I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It often seems that we live in a bottom line society, where the final score or final grade is all that matters. Exceptional children grow to understand that the journey is everything.”
Source: Lighting Their Fires: Raising Extraordinary Children in a Mixed-up, Muddled-up, Shook-up World
“It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him.”
Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray
“It often seems to me that the biggest single issue for a writer is how to stay buoyant enough to go on writing. How not to drown.”
“It often seems to me that's all detective work is, wiping out your false starts and beginning again." Yes, it is very true, that. And it is just what some people will not do. They conceive a certain theory, and everything has to fit into that theory. If one little fact will not fit it, they throw it aside. But it is always the facts that will not fit in that are significant.”
Source: Death on the Nile
“It often seems, looking back, that the unexpected comes to define us, the paths we didn't see coming and may have wandered down by mistake. The older we get the more willing we are to follow those, to surprise ourselves.”
Source: Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake: A Memoir of a Woman's Life
“It often strikes me that the actors in high school movies look too old.”
Source: Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition
“It often struck Nina that women who seemed capable of only limited mental tasks in most situations could retain information regarding other peoples weight for years, sometimes decades. Unlike genuine idiots savants, they couldn't tell you that December 13, 1972 had fallen on a Wednesday. But they could often tell you, within a pound or two, how much you'd weighed that week.”
Source: Heading Uptown
“It often takes catching a glimpse of how our life would be without something that's valuable to us for us to realize just how valuable it is.”
“it often takes
for someone to invite us to feel it,
but never return it,
and to deprive us of it where it should’ve been,
to cause us to ache for it enough
when it’s nowhere else to be found,
for us to finally seek it within
– the love”
Source: wild spirit, soft heart
“It often takes more courage to be a passenger than a driver.”
Source: The View from Saturday
“It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.”
“It often takes suffering and lost in order to remind us of how precious life is.”
“It often takes the darkness of a storm to show us the light of God's presence.”
“It often takes two to do a good painting - one to paint it, and another to rap the painter smartly with a hammer before he or she can ruin it.”
“It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.”
Source: The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary edition
“It [On the Threshold by Professor Pezhman Mosleh] is a wonderful tribute to Dr. Yalom.”
“It once occured to me that literature - all art really - is either talking to people about God, or talking to God about people.”
“It only 'doesn't work out' if you quit. Never, ever quit!”
“It only confirms me in my belief that there is no Swaraj without a settlement with the Mussalmans.”
Source: Collected Works
“It only cost Mitt Romney $76.6 million to defeat a serial adulterer and a mental patient in a sweater vest.”
“It only ever took a moment for life to break apart at the seams.”
Source: Sorrowland
“it only feels real after raining and hearts only heal after breaking”
“It only got worse from there. That was the problem with best friends-they knew you so well, they could pick out all your worst faults. The things you hated about yourself and pretended that nobody else could see, because you couldn't have made it through each day if you truly acknowledged that everybody saw those flaws, too.”
Source: Demon House: The Haunting of Demler Mansion
“It only hurt once, from beginning to end.”
“It only hurts us to love when we do so with expectation. And that’s not really love, anyway. Love has no expectations, no qualifiers, no conditions. Love is pure, untouched by our mind’s demands, untainted by our desperation and fear. Love can only be beautiful. It can only be divine. No, love doesn’t hurt, not when it’s real. Love empowers. It strengthens. It reminds us who we really are and why we’re really here. Love, more than anything else in this entire world, heals us.”
“It only hurts when I'm not laughing.”
“It only increased Margaret's dislike of her name when young Elizabeth, whom the family called Lilibet, insisted on referring to her baby sister as "Bud". "She's not a real rose yet, is she? She's only a bud." Elizabeth, who was four years Margaret's senior, pertly told Lady Cynthia Asquith.”
Source: Royal Pains: A Rogues' Gallery of Brats, Brutes, and Bad Seeds
“It only looks like I get to eat a lot of food on TV. I really just get the one bite and the crew and guests eat everything else.”
“It only makes sense to ask God for guidance in the context of a life committed to "seeking first the kingdom."”
Source: The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People
“It only makes sense to Seek Good Growth, passively, the kind of growth that will not charge you 10 times more in the long term, which will eventually swallow your profits”
“It only makes the voice in my head grow louder. And when the voice grows loud enough to push past my lips, the Kaiser grows angry”
Source: Ash Princess
“It only meant that my natural inclination was to draw my "energy" from within instead of seeking it outside myself, plus my mom was an introvcert, and so were a lot of normal people. The problem was I was shy on top of that. And we all know how the world loves a shy introvert.”
“It only needs a good man to do nothing for evil to triumph.”
“It only now broke through Henrietta's consciousness how much of love was about touch -- and how destabilizing. All she wanted was to be with him, and this desire washed away everything else like the sea. The world was now surface landscape, mere background to her want and need: -he- was its gravitational pull, its chemical center. In their few moments of intimacy together, she had never felt less alone -- or more at home with herself. This must be the true power of love: the willingness to leave one's world behind for a place that had been hiding deep inside you all along, another lost island. She was stunned to realize she didn't mind the prospect....”
Source: Austen at Sea
“It only says 'Leave' if you have no identification with yourself as a citizen of this country and you feel you have no obligation to pay your fair share.”
“It only seems as if you are doing something when you're worrying.”
“It only seems complicated because it is strange,' Corum said. 'Your world would doubtless seem incomprehensible to me of I were suddenly flung into it.”
Source: Stormbringer
“It only seems difficult; it’s not!”
Source: Six Words Inspiration
“It only seems impossible until it's done.”
“It only seems jarring when you look back on the work I've done. I think if you had to map that out at the beginning and you said, "Right, sit down, this is what you're going to be doing," you'd probably freak out. But I'm someone who really enjoys not being himself. So if you consider that, then it all sort of makes sense. And I just think that's the job of an actor. I guess that's the variation that you're talking about. It's probably a byproduct of just constantly looking for something different, because that's what I feel like I'm supposed to do.”
“It only seems that there is something more important for you to do than to just quietly be yourself.”
“It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.”
Source: The Fountainhead
“It only studium and grounds that are designed for played not you honey”
“It only take a few minutes of meditation to directly realize we are a river of sensations, feelings, thoughts, perceptions. How can we navigate this evanescent river of life wisely? With mindful awareness and love it becomes clear. You can fight against the river of change, or use its wisdom to teach you how to graciously move and create and flow with the full measure of joy and sorrow, gain and loss, praise and blame that make up every human incarnation.”
“It only take like minds to connect or the words of the wise to sound Gibberish to the foolish.”
“It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.”
Source: The Illuminati Papers
“It only takes a day to change someone from an anti-intellectual to an intellectual by persuading him that he might be one!”
“It only takes a few minutes in the morning to use gratitude to Have A Magical Day by giving thanks for the events in your day ahead of time, but this one practice alone will change the way your entire day unfolds.”
Source: THE MAGIC
“It only takes a few seconds to remember that our bodies are vibrant landscapes, worlds shaped by the forces of nature. Within each human are elements forged from ancient stars, rivers of blood reflecting the great waterways of earth, neural pathways branching like sprawling roots of forests, and electromagnetic waves humming in rhythm with invisible forces around us. We are simultaneously mountain, ocean, and sky; a microcosm, home to millions of organisms.”
Source: 7 Principles of Nature: How We Strayed and How We Return
“It only takes a few words, a little distance & a whole lot of suppressed emotions to move out of the primary label and press delete on each other.”
Source: Red Sugar, No More