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 the head but the stomach that determines the fate of the stockpicker.”
Source: Beating the Street
“It isn't the height that scares me - the height makes me feel alive with energy, every organ and vessel and muscle in my body singing at the same pitch. Then I realize what it is. It's him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.”
Source: The Divergent Series Complete Collection: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant
“It isn't the hours that you put in at practice that count. It's the way you spend those minutes.”
Source: Champagne Golf
“It isn't the incompetent who destroy an organization. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up.”
Source: My Forty Years with Ford
“It isn't the initial cost of a lie, it is the upkeep which counts so terribly.”
“It isn't the instrument that influences High-Minded or Low-Minded; it's the quality of Mind itself.”
“It isn't the kind of profession that you have that makes you flourish; it's what you are coming from, within, that makes you flourish. Then everything that you step into turns into your garden.”
“It isn't the meaning of love where you somehow desire that one or you want them or want them to love you.”
“It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.”
“It isn't the mountains that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.”
“It isn't the past which holds us back, it's the future; and how we undermine it, today.”
“It isn't the rich people's fault that poor people are poor. Poor people who get an education and work hard in this country will stop being poor. That should be the goal for all poor people everywhere.”
“It isn't the sign of a good sport to go out among other people when one has a cold: it is the sign of a selfish and ill-advised person.”
Source: Etiquette Every Child Should Know
“It isn't the size of the family, it's the interactions of the members inside.”
“It isn't the ups and downs that make life difficult; it's the jerks.”
“It isn't those who are taken by force, put in chains, and sold as slaves who are the real slaves; it is those who will accept it, morally and physically.”
Source: God's Bits of Wood
“It isn't too late to shift from the swift, sharp decline of ocean systems in recent decades to an era of steady recovery. There is time, and there is a growing awareness, which is the best way to counter indifference. People who know might care.”
“It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.”
Source: The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta: A Novel
“It isn't true that the laws of nature have been capriciously disturbed; that snakes have talked; that women have been turned into salt; that rods have brought water out of rocks.”
Source: Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)
“It isn't true that you live only once. You only die once. You live lots of times if you know how.”
“it isn't true, by the way, that nothing is as bad as you think it's going to be. Some things are exactly as bad as you thought they were going to be, and some things are worse.”
Source: A Window Over the Sink
“It isn't until you begin to fight in your own cause that you (a) become really committed to winning, and (b) become a genuine ally of other people struggling for their freedom.”
Source: Sisterhood is powerful: an anthology of writings from the women's liberation movement
“It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within - that you can begin to take control.”
“It isn't until you forgive what's in the past that you'll be able to receive the gift of the present”
“It isn't up to me to break his heart; that's time's job.”
Source: The 5th Wave
“It isn't up to the painter to define the symbols. Otherwise it would be better if he wrote them out in so many words! The public who look at the picture must interpret the symbols as they understand them.”
“It isn't useful to curse the darkness; instead light your candle and let your light shine.”
“It isn't very nice to admit, but domestic violence has its uses. So raw and unleashed, it tears away the veil of civilization that comes between us as much as it makes life possible. A poor substitute for the sort of passion we like to extol perhaps, but real love shares more in common with hatred and rage than it does with geniality or politeness.”
Source: We Need To Talk About Kevin
“It isn't very serious, I have this tiny little tumor on the brain.”
Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
“It isn't what a man's got in the bank, but what he's got in his head, that makes him a great merchant.”
Source: Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son
“It isn't what a picture is of, it is what it is about.”
“It isn't what happens to us in life that creates our joy, but rather how we respond to what happens in our lives.”
“It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it.”
Source: The wit and wisdom of Mae West
“It isn't what kind of house you have that matters. This is not happiness. It's what kind of mind you have, and how you care for your fellow man -- what you can do to help others who can be helped by no one else.”
Source: Temple of the Winds
“It isn't what people think that is important, but the reason they think what they think.”
“It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.”
“It isn't what we are, but what folks think we are, that counts in this world.”
Source: 30+ FANTASY ADVENTURES & FAIRY TALES – Ultimate Collection (Magical World Series): The Wizard of Oz Series, Dot and Tot of Merryland, Mother Goose in Prose, The Magical Monarch of Mo, American Fairy Tales, The Master Key, The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, The Sea Fairies…
“It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.”
“It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.”
Source: The Prayers of Jane Austen
“It isn't what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.”
Source: It Can't Happen Here (搶救美國)
“It isn't what you find, it's what you do about what you find.”
“It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.”
Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People
“It isn't what you leave your children but how you leave them.”
“It isn't where you came from, its where you're going that counts.”
“It isn't whether you do it well or ill, it's that you do it all.”
“It isn't wise to be rude to one's mother. She knows everything about your childhood that is potentially embarassing.”
“It isn't work that makes you tired, it's your mental attitude.”
“It isn't working that's so hard, it's getting ready to work.”
Source: Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit
“It isn't worth it. No money is worth this... [walks out]”
“It isn't. The Book of Abraham is not central to the restored gospel of Christ.”