I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It is up to us, to this present generation of Americans, to take a stand for freedom, to send a message to Washington that we're taking our future back from the grips of central planners who would control our healthcare, who would spend our treasure, who downgrade our future and micro-manage our lives.”
“It is up to you if fear sells or not.
Are you buying it?”
“It is up to you that how you throw out all the masks that you have and to show your one original and real identity if you remain, with several fake faces and names, you are harming and hurting yourself, not the others; maybe others don't even care and notice your unwise efforts. Always be bold to move and tell and face the truth and reality.”
“It is up to you to be asking for help continuously, whether you want to talk directly to God or to the angels or the ascended masters, like Jesus or Kuan Yin. It really doesn't matter who you ask. What matters is that you ask for help.”
“It is up to you to decide who to believe: the same people as usual or those who endanger their lives to save the country.”
“It is up to you to demand people see you as you, or they will almost always decide you are someone else.”
Source: The Honeys
“It is up to you to elevate your mind with wisdom that will navigate your path with freedom.”
“It is uplifting to lose one?s faith in a reality which looks the way it is described in a newspaper.”
“It is upon each soul to recognize its limit.”
“It is upon record, that three centuries ago the tongue of the Right Whale was esteemed a great delicacy in France, and commanded large prices there.”
Source: Herman Melville The Dover Reader
“It is upsetting that many people don't seem to observe what's happening to the environment, what's happening in terms of global warming, the loss of habitats and wild things.”
“It is upsetting to many parents that their teen-agers introduce them to their friends as encyclopedia salesmen who are just passing through ... if they introduce them at all. I have some acquaintances who hover in dark parking lots, enter church separately and crouch in furnace rooms so their teen-agers will not be accused of having parents.”
Source: Just Wait Till You Have Children of Your Own!
“It is urged that the use of the masculine pronouns he, his, and him in all the constitutions and laws, is proof that only men were meant to be included in their provisions. If you insist on this version of the letter of the law, we shall insist that you be consistent and accept the other horn of the dilemma, which would compel you to exempt women from taxation for the support of the government and from penalties for the violation of laws. There is no she or her or hers in the tax laws, and this is equally true of all the criminal laws.”
“it is urgent that my chemical alter ego, so in love with digressions, get back on the rails, which is that of fornicating with matter in order to support myself”
Source: The periodic table
“It is urgent to prevent new U.S. aggression. The time is now for the world to say 'no' to U.S. threats of air attack against Iran, and to the very notion of a nuclear first-use 'option' by America or any other nation.”
“It is urgent to show ourselves at the side of our compañeros in San Marcos Avilés. The threat is immediate. The Committees of the True Word must make ourselves known in every way we can, to show clearly the strength of our solidarity.”
“It is us who change. We grow stronger, and the problems appear less imposing.”
Source: The Reason
“It is useful that while mankind are imperfect there should be different opinions, so is it that there should be different experiments of living; that free scope should be given to varieties of character, short of injury to others.”
“It is useful to be curious constantly, if you desire to know.”
“It is useful to be curious constantly, if you have the courage to know.”
“It is useful to constantly observe, note, and consider.”
“It is useful to remember that history is to the nation as memory is to the individual. As a person deprived of memory becomes disorientated and lost, not knowing where they have been or where they are going , so a nation denied a conception of the past will be disabled in dealing with its present and its future.”
“It is useful to study different traditions in order to be free of attachment to any one way of expressing what is beyond expression. (x)”
“It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.”
“It is useless attacking the insensible.”
Source: Folk-Lore and Fable
“It is useless either to hate or to love truth - but it should be noticed.”
Source: Trust
“It is useless for large companies of believers to spend long hours begging God to send revival. Unless we intend to reform we may as well not pray. Unless praying men have the insight and faith to amend their whole way of life to conform to the New Testament pattern there can be no true revival.”
“It is useless for me to describe to you how terrible Violet, Klaus, and even Sunny felt in the time that followed. If you have ever lost someone very important to you, then you already know how it feels, and if you haven't, you cannot possibly imagine it.”
“It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.”
“It is useless not to seek, not to want, for when you cease to seek you start to find, and when you cease to want, then life begins to ram her fish and chips down your gullet until you puke, and then the puke down your gullet until you puke the puke, and then the puked puke until you begin to like it.”
Source: Watt
“It is useless saying that we do not accept the gods of the primitive world. In form, no; in essence, yes. The fact before us is that all ideas of gods can be traced to the earliest stages of human history.... There is an unbroken line of descent linking the gods of the most primitive peoples to those of modern man. We reject the world of the savage; but we still, in our churches, mosques, synagogues and temples, perpetuate the theories he built upon that world.”
“It is useless to advise solitude for everyone; one must be strong enough to endure it and to work alone.”
“It is useless to attack men who could not be controlled even if conquered, while failure would leave us in an even worse position.”
“It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.”
“It is useless to check the vain dunce who has caught the mania of scribbling, whether prose or poetry, canzonets or criticisms,--let such a one go on till the disease exhausts itself. Opposition like water, thrown on burning oil, but increases the evil, because a person of weak judgment will seldom listen to reason, but become obstinate under reproof.”
“It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them.”
“It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction.”
“It is useless to cry over a thing which is not belong to you....”
“It is useless to dabble in beauty. One must be utterly devoted to beauty, with every nerve of the body.”
“It is useless to deny that, unless one has a genius for imparting knowledge, teaching is a drudgery.”
Source: Dr. Lavendar's People
“It is useless to deny, and impossible to conceal, that a great part of Europe, the whole of Italy and France, and a great portion of Germany, to say nothing of other countries - is covered with a network of these secret societies, just as the superfices of the Earth are being covered with railroads.”
“It is useless to even try to answer the question I've been asked at least once a week over the past three years: 'Okay, which are, hands down, the three best resturaunts in Tokyo?'... asking this question about Tokyo is like asking which three websites are the best on the internet.”
Source: Tokyo for Food Lovers
“It is useless to know what shall come to pass; it is a miserable thing to be tormented to no purpose.”
Source: On the Nature of the Gods
“It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.”
Source: The Lord of the Rings: One Volume
“It is useless to put news agency stories behind the paid curtain because they are available in thousands of other places that will be free.”
“It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent.”
Source: A room of one's own and other essays
“It is useless to send armies against ideas.”
“It is useless to subdue the flesh by abstinence, unless one gives up his irregular life, and abandons vices which defile his soul.”
“It is useless to talk virtue to a starving girl.”
Source: The Speeches of Anna Howard Shaw
“It is useless to talk with those who do not understand one and troublesome to talk with those who criticize from a feeling of superiority. Especially one-sided persons are troublesome. Few are accomplished in many arts and most cling narrowly to their own opinion.”
Source: Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan