I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It is the fear of middle-age in the young, of old-age in the middle-aged, which is the prime cause of infidelity, that infallible rejuvenator.”
“It is the fear of retaliation that prevents most people from committing wrong against their enemy. A state or an individual who does not pay back its offenders can`t live honourably.”
Source: Myths are Real, Reality is a Myth
“It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.”
“It is the fellowship of the Cross to experience the burden of the other. If one does not experience it, the fellowship he belongs to is not Christian. If any member refuses to bear that burden, he denies the law of Christ.”
Source: Life Together
“It is the fertile hallucination that makes paint so compelling. Paint is like the numerologist's numbers, always counting but never adding up, always speaking but never saying anything rational, always playing at being abstract but never leaving the clotted body.”
Source: What Painting Is
“It is the fiercest, not the largest fish, that rule the deep waters.”
“It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.”
“It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living.”
Source: Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays
“It is the fine rain that soaks us through.”
“It is the fire of suffering that brings forth the gold of godliness.”
“It is the first care of a reformer to prevent any future reformation.”
Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“It is the first changes among familiar things that make such a mystery of time to the young; afterwards we lose the sense of the mysterious. I take changes in all I see as a matter of course. The instability of all human things is familiar to me, to you it is new and oppressive." (Mr. Bell)”
Source: The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)
“It is the first day because it has never been before and the last day because it will never be again. Be alive, if you can, all through this day - today - of your life. What's to be done? What's to be done? Follow your feet. Put on the coffee. Start the orange juice, the bacon, the toast. Then go wake up your children and your spouse. Think about the work of your hands. Live in the needs of the day.”
Source: The alphabet of grace
“It is the first day of November and so, today, someone will die.”
Source: The Scorpio Races (Sneak Peek)
“It is the first day of spring. The council have chopped all the elms down in Elm Tree Avenue”
Source: The secret diary of Adrian Mole aged 13¾
“It is the first duty of a gentleman to remember in the morning who he went to bed with the night before.”
“It is the first duty of a hypothesis to be intelligible.”
“It is the first duty of every man not to be poor.”
“It is the first experience you ever had of reading a decent poem: 'Oh, somebody else is lonely, too!”
Source: Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures
“It is the first law of friendship that it has to be cultivated. The second is to be indulgent when the first law is neglected.”
“It is the first law of practical courage. To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“It is the first line that gives the inspiration and then it's like riding a bull. Either you just stick with it, or you don't.”
“It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.”
Source: Autobiography of J.S. Mill & on Liberty; Characteristics, Inaugural Address at Edinburgh & Sir Walter Scott
“It is the first purpose of hope to make hopelessness bearable.”
“It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.”
“It is the first rule, brother,” I said. “How we see God is a direct reflection of how we see ourselves. If God brings to mind mostly fear and blame, it means there is too much fear and blame welled inside us. If we see God as full of love and compassion, so are we.”
Source: The Forty Rules of Love
“It is the first rule in oratory that a man must appear such as he would persuade others to be: and that can be accomplished only by the force of his life.”
Source: The Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing Additional Letters, Tracts, and Poems Not Hitherto Published; with Notes, and a Life of the Author
“It is the first thing I remember about him, and I can hear it still today. Later!”
Source: Call Me by Your Name
“It is the first time I have felt truly South African. When the orchestra strikes up the opening chords of the national anthem, and the entire stadium stands, I have found my voice and I sing ‘Nkosi sikelel’ iAfrika!’ I look to the gogo who had earlier taken my arm and I put my hand in hers. My people, I think to myself. My people.”
Source: Killing Karoline
“It is the first time in the history of Rwanda that political change in the highest leadership of the country has taken place in peace and security.”
“It is the first time since 1993 that Russians have come out into the streets without an explicit permission from the government to do so. The main difference between the protests of 2011-2012 and these protests today is that they didn't have permits. These were - the people who were coming out into the streets were very young people, for the most part, who knew that they were all risking arrest. It's an extraordinary event.”
“It is the first time the burglar has been appointed as caretaker.”
“It is the first vision that counts. The artist has only to remain true to his dream and it will possess his work in such a manner that it will resemble the work of no other... for no two visions are alike, and those who reach the heights have all toiled up steep mountains by a different route. To each has been revealed a different panorama.”
“It is the fixed that horrifies us, the fixed that assails us with the tremendous force of mindlessness. The fixed is a Mason jar,and we can't beat it open. ...The fixed is a world without fire--dead flint, dead tinder, and nowhere a spark. It is motion without direction, force without power, the aimless procession of caterpillars round the rim of a vase, and I hate it because at any moment I myself might step to that charmed and glistening thread.”
Source: PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK
“It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.”
“It is the flight from us that sent them sprawling into the subdivided woods. And the method of transport through these new subdivisions, across the sprawl, is the automobile, the noose around the neck of the Earth, and ultimately, the Dreamers themselves.”
Source: Between the World and Me
“It is the flowers in the soul of the person who put them there that make us happy and enliven our hearts. The beauty of the flowers is a clue to the beauty of a human heart. They are a keyhole into a human heart.”
Source: Pure Colour
“It is the focus on the highest ideal day after day that saves life from being wrapped up in small whirlwinds.”
“It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.”
Source: -5. Tracts, historical and political, during the reign of Queen Anne
“It is the folly of weak-minded people, to imagine they are what flattery or conceit represents them; and that it is useless for them to be what they are not, since they seem already to have acquired the reputation of it.”
“It is the food that looks backwards through our shared family memories. It is comfort food, the food inextricably linked in our cultural consciousness with motherhood and nationhood. Even though the pies are no longer a daily item on our dinner tables, they still figure large in many of our memories: pies mean Thanksgiving and Christmas and picnics and silly old Aunt Mabel and going to the football with Dad.”
Source: Pie: A Global History
“It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life.”
“It is the fool who always rushes to take sides. Do not commit to any side or cause by yourself. By maintaining your independence, you become the master of others — playing people against one another, making them pursue you.”
Source: The 48 Laws Of Power
“It is the fool who declares ‘I am ascending the summit,’ while he’s toddling around in the ditch.”
“It is the fool who is haunted by fears, dread of dangers, oppression of mind, not the wise man.”
“It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled.”
“It is the fool who thinks that he can live in the darkness and not become dark.”
“It is the foregiver who is freed in foregiving.”
“It is the foremost responsibility of the United States, having been the predominant nuclear power, to take the lead in scaling this back and making good on its signed and sealed and ratified obligation in Article 6 of the non-proliferation treaty going back to '68 to eliminate this nuclear arsenal. That's a serious international obligation.”
“It is the form that allows a writer the greatest opportunity to explore human experience...For that reason, reading a novel is potentially a significant act. Because there are so many varieties of human experience, so many kinds of interaction between humans, and so many ways of creating patterns in the novel that can’t be created in a short story, a play, a poem or a movie. The novel, simply, offers more opportunities for a reader to understand the world better, including the world of artistic creation. That sounds pretty grand, but I think it’s true.”