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 reasonable that art should win the place of honor over our great and powerful mother Nature. We have so overloaded the beauty and richness of her works by our inventions that we have quite smothered her.”
Source: Complete Essays
“It is not reasonable that he who does not shoot should hit the mark, nor that he who does not stand fast at his post should win the day, or that the helpless man should succeed or the coward prosper.”
Source: Parallel Lives - Complete
“It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.”
“It is not rebellion itself which is noble but the demands it makes upon us.”
“It is not recognized in the full amplitude of the word that all freedom is essentially self-liberation - that I can have only so much freedom as I procure for myself by my owness.”
Source: The Ego and His Own
“It is not rejection itself that people fear, it is the possible consequences of rejection. Preparing to accept those consequences and viewing rejection as a learning experience that will bring you closer to success, will not only help you to conquer the fear of rejection, but help you to appreciate rejection itself.”
“It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.”
Source: The Notebooks of Simone Weil
“It is not restful, it is not possible to talk wholeheartedly to more than one person at a time. You can't really talk with a person unless you surrender to them, for the moment (all other talk is futile). You can't surrender to more than one person a moment.”
Source: Bring me a unicorn: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1922-1928
“It is not right for painters to think that painting is like prostitution, that 'first you do it for love, then you do it for others, and finally you do it for money.”
“It is not right in a house serving the Muses
to have mourning. For us it is unbecoming.”
“It is not right or manly to lie even about Satan.”
“It is not right to associate the fight against international terrorist networks with an imaginary crusade against Islam.”
“It is not right to exult over slain men.”
“It is not right to glory in the slain”
Source: The odyssey
“It is not right to suggest that every win for race equality results in a loss for white working-class people”
Source: Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
“It is not right to vex ourselves at things, for they care not about it.”
“It is not right to walk alone on the golden road of truth! Enlighten as many people as you can and walk with them!”
“It is not right, my fellow-countrymen, you who know very well all the crimes committed in our name. It's not at all right that you do not breathe a word about them to anyone, not even to your own soul, for fear of having to stand in judgment of yourself. I am willing to believe that at the beginning you did not realize what was happening; later, you doubted whether such things could be true; but now you know, and still you hold your tongues.”
“It is not righteousness to outrage”
Source: The Complete Greek Drama: All the Extant Tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, and the Comedies of Aristophanes and Menander, in a Variety of Translations
“It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.”
“It is not rubbish! It is the part of people that you do not understand.”
Source: A Room with a View
“It is not rude to turn off your telephone by switching it on to an answering machine, which is cheaper and less disruptive than ripping it out of the wall. Those who are offended because they cannot always get through when they seek, at their own convenience, to barge in on people are suffering from a rude expectation.”
Source: Miss Manners' Guide for the Turn-of-the-Millennium
“It is not safe in the republican form of government that clannishness should exist either by compulsory or voluntary reason. It is not good for the government and it is not good for the individual.”
Source: Black and White: Land, Labor, and Politics in the South
“It is not safe to despise what Love commands. He reigns supreme, and rules the mighty gods.”
“It is not safe to live in sin. Stop sinning!”
“It is not saving faith to confess Christ as true. Saving faith receives Christ as a Treasure.”
“It is not scholarship alone, but scholarship impregnated with religion, that tells on the great mass of society. We have no faith in the efficacy of mechanic's institutes, or even of primary and elementary schools, for building up a virtuous and well conditioned peasantry, so long as they stand dissevered from the lessons of Christian piety.”
Source: On Political Economy: In Connexion with the Moral State and Moral Prospects of Society
“It is not science that has destroyed the world, despite all the gloomy forebodings of the earlier prophets. It is man who has destroyed man.”
“It is not science which leads to unbelief but rather ignorance. The ignorant man thinks he understands something provided that he sees it every day. The natural philosopher walks amid enigmas, always striving to understand and always half-understanding. He learns to believe what he does not understand, and that is a step on the road to faith.”
“It is not scientific doubt, not atheism, not pantheism, not agnosticism, that in our day and in this land is likely to quench the light of the gospel. It is a proud, sensuous, selfish, luxurious, church-going, hollow-hearted prosperity.”
Source: The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply
“It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take his own life first. In fact, this act has been encouraged for centuries, and is accepted even now as an honorable reason to do the deed. How is it any different when you are under attack by your own mind?”
“It is not selfish or narcissistic to love yourself. It is your first and foremost responsibility.”
Source: Dare to Be Yourself
“It is not selfish to be happy. It is your highest purpose. Your joy is the greatest contribution you can make to life on the planet. A heart at peace with its owner blesses everyone it touches.”
“it is not selfish to be into loving yourself, and be into doing what you love, nor is it selfish to protect those things your love flows into...if anyone questions and doesn't support your methods and reasons for protecting your loves, then they are seriously the true selfish ones...”
Source: Bodhi Simplique Impressionist Photography and Insights
“It is not selfish to express one's wants, likes, and needs, and to defend oneself against injustice. It is selfish not to give others the same freedom.”
“It is not selfishness or unselfishness that distinguishes love from non-love; it is the aim of the action.”
Source: The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
“It is not set speeches at the moment of battle that render soldiers brave.”
Source: Napoleon's Military Maxims
“It is not sex by itself that interests me, but its particular role in American consciousness, and in my own life.”
“It is not sex per se - your identification with the body is the impediment to your spiritual growth.”
“It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover.”
Source: Gone to Soldiers: A Novel
“It is not sexuality which haunts society but society which haunts the body’s sexuality”
“It is not shameful for a man to succumb to pain and it is shameful to succumb to pleasure.”
“It is not 'Shinigami'. It is Kuchiki Rukia."
"I see.. I'm Kurosaki Ichigo. Let's pray this isn't the last greeting for both of us.”
Source: Bleach, Vol. 1
“It is not short of amazing, the power of a great idea to weld men together. There was in it a peculiar, intense, vital spirit if you will, that I have never felt before in any strike.”
“It is not shortage of time that should worry us, but the tendency for the majority of time to be spent in low-quality ways.”
Source: The 80/20 Principle
“It is not simply a theological treatise, a code of laws, a religious homily, but the Bible - the book - while the only book for the soul, the best book for the mind”
Source: Christianity's Challenge: And Some Phases of Christianity Submitted for Candid Consideration
“It is not simply a transient happiness that you experience in meditation that creates balance; it is a transformative light. Inner light is the most powerful thing there is.”
“It is not simply that suppression of self is required before accurate vision can be obtained. The great artist sees his objects (and this is true whether they are sad, absurd, repulsive or even evil) in a light of justice and mercy. The direction of attention is, contrary to nature, outward, away from self which reduces all to a false unity, towards the great surprising variety of the world, and the ability so to direct attention is love.”
Source: The Sovereignty of Good
“It is not simply that these two cities are perched side by side at the edge of the Pacific; it is that adolescence sits next to middle age, and they don't know how to relate to each other. In a way, these two cities exist in different centuries. San Diego is a post-industrial city talking about settling down, slowing down, building clean industry. Tijuana is a preindustrial city talking about changing, moving forward, growing. Yet they form a single metropolitan area.”
“It is not simply that we need poetry and the other arts to help us apprehend the mystery of the incarnation but that the mystery of incarnation itself is what makes the imaginative arts possible.”