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 savor of bread broken with comrades that makes us accept the values of war.”
“It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.”
“It is the sea that whitens the roof. The sea drifts through the winter air. It is the sea that the north wind makes. The sea is in the falling snow.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
“It is the search for beauty...That is what it is. We find ourselves on this earth--gods and men--and we know that it is beautiful. That is one of the few things we understand--beauty; because it is there, in the world, and we can see it all about us. We want beauty. It requires our love. It just does.”
“It is the second job of literature to create myth. But its first job is to destroy it.”
“It is the secret life that sustains me now, and as I reach the top of that bridge I say it in a whisper, I say it as a prayer, as regret, and as praise. I can't tell you why I do it or what it means, but each night when I drive toward my southern home and my southern life, I whisper these words: 'Lowenstein, Lowenstein.”
“It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight and afterward return again.”
Source: The Annotated Emerson
“It is the seeker, who understands there is more than what meets the eye, who is not afraid and makes the choice to go into the unknown. The process of awaking has begun, the discovery is underway.”
“It is the selfish parents who are to blame. Pay attention, be involved in your children’s lives. They are your legacy, your only hope.”
Source: Benjamin
“It is the sense of unfamiliar envelopment that is impressive, whether in the living grays of hoarfrost, the crimson of the heavens at sunset, or the golden suffusions of autumn.”
“it is the sense
that something that was alive
for a very long time
is still alive. Not yet beaten into
submission
or oblivion
by those who kill everything
they touch
with money.”
Source: Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart
“It is the service we are not obliged to give that people value most.”
“It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.”
“It is the shared bad faith by which individuals help each other sustain the illusion that they can shirk their spiritual destiny by joining the public.”
Source: Kierkegaard's Critique of Reason and Society
“It is the shared experience - [although] you're the conduit of the sound, the recipient is also in some way the author of the work, because if they weren't the author of the work they wouldn't be able to recognise it as an experience, you could argue. The more distance you can put between yourself and having any kind of objective the more likely it is to appear.”
“It is the sheer ugliness and banality of everyday life which turns my blood to ice and makes me cringe in terror.”
Source: Nightmares of an Ether-drinker
“It is the shortcomings of game theory (as originally formulated) which force the consideration of the role of ethics, of the dynamics of social structure, and of social structure and of individual psychology in situations of conflict.”
Source: Fights, Games, and Debates
“It is the show that keeps giving. Every night it offers something to society, and it offered something to every one of us. It brought us all together for a lifetime.”
“It is the sign of a dull mind to dwell upon the cares of the body, to prolong exercise, eating and drinking and other bodily functions. These things are best done by the way; all your attention must be given to the mind.”
“It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess.”
“It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.”
“It is the silence between sounds that create Rhythm.”
“It is the simple things of life that make living worthwhile, the sweet fundamental things such as love and duty, work and rest, and living close to nature.”
Source: Little house in the Ozarks: a Laura Ingalls Wilder sampler : the rediscovered writings
“It is the simple things that are in the ocean. People think that simple things are on the seashore, like seashells. But seashells are just illusions of the things that once used to live inside of them, that are back in the sea! They are dead things, and dead things are not simple things. Living things are simple things, things like love. People think that love isn't simple, but that's because they are on the seashore; but when you are a mermaid, when you have gills, when you need to be in the ocean; love is simple. It's about being beside someone and staying there. And then sharing your souls. What's natural to a mermaid, isn't natural to a person. But I want everyone to be a mermaid. And if they can't, at least they can know what a mermaid is like. We live with the things that are alive.”
“It is the simple truth that man does differ from the brutes in kind and not in degree; and the proof of it is here; that it sounds like a truism to say that the most primitive man drew a picture of a monkey and that it sounds like a joke to say that the most intelligent monkey drew a picture of a man. Something of division and disproportion has appeared; and it is unique. Art is the signature of man.”
“It is the simple truth to say that the New Testament books became canonical because no one could stop them doing so.”
Source: The Making of the Bible
“It is the simplest fact of Indian life: there are too many Indians.”
Source: The Great Railway Bazaar
“It is the simplest of recipes, after pralines and chocolate ganache. He calls them mendiants, those chocolate discs studded with raisins, and almonds and candied lemon peel. He tells me they're named after the mendicant orders of monks, who used to sell them door-to-door during the Middle Ages. It's a word I have heard before, though never in this context; instead, I remember it flung like stones in our wake as we passed through some long-ago village. It's a surprise to find this word-- this slur-- thus sweetened by circumstance, harmlessly translated into the language of chocolate.
First, melt the chocolate in a bain-marie. Strange, how the Virgin seems to bless even this most secular of baptisms. Then, on greaseproof paper, place tablespoons of the chocolate to make round discs, the size of the Host. On this still-cooling chocolate, add the traditional dried fruits and nuts that symbolize the Orders. Fat raisins; yellow sultanas; cherries; toasted almonds; pistachios and hazelnuts, like jewels on a medallion.”
Source: Vianne
“It is the simplest things in life that hold the most wonder; the color of the sea, the sand between your toes, the laughter of a child.”
“It is the sin of omission, the second kind of sin,
That lays eggs under your skin.”
Source: The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash
“It is the sin which we have not committed which seems the most monstrous.”
“It is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the bible, particularly the New Testament or the Christian religion.”
Source: History of the United States: to which is prefixed a brief historical account of our [English] ancestors, from the dispersion at Babel, to their migration to America, and of the conquest of South America, by the Spaniards
“It is the size of my vision and not the size of the challenges that will dictate the size of my accomplishments.”
“It is the skills that you have acquired through difficulties that will give you the desired result.”
“It is the sky that makes the earth so lovely at sunrise, and so splendid at sunset. In the one it breathes over the earth the crystal-like ether, in the other the liquid gold.”
“It is the small men and not the great who hold their noses in the air.”
Source: The White Company: Sherlock Holmes Collections
“It is the small, mundane choices we make every day that cause the biggest difference”
Source: Beyond Ordinary: When a Good Marriage Just Isn't Good Enough
“It is the small steps which bring you satisfaction at the end of the day.”
“It is the small things in life which count; it is the inconsequential leak which empties the biggest reservoir.”
“It is the smallest ego that leaves the biggest footprints.”
“It is the smell of a million mould-blossomed pages, of a thousand decaying bindings, of a universe of dead words.”
Source: Himself
“It is the snow,' Detta said simply. 'I am only human in the snow. When it melts away, so too do I, for then I am cursed to be a swan.”
Source: Upon a Frosted Star
“It is the soldier and the army, not parliamentary majorities and decisions, that have welded the German Empire together. I put my trust in the army.”
“It is the soldier who salutes the flag, serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag, who gives that protester the freedom to abuse and burn that flag.”
“It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.”
“It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.”
“It is the soul itself which sees and hears, and not those parts which are, as it were, but windows to the soul.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)
“It is the soul that makes the body. When we are sons of God in heart and soul, then shall we be the sons of God in body too: "we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is".”
Source: Unspoken Sermons: Series I, II, III
“It is the soul that sees; the outward eyes
Present the object, but the Mind descries.
We see nothing till we truly understand it.”
Source: John Constable's Skies: A Fusion of Art and Science
“It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.”
Source: The young Rebecca: writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17