I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It betrays a poverty of ambition if all you think about is what goods you can buy instead of what good you can do.”
“It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize this”
“It better to repent than be stubborn at heart in evil ways.”
“It bewildered Ig, the idea that a person could not be interested in music. It was like not being interested in happiness.”
Source: Horns
“It bewilders me when people speak to you rudely or are mean, because I'd never be that way.”
“It Bible opens up the doors in your life, and provides a purifying dynamic to help you clean out sin and learn to conform to God's will.”
Source: Living By the Book: The Art and Science of Reading the Bible
“It blew my mind that this stuff had survived for two thousand, three thousand years.”
Source: The lightning thief
“It blew my mind that what I was thinking was actually applicable to people's lives, and it certainly revolutionized family.”
“It blew my mind, reading Swing Time, that I could take any sentence in the book, and it was one of the most beautiful sentences written in English.”
“It blew with a rustling noise, as if all the demons had sprung from hell and decided to release a raspy long sigh together.”
Source: Lilacs in the Dust Bowl
“It bloomed in the bleak soil where her darkest dreams were born. Dire petals. Bloody thorns. An emotion perfectly cultivated. Sculpted with the violence she adored.”
Source: The Bloody Rose
“It blows a snowing gale in the winter of the year;
The boats are on the sea and the crews are on the pier.
The needle of the vane, it is veering to and fro,
A flash of sun is on the veering of the vane.
Autumn leaves and rain,
The passion of the gale.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)
“It blows my mind that anyone could be unkind to anyone.”
“It blows my mind that there are people out there who deny the holocaust. Why would you ever deny such a great achievement. It's like denying the cure for polio or something.”
“It blows my mind the way Frank Miller can write.”
“It bodes very ill for government when men are exalted to places of high trust through their own solicitations. He only fills a place with dignity who is invited to it by his fellow citizens from the experience they have had of his adequate abilities.”
Source: The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1778-1802
“It boggles my mind that someone can see life breathed into a baby, watch the grass die and then come to life again, see leaves fall and watch the rebirth of a tree, or gaze on any of the majestic splendor that is this earth and not be overpowered by the presence of an Almighty God!”
Source: From Ashes to Glory
“It boggles my mind that the same people who cry ‘foul’ about rationing an instant later argue to reduce health care benefits for the needy, to defund crucial programs of care and prevention, and to shift thousands of dollars of annual costs to people – elders, the poor, the disabled – who are least able to bear them.”
Source: Promising Care: How We Can Rescue Health Care by Improving It
“It boils down to how much do you really believe and want it.”
“It boils down to studenthood-in-perpetuity / curiosity-in-perpetuity / applied fanatic restlessness. That is, a belief that life is ONE BIG LEARNING EXPERIENCE. Something mysterious happens to a curious, fully engaged mind - and it happens as often as not, subconsciously. Strange little sparks are set off, connections made, insights triggered. The results: an exponentially increased ability to tune up / reinvent / WOW-ize today's project at work.”
“It boils down to this: we should have done with humbug, and let war be war, and not a game ... If there were none of this magnanimity business in warfare, we should never go to war, except for something worth facing certain death for.”
“It bombarded her with instant pleasure, instant pain and instant arousal, fact and fiction all mixed up and blurred together to create an Image.”
Source: Decades
“It borders on irresponsibility when people get on television and start talking that way when they should know better. They should do their homework, and they should report in a responsible manner. Unfortunately, it's a very competitive business, the business we're in, and there is a perception that by hyping up this threat, you draw people's attention.”
“It bothered me in a kind of Charles Manson way to have a brown smear of blood on my wall but I also liked it because every time I looked at it I was reminded that I was, at that very moment, not bleeding from my face. And those are powerful words of hope, really.”
“It bothered me that he was right. Without Sir Stuart's intervention, I'd have been dead again already. That's right--you heard me: dead again already. I mean, come on. How screwed up is your life (after- or otherwise) when you find yourself needing phrases like that?”
“It bothered me that we behaved differently when other people were at the arcade. It bothered me that we had to be different at different times. I wished we could always be ourselves.”
Source: Arcade
“It bothered me that whatever was waiting wasn't waiting for me”
Source: The play as theater
“It bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that you're associating with black people.”
“It bothers me how people need the truth to be sugar-coated to be palatable. And that it's my job to remember the sugar.”
Source: Social Queue
“It bothers me that no one has the patience to deal with someone who is just sad.”
“It bothers me that the average fan, the average sportswriter for that matter, pays so much attention to what's in a box score. A box score does not properly represent the most important thing - team play. It shows some guy scoring 27 points, but it doesn't show that my 27-point man let his guy score 30.”
“It bothers me that the executive branch is taking the amazing position that just on the president's say-so, any American citizen can be picked up, not just in Afghanistan, but at O'Hare Airport or on the streets of any city in this country, and locked up without access to a lawyer or court just because the government says he's connected somehow with the Taliban or Al Qaeda. That's not the American way. It's not the constitutional way.”
“It bothers me that you should have to look for someone special, as though I'm some sort of freak," I said.
"Some psychiatrists don't believe in multiple personalities." she reminded me.
"They don't believe in multiple personalities" Kendra mimicked as we left Dr. Brandenberg's office. "Since when does one have to have faith in a mental disorder?”
Source: The Flock: The Autobiography of a Multiple Personality
“It bothers me to hear people talk about things they know nothing about.”
“It bothers me to know there is the possibility that I as a Christian would be not only an underdog, but that I would be trodden upon if I claimed that I was a Christian.”
“It bothers me to read the comments of leaders of the Hamas and others who hate America that their goal is to have more weaponry capable of delivering all types of weapons of mass destruction.”
“It bothers me when I can't, for example, remember a name. I don't know if it's pre-senility or whether there are too many names packed in our brains.”
“It bothers me when I don't score.”
“It bothers me when I hear these reporters and jocks get on TV and say: 'Oh, no guy can come out in a team sport. These guys would go crazy.' First of all, quit telling me what I think. I'd rather have a gay guy who can play than a straight guy who can't play.”
“It bothers me when people, say, you know, write for, you know, a web publication and get paid little or nothing or, you know, expecting to, like, read the best newspapers in the world and not pay a cent for it. Those newspapers need money in order to operate.”
“It bothers me when the Hollywood elite are all so against people having guns and want rigorous gun restrictions.”
“It bothers them that instead of taking on the role of abandoned lover, I have become a happy wife. They relish seeing strong women like you and me humiliated. They cannot forgive us that we triumphed where so many others fail...Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a world that is out of balance, in favor of men. That is why they work so hard to mistreat and destroy us.”
“It [bourgeoisie] has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single, unconscionable freedom – Free Trade.”
Source: The Communist Manifesto
“It breaks my heart because there are some parts I know I would have the right spirit for, and I just don't get them because I have an accent.”
“It breaks my heart now to remember that Megan wanted to give Dennis the gift she made at school right away--in case Daddy dies before Christmas.”
Source: Future Widow: Losing My Husband, Saving My Family, and Finding My Voice
“It breaks my heart that I don't see my daughters every day, don't get to hug them and brush their hair.”
“It breaks my heart that my father never knew my children. He should have been around for another 25 years.”
“It breaks my heart to find myself within the cesspool of reality TV shows.”
“It breaks my heart to know that millions of gay Americans still can’t marry the one they love, and I can. That makes no sense.”
“It breaks my heart to see the enemy stealing from you, killing you from the inside out, and destroying your life (John 10:10). You think you’ve been in control this whole time, but you’ve been letting darkness rule your life. It doesn’t have to be this way. There is something better. Jesus isn’t some cosmic killjoy; He is the only one who knows why you’re here and what you were made for. He alone can lead you into true and lasting joy. As He said, ‘I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete’ (John 15:11). Just stop trying to play God and let Him call the shots for once.”
Source: Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose