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 merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.”
“It is not merely enough to love literature if one wishes to spend one's life as a writer. It is a dangerous undertaking on the most primitive level. For, it seems to me, the act of writing with serious intent involves enormous personal risk. It entails the ongoing courage for self-discovery. It means one will walk forever on the tightrope, with each new step presenting the possiblity of learning a truth about oneself that is too terrible to bear.”
“It is not merely for to-day, but for all time to come that we should perpetuate for our children's children this great and free government, which we have enjoyed all our lives.”
Source: Lincoln on Democracy
“It is not merely our own desire but the desire of Christ in His Spirit that drives us to grow in love. Those who seldom or never feel in their hearts the desire for the love of God and other men, and who do not thirst for the pure waters of desire which are poured out in us by the strong, living God, are usually those who have drunk from other rivers or have dug for themselves broken cisterns.”
Source: No Man Is an Island
“It is not merely that people must die and people must suffer, if not here, then there. But what is dreadful is that the world goes on and people go on being stupidly cruel - in the old ways and all the time.”
Source: The Marsden Case: A Romance
“It is not merely the brevity by which the haiku isolates a particular group of phenomena from all the rest; nor its suggestiveness, through which it reveals a whole world of experience. It is not only in its remarkable use of the season word, by which it gives us a feeling of a quarter of the year; nor its faint all-pervading humour. Its peculiar quality is its self-effacing, self-annihilative nature, by which it enables us, more than any other form of literature, to grasp the thing-in-itself.”
Source: Haiku: Haiku
“It is not merely the likeness which is precious... but the association and the sense of nearness involved in the thing... the fact of the very shadow of the person lying there fixed forever! It is the very sanctification of portraits I think - and it is not at all monstrous in me to say that I would rather have such a memorial of one I dearly loved, than the noblest Artist's work ever produced.”
Source: Elizabeth Barrett to Miss Mitford: the unpublished letters of Elizabeth Barrett Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford
“It is not merely the multiplicity of tints, the gladness of tone, or the balminess of the air which delight in the spring; it is the still consecrated spirit of hope, the prophecy of happy days yet to come; the endless variety of nature, with presentiments of eternal flowers which never shall fade, and sympathy with the blessedness of the ever-developing world.”
“It is not merely the truth of science that makes it beautiful, but its simplicity.”
Source: Signposts in a Strange Land
“It is not merely true that a creed unites men. Nay, a difference of creed unites men - so long as it is a clear difference. A boundary unites. Many a magnanimous Moslem and chivalrous Crusader must have been nearer to each other, because they were both dogmatists, than any two agnostics. "I say God is One," and "I say God is One but also Three," that is the beginning of a good quarrelsome, manly friendship.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“It is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem,—a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant or an animal it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing. The thought and the form are equal in the order of time, but in the order of genesis the thought is prior to the form.”
Source: The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It is not money, fame, or power that creates positive emotional energy. It's happiness, and happiness does not cost any money. Everyone needs to feel happy.”
Source: Quantraz
“It is not money that makes you well dressed: it is understanding.”
“It is not monogamy when there is one legal wife, and mistresses out of sight.”
“It is not morbidity which draws crowds to scenes of disaster or unusual joy. It is the desire to participate in a moment when life breaks through to some higher level of intensity so that one's own life might take fire from that sudden spurted flame.”
“It is not more bigness that should be our goal. We must attempt, rather, to bring people back to...the warmth of community, to the worth of individual effort and responsibility...and of individuals working together as a community, to better their lives and their children's future.”
Source: RFK: collected speeches
“It is not more Europe or less Europe that we need. We need a better Europe.”
“It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.”
“It is not more than you can handle. It is merely more than you thought you could do.”
“It is not more vacation we need — it is more vocation.”
“It is not much different from a person who goes to the gym to exercise on a regular basis versus someone who sits on the couch watching television. Proper physical exercise increases your chances of health, and proper mental exercise increases your chances for wealth. Laziness decreases both health and wealth.”
Source: Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!
“It is not much good thinking of a thing unless you think it out.”
“It is not much matter which we say, but mind, we must all say the same.”
“It is not much trouble to doctor sick folks, but to doctor healthy ones is troublesome.”
“It is not music's function to express rational necessities.”
Source: Music and the line of most resistance
“It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts.”
“It is not my behavior to either wear minimum clothes, to band or to even be comfortable with a sex-symbol label. I just want to do fine work instead of sporting such meaningless tags. Sex sells, but to a small extent, not always. And this is what filmmakers have to accept. The exposure has to be significant to the film and its characters and not forced for the sake of titillation. On the contrary, some of the greatest Indian films have been devoid of all these sexual trappings. I know my comfort zone in today's Indian culture and society.”
“It is not my business to think about myself. My business is to think about God. It is for God to think about me.”
Source: Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)
“It is not my deeds that I write down, it is myself, my essence.”
Source: Complete Essays
“It is not my democracy as a person; it is our democracy as a society.”
“It is not my desire to impose upon you the shackles of traditional folk beliefs or convictions; instead, I extend to you a heartfelt invitation into a sacred realm where the extraordinary intricately interlaces itself with the fabric of the ordinary.”
Source: Daiva: Discovering the Extraordinary World of Spirit Worship
“It is not my destiny to do anything predestined, and no I was not destined to say this.”
Source: Random Cosmos
“It is not my duty to spend my money in my country, but it is what I want to do. There is nowhere else I would like to invest.”
“It is not my experience that life’s difficulties make people more charitable.”
Source: All the Pretty Horses
“It is not my experience that we are here to fix the world, that we are here to change anything at all. I think we are here so the world can change us. And if part of that change is that the suffering of the world moves us compassion, to awareness, to sympathy, to love, that is a very good thing.”
“It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.”
“It is not my fault that my parents own the world's largest collection of black Santas.”
Source: Paper Towns
“It is not my ideas to be prominent but it is my actions to be realized”
“It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.”
Source: The Complete Sherlock Holmes
“It is not my intention to explain Turkey, its culture and its problems. My literature has a universal concern: I want to bring people and their emotions closer to my readers, not explain Turkish politics.”
“It is not my intention to give anyone ideas about peace; you already have plenty of ideas. Our intention is to be peace right in the here and the now.”
Source: Peace Begins Here: Palestinians and Israelis Listening to Each Other
“It is not my interest to pay the principal, nor my principle to pay the interest.”
Source: The works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan: dramas, poems, translations, speeches, unfinished sketches, and ana
“It is not my job to change the minds of those who desire to harshly judge me. It’s merely my mission to love them too. This does not pose a threat. Only the jealously of my willingness to love can pose a threat. Still, we are all capable of loving each other. Love is a choice. The appearance of neutrality is merely an interpretation from the lens of one's own understanding. It’s neither truth nor fact. Merely the meaning someone has given to what they perceive.”
“It is not my job to compare my movies. I don't like to compare my films with other movies because I don't really have that perspective. It is an intellectual exercise, but it doesn't intuitively come to me.”
“It is not my job to sit down and read peer-reviewed papers because I simply haven't got the time ... I am an interpreter of interpretations.”
“It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.”
“It is not my name, but the name I use for this story.
A name, I hoped, that would be free of prophecy, free of the burden of a future placed upon it, free of any destiny that would tear it from my hands and destroy worlds.
You think I overstate. You are wrong.”
Source: And the Ocean Was Our Sky
“It is not my place in society that makes me well off, but my judgements, and these I can carry with me... These alone are my own and cannot be taken away.”
“It is not my place to judge any person's beliefs, but choose rather to celebrate their ability to believe.”
“It is not my place to make judgments about the behavior of any other footballer. Cars and women, things like that, have never been important to me. My family, and my belief in God and Jesus are the things which determine my life. I do want to live my life in the right way, and live my life close to God.”