I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Is it bad when you refer to all alcohol as "Pain Go Bye-Bye Juice"?”
“Is it based on a true story? Yes. However, all names have been changed to protect those who think they are innocent.”
“Is it because I'm a girl?"
Reluctantly, Bill nodded his head.
She looked at him for a moment, her lips trembling, and Richie thought she would cry. Instead, she exploded.
"Well, fuck you!" She whirled around to look at the others, and they flinched from her gaze, so hot it was nearly radioactive. "Fuck all of you if you think the same thing!" she turned back to Bill and began to talk fast, rapping him with words. "This is something more than some diddly shit kids game like tag, or guns, or hide and go seek, and you know it, Bill! We're supposed to do this, that's part of it! And you're not going to cut me out just because I'm a girl, do you understand? You better. Or I'm leaving right now!”
“Is it because they are so comfortable, they already know what the other is thinking? Or is it because after a certain point, there is simply nothing left to say?”
Source: My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel
“Is it because we’re having so much fun at home we’ve forgotten the world? Is it because we’re so rich and the rest of the world’s so poor and we just don’t care if they are? I’ve heard rumors; the world is starving, but we’re well fed. Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we’re hated so much?”
Source: Fahrenheit 451
“Is it because you are sunk in the cruelty of superstition, or feel no interest in the honor of your Creator, that you listen to the horrid tales of the Bible, or hear them with callous indifference?”
Source: The Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology
“Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?”
“Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.”
“Is it better for an exhibitor to buy a booth or rent it? That depends. Here are 3 key questions to ask:
– Will you exhibit at more than one show at a time?
– Will your booth footprint vary significantly from show to show?
– Will you make major changes to your marketing, branding, or product line in the next year?”
Source: Trade Show 411: The Essential Guide to Exhibiting Like a Pro
“Is it better not to drink alcohol and eat fried food and not have cheese and never have a cigarette at a party? Of course, but that's just not life.”
“Is it better that we manage population growth responsibly or should we to wait for nature to cull our numbers?”
“Is it better to be extremely ambitious, or rather modest? Probably the latter is safer; but I hate safety, and would rather fail gloriously than dingily succeed.”
“Is it better to be interested or interesting? Good question. People will be more interested in you when you first demonstrate that you are interested in them.”
Source: The Art of Connection: 8 Ways to Enrich Rapport & Kinship for Positive Impact
“Is it better to be loved or feared?”
Source: Machiavelli, More & Luther
“Is it better to be right or effective? Choose effective every time.”
“Is it better to be the lover or the loved one? Neither, if your cholesterol is over six hundred. By love, of course, I refer to romantic love -- the love between man and woman, rather than between mother and child, or a boy and his dog, or two headwaiters.”
Source: The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose
“Is it better to buy a new or a three year old car? Cars typically become unreliable after a decade of use. You are only seven years away from that point at three years old.”
“Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?”
Source: Postcards from No Man's Land: A Novel
“Is it better to have bronze than copper and tin separately? Is this the marker of some historic advance?”
Source: Las grietas de Jara
“Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?”
Source: Our Mutual Friend
“Is it better to have your life ended by someone who hates you or someone who loves you?”
Source: Ash Princess
“Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?”
“Is it better to outmonster the monsters or to be quietly devoured?”
Source: Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 16-19
“is it better to speak or to die”
Source: Call Me by Your Name
“Is it better to strive for success as a self-representing artist or try to get your feet wet in the gallery world? That is such a common question these days among artists. I truly believe that most artists will come to a cross road where they will have to decide on which route to take as it's extremely hard to be successful in both worlds.”
“Is it better to work out consciously and critically one's own conception of the world and thus, in connection with the labours of one's own brain, choose one's sphere of activity, take an active part in the creation of the history of the world, be one's own guide, refusing to accept passively and supinely from outside the moulding of one' own personality?”
“Is it birthday weather for you, dear soul?
Is it fine your way,
With tall moon-daisies alight, and the mole
Busy, and elegant hares at play
By meadow paths where once you would stroll
In the flush of day?”
Source: The Complete Poems of C. Day Lewis
“Is it Bub?" Stavik cried after them. "Or Cobble? Louis-Josef? Tog the Log?"
Fin shook his head to himself as he mounted the stairs, still laughing.
"Come on!" Stavik's voice faded behind him. "Those are common pirate names!”
Source: The Map to Everywhere
“Is it but right that our hearts should be on God, when the heart of God is so much on us.”
Source: The Saints' Everlasting Rest: And, A Call to the Unconverted
“Is it butterflies or is it anxiety”
“Is it by understanding that the hawk soars, stretching his wings toward the south?”
“Is it...can we...is it safe?"
Tub checked the lot but he seemed unconcerned.
"Coach Lawrence nabbed him for practice. We live to fight another day, soldier."
"No...I mean, the thing...is it...?"
Tub frowned.
"The thing. Hmmm. Can you be more specific?
I clutched at the bumper and raised myself to unsteady feet. I patted the truck bed, taking solace in the cake of dust. It was real; I was not caught in a nightmare. I smeared the dust with my fingers and smelled it.
"If you lick that, we're no longer friends," Tub said.”
Source: Trollhunters
“Is it capitalism or states that must be destroyed in order to get peace, or must both be abolished?”
Source: Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis
“Is it civility for Barack Obama to continually lie, to promise the same things he's promised us last year and the year before? Jobs, jobs, jobs, shovel-ready, shovel-ready, shovel-ready, earmarks, spending freezes, all of these things he's promised before. Where is the civility in misleading the people?”
“Is it colour?’
‘Oh yes.’
‘You don’t let me down.You are my ambassador to pr0n, man.”
Source: Be My Enemy
“Is it common for people to become a pothead at 40? Asking for myself.”
“Is it conceivable that a newly emancipated people can soar to the heights of liberty, and, unlike Icarus, neither have its wings melt nor fall into an abyss? Such a marvel is inconceivable and without precedent. There is no reasonable probability to bolster our hopes.”
Source: The hope of the universe
“Is it conceivable that mysticism is a mark of inadequate art?”
“Is it courage in a dying man to go, in weakness and in agony, to affront an almighty and eternal God?”
Source: The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal
“Is it crazy right now to say I love you?” She didn’t even pause. “Given that I just stabbed you? Seems a little weird, yeah.”
Source: Black Dawn: The Morganville Vampires
“Is it crazy to say that I dont often eat breakfast? But every time I go to a diner, I have to have a breakfast-type item, even if its 11:30 at night. I love my morning eats!”
“Is it dangerous to plan too much? Yes, we all need to plan, to have a plan, but life goes on regardless of our plans and we know only too well what happens to so many of the best laid plans of mice and men!”
Source: The Golden Tup
“Is it destiny that I'm writing to you when there's so many people I could be writing to?”
Source: Slow Dancing with The Stars
“Is it different to come out now than it was to come out thirty-five years ago? Sometimes. But if you come out now and you come from poverty and you come from racism, you come from the terror of communities that are immigrant communities or communities where you're already a moving target because of who you are, this is not a place where it's any easier to be LGBT even if there's a community center in every single borough.”
“Is it difficult to recognize spring when the air is dancing with joy and the flowers are blooming bright colorful smiles?”
“Is it due to excess of poetry or of stupidity that we are never weary of describing what King James called a woman's 'makdom and her fairnesse', never weary of listening to the twanging of the old Troubadour strings, and are comparatively uninterested in that other kind of 'makdom and fairnesse' which must be wooed with industrious thought and patient renunciation of small desires? In the story of this passion, too, the development varies: sometimes it is the glorious marriage, sometimes frustration and final parting. And not seldom the catastrophe is bound up with the other passion, sung by the Troubadours.”
Source: Middlemarch
“Is it easier for a man to live his life again as a fish, than to accept the wonder of being human? So alone, so frightened, so wanting for what we are afraid to give tongue to.”
“Is it easier for you to have straight friends, Larry [Kramer], since you seem so often disappointed in your gay friends who can't live up to what you expect of them as gay people?”
“Is it easy to avoid paparazzi? It is, it really is.”
“Is it easy to love God' asks an old author. 'It is easy,' he replies, 'to those who do it.' I have included two Graces under the word Charity. But God can give a third. He can awake in man, towards Himself, a supernatural Appreciative love. This is of all gifts the most to be desired. Here, not in our natural loves, nor even in ethics, lies the true centre of all human and angelic life. With this all things are possible.”