I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It is this type more than any others whose style it is to stand by another person (or plant or animal), with no intention to influence it, criticize it, or change it-perhaps not even to interact with it-only to be in its presence.”
Source: Type Talk at Work: How the 16 Personality Types Determine Your Success on the Job
“It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty in our present society .”
Source: Science and the Modern World
“It is this unquiet self-love that renders us so sensitive. The sick man, who sleeps ill, thinks the night long. We exaggerate, from cowardice, all the evils which we encounter; they are great, but our sensibility increases them. The true way to bear them is to yield ourselves up with confidence to God.”
“It is this way with wonder: it takes a bit of patience, and it takes putting yourself in the right place at the right time. It requires that we be curious enough to forgo our small distractions in order to find the world.”
Source: World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
“It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year, where white folks' greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere...That's the world! On which hope sits!”
Source: Dreams From My Father
“It is those books which a man possesses but does not read which constitute the most suspicious evidence against him.”
Source: TOILERS OF THE SEA
“It is those little innocent baby steps and moves that eventually lead to uninvited sexual bondage. Be wise, my child, and never take that route as it will lead to destruction.”
“It is those moral and spiritual qualities which rise alone in free men, which will fulfill the meaning of the word American. And with them will come centuries of further greatness to our country.”
Source: Addresses Upon the American Road, 1948-1950
“It is those pent-up, craving children who make all the wars and all the horrors and all the art and all the beauty and discovery in life, because they are trying to achieve what lay beyond their grasp before they were five years old.”
Source: The Cornish Trilogy
“It is those people who know that they are right because some outside or higher power conveys the conviction to them who do the great damage in the world.”
“It is those same so-called experts who said we had no chance of winning the primary. It will be hard work, but we can win. And if those same people who fought against me work just as hard for me, we will win.”
“It is those that are insulted by injustice that will refuse to be silenced.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“It is those very things that we are most afraid to do that provide the greatest liberation and growth for us.”
“It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.”
Source: A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition
“It is those who are different that make the biggest difference in the world.”
“It is those who are successful, in other words, who are most likely to be given the kinds of special opportunities that lead to further success.”
“It is those who are successful, in other words, who are most likely to be given the kinds of special opportunities that lead to further success. It’s the rich who get the biggest tax breaks. It’s the best students who get the best teaching and most attention. And it’s the biggest nine- and ten-year-olds who get the most coaching and practice. Success is the result of what sociologists like to call “accumulative advantage.”
“It is those who avoid the spotlight that tend to be doing the greatest things because their hearts are set on avoiding the lesser things.”
“It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world”
“It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.”
“It is those who get lost, who find the new ways.”
“It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.”
Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words
“It is those who have the distinction of privilege who set the standards of disgust with failure.”
“It is those who have this imperative demand for the best in their natures, and who will accept nothing short of it, that holds the banners of progress, that set the standards, the ideals, for others.”
Source: Do It to a Finish!
“It is those who make the least display of their sorrow who mourn the deepest.”
“It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds.”
“It is thought that a lack of sunlight stops the hypothalamus (a small part of the brain that regulates important functions, including circadian rhythms) from working properly, which leads to a lack of serotonin (the "happy hormone") and a disrupted body clock.”
Source: Design A Healthy Home: 100 ways to transform your space for physical and mental wellbeing
“It is thought that potato water is unhealthy; and therefore do not boil potatoes in soup, but boil elsewhere, and add them when nearly cooked.”
Source: Miss Beecher's Domestic Receipt-Book
“It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process.”
Source: The House: Its Origins and Evolution
“It is thought that the virus is a degeneration from a more complex life form. It may at one time have been capable of independent life. Now has fallen to the borderline between living and dead matter. It can exhibit living qualities only in a host, by using the life of another-the renunciation of life itself, a falling towards inorganic, inflexible machine, towards dead matter”
Source: Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader
“It is three and a half hours long, four characters wide and a cesspool deep.”
“It is three in the morning and another day has begun at the Korean Buddhist monastery of Songwang-sa.”
Source: The Zen Monastic Experience
“It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.”
Source: The Fables of Aesop
“It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn.”
“It is through accomplishment that man makes his contribution and contribution is life's greatest reward.”
“It is through an "intimate cessation of all intellectual operations" that the mind is laid bare. If nor, discourse maintains it in its little complacency. ... The difference between inner experience and philosophy resides principally in this: that in experience, ... what counts is no longer the statement of wind, but the wind.”
Source: Inner Experience
“It is through an unbroken chain of witnesses that we come to see the face of Jesus.”
“It is through art that we will prevail and we will endure. It lives on after us and defines us as people.”
“It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.”
“It is through beauty that we arrive at freedom.”
Source: Aesthetical Essays of Schiller: Top Classic of German
“It is through beauty, poetry and visionary power that the world will be renewed.”
“It is through Christianity that Judaism has really conquered the world. Christianity is the masterpiece of Judaism.”
Source: History of the People of Israel ...: Period of Jewish independence and Judea under Roman rule. 1895
“It is through color changes that we go forward... all decisions come about as the picture is made and in response to painterly demands. The descriptive and anecdotal come second.”
“It is through cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will be derived.”
“It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.”
“It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor.”
“It is through electromagnetic radiation research that I have become a world leading expert on insane masturbators.”
“It is through exchange that difference becomes a blessing, not a curse.”
“It is through experience that I am among the world’s leading experts in high altitude induced illness and disease.”
“It is through experience that I have developed a dislike of President Trump.”