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 live twenty-four hours a day in a state of love. Every movement, every glance, every thought, and every word can be infused with love.”
“It is possible to live well with dementia and write best-sellers 'like wot I do.”
“It is possible to love someone with all your heart and still know your union would never have survived having children together.”
Source: These Precious Days: Essays
“It is possible to make a living thing, not a diagram of what I have been thinking: to posit with paint something living, something that changes each day.”
Source: Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations
“It is possible to make buildings by stringing together patterns, in a rather loose way. A building made like this, is an assembly of patterns. It is not dense. It is not profound. But it is also possible to put patterns together in such a way that many patterns overlap in the same physical space: the building is very dense; it has many meanings captured in a small space; and through this density, it becomes profound.”
Source: A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction
“It is possible to make each year bring with it a lasting gift to add to the fullness of experience, to be treasured up, savored, and remembered. They need not be startling, these gifts of the years; they may be things that lie within the reach of all.”
Source: Make Your Life Worth Living
“It is possible to make family any way you like. It is possible to love men without rage. There are thousands of ways to love men.”
Source: The Chronology of Water
“It is possible to make home a bit of heaven; indeed, I picture heaven to be a continuation of the ideal home”
“It is possible to make no mistakes and still lose. That is not failure that is life.”
“It is possible to modify your awareness to perceive what plants perceive, birds, beings in the astral, the causal.”
“It is possible to move to an enlightened state of mind from a lower bardo or level of awareness. It can happen, but it is extremely unlikely.”
“It is possible to offer fervent prayer even while walking in public or strolling alone or seated in your shop ... while buying or selling ... or even while cooking.”
“It is possible to pin the moment when power descends, is bestowed is transferred from one hand to another? It does not come down as a dove, but as a lick of fire, a language the powerful speak to each other. 231
We couldn't say yes that often because then they would all come; they all needed help, every one. Need is the human being natural state. Need water, need food, need green money, need meaning, need touch and need talk, need I don't know what. 288”
Source: Priestdaddy
“It is possible to point to hundreds, thousands, perhaps even millions of imaginative, courageous programs to reduce, recycle, and reuse - yet the overall trajectory of industrial civilization remains relatively unchanged.”
Source: Afterburn: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels
“It is possible to produce something that is grammatical either by chance or under the supervision of another. To be proficient in grammar, then, one must both produce what is grammatical and produce it grammatically, that is, in accord with knowledge of grammar in oneself.”
“It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.”
Source: Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill
“It is possible to pull out justification for imposing your will on others, simply by calling your will God's will.”
“It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.”
Source: Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?
“It is possible to reason out the existence of God to a limited extent.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
“It is possible to reclaim your future, to build a happy life despite an imperfect past. We can order the universe to our will and mind.”
“It is possible to renounce everything and attain enlightenment. But most people don't want to renounce; they wish to run away from responsibility and hard work.”
“It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected schools of thought.”
Source: Breaking down the wall of silence: the liberating experience of facing painful truth
“It is possible to rethink love and unlearn lust.”
Source: Wanderlust: How I Learned to Rethink Love and Unlearn Lust
“It is possible to ruin a chicken in the cooking of it, but not easily. Short of burning it or letting it get dried out, you can hardly go wrong.”
“It is possible to see slavery and serfdom merely as extreme early forms of autocratic management, in which employees had no voice whatsoever in the work process and were viewed not as human beings but as alienated forms of individual wealth. Slavery, in this sense, did not die; it continues in modern dress in contemporary organizations wherever managers exercise autocratic power, unequal status, or arbitrary privileges, no matter how scientific the terminology or postmodern the image”
“It is possible to see the intermediate state between lives as being in a way more important than incarnate existence.”
Source: Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research
“It is possible to set boundaries provided that you prioritize your own self-care. To protect ourselves in their presence, we first have to understand the way they think and manipulate. This will give us insight into their agendas, their exploitative ways of approaching the world, and the essential tools needed to safely exit interactions, friendships, and relationships with them.”
Source: The Highly Sensitive Person's Guide to Dealing with Toxic People: How to Reclaim Your Power from Narcissists and Other Manipulators [Standard Large Print 16 Pt Edition]
“It is possible to sit still and watch your thoughts arise and then, without grabbing them, watch them disappear. This is the practice of meditation and mindfulness, a practice that you learn to carry with you. The goal isn’t to stop thoughts. Instead, the goal is the practice of seeing them clearly as they come into view and then letting them go. If you can notice anger or anxiety arising at the ground level, in its first inception, then you can easily watch it dissolve. In these instances, it is present sight, not hindsight, that is 20/20.”
“It is possible to speak with our heart directly. Most ancient cultures know this. We can actually converse with our heart as if it were a good friend. In modern life we have become so busy with our daily affairs and thoughts that we have lost this essential art of taking time to converse with our heart.”
Source: A Path With Heart: The Classic Guide Through The Perils And Promises Of Spiritual Life
“It is possible to spend one's entire lifetime without ever experiencing the mystical realms or even without being aware of their existence.”
“It is possible to stand around with a cocktail in one's hand and talk with everyone, which means with no one.”
“It is possible to state as a general principle that the mesodermic phagocytes, which originally (as in the sponges of our days) acted as digestive cells, retained their role to absorb the dead or weakened parts of the organism as much as different foreign intruders.”
“it is possible to study fashion the way one can study a work of art, so that it reflects significantly upon the issues and conflicts of its own day.”
Source: The obsession: reflections on the tyranny of slenderness
“It is possible to stumble right before you summit. Stand up. Dust yourself off. And climb all the way to the peak.
No matter what.”
“It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter.”
Source: A Ring of Endless Light: The Austin Family Chronicles
“It is possible to take energy from someone else. This is usually done in close, emotional sexual relationships.”
“It is possible to tell a customer "no", and have the customer thank you for doing it”
“It is possible to tell things by a handshake. I like the "looking in the eye" syndrome. It conveys interest. I like the firm, though not bone crushing shake. The bone crusher is trying too hard to "macho it." The clammy or diffident handshake - fairly or unfairly - get me off to a bad start with a person.”
Source: All the Best, George Bush: My Life in Letters and Other Writings
“It is possible to think that the Internet will be a net positive for society while admitting that there are significant downsides - after all, it's not a revolution if nobody loses.”
“It is possible to transcend the usual limitations of the body, ego, space, and linear time.”
Source: Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research
“It is possible to turn over all your finances to a third party who will receive your paycheck, pay your bills and then give you a small allowance for spending money each week. This person or company is called a 'representative payee.”
Source: Gambling Addiction: The complete guide to survival, treatment, and recovery from gambling addiction.
“It is possible to wake up very quickly, to become enlightened, or you can do it gradually.”
“It is possible to walk the path we have been assigned with gratitude and forgiveness, courage and grace, humility and confidence, without falling apart.”
Source: Rewriting My Happily Ever After: A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery
“It is possible to wish so greatly for the unattained that in time you believe it has been won - indeed, you can even remember the winning of it.”
“It is possible to work across the aisle in Washington, but it's hard. And I think it's been made worse by the kind of 24-hour news cycle, the fact that everything is on TV before you can work things out quietly. I think it's the intensity of information that makes it feel more difficult to get things done. But I didn't leave with a bitter taste about the politics. The one thing that I would say is, I do think there is an unfortunate tendency to turn political differences, or policy differences, into critiques of one another's character or motives, and that's unfortunate.”
“It is possible with pure willpower to force the kundalini up the shushumna, through the chakras. You will develop visions of other worlds that will not necessarily stop when you want them to. This is a condition we call insanity.”
“It is possible, even probable, to be told a truth about a place, to accept it, to know it and at the same time not to know anything about it.”
Source: Travels with Charley in Search of America: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“It is possible, however, that the artist is both thin-skinned and prophetic and, like the canary lowered into the mine shaft to test the air, has caught a whiff of something lethal.”
Source: Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book
“It is possible, I suppose, that we are returning to a Dark Age. What is frightening is that violence is not only represented by nations, but everywhere walks among us freely.”
Source: The House by the Sea: A Journal
“It is possible, I supposed, to imagine an extraordinary circumstance in which it would be necessary and appropriate under the Constitution and applicable laws of the United States for the President to authorize the military to use lethal force within the territory of the United States.”