I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It can be argued that rapists deserve to be raped, that mutilators deserve to be mutilated. Most societies, however, refrain from responding in this way because the punishment is not only degrading to those on whom it is imposed, but it is also degrading to the society that engages in the same behavior as the criminals.”
“It can be argued that the history of the United States is an uninterrupted cavalcade of such transformative moments. Walt was a devotee of the eternal process of becoming, one of the creative American geniuses that continually advanced our art and technology while preserving so much of our past. As usual, with the panoramic view from the riverboat landing, Disneyland gets both the overall patterns and the tiny details of this eternal magic moment just right.”
“It can be argued that the mathematics behind these images [of the orbit diagram for quadratic functions and the Mandelbrot set] is even prettier than the pictures themselves.”
“It can be argued that the U.S. brokerage and investment banking industry has transformed the modern American stock market into nothing more than a mechanism for transferring wealth from shareholders to management.”
Source: Crash Proof 2.0: How to Profit From the Economic Collapse
“It can be boring to see the same players winning every time.”
“It can be brave to hate. Sometimes it’s like hope.”
Source: The Stolen Heir
“It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.”
“It can be challenging, even intimidating, to imagine ourselves and what our lives would look like without our story.”
Source: Judge Your Mother: Question what you think and turn your life around
“It can be coins or sports or politics or horses or music or faith... the saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last.”
Source: Dear John
“It can be concluded that to believe in predestination is to deprive us of our free will. No freedom, but we are all slaves to our actions.”
Source: Destiny of Liberty
“It can be considered a rule that the probable duration of an Empire may be prognosticated by the degree to which its rulers believe in their own propaganda.”
Source: Documents relating to the sentimental agents in the Volyen Empire
“It can be consoling to think your children are in heaven. You have got to understand that that doesn't make it true. Many people cannot understand that distinction.”
“It can be dangerous to ask a question when you already know the answer.”
Source: Sometimes I Lie
“It can be dangerous to weaken the strong in our attempts to strengthen the weak.”
“It can be demonstrated from history that no society has ever survived after its family life deteriorated.”
“It can be demonstrated that in any society there is a distribution of religious tastes and concerns.”
“It can be demonstrated that the child's contact with the real world is strengthened by his periodic excursions into fantasy. It becomes easier to tolerate the frustrations of the real world and to accede to the demands of reality if one can restore himself at intervals in a world where the deepest wishes can achieve imaginary gratification.”
“It can be depressing when no one takes interest, and a lack of response makes the writer question why they’re writing at all. To have one’s writing rejected is like you, yourself, are being rejected.”
Source: Apollo Weeps
“It can be difficult for us to realize what an immense role family plays in our lives, but rest assured – we can credit a great deal of our personal success to those who guided us through our most vulnerable years.”
“It can be difficult going through a period of time where you feel depressed because it can become your identifier. In the sense that you wake up, you're depressed; you talk to your friends, you're complaining that you're depressed; you talk to your parents, you're unmotivated. You know what you could do to try to overcome it - although obviously there's no cure - but you start to feel like, 'what will happen to me if I feel better? Who am I when I'm happy. I'm so used to feeling like this.'”
“It can be difficult sometimes for our families to accept us as people separate from who they are. As separate souls. When we’re young, we’re taught to behave as our parents do—to cherish what they cherish and believe what they believe. And for a while, that’s as it should be. But as adults, sometimes we have our own desires, our own hopes, that are at odds with how our parents view the world.”
Source: The Second Mrs. Astor
“It can be difficult to be an introvert in church, especially if you happen to be the pastor. Liking to be alone can be interpreted as a judgment on other people's company. Liking to be quiet can be construed as aloofness. There is so much emphasis on community in most congregations that anyone who does not participate risks being labeled a loner.”
Source: An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith
“It can be difficult to be subtle and not cartoony in prosthetics. But when you see characters like Bubbles and Desiree from 'Little Britain' on screen, it makes all the hard work worth it. It's such fun watching those transformations.”
“It can be difficult to find common ground when all some wish to discuss is our differences.”
“It can be difficult to find the places where fiction ends and fact begins, but perhaps that's imply a part of the process of traveling, or visiting places where the customs and cultures and laws of physical reality are different than they are here”
Source: Where the Drowned Girls Go
“It can be difficult to identify and acknowledge activities and goals that we have long since avoided.”
“It can be difficult to leave a long-term relationship, even when our inner-wisdom tells us it's time to let go. At this point, we can choose let go and endure the intense pain of leaving behind the familiar to make way for a new chapter in our life. Or we can stay and suffer a low-grade pain that slowly eats away at our heart and soul, like an emotional cancer. Until we wake up, one day and realize, we are buried so deep in the dysfunction of the relationship that we scarcely remember who we were and what we wanted and needed to be.”
“It can be difficult to mediate a compromise between what I have in my head and what the musician has in mind, which is often 180° different when it comes to the finished product, so it requires that element of trust from somewhere. The point I make to them is "You've seen what I do, so just trust me and we will come up with something exciting."”
“It can be difficult to overcome this initial bias if you do not maintain an open mind.”
Source: sciVive
“It can be difficult to present mental illness in film without resorting to devices that, if not handled well, can seem heavy-handed or cliché.”
“It can be difficult to run your own firm, but the trade off is fewer conflicts and more control.”
“It can be difficult to speak truth to power. Circumstances, however, have made doing so increasingly necessary.”
Source: Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays
“It can be disconcerting when people around us change. Family members and especially parents frequently resist acknowledging transformation in other family members. Depending upon the nature of the personality modification, they might even resent if it a family member changes as any fundamental personality revision by a member of a family alters the group’s identity as well.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“It Can Be Done
An inspirational poem from a loving Mother to her child
It can be done!
Yes, we have to believe it
We have seen God do miracles for others
And we know He has power
To turn the situation around
It can be done!
It does not matter what happened in the past
It may seem impossible
But highly possible
To the Lord of all possibilities
It can be done!
Even if you have failed before
You can still try once more
Work until you are sure
Of a better outcome
It can be done!
As long as you do it with passion
Just go on your knees and say a prayer
Make sure you prosper
Because it can be done!”
Source: From My Mother's Classroom: A Badge of Honour for a Remarkable Woman
“It can be done. It will be done.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“It can be done, but you have to make it happen.”
“It can be easier, sometimes, to choose to love someone you know won't return your feelings. At least you know how that will end. It's easier to accept hurt and pain, sometimes, than love and acceptance. It's the real, loving relationships that can be the scariest.”
Source: Felix Ever After
“It can be easily seen that there will be no manifestation, nor attraction of anything without setting your mindset upon expectations.”
Source: Resistance To Intolerance
“It can be easy and comfortable on the set and you don't go anywhere, or it can be a stress machine and all of a sudden it's a hit.”
“It can be easy for an actor to go "Well I really have to do a lot" and then just saying "I don't need to do anything, I'm not bound to do anything".”
“It can be easy to get caught up in craziness or insecurity.”
“It can be easy to love all beings from a distance; it can be a great challenge when we have to live with them.”
“It can be exalting to belong to a church that is five hundred years behind the times and sublimely indifferent to fashion; it is mortifying to belong to a church that is five minutes behind the times, huffing and puffing to catch up.”
“It can be exhausting eating a meal cooked by a man. With a woman, it's, Ho hum, pass the beans. A guy, you have to act like he just built the Taj Mahal.”
Source: The Queen of Everything
“It can be exhausting living a guarded, secluded life. Let’s manage our time wisely and make time to connect with others because we are better together.”
“It can be extremely difficult to discern evil hearts because their intention is to look good, not be good.”
Source: The Emotionally Destructive Relationship: Seeing It, Stopping It, Surviving It
“It can be fairly argued that the highest priority for mankind is to save itself from extinction. However, it can also be argued th at a society that neglects its children and robs them of their human potential can extinguish itself without an external enemy.”
Source: Every child's birthright: in defense of mothering
“It can be frightening to spend 5 weeks alone in a cabin in the wilderness. I was able to collect my thoughts and worked a lot - because I couldn't do anything else.”
“It can be frustrating and even frightening to observe the success which sometimes comes to outlaws and rogues who seem to refute notions of universal justice. Every time we see a villain enjoying the fruits of dishonorable acts we find ourselves doubting the value of character and the validity of the virtues we have been taught. Thus, it takes character to believe in character, but that belief is always rewarded, often by material success, but always by the esteem it earns from those who matter.”
“It can be frustrating to see how society has taken the sacred out of everything.”