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 nature of stories to leave out far more than they include.”
Source: The Very Little Princess: Zoey's Story
“It is the nature of the brute to remain where he is (not to progress); it is the nature of man to seek good and avoid evil; it is the nature of God to seek neither, but just to be eternally blissful. Let us be God!”
Source: Selections from Swami Vivekananda
“It is the nature of the circumstances to disperse. If there is attachment with the circumstance, there will be abhorrence when they get dispersed.”
“It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.”
“It is the nature of the Kali Yuga that most human beings are now held back from spiritual liberation due to the gravity of inertia, apathy and laziness, (known in Sankrit as the quality of tapas) that overwhelms this age. Despite this seemingly gloomy prognosis, there is a way out of this predicament for those with the will and stamina to awaken from the rampant lethargy, within and outside of themselves, to take action.”
“It is the nature of the mind that makes individuals kin, and the differences in the shape, form or manner of the material atoms out of whose intricate relationships that mind is built are altogether trivial.”
“It is the nature of the noble and the good and the wise that they impart to us of their nobility and their goodness and their wisdom while they live, making it natural for us to breathe the air they breathe and giving us confidence in our own untested powers. And the same influence in more ethereal fashion they continue to exert after they are gone.”
“It is the nature of the pig, that if there's nothing to stop her from stepping into abreuvoir - then it will. Nothing will stop bureaucracy from continuing to serve us "good" and protecting us from "evil" - if we'll let them do that.”
“It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.”
Source: The Secrets of the Self
“It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.”
“It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do.”
“It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.”
“It is the nature of the writer to question the validity of his world and yet rely on his senses to describe it. From what other tension can great literature be born?”
Source: City of Saints and Madmen
“It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.”
Source: Sappho's Leap: A Novel
“It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.”
“It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.”
Source: Literary Theory and Criticism
“It is the nature of truth to struggle to the light.”
Source: Man and Wife: A Novel
“It is the nature of tyranny and rapacity never to learn moderation from the ill-success of first oppressions; on the contrary, all oppressors, all men thinking highly of the methods dictated by their nature, attribute the frustration of their desires to the want of sufficient rigor.”
Source: The Portable Edmund Burke
“It is the nature of walls that they should fall.”
Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
“It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can raise the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.”
“It is the necessary nature of a political party in this country to avoid, as long as it can be avoided, the consideration of any question which involves a great change.”
“It is the need for love that puts a measure of equality between all beings on this mighty Earth.”
Source: A Cosmic Girl's Diary
“It is the need that defines truth (true love).”
Source: The Tears of the Heart: Eight (8) Phases of Heartbreak
“It is the negative people who often struggle to find something positive about others.”
“It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.”
Source: Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley
“It is the new and different that is always most vulnerable to market research.”
“It is the next step forward on the path to the sunrise, and the sun is rising over a new heaven and a new earth.”
“It is the night-black Massachusetts legendry which packs the really macabre "kick". Here is material for a really profound study in group-neuroticism; for certainly, no one can deny the existence of a profoundly morbid streak in the Puritan imagination.”
Source: Against Religion: The Atheist Writings of H.P. Lovecraft
“It is the Nobel Prize I want. It's worth $400,000.”
“It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.”
“It is the normal state of the human heart to try to build its identity around something besides God.”
“It is the north wind that lashes men into Vikings; it is the soft, luscious south wind which lulls them to lotus dreams.”
“It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)
“It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.”
“It is the object only of war that makes it honorable.”
“It is the object which aroused the artist, stimulated his ideas and set of his emotions. These ideas and emotions will be imprisoned in his work for good.”
“It is the objective of the protagonist that keeps us in our seats.”
Source: On directing film
“It is the obligation of each person in Israel to raise up the Fallen Bride from the dust into which She has fallen.”
“It is the obligation of every person who claims to oppose oppression to resist the oppressor by every means at his or her disposal. Not to engage in physical resistance, armed resistance to oppression, is to serve the interests of the oppressor; no more, no less. There are no exceptions to the rule, no easy out.”
“It is the obligation of the ruler to continually renew himself in order to renew the people by his example.”
“It is the obligation of Westboro Baptist Church to put the cup of God's fury to America's lips, and cause America to drink it. And you will drink it!”
“It is the observer of the pun that makes it, my dear Brumm. Of course, when the word is distorted, as in Evilution, the most preoccupied notice it, but in this instance which you try to fasten upon me the crime is yours. There is nothing more contrary to the Evolutionary will than puns. Bloodshed and desolation follow in their wake. Their English heyday, which was in the reign of James I, caused the great civil war; in France they flourished most rankly under Louis XV, and produced the French Revolution. I have considered puns, and apart altogether from their hateful effect, as shown in history, it is certain that they are quite unevolutionary, because I, the fittest of men, am unable to make them. You will consult your own welfare, and that of the nation, Brougham, by refraining in future.”
Source: A Full and True Account of the Wonderful Mission of Earl Lavender, which Lasted One Night and One Day; with a History of the Pursuit of Earl Lavender and Lord Brumm by Mrs. Scamler and Maud Emblem
“It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?”
Source: I, Robot
“It is the office of the school environment to balance the various elements in the social environment, and to see to it that each individual gets an opportunity to escape from the limitations of the social group in which he was born, and to come into living contact with a broader environment.”
Source: Democracy And Education
“It is the oil that is said to have the best analgesic properties of all.”
Source: Essential Oils Handbook: Recipes for Natural Living
“It is the old battle, between those who use a toothbrush and those who don't.”
“It is the old experience that a rude instrument in the hand of a master craftsman will achieve more than the finest tool wielded by the uninspired journeyman.”
Source: The Life, Letters and Labours of Francis Galton
“It is the old masculine spirit of government as authority which is so slow in adapting itself to the democratic idea of government as service. That it should be a representative government they grasp, but representative of what? of the common will, they say; the will of the majority;--never thinking that it is the common good, the common welfare, that government should represent.”
Source: The Man-Made World
“It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.”
Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence
“It is the oldest ironies that are still the most satisfying: man, when preparing for bloody war, will orate loudly and most eloquently in the name of peace.”
Source: Watchmen