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 sultry day; the sun has drunk
The dew that lay upon the morning grass;
There is no rustling in the lofty elm
That canopies my dwelling, and its shade
Scarce cools me. All is silent, save the faint
And interrupted murmur of the bee,
Settling on the sick flowers,
And then again Instantly on the wing.”
“It is a supremely cruel thing to have your mind conjure a desire which it is functionally unable to realize. No one teaches you how to handle the death of a dream.”
Source: Upgrade
“It is a sure criterion of the civilisation of ancient Egypt that the soldiers did not carry arms except on duty, and that the private citizens did not carry them at all.”
Source: The Martyrdom of Man
“It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older.”
“It is a sure mark of grace to desire more.”
Source: Memoir and Remains of the Rev. Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Minister of St. Peter's Church, Dundee
“It is a sure sign of a mind not balanced as it ought to be, when it is insensible to the pleasures of the domestic hearth, and to the little joys and endearments of a family.”
“It is a sure sign of success when people begin to echo your themes without knowing they're doing so.”
Source: The First 90 Days with Harvard Business Review article "How Managers Become Leaders"
“It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths.”
Source: Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music: Sixth Edition
“It is a surprising fact that those who object most violently to the manipulation of behaviour nevertheless make the most vigorous effort to manipulate minds.”
“it is a surprising thing that the largest city in the world should have a population as gentle and pleasant and intimate and considerate and comforting as a little bit of a place where everybody knows everybody and everything, but astonishing or not it is perfectly true and the inhabitants of New York are just like that, and they are like that and this thing is a delightful, natural and gentle and sweet and comforting thing.”
Source: How Writing Is Written
“It is a surprisingly close progression from hunting animals to hunting and torturing people... catching and lynching blacks or smoking out Jews during the Holocaust.”
“It is a surreal life living on a television series set, and especially when I go out in public. I have people who recognize me and will come up to me, saying how much they enjoy seeing me, asking for a picture, and I still think to myself, "Uh, why?"”
“It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country.”
Source: Horace: Quintus Horatius Flaccus ... the Roman Poet Presented to Modern Readers
“It is a sweet thing that we serve a dissatisfied God who has destinations in mind for us that we would never choose for ourselves. It really is a good thing that he will not be satisfied until he has gotten us exactly where he created us and re-created us to be. Most of us would have been satisfied to stay at home, and many of us would have quit the journey long before it was completed. But our heavenly Father won't give up until each one of his children has completed the journey.”
“It is a symbol evoking a reality that touches the depths of the person ... the light of goodness that vanquishes evil, of love that overcomes hatred, of life that defeats death.”
“It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant.”
“It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.”
“It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something; that they are showing the way when they are running away; that they see the light when they feel the heat; that they are chosen when they are shunned.”
Source: The Passionate State of Mind
“It is a task of art to express clear vision of reality.”
Source: The new art--the new life: the collected writings of Piet Mondrian
“It is a technique ideally suited to prevent physical and mental illness and to protect the body generally, developing an inevitable sense of self-reliance and assurance.”
“It is a tedious process to become part of our human life just to self-investigate and carry forward the journey of life, to strengthen our powers and become worthy in the eyes of the Supreme Power.”
Source: Enter Heaven
“It is a tedious thing to be always beginning life; they live badly who always begin to live.”
“It is a telling contradiction that those who hold a theology that emphasizes the needs of the soul over that of the body also holds to a theology where physical torment is a necessity for eternal punishment.”
“It is a temptation for me to wear all my rings at once.”
“It is a temptation to exploit one's technique because an audience is easily reached this way, but they cannot be moved by technique alone and to move an audience is the role of dance as an art.”
“It is a terrible and beautiful thing, to love like this.”
“It is a terrible commentary on Christian civilization that the longest period of slave-raiding known to history was initiated by the action of Spain, Portugal, France, Holland and Britain, after the Christian faith had for more than a thousand years been the established religion of Europe.”
“It is a terrible error to let any natural impulse, physical or mental, stagnate. Crush it out, if you will, and be done with it; or fulfil it, and get it out of the system; but do not allow it to remain there and putrefy. The suppression of the normal sex instinct, for example, is responsible for a thousand ills. In Puritan countries one inevitably finds a morbid preoccupation with sex coupled with every form of perversion and degeneracy.”
Source: Moonchild
“It is a terrible situation when the Government, to insure the National Wealth, must go in debt and submit to ruinous interest charges, at the hands of men, who control the fictitious value of gold. Interest is the invention of Satan.”
“It is a terrible thing for an author to have a lot of people running about his book without any invitation from him at all.”
Source: Once On A Time
“It is a terrible thing for an old woman to outlive her dogs.”
Source: Camino Real
“It is a terrible thing to be free. Nations know this; churches know this. People, however, seek to skirt the knowledge,. They elevate freedom to a holy grail, disregarding the truth that constraints are what define us, in life and in language alike; we yearn to be sentenced.”
Source: The Last Life
“It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in possession of the false aim of life, happiness, we forget the true aim, duty!”
Source: Les Mis??rables
“It is a terrible thing to be so open: it is as if my heart put on a face and walked into the world.”
Source: Collected Poems
“It is a terrible thing to do to unusual people, to drive them so deeply into themselves that each reemergence is a volcanic explosion.”
“It is a terrible thing to learn as a child that one is a being separate from all the world, that no one and no thing hurts along with one's burned tongues and skinned knees, that one's aches and pains are all one's own. Even more terrible, as we grow older, to learn that no person, no matter how beloved, can ever truly understand us. Our own selves make us most unhappy, and that's why we're so anxious to lose them...”
Source: The Secret History
“It is a terrible thing to learn as a child that one is a being separate from the world, that no one and no thing hurts along with one's burned tongues and skinned knees, that one's aches and pains are all one’s own. Even more terrible, as we grow old, to learn that no person, no matter how beloved, can ever truly understand us.”
Source: The Secret History
“It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there.”
“It is a terrible thing to want something you cannot have. It takes you over. I couldn't think straight because of it. There was no one else, I realized, whom I could possibly tell.”
Source: The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
“It is a terrible thing, this kindess that human beings do not lose. Terrible, because when we are finally naked in the dark and cold, it is all we have. We who are so rich, so full of strength, we end up with that small change. We have nothing else to give.”
Source: The Left Hand of Darkness
“It is a terrible thought, that nothing is ever forgotten; that not an oath is ever uttered that does not continue to vibrate through all times, in the wide spreading current of sound; that not a prayer is lisped, that its record is not to be found st”
“It is a terrible thought, to contemplate that an immense number of mediocre thinkers are occupied with really influential matters.”
“It is a terrible, an inexorable, law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own: in the face of one's victim, one sees oneself.”
“It is a terribly easy matter to be a minister of the gospel and a vile hypocrite at the same time.”
Source: Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series
“It is a terrific thing to get a building built that has the qualities of greatness in it.”
“It is a terrifying as well as hopeful truth that we tend to bring into being in form whatever we fashion in thought.”
Source: My Pillow Book
“It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”
Source: Selected essays
“It is a test of true theories not only to account for but to predict phenomena.”
Source: The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences: Founded Upon Their History
“It is a testament to Delphi’s unparalleled tenacity and ability to survive that Heliodorus wrote his novel about the love affair at Delphi and about Delphi’s crucial place at the center of a connected Mediterranean society not in the hey-day of the classical world, but in the third or fourth centuries AD, on the cusp of the Mediterranean world’s gradual conversion to Christianity and the end of pagan sanctuaries like the one at Delphi.⁵ And yet, even in this twilight, Delphi’s description glows bright. More tellingly, Heliodorus’s description echoes that of another ancient writer, the geographer Strabo, who labeled Delphi, above all, as a theatron: a theater.⁶ It was a space in which most of the moments that mattered in the history of the ancient world were played out, reflected on, or altered. As a result, an understanding of the ancient world and, I would argue, of humankind itself, is incomplete without an understanding of Delphi.”
Source: Delphi: A History of the Center of the Ancient World
“It is a testament to our naïveté about culture that we think that we can change it by simply declaring new values. Such declarations usually produce only cynicism.”