I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It’s a highly deceptive world, one that constantly asks you to comment but doesn’t really care what you have to say.”
Source: Two Boys Kissing
“It’s a horrible world. White people try to tell us that everything will be just fine when we go to heaven. My question is, Will they be there? If so, I might make other arrangements.”
Source: James
“It’s a huge burden to live in a world where we don’t know how we’ve been physically changed and psychologically manipulated by an outside intelligence. p55”
Source: A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor
“It's a huge disservice to classify all minds as either closed or open. I find the best minds are closed by openable windows.”
Source: Healology
“It’s a huge generalisation, and possibly unfair, but there is a nasty element to certain sections of the Millwall Crowd”
Source: Calico Jack in your Garden
“It’s a humbling realization that sometimes what we think we want may not align with what God knows we truly need.”
Source: Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation
“It’s a job, just like any other one, as long as it’s voluntary – which it was, on my part. The thing is, older men have always been especially fond of me. I’m naturally charming. I thought that I could have a lot of things that I wanted at once – no emotional involvement, lots of fun adventures with people in different environments, socialization and conversation – things that are so superficial but I would master them, I would become so skilled at this superficiality that it would be like acting in a play. I’m a certain person during certain hours. As this person I get to have so many new adventures, and hone the craft of seduction, which is one of the ultimate skills a person can have. Great courtesans during history were very knowledgeable about a variety of subjects and spoke multiple languages and such. They were able to seduce because they had great minds, along with their looks.”
Source: Jessica's Secret
“It’s a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn.”
“It’s a journey through pain, awakening, awareness, and love—four forces that shape us, break us, and rebuild us. Pain shatters the illusions we cling to; awakening casts light into the hidden corners of our souls; awareness is the quiet wisdom unwrapping truths we learn only through time; and love—both fragile and fierce—mends what’s been broken, guiding us back to ourselves.”
Source: When Life Begins to Whisper: A Journey Beyond Answers
“It's a kind of arrogance to be so certain you're past redemption.”
Source: A Morbid Taste for Bones
“It's a kind of assault, this constant insistence that we can't be publicly acknowledged. Sometimes an act as simple as a person recognizing you, your bulk, the tangibility of your skin. That can mean everything.”
Source: It Devours!
“It’s a kind of fugue state, anyway, early sex. Before the routine sets in, or the love. Back when the groping is largely anonymous. Sandbox sex. It starts in the teens and lasts until twenty or twenty-one. It’s all about learning to share. It’s about sharing your toys.”
Source: Middlesex
“It’s a kind of healing that human hearts hum, humming along like a humming bird.”
“It's a kind of heresy to say so, but I think our race has made forms more beautiful than what was here before us. Sometimes god's handiwork is crude. There is no more ugly thing than a lobster. There's not much pretty about a caribou. It has an ungainly walk and its touchhole voids droppings when it strains in harness. Was there a straight line on earth before we drew one?”
Source: Far North
“It’s a kind of
love, isn’t it?
To commit to enduring.
Despite, despite. And is my loneliness capable
of that kind of enduring love?”
“It’s a lack of clarity that creates chaos and frustration. Those emotions are poison to any living goal.”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free
“It’s a laughable lock—one that you would use only to guard a graveyard.”
Source: The Oldest Dance
“It's a laughable lock—one that you would use only to guard a graveyard. Not that anyone would trouble themselves invading a timber hut in a mangrove forest farther away from the Bay of Bengal. Still, how can someone live with a lock like that? Made of ancient iron, reeking of rust. It would need a primordial key to be twisted and turned, going through several moments of mechanical trouble until the old lock opens. Good luck if you can do that without breaking the key.
Oh! The key … Well, the owner of the hut has left the key right beside the lock, including instructions. The Monk, Yuan Yagmur—revealing his muscled arms from under his wide, dark shawl—takes the note (the one with instructions):
Please, scan your CRAB first before touching the key. For your own safety.
From what, you ask? It’s a surprise.
Enter without scanning if you want to find out.
—Mee-Hae Ra”
Source: The Oldest Dance
“It’s a law of survival, isn’t it?—to seek the best. I didn’t come for your sake. I came for mine.”
Source: The Fountainhead
“It's a layer of
Royale
!
It's very similar to Japan's
Chawanmushi
!"
*Royale is a savory custard of eggs, consommé and spices baked in a water bath until firm. It's usually cut into fanciful shapes and used as a soup garnish.*
"What?!"
Mmmm! The savoriness of consommé and porcini mushrooms gushes through the mouth! Its texture its satiny, melting on the tongue in a silky rush!
Royale hare and Royale eggs- both kingly dishes have been combined together seamlessly. But that isn't the only thing hidden in this dish!
There's also a chestnut confit and an apple and fig puree! The mellow, savory flavor of the egg custard resonates with refreshing notes of sweet and tart from the fruits...
... cutting through the thick richness of the hare meat until it tastes so light you could finish the whole dish in a breeze!
All this without losing an ounce of the dish's heavily powerful impact!”
Source: 食戟のソーマ 29 [Shokugeki no Souma 29]
“It’s a leap of faith to love people and let yourself be loved. It’s closing your eyes, stepping off a ledge into nothing, and trusting that you’ll fly rather than fall. I can’t step off the ledge for you. It’s something only you can do.”
Source: The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
“It’s a lie, but it’s the lie he needs. I’m going to hell.”
Source: Annie and Fia
“It's a lie that all the elements work together in unison—they fight for prominence, just as we fight for the one we need, filling our core, giving us life.
I needed air to move.
To end.
To begin.”
“It's a lie that matches his desire.”
Source: Uprooted
“It's a lie to sell a diet plan that includes fast and processed foods, then implement a points system. A big. fat. lie.”
Source: EAT! Empower Adjust Triumph!
“It's a lie, you know, that you only get one story.”
Source: Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
“it’s a lifetime process to figure out how to fill your soul.”
“It's a limitless new world, and we are only just beginning to explore it.”
Source: Vitro
“It's a little Anxious," Piglet said to himself, "to be a
Very Small Animal Entirely Surrounded by Water. Christopher
Robin and Pooh could escape by Climbing Trees, and Kanga could
escape by Jumping, and Rabbit could escape by Burrowing, and
Owl could escape by Flying, and Eeyore could escape by -- by
Making a Loud Noise Until Rescued, and here am I, surrounded by
water and I can't do anything.”
“It's a little bit sad, when you seem very near
To adventures and things of that sort,
Which nearly begin, and then don't; and you know
It is only because you are short.”
Source: A Dome Of Many Colored Glass
“It's a little early to be falling asleep," says a voice, soft and low, at her side.
Startled, she spins to face the man who seems to have materialized from nowhere.
"By all accounts," he adds, "there are still hours of this to get through."
She doesn't recognize him. In the near-darkness his face is smooth like sculpted marble and his eyes shine almost black; his expression is hard to read- playful, perhaps- but it's his choice of words that intrigues her the most.”
Source: The Peacock Summer
“It's a little embarrassing. I, uh... I made assumptions about our relationship. I thought we were something real, but it was all in my head. He didn't feel the same way about me, and it took me way too long to figure that out. Now I don't trust myself, you know? Like, how could I be so wrong about the whole thing?”
Source: Perfect (mis)Match
“It’s a little known fact, but Hoboken, the Mile Square City, was originally an island in the Hudson River. Of course, its eastern boundary was the Hudson River, but on its western side, the river ran into tidal lands, described before, that extended along the base of the cliffs of the Palisades. Named after his ship, Half Moon Bay, north of Hoboken was where Henry Hudson anchored his ship. The photograph showing “Heavy Frigates at Anchor,” identified to be in Half Moon Bay, shows a sailing vessel that appears to be the USS Constitution, with her decks protected from the elements by a canvas awning. It is recorded that at the outbreak of the Civil War the USS Constitution was relocated farther north because of threats made against her by Confederate sympathizers. Several companies of Massachusetts Volunteer soldiers were stationed aboard her for her protection when she was towed to New York Harbor, where she arrived on April 29, 1861. It cannot be verified, however from my research the other ship in the photograph could well have been the USS Constellation. A third frigate only shows her rigging and cannot be identified. Originally, on March 27, 1794, the United States Congress authorized six similar frigates to be constructed at a cost of $688,888.82.
The tidal lands with cattails and river water were filled in at the turn of the 20th Century. Without any concern regarding the ecology, this bay which was used by nesting birds and had served as a protected anchorage, became low lying flatlands. Most of the fill used was from dredging, ballast, dunnage and even garbage. Once filled in, it became the site of the Maxwell House Coffee Company, the Tootsie Roll factory, Todd’s Shipyard, and the Erie railroad yards in Weehawken. The flats were used as a holding area for railroad cars waiting to cross on barges to the eastern side of the river. It also became the location of the western entrance to the Lincoln Tunnel.”
“It’s a little-known fact, but Unicorns are something like 20% paint, and their horns are stolen exclusively from endangered species.”
Source: There and Never, Ever Back Again: Diary of a Dark Lord
“It’s a little-known fact that most terrorist groups fail, and that all of them die. Lest this seem hard to believe, just reflect on the world around you. Israel continues to exist, Northern Ireland is still a part of the United Kingdom, and Kashmir is a part of India. There are no sovereign states in Kurdistan, Palestine, Quebec, Puerto Rico, Chechnya, Corsica, Tamil Eelam, or Basque Country. The Philippines, Algeria, Egypt, and Uzbekistan are not Islamist theocracies; nor have Japan, the United States, Europe, and Latin America become religious, Marxist, anarchist, or new-age utopias. The numbers confirm the impressions.”
Source: The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
“It's a little like being alone on a moving train for the first time. The excitement and wonder at the new experience slowly gives way to the creeping feeling that something isn't quite right. You check your ticket and see that you have made a mistake-- it's not the train that you have intended to be on. At first, you try and deny it. You watch the scenery slipping past and try to find a familiar landmark, and for awhile you take solace in denial.
But soon, the terrifyingly unfamiliar terrain outside the window causes you to panic. Crushing fear that you can't ignore makes you rush around, looking for a way off it. But, it's moving too fast that you know there is no getting off until it stops somewhere. So you creep back to your seat and try not to attract any attention to yourself because the strangers in the train have taken on a weird, plastic appearance. Any camaraderie that you may have shared with them before is gone since you're no longer one of them: you're a trespasser meant to be on a different train.
The knowledge begins to weigh on you as you slide farther and farther from where you wanted to go. You try to reign in on your fear and convince yourself that maybe this new destination will be better than the one you had planned for yourself.
Then, somewhere along the way you discover that all your baggage is wrong, too, and you find that you're ill equipped to survive on the trip you're on, but then... then you notice that the stranger sitting next to you isn't like the other passengers... that even though you sat in his seat, he is going to try and help you sort out the tangle you're in. And, because this stranger is so perfect, you begin to relax a little and forget that you are on the wrong train at all.”
Source: Incendiary
“It's a little magic trick you can play on yourself. Whenever you feel sad and lonely, just smile and close your eyes. Do it as many times as you have to.”
Source: 世界から猫が消えたなら [Sekai kara Neko ga Kietanara]
“It´s a little song about abandonment, and it goes something like this....”
Source: Split: A Memoir of Divorce
“It's a lonely life.”
Source: Homesick for Another World
“It's a
lonely
thing,
protecting
a breakable
heart”
Source: Love Her Wild
“It's a long drive. It's pretty, actually, if you go through West Virginia, but of course then you're in West Virginia.”
Source: The Twisted Ones
“It's a long journey, filled with highs and lows, but if we find something we love doing and are able to create a way to do it for the rest of our lives, it's all worth it.”
Source: Living Free: The High Philosophy
“It’s a long shot, but this baby is pretty cool.” He pushed the button that brought up the menu. “I need to run a search.”
“Of course, master,” the computer said with an inviting smile. “Which pornographic material should I seek out today?”
Dante grinned. “Really? You can do that?” He felt Meg’s stare. “Nothing like that.”
Source: Bound
“It's a long shot, it's suicide maybe, but I do the only thing I can think of. I lean in and kiss Peeta full on the mouth. His whole body starts shuddering, but I keep my lips pressed to his until I have to come up for air. My hands slide up his wrists to clasp his. 'Don't let him take you from me.' Peeta's panting hard as he fights the nightmares raging in his head. 'No. I don't want to...' I clench his hands to the point of pain. 'Stay with me.' His pupils contract to pinpoints, dilate again rapidly, and then return to something resembling normalcy. 'Always,' he murmured." - (Katniss/Peeta, pg 314)”
Source: Mockingjay
“It's a long story, one that could only happen in China.”
Source: China Rich Girlfriend
“It's a long story."
Zach cupped his hands around his mug. He raised it to his lips, wincing as the liquid burned his tongue. His smile reached his eyes. "That's my favorite kind," he said.”
Source: The Wake Up
“It's a long time between drinks when you are a barren rock in space”
“It's a lost and lonely kind of feeling,
To wake up wearing a disguise.
I lie in bed staring at the ceiling,
I don't know who I am
There's little that I can
Fully recognize....
But I'm taking small steps,
'Cause I don't know where I'm going.
I'm taking small steps
And I don't know what to say.
Small steps,
Trying to pull myself together,
And maybe I'll discover
A clue along the way....
Just to make it through the day and not to get hurt,
Seems about the best that I can hope.
Like coffee stains splattered on your sweatshirt
There isn't any pattern.
Everything's uncertain.
It's difficult to cope....
But I'm taking small steps,
'Cause I don't know where I'm going.
I'm taking small steps,
And I've forgotten how to play.
Small steps,
Trying to pull myself together,
And maybe I'll discover,
A clue along the way....
And if someday my small steps bring me near you,
Please don't rush to tell me all you feel.
You don't have to speak for me to hear you.
If I softly sigh,
Look me in the eye
And let me know I'm real....
Then we'll take small steps,
'Cause we won't know where we're going.
We'll take small steps,
And we'll have too much to say.
Small steps,
Hand in hand we'll walk together,
And maybe we'll discover
A clue along the way....
Small steps,
'Cause I don't know where I'm goin'.
Small steps,
I just take it day to day.
Small steps,
Somehow get myself together,
Then maybe I'll discover
Who I am on the way....”
Source: Small Steps
“It’s a lot cleaner when Command kills you on purpose . . . than when they do it by accident.”
Source: Glory Main
“It's a lot different to say 'thank you' to God instead of asking for stuff. That's the way I used to pray. Help me, God. Do this for me, God. I'm mad at you God, fix it.
I don't pray like that anymore. The only prayer I say now is Thank You.”
Source: The Gratitude Jar: A Simple Guide to Creating Miracles