I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It is brave to believe that you are a unique, precious young lady no matter what your feelings might be saying.”
Source: Honey Moon Dog Daze
“It is brilliant going to the theatre and being forced to sit and listen and think about life. It can be almost a near-religious experience.”
“It is brought home to you...that it is only because miners sweat their guts out that superior persons can remain superior.”
“It is brutal work, though not more brutal than that which goes onto supply every dinner-table in the country (Life on a Greenland Whaler, an article published in The Strand Magazine in january 1897)”
“It is business that generates the jobs, income and taxes that keep a country going.”
“It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.”
Source: The literary works of Sir Joshua Reynolds
“It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.”
“It is but a short step from hunger to starvation, from disease to death.”
“It is but a short step now to the 'House Time', when all Gypsies may conform with the masses and abandon travelling altogether for the settled life. But hold - surely there will be a few free spirits who will follow the urge and continue to roam, maintaining that proud independence that started with a long march out of India?”
Source: Gypsy Jib: A Romany Dictionary
“It is but a small merit to observe silence, but it is a grave fault to speak of matters on which we should be silent.”
“It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice.”
“It is but another instance of injustice, Fray Felipe said. For twenty years we, of the missions, have been subjected to it, and it grows. The sainted Junipero Serra invaded this land when other men feared, and at San Diego de Alcala he built the first mission of what became a chain, thus giving an empire to the world. Our mistake was that we prospered. We did the work, and others reap the advantages. They began taking out mission-lands from us, lands we had cultivated, which had formed a wilderness and which my brothers had turned into gardens and orchards. They robbed us of worldly goods. And not content with that they now are persecuting us. The mission-empire is doomed, caballero. The time is not far distant when mission roofs will fall in and walls crumble away. Some day people will look at the ruins and wonder how such a thing could come to pass.”
“It is but as yesterday," he claimed, "that darkness and solitude - cut off from the rest of mankind like the lepers of old - the dismal cell, the bed of straw, the iron chain, and the inhuman scourge, were the fearful lot of those who were best entitled to human pity and to human sympathy, as being the victims of the most dreadful of all mortal calamities.”
Source: Shooting Victoria: Madness, Mayhem, and the Rebirth of the British Monarchy
“It is but little of the world yet that hath heard the lost estate of mankind and of a Savior, Christ Jesus; and as yet the fullness of the gentiles has not come, and probably shall not until the downfall of the Papacy.”
“It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot.”
“It is but seldom that any one overt act produces hostilities between two nations; there exists, more commonly, a previous jealousy and ill will, a predisposition to take offense.”
Source: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories From the Sketch Book
“It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price.”
Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...
“It is but the littleness of man that seeth no greatness in trifles.”
“It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge”
“It is by a mathematical point only that we are wise, as the sailor or fugitive slave keeps the polestar in his eye; but that is sufficient guidance for all our life. We may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we would preserve the true course.”
Source: Walden or, Life in the Woods
“It is by a thorough knowledge of the whole subject that [people] are enabled to judge correctly of the past and to give a proper direction to the future.”
“It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.”
“It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.”
Source: The Works of Anatole France in English: My friend's book
“It is by acts, and not by ideas, that people ensure the bar down the street cannot have a patio.”
“It is by aligning with our own sensuality that we can find true fulfillment in our relationships. Love works when sensuality works.”
“It is by all odds the loftiest of cities. It even managed to reach the highest point in the sky at the lowest moment of the depression.”
Source: Here is New York
“It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world.”
Source: Cottage Economy: Containing Information Relative to the Brewing of Beer, Making of Bread, Keeping of Cows, Pigs, Bees, Ewes, Goats, Poultry, and Rabbits, and Relative to Other Matters Deemed Useful in the Conducting of the Affairs of a Labourer's Family : to which are Added, Instructions Relative to the Selecting, the Cutting and the Bleaching of the Plants of English Grass and Grain, for the Purpose of Making Hats and Bonnets : and Also Instructions for Erecting and Using Ice-houses, After the Virginian Manner
“It is by becoming increasingly complex that the self might be said to grow.”
Source: Flow: the psychology of optimal experience
“It is by being awake to God in us that we can increasingly see God in the world around us.”
Source: Spiritual Direction: Wisdom for the Long Walk of Faith
“It is by being fully involved with every detail of our lives, whether good or bad, that we find happiness, not by trying to look for it directly.”
Source: Flow: the psychology of optimal experience
“It is by believing in roses that you make them bloom.”
“It is by bribing, not so often by being bribed, that wicked politicians bring ruin on mankind. Avarice is a rival to the pursuits of many.”
Source: Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from the works of ... Edmund Burke
“It is by character and not by intellect the world is won.”
“IT IS BY CHOICE AND NOT BY CHANCES THAT WE CHANGE OUR CIRCUMSTANCES.”
Source: Breakaway: The Road to Freedom
“It is by continuing to put out good work that the artist best shows his gratitude.”
Source: Healology
“It is by desiring to grow in love that we receive the Holy Spirit, and the thirst for more charity is the effect of this more abundant reception.”
Source: No Man Is an Island
“It is by discourse that men associate, and words are imposed according to the apprehension of the vulgar. And therefore the ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obsesses the understanding. Nor do the definitions or explanations wherewith in some things learned men are wont to guard and defend themselves, by any means set the matter right. But words plainly force and overrule the understanding, and throw all into confusion, and lead men away into innumerable and inane controversies and fancies.”
“It is by doing anything that we become anyone”
“It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.”
“It is by education that we become prepared for our duties and responsibilities in life. If one is badly educated he must naturally fail in the proper assumption and practice of his duties and responsibilities.”
Source: Message to the People: The Course of African Philosophy
“It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real presence, confession, absolution, - there is something sensible to grasp at. Besides, it leaves no possibility of doubt; for those who swallow their Deity, really and truly, in transubstantiation, can hardly find any thing else otherwise than easy of digestion.”
“It is by far the safer course to lay [considerations of the future] altogether aside; and to confine our attention wholly to the nature and extent of the powers as they are delineated in the constitution. Everything beyond this, must be left to the prudence and firmness of the people; who, as they will hold the scales in their own hands, it is to be hoped, will always take care to preserve the constitutional equilibrium between the General and State governments.”
“It is by fighting and triumphing over the enemies of the Buddha that we ourselves become Buddhas.”
“It is by finding out what something is not that one comes closest to understanding what it is.”
“It is by following our happiness, through the choices we make, that we reach our joy.”
“It is by forgiving that one is forgiven.”
“It is by giving the freedom to the other, that is by letting go, we gain our own freedom back.”
“It is by God’s mercy that we are saved. May we never tire of spreading this joyful message to the world.”
“It is by his activities and not by enjoyment that man feels he is alive. In idleness we not only feel that life is fleeting, but we also feel lifeless.”
“It is by his freedom that a man knows himself, by his sovereignty over his own life that a man measures himself.”