I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It is evil things that we will be fighting against-brute force, bad faith, injustice, oppression and persecution-and against them I am certain that the right will prevail.”
Source: The Neville Chamberlain Diary Letters: The Downing Street years, 1934-1940
“It is evil to give up on someone before them.”
“It is evil to justify killing (unborn babies) by the happy outcome of eternity for the one killed. This same justification could be used to justify killing one-year olds, or any heaven-bound believer for that matter. The Bible asks the question: "Shall we sin that grace may abound?" (Romans 6:1) And: "Shall we do evil that good may come?" (Romans 3:8). In both cases the answer is a resounding NO. It is presumption to step into God's place and try to make the assignments to heaven or to hell. Our duty is to obey God, not to play God.”
“It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays
“It is exactly in the repetition of the exercises that the education of the senses exists; not that the child shall know colors, forms or qualities, but that he refine his senses through an exercise of attention, comparison and judgment.”
“It is exactly the fear of revenge that motivates the deepest crimes, from the killing of the enemy's children lest they grow up to play their own part, to the erasure of the enemy's graveyards and holy places so that his hated name can be forgotten.”
Source: Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume
“It is exactly the unattainability, which differentiates a dream from a goal: Goals are reachable, when you fight for them. Dreams are not. Athletes shouldn't dream, but set goals for themselves and fight for them.”
“It is exceedingly deleterious to withdraw the sanction of religion from amusement. If we feel that it is all injurious we should strip the earth of its flowers and blot out its pleasant sunshine.”
“It is exceedingly difficult to maintain a sense of absence without turning that absence into some kind of presence”
Source: Thoughts Without A Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective
“It is exceedingly disagreeable to me to learn that thou didst not, from folly, receive what I imparted.”
Source: The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18
“It is exceedingly improbable that the identical action of the corresponding parts of the two retina is the result of a certain habituation, or of the influence of the mind.”
“It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words, or his reader will certainly misunderstand them. Generally, also, a downright fact may be told in a plain way; and we want downright facts at present more than anything else.”
Source: A Joy Forever
“It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his readers is sure to skip them.”
“It is exceptional and difficult to find in one man all the qualities necessary for a great general.”
“It is exceptional that one should be able to acquire the understanding of a process without having previously acquired a deep familiarity with running it, with using it, before one has assimilated it in an instinctive and empirical way... Thus any discussion of the nature of intellectual effort in any field is difficult, unless it presupposes an easy, routine familiarity with that field. In mathematics this limitation becomes very severe.”
Source: The Neumann Compendium
“It is exciting and emancipating to believe we are one of nature's latest experiments, but what if the experiment is unsuccessful?”
Source: The Living Novel
“It is exciting to be off to a new land with a new friend.”
“It is exciting to discover electrons and figure out the equations that govern their movement; it is boring to use those principles to design electric can openers. From here on out, it's all can openers.”
Source: Cryptonomicon
“It is exciting to hear one of your fondest ideas formulated in one fell swoop, better than you could have done yourself.”
Source: Selected Writings
“It is exciting to kind of figure things out in yourself and then use other people to help you figure things out so you can really reach your potential.”
“It is exciting to work with students thinking about issues of the day, from closing the achievement gap to finding a cure for cancer.”
“It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.”
“It is exclusively other people's responsibility to please themselves.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.”
“It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor.”
Source: Cato Major: Or, A Treatise on Old Age
“It is exhausting knowing that most of the time the phone rings, most of the time there's an email, most of the time there's a letter, someone wants something of you.”
“It is exhausting to be running around pretending to be scared at night - It sounds so wussy actory.”
“It is exhausting to be seventeen and not know who you are.”
Source: In One Person: A Novel
“It is expected that there will be discrepancies between models and observations. However, why these arise and what one should conclude from them are interesting and more subtle than most people realize. Indeed, such discrepancies are the classic way we learn something new.”
“It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.”
“It is expedient that there should be gods, and, since it is expedient, let us believe that gods exist.”
“It is expedient to have acquaintance with those who have looked into the world, who know men, understand business, and can give you good intelligence and good advice when they are wanted.”
Source: The Works of the Right Reverend George Horne ...: To which are Prefixed Memoirs of His Life, Studies, and Writings
“It is expensive to give plays subtitles, especially for a short run, so most new dramas rarely cross the transcontinental bridge.”
“It is experience of ourselves, and finding what we are, that God commonly makes use of as the means of bringing us off from all dependence on ourselves. But men never get acquaintance with themselves so fast, as in the most earnest way of seeking [salvation]. They that are in this way have more to engage them to think of their sins, and strictly to observe themselves, and have much more to do with their own hearts, than others. Such a one has much more experience of his own weakness, than another that does not put forth and try his strength; and will therefore sooner see himself dead in sin. Such a one, though he hath a disposition continually to be flying to his own righteousness, yet finds rest in nothing; he wanders about from one thing to another, seeking something to ease his disquieted conscience; he is driven from one refuge to another, goes from mountain to hill, seeking rest and finding none; and therefore will the sooner prove that there is no rest to be found, nor trust to be put, in any creature whatsoever.
"It is therefore quite a wrong notion that some entertain, that the more they do, the more they shall depend on it. Whereas the reverse is true; the more they do, or the more thorough they are in seeking, the less will they be likely to rest in their doings, and the sooner will they see the vanity of all that they do.
[from "Pressing into the Kingdom of God"]”
Source: The Works of Jonathan Edwards, 2 Volumes
“It is experience, which will then inspire the interested Powers with the most favourable resolutions for the development of commercial progress in their possessions.”
“It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough.”
“It is explicit that chieftains profit from abomination, but the merit of their authority is that the community also benefit. Illicit behavior is kept at a low limit making for a close knit unit.”
Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“It is explored by reading”
“It is expressions of affection rather than money and power that attract real friends.”
“It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?”
“It is extraordinarily entertaining to watch the historians of the past ... entangling themselves in what they were pleased to call the "problem" of Queen Elizabeth. They invented the most complicated and astonishing reasons both for her success as a sovereign and for her tortuous matrimonial policy. She was the tool of Burleigh, she was the tool of Leicester, she was the fool of Essex; she was diseased, she was deformed, she was a man in disguise. She was a mystery, and must have some extraordinary solution. Only recently has it occrurred to a few enlightened people that the solution might be quite simple after all. She might be one of the rare people were born into the right job and put that job first.”
Source: Are Women Human? Penetrating, Sensible and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society
“It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is.”
Source: The Pursuit of Virtue and Other Tory Notions
“It is extraordinary how many emotional storms one may weather in safety if one is ballasted with ever so little gold.”
Source: Casuals of the Sea: The Voyage of a Soul
“it is extraordinary how much you are theirs, and how little they are yours. The child grows inside you and there is something mystical and mythical in that, but then you actually see that you are nothing more than the box in which they come. There is this total person, already formed, themselves.”
“It is extraordinary how music sends one back into memories of the past.”
“It is extraordinary how safe flying has become. You are now statistically more likely to be elected president of the United States in your lifetime than you are to die in a plane crash. What an amazing achievement as a society! But what we end up focusing on are the catastrophic failures that are incredibly rare but happen every now and then.”
“It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. . . . Even the stain on the coffee cup seems not coffee but the physical manifestation of one's inner stain, the fatal blot that from the beginning had marked one for ultimate aloneness.”
Source: Mrs. October was Here
“It is extraordinary how the human mind sees what it anticipates and is blind to anything that could not be dreamed of.”
Source: Amy Snow
“It is extraordinary that a philosophy so essentially revolutionary as that of Hobbes, and so similar to that of contemporary Russia, should ever have been supposed to give any support to Toryism. But its ambiguity is largely responsible for its success. Hobbes was a revolutionary in thought and a timid conservative in action; and his theory of government is congenial to that type of person who is conservative from prudence but revolutionary in his dreams. This type of person is not altogether uncommon. In Hobbes there are symptoms of the same mentality as Nietzsche: his belief in violence is a confession of weakness. Hobbes's violence is of a type that often appeals to gentle people. His specious effect of unity between a very simple theory of sense perception and an equally simple theory of government is of a kind that will always be popular because it appears to be intellectual but is really emotional, and therefore very soothing to lazy minds.”
Source: For Lancelot Andrewes: Essays Ancient & Modern
“It is extraordinary that each of the three individuals this president [ George W. Bush] has nominated for the Supreme Court - Chief Justice [John] Roberts, Harriet Miers and now Judge Alito - has served not only as a lawyer for the executive branch, but has defended the most expansive view of presidential authority.”