I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Is a woman still a woman when a man is not around to hear her apologising?”
Source: The Night Alphabet
“Is Adrian here?” “Who?” “Adrian. Tall. Brown hair. Green eyes.” She frowned. “Do you mean Jet?” “I … I’m not sure. Does he smoke like a chimney?” The girl nodded sagely. “Yup. You must mean Jet.”
Source: Bloodlines
“Is adult entertainment killing our children? or is killing our children entertaining our adults?”
“Is Ahab, Ahab? Is it I, God, or who, that lifts this arm? But if the great sun move not of himself; but is an errand-boy in heaven; nor one single star can revolve, but by some invisible power; how then can this one small heart beat; this one small brain think thoughts; unless God does that beating, does that thinking, does that living, and not I.”
Source: Moby Dick (World Classics, Unabridged)
“Is air travel triggering depression in sea level adapted humans?”
“Is all anger sin? No, but some of it is. Even God Himself has righteous anger against sin, injustice, rebellion and pettiness.”
“Is all ordained? Foreknowledge is not fate, and we may choose our paths, yet fate says we may not choose them. So if fate is real, do we have a choice?”
Source: Death of Kings
“Is all our Life, then but a dream Seen faintly in the golden gleam Athwart Time's dark resistless stream?”
Source: The Humorous Verse of Lewis Carroll
“Is all that to celebrate our return?", asked Gwizdo, puzzled.
"The day I celebrate you will be your departure", responded Jeanneline sarcastically. "No, it's for Zoria. She's coming to visit."
Lian-Chu's face lit up when he heard the name of the young girl, who he himself had trained in the profession and liked very much. Gwizdo's face, however, winced in an angry grin.
"Zoria?!? Are you nuts, Jeanneline? Why not invite all the other competition while you're at it? No, but it's true!"
Jeanneline scowled and fixed her gaze on Gwizdo.
"I'll have you know that Zoria is my daughter and that she is also Zaza's older sister. And first of all, if my Zoria became a dragon hunter, you only have yourselves to blame.”
Source: Chasseurs de Dragons, Tome 8 : Le retour de Zoria
“Is all the world jails and churches?”
“Is almost a good enough reason for fear?”
Source: A Million Suns: An Across the Universe Novel
“Is always the motivation to play better and better. But I think we are in a very good way to keep winning matches. That's most important thing for me.”
“Is America a land of God where saints abide for ever? Where golden fields spread fair and broad, where flows the crystal river? Certainly not flush with saints, and a good thing, too, for the saints sent buzzing into man's ken now are but poor-mouthed ecclesiastical film stars and clich?-shouting publicity agents. Their little knowledge bringing them nearer to their ignorance, ignorance bringing them nearer to death, but nearness to death no nearer to God.”
Source: Inishfallen, fare thee well. Rose and crown. Sunset and evening star
“Is America a weakling, to shrink from the work of the great world powers? No! The young giant of the West stands on a continent and clasps the crest of an ocean in either hand. Our nation, glorious in youth and strength, looks into the future with eager eyes and rejoices as a strong man to run a race.”
Source: The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations
“Is America becoming decadent? Do we no longer regard our promises and pledges as sacred? ... We promised to make peace with Germany only in conjunction with the Allies; but we brought forward a separate peace, demanding for ourselves all the advantages of the Treaty of Versailles but rejecting all the responsibilities embodied in the Treaty. It was America's President who induced Europe to form a League of Nations; and then America was the first country that refused to joint it.... If these are not the symptoms of national decadency, what are they?”
“Is America ready for a black president? Well, I say we just had a retarded one. When did being black become a bigger deterrent than being retarded?”
“Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?”
“Is an 'idea' an advance visualization of a piece? Part of a piece? If anything - if it hasn't already evaporated - it's one of the very first things sacrificed during the actual process of making something.”
“Is an animal less or more intelligent because it lives without clothes, central heating, and well, atom bombs ?”
Source: Animal Dreaming
“Is an artist much more than a beggar?”
Source: The complete correspondence of Clara and Robert Schumann
“Is an egg a vegetable?”
“Is an institution always a man's shadow shortened in the sun, the lowest common denominator of everybody in it?”
“Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?”
Source: Conversations with Philip Roth
“Is an orphaned child in a conquered land supposed to lift his head and face his life, and the whole world, as if nothing is ailing him?
Doomed is he for burying inside that which crumbles mountains.
Damned is he for letting his resentment surface."—Where Will My Heart Beat?”
Source: Where Will My Heart Beat?
“Is anarchism desirable? Well, who does not seek freedom? What man, unless willing to declare himself in bondage, would care to call any control agreeable? Think about it!”
“Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost.”
“Is Anna Nicole Smith still dead?”
“Is anxiety an emotion? It sure felt like one.”
Source: Network Effect
“Is any blogger out there saying anything—do they deserve First Amendment protection? These are the issues of our times.”
“Is any broken heart ever worth it?”
Source: The Places I've Cried in Public
“Is any child at birth, born in a cage?”
“Is any knowledge worthless? Try to think of an example.”
“Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change? What then is more pleasing or more suitable to the universal nature?”
Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion
“Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?”
“Is any man skillful enough to have fashioned himself?”
Source: The Confessions of Saint Augustine
“Is any novelist going to recognize the moment when he or she has nothing more to say? It is a brave thing to admit. And since as a professional writer you are full of anxiety anyway, you could easily misread the signs.”
Source: Conversations with Julian Barnes
“Is any of it real? I mean, look at this, look at it! A world built on fantasy! Synthetic emotions in the form of pills! Psychological warfare in the form of advertising! Mind altering chemicals in the form of food! Brainwashing seminars in the form of media! Controlled isolated bubbles in the form of social networks. Real? You want to talk about reality? We haven't lived in anything remotely close to it since the turn of the century! We turned it off, took out the batteries, snacked on a bag of GMOs, while we tossed the remnants into the ever expanding dumpster of the human condition. We live in branded houses, trademarked by corporations, built on bipolar numbers, jumping up and down on digital displays, hypnotizing us into the biggest slumber mankind has ever seen. You'd have to dig pretty deep, kiddo, before you can find anything real.”
“Is any one able for one day to apply his strength to virtue? I have not seen the case in which his strength would be sufficient.”
“Is any pleasure on Earth as great as a circle of Christian friends?”
“Is any prophet come to teach a new thing
Now in a more apt time?”
“Is anybody really ready to get married? I doubt it. Nobody's ready for marriage. Marriage makes you ready for marriage!”
Source: Passionate Marriage
“Is anyone anywhere happy?”
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Is anyone going to tell us why we just walked out of Battle Brief?" Cat asks, a few steps behind me.
"Violet has a look in her eyes," Rhiannon explains, keeping up at my side.
"The same one she had before Squad Battle last year," Sawyer says.
"She's onto something, and from our experience, you just roll with it," Rhiannon finishes.”
Source: Iron Flame
“Is anyone gonna invent a Richter scale to measure the magnitude of emotions in a young girl’s heart?”
Source: The Adoption
“Is anyone human actually normal? I'm beginning to think being normal is actually abnormal.”
“Is anyone in all the world safe from unhappiness?”
Source: Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus
“Is anyone know about term 'Astrology' and how many you are believe in Horoscope?”
“Is anyone monitoring the long term health outcomes of all passengers from the Boeing 737 Max 9 explosive decompression?”
“Is anyone really happy in this mad world?”
Source: The Blythes Are Quoted
“Is anyone really surprised that Warren, who is the ultimate embodiment of concentrated decision-making power, picked somebody [Bill and Melinda Gates] who he thinks is like him in many important ways? It was a noble and sensible decision.”