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 pity indeed to travel and not get this essential sense of landscape values. You do not need a sixth sense for it. It is there if you just close your eyes and breathe softly through your nose; you will hear the whispered message, for all landscapes ask the same question in the same whisper. 'I am watching you -- are you watching yourself in me?' Most travelers hurry too much...the great thing is to try and travel with the eyes of the spirit wide open, and not to much factual information. To tune in, without reverence, idly -- but with real inward attention. It is to be had for the feeling...you can extract the essence of a place once you know how. If you just get as still as a needle, you'll be there.”
Source: Spirit of Place : Letters and Essays on Travel
“It is a pity that dead men are still impacting the world while men who are still alive are wasting away, roaming the world without an understanding of what to do with their time.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.”
Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“It is a pity that Elizabeth and I cannot marry each other. Our children would have gained mastery over the whole world.”
“It is a pity that every one of us desires greatness yet not many of us know what to do with our time.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“It is a pity that instead of the Pilgrim Fathers landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock had not landed on the Pilgrim Fathers.”
“It is a pity that many Christians have the TV schedule better memorized than a single chapter for God's precious Word.”
“It is a pity that my collection of trophies contains not a single Russian.”
Source: The Red Baron
“It is a pity that no one in Paris bothered to quote Coleridge, who wrote, long before cubism, that the true poet is able to reduce 'succession to an instant.' Simultaneity in this sense is the property of all great poetry.”
Source: The Cubist Poets in Paris: An Anthology
“It is a pity that so many Americans today think of the Indian as a romantic or comic figure in American history without contemporary significance. In fact, the Indian plays much the same role in our society that the Jews played in Germany. Like the miner’s canary, the Indian marks the shift from fresh air to poison gas in our political atmosphere; and our treatment of Indians, even more than our treatment of other minorities, reflects the rise and fall in our democratic faith.”
“It is a pity that so often the only way to treat girls like people seems to be to treat them like boys.”
“It is a pity that the words "spiritual life" were ever invented, for they have caused so much confusion. For, in truth, there is only life-everyday life-which is simply what is at every moment.”
“It is a pity that there are no big creatures to prey on humanity. If there were enough dragons and rocs, perhaps mankind would turn its might against them. Unfortunately man is preyed upon by microbes, which are too small to be appreciated.”
Source: The Book of Merlyn: The Unpublished Conclusion to The Once and Future King
“It is a pity that you students aren't fully aware of the luxury and abundance in which you live.”
Source: The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel
“It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)
“It is a pity that, commonly, more care is had--yea, and that among very wise men--to find out rather a cunning man for their horse than a cunning man for their children.”
Source: The English Works of Roger Ascham: Preceptor to Queen Elizabeth
“It is a pity that...the majority of feminists and their allies have stuck to the dead ground of "Me Decade" possessive individualism, an ideology that has more in common than it admits with the prehistoric right, which it claims to oppose but has in fact encouraged.”
“It is a pity to make a mystery out of what should most easily be understood. There is nothing occult about the thought that all things maybe made well or made ill. A work of art is a well-made thing - that is all. It may be a well-made statue of a well-made chair or a well-made book. Art is not a special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself that is good. Most simply and generally, Art may be thought of as "The Well Doing of What Needs Doing."”
“It is a pity we can't escape from life when we are young.”
“It is a pity we do not die when our lives are finished.”
“It is a pity, in my opinion, that no prize exists for the writer who best refrains from adding to the world's bad books.”
Source: My name is Saroyan
“It is a place that 'grows upon you' every day. There seems to be always something to find out in it. There are the most extraordinary alleys and by-ways to walk about in. You can lose your way (what a comfort that is, when you are idle!) twenty times a day, if you like; and turn up again, under the most unexpected and surprising difficulties. It abounds in the strangest contrasts; things that are picturesque, ugly, mean, magnificent, delightful, and offensive, break upon the view at every turn.”
Source: Pictures from Italy
“It is a plague of unprecedented proportions. Anyone, who is unfortunate enough to become infected by its deadly parasites, is transformed into a mindless carrier with an inane desire to feed and spread the virus to other potential hosts. Even death is no escape.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“It is a pleasant surprise to him (the pure mathematician) and an added problem if he finds that the arts can use his calculations, or that the senses can verify them, much as if a composer found that sailors could heave better when singing his songs.”
Source: Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy
“It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.”
Source: The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby
“It is a pleasant world we live in, sir, a very pleasant world. There are bad people in it, Mr. Richard, but if there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)
“It is a pleasurable thing to earn the admiration of others, but it is a far better feeling to honestly admire thyself.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“It is a pleasure appropriate to man, for him to save a fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no better way.”
“It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.”
“It is a pleasure to a real lover of Nature to give winter all the glory he can, for summer will make its own way, and speak its own praises.”
Source: The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals
“It is a pleasure to be able to quote lines to fit any occasion.”
“It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth . . . and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.”
Source: Complete Essays
“It is a pledge that senility has not the last say in everything.”
“It is a point of pride for the American male to keep the same size jockey shorts for his entire life.”
Source: Time Flies
“It is a point that I repeat over and over again in teaching public speaking. It is not so much what you say as it is the tone and manner in which you say it that makes a lasting impression.”
“It is a policeman’s duty to retrieve stolen property and return it to its owners. But when robbery becomes the purpose of the law, and the policeman’s duty becomes, not protection, but the plunder of property - then it is an outlaw who has to become a policeman.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“It is a political fight between a group of well-financed, well-organized people whose freedom, livelihood, finances, reputations, or liberty is being threatened by disclosures of child sexual abuse and--on the other hand--a group of well-meaning, ill-organized, underfinanced, and often terribly naive academics who expect fair play.”
“It is a political thriller. It's very action packed and it's very exciting, but at the same time it's a very big soulful love story about longing and loss. They're not separate, they're completely dependent on one another.”
“It is a poor critic who says that a lack of effect on them implies all others are insincere in their love.”
“It is a poor dog that is not worth the whistling”
Source: The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...
“It is a poor head that cannot find plausible reason for doing what the heart wants to do.”
Source: The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made it
“It is a poor observance of our first century as a nation if we run up a flag of surrender with three dying maple leaves on it.”
“It is a poor reverie which invites a nap. One must even wonder whether, in this "failing asleep", the subconscious itself does not undergo a decline in being.”
“It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.”
“It is a poor sport that is not worth a candle.”
Source: The Poetical Works of G. H. and R. Heber. With Memoir
“It is a poor thing to strike our colors to God when the ship is going down under us; a poor thing to come to Him as a last resort, to offer up 'our own' when it is no longer worth keeping. If God were proud He would hardly have us on such terms: but He is not proud, He stoops to conquer, He will have us even though we have shown that we prefer everything else to Him.”
“It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mien, inventions and actions of others.”
“It is a poor, unwise and very imbecile people who cannot take care of themselves.”
“It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to waste this much money.”
Source: Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government
“It is a popular delusion that the scientific enquirer is under an obligation not to go beyond generalisation of observed facts...but anyone who is practically acquainted with scientific work is aware that those who refuse to go beyond the facts, rarely get as far.”