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 fun to feel exceptional--to be the loophole woman, to have a whole power thing, to be an honorary man. But if you are the exception that proves the rule, and the rule is that women are inferior, you haven't made any progress.”
Source: Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture
“It can be hard at times, but you must trust God. You shouldn't take things into your own hands. He always knows best.”
Source: Shattered Memories
“It can be hard for the cute girl. I was blond, cute, broke. I was beat up. I was thrown inside lockers. I was burned with cigarettes. My hair was lit on fire.”
“It can be hard, out there during a tough race or long run gone wrong, to remember that we choose these mental and physical tests. We are fortunate to experience these events.”
Source: Training For Ultra: Ultra Running Stories From the Middle of the Pack
“It can be hard to believe that someone wont leave.”
Source: Love Letters to the Dead
“It can be hard to feel like you have to start from scratch when you have invested so much time with a person, but shortly after my break up I realized something: I wasn't losing the chance to have love - I was getting the opportunity to do it all over again.”
“It can be hard to find time sometimes, but it's all about motivating yourself. I do whatever I can whenever I can.”
“It can be hard to live a life without love and hope, watch the years go by uneventfully. You start seeing life as the real tragedy and death as a blessing.”
Source: The Red Island: The Gatekeeper
“It can be hard to make the complexity of what I'm feeling translate into something others can see.”
“It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from us.”
“It can be heartbreaking when you find out that your fairytale image of the world doesn't match the reality.”
“It can be held certain that information that is withheld or suppressed contains truths that are detrimental to the persons involved in the suppression.”
“It can be helpful simply to make a written or mental list of the things you do each day. Then give yourself a mental credit for each of them, however small. This will help you focus on what you have done instead of what you haven't gotten around to do. It may sound simplistic, but it works.”
Source: Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy
“It can be helpful to remember that the enlightened mind and the ordinary mind are two sides of the same coin. The mind is like the sea, which can be rough on the surface, with mountainous waves stirred up by ferocious wind, but calm and peaceful at the bottom. Sometimes we can catch sight of this peaceful mind even in times of trouble. These glimpses of peace show us that we may have more inner resources to draw upon than we had realized. With skill and patience, we can learn how to be in touch with our peaceful selves.”
“IT CAN BE HELPFUL TO THINK OF
THEM EATING YOUR FAVORITE FOODS
AND OCCASIONALLY THROWING UP
AND GETTING BITS STUCK
IN THEIR NOSES.”
“It can be here today and gone tomorrow.”
“It can be immensely taxing, both emotionally and physical, to harbor a grudge.”
“It can be kind of gruesome at times, making things alone.”
“It can be kind of gruesome at times, making things alone. I don't want to be too dramatic, but it's hard. It's necessary to start most work alone.”
“It can be liberating to get fired because you realize the world doesn't end. There's other ways to make money, better jobs.”
“It can be lonely,' Mrs. Elm said. 'Being here. Just sitting. I felt like the game was up. Like a lonely king on a board. You see, I don't know how you remember me, but outside of school I wasn't always the—' She hesitated. 'I've let people down. I haven't always been easy. I've done things I regret. I was a bad wife. Not always a good mother, either. People have given up a little on me, and I don't entirely blame them.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“It can be made only when one recognizes the ground of being itself, when one recognizes directly that One is All.”
“It can be met only by a right understanding, on the part of all classes, of what kinds of labor are good for men, raising them, and making them happy; by a determined sacrifice of such convenience, or beauty, or cheapness as is to be got only by the degradation of the workman; and by equally determined demand for the products and results of healthy and ennobling labor.”
Source: The stones of Venice / by John Ruskin ... ; with illustrations drawn by the author. 2. Volume 2 1853 [Leather Bound]
“It can be much harder to be on the receiving end of a transaction than to be the one who gets to give. In fact, being given to can mean being taken from. There is a very strong connection between pride and giving, and those who do the giving get to feel that they are worthy, while those who are given to often feel that they are not.”
“It can be nerve wracking if you walk into the interview and you're not sure what to expect.”
“It can be no dishonor to learn from others when they speak good sense.”
Source: Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus
“It can be objected that I am speaking of political freedom in spiritual terms, but the political institutions of any nation are always menaced and are ultimately controlled by the spiritual state of that nation. We are controlled here by our confusion, far more than we know, and the American dream has therefore become something much more closely resembling a nightmare, on the private, domestic, and international levels. Privately, we cannot stand our lives and dare not examine them; domestically, we take no responsibility for (and no pride in) what goes on in our country; and, internationally, for many millions of people, we are an unmitigated disaster.”
Source: The Fire Next Time
“It can be of no practical use to know that Pi is irrational, but if we can know, it surely would be intolerable not to know.”
“It can be overwhelming to think how many items or services we use on a daily basis that have been made possible by countless contributions of people worldwide.”
“It can be powerful to write the name of a person you have kissed or even just someone you wish you had kissed, on a scrap of paper where no one else can see, or carved into the trunk of a tree where everyone can. It is even powerful just to write it down in your mind when you are alone.”
Source: Poison for Breakfast
“It can be proven that wounded people wound others. Walk circumspectly among wounded people, their injuries are deeply submerged in their brain's amygdala, and without the time-tested practice of emotional intelligence, you might find yourself scarred by association. Give your associations time to reveal their emotional intelligence or lack thereof; employers measure their associates seasonally, quarterly, and or annually; but ask yourself the question: (Q) WHY haven't you?”
“It can be quite challenging to constantly remind ourselves that the reality we experience is merely a construct of our own minds. Despite our efforts to ground ourselves in the present, we often find ourselves getting caught up in the illusion of this fabricated world. However, it is imperative that we do not lose sight of the fact that none of this is real. The material possessions, societal norms, and societal expectations that we often place great value on are merely man-made constructs. It is crucial to maintain a sense of detachment and perspective, and to remember that ultimately, true reality lies beyond the physical realm.”
Source: Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia
“It can be quite lonely at the bottom of a rabbit hole.”
“It can be really exasperating to look back at your past. What’s the matter with you? I want to ask her, my younger self, shaking her shoulder. If I did that, she would probably cry. Maybe I would cry, too. It would be like one of those Marguerite Duras books I tried to read in Svetlana’s aunt’s apartment.
Elle pleure.
Il pleure.
Ils pleurent, tous les deux.”
Source: The Idiot
“It can be really frightening for young people to see their parents fighting. Remember, you're not alone and there are people out there who can support you.”
“It can be really painful to have to face how fucked up shit is and how scared people are…of being alive. Scared of things that are amazing. Scared of things that aren’t like television or aren’t dead. A lot of people can’t deal with three-dimensional human beings, they only know how to deal with other products — they see themselves as other products. When the world only treats you like a dot on a marketing scheme, you can learn to treat yourself and other people like that.”
“It can be really powerful to write something when youre sad.”
“It can be really weird to say, 'Hey man, let's make a record and start with this horrible zither sound.' But I was obsessed with the idea of taking a sound and completely phenomenologically thrashing it."”
“It can be rebuilt if other countries with selfish interests will not meddle, as has been done in the past.”
“It can be rough going to maintain both composure and empathy in these situations, but a doctor's failure to do that is probably the number one reason why patients feel dissatisfied with their physicians and end up doctor-shopping endlessly.”
Source: What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine
“It can be sad how time may change things in our lives, yet let us not forget we always maintain the power to choose whether or not to be happy about the changes it brings.”
“It can be said of him, when he departed he took a Man's life with him. No sounder piece of British manhood was put together in that eighteenth century of Time.”
“It can be said of optimism that while sometimes mistaken, it is never sadly mistaken.”
“It can be said that politics is dependent upon economics and economics upon culture.”
Source: Destiny of Liberty
“It can be said that the first half of the marathon is 20 miles long; the second half, 6.2 more.”
Source: Marathon: The Ultimate Training Guide: Advice, Plans, and Programs for Half and Full Marathons
“It can be said that the laws of attractions are simply the art of expectation.”
Source: Resistance To Intolerance
“It can be said that the sun shines for us. That it and everything else were made by God for us.”
Source: In Limbo
“It can be said that there are four basic and primary things that the mass of people in a society wish for: to live in a safe environment, to be able to work and provide for themselves, to have access to good public health and to have sound educational opportunities for their children.”
Source: Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations
“It can be said that wealth is still useless without the aid of knowledge.”
“It can be said unequivocally that good teaching is far more complex, difficult, and demanding than mediocre research, which may explain why professors try so hard to avoid it.”
Source: Killing the Spirit: Higher Education in America