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 team, really: the wilderness and us.”
Source: What We Think About When We Try Not To Think About Global Warming: Toward a New Psychology of Climate Action
“It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well as do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.”
Source: The Gun Seller
“It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There's almost no such thing as ready. There's only now. And you may as well do it now. I mean, I say that confidently as if I'm about to go bungee jumping or something--I'm not. I'm not a crazed risk taker. But I do think that, generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.”
“It’s a terrible thing, isn’t it? To be dragged under?”
“It’s a terrible thing to ignore your terrible mistakes.”
“It's a terrible thing to learn as a child that one is a being separate from all the world, that no one and no thing hurts along with one's burned tongues and skinned knees, that one's aches and pains are all one's own. Even more terrible, as we grow older, to learn that no person, no matter how beloved, can ever truly understand us.”
Source: The Secret History
“It's a theme born out of the Christian faith rather than a pagan understanding of the universe. Both views agree that we human beings are small, frail, and limited in our ability to battle the forces of the world that seek to destroy us.
In response, the pagan worldview says, "We cannot win this on our strength. Therefore, let us go down fighting nobly and die well."
The Christian worldview, on the other hand, says, "We cannot win this on our own strength. Therefore, we must rely on a Power outside of ourselves to win this for us.”
Source: Walking with Bilbo: A Devotional Adventure through the Hobbit
“It's a thin line between what we're calling acceptable and not acceptable. As a leader, you're supposed to know when not to cross it. But how do you know? Does the army teach us how to control our emotions? Does the army teach us how to deal with a friend bleeding out in front of you? No.”
Source: The Good Soldiers
“It's a third eye view of hieroglyphics; A describing of these inscribings, mummified encryptions from ancient ancestry of pyramids and pharaohs laid deep in the rich soil with buried layers of gold & knowledge kept hidden from the mass.”
Source: The Land Flowing With Milk And Honey
“It's a thought," I said with a grin.
"That's exactly what it is, Dan - a thought - no more real than the shadow of a shadow. Consciousness is not In the body; the body is In Consciousness. And you Are that Consciousness - no the phantom mind that troubles you so. You are the body, but you are everything else, too. That is what your visions revealed to you. Only the mind resists change. When you relax mindless into the body, you are happy and content and free, sensing no separation. Immortality is Already yours, but not in the same way you imagined or hope for. You have been immortal since before you were born and will be long after the body dissolves. The body is in Consciousness; never born; never dies; only changes. The mind - your ego, personal beliefs, history, and identity - is all that ends at death. And who needs it?" Socrates leaned back into his chair.
"I'm not sure all of that sank in."
"Of course not." He laughed. "Words mean little unless you realize the truth of it yourself. And when you do, you'll be free at last.”
Source: Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
“It’s a time for the possibility of new beginnings. I say ‘possibility’ because, as you know, one must choose to walk the steps to a new beginning to receive their gifts.”
Source: Through the Darkness: A Story of Love from the Other Side
“It's a time of war, Alera. [...] Nothing is fair, and nothing is right, and it isn't easy to understand or accept.”
Source: Allegiance
“It’s a tiny plant, but that’s not the point. The point is, she can’t heal it. She can only heal … well, not heal, but 'fix' ruined cars.”
Source: The High Auction
“It's a total fallacy aging is a linear process of entropy
DNA can repair itself, we can release toxins, lengthen telomeres, Mitochondria can repair endogenous damage e.g abasic sites/oxidized bases through BER mechanisms
Knowing how to transmute energy is the key to all of that”
“It's a tough lesson: There is no summit that comes before you expect it.”
Source: Halfway to Heaven: My White-knuckled--and Knuckleheaded--Quest for the Rocky Mountain High
“It's a tough one but its worth the read”
Source: Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player
“It's a tragedy that we need to continually prove that we are human beings.”
Source: Apeirogon
“It's a tragic state of affairs, when we get used to the sight of blood. If the sight of blood makes you sick, it's good - it's a sign that your humanity isn't yet lost.”
Source: Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations
“It's a tragic that we recognized our self worth from external validation.”
“it's a train wreck looking for a crossing”
“It’s a traveller, he says, it’s lost like us, a wanderer covering miles. A scavenger that lives amongst the rocks and steals to live. It’s beautiful.”
Source: Shoal: A Thanet Writers Anthology
“It’s a tree in the strictest sense of the word — deciduous and woody enough it wasn’t some freakish weed, tall enough it wasn’t a shrub, but its scrawniness wasn’t really something I thought added a huge amount of curb appeal.”
Source: A Pandemic Gardening Journal
“It's a trick question, Aquilla. A Mask is not made. She is remade. First she is destroyed. Stripped down to the trembling child that lives at her core. It doesn't matter how strong she thinks she is. Blackcliff diminishes, humiliates, and humbles her." "But if she survives, she is reborn. She rises from the shadow world of failure and despair so that she might become as fearful as that which destroyed her. So that she might know darkness and use it as her scim and shield in her mission to serve the Empire.”
Source: A Torch Against the Night
“It’s a tricky art, working with them in their purest form,” she mused. “Simultaneously simple yet infinitely complex.” It sounded like my relationship with Adrian.”
Source: The Fiery Heart
“It's a Trinity Knot," Taryn explains. "Or a Triquetra. According to the Celts, the most important things in the world come in threes. Like the earth, the sea, and the sky."
I feel her words in my soul. "Like the three of us.”
Source: Trinity Knot
“It’s a trinity ring. Pink for love, yellow for fidelity and white for friendship. I liked the symbolism of three—you, me and baby-to-be.”
“It’s a truism that we know what we like and we like what we know. If you ask young children which foods they most detest, they tend to be the ones they have never actually tasted, often vegetables.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“It's a truism that we see the past as far more distant than it is in reality: my parents were adults before they could share bathrooms with white people; my grandmother was middle-aged before she could confidently enter a voting booth in Alabama. Yet these images fade easily into gentle sepia tones for me today. That's because it's safety, not wisdom, we're after when we look backward. We picture ugly things at a comfortable distance.
But Americans distort the past in other ways, too. We see horrible people as exceptional, and their many accomplices as mere captives of their times. We tell ourselves we would contain such wickedness if it arose today, because now we know better. We've learned. In our illusory past, progress has come in decisive and irrevocable strokes.”
Source: Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
“It’s a truth I love you,
It’s a hope you do,
And may I live and die with it,
Not knowing that you don’t.”
“It's a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“It’s a truth universally acknowledged that evil people really like the sounds of their own voices.”
Source: Old-School Witch
“It's a tunnel, not a cave.”
“It’s a two-way street,” Emma murmured, her words soft, but fierce at once. “Sometimes you have to take what you need and hope the other person can handle the invasion.”
“Invasion?”
“That’s what love is, isn’t it? Families, friends, lovers. It’s an invasion of each other’s space, minds, hearts. Someone’s always jockeying for control. For it to truly work, there has to be equality. Each side has to be strong enough to handle it.”
Invasion. An oddly perfect way to describe it. “Yet again, I ask, who are you, Emma Strickland?”
Source: Taking the Score
“It’s a unique feature of life in that, in surmounting a mountain of miseries, a fulfilling moment obliterates the nightmares of the past.”
Source: Benign Flame: Saga of Love
“It's a universal instinct of the human species, isn't it, that desire to dress up in some sort of disguise?" said Frank.
"I must be very inhuman then," said Maxim.
"It's natural, I suppose," said Colonel Julyan, "for all of us to wish to look different. We are all children in some ways.”
Source: Rebecca
“It's a vanity to think that a legitimate shamanistic experience can be purchased.”
“It's a very bad habit to put off disagreeable things...”
Source: Anne of Avonlea
“It's a very big red flag when a politician takes decisions based on his personal interest rather than a common one.”
“It's a very big red flag when a politician takes decisions based on his personal interests rather than common ones.”
“IT'S A VERY DANGEROUS THING TO LOOSE/LOST HOPE. WE MUST HOPE AGAINST HOPE.”
“It’s a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless automat of characters.
And if all of us are play-acting, there can be no such thing as a soul mate, because we don’t have genuine souls.”
Source: Gone Girl
“It's a very Greek idea, and a very profound one. Beauty is terror. Whatever we find beautiful, we quiver before it.”
“It's a very old idea that patience leads to skills, of course - but it seems urgent now that we go further than this and think about patience itself as the skill to be learned.”
“It's a very particular time in your life, when someone you love is dying. The world doesn't stop for you. We know this, but in our hearts we are shocked. We are like famous people who say: But don't you know who I am? Except we want to say, But don't you know what I'm going through? How can you speak to me like that when my mother is dying?”
Source: Here One Moment
“It’s a very private moment when your heart breaks. I was thankful we were alone. I knew I couldn’t keep her, but I would always do anything to protect her.”
Source: Heartlines
“It's a very special feeling, full of pride. The fact that our work can cross borders and spark interest in Thailand among people from different cultures goes far beyond what I ever imagined. I'm truly happy that we're able to represent and show the world the beauty of Thai culture, and I hope it leaves a positive and lasting impression on everyone.”
“It's a very special talent that men have, to possess seeing eyes yet be so blind.”
“It's a visual reminder to just keep picking up the pieces. To just keep trying until the missing parts and the ragged edges come back together.”
“It’s a warning. There was a time she believed he could be her best friend, but she’s always been the shoulder to lean on and never vice versa. There is a point where someone can give you only so much. She has nothing left to offer him any more. At least not without receiving anything back.”
Source: Wallflower Stories. Life is a Story - story.one
“It’s a waste of energy and time arguing with unwise people, for their sole intention is not only for you to stoop to their level, but for you to act out of character.”