is caged in their cribs where the infants learn, in the face of their demons, to remain silent and submitting.”
Source: Alex and The Gruff
“Infants, I note with envy, are receptive to enjoyment in a degree not attained by adults this side of the new Jerusalem.”
Source: ...Some of My Best Friends are Soldiers: A Kind of Novel
“Infatti, anche il silenzio può essere considerato un discorso, in quanto rifiuto dell'uso che altri fanno della parola; ma il senso di questo silenzio-discorso sta nelle sue interruzioni, cioè in ciò che di tanto in tanto si dice e che dà un senso a ciò che si tace.
O meglio: un silenzio può servire a escludere certe parole oppure a tenerle in serbo perché possano essere usate in un'occasione migliore. Così come una parola detta adesso può risparmiarne cento domani oppure obbligare a dirne altre mille.”
Source: Palomar
“Infatti devi sapere che io avevo un fratello gemello, bello come il giorno, e gentile come un cerbiatto, e sano come pane fresco e burro.”
Source: Possession
“Infatuation cannot be sustained indefinitely, my friend. Love that embraces the entire person is a monumental gift that takes time to grow.”
Source: Thwonk
“Infatuation is knowing everything there is to know about fire, except that it burns”
Source: 88
“Infatuation is like a drug that gives you the best high yet gives you the worst headache after.”
“Infatuation is measured in pleasure. Love is measured in pain. Behold the value of pain!”
“Infatuation is not quite the same thing as love; it's more like love's shady second cousin who's always borrowing money and can't hold down a job.”
Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims
“Infatuation is one of those slightly comic illnesses which are at once so undignified and so painful that a nice-minded world does its best to ignore their existence altogether, referring to them only under provocation and then with apology, but, like its more material brother, this boil on the neck of the spirit can hardly be forgotten either by the sufferer or anyone else in his vicinity. The malady is ludicrous, sad, excruciating and, above all, instantly diagnosable.”
Source: Three Cases for Mr. Campion
“Infatuation is the function of eyes but love is the function of heart”
“Infatuation is the language of a beautiful eye upon a sensitive heart.”
“Infatuation is when you think he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford - but you'll take him anyway.”
“Infatuation means, 'A love that it is inconvenient to go on with.”
Source: Uncle Paul
“Infatuation? the boy echoed. What's that?
That's what the beginning of true love is, she said. But it's not love yet. Love is when you see the other person, and love them exactly as they are. True love is when you love another without needing them, so they can be free to love you back.”
Source: The Girl and Her Being
“Infatuation, unlike love, is impossible to sustain...”
Source: All The Difference
“Infatuation was a good thing. It gave spice to life, and added to its enjoyment... But it was different from love. Love was worth everything, and couldn't be exchanged for anything.”
“Infatuation was weather - love was climate.”
Source: Time After Time
“Infatuation -You easily back off.
Love -You silently care, no matter what..!!”
“Infatuation's just another word for not seeing clearly. When you start to love a person- that's when they become real”
Source: The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper
“Infatuation.First Love.Lust.My passion can be explained away.But this is sure: Whatever she touches, she reveals”
Source: The Passion
“Infect everyone with your smile; it will make the world happy.”
“Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans themselves, and killed an estimated 95% of the New World's Indian population.”
“Infectious smile has infected tears
The laughter strikes with spears
I am not dear and they are not sincere
Feeling fear
I must perform
For when I stop the stage is gone”
Source: Thoughts in Rhyme
“Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts.”
“Infeliz es aquel cuya fama hace famosos sus infortunios.”
Source: The Cuckoo's Calling
“Infelizmente, este espectáculo também só existe porque existem espectadores. Conta a lenda urbana que a guilhotina caiu em desuso na França do Terror, porque era uma forma demasiado rápida e demasiado limpa de tirar vidas. As massas ávidas de sofrimento, morte lenta e dor desinteressavam-se.
Mas, numa era de «reality shows», onde multidões passam horas a espiolhar as casas de banho de cobaias humanas amestradas, as execuções do EI fecham o círculo das prosas bárbaras e fazem sentido.”
“Infelizmente, muita gente só sente a discriminação quando é contra eles, sejam pretos que chamam Boko Haram a um branco, mas que são discriminados por alguém no país dos brancos; homossexuais que não gostem de transsexuais mas que são discriminados pelos heterossexuais; portugueses que não gostam de romenos mas que são discriminados em França ou no Luxemburgo e por aí fora! A lista é interminável e circular.”
Source: Daqui Ali - De Portugal à África do Sul de Bicicleta
“Infelizmente muitas de nós, mulheres, agimos assim. Subimos ao alto do monte e só quando estamos no ar compreendemos que não temos asas para voar. Atiramo-nos do alto do céu para um poço sem luz nem fundo e quebramos o coração como um vaso de porcelana.”
Source: The First Wife: A Tale of Polygamy
“Inference is always an invasion of the unknown, a leap from the known.”
Source: Democracy And Education
“Inference is founded upon obvious reasons. Regard to reputation has a less active influence, when the infamy of a bad action is to be divided upon a number, than when it is to fall singly upon one. A spirit of faction . . . will often hurry the persons of whom they were composed into improprieties and excesses for which they would blush in a private capacity.”
Source: America's Founding Documents: The Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, the United States Constitution, the Federalist Papers, and the Bill of Rights
“Inferences of Science and Common Sense differ from those of deductive logic and mathematics in a very important respect, namely, when the premises are true and the reasoning correct, the conclusion is only probable.”
“Inferi que os demais passageiros perguntavam a si mesmos se aquilo de fato havia sido dito ou se imaginavam, se eram seus próprios demônios que também tinham fome dentro de suas cabeças ruidosas. E era como se pregássemos uma peça, nós dois, e fôssemos mais espertos do que o resto das pessoas naquele vagão, mais vívidos que seus rostos compenetrados de tédio, difusos, mal trabalhados. Depois me senti burro e inerte, porque estávamos todos juntos, afinal, no mesmo trem, indo para o mesmo lugar.
Ofereci o isqueiro para acender o cigarro que ela tirava do maço; me ocorreu que queria minha atenção. Falei que poderíamos cultivar uma horta, aonde iríamos, mas ela tratou como um devaneio, mais um. E riu com a ideia de me ver sujo, metido num macacão. Provoquei assegurando que dali em diante iríamos subir em árvores, sentar nas colinas ao pôr do sol, que andaríamos nus de galochas e que se calhasse, meu amor, ficaríamos loucos, discutindo pela janela e quebrando pratos, móveis, com estardalhaço para que todos escutassem e exclamassem baixinho, com medo de que a gente ouvisse: “Os loucos chegaram na cidade”, como se fôssemos vikings invadindo uma aldeia murada; ou “Os loucos da cidade chegaram”, como se toda cidade precisasse de loucos e os encomendasse, e nós estivéssemos a caminho empacotados no vagão; ou então “Os loucos chegaram”, como se fosse um detalhe que alguém diz só por dizer; ou apenas “Loucos”, não mais que um resmungo, como se a cidade fosse louca também.”
Source: A horta
“Inferior and Superior life lives in the interior of a person.”
Source: Leaders' Ladder
“Inferior guards play on the sidelines and great guards play in the middle. Isiah, Magic, Chris Paul, all get to the middle”
“Inferior thinking and writing will make a name for a man among inferior people, who in all ages and countries, are the majority.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion
“Inferiority (if exists any)
Lies only in the mind
Of the one who believes
Himself "superior".”
“Inferiority intentions are sample chapters of defeated stories... Courageous beginnings are examples of true leadership values!”
Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes
“Inferiority is the insecurity of our own boundaries”
“Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.”
“Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.”
Source: Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens
“infernal fire, grief burns but does not consume; instead, it makes the heart vulnerable to further suffering.”
Source: The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate
“Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell
Receive thy new Possessor: One who brings
A mind not to be chang'd by Place or Time.
The mind is its own place, and in it self
Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.”
Source: Paradise lost
“Inferno was for learning about the nature of our sins. Purgatorio is for learning how to overcome our tendencies to fall victim to them. Understanding our dilemma is important, but it's not enough. What we do with that understanding makes the difference between life and death. Humility is the foundation of all spiritual progress. Humility builds resilience. Stop thinking of yourself as the center of your world you will find it becomes easier to endure life's setbacks. Plus, you will in time become more grateful, more merciful, and more loving.”
Source: How Dante Can Save Your Life: The Life-Changing Wisdom of History's Greatest Poem
“Inferno é estar consciente em meio a um mar de ignorância.”
“Infertility and disability should have taught me how to surrender, taught me how little I can control the conditions of my own happiness. Instead, that helplessness has only thickened my resolve to salvage what I can from wreckage.”
Source: Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved
“Infertility costs an average of about $16-20,000 per procedure, and you don't always get pregnant the first time. I had to go through it seven times. And adoption and surrogacy are not covered through insurance companies.”
“Infertility is not a distinctly modern experience; it has been around as long as humans have.”
Source: Missed Conceptions: How We Make Sense of Infertility
“Infertility is this huge emotional roller coaster. If you want in your heart more than anything to have a baby, it's the hardest thing you will ever go through physically, emotionally, and financially.”