I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It is simply wrong to begin with a theme, symbol or other abstract unifying agent, and then try to force characters and events to conform to it.”
Source: Slow Learner
“It is simultaneously the blessing and the curse of the reflective Christian that believers are called to live out their faith in the church. No institution has accomplished so much for good in the world; none has fallen so short of its calling! The church is God-ordained, God-inspired, but accomplishes its work through human beings subject to every possible failing.”
Source: The myth of certainty: the reflective Christian and the risk of commitment
“It is sinful for students to badmouth their teachers and sinful for teachers to mislead their students.”
“It is singular how impatient men are with overpraise of others, how patient of overpraise of themselves; and yet the one does them no injury, while the other may be their ruin.”
Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)
“It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster obliterates. There is little distinct left without an effort of memory, then indeed the lights are rekindled for a moment - but who can be sure that the Imagination is not the torch-bearer?”
“It is singular to look round upon a country where the dreams of sages, smiled at as utopian, seem distinctly realized, a people voluntarily submitting to laws of their own imposing, with arms in their hands respecting the voice of a government which their breath created and which their breath could in a moment destroy!”
Source: Views of society and manners in America: in a series of letters from that country to a friend in England, during the years 1818, 1819, and 1820
“It is singularity which often makes the worst part of our suffering, as it always does of our conduct.”
“It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body”
“It is slightly chilling to realize there are rational, functional people up there employed to spot, nurture, and exploit those down here among us who are irrational and can barely cope. If you want to know how stupid you’re perceived to be by the people up there, count the unsolicited junk mail you receive. If you get a lot, you’re perceived to be alluringly stupid.”
“It is slow, gradual pressure that is the formula for both genius and earthquakes. Life tells us our secrets in these cracks, the way events conspire with each other in hidden grottos. This movement is at times very subtle, over a long time, like plate tectonics. If you don't have the right eyes, you might miss these patterns altogether. Although our lives do not occur in geological scales of time, it is still the gradual pressure and our minute reactions, our habits, that actually speak of our true natures. Our true will and intent is contained in potential within each of us, though in many it is buried very, very deep.”
Source: Join My Cult!
“It is slowly becoming understood that the modality of being is the modality of mind.”
“It is small disciplines that birth big life-changing ones”
“It is smarter to borrow from nature than to reinvent the wheels.”
“It is snowing and death bugs me
as stubborn as insomnia.”
“It is so appropriate to color hope yellow, like the sun we seldom saw. And as I begin to copy from the old memorandum journals that I kept for so long, a title comes as if inspired. 'Open the Window and Stand in the Sunshine.' Yet, I hesitate to name our story that. For I think of us more as flowers in the attic.”
Source: Flowers in the Attic
“It is so basic. A human being is an innocent part of nature. Our civilization has distorted this universal quality that allows us to feel at home in our skin. Other animals have coats that they accept, but the human race has yet to come to terms with being nude.”
“It is so beautiful but home is home, and home is best.”
Source: Toto: The Dog-Gone Amazing Story of the Wizard of Oz
“It is so beautiful to be loved as Laurie loves me; he isn’t sentimental, doesn’t say much about it, but I see and feel it in all he says and does, and it makes me so happy and so humble that I don’t seem to be the same girl I was. I never knew how good and generous and tender he was till now, for he lets me read his heart, and I find it full of noble hopes and impulses and purposes, and am so proud to know it’s mine. He says he feels as if he ‘could make a prosperous voyage now with me aboard as mate, and lots of love for ballast.’ I pray he may, and try to be all he believes me, for I love my gallant captain with all my heart and soul and might, and never will desert him while God lets us be together. Oh, Mother, I never knew how much like heaven this world could be when two people love and live for one another!”
Source: Little Women
“It is so beautifully ironic that St. Francis - the great lover of animals - is now a pigeon's target in countless yards.”
Source: Tweet Inspiration: Faith in 140 Characters (or Less)
“It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.”
“it is so clear to me
that we need to take better care
of our mothers
and prioritize them
being gatekeepers
to their own happiness
instead of being slaves
to our own”
Source: poems written by a late bloomer
“It is so cold. Even those that have been married for over twenty years sleep together.”
Source: Yet Another New Land
“It is so cold. So cold that the Department of Temperature Acknowledgment and Regulation in your brain gets the readings and says, “I can’t deal with this. I’m out of here.”
Source: Let It Snow
“It is so comic to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose!”
“It is so common to find something you are not looking for instead of something you are looking for in this world, perhaps the best strategy is not to look for what you are looking for and thus spoil this unpleasant game that life will play on us!”
“It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.”
“It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.”
Source: If You Want to Write
“It is so cool to have a fanbase that has been so involved since the casting process.”
“IT IS SO CURIOUS how hearing something once in your youth can dictate a thought pattern all the way through your life. I was nine, a man said something nonchalantly, and now when I see a slate at age thirty-six, as far as I'm concerned, its primary use is for beheading boys. Once that's done it can be used for roofing.”
Source: Mother. Wife. Sister. Human. Warrior. Falcon. Yardstick. Turban. Cabbage.
“It is so curious how we can choose to live with just about any condition or situation if we believe we have no choice.”
“it is so dark now with the sadness of
people
they were tricked, they were taught to expect the
ultimate when nothing is
promised
now young girls weep alone in small rooms
old men angrily swing their canes at
visions as
ladies comb their hair as
ants search for survival
history surrounds us
and our lives
slink away
in
shame.”
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
“It is so delightful to teach those one loves!”
Source: The Red Fairy Book
“It is so demanding to be born into a house full of women, where everyone loves you so overwhelmingly that they end up suffocating with their love; a house where you, as the only child, have to be more mature than all the adults around....
But the problem is that they want me to become everything they themselves couldn't accomplish in life.....
As a result, I had to work my butt off to fulfill all their dreams at the same time.”
Source: The Bastard of Istanbul
“It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)
“It is so difficult in the world for people to find love, true love.”
“it is so difficult not to become vain about one's own good luck.”
Source: Force of circumstance
“It is so difficult to do any work nonviolently if you don't have the constant awareness of someone who is greater than you are - someone greater who will not just fight for you but who is there to console you.”
“It is so difficult to draw a clear line of separation between the abuse and the wholesome use of the press, that as yet we have found it better to trust the public judgment, rather than the magistrate, with the discrimination between truth and falsehood. And hitherto the public judgment has performed that office with wonderful correctness.”
Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin
“IT IS SO DIFFICULT TO FIND ANSWERS
WHEN PEOPLE TELL US WHAT TO LOOK FOR
ढूंढना कितना मुश्किल होता है
जब लोग बताते हैं क्या ढूँढो”
“It is so difficult to make a neat job of killing people with whom one is not on friendly terms.”
“It is so difficult to mix with artists! You must choose business men to talk to, because artists only talk of money.”
“It is so difficult to, day in and day out, hear these incredibly painful stories of the destructive nature of our broken immigration system.”
“It is so easy and effortless for Christians to just join a church and follow its leadership and practices without seeking the Lord for personal discernment.”
Source: ONE: Unfolding God's Eternal Purpose from House to House
“It is so easy at times for a lonely individual to begin fantasizing about what the people outside are saying about him and, in result, irrationally and fearfully, and sometimes angrily, fancy himself a villain.”
Source: Healology
“It is so easy for a woman to become what the man she loves believes her to be”
Source: The House of Mirth: Edith Wharton
“It is so easy for all of us to forget the service women give to others in everyday life — the sacrifices women make. Often, sexist thinking obscures the fact that these women make a choice to serve, that they give from the space of free will and not biological destiny. There are plenty of folks who have no interest in serving, who disparage service. When anyone thinks a woman who serves "gives 'cause that's what mothers or real women do" they deny her full humanity and thus fail to see the generosity inherent in her acts. There are lots of women who are not interested in service, who even look down on it.”
Source: All About Love: New Visions
“it is so easy for us to demonize those people who are our enemies because our enemies confront us with what we don't want to see. And because of that our first response is to use snake detection circuitry on them.”
“It is so easy for your people to forget that everything has a spirit, that all are equal. That magic and mystery are a part of your lives, not something to store away in a child's bedroom, or to use as an escape from your lives.”
Source: The Onion Girl
“It is so easy in this world to forget yourself or what you are here to assist with. So many either are consumed by their 'issues' or they get themselves so 'stoned' from drugs and alcohol that they are not fully aware of who they are. Myself together with all of the dimensions are here to assist each and every human who is currently experiencing this as themselves. We are to stand before each of you and show you your own worth, who you truly are and that the time to stand up has arrived!”
“It is so easy to "calibrate" -that is, given the pressures on a smaller company to redefine in less ambitious terms- that which you are in business to accomplish. The moment this happens the downward spiral begins.”