I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It is always possible to wake someone from sleep, but no amount of noise will wake someone who is pretending to be asleep.”
Source: Eating Animals
“It is always quietly thrilling to find yourself looking at a world you know well but have never seen from such an angle before.”
Source: At Home: A Short History of Private Life
“It is always raining in my life, and the yellow dandelion is the sun.”
Source: Pinwheels and Dandelions
“It is always refreshing to read the scriptures.”
“It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return.”
Source: The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857
“It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling.”
“It is always sad to see the crowds walking on the wrong path; and the consolation is when you see them they also see you, they see the right path you are walking on!”
“It is always sad to write about prejudice, but sometimes when we see it being played out in the lives of fictional characters, we can recognize it in our own lives.”
“It is always sad when someone leaves home, unless they are simply going around the corner and will return in a few minutes with ice-cream sandwiches.”
“It is always safe to assume that people are more subtle and less sensitive than they seem.”
Source: The Passionate State of Mind
“It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.”
Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“It is always safe to tell people that they're looking wonderful.”
“It is always said that Europe is a project of the elite. That's incorrect.”
“It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.”
Source: A year in the dark: journal of a film critic, 1968-69
“It is always so much easier to be moral than it is to be spiritual.”
“It is always so simple, and so complicating, to accept an apology.”
Source: The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
“It is always so, every pleasure comes exactly half an hour too late - Life! Life!”
Source: The Semi-detached House
“It is always so, I guess, validating when you meet somebody that you esteem -- and then they turn out to be everything [you thought] and more.”
“It is always so, when we are unhappy we feel more strongly the unhappiness of others; our feeling is not shattered, but becomes concentrated.”
Source: The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky
“It is always some consolation in sorrow to feel that it is shared, and any burden laid on several is carried more lightly or removed.”
Source: The Letters of Abelard and Heloise
“It is always some illusion that creates disillusion, especially in the young, for whom the only alternative to perfection is cynicism.”
Source: Teacher in America
“It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost, and at any risk to the rest of the community.”
Source: Absentee Ownership: Business Enterprise in Recent Times : the Case of America
“It is always springtime in the heart that loves God.”
“It is always tedious when someone tells you that if you don't stop crying, they will give you something to cry about, because if you are crying then you already have something to cry about, and so there is no reason for them to give you anything additional to cry about, thank you very much.”
“It is always terrible to be told to go play with people one doesn't know.”
“It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.”
“It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.”
“It is always the best friends who are neglected and ignored.”
“It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.”
“It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins.”
“It is always the case with the best work, that it is misrepresented, and disparaged at first, for it takes a curiously long time for new ideas to become current, and the older men who ought to be capable of taking them in freely, will not do so through prejudice.”
“It is always the case, with mathematics, that a little direct experience of thinking over things on your own can provide a much deeper understanding than merely reading about them.”
Source: The Road To Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe
“It is always the enemy who started it, even if he was not the first to speak out, he was certainly planning it; and if he was not actually planning it, he was thinking of it; and, if he was not thinking of it, he would have thought of it.”
Source: Crowds and power: Masse und Macht]
“It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates.”
“It is always the first and last steps that are the hardest to take. We walk away and try not to turn back, or we stand just outside the gates, terrified to find what's waiting for us now that we've returned. In between, we stumble blindly from one place and life to the next. We try to do the best we can. There are moments like this, however, when we are neither coming nor going, and all we have to do is sit and look back on the life we have made.”
“It is always the gentle ones I fear for the most, those willing to bare their hearts, who grieve for others and feel happy for others’ happiness.”
Source: Legendborn
“It is always the individual who thinks. Society does not think any more than it eats or drinks. The evolution of human reasoning from the naive thinking of primitive man to the more subtle thinking of modern science took place within society. However, thinking itself is always an achievement of individuals.”
Source: Human action: a treatise on economics
“It is always the latest song that an audience applauds the most.”
Source: The odyssey
“It is always the love that calms the most afraid, draws in the skeptics, brings back the prodigals, and changes the hardest hearts. Judgement can never do that.”
“It is always the minorities that hold the key of progess; it is always through those who are unafraid to be different that advance comes to human society.”
“It is always the minorities that hold the key of progress.”
“It is always the moralists who do the most harm.”
Source: Homo Faber
“It is always the moralists who do the most harm. Abortion is the logical outcome of civilization, only the jungle gives birth and moulders away as nature decrees. Man plans.”
Source: Homo Faber
“It is always the nearest, plainest and simplest principles that learned men comprehend last.”
“It is always the nights you cannot remember that eventually become the stories you don’t forget.”
Source: Seven Deadly Sins: Settling the Argument Between Born Bad and Damaged Good
“It is always the novice who exaggerates.”
Source: The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toast
“It is always the older that emanates the new one.”
“It is always the one closest to you that hurts you the most.”
“It is always the psychic and social grounds, brought into play by each medium or technology, that readjust the balance of the hemispheres and of human sensibilities into equilibrium with those grounds.”
Source: The global village: transformations in world life and media in the 21st century
“It is always the right time to do the right thing.”