I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It is grindingly, creakingly, crashingly obvious that if Darwinism was really a theory of chance, it could not work.”
“It is growing cold. Winter is putting footsteps in the meadow. What whiteness boasts that sun that comes into this wood! One would say milk-colored maidens are dancing on the petals of orchids. How coldly burns our sun! One would say its rays of light are shards of snow, one imagines the sun lives upon a snow crested peak on this day. One would say she is a woman who wears a gown of winter frost that blinds the eyes. Helplessness has weakened me. Wandering has wearied my legs.”
“It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be.”
“It is habit for me to discount myself before somebody else does it for me. Better to get in the first lick”
Source: My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Autobiography of Errol Flynn
“It is halfway true that if you are involved in a family coffeehouse you don't have a life.”
Source: Sunshine
“It is happily and kindly provided that in every life there are certain pauses, and interruptions, which force consideration upon the careless, and seriousness upon the light, points of time where one course of action ends and another begins.”
“It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?”
Source: 8 Books in 1: Jane Austen's Complete Novels. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, and Love an
“It is happy to be happy in war than seeking for happiness through peace without freedom.”
“It is haram [religiously forbidden] to use narcotics in any way because it results in considerable adverse effects in terms of personal health and social cost. By the same token, it is haram to deal in narcotics in any way, i.e., carrying, transporting, storing, selling, buying, etc.”
“It is hard and perhaps impossible for many people to recognize the difference between innocence and naiveté.”
Source: Long Ago In France: The Years In Dijon
“It is hard and sad to be alone, but sometimes it's even more difficult to be with someone.”
“It is hard as an American to support the failure of American military operations in Iraq. Such failure will bring with it the death and wounding of many American service members, and many more Iraqis.”
“It is hard being a mixed race.”
Source: Why Are You Obsessed with My Race?
“It is hard being a mixed-race person. I feel like people will not let me live, love, or, better yet, breathe. What never surprises me is that they stare me down as if I am their enemy, and they don’t even know me.”
Source: Why Are You Obsessed with My Race?
“It is hard being biracial. I feel like people will not let me live, love, or, better yet, breathe.”
Source: Why Are You Obsessed with My Race?
“It is hard directing and being a mother. The hours are terrible and you have to sort of suspend your life when you're in production. I can absolutely see why there are so few women directing, because it's physically a very demanding thing to do. Fathers can only do it because they have wives at home doing all the other stuff. I can only do it because I have a husband that helps with the kids at home.”
“It is hard directing. The hours are terrible and you have to sort of suspend your life when you're in production. So, being a mother is very hard. I can absolutely see why there are so few women directing, because it's physically a very demanding thing to do. Fathers can only do it because they have wives at home doing all the other stuff. I can only do it because I have a husband that helps with the kids at home”
“It is hard eating a little kangaroo knob.”
“It is hard enough for anyone to map out a course of action and stick to it, particularly in the face of the desires of one's friends; but it is doubly hard for an aviator to stay on the ground waiting for just the right moment to go into the air.”
Source: The Curtiss Aviation Book
“It is hard enough luck being a monarch, without being a target also.”
Source: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays: 1891-1910
“It is hard enough to be good at all, but to be good in comedy speaks for your character.”
“It is hard enough to make a plan for how you are going to spend an evening with somebody else. So to make a plan for how you are going to behave in 25 years seems based on a view of life that is incomprehensible to me.”
“It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!”
“It is hard for 2 creative people to work together for that length of time and not fall out.”
“It is hard for a black man to just be himself. We spend so much time in defense of something that is indefensible because there is nothing to defend.”
“It is hard for a flat thing to understand a round one.”
“It is hard for a free fish to understand what is happening to a hooked one.”
Source: the Human Mind
“It is hard for a rich man to pass through the eye of a needle ― without high-priced legal help.”
“It is hard for a woman with whom an uncircumcised man has had sexual intercourse to separate from him. In my opinion this is the strongest of the reasons for circumcision.”
Source: The Guide of the Perplexed
“It is hard for an athlete to standout through an email, especially when his email gets mixed in with the emails coming from recruits that think they can play somewhere they really can't. That makes filtering through recruit emails an almost impossible task.”
“It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.”
Source: Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin ...
“it is hard for an empty sack to stand upright”
Source: The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
“It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.”
Source: Political essays, with sketches of public characters ...
“It is hard for anyone under twenty to realise that death has already assigned them a number, which is going to come up one day.”
“it is hard for anyone who is dissatisfied not to blame some one else, and especially the person nearest of all to him, for the ground of his dissatisfaction.”
Source: ANNA KARENINA – Two Unabridged Translations in One Premium Edition (World Classics Series): The Greatest Romantic Tragedy of All Times from the Renowned Author of War and Peace & The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Including Biographies of the Author)
“It is hard for healthy people to understand the extensive frauds of the Disability and Workers Compensation systems.”
“It is hard for many people to give up the religion in which they were born; to admit that their fathers were utterly mistaken, and that the sacred records of their country are but collections of myths and fables.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“It is hard for many people today to make the distinction between religion and religiosity, the latter a dangerous parody of the former.”
“It is hard for me to be vulnerable, because I never learned how to do that. I was never vulnerable in a safe way.”
“It is hard for me to imagine retiring at 65 and spending the next quarter century not working. I expect to be working, doing something productive and fulfilling.”
“It is hard for me to imagine that I felt good about behaving like that. I also remember that the smallest gesture of affection would bring a lump to my throat, whether it was directed at me or at someone else. Sometimes all it took was a scene in a movie. This juxtaposition of callousness and extreme sensitivity seemed suspicious even to me.”
Source: The Reader
“It is hard for me to speak of themes. I like the reader to do that. Otherwise it feels like writing a 3rd grade essay on someone else's work.”
“It is hard for people outside the White House to understand the constant daily problems and issues that come up that require the president's attention, but he can not let himself get too personally involved.”
“It is hard for people to think clearly because their emotional needs keep getting in the way. The trick is to make thinking clearly an emotional need.”
“It is hard for people who have not lived in Los Angeles to realize how radically the Santa Ana figures in the local imagination. ... The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.”
Source: Slouching towards Bethlehem
“It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control.”
“It is hard for the government to apply the rule of law for professional astronomers that have decades of history of breaking numerous laws.”
“It is hard for the human soul not to love something, and our mind must of necessity be drawn to some kind of affection.”
“It is hard for the old slave holding spirit to die. But die it must.”
“It is hard for us to admit we have a sin nature because we live in this system of checks and balances. If we get caught, we will be punished. But that doesn't make us good people; it only makes us subdued. Just think about the Congress and Senate and even the president. The genius of the American system is not freedom; the genius of the American system is checks and balances. Nobody gets all the power. Everybody is watching everybody else. It is as if the founding fathers knew, intrinsically, that the soul of man, unwatched, is perverse.”
Source: Blue Like Jazz: Movie Edition: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality