I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It is awkward to listen to oneself being praised, and I was always a shy man.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)
“It is awkward
to watch
a stutterer stutter, but it is more awkward
to let a stutterer know
that their stutter
makes you feel awkward.”
Source: Stamerenophobia
“It is axiomatic among writers that no one ever sues the writer of an unsuccessful book. Just let a book go over twenty-five thousand copies and it is surprising how many people's feelings are hurt, how many screwballs think their brain children have been stolen, and how many people feel that they have been portrayed in a manner calculated to bring infamy upon them.”
“It is axiomatic that if we do not define ourselves for ourselves, we will be defined by others-for their use and to our detriment.”
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
“it is axiomatic with most writing people that there are no such things as perfect conditions for work.”
Source: Writing is Work
“It is axiomatic: When there is no penalty for failure, failures proliferate.”
“It is back to basics here,’ Jason said. ‘What women seek to find in a man is dictated by evolution and the role of the man as a hunter gatherer. Women want a bad boy who will treat them well but not so well that they will have nothing to bitch about to their female friends. Bitching about the male of the species is how females bond with each other…another one of evolutions little jokes.”
“It is bad advice that cannot be changed.”
“It is bad enough that people are dying of AIDS, but no one should die of ignorance.”
“It is bad enough that so many people believe things without any evidence. What is worse is that some people have no conception of evidence and regard facts as just someone else's opinion.”
“It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.”
Source: American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier
“It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me. Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?”
“It is bad enough to be unconverted and going to hell. It is even worse to say, “I know it and will not cry for mercy.”
Source: A call to prayer
“It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.”
“It is bad enough to reinvent the wheel. What really hurts is when they reinvent the flat tire.”
“It is bad enough to see young fools, but worse to see old fools.”
“It is bad enough when rich Christians show little concern for the poor, but when they moan about their lot, they show contempt not only for the poor but also for the generosity of God.”
Source: Good news to the poor: The Gospel Through Social Involvement
“It is bad for a nation when it is without faith.”
“It is bad for a young man to sin; but it is worse for an old man to sin.”
“It is bad for the soul to know itself a coward, it is apt to take refuge in mere wordy violence.”
Source: The Well Of Loneliness
“It is bad governments, not bad people, who cause revolutions.”
“It is bad luck for world history that of all people the Russians adopted Communism, because they are totally unfit for it.”
“it is bad manners to contradict a guest. You must never insult people in your own house - always go to theirs.”
Source: The Book of Clever Beasts: Studies in Unnatural History
“It is bad manners to say that you will piss on anyone. Very bad. It is bad manners and very stupid to say that you will piss on anyone when you are unarmed. It is very bad manners and even more stupid to say that you will piss on anyone when you are unarmed, powerless, and not prepared to allow your friends and family or whomever to perish first.”
“It is bad policy to regulate everything... where things may better regulate themselves and can be better promoted by private exertions; but it is no less bad policy to let those things alone which can only be promoted by interfering social power.”
Source: Grundlinien einer politischen Ökonomie und andere Beiträge der amerikanischen Zeit: 1825-1832
“It is bad psychology to tell people who do not believe that they are racist—who may even actively despise racism—that there is nothing they can do to stop themselves from being racist—and then ask them to help you. It is even less helpful to tell them that even their own good intentions are proof of their latent racism. Worst of all is to set up double-binds, like telling them that if they notice race it is because they are racist, but if they don’t notice race it’s because their privilege affords them the luxury of not noticing race, which is racist.”
Source: Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
“It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.”
Source: The wasps - The birds - The frogs - The Thesmophoriazusae - The Ecclesiazusae
“It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.”
Source: The History of Freedom: Great Event
“It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.”
Source: The History of Freedom (and other Essays)
“It is bad to be poor. I shall go to the wall for bread and meat, if I neglect my business this year as well as last.”
Source: The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)
“It is bad to believe you in error. It would be infinitely worse to have known you a hypocrite.”
Source: The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)
“It is bad to doubt if one is loved, but it may be worse past all comparison to doubt if one loves.”
Source: Aphorisms
“It is bad to live for necessity; but there is no necessity to live in necessity.”
“It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down and spreads to your hips.”
“It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down to your hips. Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.”
“It is bad to want something that not even God could attain, especially when the impossibility becomes obvious.”
“It is bad when one thing becomes two. One should not look for anything else in the Way of the Samurai. If one understands things in this manner, he should be able to hear about all Ways and be more and more in accord with his own.”
Source: Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.
“It is baffling, I must say, that in our modern world we have such blind trust in science and technology that we all accept what science tells us about everything - until, that is, it comes to climate science.”
“It is Barack Obama who is at war with this country. Recent events prove it. This is not a cliche. It's not a figure of speech. Obama is at war with the U.S. economy.”
“It is barbaric to write poetry after Auschwitz.”
“It is base and unworthy to live below the dignity of our nature.”
Source: The works of ... Benjamin Whichcote
“It is base to take advantage of our rank or greatness by making fun of those placed beneath us in life.”
“It is Basic Management 101 that if you reward failure you are going to get more failure, and if you want success you should reward success. But if you look at the way this administration has approached national security, they have kind of got that principle backwards.”
“It is basically a strategy to destroy the essence of democracy, which is the competitiveness and choices of candidates on the ballot.”
“It is batter to make everyday decision based on what the Lord thinks and what the Word says”
“It is beautiful how every single time I look at the sky, the moon, the constellations and the stars changing their position, I see hope.”
“It is beautiful in a picture to wash the disciples’ feet; but the sands of the real desert have no lustre in them to compensate for the servile nature of the occupation.”
Source: Parochial and Plain Sermons
“It is beautiful in Vancouver; let's face it. I mean, you have the ocean. There's mountains.”
“It is beautiful, it is endless, it is full and yet seems empty. It hurts us.”
Source: Fathomless
“It is beautiful to acquire knowledge, but it is misleading to expect it to bring us peace, love and happiness.”