I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It gave an appalling idea of the value of an hour, and I thought I could never waste one again without remorse and terror.”
Source: The Mysterious Stranger
“It gave dirty politics a bad name.”
“It gave her a feeling of her own power, to make something practical and beautiful just by using her own skill and creativity. It inspired her.”
Source: The Friday Night Knitting Club
“It gave him a kind of nervous satisfaction to see his basic grievance against reality confirmed once again by reality itself; nothing hold still. Every time you turned out around, something else had gone rotten, or fallen into despair, or disappeared entirely. In a universe that couldn't be trusted, that could at any moment just as likely as not blow up in your face like a bomb, you had to carve out your own island of order and control, however arbitrary, however illusory, just to keep going.”
Source: White Palace
“It gave him everything he wanted.
Just not in the way he expected.”
Source: WOLF SUIT: A Dark Supernatural Noir — Book 1
“It gave him hope: something he had been trying to give up like a too big flat, where you don't feel safe, but only lost. Like too big shoes that will never fit your feet and forever leave disturbing blisters.”
Source: As the moon began to rust
“it gave him hope: something he had been trying to give up like a too big flat, where you don't feel safe, but only lost. Like too big shoes that will never fit your feet and forever leave disturbing blisters.
~ As the moon began to rust”
“It gave Jane a wicked sense of satisfaction that he’d noticed that aspect of her sister’s personality, but she tried not to sound too arrogant. “Savannah doesn’t worry about homework. Apparently they don’t care about your GPA when you apply for beauty school.”
“Beauty school, huh? I would have thought she’d already graduated valedictorian from there.”
Jane blinked at him in frustration.
Fairy’s side note: Adults are constantly telling teenagers that it’s what’s on the inside that matters. It’s always painful to find out that adults have lied to you.
Hunter shrugged. “I guess I shouldn’t have assumed you’d be like Savannah where math is concerned.”
Meaning: After all, you aren’t pretty like she is.”
Source: My Fair Godmother
“It gave me a chance to re-evaluate my life and my career. Cancer certainly gives things a new perspective. I would not have won the Tour de France if I had not had cancer. It gave me new strength and focus.”
“It gave me a great notion of the credit of our present government and administration, to find people press as eagerly to pay moneyas they would to receive it; and, at the same time, a due respect for that body of men who have found out so pleasing an expedient for carrying on the common cause, that they have turned a tax into a diversion.”
“It gave me a lot of pleasure and pride that 90 percent of the crew for 'Monsoon Wedding,' and most of my film, are women. We get the work done, you know, much lesser play of ego... And I really believe in harmony, I believe in working in a spirit of egolessness and that the film is bigger than all of us.”
“It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a model that has served primitive races since men first went to sea.”
Source: The Aran Islands
“It gave me a queer feeling. Yesterday or the day before, while I had been going about my business, quietly and in private, some unknown person ― some stranger ― had gone to the trouble of marking my name on this envelope.”
Source: The Thirteenth Tale
“It gave me a second chance. I'd like everybody to have a second chance if they need it, so I'm trying to let people know how important it is to become an organ donor.”
“It gave me a sharp kind of sadness to think that no matter how much I loved him and tried to put him back together again, he might stay broken forever.”
Source: The Paris Wife: A Novel
“It gave me a strange feeling, and the rest of that night I didn’t say much, but merely sat there and drank, trying to decide if I was getting older and wiser, or just plain old.”
Source: The Rum Diary: A Novel
“It gave me great pleasure to think that I could take wood, make it good, and make people like Rockefeller buy it with paper money.”
“It gave me no chance. He (Nolan Ryan) just blew it (strikeout #5,000) by me. But its an honor. I'll have another paragraph in all the baseball books. I'm already in the books three or four times.”
“It gave me no hope to see him doing these simple things with the sluggishness of a somnambulist. It proved nothing more than that he could go like this forever, our silent accomplice, little more than a resuscitated corpse.”
Source: The vampire Lestat
“It gave me no pleasure to see people drink in my opinions if they seemed ignorant of Jesus Christ and the value of being saved by Him. Sound conviction for sin, especially the sin of unbelief, and a heart set on fire to be saved by Christ, with a strong yearning for a truly sanctified soul-this was what delighted me; those were the souls I considered blessed.”
“It gave me strength and toughness because I had to face reality, no matter how uncomfortable or painful it was.”
“It gave the effect of being surrounded by people yet isolated.”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
“It gave the title to Manchester City - it's as simple as that.”
“It gave their families at home great comfort to see them chatting, looking radiant, doing well. ‘We are fine, mothers. Look how happy we are, now we free from our bad bosses.”
Source: The Missing Activist
“It gazed through the flames at its devotees, once a band of drugged-up dropouts and ripe for the taking, for it preys and prays on the weak of mind. Hallelujah!”
Source: Fireman
“It generally appears outlandish until its carried out.”
“It generally does not take long before a radiation researcher realizes that they are studying the fundamentals of life, death and mass extinctions.”
“It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.”
Source: The Rambler
“It generally takes about 10 years to become an overnight sensation.”
“It generally takes its rise either from an ill-will to mankind, a private inclination to make ourselves esteemed, an ostentation of wit, and vanity of being thought in the secrets of the world; or from a desire of gratifying any of these dispositions of mind in those persons with whom we converse.”
Source: The spectator
“It generally troubles them [the reformers] not a whit that their remedy implies a complete reconstruction of society, or even a reconstitution of human nature.”
“It gets a little bit troublesome when you have something that's overcompressed that shouldn't be.”
“It gets a lot easier to deal with life's curveballs when you're not hiding under layers of fat.”
Source: Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life
“It gets better and better being me.”
“It gets better. It gets so much easier to be in your skin no matter what size that skin is. If you do something that you're good at and that makes you happy, that's the best outlet that I could ever suggest to anybody....if you are able to just enjoy who you are, and if you can learn to love who you are, then you'll just be a much happier person.”
“It gets better. It seems hard, you know, I think being different is always gonna be a tough climb. There's always gonna be people that are scared of it. But at the end of the day you give those bullies, those people, that are so ignorant, if you give them the power to affect you, you're letting them win. And they don't deserve that. What you're doing by being yourself is you're keeping it real, and you're being really brave.”
“It gets bigger every time you go over. In China, there was Yao Ming stuff everywhere. I'm just fortunate to have a good-looking face to where they recognize me.”
“It gets boring at home. How many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on TV?”
“It gets boring to me when people talk about clothing brands or what boat they’re going to buy next summer.”
“It gets cold in the desert at night, particularly up in the mountains; the stars hammer on the rock and strike frost.”
Source: DRINKING SAPPHIRE WINE (Special Edition)
“It gets crazy in my mind sometimes but the reason why I like to express so much positivity on my Twitter is because I think we all are battling evil thoughts. I think it's important to not ignore them but to try to understand where they are coming from and get through them instead of suppressing them.”
“It gets dangerous when you start allowing people to validate your work.”
“It gets darker and darker and darker, and then Jesus is born.”
“It gets harder all the time, Bev Shaw once said. Harder, yet easier. One gets used to things getting harder; one ceases to be surprised that what used to be hard as hard can be grows harder yet.”
Source: Disgrâce
“It gets harder and harder to succeed and find audiences with the 500-channel universe, the remote control, and people being so trigger happy with that remote control. It just gets harder to get a foothold.”
“It gets harder every day to get out of bed. I don't feel like it loads of the time. It is only my exercise routine which wakes me up.”
“It gets harder the more you know. Because the more you find out the uglier everything seems.”
“It gets kinda monotonous, but that's television. There are plus sides and down sides. The positive side is that you have steady work for nine months of the year for however many years your show is on TV,.”
“It gets late early out there.”
“It gets lighter." I awnsered with the truth and regretted the glib taste on my tounge. "I mean, it never goes away. The feelings. They never stop, but it gets...I don't know...livable, I guess. Like when you break your leg, at first it's excruciating and you think your going to die. But eventually after you've had time to heal, it kind of fades into this constant, dull ache." A faint breeze whistled through the leaves of the trees and plants surrounding us and tickled the back of my neck like cold fingers. "You never walk the same again, but eventually you do walk.”
Source: Third Lie's the Charm