I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It is time to stop waiting for someone to save us. It is time to face the truth of our situation - that we're all in this together, that we all have a voice - and figure out how to mobilize the hearts and minds of everyone in our workplaces and communities.”
“It is time to tax and regulate marijuana like alcohol. It is time to end the arrests of so many people and the destruction of so many lives for possessing marijuana.”
“It is time to teach society on how to be empathetic with people grieving.”
Source: Grieving Parents: Surviving Loss as a Couple
“It is time to tell your story without feeling ashamed. This is how you heal.”
Source: Rising Above Adversity: Healing and Nurturing your Inner Child
“It is time to train British workers for the British jobs that will be available over the coming few years and to make sure that people who are inactive and unemployed are able to get the new jobs on offer in our country.”
“It is time to understand the environment for what it is: the national security issue of the early twenty-first century.”
Source: The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War
“It is time we accept there’s no Cronkite moment for Afghanistan. Perhaps it's time we value the hearts and minds of our own over distant Afghan tribes.”
“It is time we admitted that we are not at war with “terrorism.” We are at war with Islam.”
“It is time we become an aid to each other's light, not an impediment.”
Source: Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission
“It is time we gave man faith in woman -- and, still more, woman faith in herself.”
“It is time we Georgians did not depend only on others, it is time we asked what Georgia will do for the world.”
“It is time we in Scotland put England in its proper place and instead of our leaning on England and taking inspiration from her, we should lean and turn to Europe, for it is there our future prosperity lies.”
“It is time we learnt that a terrorist is no man's friend and everyman's enemy.”
“It is time we passed a balanced budget amendment and return this government to limited spending.”
“It is time we realize that belief is not a private matter. As a man believes, so he will act. Believe that you are a member of a chosen people, awash in the salacious exports of an evil culture that is turning your children away from God, believe that you will be rewarded with an eternity of unimaginable delights by dealing death to these infidels—and flying a plane into a building is only a matter of being asked to do it.”
“It is time we realized that we need not be unreasonable to suffuse our lives with love, compassion, ecstasy, and awe; nor must we renounce all forms of spirituality or mysticism to be on good terms with reason”
Source: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
“It is time we recognised the casual normalisation of lethal misogyny as an act of political terrorism and not, as the mindless purveyors of the free speech doctrine would argue, as simply the democratic right to masturbate to whatever takes his fancy.”
Source: Misogyny Re-Loaded
“It is time we recognized that belief is not a private matter; it has never been merely private. In fact, beliefs are scarcely more private than actions are, for every belief is a fount of action in potential.”
“It is time we recognized that the real terrorism is poverty.”
“It is time we reverted to the teaching of Socrates. ‘Know thyself,’ exhorted the wise man, in season and out of season; and it will be well with us when we understand that to acquaint a child with himself––what he is as a human being––is a great part of education.”
“It is time you take ownership of your feelings and actions. You can be a cause or you can be an effect—ownership or victimhood.”
Source: The Sun Rises in Eastmoor
“It is time, I suggest, to stop the practice of allowing Muslims to serve in the U.S. military. The reason is simple: the more devout a Muslim is, the more of a threat he is to national security.”
“It is time, not the mind, that puts an end to love.”
“It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the problem of induction. The problem of induction is, roughly speaking, the problem of finding a way to prove that certain empirical generalizations which are derived from past experience will hold good also in the future.”
“It is time. You must lead. Ultimately everyone must at some time lead.”
“It is time... to end the long-standing and unproductive methodological debate over 'originalism' versus 'dynamism' or 'evolution' and focus instead on how, as a substantive matter, we should interpret the Constitution in the twenty-first century, and what it has to say on questions unimaginable to our eighteenth-century Framers.”
“It is tiring to be a woman who loves to eat in a society where hunger is something not to be satisfied but controlled. Where a long history of female hunger is associated with shame and madness. The body must be punished for every misstep; for every "indulgence" the balance of control must be restored. To enjoy food as a young woman, to opt out every day from the guilt expected of me, is a radical act, of love.”
Source: Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai
“It is to a dramatist, which is to say, to an unfrocked psychoanalyst, stunning that that which has sustained the Left in my generation, its avatar, its prime issue, has been abortion. For, whether or not it is regarded as a woman's right, an unfortunate necessity, or murder, which is to say, irrespective of differing and legitimate political views, to enshrine it as the most important test of the Liberal, is, mythologically, an assertion to the ultimate right of a postreligious Paganism.”
Source: The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture
“It is to aid in making the arts operative rather than only positively or negatively pleasurable... it is to paint a record, in so far as I am increasingly capable, of man's deepst capacities... I seek to paint of how form manifests its subtlest quality named 'idea.”
“It is to be all made of fantasy, All made of passion and all made of wishes, All adoration, duty, and observance, All humbleness, all patience and impatience, All purity, all trial, all observance”
“It is to be broken. It is to be torn open. It is not to be reached and come to rest in ever. I turn against you, I break from you, I turn to you. We hurt, and are hurt, and have each other for healing. It is healing. It is never whole.”
Source: New Collected Poems
“It is to be deeply regretted that the clergymen would oppose an effort to teach the people the Bible truths; nevertheless, we find much opposition everywhere, and many clergymen will attempt to prevent the people from reading what is here written.”
Source: Jehovah's Witnesses I: The Early Writings of J.F. Rutherford
“It is to be doubted whether he will ever find the way to heaven who desires to go thither alone.”
“It is to be emphasized that no matter how many [amplitude] arrows we draw, add, or multiply, our objective is to calculate a single final arrow for the event . Mistakes are often made by physics students at first because they do not keep this important point in mind. They work for so long analyzing events involving a single photon that they begin to think that the arrow is somehow associated with the photon [rather than with the event].”
Source: QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
“It is to be feared that those who emigrate to New South Wales, generally anticipate too great facility in their future operations and certainty of success in conducting them; but they should recollect that competency cannot be obtained without labour.”
Source: Two expeditions into the interior of Southern Australia: during the years 1828, 1829, 1830 and 1831 with observations on ... New South Wales
“It is to be hoped that the leaders of this movement will place the nation above the party.”
“It is to be hoped you are not ‘intellectual,’ which is an unpardonable trait”
Source: I Await the Devil's Coming
“It is to be kept in mind that the generations of men do not wait for the convenience of the church in respect to their evangelization. Men are born and die whether or not Christians are ready to give them the Gospel. And hence, if the church of any generation does not evangelize the heathen of that generation, those heathen will never be evangelized at all. It is always true in the work of evangelization that the present can never anticipate the future, and that the future can never replace the past. What is to be done in soul saving must be done by that generation.”
“It is to be lamented that great characters are seldom without a blot.”
Source: The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot
“It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.”
Source: My Remarkable Uncle
“It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct.”
Source: Addresses on International Subjects
“It is to be presumed, that a man of common sense, who does not desire to please, desires nothing at all; since he must know that he cannot obtain anything without it.”
Source: The Modern Chesterfield
“It is to be regretted that domestication has seriously deteriorated the moral character of the duck. In a wild state, he is a faithful husband.....but no sooner is he domesticated than he becomes polygamous, and makes nothing of owning ten or a dozen wives at a time.”
“It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least such as have embraced their private as well as their public life.”
Source: An Account of the Infancy, Religious, and Literary Life of Adam Clarke ...: Written by One who was Intimately Acquainted with Him from His Boyhood to the Sixtieth Year of His Age
“It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.”
“It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.”
Source: Wisdom and Beauty from Conrad: Selected and Arranged by M. Harriet M. Capes
“It is to be remedied that the false traitors will suffer no man to come into the king's presence for no cause without bribes where none ought to be had.”
“It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin - music, sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I mean intended to produce very definite results. Paintings were originally formulae to make what is painted happen. Art is not an end in itself, any more than Einstein's matter-into-energy formulae is an end in itself. Like all formulae, art was originally FUNCTIONAL, intended to make things happen, the way an atom bomb happens from Einstein's formulae.”
“It is to be remembered that by good deeds or words you encourage yourself, who always have need to witness or hear them.”
Source: The Journal, 1837-1861
“It is to be remembered that the origin of all the arts-music, painting and writing-is magical and evocative; and that magic is always used to obtain some definite result.”