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 rose planted in your heart, and as it's thorns tear you, so does it thrive and flower”
Source: The Mirador
“It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.”
“It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.”
“It is a royal privilege to do good and be ill spoken of.”
“It is a rude feeling, because it is natural only to people standing on the lowest level of morality, and expecting from other nations such outrages as they themselves are ready to inflict.”
Source: I Cannot be Silent: Writings on Politics, Art and Religion by Leo Tolstoy
“It is a ruined-world, a nonsense-place.”
Source: Pandemonium
“It is a rule in paleontology that ornamentation and complication precede extinction. And our mutation, of which the assembly line, the collective farm, the mechanized army, and the mass production of food are evidences or even symptoms, might well correspond to the thickening armor of the great reptiles—a tendency that can end only in extinction. If this should happen to be true, nothing stemming from thought can interfere with it or bend it. Conscious thought seems to have little effect on the action or direction of our species.”
Source: The Log from the Sea of Cortez
“It is a rule of creative ability that it does nothing of any value, while it is possessed by this afflatus of vanity.”
“It is a rule of life that we eventually become victims of the evil we do to others.”
“It is a rule of mine never to ask unsolicited questions of people over twenty-one. I am only giving them the option of lying if they choose to. They would tell me the truth without my asking if they wanted me to know. To me that's fair enough.”
Source: The Richer, the Poorer: Stories, Sketches, and Reminiscences
“It is a rule of nature that taking a day off on the farm sets a person back at least a week.”
“It is a rule that those who come into a Court of justice to seek redress, must come with clean hands, and must disclose a transaction warranted by law.”
“It is a ruse of the devil, by which he deceives good people, to induce them to do more than they are able, so that they end up not being able to do anything. The spirit of God urges one gently to do the good that can be done reasonably, so that it may be done perseveringly and for a long time.”
Source: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: I. Correspondence. v. 1. 1607-1639
“It is a sacred gladness for us to celebrate the holy birth of Jesus Christ.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“It is a sad and shocking fact that many religious people are in Hell.”
Source: Religious But Lost
“It is a sad and very melancholy scene, which must strike everyone who knows and feels that we also have to pass one day through the valley of the shadow of death, and “que la fin de la vie humaine, ce sont des larmes ou des cheveux blancs.” What lies beyond this is a great mystery that only God knows, but He has revealed absolutely through His word that there is a resurrection of the dead.”
Source: The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh
“It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from 'Dear Abby' instead of going to Mom and Dad.”
“It is a sad day for our country when the moral foundation of our law and the acknowledgment of God has to be hidden from public view to appease a federal judge.”
“It is a sad day when I am forced to yet again traverse the bottom of some cliff and help heal the wreckage experienced by those individuals who had repeatedly declared that there was no cliff. And as for me, I have had far too many sad days. But none are ever so sad that I will stop declaring the reality of the cliff.”
“It is a sad day when one looks back and sees that his largest regrets have become some of the most integral elements of his dreams.”
“It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.”
“It is a sad fact of life that power and fear are the fountainheads of faith.”
Source: Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals
“It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!”
“It is a sad fact that because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of communism, and our proneness to adjust to injustice, the Western nations that initiated so much of the revolutionary spirit of the modern world have now become the arch-antirevolutionaries.”
“It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.”
Source: Essays, Civil and Moral & the New Atlantis by Francis Bacon: Aeropagitica & Tractate of Education by John Milton, Religio Medici by Sir Thomas Browne
“It is a sad feeling to be afraid of one's native country.”
Source: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
“It is a sad hardship and slavery to people who live in towns, that in their movements they know of one dimension only; they walk along the line as if they were led on a string. The transition from the line to the plane into the two dimensions, when you wander across a field or through a wood, is a splendid liberation to the slaves, like the French Revolution. But in the air you are taken into the full freedom of the three dimensions; after long ages of exile and dreams the homesick heart throws itself into the arms of space.”
Source: Out of Africa
“It is a sad mission to cut through and destroy with the scissors of analysis the delicate and iridescent veils with which our proud mediocrity clothes itself.”
Source: The Man of Genius
“It is a sad moment when the first phlox appears. It is the amber light indicating the end of the great burst of early summer and suggesting that we must now start looking forward to autumn. Not that I have any objection to autumn as a season, full of its own beauty; but I just cannot bear to see another summer go, and I recoil from what the first hint of autumn means.”
“It is a sad paradox that when male authors impersonate women ... they are said to be dealing with 'cosmic, major concerns' - but when we impersonate ourselves we are said to be writing 'women's fiction' or 'women's poetry.”
“It is a sad reflection . . . that a sense of responsibility which comes with power is the rarest of things.”
“It is a sad state of affairs in the USA that for the sick and the poor that jail offers better benefits than the freedom of no healthcare, bills that cannot be paid and starvation.”
“It is a sad state of affairs that I do not know of any astronomer that fully understands the energy in their own daily environment. Until this changes, Dark Energy will always be a mystery to the astronomical community.”
“It is a sad state of affairs that the Russians are far ahead of the USA in the science of the long term biological effects of electromagnetic radiation on a global population of over seven billion people.”
“It is a sad thing that our schoolboys look upon manual labour with disfavour, if not contempt.”
Source: India of My Dreams
“It is a sad thing to become so blinded and deafened by pride that you are no longer concerned about whether or not God is pleased with your actions.”
Source: Pour the Oil
“It is a sad thing to begin life with low conceptions of it. It may not be possible for a young man to measure life; but it is possible to say, I am resolved to put life to its noblest and best use.”
“It is a sad thing to look at happiness only through another's eyes.”
“It is a sad thing to think of, but there is no doubt that Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over/educate ourselves. In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the sillz hope of keeping our place.”
Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray
“It is a sad thing to think of, but there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place. The thoroughly well-informed man--that is the modern ideal. And the mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays
“It is a sad thing to want for happiness, but it is a terrible thing to see another groping about blindly for it, when it is almost within the grasp.”
Source: Sister Carrie
“It is a sad thing when men have neither enough intelligence to speak well nor enough sense to hold their tongues; this is the root of all impertinence.”
“It is a sad thing when you hear Christians with a groan in them. When I meet the groaner, I say in my heart, "God, move that man on into the place where he comprehends what Christianity is."”
“it is a sad truth in life that when someone has lost a loved one, friends sometimes avoid the person, just when the presence of friends is most needed.”
“It is a sad truth that those who crave and seek power, invariably abuse that power once they obtain it.”
Source: The Exercise of Vital Powers
“It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays
“It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)
“It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a man's death hallows him anew to us; as if life were not sacred too.”
Source: Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life
“It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a person's death consecrates him or her anew to us. It is as if life were not sacred too, as if it were comparatively a small thing to fail in love and reverence to the brother or sister who has to climb the whole toilsome mountain with us. It seems as if all our tears and tenderness were due to the one who is spared that hard journey.”
“It is a sadness of growing older that some of us lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult.”