I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It is fine to be upset, but that won't get you anywhere. You gotta think about what you can learn from this. So far, looks like all you've learned is how to beat up on something that can't beat you back.”
“It is fine to commiserate with a man about his bad experience with a previous partner, but the instant he uses her as an excuse to mistreat you, stop believing anything he tells you about that relationship and instead recognize it as a sign that he has problems with relating to women.”
Source: Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men
“It is fine to imitate a being you respect, but you cannot become that very being. Imitation is something one does to grow and develop. It is not something you use to deceive yourself. You absorb in yourself the things you think have some kind of value, but even if you try to find the meaning about your true self you will not find anything. Because those who cannot accept their real self always fail.”
“It is fine to stand upon some lofty mountain thought, and feel the spirit stretch into a view.”
Source: Festus: a poem
“It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand.”
“It is finished, is never said of us”
“It is first and foremost very hard work! But I have a wonderful part and I do have fun. The company, cast and crew of 'Passions' are wonderful to work with.”
“It is fit that justice should be administered with great caution.”
“It is fitting for a great nation to yield.”
Source: 道德经
“It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.”
“It is fitting that at this solemn moment we take the pledge of dedication to the service of India and her people and to the still larger cause of human ity.”
Source: India's Spokesman: From Speeches and Addresses
“It is fitting that the Government of the United States should assume the obligation of the establishment and maintenance of a first-class university for the education of colored menand I wish to put in this caveatthat the colored race today, all of them, would be better off if they all had university education.... Of course, the basis of education of the colored people is in the primary schools and in industrial schools.... In those schools must be introduced teachers from such university institutions as this.”
“It is fitting that yesteryear's swashbuckling newspaper reporter has turned into today's solemn young sobersides nursing a glass of watered white wine after a day of toiling over computer databases in a smoke-free, noise-free newsroom.”
“It is flagrantly dishonest for an advertising agent to urge consumers to buy a product which he would not allow his own wife to buy.”
Source: Confessions of an advertising man
“It is flat-out strange that something-that anything-is happening at all. There was nothing then a Big Bang, then here we all are. This is extremely weird.”
Source: Sex, Ecology, Spirituality: The Spirit of Evolution, Second Edition
“It is folly alone that stays the fugue of Youth and beats off touring Old Age.”
“It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.”
Source: Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill
“It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.”
Source: The spectator
“It is folly to abstain all day long from food, but fail to abstain from sin and selfishness.”
“It is folly to anticipate evils, and madness to create imaginary ones.”
Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations
“It is folly to believe that Congress and the president, on their own, will make the necessary and difficult decisions to address the impending financial debacle. After all, they and their predecessors engineered the approaching tsunami. As the situation becomes direr, the federal government's actions will grow more oppressive.”
“It is folly to censure him whom all the world adores.”
“It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.”
“It is folly to fear what cannot be avoided.”
“It is folly to imagine that the aggressive types, whether individuals or nations, can be bought off ... since the payment of danegeld stimulates a demand for more danegeld. But they can be curbed. Their very belief in force makes them more susceptible to the deterrent effect of a formidable opposing force.”
“It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen.”
“It is folly to say you know what is happening to other people. Only they know, if they exist. They have their own Universes of their own eyes and ears.”
Source: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
“It is folly to seek the approbation of any being besides the Supreme.”
“It is folly to shiver over last year's snow.”
“It is folly to think that we can destroy one species and ecosystem after another and not affect humanity. When we save species, we're actually saving ourselves.”
“It is folly to think the Lord provides grace for every trouble but the one you are in today.”
“It is folly to use as one's guide in the selection of fundamental science the criterion of utility. Not because (scientists)... despise utility. But because. .. useful outcomes are best identified after the making of discoveries, rather than before.”
“It is folly to waste labour about trifles.”
“It is food - we now know that food is information, not just calories, and that it can upgrade your biologic software. The majority of chronic disease is primarily a food borne illness. We ate ourselves into this problem and we have to eat ourselves out of it.”
“It is foolhardy to make a second trade, if your first trade shows you a loss. Never average losses. Let this thought be written indelibly upon your mind.”
Source: How to Trade in Stocks: The Livermore Formula for Combining Time Element and Price
“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.”
“It is foolish for people to think they can align themselves and be safe in a police state.”
“It is foolish for Rubens to show her simpering. They were clearly guilty and did her much sorrow.”
Source: Collected Poems
“It is foolish for the moon to compete with the sun for the spotlight.”
“It is foolish in the extreme not only to resort to force before necessity compels, but especially to madly create the conditions that will lead to this necessity.”
Source: Liberty
“It is foolish to be afraid of death. Just think. No more repaired tires on the body vehicle, no more patchwork living.”
“It is foolish to be convinced without evidence, but it is equally foolish to refuse to be convinced by real evidence.”
“It is foolish to be lavish in words and niggardly in truth.”
Source: Lectures to My Students
“It is foolish to believe that cash in the form of bills or your bank account is not exposed to any risk. Sure, it is.”
“It is foolish to conjure up woe where none exists.”
Source: The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance
“It is foolish to expect a young man to follow your advice and to ignore your example.”
“It is foolish to fear that which you cannot avoid. -Stultum est timere quod vitare non potes”
“It is foolish to fear what you cannot avoid.”
“It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.”
“It is foolish
to let a young redwood
grow next to a house.
Even in this
one lifetime,
you will have to choose.
That great calm being,
this clutter of soup pots and books—
Already the first branch-tips brush at the window.
Softly, calmly, immensity taps at your life.”
Source: Given Sugar, Given Salt