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 glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.”
“It is the glory of London that it is always ending and beginning anew, and that a visitor, with a good eye and indefatigable feet, will find in her travels all the Londons she has ever met in the pages of books, one atop the other, like the strata of the Earth.”
Source: Imagined London: A Tour of the World's Greatest Fictional City
“It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic.”
Source: America; a Dutch historian's vision, from afar and near
“It is the god's love which gives you courage, one more time and always one more time.”
Source: Who has a heart and the mind?
“It is the Godfather, not God the Father, who makes you an offer you can’t refuse.”
“It is the gods' custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.”
“It is the going out from oneself that is love and not the accident of its return. It is the expedition, whether it fail or succeed.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells
“It is the good children, Madame, who make the most terrible revolutionaries. They say nothing, they do not hide under the table, they eat only one sweet at a time, but later on, they make Society pay dearly for it!”
Source: Les Mains sales
“It is the good fortune of the affluent country that the opportunity cost of economic discussion is low and hence it can afford all kinds.”
“It is the good war that hallows every cause.”
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and Nobody
“It is the goodly outside that sin puts on which tempteth to destruction. It has been said that sin is like the bee, with honey in its mouth, but a sting in its tail.”
“It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business.”
Source: A Mania for Magnificence
“It is the government's strong desire to empower this fabric, this social fabric of our society where faith-based programs large and small feel empowered, encouraged, and welcomed into changing lives.”
“It is the grace of God that frees a soul from selfishness and empowers not just generosity, but sacrifice. And such sacrifice God will not overlook. In faith our giving to meet others’ needs becomes an occasion for more divine grace to flood our souls.”
Source: Habits of Grace: Enjoying Jesus through the Spiritual Disciplines
“It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us.”
Source: Christian Theology
“It is the grand endeavor of the gospel to communicate God to men.”
Source: Sermons for the new life
“It is the grandeur of Christ's character which constitutes the chief power of His ministry, not His miracles or teachings apart from His character. The greatest triumph of the Gospel is Christ Himself--a human body become the organ of the Divine nature, and revealing, under the conditions of an earthly life, the glory of God.”
“It is the great arrogance of the present to forget the intelligence of the past”
“It is the great beauty of our science, chemistry, that advancement in it, whether in a degree great or small, instead of exhausting the subjects of research, opens the doors to further and more abundant knowledge, overflowing with beauty and utility.”
Source: Experimental Researches in Electricity: Series 1-14 [Phil. trans., 1831-38] 1839
“It is the great beauty of true religion that it shall be universal, and a departure in any instance from universality is a corruption of religion itself.”
“It is the great business of every Christian to save souls.”
“It is the great business of every Christian to save souls. People complain that they do not know how to take hold of this matter. Why, the reason is plain enough; they have never studied it. They have never taken the proper pains to qualify themselves for the work. If you do not make it a matter of study, how you may successfully act in building up the kingdom of Christ, you are acting a very wicked and absurd part as a Christian.”
“It is the great destiny of human science, not to ease man's labors or prolong his life, noble as those ends may be nor to serve the ends of power, but to enable man to walk upright without fear in a world which he at length will understand and which is his home.”
“It is the great glory as well as the great threat of science that everything which is in principle possible can be done if the intention to do it is sufficiently resolute.”
Source: The Threat and the Glory: Reflections on Science and Scientists
“It is the great inspector, with a myriad eyes, who never sleeps, and whose daily reports are submitted, not to a functionary or department, but to the whole people.”
“It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy unenvied, to be healthful without physic, and secure without a guard; to obtain from the bounty of nature, what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of artists and attendants, of flatterers and spies.”
“It is the great sadness of our species that we have not found a way to eliminate the conflict and to eliminate violence as a device to resolve our conflicts throughout the entire history of the human race.”
“It is the great support and solace of the saints in all the distresses that befall them here, that there is a wise Spirit sitting in all the wheels of motion, and governing the most eccentric creatures and their most pernicious designs to blessed and happy issues.”
Source: The Mystery of Providence
“It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.”
Source: The Wisdom of Goethe
“It is the great work of nature to transmute sunlight into life. So it is the great end of Christian living to transmute the light of truth into the fruits of holy living.”
“It is the greatest and the tallest of trees that the gods bring low with bolts and thunder. For the gods love to thwart whatever is greater than the rest. They do not suffer pride in anyone but themselves.”
“It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist.”
“It is the greatest feeling in the world. When we shine, we defy death for the moment. We enter into a state of immersion in the craft we ply, a state in which we become one with what we do.”
“It is the greatest folly of which a man can be capable to sit down with a slate and pencil to plan out a new social world.”
Source: Selected Essays of William Graham Sumner
“It is the greatest game that I've ever been around. It'll continue to get better and be the greatest.”
“It is the greatest good for an individual to discuss virtue (aka areté) every day...for the unexamined life is not worth living.”
“It is the greatest manifestation of power to be calm.”
Source: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
“It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.”
“It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.”
“It is the greatest of all mistakes to begin life with the expectation that it is going to be easy, or with the wish to have it so.”
Source: A New England Girlhood, Outlined from Memory
“It is the greatest of all mistakes, to do nothing because you can only do little...”
Source: Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy
“It is the greatest of crimes to depress true art and science.”
Source: The Portable William Blake
“It is the greatest pleasure of living to win souls to Christ.”
“It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it.”
“It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a scam. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create an illusion of rapid global warming.”
“It is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you have wanted to do so badly. You almost feel like you could fly without the plane.”
“It is the greatest truth of our age: Information is not knowledge.”
Source: Killing Time
“It is the greatest victims who make the greatest villains, and the greatest victims who make the greatest heroes.”
Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions
“It is the greedy who shall keep the last loaf of bread for themselves.”
“It is the green eyed monster which doth mock.”