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 truly powerful phenomenon when a brand makes a stand for what it believes in.”
“It is a truly superb allegory, this story of the Golden Temple: the allegory of evil's revenge, of destruction as the only way out from beauty and the excess of beauty.
But not just beauty. Evil can also befall intelligence.
Intelligence protects us from nothing - not even from stupidity.
Being intelligent is not enough, then, to prevent one from being stupid, and sometimes intelligence even lives in stupidity's shade, and vice versa.
Not only does intelligence not mark the end of stupidity, there is no other way out from excess of intelligence but stupidity. In keeping with an implacable reversibility, stupidity lies in wait for it, as its shadow, as its double.
Only thought, only lucidity, which stands as much opposed to intelligence as to stupidity, can escape this trial of strength.
But there is no rule, no more for good than for evil: they chase each other endlessly around the Moebius strip.
Given the hellish production of collective intelligence, we shall have to reckon in the future with an ever-higher rate of artificial stupidity.”
Source: The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact
“It is a truly wonderful fact - the wonder of which we are apt to overlook from familiarity - that all animals and all plants throughout all time and space should be related to each other in group subordinate to group.”
Source: On the Origin of Species
“It is a truth forever, that where the speech of man stops short there Music's reign begins.”
Source: Pilgrimage to Beethoven and Other Essays
“It is a truth of human nature that we can ponder life's mysteries for only so long before we lose interest and move on to something else.”
Source: P Is for Peril
“It is a truth universally acknowledge that there will always be a gentleman to dance with, except at just the moment when you require one most.”
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a man in possession of a warm house and a well-stocked fridge must be in want of a cat.”
Source: How Cats Conquered the World
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a sane employee in possession of his wits must be in want of a good manager.”
Source: The Fuller Memorandum
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single girl in possession of her right mind must be in want of a decent man.”
Source: Me and Mr. Darcy
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife,' I said, sighing.
'Is it?' said Veronica, looking surprised. 'Universally acknowledged? Surely that presupposes life similar to human societies beyond this planet, and besides--'
'No, no, it's a quote from ... Never mind,' I said.”
Source: The FitzOsbornes in Exile
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." ~ Jane Austin.
Arguably one of the best opening lines in literary history. However, to make it a modern retelling it would have to read:
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man or women no matter their fortune, must be in want of a life partner.”
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." ~ Jane Austin.
Arguably one of the best opening lines in literary history (I said ARGUABLY doesn't mean I want to argue). However, to make it a modern retelling it would have to read:
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man or women in possession of a good fortune, just treading water or so broke it aint no joke, must be in want of a life partner.”
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single woman in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a book.”
Source: Death by Bubble Tea
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a thirty-something woman in possession of a satisfying career and fabulous hairdo must be in want of very little”
Source: Austenland: A Novel
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that one only comes up with clever, cutting remarks long after the other party is happily slumbering away.”
Source: The Secret History of the Pink Carnation
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that stability requires far more effort to restore than to disrupt.”
Source: The Dreaming Vol. 1: Pathways and Emanations
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that there will always be a gentleman to dance with, except at just the moment when you require one most.”
Source: Envy
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters.”
“It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that there is no passion so deeply rooted in human nature as that of pride.”
Source: The inheritance, by the author of Marriage. By the author of 'Marriage'. Revised by the author
“It is a turn for the worse to nurse the idea of a full purse without appropriate force to back it up.”
Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“It is a union with a Higher Good by love, that alone is endless perfection. The only sufficient object for man must be something that adds to and perfects his nature, to which he must be united in love; somewhat higher than himself, yea, the highest of all, the Father of spirits. That alone completes a spirit and blesses it, - to love Him, the spring of spirits.”
“It is a unique challenge for a woman to demonstrate that they can lead, that they will be strong, that they can handle crisis, and that they gain respect.”
“It is a universal condition of the enjoyable that the mind must believe in the existence of a law, and yet have a mystery to move about in.”
Source: The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell: 1846-1862
“It is a universal principle that whenever one refuses to use his God-given powers, these powers decay and perish.”
Source: The Conflict of the Ages Story, Vol. 4. The Acts of the Apostles
“It is a universal principle that you get more of what you think about, talk about, and feel strongly about.”
“It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.”
Source: James Madison's
“It is a universally acknowledged truth that high school sucks. In fact, high school is where we are first introduced to the basic existential question of life: How is it possible to exist in a place that sucks so bad?”
Source: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
“It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great deal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.”
“It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.”
“It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.”
Source: The Sayings of Thomas Carlyle
“It is a vain thought to flee from the work that God appoints us, for the sake of finding a greater blessing, instead of seeking it where alone it is to be found - in loving obedience.”
Source: Adam Bede
“It is a valuable thing for an intelligencer to be forgotten.”
Source: Manners & Mutiny
“It is a vast advantage to be curious..., by which I do not mean addicted to asking questions, but rather being ready to allow that what our friends take trouble to inquire into is probably worth our attention.”
“It is a vast country, so that inspires you. It's also the greatest hotel on earth: It welcomes people from everywhere. It's a good country to write from because in many ways Canada is the world.”
“It is a vast wilderness of rocks in a sea of light, colored and glowing like oak and maple in autumn, when the sun gold is richest”
Source: The Grand Canon of the Colorado
“It is a vast, and pervasive, cognitive mistake to assume that people who agree with you (or disagree) do so on the same criteria that you care about.”
“It is a very awkward thing to try to wear our neighbours' shoes. We pity them if we are pinched; it doesn't strike us that the shoes may just fit their own wearers.”
“It is a very bad idea for governments to create arbitrary and unfair outcomes, or outcomes resulting from the passions and whims of the government rather than from the law, just because they have the power to do so.”
“It is a very classic Western [Valley of Violence], and if you like Westerns, you'll like this movie, but there's a tone to it that's all its own that I think is unique and memorable.”
“It is a very common failing, never to be pleased with our fortune nor displeased with our character.”
“It is a very curious thing about superstition. One would expect that the man who had once seen his morbid dreams were not fulfilled would abandon them for the future; but on the contrary they grow even stronger just as the love of gambling increases in a man who has once lost in a lottery.”
“It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.”
“It is a very dangerous thing to know one’s friends.”
Source: The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde
“It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.”
“It is a very difficult job, being the servant of two masters.”
“It is a very difficult secret to understand that when we do not want to possess another selfishly, he or she will always love us. It is when we do not want to possess, when we do not make demand after demand, that the relationship will last.”
Source: The End of Sorrow
“It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.”
Source: The Chronicles of Narnia Vol IV: The Silver Chair
“It is a very good exercise, at least from a historian's point of view, to imagine oneself a devout pagan while reading various Christian writings.”
“It is a very good quality in a man to have a trout-stream.”
Source: Four Novels of George Eliot