I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It means eating your words, this thing of refusing to be a fence-sitter, but I'd rather eat my words than get calluses from sitting.
No one who has not experienced the condescension of a buyer toward an ordinary salesgirl can have any conception of its withering effect.”
“It means everything for me to serve as the CEO of a convention.”
“It means everything, definitely. I mean, it's Wimbledon. Tennis here is tennis history. Centre Court is always great to play on. I really feel like I'm at home. I was really up and down after my title here in 2011, but I still worked hard and believed in myself, and my team believed in me as well.”
“It means everything. Making my father happy, that's my biggest joy.”
“It means food on every table, every child in school, a job for everybody and a house with toilet and electricity for every family. This will make India proud. We can achieve this through unity. Unity strengthens us. Division weakens us.”
“It means having the courage to imagine, make mistakes, trust, listen, learn, think, and rethink; to resist punditry, pedestals, and perfection; to reject cynicism and embrace critical analysis; to plot; to hold on; to care and commune; to show up; to love.”
Source: Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care
“It means holy. Or sacred, more like. Not that I’m holy. But this, all this, is holy.
Me, you, the damn street lights. That lady walking out of the bodega. That old dude crossing the street. The street, the mountains. All of it.”
Source: Heartwood
“It means I don't have to charter that big jet for the family.”
“It means I know you, Adrien with an e, and I know you get reckless when you're impatient. You're paying for this investigation, and I'll keep you apprised every step of the way, but if you even think about going rogue on this one, I'm turning in my fedora and you can hire some other dick."
I don't want any other dick. I closed my mouth on that one—metaphorically speaking—and said, “I don't know why the hell everyone seems to think I'm so reckless—”
Source: The Dark Tide
“It means I see and experience the world a bit differently from people who aren't autistic, but that's not necessarily bad- while things can sometimes feel difficult, I wouldn't change who I am for the world. It's made me who I am!”
Source: Bookishly Ever After
“It means I wake up to sunshine every morning, and I can afford to drink better wine at night. But I haven't completely sold out to Hollywood.”
“It means joining with allies to deploy renewable energy technologies -- both at home and around the world -- to confront the very real and present danger of potentially irreversible climate change.”
“It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.”
Source: Selected poems
“It means nothing to be open to a proposition we don't understand.”
Source: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
“It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don't care.”
“It means protecting people, showing loving concern for each and every person, especially children, the elderly, those in need, who are often the last we think about.”
Source: Care for Creation: A Call for Ecological Conversion
“It means rock'n'roll in the sack. It means sex: the lyrics, the beat of it, the thunderous feeling through your body. Before the word groupie even existed I knew that I wanted to share myself with someone who created that music and turned me on in every kind of way.”
“It means so much being a part of country music and the Opry.”
“It means so much to be European champion again with a personal best and I couldn’t have asked for anything more.”
“It means teaching our kids how to live a life with an infinite mindset themselves. There is no single greater contribution in the infinite game than to raise children who will continue to grow and serve others long after we are gone. To live a life with an infinite mindset means thinking about the second and third order effects of our decisions.”
Source: The Infinite Game
“It means thanks, it means admiration, it means good-bye to someone you love.”
Source: The Hunger Games
“It means that God's Creation has not its source in any necessity; it comes from his fullness of joy; it is his love that creates, therefore in Creation is his own revealment.”
Source: Sadhana
“It means that he’s going ballistic in the way that only mates can when the other is threatened. It’s what happened then, and what’s happening now. You’re true mates—the way Fae are mates, in your bodies and souls. That’s what was different about your scent the other day. Your scents have merged. As they do between Fae mates.”
Source: House of Sky and Breath
“It means that I don’t have to accept that normal people can do bad things.", Celestra Caine in FADE by Kailin Gow”
“It means that if they misunderstood Comfort and Joy, they misunderstood my other films.”
“It means that it is necessary to run away from men in order to love them.”
Source: Red-White Love: The Love of Liverpool FC
“It means that no blue ribbon is forever. Someday - if the world doesn't explode itself in the meantime - someone will run a two-minute mile in the Olympics. It may take a hundred years or a thousand, but it will happen. Because there is no ultimate blue ribbon. There is zero, and there is eternity, and there is mortality, but there is no ultimate.”
“It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down.”
“It means that Tao doesn't force or interfere with things, but lets them work in their own way, to produce results naturally. Then whatever needs to be done is done.”
“It means that the lack of knowledge is the foundation for all life failures, destruction, depression, difficulties, hatred, bitterness, envy, etc.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“It means that the men who hold the means of life control our lives, and, because we workingmen have tried to get some measure of justice, some measure of betterment, they deny the right of the human being to associate with his fellow.”
“It means that the things that make us human often make us ill.”
Source: Eve's Apple
“It means that there's only one love for everyone who exists. And when you meet that love, you know them. You know you were meant to be together, and nothing can keep you apart.”
Source: Night World No. 2: Dark Angel; The Chosen; Soulmate
“It means that though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still that she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of Time. But if she could have looked a little further back, into the stillness and darkness before Time began, she would have read there a different incantation. She would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and death itself would work backwards.”
Source: The Chronicles of Narnia Vol I: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
“It means that we must abandon the method of civil disobedience, non-cooperation and satyagraha. When there was no way left for constitutional methods for achieving economic and social objectives, there was a great deal of justification for unconstitutional methods. But where constitutional methods are open, there can be no justification for these unconstitutional methods. These methods are nothing but the Grammar of Anarchy and the sooner they are abandoned, the better for us.”
Source: Selected speeches of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar: (1927 - 1956)
“It means that we should celebrate today's failure because it is a clear sign that our voyage of discovery is not yet over.”
Source: The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
“It means that when organized philosophies like the Illuminati go out of existence, their symbols remain… available for adoption by other groups. It’s called transference. It’s very common in symbology. The Nazis took the swastika from the Hindus, the Christians adopted the cruciform from the Egyptians, the—”
Source: Angels & Demons
“It means that you are my freedom, love."
"Yes," she whispered. That was it exactly. "And you are mine.”
Source: Bound by Your Touch
“It means the God who worries about our sins is not only God the judge, but also God the caretaker. He worries about sin because He craves righteousness, but also, simply, because He loves us.”
Source: Girl Meets God
“It means the most when your team always supports you.”
“It means the world to me to represent the Hispanic community.”
“It means they engineered the spirit to have a negative effect on the imagination.”
Source: The Spirit of Imagination
“It means to educate myself incessantly about the world around me.”
“It means using such means as civil disobedience,
outspoken criticism, protest, pacifism, voluntary poverty and even gentle violence if it comes to a matter of restraining some impetuous redneck.”
Source: Earth House Hold: Technical Notes & Queries to Fellow Dharma Revolutionaries
“It means we're looking one way, while following another. We're for one side and also the other. We mean what we say, but our intentions are different.”
Source: The Joy Luck Club: A Novel
“It means we're on your side." That's what Bonnie said. I have people on my side? What side? Am I unwittingly the face of the hoped-for rebellion? Has the mockingjay on my pin become a symbol of resistance? If so, my side's not doing too well.”
Source: Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)
“It means working harder to do the research but I don't really mind - I don't think I have what it takes to chase criminals through back alleys and wade through blood at crime scenes.”
“It means you got your glow on." He smiled, hovering right alongside me. "It means you're on your way.”
“It means you never know what's going to happen,' I said. 'You do your best, then take your chances. Everything else is beyond our control.”
Source: My Lucky Life in and Out of Show Business - Dick Van Dyke
“It means you're family. A woman takes me on, she's family to the club. All the way in. She's mine. All the way in. Whatever it takes to work it out.”
Source: Vendetta Road