I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It doesn't mean I am afraid of conflict or don’t know how to stand up for myself. I am getting to a place right in the middle where I feel good about exactly how much I apologize. It takes years as a woman to unlearn what you have been taught to be sorry for. It takes years to find your voice and seize your real estate.”
Source: Yes Please
“It doesn't mean,' she shrugged. 'It just is”
Source: Flowers for Algernon
“It doesn't mean you should never lock your door. All it means is that sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.”
Source: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.”
“It doesn't need to be happy so to be interesting, there are outside sad stories which are also interesting... if you know what's about overall..., know the ending... don't you want to understand why??? By going deeper and deeper!?”
“It doesn’t occur to anyone that she might be relieved the baby factory is almost closed, that there is a reason she smiles and changes the subject whenever it comes up.”
Source: The Sunshine Sisters
“It doesn’t occur to me that alcohol might be unhinging me, that drinking at the rate I am can induce depression, impulsive behaviour, and symptoms of bipolar and borderline personality disorder.”
Source: Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood
“It doesn't only take guts to do the brave thing. It also takes guts to try to do the brave thing.”
Source: Acts of Violet
“It doesn't really matter if you're right wing or left wing....as long you're delicious”
Source: And That’s Why I’m Single
“it doesn't really matter whether i chose this path or i was born onto it, so long as i stop and appreciate the path itself”
Source: Great Big Beautiful Life
“It doesn't really matter who said it - it's so obviously true. Bevore you can write anything, you have to notice something.”
Source: In One Person
“It doesn't really matter who you are, as long as you commit to being that person one hundred and fifty percent.”
Source: Wish
“It doesn t require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in Vietnam to fight harder and if this war mushrooms into a major conflict and a hundred thousand young Americans are killed it won t be U.S. Senators who die. It will be American soldiers who are too young to qualify for the Senate.”
“It doesn't say a damn thing. My pride deflates like a limp penis.”
Source: The Liberator
“It doesn’t say these signs will accompany only “the apostles.” It says these signs will accompany “those who BELIEVE.” Are you a believer? Then this verse is as relevant and true today as it was for those who wrote those very words. (Mark 16:15–18)”
Source: Upon Them All: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Purpose: True Stories to Ignite Your Faith.
“It doesn't seem enough, and as he starts them off, you want to call after him, tell him how you too question the ways of faith, the injustice, the never-ending losses, that it stuns you too, that you still grieve for Mrs. Goetz and Arnie and Eric Soderholm just as their families do, though everyone else seems to have forgotten. Lydia Flynn, the tramp behind Meyer's, the men in the swamps of Kentucky. If a sparrow fall, you want to say, it is not lost. I will remember. We are all saved.”
Source: A Prayer for the Dying
“It doesn’t seem like Christmas.
I cannot say just why.
I see the gifts and mistletoe and
snowflakes falling from the sky.
It doesn’t feel like Christmas.
Though snow is on the ground.
I watch old Rudolph, Frosty too.
I serve hot cocoa all around.
But still it doesn’t feel like Christmastime.
There’s something missing,
something more sublime.
My heart tells me this holiday
was meant to make me feel
something deeper,
something warm and real.
It doesn’t sound like Christmas.
The air is filled with noise.
I hear a thousand loud requests
yet see unhappy girls and boys.
It doesn’t feel like Christmas.
Though Santa’s on his way.
So why this dullness in my heart
as if it’s just another day?
It really doesn’t feel like Christmastime.
There’s something missing,
something more sublime.
My heart tells me this holiday
was meant to make me feel
something deeper,
something warm and real.
I close my eyes, I bow my head,
and drop down to my knees.
I talk to God and bear my soul.
At length, my spirit warms with peace.
It feels much more like Christmas.
My heart o’er flows with love.
I look at you through caring eyes,
the way God sees from up above.
It surely is like Christmas.
Good will pervades my soul.
For Christ was born in Bethlehem
to ransom all; my joy is full.
It’s starting now to feel like Christmastime.
My heart is new, my outlook more sublime.
I’ll love the world as God loves me
and practice charity.
Help and comfort, share with those in need,
and it will feel like Christmastime indeed.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“It doesn't seem like you're living a life, it's almost like you're travelling on a train with the destination unknown.
You're sitting on a seat near the window looking outside, imagining how things are there outside, how is it like to live in the houses that you pass by. And when you’re busy noticing the outside, you at times do not pay heed to your surroundings inside the coach.
And thus some passengers who got down at a station midway fail to capture your interest, or maybe it is because of your deviation of interest towards the outside. While at other stops new people get up, and you like their company, you share and you laugh.
But sooner or later they get down.
Because it's your journey, you're the traveler and they just accompany you for some distances.
And then, maybe when you reach your destination there will still be passengers in the train, passengers you've mingled with or passengers you hate, people who were there since the train had started or people who got in just before the last stoppage, and like it or not, they will get off the train with you, at your destination which also proved to be there destination.”
“It doesn't seem real. I feel like it's going to take so long to sink in. I keep thinking, Oh, I must tell Mum about this ... or she'd really enjoy hearing that?”
Source: The Hotel by the Bay
“It doesn't seem right to me. I'd rather folks paid more for oil, than pay for their oil with my life.”
Source: The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East
“It doesn't seem right to throw dirt at you when you're dead...”
Source: The Memory Game
“It doesn't sound logical to say
that a man is an atheist
just because he's probably someone
who knows his own God...personally.”
Source: Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
“It doesn’t take a declaration, or an invasion, to start a war, all it takes is an ‘us’ and a ‘them.’ And a spark.”
Source: Seven Surrenders
“It doesn’t take a farm to invoke the iron taste of leaving in your mouth. Anyone who loves a small plot of ground — a city garden, a vacant lot with some guerilla beds, a balcony of pots — understands the almost physical hurt of parting from it, even for a minor stint. I hurt every day I wake up in our city bed, wondering how the light will be changing over the front field or across the pond, whether the moose will be in the willow by the cabin again, if the wren has fledged her young ones yet and we’ll return to find the box untended. I can feel where the farm is at any point in my day, not out of some arcane sixth sense developed from years of summer nights out there with the coyotes under the stars, but because of the bond between that earth and this body. Some grounds we choose; some are our instinctive homes.”
Source: A Profession of Hope: Farming on the Edge of the Grizzly Trail
“It doesn’t take a lifetime to know who someone you care about is. As soon as I saw you, Summer, I felt like I’d known you all my life.”, Loving Summer by Kailin Gow”
Source: Loving Summer
“It doesn’t take a literary detective, scanning the passage above, to notice that he is partly saying of Orwell what Orwell actually says about Gissing. This half-buried resentment can be further noticed when Williams turns to paradox. I have already insisted that Orwell contains opposites and even contradictions, but where is the paradox in a ‘humane man who communicated an extreme of inhuman terror’? Where is the paradox in ‘a man committed to decency who actualized a distinctive squalor’? The choice of verbs is downright odd, if not a little shady. ‘Communicated’? ‘Actualised’? Assuming that Williams means to refer to Nineteen Eighty-Four in the first case, which he certainly does, would it not be more precise to say that Orwell ‘evoked’ or even ‘prefigured’ or perhaps simply ‘described’ an extreme of inhuman terror? Yet that choice of verb, because more accurate, would be less ‘paradoxical.’ Because what Williams means to imply, but is not brave enough to say, is that Orwell ‘invented’ the picture of totalitarian collectivism.
As for ‘actualising’ a distinctive squalor, the author of that useful book Keywords has here chosen a deliberately inexact term. He may mean Nineteen Eighty-Four again—he is obsessed with the ‘gritty dust’ that infests Orwell’s opening passage—or he may mean the depictions of the mean and cramped (and malodorous) existence imposed on the denizens of Wigan Pier. But to ‘actualise’ such squalor is either to make it real—no contradiction to decency—or to make it actually occur, a suggestion which is obviously nonsensical.”
“It doesn’t take a prophet to know you’ll get into loads of trouble before your RMC even begins. And twice as much after it does.”
Source: The Royal Matchmaking Competition: Prince Zadkiel
“It doesn’t take a psychiatrist to notice that our president is mentally compromised.”
Source: The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President
“It doesn't take a reason to smile. It only takes guts.”
“It doesn't take a sprawling home or a cavernous self-storage to hold the things that really matter simply because one set of grateful hands has more than sufficient space to do that.”
“It doesn't take an army to change the world, or an average-sized militia group, either. All it takes is one individual to say the word "No". Be it a man refusing to register for the draft, or be it a gun owner refusing to register his weapons in Connecticut, it is the same: defiance in the face of arbitrary authority.”
“It doesn’t take long for your fortunes to turn. One second you’re fluttery as a bird, the next you’re on the ground with your wings clipped.”
“It doesn't take much energy to help encourage or inspire someone else to be their best, but it does suck the life out of you to hope they lose. Pay it forward.”
“It doesn’t take much to become thrown. All it takes is to put the world before God. Over and over, we fall from grace, and over and over we are redeemed ‘as’ we pray.”
Source: The Silver Meditation: Connect With God In a Simple Way That Works
“It doesn’t take much to change your life, except everything that you have. That’s why so few people do it when every person actually could.”
“It doesn’t take much to come into your own; all it takes is someone’s gaze. It’s not totally accurate to say that I felt seen. It was more that: Beheld by her, I learned how to become myself. Her interest actualized me.”
Source: Bliss Montage
“It doesn't take much to convince yourself that you're doing okay, just some discretionary income and a regularity to your days.”
Source: Bliss Montage
“It Doesn’t take much to look around and see all the blessings in your life”
“It doesn't take poison to make something lethal. Any substance in large quantities can kill. Something good in large quantities will kill too.”
Source: Foul Lady Fortune
“It doesn't translate well into English. It means "whereabouts". A place where one feels like home, where they feel like themselves. She wrote out the kanji characters for him in the air - 居場所 - and he recognised their Chinese equivalents. The character for a residence. The characters for a place.”
Source: Babel
“It doesn't work. Nothing works. If I don't talk, I'm sulking. If I talk I say something wrong. I've finished the workbook--The teacher said you must've helped me--and i know the reader by heart.”
Source: Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quintet (A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Titling Planet, An Acceptable Time)
“It doesn't actually make any difference whether the President is Republican or Democrat. The genius of the American ruling class is that it has been able to make the people think that they have had something to do with the electing of presidents for 200 years when they've had absolutely nothing to say about the candidates or the policies or the way the country is run.”
“It doesn't affect me because I look at the internet as the new radio. I look at the radio as gone. [...] Piracy is the new radio. That's how music gets around. [...] That's the radio. If you really want to hear it, let's make it available, let them hear it, let them hear the 95 percent of it.”
“It doesn't always happen according to the way you have planned things out but I feel if you have covered most of the aspects, it does help out there in the middle.”
“It doesn't always have a shape,Almost never does it have a name,It maybe has a pitchfork, maybe has a tail,But evil is alive and well.”
“It doesn't always turn out. It's not always a happy ending when sometimes you say things that you think, and it goes against the grain of the larger group.”
“It doesn't annoy me but I think of myself as a presenter who is gay, rather than a gay presenter. It's a subtle distinction, but that's how I view it.”
“It doesn't behoove elderly persons to follow fashion in their thinking nor in the way they dress.”
“It doesn't benefit me to lie to people. They're eventually going to find out the truth, and then where am I? That's the problem with liberalism and socialism, by the way: it has to be propped up by lies.”
“It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, 'Merry Christmas' to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.”