I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It is as if you are the legend of the black bear come to life."
Merida's breath caught in her throat.
Then Elinor laughed. "Maybe that is what we should tell those who do not believe in our legends. It may scare some into changing their ways. Make them see things from another person's perspective, as the legend proclaims."
Merida's heart swelled at the familiar words. She realized just how much she had changed since she had eaten that cake. And not just on the outside. She was not the same girl who thought only about what she wanted, without considering her duty to protect and support her kingdom. After witnessing the way Elinor had been willing to put aside her plans to uncover the threat to MacCameron Kingdom, Merida understood how important this role was. She no longer saw her responsibilities as a burden; they were an honor.”
Source: Fate Be Changed
“It is as if, to every period of history, there corresponded a privileged age and a particular division of human life: "youth" is the privileged age of the seventeenth century, childhood of the nineteenth, adolescence of the twentieth.”
Source: Centuries of childhood: a social history of family life
“It is as important to cultivate your silence power as your word power.”
“It is as important to keep your heart open as it is to keep your mind open.”
Source: Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism
“It is as important to monitor your mind constantly as it is to sit down and practice meditation.”
“It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.”
Source: Wishful thinking: a theological ABC.
“It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.”
“It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil.”
Source: A Clockwork Orange
“It is, as it were, the fundamental principle of cognition that the universal can be perceived only in the particular, while the particular can be thought only in reference to the universal.”
Source: The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, Volume 1: Language
“It is as much about input – the conversation of imaginative men (women and children not excluded) has a rhythm, a phrase that follows a thought and precedes the development of further thought … try not to be a cunt.”
“It is as much our duty to live in the beauty of the presence of God on some mount of transfiguration until we become white with Christ as it is for us to go down where the needy people grope and grovel, and groan and lift them to new life.”
“It is as much our obligation not to cooperate with evil as it is to cooperate with good”
“It is as much the conversations between objects as between us and objects that make museums so valuable.”
“It is as natural and reasonable for a dependent creature to apply to its Creator for what it needs, as for a child thus to solicit the aid of a parent who is believed to have the disposition and ability to bestow what it needs.”
Source: Outlines of Moral Science
“It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.”
“It is as natural to the Icelandic heart to turn to poetry in times of stress as for another to search his Bible.”
Source: The viking heart
“It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.”
Source: Four Novels by James Joyce
“It is as pleasant as it is unusual to see thoroughly good people getting their deserts.”
“It is as proper to have pride in oneself as it ridiculous to show it to others.”
“It is as queen of Canada that I am here. Queen of Canada and all Canadians, not just one or two ancestral strains.”
“It is as simple as that. Birds fly because they have wings and so when you can’t grow the wings, you can’t be called a bird. Leaders make impacts because they create new ideas and so if you can’t think of any new innovative ideas, you can’t be a leader.”
Source: Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
“It is as simple as that. Whatever the client most desires to come true, the psychic makes sure she sees it happening. In this day and age, this kind of highly reassuring message is perhaps the only one people cannot readily obtain from the media or anywhere else. Many, it seems, are prepared to pay good money to hear it said in a way that at least sounds sincere, reassuring, and credible.”
Source: The Full Facts Book of Cold Reading: A Comprehensive Guide to the Most Persuasive Psychological Manipulation Technique in the World
“It is as simple as this:
all I want is you.
And it is as impossible as this:
all
I want
is you.”
“It is as sweet as early grass butter in April.”
Source: Moby Dick
“It is as the father of the Encyclopedia that Denis Diderot merits eternal recognition. Guilty as he was in almost every relation of life towards the individual, for mankind, in the teeth of danger and of infidelity, at the ill-paid sacrifice of the best years of his exuberant life, he produced that book which first levelled a free path to knowledge and enfranchised the soul of his generation.”
“It is as the scent and the colour of the flowers to the texture of the elements which compose it, as the form and splendor of unfaded beauty to the secrets of anatomy and corruption.”
Source: Munira Chowdhury
“It is as though a portal in time has opened, and the Christians of the 14th century are pouring into our world.”
“It is as though he listened and such listening as his enfolds us in silence in which at last we begin to hear what we are meant to be.”
“It is as though I were adrift, untethered. I don't think of her much, no more than I ever did, but something terrible is going on. At moments all is well, and then at others I think that I am flying apart.”
Source: Passing On
“It is as though my heart is still locked away in a box, still buried underground.”
Source: The Stolen Heir
“It is as though nature must needs make men narrow in order to give them force.”
Source: The Souls of Black Folk
“It is as though -- oh, a thousand wild possibilities. I am lost, and I am disturbed. Yet I think I may be cured; this is a fever of the blood, and laudanum will cool it.”
Source: Post Captain
“It is as though some old part of yourself wakes up in you, terrified, useless in the life you have, its skills and habits destructive but intact, and what is left of the present you, the person you have become, wilts and shrivels in sadness or despair: the person you have become is only a thin shell over this other, more electric and endangered self. The strongest, the least digested parts of your experience can rise up and put you back where you were when they occurred; all the rest of you stands back and weeps.”
“It is as though the ancestors who made language and knew from what bestiality its use rescued them are saying to us: Beware of interfering with its purpose! For when language is seriously interfered with, when it is disjoined from truth, be it from mere incompetence or worse, from malice, horrors can descend again on mankind.”
“It is as though the human race is always only waiting for permission to hate.”
Source: The Moorehawke Trilogy bundle
“It is as though the practices organizing a bustling city were characterized by [city practitioners', everyday citizens'] blindness. The neworks of these moving, intersecting writings compose a manifold story that has neither author nor spectator, shaped out of fragments of trajectories and alterations of spaces: in relation to representations, it remains daily and indefinitely other.”
“It is as though the space between us were time: an irrevocable quality. It is as though time, no longer running straight before us in a diminishing line, now runs parallel between us like a looping string, the distance being the doubling accretion of the thread an not the interval between.”
Source: William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill [and] John Steinbeck
“It is as though there is a splinter working its way to the surface, only this splinter is in your soul. And just as the skin wants a foreign object gone and pushes it out, the soul wants to be healthy and will not leave you in peace until you stop drenching it with the poisons of your feelings about the past.”
Source: Healing Your Church Hurt
“It is as though they simply cannot contemplate the notion of a short, slight man who dresses and moves like a popular (mis)conception of a homosexual being attractive to millions of women.”
Source: Prince: A Pop Life
“It is as though we are understanding now what (William) Blake intuited, the senses were, in Eden, spread over the whole being. It might seem, then, that our bodies still live in Eden, but our minds refuse to know it.”
Source: The Black Goddess and the Unseen Real: Our Uncommon Senses and Their Common Sense
“It is as though we have grown wings, which thanks to Providence, we have learnt to control.”
“It is as true as that night follows day, that the man who does more than he is paid for, and does it in a pleasant mental attitude, sooner or later is paid for more than he does.”
“It is as true for individuals as it is for the world itself: everything comes in waves. If you ride the waves of change, you succeed. If you ignore them, you fail. When the wave is down, most people resist it by trying to go up. When the wave goes up, you should go up with it. When it comes down, you go down.”
“It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first and foremost—not an essay, not a statement, not an orderly rollout of themes and propositions. All of which is to say: stories, too, are wild things.”
“it is as unseeing to ask what is the use of poetry as it would be to ask what is the use of religion.”
“It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead.”
“It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.”
Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“It is as we respond to the understandings and feelings inherent in . . . art that we acquire much of our truth, much of our nobility and grace, and much of our pleasure.”
“It is as well not to have too great an admiration for your master's work. You will be in less danger of imitating him.”
Source: Cassatt and her circle: selected letters
“It is as well now and then not to remember all we know.”