I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Is het noodzakelijk Duits te kennen om Hegel te kunnen begrijpen? Is het noodzakelijk Grieks te kennen om zich een voorstelling te kunnen maken van wat Plato bedacht? Is het noodzakelijk Chinees te kennen om door te kunnen dringen tot de wereld van Lao Zi?”
Source: Taoïsme: de weg om niet te volgen
“Is het te vrijpostig om op te merken
dat er niks in de tien geboden staat
over het beschermen van kinderen tegen wreedheid?
Niks tegen verkrachting en niks tegen slavernij,
en niks tegen genocide?
Of komt dit omdat deze misdrijven
positief worden aanbevolen
in de rest van de bijbel?”
“Is his interest in art less about what he sees in the painting than what he sees in the mirror?”
Source: Quarterlife
“Is hockey hard? I don't know, you tell me. We need to have the strength and power of a football player, the stamina of a marathon runner, and the concentration of a brain surgeon. But we need to put all this together while moving at high speeds on a cold and slippery surface while 5 other guys use clubs to try and kill us. Oh yeah, did I mention that this whole time we're standing on blades 1/8 of an inch thick? Is ice hockey hard? I don't know, you tell me. Next question.”
“Is Hollywood the cruelest city in the world? Well, it can be. New York can be that, too. You can be a Broadway star here one night, and something happens, and out--nobody knows you on the street. They forget you ever lived. It happens in Hollywood, too.”
“Is hope needed? You ask, Yes, hope is needed for man; without hope is lost and confused”
“Is Hopper celebrating with you?” “Hopper? Why would—” My mouth snapped shut for a few moments. “Oh. I, uh, kind of forgot about him.”
Source: The Fiery Heart: A Bloodlines Novel
“Is human dignity and human life so cheap that the rights protecting it can be traded away to appease the appetite for intimidation and prejudice of a vicious and self-centered group - for whatever reason, power, politics, nationalism, or unity?”
Source: Bugspray
“Is human love the growth of the human will ?”
“Is human nature basically good or evil? No economist can embark upon his profession without considering this question, and yet they all seem to. And they all seem to think human nature is basically good, or they wouldn't be surprised by the effects of deregulation.”
“Is human nature to believe that other places and other times are better than the here and now.”
Source: Elantris
“Is hypoxic damage reversible? Perhaps.”
“Is illness, in any way, a lesson? Illness is a travesty; illness is shit; illness is not redemptive unless it happens to be for a particular ill person, for reasons that are not replicable nor should they be said to be so.”
Source: The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
“Is imagination dependent upon experience, or is experience influenced by imagination?”
Source: A Wedding in December: A Novel
“Is in vitro fertilization where you have all the fun in a glass house?”
“Is individual gender suffering relieved at the price of role conformity and the perpetuation of role stereotypes on a social level? In changing sex, does the transsexual encourage a sexist society whose continued existence depends upon the perpetuation of these roles and stereotypes? These and similar questions are seldom raised in transsexual therapy at present.”
“Is insight dependent on a material process? Has insight a cause?”
“Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.”
Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray
“Is instinct in the head or in the heart? Off the field, I follow my good instincts which steer me in the right direction. Sometimes on the field my head leads me astray. That's what I believe.”
“Is intelligence always good? I wonder. What if intelligence is wasted? What if intelligence leads to more loneliness rather than to fulfillment? What if instead of productivity and clarity, it generates pain, isolation, and regret?”
Source: I'm Thinking of Ending Things
“Is is always time to do the right thing.”
“Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments.”
“Is is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.”
Source: Awaken The Giant Within
“Is is seldom possible to say of the medievals that they *always* did one thing and *never* another; they were marvelously inconsistent.”
Source: Mysteries of the Middle Ages: And the Beginning of the Modern World
“Is is, therefore, not an exaggeration to say that if the city of New York were suddenly replaced by a ball of fire, some significant percentage of the American population would see a silver-lining in the subsequent mushroom cloud, as it would suggest to them that the best thing that is ever going to happen was about to happen: the return of Christ. It should be blindingly obvious that beliefs of this sort will do little to help us create a durable future for ourselves - socially, economically, environmentally, or geopolitically. Imagine the consequences if any significant component of the US government actually believed that the world was about to end and that its ending would be glorious. The fact that nearly half of the American population apparently believes this, purely on the basis of religion dogma, should be considered a moral and intellectual emergency.”
Source: Letter to a Christian Nation
“Is is true that dictators never dream because they can change their smallest fantasies into realities if they want to?”
“Is Islam a religion of peace? I'm sure for some of the practitioners, but it's been hijacked by people who have an ideology that wants to destroy western civilization, and they're barbarians.”
“Is Islam a tribe or is it a force of globalization? Islam has certainly been studied as a local, tribalistic phenomenon. But Islam is also theoretically a universalist idea, its spread has been facilitated by modern technologies, and it's an identity that people can slip into and out of fairly easily. I don't think Islam has really been understood as a product of globalization. It might be one of these instances where globalism and tribalism ultimately go hand in hand.”
“Is Israel going to continue to be 'Fortress Israel'? Or, as we all hope, become accepted into the neighborhood, which I believe is the only way we can move forward in harmony.”
“Is it 10 years, 20, 50 before we reach that tipping point where climate change becomes irreversible? Nobody can know. There's clearly a probability distribution. We need to ensure this planet, and we need to do it quickly.”
“Is it 10g of protein more or 10g of protein less, who cares, just get started”
“Is it [hunting] really a sport if you have all the equipment and your opponent doesn't know a game is going on?”
“Is it a bird? Is it a plane? We recognize our perception often plays tricks on us. We understand we can easily mistake appearances for reality, challenging the certainty of our knowledge and facing the fragility of our truth.”
“Is it a boy or a girl?' she asked delicately. 'That dog? That dog's a boy.' 'It's a bitch,' said Tom decisively. 'Here's your money. Go and buy ten more dogs with it.”
Source: The Great Gatsby
“Is it a coincidence that in 1998, Barack Obama talks about a majority coalition of welfare recipients and in 2012 we got a record number of Americans on food stamps while he's president? I don't think it's a coincidence.”
“Is it a coincidence that stories from the private life became more popular just as the grand hope for public redemption through revolution was beginning to sour? I witnessed a similar shift in taste in my own time. In the 1960s, while a hopeful vision of a just society arose again, countless poems and plays concerning politics and public life were written, read, and performed. But after the hope diminished and public life seemed less and less trustworthy, this subject was less in style.”
“Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't stand the thought of them changing? Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't see clearly?”
Source: The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes
“Is it a crime, to fight, for what is mine?”
“Is it a democratic society that condemns people to the accident of conception? What are we-monkeys? If you expect people to be responsible for their children, you have to give them the right to choose whether or not to have children. What are you people thinking of? You're not only crazy! You're ogres!”
“Is it a different New York since Lou Reed died? It’s been a different New York since I saw him in his sweatpants at the Cozy Soup ‘n’ Burger.”
“Is it a fact-or have I dreamt it-that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?”
Source: Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography
“Is it a form of social play that underneath the words people say, there is a different conversation going on?”
“Is it a good hot dog? That’s all I want to know … I don’t think the personal health and purity of my colon is that important compared to pleasure. As a chef, I’m not your dietitian or your ethicist. I’m in the pleasure business …. My responsibility is to give you the most delicious tomato that I can afford, given the circumstances, and maybe increase the likelihood that you get laid after dinner.”
“Is it a good idea or not?? Were we build for that or not??
We know to much so let's remove us??”
“Is it a loss when someone dies
who you had already let go?”
“Is it a man walking on the beach, winking at the girls and looking for going to bed? Is it someone who wears a lot of gold chains and rings and sits at the bar? Because this is not me! I am very, very Latin, but not so much lover.”
“Is it a misfortune that magnificent California was seized from the lazy Mexicans who did not know what to do with it.”
“Is it a particularly British trait to so utterly adore truly appalling men, from Tony Hancock through to Steptoe and Alf Garnett, Captain Mainwaring, Rigsby, Del Boy, Victor Meldrew and on to David Brent from The Office. The most deeply adored characters are all simply vile.”
“Is it a primitive fundamental reproductive desire, a want to fuck the Earth to become a part of that great reproductive cycle, the mightiest source of sexual power anywhere?”
“Is it a rare gift to gain new insight on past events? Or a curse, being forced to rehash things no longer within one's control?”
Source: Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Vol. 4