I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“it is to be savored like a
seabreeze-whispered
dream...in the mysterious
blue minutes
before dawn
like a secret
infatuation.... like slow
languorous sips
of green tea... like a lingering
glimpse
a self-wrapped
paradise
like his name
upon my lips.”
Source: Turquoise Silence
“It is to be steadily inculcated, that virtue is the highest proof of understanding, and the only solid basis of greatness.”
Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes
“It is to be the assent and ratification of the several States, derived from the supreme authority in each State, the authority of the people themselves. The act, therefore establishing the Constitution, will not be a NATIONAL, but a FEDERAL act.”
Source: The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788
“It is to believed because it is absurd.”
“It is to beoted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.”
“It is to change a life. That’s why you do it. An enormous urge for change is the only reason to suffer. They can call your mission cliché, but someone needs to be hideous, otherwise we’ll all believe we’re perfect. It’s important that your work is important. There’s not enough time for anything less. Not that your life span is short, but the world’s life span is short. It is being destroyed every day. Sprint your nervous legs towards the finish line of language! And we’re not so good at capturing ourselves, but thank God, because if humans were fluent in human, new art would cease.”
Source: The Goodbye Song
“It is to create the best Games the world has ever seen by unlocking the UK's unrivalled passion for sport, by delivering the best Games for athletes to compete in, by showcasing London's unmatched cultural wealth and diversity and by creating a real and lasting legacy.”
“It is to deny, what the history of the world tells us is true, to suppose that men of ambition and talents will not continue to spring up amongst us. And, when they do, they will as
naturally seek the gratification of their ruling passion, as others have so done before them.”
Source: Lincoln on Democracy
“It is to escape the responsibility for failure that the weak so eagerly throw themselves into grandiose undertakings.”
Source: The Ordeal of Change
“It is to have a compulsive, repetitive, and nostalgic desire for the archive, an irrepressible desire to return to the origin, a homesickness, a nostalgia for the return to the most archaic place of absolute commencement”
Source: Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression
“It is to hope, though hope were lost.”
Source: The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: In Two Volumes
“It is to labor, and to labor only, that man owes everything possessed of exchangeable value. Labor is the talisman that has raised him from the condition of the savage: that has changed the desert and the forest into cultivated fields; that has covered the earth with cities, and the ocean with ships; that has given us plenty, comfort, and elegance, instead of want, misery, and barbarism.”
“It is to law alone that men owe justice and liberty. It is this salutary organ, of the will of all which establishes in civil rights the natural equality between men. It is this celestial voice which dictates to each citizen the precepts of public reason, and teaches him to act according to the rules of his own judgment and not to behave inconsistently with himself. It is with this voice alone that political leaders should speak when. they command.”
Source: The Social Contract
“It is to live that requires courage, not to die.”
“It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.”
“It is to me a most affecting thing to hear myself prayed for, in particular as I do every day in the week, and disposes me to bear with more composure, some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.”
“It is to my comfort that I entertain stories of ghosts, of discarnate spirits, of angels, of relatives returning to this realm to speak to us... speaking to us in our thoughts and in our dreams. I take comfort in these because no matter how advanced we humans may be... no matter how civilized, how cultured, there will always be some aspect of the spiritual realm that not even the greatest living genius can truly comprehend or explain.”
Source: Wrestling with Angels: An Anthology of Prose & Poetry 1962-2016 Revised
“It is to our advantage to hate our opponent, but to our disadvantage to underestimate our opponent.”
“It is to our advantage to have securities do nothing price-wise for months, or perhaps years, while we are buying them.”
“It is to our lack of proper content ("notre manque de contenu propre:;», Fr.), of our inner emptiness that we need occupations and distractions, otherwise ("faute de quoi", Fr.) we experience boredom, which is nothing elses than the feeling of unease that take hold of us when our spirit is not absorbed by the mirages of life.”
“It is to our own detriment that we underestimate the might of small and simple things.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“It is to say that one of the more disturbing aspects of a caste system, and of the unequal justice it produces, is that it makes for a less safe society, allowing the guilty to shift blame and often to go free. A caste system gives us false comfort, makes us feel that the world is in order, that we automatically know the good guys from the bad guys.”
Source: Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
“It is to secure our rights that we resort to government at all.”
Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson
“It is, to tell the truth, just such a Main Street as Sinclair Lewis describes with such delightful malevolence, but like that Main Street and all Main Streets, behind its commonplace facade life is as varied and colorful as any spot where human beings are gathered, however dull their outward shell may appear to the superficial observer.”
Source: They Broke the Prairie
“It is to the body alone that we should attribute everything that can be observed in us to oppose our reason.”
“It is to the credit of human nature that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates.”
Source: Nathaniel Hawthorne: Collected Novels: Scarlet Letter / House of Seven Gables / Blithedale Romance / Fanshawe / Marble Faun: Library of America #10
“It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility.”
Source: Nathaniel Hawthorne: Collected Novels: Scarlet Letter / House of Seven Gables / Blithedale Romance / Fanshawe / Marble Faun: Library of America #10
“It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it.”
Source: Unless You Become Like This Child
“It is to the dead that the life comes; it is to the unloveable that the love comes; it is to the lost that the salvation comes.”
Source: Family Sermons
“It is to the eccentrics that the world owes most of its knowledge.”
Source: Last letters to a friend, 1952-1958
“It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.”
“It is to the man who is trying to live, to the man who is obedient to the word of the Master, that the word of the Master unfolds itself.”
Source: Unspoken Sermons Series I, II, and III
“It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.”
Source: The English humourists. Critical reviews. The second funeral of Napoleon. The four Georges. Sketches and travels in London
“It is to the press mankind are indebted for having dispelled the clouds which so long encompassed religion, for disclosing her genuine lustre, and disseminating her salutary doctrines.”
Source: 1829-1836
“It is to the prodigals...that the memory of their Father's house comes back. If the son had lived economically he would never have thought of returning.”
“It is to the real advantage of every producer, every manufacturer and every merchant to cooperate in the improvement of working conditions, because the best customer of American industry is the well-paid worker.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5
“It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist.”
“It is to the United States that all freemen look for the light and the hope of the world. Unless we dedicate ourselves completely to this struggle, unless we combat hunger with food, fear with trust, suspicion with faith, fraud with justice - and threats with power, nations will surrender to the futility, the hopelessness, the panic on which wars feed.”
“It is to them [fossils] alone that we owe the commencement of even a Theory of the Earth ... By them we are enabled to ascertain, with the utmost certainty, that our earth has not always been covered over by the same external crust, because we are thoroughly assured that the organized bodies to which these fossil remains belong must have lived upon the surface before they came to be buried, as they now are, at a great depth.”
“It is to them I look, to the rising generation, and not to the one now in power, for these great reformations i.e., emancipation of slaves and settlement of the Virginia constitution on a firmer and more permanent basis.”
“It is to these two discoveries by Bradley that we owe the exactness of modern astronomy. .... This double service assures to their discoverer the most distinguished place (after Hipparchus and Kepler) above the greatest astronomers of all ages and all countries.”
“It is to those who have the most need of us that we ought to show our love more especially.”
Source: The Spiritual Conferences
“It is to Titian we must turn our eyes to find excellence with regard to color, and light and shade, in the highest degree. He was both the first and the greatest master of this art. By a few strokes he knew how to mark the general image and character of whatever object he attempted.”
Source: Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, Delivered at the Royal Academy
“It is to TV that I owe my freedom from bondage of the Latin lover roles. Television came along and gave me parts to chew on. It gave me wings as an actor.”
“It is today an accepted principle of golfing architecture that the tiger should be teased and trapped and tested, while the rabbit should be left to peace, since he can make his own hell for himself.”
“IT IS TODAY ONLY ON WHICH RESULT DEPENDS, WILL ONLY MAKE YESTERDAY AS EVERYDAY "
-Sahaj Sabharwal, Jammu city, J&K, India.”
“It is today that tells you if you learned from yesterday, and if tomorrow is possible.”
Source: All You Have Is Now: How Your Approach to the World Determines Your Destiny
“It is today that we create the world of the future.”
“It is told of Faraday that he refused to be called a physicist; he very much disliked the new name as being too special and particular and insisted on the old one, philosopher, in all its spacious generality: we may suppose that this was his way of saying that he had not over-ridden the limiting conditions of class only to submit to the limitation of a profession.”
Source: The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent: Selected Essays
“It is told that Buddha, going out to look on life, was greatly daunted by death. "They all eat one another!" he cried, and called it evil. This process I examined, changed the verb and said, "They all feed one another," and called it good.”
Source: The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography