I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It is not hard, it is not easy — IT IS.”
Source: Roam Within: Macallah and the White World of Light
“It is not hard to believe that this is the land that birthed the nuclear age: anything feels possible out here.”
Source: American Elsewhere
“It is not hard to change when your biggest problem is whether the weeds prosper in a vegetable patch.”
“It is not hard to compose but it is wonderfully hard to let the superfluous notes fall under the table. . . So many melodies fly about, one must be careful not to tread on them.”
“It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table.”
“It is not hard to deceive ministers, relatives and friends. But it is impossible to deceive Christ.”
“It is not hard to feel like an outsider. I think we have all felt like that at one time or another.”
“It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through a moment. What creates despair is the imagination, which pretends there is a future, and insists on predicting millions of moments, thousands of days, and so drains you that you cannot live the moment at hand. ("A Father's Story")”
Source: Selected Stories of Andre Dubus
“It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through a moment.”
Source: The Times Are Never So Bad: A Novella and Eight Short Stories
“It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through a moment. What creates despair is the imagination, which pretends there is a future, and insists on predicting millions of moments, thousands of days, and so drains you that you cannot live the moment at hand.”
Source: The Times Are Never So Bad: A Novella and Eight Short Stories
“It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.”
“It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.”
“It is not hard work that is dreary; it is superficial work.”
“It is not hateful to say that an immoral action is sinful. On the contrary, the most compassionate thing we can do is help people to turn away from sin. To ignore another person's wrongful actions is a sign of apathy or indifference, while fraternal correction is motivated by love for that person's well-being, as can be seen by the fact that our Lord Jesus himself urged such correction. Indeed, the call to repentance is at the heart of the Gospel, as Jesus proclaimed, "The Kingdom of God is at hand. Repent and believe the Good News" (Mark 1:15).”
“It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most on Divine truth, that will prove the choicest, wisest, strongest Christian.”
“It is not he who begins well who is perfect. It is he who ends well who is approved in God's sight.”
“It is not he who disparages himself who shows humility (for who will not put up with himself?), but he who maintains the same love for the very man who reproaches him.”
Source: Divine Ascent - Daily Quotes
“It is not he who fell under my care when he arrived, I now understand, nor I who fell under his: we fell under each other, and have tumbled and risen since then in the flights and swoops of that mutual election.”
“It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.”
“It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)
“It is not he who gives abuse that affronts, but the view that we take of it as insulting; so that when one provokes you it is your own opinion which is provoking.”
“It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter, who on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.”
Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray
“It is not he who knows most, nor he who hears most, nor yet he who talks most, but he who exercises grace most, who has most communion with God.”
Source: Smooth Stones Taken from Ancient Brooks: Being a Collection of Sentences, Illustrations, and Quaint Sayings, from the Works of that Renowned Puritan, Thomas Brooks
“It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.”
“It is not he who searches for praise who finds it.”
“It is not healthy to be thinking all the time. Thinking is intended for acquiring knowledge or applying it. It is not essential living.”
Source: Concentration: An Approach to Meditation
“It is not healthy when a nation lives within a nation, as colored Americans are living inside America. A nation cannot live confident of its tomorrow if its refugees are among its own citizens.”
“It is not helpful to have those kind of comments come out when we've got troops in combat.”
“It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.”
“It is not her intention to create another generation of "weak sisters.”
Source: The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy
“It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.”
Source: History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union; Bolsheviks
“It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality.”
“It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.”
“It is not his business to argue men into faith, for that cannot be done; but it is his business to demonstrate the intellectual adequacy of the biblical faith and the comparative inadequacy of its rivals, and to show the invalidity of the criticisms that are brought against it. This he seeks to do, not from any motive of intellectual self-justification, but for the glory of God and His gospel.”
Source: Fundamentalism
“It is not his possession of knowledge, of irrefutable truth, that makes the man of science, but his persistent and recklessly critical quest for truth.”
“It is not His teachings which make Jesus so remarkable, although these would be enough to give Him distinction. It is a combination of the teachings with the man Himself. The two cannot be separated.”
Source: A History of Christianity
“It is not histories I am writing, but lives; and in the most glorious deeds there is not always an indication of virtue or vice, indeed a small thing like a phrase or a jest often makes a greater revelation of a character than battles where thousands die.”
“It is not history. But I am beginning to wonder strongly what is the nature of history. Is it only memory in decent sentences, and if so, how reliable is it? I would suggest, not very. And that therefore most truth and fact offered by these syntactical means is treacherous and unreliable. And yet I recognise that we live our lives, and even keep our sanity, by the lights of this treachery and this unreliability, just as we build our love of country on these paper worlds of misapprehension and untruth. Perhaps this is our nature, and perhaps unaccountably it is part of our glory as a creature, that we can build our best and most permanent buildings on foundations of utter dust.”
Source: The Secret Scripture
“It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.”
Source: The thought of Karl Marx: an introduction
“It is not hoary hairs that bring wisdom; some have an old head on young shoulders.”
“It is not honest inquiry that makes anarchy; but it is error, insincerity, half belief and untruth that make it.”
Source: Works
“It is not hope but despair that gives us the measure of our ambitions. We may yield secretly to beautiful poems of hope but grief looms start and stripped of all veils.”
“It is not how fast a tree grows, but how well. It is not how big a fruit is, but how sweet.”
“It is not how fast or how far, but how often you run that makes you a real runner.”
“It is not how heavy you fall.
It is how fast you catch yourself.”
Source: Night of a Thousand Thoughts
“It is not how long we spend with someone that matters.
It's the effect of that encounter that makes the difference.”
Source: Guidebook To Your Heart
“It is not how many books thou hast, but how good; careful reading profiteth, while that which is full of variety delighteth.”
“It is not how many hours you study; it is about how effective you are in your studies.”
Source: Master Your Skills To Succeed
“It is not how many times we get lost, but how many times we seek the path, again and again, that determines our level of consciousness.”
“It is not how many years we live, but what we do with them.”