I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It is going to be tough if you look for the easy way out because very rarely is there an easy way out. There is nothing that replaces hard work.”
“It is going to get worse before it gets better.”
“It is going to have healthy food and exercise mixed together. With smaller portions, and more exercise, you live a better life.”
“It is going to swallow a lot of words to get this right!”
“It is going to take a very brave man to love me.”
Source: No Holding Back
“It is going to take more than just a couple of good-hearted souls to raise this child. It will take a graveyard.”
“It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity.”
Source: The Story of Civilization: The age of Napoleon; a history of European civilization from 1789 to 1815
“It is good advice to slow down a little, steady the course, and focus on the essentials when experiencing adverse conditions.”
“It is good and very grand to conquer external nature, but grander still to conquer our internal nature.... This conquering of the inner man, understanding the secrets of the subtle workings that are within the human mind, and knowing its wonderful secrets, belong entirely to religion.”
Source: Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge
“It is good breeding alone that can prepossess people in your favor at first sight, more time being necessary to discover greater talents.”
Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author
“It is good discretion not make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that proportion.”
Source: The Works of Francis Bacon: Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, and Lord High Chancellor of England
“It is good fiction, so largely ignored now, that brings us so much closer to the real facts.”
“It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.”
“It is good for a man to invite his ghosts into his warm interior, out of the wild night, into the firelight, out of the howling dark.”
“It is good for a professional to be reminded that his professionalism is only a husk, that the real person must remain an amateur, a lover of the work.”
Source: Plant Dreaming Deep: A Journal
“It is good for a student to be poor. Getting and spending, the typical American college student lays waste his powers. Work and contemplation don't mix, and university days ought to be days of contemplation.”
Source: Confessions of a bohemian Tory: episodes and reflections of a vagrant career
“It is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale - they are well-equipped to deal with these”
Source: M Is for Magic
“It is good for God's people to be put in a place of longing so they feel a slight desperation. Only then can we be empty enough and open enough to discover the holiness we were made for. When we are stuffed full of other things and never allow ourselves to be in a place of longing, we don't recognize the deeper spiritual battle going on.”
Source: Made to Crave: Satisfying Your Deepest Desire with God, Not Food
“It is good for me that I have been afflicted.”
Source: Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
“It is good for me to be afflicted that I may die wholly to this world and all that is in it.”
Source: The Life and Diary of David Brainerd
“It is good for society to have this introspection.”
“It is good for us to get into the Word, but it is MUCH BETTER for the Word to get into us.”
“It is good for us to have trials and troubles at times, for they often remind us that we are on probation and ought not to hope in any worldly thing. It is good for us sometimes to suffer contradiction, to be misjudged by men even though we do well and mean well. These things help us to be humble and shield us from vainglory. When to all outward appearances men give us no credit, when they do not think well of us, then we are more inclined to seek God Who sees our hearts. Therefore, a man ought to root himself so firmly in God that he will not need the consolations of men.”
Source: The Imitation of Christ
“It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice.”
Source: An Exposition of the Old and New Testament: Wherein Each Chapter is Summed Up in Its Contents: Job-Solomon's Song. 1839
“It is good for us to think that no grace or blessing is truly ours till we are aware that God has blessed some one else with it through us.”
Source: Sermons
“It is good from time to time to recall all those big and little reasons why you wanted to quit smoking in the first place. Reading this blog once in a while might also be helpful”
“It is good," he thought "to taste for yourself everything you need to know. That worldly pleasures and wealth are not good things, I learned even as a child. I knew it for a long time, but only now have I experienced it. And now I know it, I know it not only because I remember hearing it, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach. And it is good for me to know it!”
Source: Siddhartha
“It is good if your enemy underestimates you. The dumber they think you are the more surprised they are when you kill them.”
“It is good insofar as it is not evil.”
“It is good knowing that glasses are to drink from;
the bad thing is not to know what thirst is for.”
Source: Times Alone: Selected Poems of Antonio Machado
“It is good manners, not rank, wealth, or beauty, that constitute the real lay.”
“It is good morality to appreciate street lamps at night, but it is high morality to appreciate street lamps during the day when you do not need them at all!”
“It is good netiquette to use domains that do not allow spam, hate, or violence.”
Source: The Principles Of Netiquette
“It is good netiquette to use the internet for online education. Learn new things.”
“It is good news, worthy of all acceptation; and yet not too good to be true.”
Source: An Exposition of the Old and New Testament ...
“It is good not to think of karma as an alien force that is outside of yourself. You are the generator of karma. Karma is the energy patterns that emanate from your life.”
“It is good people who make good places”
“It is good practice to never fault someone for their birth name, being that it is always of far greater importance how men speak of you, than the name by which you are addressed.”
Source: A Prince of Earth
“It is good reason, that man consisting of two parts, the soul and body, the body only should not take up all, but the soul should be remembered too. Enjoying is the body's part, and well-doing is the soul's; your souls are suitors to you to remember them, that is, to remember well-doing, which is the soul's portion.”
Source: Works: Ninety-six sermons
“It is good sense applied with diligence to what was at first a mere accident, and which by great application grew to be called, by the generality of mankind, a particular genius.”
Source: Johnsoniana; or supplement to Boswell; being Anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, etc
“It is good sometimes for poetry to disenchant us.”
Source: Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005
“It is good sometimes that the happy of this world should learn, were it only to humble their foolish pride for an instant, that there are higher, wider, and rarer joys than theirs.”
Source: Baudelaire, Prose and Poetry
“It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.”
“It is good that a man's enemies want him dead, for it proves he has lived a life of worth.”
Source: Josey Wales: Two Westerns : Gone to Texas; The Vengeance Trail of Josey Wales
“It is good that life never fulfils your dreams - it always goes on disposing, in a way. It gives you a thousand and one opportunities to be frustrated so that you can understand that expectations are not good and dreams are futile and desires are never fulfilled. Then you drop desiring, you drop dreaming, you drop proposing. Suddenly you are back home and the treasure is there.”
“It is good that man should accept at face value the cheats of sense and snares of flesh, and through the fogs of sentiency pursue the lures and lies of passion.”
Source: Jack London Six Pack
“It is good that since the outbreak of the war with Japan, more and more revolutionary writers have been coming to Yan'an... But it does not necessarily follow that... they have integrated themselves completely with the masses here. The two must be completely integrated if we are to push ahead with our revolutionary work.”
“It is good that the window should be transparent, because the street or garden beyond it is opaque. How if you saw through the garden too? It is no use trying to 'see through' [everything]. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.”
“It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it.”
“It is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.”
Source: The Hemingway Collection