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 to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because we are not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creating a new "pearl" as we are in being right.”
“It is hard to combine and unite these two qualities, the carefulness of one who is affected by circumstances, and the intrepidity of one who heeds them not. But it is not impossible: else
were happiness also impossible.”
Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion
“It is hard to come up with ideas that are achievable on a scale that you know you are going to have for an indie film but it also have some kind of hook.”
“It is hard to communicate understanding because that is something you get by living with a problem for a long time. You study it, perhaps for years, you get the feel of it and it is in your bones. You can't convey that to anyone else. Having studied the problem for five years you may be able to present it in such a way that it would take somebody else less time to get to that point than it took you. But if they haven't struggled with the problem and seen all the pitfalls, then they haven't really understood it.”
“It is hard to compare cultures without overgeneralizing, but I think a lot of American poetry has an assertiveness - an upbeat quality - that's less typical of Canadian poetry. Of course there are poets in both countries to whom that generalization does not apply. Speaking broadly, I'd describe Canadians as being a bit more reserved than Americans. Not less opinionated - just less direct.”
“It is hard to compare over generations. I think a lot of the top talent is choosing other fields. We look pretty hard - we put a lot of time and effort into finding talent.”
“It is hard to compare the eras, but Joe Jackson and Ty Cobb from the past, Sandy Koufax and Roger Clements from the present.”
“It is hard to conceive that the old, whose thoughts have been all thought out, should ever love to live alone. Solitude is surely for the young, who have time before them for the execution of schemes, and who can, therefore, take delight in thinking”
Source: Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...
“It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.”
“It is hard to convince people of this, but oatmeal truly is miraculous. It gives you an amazing amount of energy, like cocaine.”
Source: Adulting: How to Become a Grown-up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps
“It is hard to create a first-person narrator that can be a child and yet is able to take in enough information for the narrative to be legible to the reader.”
“It is hard to cry when my eyes are closed shut by the barbed wire fence of my eyelashes as they prohibit tears from falling.”
Source: Pinwheels and Dandelions
“It is hard to defeat an enemy who keeps a residual fighting spirit.”
Source: Gorin no Sho & Dokkodo: Miyamoto Musashi
“It is hard to describe the thrill of creative joy which the artist feels when the conviction seizes her that at last she has caught the very soul of the character she wishes to portray, in the music and action which reveal it.”
“It is hard to describe to you but I swear it was a fearsome sight. There were not eyes to speak of, but chasms that saw into its dark depths. A shade of a mouth full with phantom teeth. There seemed to be a skull shifting in and out of form beneath the black. Bound together by an unspeakable evil.”
Source: Slayers
“It is hard to determine whether the brazen brashness of the bureaucrats or toxic passivity of the public has been more shocking.”
Source: TechBondAge: Slavery of the Human Spirit
“It is hard to die unmourned.”
Source: A Dance with Dragons
“It is hard to do a film that wants to say something because, unfortunately, most everything has been said.”
“It is hard to earn the respect of others when you do not respect yourself. Others may find it difficult to enjoy your company if you do not enjoy your own.”
Source: The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
“It is hard to enjoy the company of those who have violated your trust. But it is even harder to enjoy the company of those whose trust you have violated.”
“It is hard to explain the savagery of hope.”
Source: The Stolen Heir
“It is hard to explain to a privileged child the difference between freedom and captivity. For him, the world functions differently, all rains bear fruits and all men are free. He catches a golden bird and puts it inside a gold cage. He watches it grow, captivated, unaware that with its beautiful body comes a pair of wings that can set it free.”
Source: Ashes, Wine and Dust
“It is hard to explain to people now how hard it was being a punk back then [the 1970s]. If you had short hair, didn't wear bell bottoms and walked down the street, chances are some asshole in an El Camino was going to kick your ass.”
“It is hard to face reality without reasoning.”
“It is hard to face the truth, Bel,” Lux says. “Only the courageous ever do.”
Source: Beauty and the Vampire
“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
Source: The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses
“It is hard to fake decency. I observed. - On Decency”
Source: Aether
“It is hard to feel affection for something as totally impersonal as the atmosphere, and yet there it is, as much a part and product of life as wine and bread. Taken all in al, the sky is a miraculous achievement. It works, and for what it is designed to accomplish it is as infallible as anything in nature. I doubt whether any of us could think of a way to improve on it, beyond maybe shifting a local cloud from here to there on occasion. The word 'chance' does not serve to account well for structures of such magnificence...
We should credit it for what it is: for sheer size and perfection of function, it is far and away the grandest product of collaboration in all of nature.
It breathes for us, and it does another thing for our pleasure. Each day, millions of meteorites fall against the outer limits of the membrane and are burned to nothing by the friction. Without this shelter, our surface would long since have become the pounded powder of the moon. Even though our receptors are not sensitive enough to hear it, there is comfort in knowing the sound is there overhead, like the random noise of rain on the roof at night.”
Source: The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
“It is hard to feel bad about yourself when you are doing something good for someone else. There are a lot of ways to lift your self-esteem, but making a positive difference in another's life has got to be my best leadership guidance. Serving others and working to add value to them will lift your spirits in a way that nothing else will. Trust me on this one.”
“It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.”
Source: The Recovery of Confidence
“It is hard to feel safe and comfortable when the only measures for what is safe and comfortable are normative ideas you don't abide by.”
Source: Outdated: Why Dating Is Ruining Your Love Life
“It is hard to fight against anger: to master it is the mark of a rational man.”
“It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.”
“It is hard to find a friend,' I said. 'It is the hardest thing in this world,' he agreed.”
Source: The Sisters Brothers
“It is hard to find beauty in the art of self expression.”
“It is hard to find romance in the present because there's nothing left to the imagination.”
“It is hard to find someone who will give your children a feeling of security while it lasts and not wound them too much when it isfinished, who will treat those children as if they were her own, but knows--and never forgets--that they are yours.”
Source: Living Out Loud
“It is hard to find something where you can go off as much as I do in stand-up, but I think stand-up allows me that freedom where you can really go off and have a good time.”
“It is hard to follow one great vision in this world of darkness and of many changing shadows. Among those men get lost.”
Source: Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
“It is hard to forgive, and to look at those eyes, and feel those wasted hands,' he answered. 'Kiss me again; and don’t let me see your eyes! I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer—but yours! How can I?”
Source: Wuthering Heights
“It is hard to function as a human being in spaces where all the focus is on what you do wrong than what you get right.”
Source: Sometimes it's your workplace: "A toxic workplace doesn't end at the office ,it follows you into every part of your life."
“It is hard to get animals which normally pay little attention to each other to do things together. One can teach dolphins to jump simultaneously out of the water precisely because they show similar behavior spontaneously, but try to make two domestic cats jump together and you will fail.”
“It is hard to get comments on videos, I would say every 100-1,000 views may generate a comment. It depends on the video and its content. It is similar to book reviews.”
“It is hard to get in the habit of forcing yourself to find three things on a regular basis that you are grateful for.”
“It is hard to get mad at Donald Trump for saying stupid things, in the same way you don't get mad at a monkey when he throws poop at you at the zoo... What does get me angry is the ridiculous, disingenuous defending of the poop-throwing monkey.”
“It is hard to get people to work with RADAR systems if you tell them the truth about the long term toxicity to the human.”
“It is hard to give up what you know for what you don’t know.”
Source: Angel on the Square
“It is hard to grow up in a society in which one's important problems are treated as nonexistent. It is impossible to belong to it, it is hard to fight to change it.”
Source: Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society
“It is hard to hate what one has loved, and a half-extinguished fire is soon relit.”
“It is hard to have a true friend, and it is harder to be the one.”