I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It is our own thoughts that hold the key to miraculous transformation.”
“It is our own thoughts that lead us into trouble, not other people.”
“It is our part to seek,
His to grant what we ask;
ours to make a beginning,
His to bring it to completion;
ours to offer what we can,
His to finish what we cannot.”
“It is our past that defines who we are and gives us the courage to progress into the future without fear”
“It is our peculiar punishment that we know things change and we want this to be otherwise.”
“It is our perception—of ourselves and of reality—that determines our experience.”
Source: Awake to What Is: Discovering Peace in the Present Moment
“It is our philosophical set of the sail that determines the course of our lives. To change our current Direction, we have to change our philosophy, not our circumstances.”
“It is our policy not to negotiate with terrorists."
I stared at the phone, my eyes wide. I was speechless and very, very angry.
"Are you still there?" The voice belonged to an unnamed official in the NSA. Perston‐Smythe introduced him as one of Cox's supervisors.
"What the fuck do you mean by that?"
"It is the policy of this government not to negotiate with terrorists."
"Do you mean to tell me that you consider me a terrorist?"
He sounded almost prim. "Certainly. You've taken a hostage."
"Terrorists," I said, gritting my teeth, "attack the innocent to achieve their goals. If you're about to tell me that you consider Cox an innocent bystander, then this conversation is over."
"Terrorists are—"
"Oh, fuck it! You want a terrorist action so you can consider me a terrorist? There's no way you can keep me out of your nuclear arsenals. Where do you want the first one to go off? The Pentagon? The White House? The Capitol building? How about Moscow or Kiev? Wouldn't that be interesting? Do you think they'd launch?"
His voice was a lot less prim. "You wouldn't do that."
"Well, as a matter of fact, I wouldn't. BECAUSE I'M NOT A TERRORIST!" I slammed the phone down on the hook and jumped.”
“It is our policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.”
“It is our priority to win the hearts of people of Jammu and Kashmir. That could only be achieved through development and their welfare. We have a responsibility to see that people of the state are prosperous. We are not talking about Hindus or Muslims, but the people of Jammu and Kashmir. Development comes when there is integration.”
“It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light.”
“It is our privilege to know that we are saved.”
“It is our reaction that creates stress and this we can change"
This book will start you on a journey that will give you the ability to handle
any difficult customer with ease. In order to feel no stress we all have to go through many instances of being stressed, so we can learn one step at a time to be free of it.”
Source: Difficult Customers
“It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.”
“It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.”
“It is our response to our circumstances rather than the degree of difficulty that determines whether or not we are discontent”
Source: Respectable Sins: Confronting the Sins We Tolerate
“It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.”
“It is our responsibility as a society to level the playing field by increasing access to quality education and respecting the values of different cultures.”
“It is our responsibility as Americans to provide for the families of those who have died to defend our nation. Raising the military death benefit is not a Democrat or Republican issue - it is an American issue.”
“It is our responsibility as believers to bring the will of God to the people”
“It is our responsibility as humans to right the wrongs perpetrated by systemic oppression, identify and rectify social inequities, and elevate all who lack a voice in the rooms where power is protected.”
“It is our responsibility as scientists, knowing the great progress which comes from a satisfactory philosophy of ignorance, the great progress which is the fruit of freedom of thought, to proclaim the value of this freedom; to teach how doubt is not to be feared but welcomed and discussed; and to demand this freedom as our duty to all coming generations.”
“It is our responsibility as the stronger party [Israel], as the occupying power, to convince the Palestinians that they can achieve their basic national aims, their just national aspirations, without violence. Unfortunately, the behavior of the Sharon administration, and before this of the Barak administration, has shown the Palestinians the opposite: namely, that they will achieve nothing without violence.”
“It is our responsibility to enlighten our people.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“It is our responsibility to explain to the public how an often unpredictable system of justice is one that serves a productive, civilized, but always evolving, society.”
“It is our responsibility to help wildlife adapt to a changing climate.”
“It is our responsibility to learn how to speak to an audience that is less informed about music, to give it a reason to want to come and see us instead of going to the movies.”
Source: The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer
“It is our responsibility to learn to become emotionally intelligent. These are skills, they’re not easy, nature didn’t give them to us - we have to learn them.”
“It is our responsibility to leave the people of the future a free hand.”
“It is our responsibility to pray for a peaceful world.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“It is our right to stay here and we will stay and stand up for what belongs to us as American citizens, because they can't say that we haven't had patience.”
“It is our sacred duty to transmit unimpaired to our posterity the blessings of liberty which were bequeathed to us by the founders of the Republic.”
Source: The Papers of Andrew Johnson: September 1868-April 1869
“It is our social responsibility as citizens of India to help fulfil Gandhiji's vision of Clean India, by his 150th birth anniversary in 2019.”
“It is our solemn duty, our precious privilege-even our sacred opportunity-to welcome to our homes and to our hearts the children who grace our lives.”
“It is our souls which are the everlastingness of God's purpose in this earth.”
Source: Euthanasy: Or, Happy Talk Towards the End of Life
“It is our Spiritual nature to understand, accept and allow our human nature.”
“It is our stories [classic Disney films] that make us human - so Owen [Suskind] has become an expert in what connects us and makes us human. That got to me, the power of these stories, and the lessons these tales give us to create the connection between us.”
“It is our stories that will recreate us, when we are torn, hurt, even destroyed. It is the storyteller, the dream-maker, the myth-maker, that is our phoenix, that represents us at our best, and at our most creative.”
“It is our talents rusting unused within us that secrete the poison of self-doubt into our bloodstream.”
“It is our task in our time and in our generation, to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961
“It is our task to inquire into the causes that have brought about the observed differentiation, and to investigate the sequence of events that have led to the establishment of the multifarious forms of human life”
“It is our task, both in science and in society at large, to prove the conventional wisdom wrong and to make our unpredictable dreams come true”
Source: FROM EROS TO GAIA
“It is our task-our essential, central, crucial task-to transform ourselves from mere social creatures into community creatures.”
Source: The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace
“It is our taste that decides against Christianity now, no longer our reasons.”
“It is our thoughts, actions and reactions that manifest our future.”
“It is our ultimate purpose to continually evolve as a species both physically and emotionally, as change is the mechanism for growth and development, and if we fear change we stunt our own growth and with it, human evolution.”
Source: Anatomy Of Illumination
“It is our unconscious thoughts, emotions, sensations, feelings and beliefs which will paint our reality. The difficulty for many of us is attempting to build a new fulfilling reality if we have experienced something different. When something goes ‘wrong’ while we are untangling from a co-dependent relationship or creating a new goal, our automatic reaction is to immediately revert back to old thinking and habits.”
Source: Super Self Care: How to Find Lasting Freedom from Addiction, Toxic Relationships and Dysfunctional Lifestyles
“It is our uniqueness that gives freshness and vitality to a relationship.”
Source: Love for a Lifetime: Building a Marriage That Will Go the Distance
“It is our very fear of the future that distorts the now that could lead to a different future if we dared to be whole in the present.”
“It is our very search, our lust for the miraculous and magical, that hides from us the truth that simply to be, simply to know I am, is already the miracle that we seek. Everything, as it is, is perfect, but you must stop seeing it as if in a mirror, as if in a dream.”