I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It is inherently dangerous to allow a country, such as Iraq, to retain weapons of mass destruction, particularly in light of its past aggressive behaviour. If the world community fails to disarm Iraq we fear that other rogue states will be encouraged to believe that they too can have these most deadly of weapons to systematically defy international resolutions and that the world will do nothing to stop them.”
“It is inhuman to bless where one is cursed.”
“It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended”
“It is inhuman to humanize a dog; you might raise a child in a cage.”
Source: Originemology
“It is inhuman to humanize animals, the consequences are very disturbing.”
“It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity.”
Source: Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down
“It is iniquitous, unjust, and most impolitic to persecute for religion's sake. It is against natural religion, revealed religion, and sound policy.”
“It is injurious to the mind as well as to the body to be always in one place and always surrounded by the same circumstances.”
Source: The Story of My Heart: My Autobiography
“It is injustice to determine the brutality of an action because of the victim or the criminal.”
Source: LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
“It is injustice to oneself to expect much from the world.”
“It is innate in our species to be cyborgian in nature. We have been in the self amplifying feedback loop with our tools since stone tools, and since the written word, and what we are seeing now is just a deepening of that. But it has always been the case. We have always done this.”
“It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.”
“It is insane that two men, sitting on opposite sides of the world, should be able to decide to bring an end to civilization.”
Source: The Letters of John F. Kennedy
“It is insanity to run from God and search for love.”
Source: Soul Cravings: An Exploration of the Human Spirit
“It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what he puts into his writings, the communicator is concerned with what the reader gets out of it. He therefore becomes a student of how people read or listen.”
“It is inspiring to see bands still trying to do significant and new things in the realm of sound. Most people in any category are more or less filling out the forms they've been handed. But there are always exceptional gems.”
“It is instead just the grace of a common person turning suddenly real because he is common and human and recoignizable.”
“It is instead the middle, the liberal, well-meaning, easily upset middle, that desperately needs the protection this kind of language provides. Because it is the middle of the empire that must look upon this and say: Yes, this is tragic, but necessary, because the alternative is barbarism. The alternative to the countless killed and maimed and orphaned and left without home without school without hospital and the screaming from under the rubble and the corpses disposed of by vultures and dogs and the days-old babies left to scream and starve, is barbarism.”
Source: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
“It is instinctive and based on observations of real events and intuition and above all with clear mind. It has either happened or it is probable and possible to happen but cannot be proven. At least nowadays, but ways to be proven may be discovered in the future.”
“It is instinctive my recoiling. I imagine the confusion of some relatives, their disapproval even, when faced with my withdrawal; the calls I leave unanswered, the messages unread..”
Source: Notes on Grief
“It is instructive to see how organizations pursue their goal of reducing errors and uncertainty. They impose standards, employ checklists, demand that knowledge workers list assumptions for their conclusions and document all sources. These actions either directly interfere with forming insights or create an environment where insights and discoveries are treated with suspicion because they might lead to errors. They signal to knowledge workers that their job is not to make mistakes. Even if they don't make discoveries, no one can blame them as long as they don't make mistakes.”
“It is instructive, although somewhat disheartening, for the ardent advocate of a purely scientific psychology to contrast the practice and theories of his colleagues with those of the students of the principal physical sciences.”
Source: Philosophy of Mind
“It is insufficient for architecture today to directly implement an existing building typology; it instead requires architects to carefully examine the whole area with new interventions and programmatic typologies”
“It is insufficient to protect ourselves with laws; we need to protect ourselves with mathematics.”
Source: Secrets and lies: digital security in a networked world
“It is insufficient to understand all, and thus to forgive all. If we were to truly understand, we would know there is nothing to forgive.”
Source: A Killer's Grace
“It is integrity, accountability, and emotional stamina that make a CEO durable.”
Source: Make It, Don't Fake It: Leading with Authenticity for Real Business Success
“It is intellectually dishonest to look backwards with all the facts and judge the decisions that were made with almost none of the facts, or the facts that existed hidden in the normal cloud of endless speculation of what might happen.”
“It is intellectually dishonest to present the Republican Party as the only supporter of Zionism and Israel. The Democrats, while posing as an alternative to the right wing, are just as dedicated to Israel and they are far more dependent on Jewish votes and Jewish money than the Republicans. According to Israeli sources, over 70% of all contributions to Democratic candidates are provided by Jews; Jews provide a relatively meager 35% of all contributions to Republican candidates.”
Source: Masters of Discourse
“It is intelligence that brings order, not discipline.”
Source: Sayings of J. Krishnamurti
“It is intelligent to ask two questions: (1) Is it possible? (2) Can I do it?. But it is unintelligent to ask these questions: (1) Is it real? (2) Has my neighbor done it?”
“It is intelligent to have a plan, but neurotic to fall in love with it.”
“It is intended to signify a coordinated plan of different actions aiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves. The objectives of such a plan would be the disintegration of the political and social institutions, of culture, language, national feelings, religion, and the economic existence of national groups, and the destruction of the personal security, liberty, health, dignity, and even the lives of the individuals belonging to such groups.”
Source: Axis Rule in Occupied Europe
“It is intensely frustrating to be misquoted.”
“It is intensely frustrating. The longer you live, the more interesting life gets, and yet many of the parts involve carrying trays and putting lamb chops down in front of the leading man.”
“It is interesting ... how weapons reflect the soul of the maker.”
“It is interesting, having access to all of one's most irrational impulses. At times, passion for others, or for an ideal, is a source of strength.”
Source: Phantom Pains
“It is interesting how - depending on the person in power - our LGBT issues are either right at the top of the list - or right at the very bottom. And almost always for exactly the wrong reasons.”
Source: Inanna Rising: Women Forged in Fire
“It is interesting how fashion filters down and we discover in the "Devil Wears Prada" that we're all prey to trends, even if we think we are not.”
“It is interesting how keen people are for you to do something they would never dream of doing themselves, how enthusiasticall y they drive you to your own destruction.”
Source: Outline: A Novel
“It is interesting how one word can spark memories that one believes she has buried beyond recognition. War reminded me of the sharp and bittersweet smell of burning homes, temples, and palaces. It made my eyes cloud over with a haze of dense smoke, kicked up dirt as people went running and careening around corners, and the flashing colors of different garments as citizens ran in all directions, their lives suddenly meaningless. The word war made me twelve years old again and frightened beyond sanity.”
Source: Asha in Time
“It is interesting how the advocates of social inequality think that the wealthy respond to quite different incentives from the poor. If the rich are to be persuaded to work, they require the stimulus of still greater wealth: hence the paramount importance of reducing taxes on high incomes. When dealing with the poor, in contrast, it is held that there is nothing like the prospect of still greater poverty as a work incentive: hence the paramount importance of strictly limiting the benefits to which they are entitled.”
Source: Towards a New Socialism
“It is interesting just generationally that you see that people are much more comfortable, and that's part of life now for this next generation of actors and just people in the world. But for those of us who were living when it didn't exist, being in social media feels like the last thing you want to do .”
“It is interesting seeing young people these days and watching how unimportant music is in their lives compared with our generation.”
“It is interesting sometimes to stop and think and wonder what the place you are currently at used to be like in times past, who walked there, who worked there and what the walls have seen.”
“It is interesting that [James Comey] is not doing investigations about the possible - possible ties between [Donald] Trump's campaign and the Russians.”
“It is interesting that amongst children of preschool age, the more intelligent ones tend to sleep less than the dull ones. After the age of seven this relationship is reversed, the more intelligent schoolchildren sleeping more than the dull ones.”
Source: The illustrated naked ape: a zoologist's study of the human animal
“It is interesting that Hindus, when they speak of the creation of the universe do not call it the work of God, they call it the play of God, the Vishnu lila, lila meaning play. And they look upon the whole manifestation of all the universes as a play, as a sport, as a kind of dance — lila perhaps being somewhat related to our word lilt”
Source: Zen and the Beat Way
“It is interesting that liberals don't mind a strong faith at all. When it's their guy with a strong faith - whether it's Jimmy Carter or Woodrow Wilson or Harry Truman - that's just great. FDR inscribing Bibles and sending them to the troops. God bless him! But when a Republican president cites Jesus Christ as his favorite philosopher, as George W. Bush did on a famous occasion, then, well, the liberals cry out that [Tomás de] Torquemada is on the loose and warn gravely of the coming Inquisition.”
“It is interesting that Satan, who voted for 'no opposition', has become the main source of it!”
“It is interesting that so many people who become disenchanted, who protest against their own organizations, are people who contributed something to them and then saw how it was misused.”