I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It is possible to avoid Jesus as Savior as much by keeping all the Biblical rules as by breaking them.”
Source: The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism
“It is possible to avoid pain? Yes, but you'll never learn anything. Is it possible to know something without ever having experiencing it? Yes, but it will never truly be part of you.”
“It is possible to be a fan of reality TV, talent shows and bubblegum pop and still have a brain. You will also see that a great many people know perfectly well how silly and camp and trivial their fandom is. They do not check in their minds when they enter a fan site. Judgement is not necessarily fled to brutish beasts, and men have not quite lost their reason. Which is all a way of questioning whether pop-culture hero worship is really so psychically damaging, so erosive of cognitive faculties, so corrupting of the soul of mankind as we are so often told.”
“It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.”
Source: Character and Opinion in the United States
“It is possible to be a meta-physician without believing in a transcendent reality; for we shall see that many metaphysical utterances are due to the commission of logical errors, rather than to a conscious desire on the part of their authors to go beyond the limits of experience.”
“It is possible to be at the top of Christian service, respected and admired, and not have that indispensable ingredient by which God has chosen to work in His world today - the absolute sacrificial agape love of the Eternal God.”
“It is possible to be aware of God at all times.”
“It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it.”
“It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it. One who trusts nobody will not trust sycophants. One who does not value real glory will not value its counterfeit.”
“It is possible to be busy-very busy-without being very effective.”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition
“It is possible to be clean in a dirty world.”
“It is possible to be confident and still practice humility. Be confident in the success of the teachable, sure in the power & grace of That which supports you.”
“It is possible to be dumb and be a college president.”
“It is possible to be happy and joyful most of the time. You just have to look at little children and see their natural joy. You may say that little children are free and don't have anything to worry about, but you are free too! You are free to choose worry or to choose joy, and whatever you choose will attract exactly that. Worry attracts more worry. Joy attracts more joy!”
Source: The Secret Daily Teachings
“It is possible to be happy without having perfect health . . . Thank goodness my happiness doesn't come from my joints, but from my heart.”
Source: The Desires of a Woman's Heart
“It is possible to be homesick for a place even when you are there.”
Source: White Noise
“It is possible to be honest every day. It is possible to live so that others can trust us-can trust our words, our motives, and our actions. Our examples are vital to those who sit at our feet as well as those who watch from a distance. Our own constant self-improvement will become as a polar star to those within our individual spheres of influence. They will remember longer what they saw in us than what they heard from us. Our attitude, our point of view, can make a tremendous difference.”
Source: Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes
“It is possible to be in love with you just because of who you are.”
Source: Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)
“It is possible to be so active in the service of Christ as to forget to love him.”
“It is possible to be solitary in one's mind while living in a crowd, and it is possible for one who is solitary to live in the crowd of his own thoughts.”
“It [is] possible to be strong and yielding at the same time.”
Source: A Curse So Dark and Lonely
“It is possible to be truly mad and to still exist upon scraps of life.”
“It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity.”
Source: The Words of César Chávez
“It is possible to begin again. It is hard, and we never do it perfectly, but it can be done.”
Source: Love Affair: A Prayer Journal
“It is possible to believe in progress as a fact without believing in progress as an ethical principle; but in the catechism of many Americans, the one goes with the other.”
Source: The human use of human beings: cybernetics and society
“It is possible to believe that all that the human mind has ever accomplished,
is but the dream before the awakening”
Source: The Discovery of the Future
“It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. It is possible to believe that all the human mind has ever accomplished is but the dream before the awakening.”
Source: Discovery of the Future: Illustrated
“It is possible to both love her and hate her; to trust her and mistrust her. To feel so radically on both sides of the coin.
It is possible to want my friend back more than anything and to also want her to stay gone for good.”
Source: Only If You're Lucky
“It is possible to build a virtual-reality generator whose repertoire includes every possible environment.”
“It is possible to call Tolstoy Kitsch.”
“It is possible to care too much. It is possible to believe that you will never be as good as anyone else. And it is possible to let these things take over.”
“It is possible to care without worrying”
“It is possible to cause seemingly biochemical changes through human emotional involvement. You literally have changed his chemistry by being his friend.”
Source: The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music
“It is possible to change the culture and capabilities of an organization but it takes considerable time and focused effort.”
“It is possible to change the world, with just an idea, from the comfort of your home.”
Source: Your Clients and You
“It is possible to change yourself and change ‘your’ world. Your world consists of a small number of people like your family, friends, relatives and colleagues. By living peacefully with them, you can surely make your world better. If you are still left with more energy and life, then you can try and change the rest of the world.”
Source: 31 Ways to Happiness
“It is possible to change, it is possible to leave weakness behind.”
“It is possible to chip your tooth while eating gummy bears when a plane is landing.”
“It is possible to combine a story line and plot line in the same work. Usually the storylines comes first, serving as a background to the plot line, but not always.”
“It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life.”
“It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness, that is life.”
“It is possible to compromise in certain areas when choosing a partner for life, but never on a cravat.”
Source: Henry Tilney's Diary
“It is possible to conceive conflict as not necessarily a wasteful outbreak of incompatibilities, but a normal process by which socially valuable differences register themselves for the enrichment of all concerned.”
Source: Mary Parker Follett--prophet of management: a celebration of writings from the 1920s
“It is possible to construct small realities that contain political or philosophical responses, not necessarily just practical or economical responses.”
“It is possible to contact higher beings who are not in the body. But the being you really want to contact is you.”
“It is possible to continue turning the other cheek when one has stopped counting.”
“It is possible to convert Kant’s reason to an idea on a universal level to clarify the will’s effect on reason and its importance and meaning.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“It is possible to create an epidemic of health which is self-organizing and self-propelling.”
“It is possible to create love in your life through loving actions. Just like feelings drive action, we can use action to transform our feelings. If you perform actions akin to those in love, your actions generate similar feelings. You can create love in your heart by doing things as if you are in love.”
Source: 31 Ways to Happiness
“It is possible to deal with the entire environment as a work of art.”