I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It is genuinely possible to reach the point where you desire broccoli more than fries and wholemeal sourdough more than sliced white bread.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“It is getting dark. In the low mists over the hills, an orange glow broods, as if the trees are on fire. Bats are flooding out from the hundreds of caves that perforate these mountainsides. I watch them plunge into the mists without any hesitation, trusting in the echoes and silences in which they fly.
Are all of us the same, I wonder, navigating our lives by interpreting the silences between words spoken, analyzing the returning echoes of our memory in order to chart the terrain, in order to make sense of the world around us?”
“It is getting difficult to discern the biological effects of natural radiation from unnatural man-made radiation.”
“It is getting hazardous to live next to the ocean.”
“It is getting to be a great many years since I have ceased to do what I would, and been forced to do what I could, That is the lot of all flesh, I suppose---But oh it would be lovely sometimes to cut duty, and go on a -bust-.
[Varina Davis, Letter to her father William Burr Howell]”
Source: The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
“It is getting to the point where the mark of international distinction and service to humanity is no longer the Nobel Peace Price, but an espionage indictment from the US Department of Justice.”
“It is given that we'll face difficulties and breaking points in our lives but with them we'll also have lots of positive moments. We only have to recognize them and let them be. We shouldn't burden those few positive moments with the negatives in our lives or we're going to just ruin them.”
Source: A Bucket Full Of Awesome
“It is given to few persons to keep this secret well. Those who lay down rules too often break them, and the safest we are able to give is to listen much, to speak little, and to say nothing that that will ever give ground or regret.”
“It is given to few to add the store of knowledge, to strike new springs of thought, or to shape new forms of beauty. But so sure as it is that men live not by bread, but by ideas, so sure is it that the future of the world lies in the hands of those who are able to carry the interpretation of nature a step further than their predecessors.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley
“It is given to no human being to stereotype a set of truths, and walk safely by their guidance with his mind's eye closed.”
Source: The London and Westminster Review
“It is given to us to calculate, to weigh, to measure, to observe, this is natural philosophy; almost all the rest is chimera.”
“It is given to us to live for the most part under the guidance of mathematics ... It is impossible to distinguish from other living creatures anyone who does not understand how to quantify.”
“It is giving me a great satisfaction, because I had the notion that we could make great wines equal to the greatest wines in the world, and everybody said it was impossible.”
“It is glorious to become a learner again at my time of life.”
“It is glorious to see such courage in one so young.”
Source: REBEL YELL: History of the Confederacy, Memoirs and Biographies of the Confederate Leaders & Official Documents: History of the Confederate States, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Heros von Borcke, Constitution of the Confederate States and More
“It is God alone who can subdue and govern the unruly wills of sinful men.”
Source: Letters of George Whitefield, for the Period 1734-1742
“It is God himself who can be discovered in the beauty of sensible things.”
“It is God’s desire that every one of us is involved in serving Him with all our heart and soul”
“It is God's jealous love that both unnerves us and draws us to Him. His relentless pursuit, His fierce hatred of any rival, and His incomprehensible willingness to anguish on our behalf captures our heart for His love. His jealousy is our shield; it is our promise of eternal protection and passionate exclusivity. it is our confidence that the divine Lover will win His bride.”
“It is God that accomplishes all term to hopes, God, who overtakes the flying eagle, outpasses the dolphin in the sea; who bends under his strength the man with thoughts too high.”
Source: The Odes of Pindar
“It is God to whom and with whom we travel, and while He is the end of our journey, He is also at every stopping place.”
Source: Twelve Baskets of Crumbs
“It is GOD Who causeth the seed-grain and the date-stone to split and sprout.”
“It is God who creates, effects, and preserves all things through his almighty.”
“It is God who enables us to return to life after tragedy-not by eradicating all suffering but by giving us the strength and the courage to heal what we can heal.”
Source: Talking to God: Personal Prayers for Times of Joy, Sadness, Struggle, and Celebration
“It is God who gives life. Let us respect and love human life, especially vulnerable life in a mother's womb.”
“It is God who gives us the spirit of worship (Psalm 133:3), and it is what we know of God that produces this spirit of worship. We might say that worship is simply theology, doctrine, what we think about God, going into top gear! Instead of merely thinking about Him, we tell Him, in prayer and praise and song, how great and glorious we believe Him to be!”
“It is God who is the ultimate reason things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than his essence and will are the beginning of things.”
“It is God who makes woman beautiful, it is the devil who makes her pretty.”
Source: The Alps and Pyrenees
“It is God who works in and through us, if only we would let God do His work.”
“It is God's design to use reluctant servants to usher in glory.”
“It is God's earth out of which man is taken. From it he has his body. His body belongs to his essential being. Man's body is not his prison, his shell his exterior, but man himself. Man does not "have" a body; he does not "have" a soul; rather he "is" body and soul. Man in the beginning is really his body. He is one. He is his body, as Christ is completely his body, as the Church is the body of Christ”
Source: The martyred Christian: 160 readings from Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“It is God's giving if we laugh or weep.”
Source: Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers
“It is God's hand which has guided everything, and it is God whom we must thank above all.”
“It is God's job to forgive Osama Bin Laden. It is our job to arrange a face to face meeting.”
“It is God's kindness to terrify you in order to lead you to safety.”
“It is God's objective to make your condition line up with your position.”
“It is God's planet - and he's taking care of it. And I don't believe that anything we do will raise or lower the temperature one point.”
“It is God's will not only to hear our prayer, but to give us the best and the richest answer which He, the almighty and omniscient God, can devise. He will send us the answer when it will benefit us and His cause the most.”
Source: Prayer
“It is God's will to bless us, but not necessarily on our terms. Sometimes what we think would be a wonderful blessing would not bless us at all.”
“It is God's world still. It has been given to man not absolutely, but in trust, that man may work out in it the will of God; given-may we not say?-just as a father gives a child a corner of his great garden, and says, "There, that is yours; now cultivate it."”
Source: Sermons: Visions and tasks, and other sermons
“It is God, Who is merciful and grants everyone what he needs, Who is building him up when He gives him more than he needs; in doing so He shows the abundance of His love for men and teaches him to give thanks. When He does not grant him what he needs, He makes him compensate for the thing he needs through the working of the mind and teaches him patience.”
Source: Discourses and Sayings
“It is godlike ever to think on something beautiful and on something new.”
“It is godlike to unloose the spirit, and forget yourself in thought.”
Source: Poems of Early and After Years
“It is God’s omnipotence, His consuming holiness, and His right to judge that make Him worthy to be feared.”
“It is God’s will through His wonderful grace, that the prayers of His saints should be one of the great principal means of carrying on the designs of Christ’s kingdom in the world. When God has something very great to accomplish for His church, it is His will that there should precede it the extraordinary prayers of His people; as is manifest by Ezekiel 36:37. and it is revealed that, when God is about to accomplish great things for His church, He will begin by remarkably pouring out the spirit of grace and supplication (see Zechariah 12:10).”
“It is going to be a sad legacy of mankind that a group of toxic nerds destroyed society.”
“It is going to be changed to straight P. Diddy. You could call me P. or Diddy, or P. Diddy. I just want something fresh, man.”
“It is going to be necessary that everything that happens in a finite volume of space and time would have to be analyzable with a finite number of logical operations. The present theory of physics is not that way, apparently. It allows space to go down into infinitesimal distances, wavelengths to get infinitely great, terms to be summed in infinite order, and so forth; and therefore, if this proposition [that physics is computer-simulatable] is right, physical law is wrong.”
“It is going to be special to drive in the Netherlands because it means I can take part in a Formula One demonstration in a country where I have a lot of family and friends.”
“It is going to be too easy for things to start feeling normal—especially if you are someone who is not directly impacted by his actions.
So keep reminding yourself:
This is not normal.
Write it on a Post-It note and stick it on your refrigerator, hire a skywriter once a month, tattoo it on your ass.
Because a Klan-backed misogynist internet troll is going to be delivering the next State of the Union address.
And that is not normal.
It is fucked up.”