I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It is difficult to spread the contagion of excitement without having a sense of purpose and direction.”
Source: Primal Leadership, With a New Preface by the Authors: Unleashing the Power of Emotional Intelligence
“It is difficult to steer a parked car, so get moving.”
“It is difficult to stop in time because one gets carried away. But I have that strength; it is the only strength I have.”
“It is difficult to suddenly give up a long love. Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem”
“It is difficult to systematically beat the market. But it is not difficult to systematically throw money down a rat hole by generating commissions and other costs.”
“It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without a choice of fabric - without a practical or visual reality.”
“It is difficult to talk about what I do, because I do it so I don't have to talk about it.”
“It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a kind manner and gentle speech.”
“It is difficult to think of an origin without wanting to go back beyond it.”
“It is difficult to think of anything more important than providing the best education possible for our children. They will develop the next technologies, medical cures, and global industries, while mitigating their unintended effects, or they will fail to do these things and consign us all to oblivion.”
“It is difficult to thinkof any circumstances where learning may be said to be impossible.”
“It is difficult to understand human beings as rational beings because even our rational mind is guided by our emotions. Emotions are the product of our beliefs which are based on faith without much logic and reason behind them.”
Source: Myths are Real, Reality is a Myth
“It is difficult to understand precisely what the state hopes to achieve by promoting the creation and perpetuation of a subclass of illiterates within our boundaries, surely adding to the problems and costs of unemployment, welfare and crime.”
“It is difficult to understand the journey of a hero,” the whisperer said.”
Source: Halloween Nightmares
“It is difficult to understand the universe if you only study one planet”
“It is difficult to understand these people who democratically take part in elections and a referendum, but are then incapable of democratically accepting the will of the people.”
“It is difficult to understand why statisticians commonly limit their inquiries to Averages, and do not revel in more comprehensive views. Their souls seem as dull to the charm of variety as that of the native of one of our flat English counties, whose retrospect of Switzerland was that, if its mountains could be thrown into its lakes, two nuisances would be got rid of at once.”
“It is difficult to undo our own damage, and to recall to our presence that which we have asked to leave.”
Source: Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
“It is difficult to undo our own damage, and to recall to our presence that which we have asked to leave. It is hard to desecrate a grove and change your mind. The very holy mountains are keeping mum. We doused the burning bush and cannot rekindle it; we are lighting matches in vain under every green tree.”
Source: Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
“It is difficult to unlearn a lifetime of habitability and then to comprehend suddenly to unfamiliar, strange, even marvellous things. To allow for surprise and improvisation is to begin the apprenticeship of learning the way that is no way.”
“It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.”
“It is difficult to walk at one and the same time many paths of life.”
“It is difficult to whistle and drink at the same time.”
“It is difficult to wrap your mind around this intellectually and until you've had the experience, it can be difficult to understand. I tell people to give it a shot; you have nothing to lose.”
“It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.”
Source: Poems and Translations
“It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.”
“It is difficult, very hard, to try to explain what a boy feels when he sees the dogs sweeping the browned peafields, or skirting the edges of the gallberry bays, or crisscrossing the fields of yellow, withered corn shocks, running like racehorses with their heads high and their tails whipping. And then that moment, after nearly a year, of the first dog striking the first scent, and the excitement communicating to the other dogs, and all hands crowding in on the act—the trailers trailing, the winders sniffing high, but slow now, and the final eggshell-creeping, the tails going feverishly and the bellies low to the ground, presaging a point.
Then the sudden freeze, then the slight uncertainty, then ja minor change of course, and then the swift, dead-sure cock of head, which says plainly the bird is here, boss, right under my nose, and now it’s all up to you.
- November Was Always the Best By Robert Ruark”
Source: The Greatest Quail Hunting Book Ever, Collector’s Edition
“It is difficult, when we look back on certain periods of our lives, not to succumb to romanticism and nostalgia. Even while I lived in London, though, I romanticised the city and the life I lived there; or rather, I knew it was a beautiful, romantic time of life, and that, like youth itself, the circumstances that had come so magically together would never be repeated, and that one day I would regret those years. Although I sometimes tantalise myself with the idea of moving to London again, I don't need Heraclitus to remind me that you can't step into the same city twice. The London where I lived no longer exists, any more than a dream exists upon awakening - a dream in which you were happy, in which life lived up to its promise.”
Source: Autobibliography
“It is difficult, almost impossible, to find the book from which something either valuable or amusing may not be found, if the proper alembic be applied.”
Source: The Book-hunter, Etc
“It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business.”
Source: Gandhi on Non-violence
“It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.”
Source: Saint Joan
“It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges.”
“It is difficult, if not impossible, to define the limit of our reasonable desires in respect of possessions.”
Source: Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays
“It is difficult, none the less, for the ordinary man to cast off orthodox beliefs, for he is seldom allowed to hear the other side... Whereas the Christian view is pressed on him day in and day out.”
“It is difficult, when faced with a situation you cannot control, to admit you can do nothing.”
“It is difficulties that show what men are.”
Source: The Discourses as Reported by Arrian: The Manual, and Fragments
“It is difficulties that show what men are. For the future, in case of any difficulty, remember that God, like a gymnastic trainer, has pitted you against a rough antagonist. For what end? That you may be an Olympic conqueror; and this cannot be without toil.”
“It is dirt that propels a flower to blossom,
heat that propels a candle to burn,
storms that propel a rainbow to form,
pressure that propels a diamond to glow,
wind that propels a bird to soar,
tides that propel a fish to swim,
waves that propel a ship to float,
darkness that propels a star to shine,
and hunger that propels a lion to roar.
It is pain that gives pleasure meaning,
sorrow that gives joy meaning,
despair that gives hope meaning,
fear that gives courage meaning,
turmoil that gives peace meaning,
anger that gives love meaning,
chaos that gives order meaning,
evil that gives good meaning,
and darkness that gives light meaning.”
“It is disappointing and embarrassing to the science profession that some Nobel Laureates would deliberately use their well deserved scientific reputations and hold themselves out as experts in other fields.”
“It is disappointing to witness the corporate government disability system letting massive numbers of sickened people down during their greatest time of need.”
“It is disastrous to own more of anything than you can possess, and it is one of the most fundamental laws of human nature that our power actually to possess is limited.”
Source: If You Don't Mind My Saying So ...: Essays on Man and Nature
“It is disconcerting to regularly feel your heart become erratic for several seconds.”
Source: Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue
“It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.”
Source: Plays, four
“it is discouraging to leave the past behind only to see it coming toward you like the thunderstorm which drenched you yesterday.”
“It is discouraging to try to be a good neighbor in a bad neighborhood.”
“It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it.”
Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition
“It is discovered like a sleeping dragon, when all the venom and toxin created from the pus of the minds septic splinters are let out into the ether from the caverns of your shadow self, and are energetically released, a wondrous thing happens, you transform yourself!”
“It is disgraceful for a philosopher to say: the good and the beautiful are one; if he adds 'also the true', one ought to beat him. Truth is ugly. We possess art lest we perish of the truth.”
Source: The Will to Power
“It is disgraceful that people are being barred from neighborhoods and clubs on a basis that would have barred Jesus Himself.”
“It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.”