I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Is it two? Three? Leave a good tip, Imma blow all my money and don't give two shits.”
“Is It Unloving to Speak of Hell? If you were giving some friends directions to Denver and you knew that one road led there but a second road ended at a sharp cliff around a blind corner, would you talk only about the safe road? No. You would tell them about both, especially if you knew that the road to destruction was wider and more traveled. In fact, it would be terribly unloving not to warn them about that other road.”
Source: Heaven
“Is it unprecedented for two goalkeepers employed in a match comprising seven goals to be the fixture's most competent protagonists?”
“Is it useful to feel fear, because it prepares you for nasty events, or is it useless, because nasty events will occur whether you are frightened or not?”
“Is it weakness that inspires a person to elevate their mind above the crowd and seek a different path? On the contrary. That is strength.”
Source: Guide to Free Thinking: Stories & Life Lessons
“Is it weird in here, or is it just me?”
“Is it weird that I think it's hot when you boss me around?"
Her gaze snapped up to his, her blue eyes darkening with unmistakable hunger....
"I can take bossing you around to a whole other level if you'd like," she murmured.”
Source: A Covert Affair
“Is it weird that when I see a cool t shirt or pick up a toothbrush or see a new car I don't think about the product itself? I think about the thousands of people and dollars to make it.
I think about how the retailer that took the risk to buy and resell it. Then I work backwards to the store costs, the distributer who got it there, the shipping company that brought it over from China, the factory workers that made it, the people that sourced the materials and the people that harvested the raw materials, and on and on..
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The global economy is amazing. Your $20 t-shirt is a freaking miracle.”
“Is it weird to envy him for that, for witnessing something I would never want to see with my own eyes? I have all this history with you, Theo, but he has pieces of your puzzle that would destroy me if I ever had to put them together, and yet I still want them.”
Source: History Is All You Left Me
“Is it well that I should wish to leave this dreary world behind, seeking for your fair utopia, which perchance I may not find?”
Source: The Poems of Henry Kendall
“Is it what you call civilization that makes England flourish? Is it the universal development of the faculties of man that has rendered an island, almost unknown to the ancients, the
arbiter of the world? Clearly not. It is the inhabitants that have done this. It is an affair of race.... All is race, there is no other truth.”
Source: Tancred: Or, The New Crusade
“Is it where the flow'r of the orange blows, And the fireflies dance thro' the myrtle boughs?”
“Is it wholly fantastic to admit the possibility that Nature herself strove toward what we call beauty? Face to face with any one of the elaborate flowers which man's cultivation has had nothing to do with, it does not seem fantastic to me. We put survival first. But when we have a margin of safety left over, we expend it in the search for the beautiful. Who can say that Nature does not do the same?”
Source: And Even If You Do: Essays on Man, Manners & Machines
“Is it wise to blow the whistle on a person's selfishness when selfishness itself is an important attribute for contentment?”
“Is it wise to move along the path, hoping for what may never come or to go back and change your course for the likely?”
“Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.”
Source: Wars I have seen
“Is it worse when they don't believe you? Or is it worse when they believe you, but it doesn't matter?”
Source: Girls Play Dead: Acts of Self-Preservation
“Is it worth getting one more tweet out, or putting your phone down and doing something that is worth tweeting?”
“Is it worth it to be born if you cannot remember it later? And, technically speaking, had I ever been born? Other people, of course, said that I was. As far as I know, I was born in late April, at sixty years of age, in a hospital room.”
“Is it worth losing your position over and being ostracised for?'
He glared down at me. 'If you even have to ask that question, then you don't know me at all.'
'I hardly know you at all,' I whispered, irritated by the sting his words left behind.
'Well, now you know that I will never stand by and watch someone hit you or any person for no reason other than they feel they can,' he shot back.”
Source: From Blood and Ash
“Is it worth the aggravation to find yourself a job when there's nothing worth working for?”
“Is it worth the cost of your soul?”
“That is the price of magic.”
“No, that is the price of being a fool,” he answered. “Before this is over, you will become one more story Killian can’t tell anyone. Another memory he wishes he didn’t have.”
Source: The Price of Magic: A Cursed Magic Novel
“Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?”
Source: Philosophical Works: Preliminary discourse by the editor. On the conduct of the understanding. An essay concerning human understanding
“Is it worth the sacrifice? Is it worth the cost? There was a time I told the Lord to “pick someone else. This is too hard!” I’m so thankful He turned a deaf ear.”
Source: Who Do You Say I Am?: Overcoming the Spirit of Identity Theft
“Is it worth wasting so much energy in arguing for things who's winning or losing doesn't matter?”
Source: Quantraz
“Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice?”
Source: The Complete Travel Books of William Dean Howells: Travel Memoirs & Reports from Traveling Across Europe (Illustrated): Venetian Life, Italian Journeys, Roman Holidays and Others, Suburban Sketches, Familiar Spanish Travels, A Little Swiss Sojourn, London Films & Seven English Cities
“Is it worthwhile that we jostle a brother, Bearing his load on the rough road of life? Is it worthwhile that we jeer at each other, In blackness of heart - that we war to the knife? God pity us all in our pitiful strife”
Source: Joaquin: Et Al
“Is it wrong for a boy to dream of freedom?”
Source: The Wild Dogs of Kumamoto
“Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am Sioux? Because I was born where my father lived? Because I would die for my people and my country?”
“Is it wrong of me to propose a ceasefire agreement between humans and whales and dolphins, I know it is in actuality a one sided massacre, but so was Bosnia and there the ceasefire is holding, so would it be nice to have a declaration backing a ceasefire between us mammals?”
“Is it wrong of me to question whether the construction of cathedrals is, as we approach the twenty-first century, the best use of countless millions of dollars and the effort of generations of people? I agree that a project lasting longer than a human life span provides its participants with aspirations beyond the temporal. I even understand the motivation for carving a cathedral out of the Earth’s substrate, to create a testament to both human and divine architecture. But for me, science is the true modern cathedral, an edifice of knowledge every bit as majestic as anything made of stone. It fulfills all the goals that Yosemeti Cathedral does and more, and I wish more people appreciated that.”
Source: Omphalos
“Is it wrong to hold onto the sparks even if they still burn?”
“Is it wrong to kill something that wants to kill you?”
Source: Pure
“Is it wrong to leave relative security in favor of unknown risk at the side of someone you love?”
Source: Fallout
“Is it wrong to love another man? Of course not. It's not. And is it wrong to love your son, marry your son, to avoid paying taxes? Of course the people that would probably do this are people on the left who want everybody to pay more taxes.”
“Is it wrong to send your coffee a Valentine's Day card?”
“Is it wrong to think of pain as quantifiable? If it is not in quantities, how can we digest it? How does it move through our bodies without knowing its size?”
Source: Happy Hour
“Is it wrong to trust in a beautiful lie if it helps you get through life?”
Source: A Complicated Kindness: A Novel
“Is it wrong to wish we'd had time to finish?'
'Not sure I'll ever be finished.' He rises, every plane on his body caressing mine on the way up. 'I'm way too fucking greedy when it comes to you.”
Source: Fourth Wing
“Is it wrong worldly interaction (avyavahar) when someone insults you? It is (correct) worldly interaction (vyavahar). Gnani (Self-realized person) will be pleased that he has become free from karma bondage, when someone insults Him; while a non Self-realized person will fight back.”
“Is it wrong, wanting to be at home with your record collection? It's not like collecting records is like collecting stamps, or beermats, or antique thimbles. There's a whole world in here, a nicer, dirtier, more violent, more peaceful, more colorful, sleazier, more dangerous, more loving world than the world I live in; there is history, and geography, and poetry, and countless other things I should have studied at school, including music.”
“Is it you and I who are crazy, or is it everybody else?”
“Is it you, monsieur, who wants to return to the past?
*Miki, please, speak proper Japanese, said Nagare, agha at her attitude. But Miki tsk-tsked him with a wave of her finger.
That is not possible, moi is not Japanese, she retorted.
Nagare gave an exaggerated frown as if he had been expecting such a response. 'Oh, what a shame! It is a rule of the cafe that the person who pours the coffee must be Japanese!
'Only kidding! I'm Japanese!' she exclaimed, flip-flopping shamelessly.”
“Is it your background, then?" Lord Franton smiled and shook his head. "That need not worry you. You're a wizard now; what you were before does not matter to me."
"Yes, it does," Kim said softly. "Because part of the time you're sorry about it, and part of the time you think it makes me interesting, and part of the time you ignore it. But you never forget it.”
“Is it your thought that I despise some of these, while I love the others? I tell you, I despise nothing. None of it is repulsive to Me. It is life, and life is the gift; the unspeakable treasure; the holy of holies.”
Source: Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue
“Is it, in heav'n, a crime to love too well?”
“Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well?
To bear too tender or too firm a heart,
To act a lover's or a Roman's part?
Is there no bright reversion in the sky
For those who greatly think, or bravely die?”
“Is it, perhaps, possible that there are two kinds of Civilization-one for home consumption and one for the heathen market?”
Source: King Leopold's Soliloquy
“Is it...dead?" asked Tom, his voice all quivery with fright. "A town just ran over him," said Hester. "I shouldn't think he's very well.”
Source: Predator Cities #1: Mortal Engines
“Is Jack right for you? Is Jack wrong for you? Well, that depends.
Who is this Jack we're talking about? Who is this you? What version?
At what time? In what place? Which of your many funny reflections is the accurate one? Yesterday you were this person, today you're that person, and tomorrow... who knows? But marriage promises consistency, certainty: you will be loved forever. And the moment we become certain of this is the moment it begins to slip away from us.
Our certainty blinds us to how the world changes and changes and changes."
"So if nothing is real, if certainty is just an illusion, what do we do? Believe in nothing?"
"Believe what you believe, my dear, but believe gently. Believe compassionately. Believe with curiosity. Believe with humility.
And don't trust the arrogance of certainty. I mean, my good-ness, Elizabeth, if you want the gods to really laugh at you, then by all means call it your forever home.”
Source: Wellness