I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief could be assuaged by baldness.”
“It is foolish to pretend that the legacies of colonialism can be consistently erased without a trace.”
Source: A Princely Impostor? The Kumar Of Bhawal And The Secret History Of Indian Nationalism
“It is FOOLISH to provide SECURITY to YOUR SHADOW by IN-SECURING YOUR SOUL”
“It is foolish to regret anything form one's past.”
Source: Web of Love
“It is foolish to run risk of going mad for vanity's sake.”
Source: The Queen's Gambit
“It is foolish to teach a person a lesson by killing them. For they’d be too dead to learn anything.”
“It is foolish to teach calmness to the sea, because for a calm sea, you should teach calmness to the wind, not to the sea!”
“It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.”
“It is foolish to think that we can explain science as it evolves, rationally and consciously. We have to use the crude tool of metaphor to translate conscious ideas into unconscious understanding.”
Source: We Belong to Gaia
“It is foolish to think that we will enter heaven without entering into ourselves.”
“It is foolish to think that you do not make an impact, good or bad, our very existence impacts everything and everyone around us”
“It is foolish to try to imitate the skills of others.”
Source: Aesop in the afternoon
“It is foolish to try to live on past experience. It is very dangerous, if not a fatal habit, to judge ourselves to be safe because of something that we felt or did twenty years ago.”
Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 31: Sermons 1816-1876
“It is foolish to wait for your ship to come in unless you have sent one out.”
“It is foolish to walk away when you have so much love in your heart.”
“It is foolish to waste time in order to save money.”
“It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.”
Source: Agnes Grey
“It is foolishness to think that you can leave a place your heart never left.”
Source: The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey
“It is for a specific reason that you were born from that specific place. Never wish that away because it is not where you were born that matters, but who you were born to be. Jesus was born on the kraal and He became a King of Kings.”
“It is for all Men that come into the World once to Die, and after Death the Judgment; and since Death is a Debt that all of us must pay, it is but a matter of small moment what way it be done.”
“It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.”
Source: Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person
“It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.”
“It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.”
Source: Wuthering Heights
“It is for him that is lonely or in prison to dream of fellowship, but for him that is of a fellowship to do and not to dream.”
Source: A Dream of John Ball
“It is for homely features to keep home,- They had their name thence; coarse complexions And cheeks of sorry grain will serve to ply The sampler and to tease the huswife's wool. What need a vermeil-tinctur'd lip for that, Love-darting eyes, or tresses like the morn?”
“It is for little souls, that truckle under the weight of affairs, not to know how clearly to disengage themselves, and not to know how to lay them aside and take them up again.”
Source: The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy
“It is for man to establish the reign of liberty in the midst of the world of the given. To gain the supreme victory, it is necessary, for one thing, that by and through their natural differentiation men and women unequivocally affirm their brotherhood.”
“It is for Muslim scholars to study the whole history of Islamic science completely and not only the chapters and periods which influenced Western science. It is also for Muslim scholars to present the tradition of Islamic science from the point of view of Islam itself and not from the point of view of the scientism, rationalism and positivism which have dominated the history of science in the West since the establishment of the discipline in the early part of the 20th century in Europe and America.”
“It is for ordinary minds, not for psychoanalysts, that our rules of evidence are framed. They have their source very often in considerations of administrative convenience, or practical expediency, and not in rules of logic.”
Source: Law is Justice: Notable Opinions of Mr. Justice Cardozo
“It is for real that injustice and oppression will not have the last word. There was a time when Hitler looked like he was going to vanquish all of Europe, and where is he now?”
“It is for sheep to eat grass and for lions to eat meat.”
“It is for the artist... in portrait painting to put on canvas something more than the face the model wears for that one day; to paint the man, in short, as well as his features.”
Source: The Gentle Art of Making Enemies
“It is for the benefit of mankind to mitigate the horrors of war as much as possible.”
Source: Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution
“It is, for the foreseeable future, impossible to conceive of any significant external threat to Canada which is not also a threat to North America as a whole. It is equally inconceivable that, in resisting clear and unequivocal aggression against Canadian territory, Canada could not rely on the active support of the United States. Recognition of these facts, however, must not be permitted to obscure certain national responsibilities of which account must be taken in Canadian policy.”
“It is for the good of nations, and not for the emolument or aggrandizement of particular individuals, that government ought to be established, and that mankind are at the expense of supporting it. The defects of every government and constitution both as to principle and form, must, on a parity of reasoning, be as open to discussion as the defects of a law, and it is a duty which every man owes to society to point them out.”
Source: Paine: Political Writings
“It is for the good of states that men should be deluded by religion.”
“It is for the inconsistent, unsteady disciples whose cheese is falling off their cracker.”
Source: All Is Grace: A Ragamuffin Memoir
“It is for the latter that I always wanted to be an actor: to play characters who are always on the move.”
“It is for the most part in our skill in manners, and in the observations of time and place and of decency in general, that what is called taste by way of distinction consists; and which is in reality no other than a more refined judgment.”
“It is for the poor people's sake, above all, that we urgently need more unity and better organization and need to concentrate our reform efforts in order to really to achieve reforms, one by one.”
“It is for the State to take care that the economic conditions are such that the normal man who is not defective in mind or body or will can be useful labor feed, house, and clothe himself and his family. The "right to work" and the "right to a living wage" are just as valid as the rights of person or property.”
“It is for the superfluous things of life that men sweat.”
“It is for the very reason that people are different that something alive and interesting can possibly happen in dance and in life. It is fragile, definitely. In dancing, not only is there the technique and dancing capabilities of each person to consider, there is the even greater, more impactful field of the nature of each – the depth or lack of it, the amount of fire inside them, the presence or absence of calmness, the quality of mental lucidity, the willingness to navigate through emotional openness, the capacity to not indulge in neediness and self-pity while still maintaining an emotional transparency, and the willingness or otherwise of bringing one’s soul to the table and seeing what the other will do with it. All high risk.”
Source: Dance: A Spiritual Affair
“It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.”
“It is for these reasons that I believe we must expand day-care centers and provide other assistance which I have recommended to the Congress. At present, the total facilities of all the licensed day-care centers in the Nation can take care of only 185,000 children. Nearly 500,000 children under 12 must take care of themselves while their mothers work. This, it seems to me, is a formula for disaster.”
“It is for this reason that Jesus left us the parable of the unfaithful servant, inviting us into a sincere fraternity in order that through it we could find the path of rehabilitation.”
“It is for this reason that rationality is of supreme importance to the well-being of the human species...even more, in those less fortunate times in which it is despised and rejected as the vain dream of men who lack the virility to kill where they cannot agree.”
“It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write.”
Source: Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition
“It is for truth that God created genius.”
“It is for us and our time...to say the right makes might.”