I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It may sound paradoxical, but however tight our schedule, however many things clamor to be done, we don't need to hurry. If we can keep our mind calm and go about our business with undivided attention, we will not only accomplish more but we'll do a better job - and find ourselves more patient, more at peace.”
“It may sound paradoxical, but verbal fluency is the product of many hours spent writing about nothing, just as musical fluency is the product of hours spent repeating scales.”
“It may sound peculiar coming from an old punk rocker, but I strongly believe that governmental policies are the only viable way to administer our long-term success as a species. I guess you could say that my attitude of 'fuck the government' is still intact. But it's more a criticism of lousy government than a statement of nihilism. The truth is, when it comes to environmental protection, the government is the best way to enact a new social awareness by establishing laws by which industries have to abide.”
“It may sound preposterous to digital chimps, who cannot even walk in a straight line without asking AI, but those of us humans still have a functional brain, heart and spine.”
Source: Sonnets From The Mountaintop
“It may sound ridiculous to say that Bell and his successors were the fathers of modern commercial architecture—of the skyscraper. But wait a minute. Take the Singer Building, the Flatiron Building, the Broad Exchange, the Trinity, or any of the giant office buildings. How many messages do you suppose go in and out of those buildings every day? Suppose there was no telephone and every message had to be carried by a personal messenger? How much room do you think the necessary elevators would leave for offices? Such structures would be an economic impossibility.”
Source: The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
“It may sound strange, but many champions are made champions by setback. They are champions because they've been hurt. Their experience moved them, and they pulled out this fighting spirit, making them what they are. Sometimes in life, God gives us a difficulty in order to bring out the fighting spirit. Everything that happens to you can happen for good if you have this spirit. The essential thing in life is not in the conquering, but in the fight.”
“It may sound strange, but when you're a kid and you're in that environment, for some reason for a long time you think, when the doors are closed in other houses, this is what it's like everywhere. And then at some point you begin to realize that isn't true, and books were really the educational system that showed me that there were many better and different ways to live a life.”
“It may sound stupid, but there is nothing more romantic than an alpha admitting he went to therapy for our relationship.”
Source: Wicked
“It may sound surprising when I say, on the basis of my own clinical practice as well as that of my psychological and psychiatric colleagues, that the chief problem of people in the middle decade of the twentieth century is emptiness.”
Source: Man's Search for Himself
“It may sound terrible, but I often say that the military saved me from a conventional life in the United States and I've never really thanked them for it, because I haven't exactly been pro-military in my work.”
“It may sound trite, but using the weapons of the enemy, no matter how good one's intentions, makes one the enemy.”
“It may sound trite, but young people really are the future.”
“It may sound very strange, but I love the freedom that writing a novel gives me. It is an unhindered experience. If I come after a bad day, I can decide that my protagonist will die on page 100 of my novel in a 350-page story.”
“It may sound weird, but I don't really look for culture, particularly in an American city.”
“It may sounds very stupid, I know, but I believe in love. As any important feeling and expression, it has been vulgarized a lot but what can we do?”
“It may surprise people to know that I advocate the reform of the United Nations, not its abolishment.”
“It may surprise people to learn that one elephant is killed every 15 minutes for its ivory.”
“It may surprise you to discover that the New Testament never uses the term 'chosen' to describe the Jewish people. It is only used of those who follow Jesus. Does that mean Jesus has two separate 'chosen' people? Some like to think so. They are usually called 'dispensationalists' and this is a very popular viewpoint among evangelicals in the united states.”
Source: Christian Zionism: Road-map to Armageddon?
“It may surprise you to learn that apple cider vinegar is a natural treatment that can help you treat dandruff.”
Source: Apple Cider Vinegar Handbook: Recipes for Natural Living
“It may surprise you to learn that at this moment, Sunny resembled the famous Greek conqueror Alexander the Great. Alexander the Great lived more than two thousand years ago, and his last name was not actually "The Great." "The Great" was something that he forced people to call him, by bringing a bunch of soldiers into their land and proclaiming himself king. Besides invading other people's countries and forcing them to do whatever he said, Alexander the Great was famous for something called the Gordian Knot. The Gordian Knot was a fancy knot tied in a piece of rope by a king named Gordius. Gordius said that if Alexander could untie it, he could rule the whole kingdom. But Alexander who was too busy conquering places to learn how to untie knots, simply drew his sword and cut the Gordian Knot in two. This was cheating, of course, but Alexander had too many soldiers for Gordius to argue, and soon everybody in Gordium had to bow down to You-Know-Who the Great. Ever since then, a difficult problem can be called a Gordian Knot, and if you solve the problem in a simple way - even if the way is rude - you are cutting the Gordian Knot.”
Source: The Wide Window
“It may take a decade or two before the extent of Shakespeare's collaboration passes from the graduate seminar to the undergraduate lecture, and finally to popular biography, by which time it will be one of those things about Shakespeare that we thought we knew all along. Right now, though, for those who teach the plays and write about his life, it hasn't been easy abandoning old habits of mind. I know that I am not alone in struggling to come to terms with how profoundly it alters one's sense of how Shakespeare wrote, especially toward the end of his career when he coauthored half of his last ten plays. For intermixed with five that he wrote alone, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, The Winter's Tale, Cymbeline, and The Tempest, are Timon of Athens (written with Thomas Middleton), Pericles (written with George Wilkins), and Henry the Eighth, the lost Cardenio, and The Two Noble Kinsmen (all written with John Fletcher).”
Source: Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?
“It may take a lifetime to understand what it means to love unreservedly. It may take a lifetime to learn the basic truths God wants us to know. Don’t fret it. That is the purpose of life.”
Source: Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
“It may take a little self-discipline - be simple, be kind, stay rested. Attend to your own inner-health and happiness.”
“It may take a village to raise a baby, but hell! it takes an army to produce a book.”
Source: Brighton Belle
“It may take a while to forget a closed door, but you must not dwell on it, for it will delay you from accessing your miracles.”
Source: Beyond the Closed Door: Unique Keys to Unlock Destinies
“It may take endless wars and unbearable population pressure to force-feed a technology to the point where it can cope with space. In the universe, space travel may be the normal birth pangs of an otherwise dying race. A test. Some races pass, some fail.”
“It may take fifteen, twenty, thirty years to reach the year that changes your life. Have faith. Be patient. Because the lessons learned during those trying years will prepare you for the year that changes everything.”
Source: Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
“It may take hundreds of pages before you begin to get a handle on the craft of writing, and your first scripts may not work. The next five to twenty may not either. However, the ones that do work owe everything to the ones that didn't.”
“It may take legions of cybersecurity advocates to broadcast the importance of cybersecurity awareness before it is truly baked into our daily routines.”
“It may take little time to get where you want to be, but if you pause and think for a moment, you will notice that you are no longer where you were. Do not stop—keep going.”
Source: Advice My Parents Gave Me: and Other Lessons I Learned from My Mistakes
“It may take many voices for people to hear the same message.”
“It may take me a long time before I feel 'ready' to tour as a lead singer. I may never be ready... we'll just have to see.”
“It may take months or years for a lie to be revealed, but the truth always prevails.”
“It may take months or years for a wish to come true, but it's far more likely to happen when you care so much about a wish that you'll do all you can to make it happen.”
Source: You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor
“It may take only months to rebuild a devastated city and restore life and normality, but rebuilding trust can take an eternity — and may never become reality.”
“It may take practice to think more positively and more compassionately, but just as you must train a puppy to behave the way you want it to, you must train your mind to behave itself. Otherwise, like the puppy, your mind will just make a lot of messes.”
“It may take sixteen pounds of grain to make one pound of beef, but it also takes one hundred pounds of fish to make that one-pound of beef!”
“It may take some time, but capital will eventually flow to the most logical place.”
“It may take some time for you to achieve your goals and dreams in life. But do not give up on your idealism and integrity.”
Source: Why the Silhouette?
“It may take time to prove you're right, but you have to stick to it.”
“It may take two people to make a really beautiful mistake.”
“It may take two people to say “I do,” but it only takes one to say “I don’t.”
Lamentations, pg Intro”
Source: Lamentations: how narcissistic leaders torment church and family
“It may take us a little longer to reach the summit, but never fear, we will get there!”
“It may take years of struggle and confession, battle and failure. The places in my life where I struggle with deadly sins are matters of a decade or more of focus, repentance, shame, and grace. I’ve traveled some long roads simply to lessen the depth of some of my failures and addictions — just to get to a place where I can receive fresh grace and encouragement.”
Source: Seven: The Deadly Sins and the Beatitudes
“It may take you a long time to learn how to manage your time, but once you do it right, you will be super proud.”
Source: The Precious Gift of Time: Inspirational Quotes and Sayings
“It may very well be said that my very best work, remained in my head!”
Source: Lost in a Quatrain
“It may very well be that people in San Francisco don't think we have any culture in Nebraska, but we have a different culture, and it's a very deep culture. We have these Czech immigrants, who are making this marvelous ethnic food and their Catholic lives and it's very fascinating stuff.”
“It may very well be that we have entered another time when most poets will feel compelled to use poetry to stop things from happening. Yet I believe that even if poetry did not do this, it would be vital to our survival.”
“It may well be a sign of the decadence of the Church and the failure of Christianity that gifts have to be coaxed out of people, and that often they will not give at all unless they get something for their money in the way of entertainment or of goods. Giving which is real giving has a certain recklessness in it.”
“It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.”