I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It is more important to understand the book you are reading than to finish the book you are reading.”
“It is more important to understand the ground of your own behavior than to understand the motives of another.”
“It is more important what the jobs report shows in December and January -- that will affect how many rate hikes we'll have this spring.”
“It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous, because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance.”
“It is more like carrying something really heavy, forever. You do not get to put it down: you have to carry it, and so you carry it the way you need to, however it fits best.”
Source: Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
“It is more likely that coaches have players go down in games they are losing than games they are winning.”
Source: Team Of One: We Believe
“It is more likely that more than a century will pass before we know the structure of the chemical atoms as thoroughly as we do our solar system.”
“It is more magnificent than what I thought heaven might be, and yet it is all of its wonder, as well.”
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"Iris, we are shut off from it in this life because if any knew its magnificence, life itself would end, for all who are living would seek death. But as the egg must be in the nest for the bird to fly from it, so the living must live and die when nature intends so that the shell may be broken at the point when the living have wings to fly. It is as if in life we are blind, and in death we see. In life we think in error, but in death we know and love and understand.”
Source: Isis
“It is more necessary than ever to intensify liturgical life ... by means of an appropriate formation ... of all the faithful.”
“It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.”
“It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.”
“It is more offensive to outshine in dignity than in personal attractions.”
“It is more often from pride than from defective understanding that people oppose established opinions: they find the best places taken in the good party and are reluctant to accept inferior ones.”
“It is more often from pride than from ignorance that we are so obstinately opposed to current opinions; we find the first places taken, and we do not want to be the last.”
“It is more or less a given that nothing is less favorable to clairvoyance than the bright sun: physical light and mental light coexist on very poor terms.”
Source: Anthology of Black Humor
“It is more or less clear that one idea which should emerge from the crash, whatever happens with the attempts to save the banks from bankruptcy and people from being evicted from their homes, is that this kind of life is unsustainable. We cannot go on like this... something must be done.”
“It is more or less rude to scorn indiscriminately all kinds of praise; we ought to be proud of that which comes from honest men, who praise sincerely those things in us which are really commendable.”
“It is more parsimonious to assume that the sun goes around the Earth, that atoms at the smallest scale operate in accordance with the same rules that objects at larger scales follow, and that we perceive what is really out there. All of these positions were long defended by argument from parsimony, and they were all wrong.”
Source: Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain
“It is more pitiable once to have been rich than not to be rich now.”
“It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it.”
“It is more practical to make people transform their mindset about religion and religiousness and walk in the path of creed-less religious harmony, than to convert the entire religious population on earth into atheists.”
“It is more productive to convert an opportunity into results than to solve a problem - which only restores the equilibrium of yesterday.”
“It is more profitable for your congressman to support the tobacco industry than your life.”
“It is more profitable to be a lender than a spender.”
Source: The Wealth Reference Guide: An American Classic
“It is more profitable to give wages than to receive them.”
Source: The Last Words of Dutch Schultz: A Fiction in the Form of a Film Script
“It is more rational to suspect knavery and folly than to discount, at a stroke, everything that past experience has taught me about the way things actually work”
“It is more raw and unfettered and I'm more likely going into something you could call extreme cartooning. There's a lot of that in the course of 'Holy Terror.' There are interludes where there are pictures - cartoon pictures - of modern figures and they are all wordless. It's up to readers to put the words in.”
“It is more reasonable to wish for reputation while it may be enjoyed, as Anacreon calls upon his companions to give him for present use the wine and garlands which they propose to bestow upon his tomb.”
“It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.”
“It is more rewarding to be complicit with scarcity than excess.”
“It is more rewarding to resolve a conflict than to dissolve a relationship.”
Source: Resolving Conflict
“It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.”
“It is more satisfying to be a bad player at golf. The worse you play, the better you remember the occasional good shot.”
“It is more satisfying to sacrifice oneself for the poor victim than to enable the other to overcome their victim status and perhaps become even more succesfull than ourselves”
Source: Living in the End Times
“It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.”
“It is more substantial to represent a purpose, rather than just a title.”
Source: From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
“It is more than a little ironic that "capital accumulation" once a rather tendentious Marxian view of a supposed capitalist obsession, should have become - of all things - Wall Street's own slogan.”
Source: The Economic Illusion: False Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice
“It is more than enough to be an ethically and an evolutionarily developed human being. All other titles and identities of man are inferior to this fact!”
“It is more than just a physical attraction. It is gravitational force, an irresistible pull that draws me closer, urging me to explore the profound connection that blooms between us. And in that pull, I find a sense of purpose.”
Source: Enemy Billionaire Protector
“It is more than likely that the brain itself is, in origin and development, only a sort of great clot of genital fluid held in suspense or reserved. This hypothesis would explain the enormous content of the brain as a maker or presenter of images.”
Source: Delphi Poetical Works of Ezra Pound (Illustrated)
“It is more than love, barely less than madness. It’s never close enough.”
Source: The Cherry House
“It is more than possible; it is probable.”
Source: The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Illustrated): All 4 Novels and 56 Stories with More Than 480 Illustrations
“It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possible to convey to the mind of the merely general reader, an adequate idea of that nervous intensity of interest with which, in my case, the powers of meditation (not to speak technically) busied and buried themselves, in the contemplation of even the most ordinary objects of the universe.”
Source: Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
“It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his efficiency fifty percent.”
“It is more than their land that you take away from the people, whose native land you take. It is their past as well, their roots and their identity. If you take away the things that they have been used to see and will be expecting to see, you may, in a way, as well take their eyes.”
Source: Out of Africa
“It is more than twenty years since we left the city. This is a serious chunk of time, longer than the years we spent living there. Yet we still think of Jerusalem as our home. Not home in the sense of the place that you conduct your daily life or constantly return to. In fact, Jerusalem is our home almost against our wills. It is our home because it defines us, whether we like it or not.”
“it is more to my personal happiness and advantage to indulge the love and admiration of excellence, than to cherish a secret envy of it.”
“It is more to the honor of a Christian by faith to overcome the world, than by monastical vows to retreat from it; more for the honor of Christ to serve him in the city, than to serve him in the cell.”
“It is more tolerable to be refused than deceived.”
“It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right.”
Source: Following the Equator: