I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It is a blessing to be hated by fools, loved by the wise, loathed by the wicked, and adored by the righteous.”
“it is a blessing
to be the color of earth
do you know how often
flowers confuse me for home”
Source: The Sun and Her Flowers
“It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.”
“It is a blessing to experience hardship. Not because we suffer, but because we learn to endure.”
“It is a blessing to get old. It is a blessing to find the time to do the things, to read the books, to listen to the music. I have nothing now but praise for my life.”
“It is a blessing to have pretty people around me. I like people who are sparky, positive. Evil, dark people are repelled by me: Oooh no! Too much sunlight.”
“It is a blessing to know a free woman. Sometimes she will stop by and hold up a mirror for you. She will help you remember who you are.”
Source: Untamed
“It is a blessing. When I first got wind of [Chris Rivers] taking the rap thing serious and wanting to make a career out of it.”
“It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon.”
Source: John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition
“It is a bloody outrage.”
“It is a blow because it will take time and I need all the time I have and a thousand times more than all the time I have and most of all I'd like to have all the time there is just for you, for thinking about you, for breathing in you.”
Source: Letters to Milena
“It is a book for manufacturing companies that are fighting desperately for survival and that will go to any length to improve their factories and overcome the obstacles to success. One could even call this book a 'bible' for corporate survival.”
Source: JIT Implementation Manual -- The Complete Guide to Just-In-Time Manufacturing: Volume 1 -- The Just-In-Time Production System
“It is a book that pays equal attention to aesthetics, process, medium and the artist as a human in the world (and not only an artist from 'Africa’)
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“It is a brave and stupid thing, a beautiful thing, to waste one's life for love.”
“It is a brave man... who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.”
“It is a brave man who is the first to sit down during a standing ovation.”
“It is a brave thing to die.”
Source: The Spirit Engineer
“It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all.”
Source: You learn by living
“It is a brief moment in time, begin to live your best.”
“It is a bright day; the snow-topped hedges sparkle in the sun. Kate watches as a waxwing forages for rowan berries, its crest quivering. It chirps as it is joined by its mate. Starlings sweep overhead, making shapes in the sky.”
Source: Weyward
“It is a building designed by committee: all they have been able to agree on is that it should be rectangular, have windows, and not fall over.”
Source: Company
“It is a burden because I get asked about my father all the time. I just need to accept that he was a champion before me.”
“It is a burden to love anyone. And it is a burden to be loved. Stop running from it.”
Source: The Unknown Beloved
“It is a burden, I'm saying, to live where I live.”
Source: At the Owl Woman Saloon
“It is a call for black people in this country to unite, to recognize their heritage, to build a sense of community. It is a call for black people to define their own goals, to lead their own organizations.”
“It is a callous age; we have seen so many marvels that we are ashamed to marvel more; the seven wonders of the world have become seven thousand wonders.”
“It is a campaign not for abundance but for austerity. It is a campaign not for more freedom but for less. Strangest of all, it is a campaign not just against other people, but against ourselves.”
Source: Heat: how to stop the planet from burning
“It is a campaign to break down every barrier that holds you back. We need more than a plan for the big banks. The middle class needs a raise. And we need more jobs.”
“It is a capital blunder; as you discover, when another man recites his charities.”
Source: The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It is a capital insult in this country not to make love to a naked woman, even if she is related to you.”
Source: Absurdistan
“It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data.”
Source: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.”
“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.”
“It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.”
“It is a cardinal sin to bore the reader.”
“It is a career of make-believe, of masks. We all have masks in life.”
“It is a career that can be enhanced or destroyed by success.”
“It is a case of twice two makes four! Nature does not ask your permission, she has nothing to do with your wishes, and whether you like her laws or dislike them, you are bound to accept her as she is, and consequently all her conclusions.”
Source: Notes from Underground
“It is a catastrophe, all of this virtual being together. I think there are people who get hooked on the internet. If they need to look at explicitly sexual material to be aroused there is a problem.”
“It is a category mistake to ask, 'Who made the Unmade?' or 'Who created the Uncreated?' One may as well ask, 'Where is the bachelor's wife?'”
“It is a cause of shame to any member of the human race to be a member of the same species some of whose members could vote for any candidate for president that has been offered by the Republican party. Such people seem to be motivated only by short-sighted greed, ignorance, fear and hatred.”
“It is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock, in order to be equally distributed among the whole species, those who now think themselves the most unhappy would prefer the share they are already possessed of, before that which would fall to them by such a division. [as they realise their problems could be worse!]”
Source: The spectator
“It is a central characteristic of the American political system that a wheelbarrow fetishist could be mayor of Omaha.”
“It is a certain rule that wit and passion are entirely incompatible. When the affections are moved, there is no place for the imagination.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)
“It is a certain sign of an ill heart to be inclined to defamation. They who are harmless and innocent can have no gratification that way; but it ever arises from a neglect of what is laudable in a man's self.”
Source: The spectator
“It is a certainty that Herbalife is a pyramid scheme. We believe it's harming a population of low-income, principally Hispanic people in the U.S. to benefit a handful of super wealthy people at the top of the pyramid.”
“It is a certainty that Keegan would not have agreed to return unless Mike Ashley had committed to sanctioning a mammoth spending spree. The downside, which Keegan will soon discover, is the law of diminishing returns in a league that is now the richest in the world. The type of multi-million-pound investment that bankrolled the first Newcastle revival under Keegan is now two-a-penny. Buying success just isn't as easy as it used to be. The Premiership's paradox is that the more money there is, the more the art of management gains in value.”
“It is a challenge to have your launch date slip continuously.”
“It is a challenge to love someone who does not see the divine as you do, and much harder still to date someone who considers your spirituality a design flaw in an otherwise worthwhile human being.”
Source: Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
“It is a challenge, with the global fame, to try to act like I put my pants on one leg at a time, when in fact I have Pippa Middleton help me put my pants on every morning. She's my lady-in-waiting as well.”