I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It is beautiful to be alone, it is also beautiful to to be in love, to be with people. And they are complementary, not contradictory.”
“It is beautiful to be what you are.”
“It is beautiful to discover our wings and learn how to fly; flight is a beautiful process. But then to rest on the wings of God as He flies: this is divine.”
“It is beautiful to express love
And even more beautiful to feel it.”
“It is beautiful to hear, how even the demons inside me have started singing your name.”
“It is beautiful to own your own destiny and be able to do what you feel in your heart. To have that and not do it? THAT is crazy to me.”
“It is beautiful to talk about beautiful things
And even more beautiful to silently gaze at them.”
“It is beautiful to wish to add another's light to your own.”
“It is beautiful, beautiful to give; one of the very most beautiful things in life.”
Source: Fräulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther
“It is beautiful, the world, and life itself. I am glad I have lived.”
“It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.”
“It is because artists do not practise, patrons do not patronize, crowds do not assemble to reverently worship the great work of Doing Nothing, that the world has lost its philosophy and even failed to invent a new religion.”
“It is because as we are, our hearts are closed, and we cannot place the holy words in our hearts. So we place them on top of our hearts. And there they stay until, one day, the heart breaks and the words fall in.”
Source: Healing the Heart of Democracy: The Courage to Create a Politics Worthy of the Human Spirit
“It is because every individual knows little and, in particular, because we rarely know which of us knows best that we trust the independent and competitive efforts of many to induce the emergence of what we shall want when we see it.”
Source: The Constitution of Liberty
“It is because every individual knows little and, in particular, because we rarely know which of us knows best best that we trust the independent and competitive efforts of many to induce the emergence of what we shall want when we see it.”
“It is because every one tinder Heaven recognizes beauty as beauty that the idea of ugliness exists.”
“It is because everything is relative
That we shall never see in that sphere of pure wisdom and
Entertainment much more than groping shadows of an incomplete
Former existence so close it burns like the mouth that
Closes down over all your effort like the moment
Of death”
Source: John Ashbery, Lee Harwood, Tom Raworth
“It is because everything must come to an end that everything is so beautiful.”
“It is because freedom means the renunciation of direct control of individual efforts that a free society can make use of so much more knowledge than the mind of the wisest ruler could comprehend.”
“It is because God is infinitely great and good that his glory is the end of all things; and his good pleasure the highest reason for whatever comes to pass. What is man that he should contend with God, or presume that his interests rather than God's glory should be made the final end?”
Source: Systematic Theology
“It is because gold is rare that gilding has been invented, which, without having its solidity, has all its brilliancy. Thus, to replace the kindness we lack, we have devised politeness which has all its appearance.”
“It is because good is always stronger than evil. Always remember that, Antonio. The smallest bit of good can stand against all the powers of evil in the world and it will emerge triumphant.”
“It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.”
Source: Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis
“it is because I am a man who occasionally aspires to things beyond the belly and the phallus.”
Source: Lord of Light
“It is because I believe that it is in the power of such nations to lead the world back into the paths of peace that I propose to devote myself to explaining what, in my opinion, can and should be done to banish the fear of war that hangs so heavily over the world.”
“It is because I dove into the abyss that I am beginning to love the abyss I am made of.”
Source: The Passion According to G.H.
“It is because I had so much joy that I came to have so much hate.”
Source: The Joy Luck Club: A Novel
“It is because I know all that science can bring to the world that I shall continue my efforts to ensure that it contributes to the happiness of all men, whether they be white, black, or yellow, and not to their annihilation in the name of some divine mission or other.”
“It is because I know how brutal sex can be that I insist on reminding women that they also live in a world of sexual possibilities and pleasures. Sex is too important to surrender.”
Source: XXX: A Woman's Right to Pornography
“It is because I owe America more than she has ever owed me that I am a candidate for president to the United States.”
“It is because I perceive the danger in the practice of mystic wonders, that I loath, abhor, and am ashamed thereof.”
“It is because I reject lies and running away that I am accused of pessimism; but this rejection implies hope — the hope that truth may be of use. And this is a more optimistic attitude than the choice of indifference, ignorance or sham.”
Source: All said and done
“It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.”
Source: Oliver Twist
“It is because Jesus Christ experienced cosmic thirst on the cross that you and I can have our spiritual thirst satisfied. It is because he died that we can be born again. And he did it gladly. Seeing what he did and why he did it will turn our hearts away from the things that enslave us and toward him in worship. That is the gospel, and it is the same for skeptics, believers, insiders, outcasts, and everyone in between.”
“It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results.”
Source: Why Men Fight: A Method of Abolishing the International Duel
“It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creatingfuture dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.”
“It is because my dad died suddenly that I became an actor. I thought, I'm going to make money doing this thing I enjoy.”
“It is because my roots are so strong that I can fly.”
“It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all.”
Source: The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
“It is because nobody has been teaching you about hate; hence, hate has remained pure, unadulterated. When a man hatesyou, you can trust that he hates you.”
“It is because of faith that we exchange the present for the future.”
“It is because of his brain that he [modern man] has risen above the animals. Guess which animals he has risen above.”
“It is because of its emptiness that the cup is useful.”
“It is because of me that today the union government has sanctioned special funds for the development of Bihar.”
“It is because of me — I definitely think [my show] has helped the movement. Before it came out, everyone was still a little apprehensive about [same sex relationships]. Then they realized, 'Wow, everyone is really into this stuff, and it is fine.' The next thing you know, [gay marriage] is legal.”
“It is because of men that women dislike one another.”
“It is because of my principle that people continue to give.”
“It is because of our foolishness that we forget who God is.”
“It is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher is expected to perform a choice and varied series of miracles.”
Source: American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier
“It is because of pain that you value pleasure, sorrow that you value joy, despair that you value hope, war that you value peace, and hate that you value love.”