I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It could hardly be made since the pyramids, it is thought, were erected in the predynastic age under the regency of Pharaoh Cheops. This pharaoh, who was also known as Khufu, lived between 2589 and 2566 BC, or one thousand years before the Hyksos (Levites) were ever heard of.”
“It could have been a month or, It could have been a year, But I, I gave up long before, Long before you cared.”
“It could have been a performance, the tragedian now. But at least a part of it was real. And it was real later when the deputy started to take him away.”
Source: The Expendable Man
“It could have been avoided. This couch misery spiral, this … loss … I could’ve avoided the bulk of it simply by doing more. I could’ve given a shit...”
Source: First & Then
“It could have been different," I say, almost under my breath. If I'd kissed Indie again after she kissed me. If I hadn't known Cassia before I met Indie.
"But it's not," Indie says, and she's right.”
Source: Reached
“It could have been like a fairy tale. But fairy tales aren't real. Things don't work like that. There's a price for everything.”
“It could have been so beautiful.
The way I learned and got free and swore to never love another person
ever again
and it could have been so beautiful,
the way I actually did.”
“It could have been the whole thing where you stabbed him.”
“It could have been worse. I could have been born black.”
“It could have happened lots of ways. But this is the way it happened. This is the path we took. This is our story.”
Source: P.S. I Still Love You
“It could just be a shift on the axis.”
“It could kill you," Maura said. Then there was the awkward moment that arrives when two thirds of the people in the room know that the other third is supposed to die in fewer than nine months, and the person who is meant to die is not one of the ones in the know.”
Source: The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)
“It could mean the end of everything. Everything. No more yesterdays remembered. No more todays walked through with determination. No more tomorrows to forge into something new.”
Source: Yesterday's Tides
“It could never be a correct justification that, because the whites oppressed us yesterday when they had power, that the blacks must oppress them today because they have power.”
“It could not always be love in the afternoon and passion in the night, gifts given, notes written, meals fed to each other. It can't all be like that.”
“It could not have been easy for Mother, an only child, to grow up without a father and with a mother who was remote. Photos of her as a child show her extremely dressed up --Cornie's beautiful little doll. But a daughter, unlike a doll, grows up, and might fall in love with and marry someone her mother does not like; she becomes an individual with her own ideas.”
“It could not have been ten seconds, and yet it seemed a long time that their hands were clasped together. He had time to learn every detail of her hand.”
Source: 1984
“It could plausibly be argued that far from Christian theology having hampered the study of nature for fifteen hundred years, it was Greek corruptions of biblical Christianity which hampered it.”
“It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.”
“It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.”
“It could reach up and grab the moon.”
Source: The golden apples of the sun
“It could safely be said that Iraqis are dying at a faster clip since the American-led invasion and occupation than they did during the last decade of Saddam Hussein's rule.”
“It could seem like you are losing something right now, but do not be fooled. This is simply a turnaround orchestrated by your soul. Let it go. Release it. If it was not supposed to be removing itself from you now, it would not be doing so.”
“It could still be a good night if you play your cards right.”
“It could truly be the case that Vladimir Putin has miscalculated in the long term with his adventure in Syria.”
“It could well be argued that the continuing rights abuses of the present Iraqi regime, if it is allowed to survive, will prove most distressing. This is beyond any doubt. But the West has been required to witness terrible scenes in China, Russia, Vietnam, East Timor, Cambodia, and many other parts of the world. It is simply not possible for the United States to impose humanity on a worldwide scale unless it is prepared to enter into permanent global war.”
“It could well be the end of justice in America. Do not let Mr. Reagan get his hands on that court.”
“It couldn’t be good to want something this bad. Want someone this bad. I’m just me. Oh God. I’m me, and he’s him.”
Source: Fire Down Below
“It couldn't be.
It... it couldn't be.
Bryce and Hunt were frozen with shock.
Ruhn whispered, "Day?"
Lidia Cervos looked over a shoulder. And she said with quiet calm in a voice he knew like his own heartbeat, a voice he had never once heard her use as the Hind, "Night.”
Source: House of Sky and Breath
“It couldn't even be called crying. Crying gave the impression of participation, action. But Tella was done acting. She could barely keep breathing.”
“It couldn't exactly be described as flying, what the two were doing. They were up even with the roofline, but they were barely moving - circling like cats, staring at each other with extraordinary intensity. The air fairly throbbed between them, and Kaz felt it like a punch in the gut.
Then Karou attacked the guy, and he felt much better.”
Source: Daughter of Smoke & Bone
“It couldn’t last. Everyone was just killing time. But if all they did was kill time, time would end up killing them.”
Source: Gone
“It couldn't be a simpler answer. Marriage doesn't really mean anything to me. I feel like in many ways marriage is more for the families of the couple than for the people involved, so I don't gravitate to it.”
“It couldn't be an all-bad world, could it, not with birds who warble and call? Maybe that was the secret - to find the few things that made life just a fraction better, and to focus on those. Bird warbles. Peach fuzz. Puppies barking as if they're full grown dogs. Nothing great, certainly nothing to justify the rest of it, but enough to keep you going.”
“It couldn't be the beer. Donnie McRory was certain of that. If you sent American beer out to be analyzed, the lab would probably phone up and say, 'Your horse has diabetes.”
Source: Bimbos of the Death Sun
“It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.”
Source: O. Henry's stories: Short Stories and Classic Literature
“It couldn't last of course. They both knew it. Not the evening, Not the holiday.”
Source: When You Were Mine: A Novel
“It couldn't pull a greased
stick out of a pig's bottom”
“It couldn't sound like a dog, because K9 isn't a dog, but I made it sound as mechanical as possible.”
“It couldn`t be clearer, any person who holds an office of trust is not allowed to accept favors or gifts from foreign governments.”
“It cracks my heart wide open to think of all of us out there, wandering the world, so deeply hungry to be known. Defying our own disbelief in search of rest and respite.
It is the most beautiful thing, this universal human longing. We have not given up on the idea that we might one day taste it, at least some sense of it. However brief. However transient. However impossible to hold. It might be out there, so we keep seeking.
This, to me, is tremendously, tenderly, beautiful.”
“It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world.”
“It created in me a yearning for all that is wide and open and expansive. Something that will never allow me to fit in in my own country, with its narrow towns and narrow roads and narrow kindnesses and narrow reprimands.”
“It creates a conflict of interest - what songs would I use for me, and what would I use for the band.”
“It creates community when you talk about private things and you can find other people that have the same things.”
“It creates community when you talk about private things and you can find other people that have the same things. Otherwise, I don't know, I felt very lonely with some of the issues that I had or history that I had. And when I shared about it, I found that others had it, too.”
“It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.”
“It creeps up on you and becomes an obsession. It comes out of watching a million movies.”
“It crossed my mind that my letters are all about me and not you. I would hope that you pay me the same respect.”
Source: Letters to Emma Bowlcut
“It crossed our minds early on that the more an audience cared - we were working before, on average, 240, live people. If you could get them caring - the more they cared, the harder they laughed.”