I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It isn't hard to stay in shape.”
“It isn't how long you stick around but what you put over while you are here.”
Source: Hand-made Fables
“It isn't how much time you spend somewhere that makes it memorable: it's how you spend the time.”
“It isn't how you die. It's what you live for.”
“It isn't humanly possible for the things radical leftists want to bring about the desired results that they choose. They claim they want a utopian happiness, and they are further and further away from it the more successful they are.”
“It isn't illegal to buy an artist's work for peanuts and sell it again at any price one can get. But it is an outrage!”
“It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.”
Source: Jungle of Cities: And Other Plays
“It isn't important what you do, it is the attitude with which you proceed through the world that matters.”
Source: Stranger on a Train: Daydreaming and Smoking Around America with Interruptions
“It isn't just a village. The houses aren't just places to live. Everything belongs to everybody. Everyone belongs to everyone else. Even a single person can make a difference.”
“It isn't just that I don't believe in God, and naturally, hope there is no God. I don't want there to be a God; I don't want the universe to be like that.”
Source: The Last Word
“It isn't just what you know, and it isn't just who you know. It's actually who you know, who knows you, and what you do for a living.”
Source: Endless Referrals: Network Your Everyday Contacts Into Sales
“It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience.”
Source: The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter (The Gresham Chronicles Book #2)
“It isn't like the rest of the country - it is like a nation itself - more tolerant than the rest in a curious way. Littleness gets swallowed up here. All the viciousness that makes other cities vicious is sucked up and absorbed in New York.”
Source: A Life in Letters
“It isn't like we don't work with you because you are white, or not want anything to do with you. It is more like you have to check your privileges, the whites have the responsibility to put themselves at attention with the form they operate in with people of color and try to always lay out that pattern to connect with people and say, "I am conscious of my privileges and I am accounting for myself."”
“It isn't love when another person cannot give you the space to live your own life.”
Source: Path To Love: Spiritual Lessons for Creating the Love You Need
“It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.”
“It isn't me making money as much as it is me spending my money in a way that I feel is effective. My methodology is to say I'm not just going to throw money at a problem but rather personally invest myself in it.”
“It isn't money itself that causes the trouble, but the use of money as votive offering and pagan ornament.”
Source: Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion
“It isn't more light we need, it isn't more truth, and it isn't more scientific data. It is more Christ, more courage, more spiritual insight to act on the light we have.”
“It isn't much of a book of quotations if I am not in it.”
“It isn't myself that's important in this transaction apparently; the individual doesn't count much in the situation...all of us are more or less pawns. We're moved about like chessmen by circumstances over which we have no control.”
“It isn't Narnia, you know," sobbed Lucy. "It's you. We shan't meet you there. And how can we live, never meeting you?" "But you shall meet me, dear one," said Aslan. "Are -are you there too, Sir?" said Edmund. "I am," said Aslan. "But there I have another name. You must learn to know me by that name. This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there.”
Source: The voyage of the Dawn Treader
“It isn't necessarily easier if you know what it is you're meant to do-- but at least you don't waste time in questioning or doubting. If you're honest--well, that isn't necessarily easier, either. Though I suppose if you're honest with yourself and know what you are, at least you're less likely to feel that you've wasted your life, doing the wrong thing.”
Source: The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood
“It isn't necessarily the great and famous beauty spots we fall in love with. As with people, so with places. Love is unforeseen, and we can all find ourselves affectionately attached to the minor and the less obvious.”
Source: The Informed Air: Essays
“It isn't necessary for a work to have a lot of things to look at, to compare, to analyze one by one, to contemplate. The thing as a whole, its quality whole, is what is interesting. The main things are alone and are more intense, clear and powerful.”
Source: Donald Judd: 1955-1968
“It isn't necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don't even listen, just wait. Don't wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you.”
Source: The Zurau Aphorisms
“It isn't necessary to be an untouchable rock-icon guy surrounded by bodyguards and be ushered in and out and have everyone do everything for you. It isn't necessary to change the way you present your band to the public just because you're successful. That happened a lot in the '80s: there was a school of thought that said people would like you more if you acted like you were the unattainable star.”
“It isn't necessary to be perfect to be a channel for the universe. You just have to be real- be yourself. The more real, honest, and spontaneous you are, the more freely the creative force can flow through you.”
Source: Living in the Light: A Guide to Personal and Planetary Transformation
“It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.”
“It isn't necessary to be socialists in order to love Pertini. Whatever he says or does, smells of cleanliness, of loyalty and of sincerity.”
“It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.”
“It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.”
Source: Real Frank Zappa Book
“It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia. Eventually within the next quarter of a century, the nostalgia cycles will be so close together that people will not be able to take a step without being nostalgic for the one they just took. At that point, everything stops. Death by Nostalgia.”
Source: Real Frank Zappa Book
“It isn't necessary to see a good tackle. You can hear it.”
“It isn't necessary to seek out adventure. Opening to what is around you will produce the most extraordinary experiences.”
“It isn't necessary to trust God when we have full understanding and knowledge of what He is doing on our behalf... Trust is needed in those times when, for whatever reason, we are not hearing from God as clearly as we would like.”
“It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.”
“It isn't often that a writer of superlative skills knows enough about flying to write well about it.”
“It isn't often that Aunt Dahlia lets her angry passions rise, but when she does, strong men climb trees and pull them up after them.”
Source: Right Ho, Jeeves
“It isn't often that the logic behind a policy is so clear. But when it comes to the value of educating girls, the evidence speaks for itself.”
“It isn't only living people who die, it is great stretches of living, which can die even when the people who lived there still exist.”
Source: The Birds Fall Down
“It isn't personal per se to document what the Republican Party leadership is doing and how they're abrogating actual leadership.”
“It isn't pleasant to surrender to the hegemony of a nation which is still wild and primitive, and to concede the absolute superiority of its customs and institutions, science and technology, literature and art. Must one sacrifice so much in the name of the unity of mankind?”
“It isn't possible to kill part of your “self” unless you kill yourself first. If you ruin your conscious personality, the so-called ego-personality, you deprive the self of its real goal, namely to become real itself. The goal of life is the realization of the self. If you kill yourself you abolish that will of the self to become real, but it may arrest your personal development inasmuch it is not explained. You ought to realise that suicide is murder, since after suicide there remains a corpse exactly as with any ordinary murder. Only it is yourself that has been killed.”
“It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.”
Source: A Room with a View
“It isn't possible to love and to part.”
Source: A Room with a View
“It isn't poverty that breeds terrorism, but terrorism that breeds poverty.”
“It isn't really important to decide when you are very young just exactly what you want to become when you grow up. It is much more important to decide on the way you want to live. If you are going to be honest with yourself and honest with your friends, if you are going to get involved in causes which are good for others, not only for yourselves, then it seems to me that that is sufficient, and maybe what you will be is only a matter of chance.”
“It isn't reasonable to expect that everyone in the world is a country music fan. Not yet, anyway.”
“It isn't right to be obedient only when things go well; it is much harder to be a good, obedient soldier when things go badly and times are hard. Obedience and faith at such time is a virtue.”