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 the same. Whether you are walking or going by train, the way always seems shorter the second time than the first. (And that is true of distances that are not to be measured in miles and yards.)”
“It is always the same with me; only when I experience something do I compose, and only when composing do I experience! After all, a musician's nature can hardly be expressed in words.”
“It is always the same with mountains. Once you have lived with them for any length of time, you belong to them. There is no escape.”
Source: Rain in the Mountains: Notes from the Himalayas
“It is always the same with those who hate. First they divide us, make us mistrust one another. Then they isolate us keep us from talking to one another. Next, they peel us away, one group at a time, erasing those they fear and those they hate, for as long as it takes until the few who remain fall on their knees for them. Soon after that, they become those who hate and the cycle begins again.”
Source: Uprising
“It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.”
Source: America
“It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations.”
“It is always the savage lads, with their love of excitement, who head the riot - reckless to what bloodshed it may lead.”
Source: North and South
“It is always the season for the old to learn.”
“It is always the secure who are humble.”
“It is always the sign of the second-rate man when the decision merely meets the present situation. It is the left-over in a decision which gives it its greatest value. It is the carry-over in the decision which helps develop the situation in the way we wish it to be developed. The ablest administrators do not merely draw logical conclusions from the array of facts of the past which their expert assistants bring to them; they have a vision of the future.”
Source: Dynamic administration: the collected papers of Mary Parker Follett
“It is always the silly things that remind me”
“It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.”
Source: All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography
“It is always the simple things that change our lives. And these things never happen when you are looking for them to happen. Life will reveal answers at the pace life wishes to do so. You feel like running, but life is on a stroll. This is how God does things.”
Source: Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God
“It is always the start that requires the greatest effort.”
“It is always the teacher who must learn the most... or else nothing real has happened in the exchange.”
Source: The Years of Rice and Salt
“It is always the time of hope, confidence and love. Everything passes; love remains. We will not be disappointed.”
“It is always the tough times that forge your character.”
Source: Dream On
“It is always the unreadable that occurs.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: +150 Works in 1 eBook
“It is always the way of events in this life,...no sooner have you got settled in a pleasant resting place, than a voice calls out to you to rise and move on, for the hour of repose is expired.”
Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“It is always the wrong time to meet the wrong person.”
“It is always the young that make the change. You don't get these ideas when you're middle-aged. Young people have daring, creativity, imagination and personal computers. Above all, what you have as young people that's vitally needed to make social change, is impatience. You want it to happen now. There have to be enough people that say, ‘We want it now, in our lifetime.’ This is your moment. This is your opportunity. Be adventurists in the sense of being bold and daring. Be opportunists and seize this opportunity, this moment in history, to go out and save our country. It's your turn now.”
“It is always there, of course, when you come back from the green world. You have been living by sunrise and sunset, by wind and rain, surrounded by the ebb and flow of lives that respond only to such simple, rhythmic elements. But now the tone and tempo of the days switch. Instead of harmony, jangle.”
Source: The Winds of Mara
“It is always thus, impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, we make our irrevocable decisions”
Source: In Search of Lost Time: Or
“It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take place on themselves.”
Source: The political and miscellaneous works of Thomas Paine
“It is always to be understood that a lady takes all you detract from the rest of her sex to be a gift to her.”
Source: The Tatler; or, Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq
“It is always to early to quit.”
“It is always too late, or too little, or both. And that is the road to disaster.”
“It is always too soon to quit.”
“It is always unconscionable for the government to punish people for expressing an idea merely because government officials - or the majority of citizens - decide that those ideas are 'dangerous' or 'wrong.' That is a power nobody ought to possess.”
“It is always understood as an expression of condemnation when anything in Literature or Art is said to be done for effect; and yet to produce an effect is the aim and end of both.”
Source: The Principles of Success in Literature
“It is always useful to face an enemy who is prepared to die for his country," he read. "This means that both you and he have exactly the same aim in mind.”
“It is always useful to think badly about people one has exploited or plans to exploit.”
Source: Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
“It is always useful to think badly about people one has exploited or plans to exploit... No one likes to think of him or herself as a bad person. To treat badly another person whom we consider a reasonable human being creates a tension between act and attitude that demands resolution. We cannot erase what we have done, and to alter our future behavior may not be in our interest. To change our attitude is easier.”
“It is always useful, you see, to subject the past life of reform politicians to rather inquisitive research.”
Source: I, Robot
“It is always weird to be in the studio working on Christmas music in June and July, so we decorated the entire studio, we really did. We brought out lights, fake trees and decorated the place to get in the Christmas spirit. You'd leave the studio, and it'd be 100 degrees out in Nashville, but nonetheless, a great experience.”
“It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.”
Source: Life in the slow lane: observations on art, architecture, manners and other such spectator sports
“It is always well to get near to men of genius.”
“It is always what I have already said: always the wish that you may find patience enough in yourself to endure, and simplicity enough to believe; that you may acquire more and more confidence in that which is difficult, and in your solitude among others. And for the rest, let life happen to you. Believe me: life is right, in any case.”
“It is always what is under pressure in us, especially under pressure of concealment--that explodes in poetry.”
Source: On Lies, Secrets, and Silence. Selected Prose 1966-1978
“It is always winter now.”
Source: Fire & Blood
“It is always wise to inject a piece of reality into the madness of our dreams! For example, we should add the harsh winds of winter to our dream of a magnificent wooden house on the top of a mountain!”
“It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.”
Source: Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait
“It is always wise to make too much potato salad. Even if you are cooking for two, make enough for five. Potato salad improves with age - that is, if you are lucky enough to have any left over.”
“It is always wise to remember that others will survive even if we are not there taking care of them. I found out that I feel so much better when I take an hour a day, just to take care of me and love myself. It keeps me from feeling so put upon by everything and everybody and helps me get through the day. By taking my hour early in the morning, I feel like I get my love first and I get it when I am at my best.”
“It is always wise with a course of action to consider the likely consequences before going ahead with it.”
“It is always wise, as it is also fair, to test a man by the standards of his own day, and not by those of another.”
“It is always wise, particularly in the beginning, to balance your new intuitive and psychic understandings with good old common sense. A good psychic perception follows your common sense.”
“It is always wiser, where there is a choice, to trust inertia. It is the greatest force in the world.”
Source: Fer-de-Lance/The League of Frightened Men
“It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner.”
“It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays