I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Isn’t it wonderful to give birth to your own kind?”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Isn't Jack, like, your best friend?"
"No," Sam said.
"You aren't in touch with him?" Nell said.
"Why would I be?" Sam said. "The guy's a loser."
Emmi hated that word. It was a bully's word. She took a sip of her beer and looked away.
"Loser?" Nell said. "Seriously? What happened? The four of you were inseparable."
Sam shifted in his chair.
"Drew's such a sweet guy," Nell went on. "Rosie's brilliant, and Jack---"
"Drew's got zero frizz, and Rosie's basic," Becca said. "Girl needs a makeover."
Emmi had always thought her English was pretty decent, but her lack of comprehension around people her own age made her feel like a beginner.
Nell ignored Becca. "I figured you were upset when Jack got expelled," she said.
Sam's face had turned red. Emmi saw him swallow.
"Upset?" Becca said with a laugh. "Sam's the one who showed me the list. And I showed it to Cynthia, and her mom went absolutely ballistic---"
"You?" Nell said to Sam. "You're the one who got Jack in trouble?"
"He thought I should know what that asshole was saying about me and all of us," Becca said. She leaned over and kissed Sam. "He's my hero."
Nell rolled her eyes. "I don't buy it," she said. "Jack was my lab partner in bio all junior year, and he was always so decent to me. No one becomes an asshole overnight."
Emmi was intrigued; Jack had a defender in this girl.
"It's pretty simple actually," said Sam. "Jack is bitter because he's never had a girlfriend."
Nell was shaking her head. "He never came across like an angry guy. He was always nice."
"Maybe you should date him then," Sam said.
"I'm not saying I want to date him," Nell said. "It's just confusing to hear you talk bad about him."
"According to Jack's list," Becca said, "I'm worth a small Mercedes while you're worth, like, a Starbucks Frappuccino. You're the one who should be the most pissed off at him."
"And yet I'm the one telling you," Nell said, her voice strong, "Jack liked me. We got along."
"The only good thing about Jack Holt," Becca said, "is that he's the reason Sam and I got together."
"You're wrong about him," Nell said. "Everybody is. I even went to the principal, the disciplinary committee, and my teachers, and I told them I thought Jack should get a chance to show and explain the math he did. I assumed you stood up for him too." No one at the table said anything.”
Source: Far and Away
“Isn't ketchup technically a fruit smoothie?”
Source: Beyond the Northern Lights
“Isn't language loss a good thing, because fewer languages mean easier communication among the world's people? Perhaps, but it's a bad thing in other respects. Languages differ in structure and vocabulary, in how they express causation and feelings and personal responsibility, hence in how they shape our thoughts. There's no single purpose "best" language; instead, different languages are better suited for different purposes. For instance, it may not have been an accident that Plato and Aristotle wrote in Greek, while Kant wrote in German. The grammatical particles of those two languages, plus their ease in forming compound words, may have helped make them the preeminent languages of western philosophy. Another example, familiar to all of us who studied Latin, is that highly inflected languages (ones in which word endings suffice to indicate sentence structure) can use variations of word order to convey nuances impossible with English. Our English word order is severely constrained by having to serve as the main clue to sentence structure. If English becomes a world language, that won't be because English was necessarily the best language for diplomacy.”
Source: The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
“Isn’t life a collection of weird quizzes with no answers to half the questions?”
Source: Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
“Isn't life wonderful, isn't life marvelous? Everything good is happening right now all at once, every second, minute, and hour of the day!”
“Isn't love all about letting someone step into your heart and keeping the door open in case they want to leave?”
“Isn't love beautiful? It drives sane people insane!”
“Isn't love the emanation of desire or just a statement of emptiness in expectation? As we long for what is missing and finally hold it, could it be that we may not crave it anymore in the end? Still, if we learn to "enjoy" the precious moments of its presence, it can remain a captivating experience and a mesmerizing adventure. If it keeps on overwhelming us with "joy," love can turn into a magic prism and make it possible to discover a rainbow of twinkles and enchanting sceneries. As our imagination constantly discerns new qualities, the sparkle of love does not expire in the boredom of forgetfulness. (“Twilight of desire“)”
“isn't lying supposed to be a 'sin'? Or is it okay to lie when trying to make people you hate look bad?”
Source: The Time Saving Agency
“Isn’t much of our great poetry just a rich description of the ‘self’ in fall?
The art keeps alive the feeling of complete control. Yet it is only lyrical mastery of the destruction of the place we thought our home. Our universal lament, the unwantedness of a world where a soul must suffer to grow. The beloved song, resonating the reverberations of a breaking heart.”
Source: Ethics of Life: freedom and diversity
“Isn’t New York’s motto, “Give me your tired, your poor, your undersexed”?”
Source: The Queen of Gay Street
“Isn’t our goal to become increasingly like Jesus? We get to know the Master because we live with him. As apprentices you and I can’t have a relationship with Him just because we have read a book about his way of life. While I may admire the man, that is like saying I am like Winston Churchill just because I read one of his memoirs.”
Source: Becoming a Face of Grace: Navigating Lasting Relationship with God and Others
“Isn't political freedom an American right? That is what always horrifies me about these righteous purges; the implicit denial of our constitutional rights. We forget sometimes that the essence of democracy is to question. In those days, people thought- some still do- that liberal meant Communist. To me a liberal is one who moves slightly left when the Fascists get too strong and slightly right when the Communists get too pushy. A real liberal has to be flexible that way.”
Source: Myrna Loy: being and becoming
“Isn't post-modernism really one big cover-up for the failure of the French to write a truly interesting novel ever since a sports car ate Albert Camus?”
“Isn't that a bad idea?" "Bad ideas don't work.”
Source: Semi-Scripted
“Isn't that a kind of prayer? The care and maintenance of the web of our noticing, the paying heed?”
Source: Findings
“Isn’t that all identity is? The face the world lets you wear, the voice it doesn’t question, the name it echoes back without a stutter.”
Source: Returning My Face: A Chilling Sci-Fi Thriller Where Someone Wants to Erase You and Live the Life They Always Wanted
“Isn't that always the way adult life begins? You think you'll become something different, something new. At first, you swim violently against the tide, your body straining until your muscles give out, until you can't push any harder, until you stop fighting and float, letting the water take you back to shore, where the rest of the world is already at the office, typing on their computers beneath fluorescent lights, toiling away in the glare of permanent productive daylight.”
Source: Ripe
“Isn't that how falling in love so often works? Some stranger appears out of nowhere and becomes a fixed star in your universe.”
“Isn't that how most conflicts start? With a gross miscalculation of the possibilities of escalation? A village first, then a peninsula, and then a continent? It is cold up here, commander. Cold and distant. Just a point in space from their viewpoint - valuable but aesthetically detached.”
Source: Gunpowder Moon
“Isn't that how the world is going to change? By each of us putting ourselves out there, facing despair, and taking care of one another?”
Source: Blessed, Beautiful Now: How I Embraced The Present By Celebrating My Past And Learned to Love Life Again
“Isn’t that how the world works? The despair of one becomes the joy of another.”
Source: As Night Falls
“Isn’t that momentous? Women! A krewe of women. Turning the tide on men! We are making history here. Yes, this moment! Making history.” The woman had barely taken a breath. She tapped Constance on the arm and picked up her fork to begin her hors d’oeuvre of boudin-stuffed mushrooms.
Constance leaned toward the woman as if wishing to speak more directly. In truth, she wanted to see the name on the place card. She had time to make out only the first name: Marianne. “Ah, yes, Marianne,” she said. “It is history, isn’t it? You are so very right.”
“It is time that women spoke up for themselves, did for themselves, and we are part of that wave that will surely come to shore when we get the vote. But for now, having our own ball will have to suffice.”
The woman turned to her neighbor on the other side.
“Indeed.” Constance finished the last bit of mushroom, speaking to the air. Her fork clanged on the plate as the uniformed server whisked it away. It was replaced immediately with a sumptuous, but unpretentious luncheon plate of shrimp and asparagus, with a decorative sprig of green grapes.”
Source: The Seamstress of New Orleans
“Isn't that sweet?' Hyacinthe says, the first words I've heard him speak. 'Riding your sister's horse into battle. Have you anything of your own, prince? Or just girls' castoffs and scraps?”
Source: The Stolen Heir
“Isn’t that the greatest tragedy? When someone rejects us, no matter how they abuse our love, we hope against reason that somehow they will come back to us.”
Source: Mrs. Tuesday's Departure
“Isn’t that the hypocrisy of violence? That we do unto others what we are appalled by when they do it unto us?”
Source: Wardragon
“Isn't that the point of art—to tame the monsters in us?”
Source: Rebel Witch
“Isn't that the restaurant cookbook you used in Japan - the book with the infamous quinoa tambale recipe?
I can't believe you remember that.
Of course I do! No quinoa available in Japan so you had me smuggle a baggie of it from New Zealand.
Don't talk like that [I whispered, as I saw heads turning everywhere.] Even though this is California, not everyone knows what quinoa is. Someone might think it is contraband -
No, the truth is it's a biological weapon. [Hugh exploded in great honking laughter.”
Source: The Samurai's Daughter
“Isn't that the tie Lily bought for your birthday?"
Evan looked down to examine it. It was paisley, a kaleidoscope of color. "Yes it is, as a matter of fact. Good memory. What do you think? Too much?"
"It doesn't matter what I think."
"But you don't like it."
"I think that if you want to wear it, you should wear it."
Evan seemed momentarily undecided. "Why do you do that?"
"Do what?"
"Refuse to answer a simple question."
"Because my opinion is irrelevant. You should wear what you want."
"Just tell me, okay?"
"I don't like your tie."
"Really? Why not?"
"Because it's ugly."
"It's not ugly."
Colin nodded. "Okay."
"You don't know what you're talking about."
"Probably."
"You don't even wear ties."
"You're right."
"So why do I care what you think?"
"I don't know."
Evan scowled. "Talking to you can be infuriating, you know."
"I know. You've said that before."
"Of course I've said it before! Because it's true! Didn't we just talk about this the other night? You don't have to say whatever pops into your head."
"But you asked."
"Just ... Oh, forget it." He turned and started back toward the house. "I'll talk to you later, okay?"
"Where are you going?"
Evan walked a couple of steps before answering without turning around. "To change my damn tie. And by the way Margolis was right. Your face still looks like it was run through a meat grinder."
Colin smiled. "Hey, Evan!"
Evan stopped and turned. "What?"
"Thanks."
"For what?"
"For everything."
"Yeah, yeah. You're just lucky I won't tell Lily what you said."
"You can if you'd like. I already told her."
Evan starred. "Of course you did.”
Source: See Me
“Isn't that the tragedy of growing up though? One day you wake up and realize that everything you are and everything you feel is not much different from what everyone else feels.”
Source: Coffee at Little Angels
“Isn't that the way everything begins? A night, a love, a once and for all.”
Source: Once and for All
“Isn’t that the way God works? She’d thought. He takes the things in our lives that are ugly, disgusting, and downright wicked, and transforms them into something magnificent.”
Source: An Unforgivable Secret
“Isn't that ultimately, the deepest reason why we choose to leave the Jehovah's Witness cult - to be fully who we are?”
Source: EXiting the JW Cult: A Healing Handbook: For Current & Former Jehovah's Witnesses
“Isn’t that what all human art aims to do? Evoke empathy, whether pleasantly or violently?”
Source: Ballad for Jasmine Town
“Isn't that what every child wants even well into adulthood --- the opportunity to look their parents in the eye and see a glimmer of pride shining back at them?”
Source: They Call Her Dirty Sally
“Isn’t that what growing up means, learning to be disappointed by your parents? You’ve said it is accepting them as human, but that’s the same damn thing, Lito. Seeing your parents as humans instead of the perfect, loving caretakers of your childhood is accepting disappointment and learning to live with it. Childhood is a lie. The end.”
Source: The First Sister
“Isn't that what I always think when I get The Poor Motherless Girl Look? Like I've been shoved out of the airplane without a parachute because mothers are the parachutes.”
Source: I'll Give You the Sun
“Isn’t that what it means to be a scientist? To push the boundaries of the unknown? To bravely, actively explore the enormity of our universe ?”
Source: Brainwalker
“Isn’t that what love is? Giving your heart to someone, knowing only they have the power to make it bleed? Because no one else on the earth matters as much as them. Even with the knowledge that heartache is assured, our hearts are willing sacrifices.”
Source: High Seas
“Isn’t that what loving someone is? Taking a chance every single day that they’ll stick around? That the rug won’t get pulled out from under you?”
Source: Finding His Redemption
“Isn’t that what matters now, anyway? Behind closed doors can be flawed, as long as Facebook says joy.”
Source: Through the Wall
“Isn’t that what sickness is? A violence, in need of direction, channeled inward?”
Source: Coup de Grâce
“Isn't that what the process of making the art is for, to reveal yourself who you truly are? Let the blank page whisper to you.”
Source: The Arrival of Someday
“Isn't that what we all long to find? The person who helps us to live a better life as the best version of ourselves that we can be?”
Source: Big 3
“Isn’t that why all writers write? To inspire their readers?”
Source: The Salinger Contract
“Isn't that why men fear witches anyway? A woman using her powers to destroy them.”
Source: The Amalfi Curse
“Isn’t that wonderful? That feeling of not knowing too much about something… Incomplete information… Endless possibilities… When you don’t know much about something, it’s the most exciting sensation.
-Kutsnetz in TALUS”
Source: Talus
“Isn’t the best revenge a well-lived life?”
Source: In Limbo
“Isn't the human body a miracle”