I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It breaks my heart to think about a family weeping over the loss of a loved one. I understand the anguish that some feel about the death that takes place.”
“It breaks my heart when couples focus more on being wed than being married. Two become one doesn't happen without work, humility, and sacrifice.”
“It breaks towards the center of the earth when it is above the hole.”
“It breaks your heart when you throw something away, but it's what left that counts. It's like worrying about the bits of rock you have knocked off in order to make a beautiful statue. You've wasted half the rock, yeah, but it's the Venus di Milo!”
“It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.”
“It brewed in her as she eyed the pages full to the brims of their bellies with paragraphs and words. You bastards, she thought. You lovely bastards. Don’t make me happy. Please, don’t fill me up and let me think that something good can come of any of this.”
Source: Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the Messenger
“It bring a tear to my eye to see native New York people give me my props because New York is stubborn and arrogant.”
“It brings a lump into the throat to see how they go over, and run and fall. A man would like to spank them, they are so stupid, and to take them by the arm and lead them away from here where they have no business to be. They wear grey coats and trousers and boots, but for most of them the uniform is far too big, it hangs on their limbs, their shoulders are too narrow, their bodies too slight; no uniform was ever made to these childish measurements.”
Source: All quiet on the western front
“It brings back a long-forgotten memory of Christmas, the year I turned six. I was supposed to be in bed, but I was up waiting and watching for my father or Santa Claus, whoever came first.”
Source: Take Me There
“It brings comfort to have companions in whatever happens.”
“It brings joy in sorrow, victory in battle, light to darkness, life to the dead. That is the power of the blood-red jewel which men honor with the name "The Philosopher's Stone.”
“It brings me
back to the moment,
and I want to live
the moment with everything I’ve got.”
Source: The Day Before
“It brings me great grief and sadness to hear of the passing of one of the best and most respected trainers of this era, Emanuel Steward. I learned a lot from him during our professional relationship and I will be forever grateful for his help during that time. We were also friends and I know I am going to miss him as so many others will too. He was an important part of our boxing community.”
“It brings me no joy and not enough comfort to dwell too much on things I've said or written or made or worn in the past.”
“It brings spiritual warfare and suffering for the priest as he identifies with those who suffer, and shares the frustrations, anger, and incomprehensibility of that suffering in what it does to those who suffer. The priest shares in these struggles of his suffering people, the uncertainties it brings, the sense of divine abandonment it induces, and the loneliness caused.”
“It brings tears of joy to a teacher’s eye when the student becomes a great success.”
“It brings us to a confrontation with that important perception of Finnegans Wake, that its apparent sense of affirmation, plurality, and multiplicity shades into or hides a stronger idea of nullity. From the infinitely meaningful, universally affirming, it is a short step to the opposite, to indifference, to voids of meaning and value.”
Source: Lots of Fun at Finnegans Wake: Unravelling Universals
“It broke her heart that the boy she loved was taken so tragically and so unexpectedly. She never got to say goodbye. She wished she could sit with him, talk to him, and hear his voice one last time. She would sacrifice anything to hug him and kiss him once more. The moment she lost Robert in that fateful accident, it was as if she had lost her reason for living, and she felt her life begin to race tragically towards its inevitable end.”
Source: أنجلينا فتاة من النمسا
“It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can't people say what they mean at the time?”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel
“It broke my heart when I learned the moon had been passing the sun’s light off as its own.”
“It broke my heart when my first band split up. I was 25 and we'd been together since we were 15. But it had to happen. There was a point when I knew I had to move on.”
“It broke the bounds of credibility, said the news, but lots of things in life break bounds of credibility. Breaking credibility, I was coming to understand, seemed to be what life was about.”
Source: Milkman
“It broke the spell. It's not that I stopped being happy. I was still inexplicably, utterly happy. But suddenly the happiness had implications.”
Source: Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List
“It brought back the memory of her sour breath blowing down his throat like a dirty wind from hell. (Paul Sheldon, pg. 161)”
Source: Misery
“It brought back to mind the injustice I spoke of, the solitude that oppresses women intent on defending their own destinies, their own dreams, their own mistakes.”
“It brought Pittsburgh into the picture of football teams in the National Football League that, ‘OK, you have to deal with us now.’”
“It brought tears to my eyes because, for the first time in my life, I was experiencing unconditional love.”
Source: Expert Witness: Testimony of a Former 4th Generation Jehovah's Witness
“It bugs me that people think my songs are personal because it means I have to explain myself all the time.”
“It bugs me when they have people my age [28] playing teenagers.”
“It bums me out tremendously what the church has become, and if it's got me bummed, imagine what Jesus Christ must be feeling.”
“It burned so much. I thought I might be bleeding. No, wait . . . I was bleeding.”
Source: The Naked Truth of a Healer: The Path to My Authentic Self
“It burns,
I know.
It burns
now,
now that
the story is over,
now that
the daybreak is liquid,
now that
my knees don't creak anymore
and the leaves are blowing
and the highway is humming,
and a few extra pounds is not
a terminal diagnosis.
It burns
in me too
healing me
but the ache is not for you.
It's for my passion.
That used to be your name.
And it's sad, really.
The sting of
too little
too late.”
“It burns the roof of my mouth, but I don’t mind. It’s a relief to feel something palpable, something immediate and aching to distract me from everything else, even if it’s only for a moment.”
Source: A Matter of Life and Death
“IT-business mutual understanding becomes so important to close the gap and reach the high level of digital maturity.”
Source: Digital Maturity: Take a Journey of a Thousand Miles from Functioning to Delight
“It by no means follows, that because two men utter the same words, they have precisely the same idea which they mean to express: language is inadequate to the variety of ideas which are conceived by different minds, and which, could they be expressed, would produce a new variety of characteristic differences between man and man.”
“It called her by name. Birdie. Songkeeper. Beloved. You are mine.”
Source: Orphan's Song
“It calls Devotion! genuine growth of night! Devotion! Daughter of Astronomy! An undevout astronomer is mad!”
“It calls for a new way of being, one that embraces the full spectrum of human experience, from triumph to failure, from joy to sorrow. It invites us to see ourselves not as isolated individuals battling against the world but as interconnected beings, capable of compassion, creativity, and transformation.”
Source: The Art of Forging Mettle: A Blueprint for the Evolution of Mental Toughness and Leadership for a Shifting World
“It calls to mind a famous line of George Carlin's: "Have you ever noticed that everyone driving than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?”
Source: Mindwise: How We Understand What Others Think, Believe, Feel, and Want
“It calmed me down to see that most of the time no-one gets the scene on the first take.”
“It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.”
“It came as a great shock to me when I heard that England and Soviet Russia had become allies. So much so that I thought that the people responsible in London were acting in a manner that no longer coincided with British imperial interests.”
“It came as a surprise to find that a professional society and journal (Econometrica) were flourishing, and I entered this area of study with great enthusiasm.”
“It came 'before the next' as what some may call the foundation - beyond traditions or old texts, and rationalizations: Education comes second, the progression of a nation; but 'Common Sense' is the treasure that sustains generations.”
“It came charging toward me, several hundred pounds of angry-looking monster, and I did the only thing any reasonable wizard could have done.
I turned around and ran like hell.”
Source: Death Masks
“It came down to the obvious point that all the union cared about was the money and these other things certainly didn't matter enough. It's a tremendous situation that they have and it has become burdensome for the teams. Yes, we're asking for some relief going forward. I don't think that was unreasonable.”
“It came down to the smallest things, really, that a person could do to say I’m sorry, to say it’s okay, to say I forgive you. The tiniest of declarations that built, one on top of the other, until there was something solid beneath your feet. And then… and then. Who knew?”
Source: Story of a Girl
“It came from God, and so is Christ true, and Christ is thy God, who is in heaven and awaits thee.”
“It came from my mother. She was a singer, and literally every day of the week she sang at a different club in a different genre of music: country, R&B clubs, jazz clubs, church on Sunday morning where she was the music director, pop hits, soft rock. I grew up listening to all this music, so it was never one thing for me.”
“It came home to me indelibly that I was never going to change anything in America by walking around carrying a sign. It was a great revelation. It saved me a lot of anxiety and a lot of wasted energy.”