I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It is obvious that mathematics needs both sorts of mathematicians, theory-builders and problem-solvers.”
“It is obvious that most people are not living the life they want to live! The easiest solution for this problem is to give up the life you want to live. And the hardest solution is this: Give up everything which prevents you to live the life you want to live!”
“It is obvious that no difficulty in the way of world government can match the danger of a world without it.”
“It is obvious that Paul did not regard prayer as supplemental, but as fundamental-not something to be added to his work but the very matrix out of which his work was born. He was a man of action because he was a man of prayer. It was probably his prayer even more than his preaching that produced the kind of leaders we meet in his letters.”
“It is obvious that putting the Arab-Israeli dispute on a resolution track would be an important element of overcoming the confidence problem in the region.”
“It is obvious that taking the country from a state of war to being a lawful state won't be easy.”
“It is obvious that the best qualities in man must atrophy in a standing-room-only environment.”
Source: The Quiet Crisis
“It is obvious that the bumper sticker question "What would Jesus do?" will not always bring a popular response.”
“It is obvious that the fascist mass pestilence, with its background of thousands of years, cannot be mastered with social measures corresponding to the past three hundred years. The discovery of the natural biological work democracy in international human intercourse is the answer to fascism. This will be no less true even if not one of the living sex-economists, orgone biophysicists or work democrats should live to see its general functioning and its victory over the irrationalism in social life.”
“It is obvious that the great majority of humans throughout history have had grossly, even ridiculously, unrealistic concepts of the world. Man is, among many other things, the mistaken animal, the foolish animal. Other species doubtless have much more limited ideas about the world, but what ideas they do have are much less likely to be wrong and are never foolish. White cats do not denigrate black, and dogs do not ask Baal, Jehovah, or other Semitic gods to perform miracles for them.”
“It is obvious that the greatest and most important service that is required of our agriculture under existing conditions is an enlarged production of the staple food crops.”
“It is obvious that the most despotic forms of social organization would be suitable for inert men who are satisfied with the situation fate has placed them in, and that the most abstract form of democratic theory would be practicable among sages guided only by their reason. The only problem is to what degree it is possible to excite or to contain the passions without endangering public happiness.”
“It is obvious that the newspaper produces the opinion of the readers.”
“It is obvious that the only interesting people are interested people, and to be completely interested is to have forgotten about "I".”
Source: The Wisdom of Insecurity
“It is obvious that the performance of a stock last year or last month is no reason, per se, to either own it or to not own it now. It is obvious that an inability to "get even" in a security that has declined is of no importance. It is obvious that the inner warm glow that results from having held a winner last year is of no importance in making a decision as to whether it belongs in an optimum portfolio this year.”
“It is obvious that the prevalent Christian world-view is not a Kingdom world-view.”
“It is obvious that the RUC is no longer accepted as an impartial police force.”
“It is obvious that the war which Hitler and his accomplices waged was a war not only against Jewish men, women, and children, but also against Jewish religion, Jewish culture, Jewish tradition, therefore Jewish memory.”
Source: Night
“It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.”
“It is obvious that while science is struggling to bring Heaven to earth some men are using its materials in the construction of Hell.”
“It is obvious that you like to be in control of things. With this girl, you lose control. You despise that, especially since she is younger.- Maria Delgado”
Source: Secrets In Love
“It is obvious to all who are wise that the foundation of speech will not be demolished by tempestuous events.
(translated by Kayvan Tahmasebian and Rebecca Ruth Gould)”
Source: Divan of Jahan Malek Khatun: Persia's Great Female Sufi Poet
“It is obvious to any observer that in every western country the increase of importance of public schools has been at least coincident with the relaxation of older family ties.”
Source: The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1927-1928
“It is obvious to see; if the cross has lighted your way a truth explodes in our life: A truth that cries out "people conceived and brought into life by God don’t make a practice of sin. How could they?”
“It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'”
“It is obvious we are fighting for the Air France Group. . . . But in actual fact, we are also fighting for France.”
“It is obvious what the wind will do,
and so is the cloud.
Flowers, trees,
even birds;
it is even obvious what
the most unknown being will do.
However,
we know a being well:
it is not obvious
what they will do.
You happen to know:
they picked up roses,
and are giving them to someone.
And then you happen to know again:
the roses belong to the man they killed.”
Source: a Song a Poem
“It is obvious when an actor has put work into prep and research and understanding their character, and they're making choices, because that's what happens when you take the time - or have the time - to really think about the material, but that only accounts for about 60% of what happens on the day. When you're in the moment, you throw it all away. Well, you don't throw it all away, but it's in you now, and everything is reactionary in that moment and you have to be honest and present and listening.”
“It is obvious, I think, that national democracy withers. This has to do with globalisation.”
“It is obviously a good rule not to lie to others but even more important not to lie to oneself.”
Source: Life Is a Dance
“It is obviously easier, for the short run, to draw cheap labor from adjacent pools of poverty...than to find it among one's own people. And to the millions of such prospective immigrants from poverty to prosperity, there is, rightly or wrongly, no place that looks more attractive than the United States. Given its head, and subject to no restrictions, this pressure will find its termination only when the levels of overpopulation and poverty in the United States are equal to those of the countries from which these people are now so anxious to escape.”
“It is obviously good and proper to respect the U.S. flag, perpetuated with the blood of American heroes. On the other hand, it can be a fatal mistake, a nuking of the Bill of Rights, not to recognize scoundrels who wrap themselves in the same flag to cover up their crimes against the American common people.”
“It is obviously possible that what we call waking life may only be an unusual and persistent nightmare.”
“It is obviously quite difficult to be no longer loved when we are still in love, but it is incomparably more painful to be loved when we ourselves no longer love.”
“It is occasionally used to imitate the court jester, who plays the fool but knows he is smarter than the king. He talks and talks and entertains, and no one suspects that he is more than just a fool.”
Source: The 48 Laws Of Power
“It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.”
“It is odd enough to see how the entrance of a person of the opposite sex into an assemblage of either men or women calms down the little discordances and the disturbance of mood.”
Source: Wifes And Daughters
“It is odd how all men develop the notion, as they grow older, that their mothers were wonderful cooks. I have yet to meet a man who will admit that his mother was a kitchen assassin and nearly poisoned him.”
Source: The papers of Samuel Marchbanks
“It is odd how one can feel like someone else early in the morning - bigger, cleaner, so much more alive.”
Source: Seventeenth Summer
“It is odd how we sometimes deny ourselves the very pleasure we have longed for and which is finally within our reach.”
“It is odd how, when you have a secret belief of your own which you do not wish to acknowledge, the voicing of it by someone else will rouse you to a fury of denial.”
Source: Masterpieces of murder
“It is odd that a value/virtue that plays such a central role in dramatic literature has played such a small role in philosophical writing. There are probably a number of reasons, but I think that a predilection for a certain kind of individualism is a major one. Others might include the fashionability of consequentialism, the idea that loyalty has more to do with sentiment than reason, as well as its proneness to corruption. The revival of interest in virtue/character as distinct from rules/principles has also created space for a renewed, if hesitant, interest in loyalty.”
“It is odd that neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point. At what point sin begins is a matter as to which casuists differ. One eminently orthodox Catholic divine laid it down that a confessor may fondle a nun's breasts, provided he does it without evil intent. But I doubt whether modern authorities would agree with him on this point.”
Source: Unpopular Essays
“It is odd that we never question the feasibility of a football team practicing long hours for one game; yet in writing we rarely give ourselves the space for practice.”
Source: Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
“It is odd there are many movies with many men. But generally movies have one woman, or maybe the older woman and the younger girl.”
“It is odd to consider the connection between despotism and barbarity, and how the making one person more than man makes the rest less.”
Source: The spectator
“It is odd to think that there is a word for something which, strictly speaking, does not exist, namely, "rest." We distinguish between living and dead matter; between moving bodies and bodies at rest. This is a primitive point of view. What seems dead, a stone or the proverbial "door-nail," say, is actually forever in motion. We have merely become accustomed to judge by outward appearances; by the deceptive impressions we get through our senses.”
Source: The Restless Universe
“It is odd to watch with what feverish ardour Americans pursue prosperity, ever tormented by the shadowy suspicion that they might not have chosen the shortest route to get it. They cleave to the things of this world as if assured they will never die, and yet rush to snatch any that comes within their reach, as if they expected to stop living before relishing them. Death steps in, in the end, and stops them, before they have grown tired of this futile pursuit of that complete felicity which always escapes them.”
“It is odd, but on the infrequent occasions when I have been called upon in a formal place to play the bongo drums, the introducer never seems to find it necessary to mention that I also do theoretical physics.”
Source: The Quotable Feynman
“It is odd, the twists that life will sometimes take. The ewe that you think will give birth with ease dies bringing forth a two-headed lamb. Or the ski trail that you have been told is treacherous, you navigate easily.”
Source: North Child