I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It is hard for us to recognize it now, but Peter and Paul were introducing the first Christian family to an entirely new community, a community that transcends the rigid hierarchy of human institutions, a community in which submission is mutual and all are free.”
Source: A Year of Biblical Womanhood
“It is hard for women not to be overly self critical, I am no exception!”
“It is hard going to the door
cut so small in the wall where
the vision which echoes loneliness
brings a scent of wild flowers in the wood.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975
“It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.”
Source: The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
“It is hard living down the tempers we are born with. We all begin well, for in our youth there is nothing we are more intolerant of than our own sins writ large in others and we fight them fiercely in ourselves; but we grow old and we see that these our sins are of all sins the really harmless ones to own, nay that they give a charm to any character, and so our struggle with them dies away.”
Source: GERTRUDE STEIN Ultimate Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Plays, Memoirs & Essays: Three Lives, Tender Buttons, Geography and Plays, Matisse, Picasso and Gertrude Stein, The Making of Americans, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas…
“It is hard news that catches readers. Features hold them.”
“It is hard not to be inspired when you're living in New York. It doesn't matter what you do. I think that there is so much going on in this city. I like walking around or taking the subway, thinking about all the history here, looking at the architecture and all the people; of course, the museums. It's tough to find a better place to live.”
“it is hard not to count the hours
i have left with you.
it is hard to be here now--
knowing everything between us
will come to an end.”
“It is hard not to envy.
So dreadfully hard.
Within my sight, within my reach, my senses are bathed in what I wish for, coveting the tiniest taste of what I know is not mine.
Turn away.
Do not be jealous.
It is hard not to envy.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“It is hard not to feel that there must be something very wrong with much of what we do in school, if we feel the need to worry so much about what many people call 'motivation'. A child has no stronger desire than to make sense of the world, to move freely in it, to do the things that he sees bigger people doing.”
“It is hard not to see into the future, faced with today's blind architecture - a thousand times more stupid and more revolting than that of other ages. How bored we shall be inside!”
“It is hard, said Mme Landau, when I told her about those railway lessons, in the end it is hard to know what it is that someone dies of. Yes, it is very hard, said Mme Landau, one really doesn't know.”
Source: The Emigrants
“It is hard sometimes to get the Congress to do what you want to do and you have to keep working at it.”
“It is hard sometimes to look into the future, you never know what twist and turn the school of life is going to take.”
“It is hard sometimes to see how other actors are working when you are working with them.”
“It is hard to accept being different, hard to have people avoid looking at you, and still believe in yourself.”
Source: The Hob's Bargain
“It is hard to accept that almost everybody is evil, stupid or both. It is hard to live in a world where this is a plain fact (and a fact that is plainer every day).”
“It is hard to accept the truth once the lies you were told were exactly what you wanted to hear.”
“It is hard to apply oneself to study when there is no money to pay for food and lodging. I almost never explain these things when folks are asking me why I don't do this or that.”
“it is hard to argue that housing is not a fundamental human need. Decent, affordable housing should be a basic right for everybody in this country. The reason is simple: without stable shelter, everything else falls apart.”
Source: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
“It is hard to avoid the aspect of time when producing what ones sees as a photograph.... my images [are] something that is not a frozen moment, but an image made up of many moments and that is created over time rather than taken.”
“It is hard to battle anger, for whatever it wants it pays from the soul.”
Source: The Sacred Band
“It is hard to be a flame when darkness rules…”
Source: Raise and Rise: Funding Sources for Your Startup in the Era of Digital Transformation & Blockchain
“It is hard to be an apprentice to an unfriendly professor, or even one whose warmth or tolerance wears thin when the going gets hard for the student and help is needed.”
“It is hard to be angry when one has seen the sun rise,' she said. It seems to be true,' he admitted. 'I wonder why.' Because it makes one feel so small and insignificant. It has been rising forever and will rise forever no matter what we do or do not do. All our problems are as nothing to the sun.”
“It is hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.”
“It is hard to be charitable when you have been denied your disability benefits and your workers compensation for occupational disease.”
“It is hard to be enthusiastic about the economy's prospects when house prices are falling: Households spend less, small business owners can't use homes as collateral for loans and local governments are forced to cut jobs and programs as property-tax revenue disappears.”
“It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.”
Source: Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860: Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition
“It is hard to be impersonal in a cosmos that runs to personality.”
Source: A Glastonbury Romance
“It is hard to be modest at times like these so I won't even try...you are all shite!”
“It is hard to be number one, and it is even harder to stay there because everyone is trying to knock you off the top.”
“It is hard to be ordinary. Extraordinary things abound. But the extraordinary usually can't be sustained. Sooner or later, it breaks. Beyond the break it is easy. Keeping it ordinary is hardest of all.”
Source: Manazuru
“It is hard to be so old, and harder still to be so blind. I miss the sun. And books. I miss the books most of all.”
Source: A Storm of Swords
“It is hard to be stuck in the victim mentality. It is also hard to find victory. Therefore, choose your battles intentionally.”
Source: A Manual for Victory
“It is hard to be truly excellent, four-square in hand and foot and mind, formed without blemish.”
“It is hard to be with another's pain if we cannot be with our own. Since I was a child I have always felt a deep sense of responsibility to ease others' pain. But I have discovered that often, beneath this genuine and admirable desire, lies an inability to be with my own sorrow. Several years ago, watching a close friend suffer when a brain aneurysm took away her life as she knew it, I wrote in my journal, "I won't ask much. But if you would just let me save your life, perhaps it will not hurt so much to know I cannot save my own.”
“It is hard to befool a fool who has already been fooled so many times”
“It is hard to begin and harder to finish.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“It is hard to believe, feeling as you do at the moment, that there will come a time when life seems good and worthwhile, but it will come.”
“No, Custodian. I don’t think it will. Because I wouldn’t want to be the person who had felt as I do now and then walked—or drifted—away from that feeling until things felt better. That is precisely my problem. I prefer the idea of death to what I feel just now, but I would prefer to feel the way I do now forever than to feel better, because feeling better would mean that I am not the one who loved her anymore, and I could not bear that.”
Source: Look To Windward
“It is hard to believe long together that anything is "worth while," unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.”
Source: George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus
“It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.”
Source: A little book in C major
“It is hard to believe that a place this small can hold so much hate, and I have the terrible feeling I’ve only just seen the surface.”
Source: Take Me There
“It is hard to believe that many of those now exercising authority in the Church appears to have as their dearest ambition the obliteration of the most Sacred Prayer [1962 Latin Mass] from the face of the earth - and would it be too outrageous to suggest that where they do manage to obliterate the Sacred Prayer, the sacrifice which it enshrines may vanish too?”
Source: The Tridentine Mass: The Mass that Will Not Die
“It is hard to believe that something that seems so permanent was once so different. Change. I guess that really is one thing you can count on.”
“it is hard to believe when I’m with you that there can be anything as still as solemn as unpleasantly definitive as statuary when right in front of it in the warm New York 4 o’clock light we are drifting back and forth between each other like a tree breathing through its spectacles”
Source: Love Poems (tentative Title)
“It is hard to bring paedophile rings to justice. Thankfully it does happen. Perhaps the most horrific recent case came before the High Court in Edinburgh in June 2007. It involved a mother who stood by and watched as her daughter of nine was gang-raped by members of a paedophile ring at her home in Granton, in the north of Edinburgh. The mother, Caroline Dunsmore, had allowed her two daughters to be used in this way from the age of five. Sentencing Dunsmore to twelve years in prison judge, Lord Malcolm, said he would take into account public revulsion at the grievous crimes against the two girls. He told the forty-three-year-old woman: 'It is hard to imagine a more grievous breach of trust on the part of a mother towards her child.' Morris Petch and John O'Flaherty were also jailed for taking part in raping the children. Child abuse nearly always takes place at home and members of the family are usually involved.”
Source: Today I'm Alice: Nine Personalities, One Tortured Mind
“It is hard to bury your own children. It breaks your heart in a way no other death can ever do, for you are burying part of yourself in that grave.”
Source: Company of Liars
“It is hard to carry a full cup without spilling, and a full estate without sinning.”
Source: A body of practical divinity, consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster: with a suppl. of some sermons on several texts of Scripture
“It is hard to cement any relations with any country based on promises that may not be deliverable.”