I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It is when I find my soul is lost and lustfully wandering betwixt heaven and hell, and in that moment of spiritual bliss when the chances of recovering from falling into the sexual abyss are zero...
I find the odds extremely appealing....”
“It is when it is contended that "in a democracy right is what the majority makes it to be" that democracy degenerates into demagoguery.”
“It is when judgment ceases that healing occurs.”
Source: Love Is the Answer: Creating Postive Relationships
“It is when music is added that a film can come to life for a director. A live orchestra, playing the score as a conductor watches the film on a huge screen, often gives a fimmaker the first real glimpse of his soon-to-be-completed work. That's where the magic is.”
“It is when my dreams hang by a thread that I come to understand that a dream is never sustained by a thread. Rather, a dream is sustained by the knowledge that a dream is its own thread.”
“It is when my umbrella turns inside out that I am convinced of the total depravity of inanimate things.”
Source: Anne of the Island
“It is when one begins to lose the consciousness of freedom, and when the idea of necessity enters the world at all, when there is any hurry or strain anywhere, a letter to be written or a train to catch, when you have got to work, to make the horses of the dream gallop, or to make the rifles go off, that the dream is declining, and turning into the nightmare, which belongs to the poorest and most vulgar class of dreams.”
Source: Out of Africa
“It is when our budding hopes are nipped beyond recovery by some rough wind, that we are the most disposed to picture to ourselves what flowers they might have borne, if they had flourished . . .”
Source: Dombey and Son
“It is when our hearts are stirred that we become most aware of what they contain.”
“It is when people are told their own thoughts that they think they are being insulted.”
Source: Anecdotes of Destiny and Ehrengard
“It is when people do not allow God to show up through them ... that the world collapses in on itself.”
Source: A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
“It is when people do wrong things wilfully that they are the more likely to do them again.”
Source: MacDonalds’ Fairy-Tale Treasure Chest
“It is when physicians are bogged down by their incomplete technologies, by the innumerable things they are obliged to do in medicine when they lack a clear understanding of disease mechanisms, that the deficiencies of the health-care system are most conspicuous. If I were a policy-maker, interested in saving money for health care over the long haul, I would regard it as an act of high prudence to give high priority to a lot more basic research in biologic science.”
Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays
“It is when Pirates count their booty that they become mere thieves.”
“It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.”
Source: The Passionate State of Mind
“It is when speaking is not safe
that we must speak.
It is when taking a stand hurts
that we must stand.
Whenever freedom is threatened,
we must resist.
When forces oppress us,
we must persist.
And when hope deserts us,
we must rest...
then pick up the torch again
and again
and again
until all are free to do the same.”
“It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us.”
Source: The Island of Doctor Moreau
“It is when the product is not good enough that proprietary integration gives you a competitive edge. You cannot outsource and be competitively successful in this situation. But at the other end, where standard components assembled in standard ways can yield acceptable performance, you must outsource.”
“It is when their age of passions is past that great men produce their masterpieces, just as it is after volcanic eruptions that the soil is most fertile.”
Source: The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort
“It is when there is nothing you can say or do to help that a friend needs you the most.”
“It is when things are at their worst that Allah will raise the best generation. The generation that the Prophet would be told Sahabat should look up to. So maybe the fact that you are living in the darkest of time means that Allah thinks you can be the strongest source of light.
Allah thinks you -- you -- were born for this time. That's Allah's decision. Which means you have something significant to offer the world. You have some serious trees to plant. And you have to not get overwhelmed with the news around you. Even if dajjal is tapping you on the shoulders. Say (to Dajjal), "Hold on, I'm planting a tree".
You do what you gotta do. You gotta focus.”
“It is when things are at worst you will get the best.”
Source: You Can
“It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.”
“It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is the greatest need for having a fixed goal, for having an air castle that the outside world cannot wreck. When few comforts come from without, it is all the more necessary to have a fount to draw from within. And the man or woman who has a star toward which to press cannot be thrown off the course, no matter how the world may try, no matter how far things seem to be wrong.”
“It is when those who are not strong enough have made some moderate amount of progress that they fail and give up.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated)
“It is when we act freely, for the sake of the action itself rather than for ulterior motives, that we learn to become more than what we were.”
Source: Flow: the psychology of optimal experience
“It is when we act freely, for the sake of the action itself rather than for ulterior motives, that we learn to become more than what we were. When we choose a goal and invest ourselves in it to the limits of concentration, whatever we do will be enjoyable. And once we have tasted this joy, we will redouble our efforts to taste it again. This is the way the self grows.”
Source: Flow: The Psychology of Happiness
“It is when we are confronted with...poignant reminders of mortality that we become most aware of the strangeness and wonder of our brief life on Earth.”
“It is when we are faced with death that we turn most bookish.”
“It is when we are in misery that we revere the gods; the prosperous seldom approach the altar.”
“It is when we are in transition that we are most completely alive.”
“It is when we are most lost that we sometimes find our truest friends.”
“It is when we are trapped in incessant streams of compulsive thinking that the universe really disintegrates for us, and we lose the ability to sense the interconnectedness of all that exists.”
Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“It is when we ask for love less and begin giving it more that the basis of human love is revealed to us.”
“It is when we attempt to avoid suffering by withdrawing from anything that might involve hurt, when we try to spare ourselves the effort and pain of pursuing truth, love, and goodness, that we drift into a life of emptiness, in which there may be almost no pain, but the dark sensation of meaninglessness and abandonment is all the greater.”
“It is when we come to the Lord in our nothingness, our powerlessness and our helplessness that He then enables us to love in a way which, without Him, would be absolutely impossible.”
“It is when we create things for God's sake that our work most clearly promotes His glory, rather than threatening to compete with it. Thus the true purpose of art is the same as the true purpose of anything: it is not for ourselves or for our own self-expression, but for the service of others and the glory of God.”
“It is when we finally realize the futility of violence and the invalidity of war will we, the people of this world finally wake up.”
“It is when we have made the ‘fear of fear’ the thing that we fear that we are no longer living in fear, rather we are living in the exaggeration of fear.”
“It is when we lose control that we repress the emotions, not when we are in control.”
“It is when we love the other, the enemy, that we obtain from God the key to an understanding of who He is, and who we are.”
Source: The Hidden Ground of Love: Letters
“It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.”
Source: The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis
“It is when we strive for something to be certain of, something to give us a sense of security, an island to rest on in the sea of confusion that is life, it is when we value comfort over courage that we attach our identity to at best pseudo-truths, at worst, tyrannical lies.”
Source: Perennial Spring: A Guide to Mental Health and Personal Freedom
“It is, when we think in simplicity, are we liberated from ourselves... However, our most complex thought; tends to be ourselves...”
“It is when we think we can act like God, that all respect is lost, and I think this is the downfall of peace. We lie if we say we do not see color and culture and difference. We fool ourselves and cheat ourselves when we say that all of us are the same. We should not want to be the same as others and we should not want others to be the same as us. Rather, we ought to glory and shine in all of our differences, flaunting them fabulously for all to see! It is never a conformity that we need! We need not to conform! What we need is to burst out into all these beautiful colors!”
“It is when we think we lead that we are most led.”
“It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering and misty are the beings that share with us the sight of the stars and the warmth of the sun. It is as if loneliness were a hard and absolute condition of existence; the envelope of flesh and blood on which our eyes are fixed melts before the outstretched hand, and there remains only the capricious, unconsolable and elusive spirit that no eye can follow, no hand can grasp.”
Source: Lord Jim
“It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering, and misty are the beings that share with us the sight of the stars and the warmth of the sun.”
Source: Lord Jim
“It is when you are angry that you must watch how you talk.”
Source: The Promise
“It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself.”