I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It may have happened, it may not have happened but it could have happened.”
Source: The Prince & The Pauper: [Complete & Illustrated]
“It may have hastened the move of the former Minority Leader Trent Lott, to the private sector because there was such an outpouring of bitter criticism...The result, if this is successful, will not be much different from what Sen. Lott and others were trying to enact back then...It may be that we are all just older and wiser.”
“It may have lost its special-ness forever and the clubs might not being doing well but I think standup is in the best shape it has been in a long time.”
“It may have once been true that computer games encouraged us to interact more with machines than with each other. But if you still think of gamers as loners, then you’re not playing games.”
Source: Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World
“It may have something to do with intelligence, but I am certain it has nothing to do with knowledge - I mean that there are people who have an instinctive yet perfect moral judgment, who can perform the most complex ethical calculations as Indian peasants can sometimes perform astounding mathematical feats in a matter of seconds. Lily was such a person. And I craved her approval.”
Source: The Magus
“It may have taken nine years, and a whole lot of wrong turns along the way, but their story felt complete at last. Because, finally, she was his.”
Source: About That Night
“It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.”
Source: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
“It may help us, in those times of trouble, to remember that love is not only about relationship, it is also an affair of the soul.”
Source: Care of the soul: a guide for cultivating depth and sacredness in everyday life
“It may here be justly said, that genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity, and a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quicksand to virtue.”
“It may here be observed, that all who are offended by us are exposed to our view. But the rich man sees Lazarus not with any other righteous man, but in Abraham's bosom. For Abraham was full of love, but the man is convicted of cruelty. Abraham sitting before his door followed after those that passed by, and brought them into his house, the other turned away even them that abode within his gate.”
“It may hurt today, but it will get better. Time passes, and people forget. It won't be long before you'll be able to look back on everything that happened today and laugh.”
Source: Confessions of a Middle Child
“It may in fact be utterly impossible to be successful without helping others to become successful.”
“It may indeed be doubted whether butchers' meet is anywhere a necessary of life. Grain and other vegetables, with the help of milk, cheese, and butter, or oil where butter is not to be had, afford the most plentiful, the most wholesome, the most nourishing, and the most invigorating diet. Decency nowhere requires that any man should eat butchers' meat.”
Source: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 2
“It may indeed prove to be far the most difficult and not the least important task for human reason rationally to comprehend its own limitations. It is essential for the growth of reason that as individuals we should bow to forces and obey principles which we cannot hope fully to understand, yet on which the advance and even the preservation of civilization depend.”
“It may interest you that, a day or so ago, attempting to discuss your ideas with regard to sex and religion, my eccentric friend, fixing his eyes rather fiercely upon me, growled abruptly: "Semen is God."
Unwilling to excite him further, I replied: Sir, though I understand perfectly what you mean by Semen, I am unacquainted with the connotation which you attach to the term "God".”
“It may just be because I get homesick, but I have concluded Washington's cherry blossoms are just plain overrated.”
“It may just be that a true wake-up call creates a true shift in consciousness. My wake-up call left me no choice. I had to make dramatic changes. Sometimes changes just happen within you, it is the way you approach things. Everything else stays the same.”
“It may literally turn out that a Hottentot, an educated and literate Hottentot it is true, but one who is a member of a relatively primitive society, would be able to make bombs.”
“It may look as if the situation is creating the suffering, but ultimately this is not so - your resistance is.”
Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
“It may look as though two chess players are sitting at the board peacefully calculating possibilities, but in actuality they are seething with a kaleidoscope of emotions.”
“It may look extremely important the work you do but do remember in one week they can replace you with someone better. But your friends and family doesn't replace you, so choose your priority wisely.”
“It may look impossible, but God can do the impossible. Just because you don’t see anything happening doesn’t mean God is not working”
“It may look like I'm moving but I'm standing still.”
Source: The Lyrics: 1961-2012
“It may look like the difficulty is going to defeat you. But you need to keep telling yourself, "This sickness can't take my life." "This cancer can't defeat me." "No bad break, no disappointment, no accident can shorten one second of my divine destiny."”
“It may look like things have gotten better, because everyone is semi-being appreciative. Not appreciative, but conscious of people being gender fluid and all those things.”
“It may look like we're doing nothing when we sit zazen. But actually we are exposing ourselves to ourselves.”
Source: Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate: A Trip through Death, Sex, Divorce, and Spiritual Celebrity in Search of the True Dharma
“It may look perfect, but that's one thing I have learned about life is that it isn't always what it looks.”
“It may make a difference to all eternity whether we do right or wrong today.”
Source: Self-culture, lectures
“It may merely be apocryphal that when the Wizard saw the glass bottle he gasped, and clutched his heart. The story is told in so many ways, depending on who is doing the telling, and what needs to be heard at the time. It is a matter of history, however, that shortly thereafter, the Wizard absconded from the Palace. He left in the way he had first arrived-- a hot-air balloon-- just a few hours before seditious ministers were to lead a Palace revolt and to hold an execution without trial.”
“It may never come, but I fancy than no man who has sympathy for the human race does not wish that sometime those who labor should have the whole product of their toil. Probably it will never come, but I wish that the time might come when men who work in the industries would own the industries.”
Source: Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom
“It may no longer be fashionable to make such comparisons, but the economic evidence is unequivocal: liberal democratic societies are more peaceful, prosperous, and tolerant than those that permit autocratic rule, as in Russia; one-party rule, as in China; or theocracy, as in Iran. Yet these days, those who advocate the superiority of Western civilization are demonized, especially on university campuses, as racists or white supremacists. Few within the establishment are willing to challenge the politically correct consensus and insist instead on upholding the core classical liberal values.”
Source: Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women's Rights
“It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.”
Source: When Thou Art Converted: Continuing Our Search for Happiness
“It may not always be obvious at first, but I think that everyone can make a valuable contribution if only they put their minds to it.”
“It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online.”
“it may not always be so; and i say that if your lips, which i have loved, should touch another's, and your dear strong fingers clutch his heart, as mine in time not far away; if on another's face your sweet hair lay in such a silence as i know,or such great writhing words as, uttering overmuch, stand helplessly before the spirit at bay; if this should be, i say if this should be- you of my heart, send me a little word; that i may go unto him, and take his hands, saying, Accept all happiness from me. Then shall i turn my face,and hear one bird sing terribly afar in the lost lands.”
Source: 100 Selected Poems
“It may not always feel wonderful. but you're out there doing it. You're running while others are just walking. Or sitting around. I mean, come on - you're out there running, for goodness sake. You're to be taken seriously.”
Source: Run for Your Life: A Book for Beginning Women Runners
“It may not be an easy time to get what we want but it’s the right time to appreciate what we have.”
“It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never gotten tired of making them”
“It may not be clear now or ever, but take comfort in this, the Lord has your future and our family’s future in His hands,' Mama said, cupping Aria’s face. 'My little songbird. He treasures you far more than the birds of the air. Trust that He knows what is best.”
Source: Hearts of Gold Collection
“It may not be easy to accept, but there is an eternal lesson to be learned only if you remain steadfast under trial.”
Source: The Kodach Secrets: The Book of Real-Life Transformation
“It may not be easy, in every possible case, to trace the line of separation between the rights of religion and the Civil authority with such distinctness as to avoid collisions and doubts on unessential points. The tendency to unsurpastion on one side or the other, or to a corrupting coalition or alliance between them, will be best guarded agst. by an entire abstinence of the Gov't from interfence in any way whatsoever, beyond the necessity of preserving public order, and protecting each sect agst. trespasses on its legal rights by others.”
“It may not be easy, life isn't easy, but dreams keep you alive.”
“It may not be elegant but it’s true: There is no place for bullshit in a disaster zone.”
Source: The Five Gifts: Discovering Hope, Healing and Strength When Disaster Strikes
“It. May. Not. Be Fair. But. It. Can. Be. Good.”
Source: Brazen
“It may not be fair that people make judgments so quickly, usually within a few seconds of observation, but it's unrealistic to expect that they won't. So, if you want to be judged in a certain manner, be sure that your look and demeanor give that impression.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“It may not be fair, but it's true that in politics - in TV broadcasting, in any public figure - people pay attention to your appearances. One of the things we were all talking about was Al Gore won't be running for president unless we see that he's losing weight. Americans usually elect a taller man president.”
“It may not be given to you. But if you're ready to earn it, the universe is yours.”
“It may not be important how much you have, but it is important who you are in your heart.”
“It may not be important what you say, but it is very important who you are.”
“It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured.”