I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It can’t be done,” they told the caterpillar. “It can,” replied the butterfly.”
“It can't be taught to all, but people who deliver exceptional work, merely by relaying their passion through what they say and do in the workplace, are priceless.”
Source: The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
“It can't be that life is so senseless and horrible. But if it really has been so horrible and senseless, why must I die and die in agony? There is something wrong!”
Source: The Death of Ivan Ilych
“It can't be. They would never do that again.
But they had. Ciena couldn't deny what she saw-
-a second Death Star.”
Source: Lost Stars
“it can't be wrong, if it feels so wrong”
Source: And That’s Why I’m Single
“It can't just be about the other person. You have to be someone, too. You have to know who you are.”
Source: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“It can't really be you," he said. "I know it can't."
"Why not?" Isobel asked, offering him a rueful smile. "I mean, don't you think it's at all romantic, the idea that love could conquer death?”
Source: Oblivion
“It can take a few months to get a new 10 minutes. Usually it takes like 10 times of repeatedly trying different variations of a joke until I land on one I think is really good.”
“It can take a lifetime to build something worthwhile. Those who stick with it, build a legacy without regrets.”
“It can take a long time for some people to find out how to ground themselves, and film sets are an odd atmosphere to do it in - especially if, like me, you finished school early.”
“It can take a long time to get the rules in place that are conducive to growing, sometimes.”
“It can take a long time to see the light;
sometimes it creeps ever-so-slowly under the door and other times, we’re blinded by it.”
“It can take a surprisingly long time to get from one part of my mind to another.”
Source: All I Want is a Warm Bed and a Kind Word and Unlimited Power: Even More Brilliant Thoughts
“It can take days to get rescheduled on a budget airline if they cancel your flight.”
“It can take forever for a willing underachieving to reverse his underachievement and become an achiever. There are about a handful of reasons for this. His empowerment needs for which he needs help with, his basic needs according to his age, his mental language and skills he must master typically slows down the process of reversal.”
“It can take greater courage to stand in opposition to the views of your neighbors or nation than to confront an enemy in combat.”
Source: A time of war, a time of peace
“It can take many days, many years for the dream to be fulfilled.”
“It can take years of tears to melt the hardness that develops in this world, covering our tender, gentler inner selves. Tears for every devastating loss, tears for every humiliating failure, tears for every repeated mistake. Those who honor those tears, and even honor them, are not failures at love but rather its true initiates. First the pain and then the power. First the heart breaks and then it soars.”
“It can take years to earn respect, but it only takes one day to lose it.”
“It can take years to mold a dream. It takes only a fraction of a second for it to be shattered.”
Source: The Kiss of Deception
“It can take years. With the first draft, I just write everything. With the second draft, it becomes so depressing for me, because I realize that I was fooled into thinking I'd written the story. I hadn't-I had just typed for a long time. So then I have to carve out a story from the 25 or so pages. It's in there somewhere-but I have to find it. I'll then write a third, fourth, and fifth draft, and so on.”
“It can therefore be said that, from the viewpoint of the doctrine of the faith, there are no difficulties in explaining the origin of man in regard to the body, by means of the theory of evolution.”
“it can use laws, regulations, and outright coercion to come out on top: a determined government is always going to win the battle for currency supremacy, at least in the long run. Other transaction media may thrive, but the government currency will be at the center.”
Source: The Curse of Cash
“IT can weave all crucial business elements such as people, process, and technology into organizational competencies for running a living and fluid digital organization.”
Source: Digital It: 100 Q&as
“It can't always be a honeymoon”
Source: Man and Boy: A Novel
“It can't be 'true' love without the truth”
“It can't be all you. Just like you need air to fly a kite. It's not the kite. It's the air.”
“It can't be any new note. When you look at the keyboard, all the notes are there already. But if you mean a note enough, it will sound different. You got to pick the notes you really mean!”
“It can't be any simpler: the farewell is going to be on the Champs-Elysees.”
“It can't be bought. It can't be taught. It must be caught.”
“It can't be dead. It was alive just a minute ago.”
“It can't be Nature, for it is not sense.”
“It can't be overstated how wonderful it is not to have to audition any more. Any actor will tell you, it's like Christmas.”
“It can't be pretty without being ugly first.”
“It can't be Sunday every day. There are also Mondays and Tuesdays.”
“It can't be supposed," said Joe. "Tho' I'm oncommon fond of reading, too." Are you, Joe?" Oncommon. Give me," said Joe, "a good book, or a good newspaper, and sit me down afore a good fire, and I ask no better. Lord!" he continued, after rubbing his knees a little, "when you do come to a J and a O, and says you, 'Here, at last, is a J-O, Joe,' how interesting reading is!”
Source: Great Expectations (Illustrated)
“It can't happen here is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.”
“It can't have been fun to live with somebody whose brain was under siege.”
“It can't help but knock things down.”
“It can't hurt to have a backup.”
“It can't hurt, publicity is publicity, controversy and all that, it's all good.”
“It can't only be men who are the focus of assault prevention. Women should be too. To say that that puts the blame on victims to have to prevent their own assault is crap and has to be treated as crap.”
“It can't possibly last for years and browsing has its limits. Only a certain amount is healthy or wise.”
“It can't rain all the time.”
“It cannot be a vice in men to be sensible of their strength.”
Source: La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims
“It cannot be an American fight. And I think what the president [Barack Obama] has consistently said - which I agree with - is that we will support those who take the fight to ISIS. That is why we have troops in Iraq that are helping to train and build back up the Iraqi military, why we have special operators in Syria working with the Kurds and Arabs, so that we can be supportive.”
“It cannot be called freedom, a freedom which can choose only the right and not the wrong; then that is not freedom.”
“It cannot be considered success unless you are smiling.”
“It cannot be denied that as institutions, churches do good work. They operate schools and hospitals. Their charity outreaches, which take care of the homeless, sick, and hungry, have real impacts on communities. And while there are certainly hellfire-and-brimstone preachers around, there is counterweight in Presbyterian and Methodist ministers, who are grounded in a modicum of rationality, using Biblical stories as fables to teach psychological and ethical principles.”
Source: More Likely to Quote Star Wars than the Bible: Generation X and Our Frustrating Search for Rational Spirituality
“It cannot be denied that Fascism and similar movements aiming at the establishment of dictatorships are full of the best intentions and that their intervention has, for the moment, saved European civilization. The merit that Fascism has thereby won for itself will live on eternally in history.”
Source: The free and prosperous commonwealth: an exposition of the ideas of classical liberalism