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 mistake to think that the practice of my art has become easy to me. I assure you, dear friend, no one has given so much care to the study of composition as I. There is scarcely a famous master in music whose works I have not frequently and diligently studied.”
“It is a mistake to think that the price of my art has become easy to me.”
“It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience.”
Source: The Immigration Dilemma: Avoiding the Tragedy of the Commons
“It is a mistake to think that we need a certain type of relationship to be happy. If we crave a relationship when we are single, we will bring that wanting into any relationship with the consequent problems. To feel that destiny will provide us with what best meets our deepest needs is to be able to enter into any stage of life with confidence and a sense of completeness, not a sense of lack which someone else is supposed to fill.”
Source: The Love of Devotion
“It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.”
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five
“It is a mistake to think you cant be hurt if you don't care”
Source: My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Autobiography of Errol Flynn
“It is a mistake to try to impose Christian beliefs on children and to make them the basis of moral training. The moral education of children is much too important a matter to be built on such foundations.”
“It is a mistake trying to cheer up camels. You may as well drop meringues into a black hole.”
“It is a mistake, that a lust for power is the mark of a great mind; for even the weakest have been captivated by it; and for minds of the highest order, it has no charms.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“It is a mistake, to think the same thing affects both sight and touch. If the same angle or square, which is the object of touch,be also the object of vision, what should hinder the blind man, at first sight, from knowing it?”
Source: The Works of George Berkeley, D.D., Bishop of Cloyne: Including His Letters to Thomas Prior, Esq., Dean Gervais, Mr. Pope, &c., &c. ; to which is Prefixed an Account of His Life
“It is a mistake, too, to say that the face is the mirror of the soul. The truth is, men are very hard to know, and yet, not to be deceived, we must judge them by their present actions, but for the present only.”
Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut
“It is a misuse of our power to take responsibility for solving problems that belong to others.”
Source: Stewardship: Choosing Service Over Self Interest
“It is a modern tragedy that despair has so many spokesmen, and hope so few.”
“It is a modern tragedy that one of the Soviet Union's most intelligent and realistic leaders has served and died during the administration of the most ill-informed and dangerous man ever to occupy the White House.”
“It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.”
Source: Complete Essays
“It is a monstrous thing to force a child to learn Latin or Greek or mathematics on the ground that they are an indispensable gymnastic for the mental powers. It would be monstrous even if it were true.”
Source: George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit
“It is a month today
Since my lover went away.
My heart remains gloomy and silent;
It is a month today.
"Farewell," he said, "I am leaving."
Since then he speaks to me no more.
It is a month today.”
“It is a moon wrapped in brown paper.”
Source: Mean Time
“It is a moot question whether the origin of any kind of property is derived from nature at all. It is agreed by those who have seriously considered the subject that no individual has, of natural right, a separate property in an acre of land, for instance. By a universal law, indeed, whatever, whether fixed or movable, belongs to all men equally and in common is the property for the moment of him who occupies it; but when he relinquishes the occupation, the property goes with it. Stable ownership is the gift of social law, and is given late in the progress of society.”
“It is a moral achievement on the part of the doctor who ought not to let himself be repelled by sickness and corruption.”
Source: Psychology and religion: West and East
“It is a moral failure to miss the profound beauty of the world, said the voice in her mind.
Yes, she said aloud, for now she did see the sin in full.”
Source: The Vaster Wilds
“It is a moral issue how we are going to treat workers. On these issues, these are moral issues, principled issues, where there aren't compromises.”
“It is a Mormon truism that is current among us and we all accept it, that as man is God once was and as God is man may become. That does not signify that man will become God. I am sorry to say, and yet it is a truth, that not many men will become what God is, simply because they will not pay the price, because they are not willing to live up to the requirements; and still all men may, if they will, become what God is, but only those who are heirs of the celestial glory shall ever be possible candidates, to become what God is.”
“It is a mortal sin to discard the elderly.”
“It is a mortifying truth, and ought to teach the wisest of us humility, that many of the most valuable discoveries have been the result of chance rather than of contemplation, and of accident rather than of design.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“It is a most blessed thing to be subject to the sovereignty of God.”
“It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the greater will be our progress, and the more real our humility.”
Source: The Life of St. Teresa of Avila
“It is a most curious experience for a man of seventy-two to be confronted with the greenhorn enthusiasms of his youth. Young people think they are so smart. Alas the doctrines they spout with such fervor turn out to be mostly parroted from their elders.”
Source: One man's initiation: 1917: a novel
“It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form.”
“It is a most fearful fact to think of, that in every heart there is some secret spring that would be weak at the touch of temptation, and that is liable to be assailed. Fearful, and yet salutary to think of; for the thought may serve to keep our moral nature braced. It warns us that we can never stand at ease, or lie down in this field of life, without sentinels of watchfulness and campfires of prayer.”
“It is a most gratifying sign of the rapid progress of our time that our best text-books become antiquated so quickly.”
“It is a most just punishment, that man should lose that freedom, which man could not use, yet had power to keep, if he would; and that he who had knowledge to do what was right, and did not should be deprived of the knowledge of what was right; and that he who would not do righteously, when he had the power, should lose the power to do it, when he had the will.”
Source: Emblems, divine and moral; The school of the heart [really by C. Harvey] and Hieroglyphies of the life of man
“It is a most miserable lot to be without an enemy. [No man can be successful without being envied and hated.]”
“It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home.”
“It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.”
“It is a most unhappy state to be at a distance with God: man needs no greater infelicity than to be left to himself.”
“It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune with someone from the past whom you have never met.”
“It is a mournful fact that most men, and indeed all men of worldly character, have so much regard to public opinion that they dare not act according to the dictates of their consciences when acting thus would incur the popular frown.”
Source: Lectures on systematic theology, embracing moral government, the atonement, etc. Revised, enlarged, and partly re-written by the Author ... Edited ... by G. Redford
“It is a mournful task to break the sombre attachments of the past.”
Source: Les Misérables
“It is a mournful thing to know that you are utterly isolated among millions of human beings; that not a drop of your blood flows in any other veins.”
Source: St. Elmo: A Novel
“It is a much cleverer thing to talk nonsense than to listen to it.”
“It is a much easier thing to unloose the demon war than to chain him up again.”
“It is a much more straightforward thing to be a dog, and a dog's love, once given, is not reconsidered.”
Source: Deerskin
“It is a much more sweetest, wonderful, happiest, luckiest and warmest celebration when your true life companion and soul mate is with you than you alone.”
“It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith-as mysterious as faith itself. Like faith, it is ultimately not rooted in logic; it is a change in the climate of the mind.”
Source: The Penguin complete novels of George Orwell
“It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith—as mysterious as faith itself.”
Source: The Penguin complete novels of George Orwell
“It is a mystery how dawn slips into twilight and twilight into midnight, finally landing in daybreak again. Life, too, is an unveiling journey of shadow and light.”
“It is a mystery that is hidden from me by reason that the emergency requiring the fathoming of it hath not in my life-days occurred, and so, not having no need to know this thing, I abide barren of the knowledge.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)
“It is a mystery to me how a theologian can be praised for having brought himself to disbelieve dogmas. I've always thought that those who have brought themselves to believe in dogmas merit the true recognition owing a heroic deed.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“It is a mystery to me why some mere minutes transform into moments, hovering outside of time. And how they ebb and flow, stirring wonder and the ache for more. I know the love of a God who is beyond all wanting, but the more I live, the more I want and want and want.”
Source: No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear