I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.”
Source: Go to Heaven: A Spiritual Road Map to Eternity
“It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise.”
“It is easy to follow Christ when all things are safe. But your love to Jesus Christ would be seen more, if you must lose your lives, or deny your Jesus. It would be a trial of your love, when fire and faggot [a wooden stick] was before you, if you would rush into that, rather than fly from the truth as it is in Jesus. Though all things are calm now, the storm is gathering and by and by it will break; it is at present no bigger than a man's hand. But when it is full it will break and then you will see whether you are found Christians or not.”
“It is easy to follow, but it is uninteresting to do easy things. We find out about ourselves only when we take risks, when we challenge and question.”
“It is easy to fool, influence , excite, persuade, manipulate people who have an empty mind, regardless of whether they have PhD, Degrees , Certificates and experience . Qualifications don't equate to intelligence.”
“It is easy to fool others than to fool your self”
“It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.”
Source: Paper Towns
“It is easy to forget how much you have, when your eyes are always fixed on what you have not.”
Source: The Heroes: A First Law Novel
“It is easy to forget how mysterious and mighty stories are. They do their work in silence, invisibly. They work with all the internal materials of your mind and self. They become part of you while changing you. Beware the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.”
“It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer.”
Source: Bright Young Things
“It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer. Everything fades: the shimmer of gold over White Cove; the laughter in the night air; the lavender early morning light on the faces of skyscrapers, which had suddenly become so heroically tall. Every dawn seemed to promise fresh miracles, among other joys that are in short supply these days. And so I will try to tell you, while I still remember, how it was then, before everything changed-that final season of the era that roared.”
Source: Bright Young Things
“It is easy to forget that a fork is simply a knife with several blades.”
Source: Bred In The Bone: Book 1 Of Morgan's Lament
“It is easy to forget that in the main we die only seven times more slowly than our dogs.”
Source: The Road Home
“It is easy to forget that the most important aspect of comedy, after all, its great saving grace, is its ambiguity. You can simultaneously laugh at a situation, and take it seriously.”
“It is easy to forget, since the Catholic Church is now the only large American religious denomination whose ecclesiastical hierarchy continues to oppose birth control, that only a century ago the leaders of nearly all churches were united in their resistance to any public discussion of the subject.”
Source: Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism
“It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.”
Source: The Doctors: A Satire in Four Seizures
“It is easy to get into war, not so easy to get out.”
“It is easy to get swept up in cultural trends that tickle the imagination because those who propagate such trends can’t distinguish reality from imagination. However, they do know where we’re ticklish.”
“It is easy to get to a higher number when you are not asking anything difficult from yourself.”
“It is easy to get to the top after you get through the crowd at the bottom.”
“It is easy to get used to the morning news, habituated. But don't. The morning news is yours to alter.”
“It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.”
“It is easy to give without loving yet DIFFICULT TO LOVE without GIVING.
After all Love is a Verb, it must be demonstrated genuinely.”
“It is easy to give without loving yet DIFFICULT TO LOVE without GIVING.
After all Love is a Vern, it must be demonstrated genuinely.”
“It is easy to go down into Hell...; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - -there's the rub.”
“It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. Wisdom, compassion, and courage are essential ingredients for love. To love other people we must begin by forgiving them. If we do not bring forth the part of us that is capable of love and compassion, it will destroy us.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.”
“It is easy to hate but divine to love.”
“It is easy to have a lot of paintings or projects hanging around that are 'almost done.”
“It is easy to have calmness in inactivity, it is hard to have calmness in activity, but calmness in activity is true calmness.”
Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
“It is easy to identify a shallow person by the attention he gives to what will do him absolutely no good.”
“It is easy to ignore responsibility when one is only an intermediate link in a chain of action.”
Source: Obedience to Authority
“It is easy to imagine fantasy as physical and myth as real. We do it almost every moment. We do this as we dream, as we think, and as we cope with the world about us. But these worlds of fantasy that we form into the solid things around us are the source of our discontent. They inspire our search to find ourselves.”
“It is easy to imagine that the Buddha, the awakened one, is something or somewhere other than here or that awakening to reality will happen sometime other than now. But as long as we continue to think in terms of time we will deceive ourselves. The you who is chasing enlightenment will never become enlightened.
Instead of striving towards some distant goal that you will never reach, I invite you to stop and ask: How am I avoiding the enlightenment that is already present in each moment? How am I seeing separation where it doesn't exist?”
“It is easy to imagine that the great labyrinth, winding round an entire island in the northern ocean, is the reason behind the fleeting, solitary existence of those who live in it, but this does not explain why they built it in the first place. Perhaps they really did want to lose themselves.”
Source: An A-Z of Possible Worlds
“It is easy to infuse a most fervent devotion into others, even in a short time; but the great matter is - to persevere.”
Source: The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri
“It is easy to keep secrets by being honest in an ironic tone of voice.”
Source: The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression
“It is easy to kick a person when he is down.”
Source: Aesop in the afternoon
“It is easy to kill individuals but you cannot kill the ideas.”
Source: Selected collections on Bhagat Singh
“It is easy to kill when you don't see your victim”
“It is easy to kill with a bow, girl. How easy it is to release the bowstring and think, it is not I, not I, it is the arrow. The blood of that boy is not on my hands. The arrow killed him, not I. But the arrow does not dream anything in the night.”
“It is easy to know when a government wishes for peace by observing the character of the person sent to negotiate for it.”
“It is easy to know your purpose in life, because you choose your purpose in life.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“It is easy to launch a project if you have no clue about the cost and schedule.”
Source: Ice Breakers for Project Managers: Jokes, Quotes, and Brainteasers
“It is easy to lead from the front when there are no obstacles before you, the true colors of a leader are exposed when placed under fire.”
“It is easy to learn something about everything, but difficult to learn everything about anything.”
“It is easy to lie with statistics; it is easier to lie without them.”
“It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.”
Source: The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871
“It is easy to live multiple lives! What is hard is to be a whole person”
Source: Green Earth
“It is easy to look at these waves, accomplishing so little and to think that no matter what efforts we put forth in our lives, all we're really doing is rearranging the sand grains in a beach that in essence never changes.”