I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It pays to be a fee fiend.”
“It pays to be a nut!”
Source: The Secret Sauce is YOU!: Being Your Ownmate
“It pays to be content with your lot.”
“It pays to be fat during serious sickness so you can absorb a huge weight loss during your recovery.”
“It pays to be fat during war due to the food shortages.”
“It pays to be nice. Maybe not right away, but someday.”
Source: Horton Halfpott: Or, The Fiendish Mystery of Smugwick Manor; or, The Loosening of M'Lady Luggertuck's Corset
“It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.”
Source: The foundation trilogy: three classics of science fiction
“It pays to be prepared.”
Source: Aesop in the afternoon
“It pays to do what is always considered right.”
“It pays to get drunk with the best people.”
“It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.”
“It pays to know who your friends are but it also pays to know you ain't got any friends.”
Source: Tarantula
“It pays to remember that societies get what they deserve, not what they expect.”
“It pays to trust God with all and to make no reservation.”
Source: Ever Increasing Faith
“IT performance needs to well reflect the multidimensional business value in which IT can contribute both strategically and operationally, to capture both short-term gain and long-term win.”
Source: The Change Agent CIO
“It perhaps has a chance, a commercial chance, this film. It's funny, it's charming, the idea is original, it's unusual and it makes fun of the movie industry in a way that it needs to be poked fun at.”
“It perhaps might be said--if any one dared--that the most worthless literature of the world has been that which has been written by the men of one nation concerning the men of another.”
Source: Stephen Crane in the West and Mexico
“It pierced the heart...and there was blood all around...soaking his hands in it, he tried wiping her tears...”
“It pisses me off to think we're conditioned to push away bad feelings and think anything that's uncomfortable is to be avoided. When things are really bad nowadays, I recognize the value in it because it's me filling my quota- it's going to make my joy more intense later.”
“It pisses me off when people tell me things like ‘it can’t be that bad,’ ‘It’s not the end of the world,’ and ‘think positively.’ It’s not that simple! I don’t think people who are uneducated about depression realize how crap it is to wake up angry or disappointed to be alive. Where there is nothing that makes you excited to get out of bed, your dopamine’s in the gutter and your anhedonia is boss. To battle with suicidal thoughts throughout the night. To slowly and painfully lose everything that gives you the x-factor. A place where food is disgusting and pleasure almost non-existent. Some days it genuinely feels like the end of the world, and trust me, it’s horrifying. It has been equally horrifying for those around me.”
Source: Unfiltered: Grappling with Mental Illness
“It pisses me off, people are idiots, but what are you going to do? The world is full of idiots. That's why we'll never have flying cars. People don't know how to drive”
“It places value on experience versus intellectual understanding. I saw a lot of people contemplating things but it didn't seem to lead to too many places. I got very interested in people who had discovered something more significant than an intellectual, abstract understanding.”
“It plagues the young, this need to find reasons for things.”
Source: The Crippled God
“IT planning checklist is important because your goals and objectives will be your drivers.”
Source: The Change Agent CIO
“IT plays a significant role as a linchpin in knitting all critical pieces of the business into innovation competency.”
Source: 100 IT Charms: Running Versatile IT to get Digital Ready
“It plays right into the hands of ISIS. And that's why Americans need to know that Donald Trump's words are being used in recruitment videos that ISIS is putting out. I think that is a very serious problem.”
“It pleased God to make one nation the medium of all His communications with mankind: This the nation of the Jews has done to a considerable degree in all ages As civilization extended, they by one means or another became most wonderfully dispersed through all countries; and at this day they are almost literally everywhere, the most conspicuous, and in the eye of reason and religion, the most respectable nation on the face of the earth.”
“It pleased him that she no longer mentioned the gold ring with the star-shaped diamond cluster. He also didn’t want it to be spoken of ever again. Specifically, he didn’t want to be reminded of what he exchanged the ring for.”
Source: A Request For Betrayal: The Constant Companion Tales
“It pleased me to imagine a presence above us, in continual motion, like liquid stars.”
“It pleased the Almighty, to whose great will Holy Will I submit myself with Christian submission.”
“It pleases God to bless his people, by turning every one from his inequities.”
“It pleases God to hear people pray.”
“It pleases God to hear the prayers of the afflicted people.”
“It pleases me that people can be interactive”
“It pleases me to take amateur photographs of my garden, and it pleases my garden to make my photographs look professional.”
“It pleases our heavenly Father when we acknowledge and confess to Him our inability to run our own lives. That is what we are doing when we say, "Father, help me! I need You!"”
“It pleases the heart to ignore it.
You have done what pleases their hearts.
You have sustained people among them.
Yet they cover their faces in fear of tomorrow.
There was an old man who was about to die, while his son was a child without knowledge.”
Source: Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms
“it pleaseth me when I see through the meadows
The tents and pavilions set up, and great joy have I
When I see o'er the campana knights armed and horses arrayed.
And it pleaseth me when the scouts set in flight the folk with
their goods;
And it pleaseth me when I see coming together after them an host of
armed men.”
“It (politician) wants to separate them. And to do so it has chosen the worst, blackest pencil of all - the pencil of war, which spells only misery and death.”
Source: Stolen Voices: Young People's War Diaries, from World War I to Iraq
“It popped up on my Outlook calendar, flagged in red like an inflamed pimple full of infected bureaucratic pus... I've been trying desperately to get it shifted, but no, it is stuck like a king-sized dildo in a guinea pig.”
Source: The Rhesus Chart
“It portends," said Mr. Proudfoot, whom food did not mellow, "that our pure and reformed Kirk of Scotland is linked more than ever with sectaries and antinomians and those, like the bloody and deceitful Cromwell, that would defile the milk of the Word with the sour whey of their human inventions. What avails a triumphant Kirk if its doctrine be sullied?”
Source: Witch Wood
“It portrayed motherhood as the highest position that a woman could achieve. For God had made Mary neither a prophet nor the messiah nor the daughter of God. Nor did God take the form of a woman. She was only the womb. She was a perpetual virgin too, and she endured the vilest harassment because of it, or so the story went. Rebecca couldn’t relate to the Virgin Mary at all.”
Source: The Mural
“It (Pose Fx) is incredible in showing how pop culture can be so important in affirming people and experiences, and being deliberate and unapologetic about centring people and those whose voices continue to be marginalised because of their gender, age and class.”
Source: Dr T: A Guide to Sexual Health and Pleasure
“It posed the question posed by all such stone piles.: how had puny men moved stones so big? And, like all such stone piles, it answered the question itself. Dumb terror had moved those stones so big”
“It poverty that makes some men think all a woman want is money.”
“It (prayer) dispels frivolity and drives away all skin-deep forms of worship, and makes worship a serious and deep-seated service, impregnating body, soul, and spirit with its heavenly infusion.”
Source: The Complete Works of E. M. Bounds on Prayer
“It preoccupies me until it's time to leave. It seems such the right expression of grief. I am sad, so in whatever small way I can, I will tear myself apart. They've taken what's on the inside and made it visible. If I thought it wouldn't be inappropriate I'd do it myself.”
“It present to allow me to ask myself questions about what I'm doing. I think that's what visual art does - it either reminds you of something or allows you to question something. I don't know why Robert Motherwell; I love so many different artists.”
“It presents a really compelling case against the whole theory of anthropogenic global warming. From my point of view, it is a theory that has completely corrupted public policy making in most of the developed world. It confronts all the dubious claims that the warmists have put out there.”
“It probably all started with The Beatles, and then I guess it goes out from there. Springsteen... Fleetwood Mac... I mean, that's all so inherent in us that when we're making records now, we take a lot from the artists who are around us.”