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 part of religion to breed buffaloes or, for that matter, cows.”
Source: Young India, 1927-1928
“It is not part of the functions of the national government to find employment for people - and if we were to appropriate a hundred millions for this purpose, we should be taxing forty millions of people to keep a few thousand employed.”
“It is not particularly difficult to find thousands who will spend two or three hours a day in exercising, but if you ask them to bend their knees to God in five minutes of prayer they protest that it is too long.”
“It is not patriarchal to hold the door for a lady, It is not cowardly to leave your seat to the elderly. But it is barbaric to harass a breastfeeding mother, And prehistoric to force a woman carry a pregnancy.”
Source: Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence
“It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it.”
“It is not patriotic to decide to destroy a new president who was duly elected by an overwhelming margin. It is un-patriotic to resolve to destroy that presidency.”
“It is not peace that I seek, but life.”
Source: Jean-Christophe: Journey's End
“It is not peace we seek but meaning.”
Source: Collected Poems 1931-74
“It is not people who break ethical standards who are regarded as aliens. It is people like me who are isolated.”
“It is not perfection we seek, for perfection is impossible. It is instead consistency.”
Source: Oathbringer
“It is not perhaps a question of truthfulness; it is rather a natural incapacity to think for herself, to take cognizance of herself in her own brain, and not in the eyes and in the lips of others; even when the ingenuously write into little secret diaries, women think of the unknown god reading--perhaps--over their shoulders. With a similar nature, a woman, to be placed in the first ranks of men, would require even higher genius than that of the highest man; that is why, if the conspicuous works of men themselves, the finest works of women are always inferior to the worth of the women who produced them.”
Source: The Book of Masks
“It is not permissible for a Muslim to buy products of the countries that are in a state of war with Islam and Muslims, for example, Israel.”
“It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.”
“It is not permissible to add to one's possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men. Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.”
Source: Cry, the Beloved Country
“It is not permissible to lie merely to save one's face. But it is sometimes permissible to lie to save another person's face.”
Source: Modes and Morals
“It is not permitted for a woman to speak in the church, nor is it permitted for her to teach, nor to baptize, nor to offer [the eucharist], nor to claim for herself a share in any masculine function- not to mention any priestly office.”
“It is not permitted that we should know everything.”
“It is not permitted to a man, who takes up pen or chisel, to seek originality, for passion is his only business, and he cannot but mould or sing after a new fashion because no disaster is like another.”
Source: Mythologies
“It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause.”
Source: The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal
“it is not places that are dangerous, but people”
Source: No Holiday: 80 Places You Don't Want to Visit...
“It is not plausible for Patrick Kennedy to do something to get the FBI to change the State Department investigation, this is crazy.”
“It is not pleasant to come upon Death in a lonely place at midnight.”
Source: THE CONAN SAGA: The Complete Epic
“It is not pleasant to have a stranger doubt your respectability.”
“It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“It is not polite for a Russian to interfere in British politics.”
“It is not politic in the commonwealth of nature to preserve virginity. Loss of virginity is rational increase, and there was never virgin got till virginity was first lost. That you were made of is metal to make virgins. Virginity, by being once lost, may be ten times found: by being ever kept, it is ever lost. ’Tis too cold a companion: away with ’t!”
Source: A Choice of Shakespeare's Verse
“It is not pornography that is obscene, it is hunger that is obscene.”
“It is not possible . . . to concentrate enough military planes with military loads over a modern city to destroy that city.”
“It is not possible either to trick or escape the mind of Zeus.”
“It is not possible for a house to own a spirit without owning windows with flowers!”
“It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity.”
“It is not possible for a single person to be working outstanding miracles, signs and wonders which millions of other Nigerians cannot do and for such a person to be an agent of Satan. They - the God's generals - should combine forces and deliver such a satanic person or get rid of him.”
“It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.”
Source: The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell: An age like this, 1920-1940
“It is not possible for Christians to take part in anti-Semitism. We are Semites spiritually.”
“It is not possible for form to do without matter because it is not separable, nor can matter itself be purged of form.”
“It is not possible for girlhood to be represented wholly—girlhood is too vast and too individual an experience.”
Source: Bad Feminist
“It is not possible for me to bear alone such labours and the burden of such weighty cares as press on me from hour to hour, without one man at my side to help me. I have not a soul to aid me in all my anxieties and toils.”
“It is not possible for minds degraded by a host of trivial concerns to ever rise to anything great.”
Source: The Major Political Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Two
“It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family.”
“It is not possible for others to keep us prisoners if we want to be free”
“It is not possible for you to sink lower than the infinite light of Christ's Atonement shines.”
“It is not possible in this culture today to hold up to public pillory and ridicule any group - whether blacks, American Indians, women, homosexuals, Poles, or any of a number of other groups that have been discriminated against in the past. However, the one group you can hold up to public mockery and pillory without fear of reprisal is evangelical Christians.”
“It is not possible that a just God should forgive people who are wicked because another person who was good endured agony by being nailed to a cross.”
Source: Black lamb and grey falcon: a journey through Yugoslavia
“It is not possible that we should remember that we existed before our body, for our can bear no trace of such existence, neither can eternity be defined in terms of time or have any relation to time. But notwithstanding, we feel and know that we are eternal.”
Source: Ethics
“It is not possible that you could ever find yourself anywhere where God was not fully present, fully active, able and willing to set you free.”
“It is not possible to 'spoil' a child with love and affection...a child needs all the love and affection it can possibly get.”
“It is not possible to achieve by vigilance in anger and revenge what the soul is longing for. The soul longs for peace.”
“It is not possible to assert publicly that Monsanto is anything other than venal without being accused of being a sellout, a fraud, or worse.”
“It is not possible to be 'incidentally a Christian.' The fact of Christianity must be overwhelmingly first or nothing. This suggests a reason for the dislike of Christians by nominal or non-Christians: their lives contain no overwhelming first but many balances.”
“It is not possible to be a scientist unless you believe that it is good to learn... that it is of the highest value to share your knowledge... with anyone who is interested... that the knowledge of the world, and the power which this gives, is a thing which is of intrinsic value to humanity”