I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It is from people that its leaders are made.”
“it is from such diverse sources with varied networks and linkages that the response to HIV / AIDS has been patched together. it is an NGO model of response, uneven in coverage and quality, responsive to the particularities of local circumstance, the character of local leaders, and the availability and types of funds available.”
Source: AIDS and Power: Why There Is No Political Crisis – Yet
“It is from that region of silence, that wordless knowing comes.”
“It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.”
Source: The age of reason
“It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.”
Source: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
“It is from the center that leaders must lead.”
Source: The New Prince: Machiavelli Updated for the Twenty-First Century
“It is from the graves and ruins and rubbish-heaps of Egypt that writings have been restored to us in great numbers.”
“It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.”
Source: The Speeches of Pericles
“It is from the Himalayan forests and ecosystems that I learned most of what I know about ecology.”
“It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.”
“It is from the middle class that writers spring, because, it is in the middle class only that the practice of writing is as natural and habitual as hoeing a field or building a house.”
Source: The Common Reader
“It is from the midst of this putrid sewer that the greatest river of human industry springs up and carries fertility to the whole world. From this foul drain pure gold flows forth.”
“It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”
Source: Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy
“It is from the overflow of our cup that we give off our best to others”
“It is from the power of taxation being in the hands of those who can throw so great a part of it from their own shoulders, that it has raged without a check.”
Source: Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution
“It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks; we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is in fact a family resemblance.”
“It is from the scope and wisdom of the economists of the past that we must reap the knowledge with which to face the future.”
Source: The Great Economists: Their Lives and Their Conceptions of the World
“It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock of our religious faith. We are taught the difference between right and wrong, and about the law, just punishment and discipline.”
“It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.”
Source: Art in Paris 1845-1862: salons and other exhibitions
“It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls”
“It is from this absolute indifference and tranquillity of the mind, that mathematical speculations derive some of the most considerable advantages; because there is nothing to interest the imagination; because the judgment sits free and unbiased to examine the point. All proportions, every arrangement of quantity, is alike to the understanding, because the same truths result to it from all; from greater from lesser, from equality and inequality.”
“It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.”
“It is from within that the darkest of beasts are born. It is also from within that the brightest of light shines.”
Source: Beauty turned Beast
“It is from your hands that Our Lord, in the person of the sick, seeks relief.”
“It is from your time that wealth is produced.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“It is from your time that wealth is produced, it is time that produces results and product.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“It is fruitless to search for a single musical style, or even any blend of musical styles, that can assist all Christians with true worship. The followers of Jesus are a far too diverse group of people-which is exactly as it should be. We need, rather, to welcome any worship music that helps churches produce disciples of Jesus Christ.”
“It is frustrating having to walk through America having to bob and weave people's impressions of me because they see a tall, black guy walking down the street. That is frustrating.”
“It is frustrating to be a Black woman in the entertainment industry.”
“It is frustrating when in an interview people say: 'Give us your make-up tips' and 'How do you stay skinny?' I think: 'Do you ask a guy that?”
“It is frustrating, because who wants to grow up and follow their parents?”
“It is fully practical to create that which has form in the silence. The noise art makes is usually heard by those whose lives listen to god. It is not adviseable to cheat that which has no other stake than the deeps and brights of all man.”
Source: Cloth of the Tempest
“It is fun to be alive. It's a hell of a lot better than being dead.”
“It is fun to be in the same decade with you.”
“It is fun to be outside; it's good to move your body and there is just a joy in sports and athletics.”
“It is fun to explore these kick-butt characters.”
“It is fun to see girls going mad about me or dancing around to get one glimpse of me. These are major perks of being an actor. But you need to be cautious and respectful.”
“It is fun to think about your pet moonlighting as a water delivery man, or a bouncer at a bar. Thinking about your dog out in the world, instead of laying on your bed when you leave, is really fun.”
“It is fun, revisiting a role. Usually, as an actor, you do a movie and you put that character up on a shelf, and he's done. That character is now immortalized on film, but you don't get to play him again. In these films [Twilight saga], we got to revisit these characters, and we didn't take that for granted.”
“It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.”
“It is fundamental that the great powers of Congress to conduct war and to regulate the Nation's foreign relations are subject to the constitutional requirements of due process. The imperative necessity for safeguarding these rights to procedural due process under the gravest of emergencies has existed throughout our constitutional history, for it is then, under the pressing exigencies of crisis, that there is the greatest temptation to dispense with fundamental constitutional guarantees which, it is feared, will inhibit governmental action.”
“It is fundamental to both Taoist and Confucian thought that the natural man is to be trusted, and from their standpoint it appears that the Western mistrust of human nature-whether theological or technological-is a kind of schizophrenia. It would be impossible, in their view, to believe oneself innately evil without discrediting the very belief, since all the notions of a perverted mind would be perverted notions.”
Source: The Way of Zen
“It is fundamental to Socialism that we should liquidate the British Empire as soon as we can.”
“It is fundamentally crazy to build wind farms out at sea. But it works!”
“It is fundamentally important that Grasso resign so that the New York Stock Exchange can restore its moral authority.”
“It is funnier to bend things than to break them.”
“It is funny about money. And it is funny about identity. You are you because your little dog knows you, but when your public knows you and does not want to pay for you and when your public knows you and does want to pay for you, you are not the same you.”
Source: Everybody's Autobiography
“It is funny because the guy who is my boss now, Howard Stern, has a similarity there. He got big being a regular guy. He wasn't the greatest looking guy in the world”
“It is funny how different mirrors reveal different aspects, it must be like people you meet, you get to prefer the ones who show an image of you that you like.”
Source: running is flying intermittently
“It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.”
Source: Joyful Christian