I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It is almost a rule in the world of politics to go up to the world stage with applause and get off that stage under the hoots! The biggest reason for this is that nations vote for politicians who know the art of rhetoric very well but are not much developed mentally!”
“It is almost a sadness to my soul that men should be astonished and surprised at an ordinary, tangible evidence of the power of God.”
Source: Adventures In God
“It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.”
“It is almost always a greater pleasure to come across a semicolon than a period. The period tells you that that is that; if you didn't get all the meaning you wanted or expected, anyway you got all the writer intended to parcel out and now you have to move along. But with a semicolon there you get a pleasant little feeling of expectancy; there is more to come; read on; it will get clearer.”
Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays
“It is almost always a mistake to mention Abraham Lincoln. He always steals the show.”
Source: A Man Without a Country
“It is almost always impossible to evaluate at the time events which you have already experienced, and to understand their meaning with the guidance of their effects. All the more unpredictable and surprising to us will be the course of future events.”
“It is almost always, not just ‘Mr Right’, but ‘Mr Right … For Now’.”
“It is almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble.”
“It is almost always the unhappiness of a victorious disputant to destroy his own authority by claiming too many consequences, or diffusing his proposition to an indefensible extent.”
Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752
“It is almost always wrong that the time isn't ripe to decide something. That is always said of difficult problems.”
“It is almost an unbearable pain, to suddenly recognize the value of what you had being ignorant of which had been your possession.”
“It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.”
“It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as his knowledge.”
Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“It is almost as easy to be enervated by triumph as by defeat.”
“It is almost as hard for us to sense our own species quality as it is to sense our species smell.”
“It is almost as hard to define mathematics as it is to define economics, and one is tempted to fall back on the famous old definition attributed to Jacob Viner, "Economics is what economists do," and say that mathematics is what mathematicians do. A large part of mathematics deals with the formal relations of quantities or numbers.”
“It is almost as if happiness is an acquired taste, like coconut cordial or ceviche, to which you can eventually become accustomed, but despair is something surprising each time you encounter it.”
“It is almost as if the decline of the idea of eternity coincided with the increasing aversion to sustained effort.”
Source: Collected Works of Paul Valery, Volume 12: Degas, Manet, Morisot
“It is almost as if the human brain were specifically designed to misunderstand Darwinism, and to find it hard to believe”
Source: The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design
“It is almost as if the millennium were arrived, when we shall throw our clocks and watches over the housetop, and remember time and seasons no more. Not to keep hours for a lifetime is... to live forever.”
Source: Dreams of elsewhere: the selected travel writings of Robert Louis Stevenson
“It is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live in dissolves beneath your feet, and that your survival depends on completing this construction at least one second before the old habitation collapses.”
Source: Camino Real
“It is almost as important to know what is not serious as to know what is.”
Source: Letters to Kennedy
“It is almost as presumptuous to think you can do nothing as to think you can do everything.”
Source: Sermons: The candle of the Lord, and other sermons
“It is almost as safe to assume that an artist of any dignity is against his country, i.e., against the environment in which God hath placed him, as it is to assume that his country is against the artist.”
Source: Mencken Chrestomathy
“It is almost as stupid to let your clothes betray that you know you are ugly as to have them proclaim that you think you are beautiful.”
Source: The House of Mirth: Edith Wharton
“It is almost axiomatic that the best conversationalist is really the best listener.”
Source: That Certain Something; the Magic of Charm
“It is almost axiomatic that the worst trains take you through magical places.”
“It is almost better to be an impulse shirt-buyer than an impulse shoe-buyer. I have worn shirts that made people think I was a retired Mafia hit-man or a Yugoslavian sports convener from Split, but I have worn shoes that made people think I was insane.”
“It is almost certain that excess in eating is the cause of almost all the diseases of the body, but its effects on the soul are even more disastrous.”
“It is almost certain that the 2020-21 influenza season in conjunction with COVID-19 will slow production from China.”
“It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.”
“It is almost impossible, except for a very few, to tell the difference between the sacred and the profane, both in the Church, and in the world. More often than not, what appears to be sacred is really the profane.”
Source: The Eagle Ascended
“It is almost impossible for an Anglo-Saxon to write of sex without being dirty.”
Source: Second Mencken Chrestomathy
“It is almost impossible for anyone outside this damn beltway to really understand how the Congress works. If you aren't here, walking the halls of Congress, sitting at bars and attending parties where you get to knock back some brews with Hill staffers, you don't have a handle on the almost numbing amount of bullshit that goes on.”
“It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice.”
“It is almost impossible for children and youth to find their way through the seas of life without the guiding light of a good example.”
“It is almost impossible for contemporaries to judge the true value of discoveries, or to give the proper position to the men of their own time who make these discoveries. The Surgeon-General of the Public Health Service expected the greatest results to flow from his commission of medical officers, but the conclusions of the Board turned out to be all wrong, while he did not notice the report from his own subordinate, Dr. H. R. Carter, which turned out to be pure gold and was one of the great steps in establishing the true method of the transmission of Yellow Fever.”
Source: Sanitation in Panama
“It is almost impossible for the poetess, once laurelled, to take off the crown for good or to reject values and taste of those who tender it.”
Source: A Poet's Alphabet: Reflections on the Literary Art and Vocation
“It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.”
Source: The Revolt of the Angels: Works by France
“It is almost impossible to be a doctor and an honest man, but it is obscenely impossible to be a psychiatrist without at the same time bearing the stamp of the most incontestable madness: that of being unable to resist that old atavistic reflex of the mass of humanity, which makes any man of science who is absorbed by this mass a kind of natural and inborn enemy of all genius.”
“It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.”
“It is almost impossible to command without being an exemplar and to lead without helping those whom you wish to take into your laps.”
Source: Treatise Upon The Misconceptions of Narcissism
“It is almost impossible to convince people who are under the influence of ideological bigotry that whose whom they regard as belonging to the enemy species are human.”
“It is almost impossible to describe happiness, because at the time it feels entirely natural, as if all the rest of your life has been the aberration; only in retrospect does it swim into focus as the rare and precious thing it is. When it is present, it seems to be eternal, abiding forever, and there is no need to examine it or clutch it. Later, when it has evaporated, you stare in dismay at your empty palm, where only a little of the perfume lingers to prove that once it was there, and now is flown.”
Source: The Memoirs of Cleopatra
“It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.”
Source: Literature & Dogma: An Essay Towards a Better Apprehension of the Bible
“It is almost impossible to express myself, but everything seems to make more sense, satisfaction speaks louder than words.”
Source: "Darling, it's not only about sex"
“It is almost impossible to find those who admire us entirely lacking in taste.”
“It is almost impossible to get anyone with a postmodern slant to say “I think” and stand by what follows, without making sure that the person listening understands, “Of course, there are other things to consider.”
Source: More Likely to Quote Star Wars than the Bible: Generation X and Our Frustrating Search for Rational Spirituality
“It is almost impossible to grow a company of any size and worth unless you expand beyond yourself”
“It is almost impossible to have a baseless snobbish opinion of the General Theory of Relativity.”