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 waste of time worrying about something that worry won't fix. It's about as useful as trying to feed your pet rock.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“It's a weak adult who gets their power from hitting a child.”
Source: The Valley of Lost Secrets
“It's a weakness of mine-I want people to understand me.”
Source: The Foundation Trilogy
“It's a weakness to be so affectionate, but I can't help it. No doubt my health would be much better if it was otherwise, still I wouldn't change my disposition if I could. It's the cause of much suffering, but it's a consolation to know I possess it, when I wake up in the night.”
Source: Great Expectations
“It's a weapon we have, and we need all the weapons we can get”
Source: Ice Like Fire
“It’s a weird phrase in English, in love, like it’s a sea you drown in or a town you live in. You don’t get to be in anything else—in friendship or in anger or in hope. All you can be in is love.”
Source: Turtles All the Way Down
“It's a weird thing, writing.
Sometimes you can look out across what you're writing, and it's like looking out over a landscape on a glorious, clear summer's day. You can see every leaf on every tree, and hear the birdsong, and you know where you'll be going on your walk.
And that's wonderful.
Sometimes it's like driving through fog. You can't really see where you're going. You have just enough of the road in front of you to know that you're probably still on the road, and if you drive slowly and keep your headlamps lowered you'll still get where you were going.
And that's hard while you're doing it, but satisfying at the end of a day like that, where you look down and you got 1500 words that didn't exist in that order down on paper, half of what you'd get on a good day, and you drove slowly, but you drove.
And sometimes you come out of the fog into clarity, and you can see just what you're doing and where you're going, and you couldn't see or know any of that five minutes before.
And that's magic.”
“It's a weirdly subtle conversation, I almost don't notice I'm being blackmailed.”
Source: Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
“It’s a whole lot easier to express our unique individuality if there’s a larger community backing us up, reassuring us we’re still socially acceptable.”
Source: Superfandom: How Our Obsessions are Changing What We Buy and Who We Are
“It's a wise person, I guess, who knows he's dumb, and an honest person who knows he's a liar. And it's a dumb person, I guess, who's convinced he is wise.”
Source: Something happened
“It’s a woman’s prerogative to take her time about getting ready for a date,” Loving Summer by Kailin Gow”
Source: Loving Summer
“It's a wonder they can sit down at all, and when they walk, nothing touches their legs under the billowing skirts, except their shifts and stockings. They are like swans, drifting along on unseen feet; or else like the jellyfish in the waters of the rocky harbour near our house, when I was little, before I ever made the long sad journey across the ocean. They were bell-shaped and ruffled, gracefully waving and lovely under the sea; but if they washed up on the beach and dried out in the sun there was nothing left of them. And that is what the ladies are like: mostly water.”
Source: Alias Grace
“It's a wonder you don't have swirls in your irises from rolling your eyes so damn often.”
Source: Meraki: A Syren Story
“It’s a Wonderful Life movie.”
Source: Let It Snow
“It's a wonderful life when you have a burning desire to live.”
“It's a wonderful thing to be able to celebrate and appreciate the gifts of others.”
“It's a wonderful thing to find someone to treasure.”
Source: The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten, Vol. 3
“It's a wonderful thought that everyday has something to celebrate.”
Source: Honey Butter
“It’s a work kid, a fucking lie. Our business is built on bullshit, every square inch of it. Call it deception, call it untruth, call it what you will. It is what it is. A work a dirty downright stinking fucking work. And whether it’s the dumb marks who pay to see this shit, or the dumb fucks who lace up every night to do it, they're all fair game, each and every one of em; suckers born to be fleeced for all their worth Anyone who says otherwise is probably working you twice as hard as I am. But hey, you already knew that, didn’t you? Welcome to the beast, that is, pro wrestling kid.
Harvey Wallbanger Wrestling Promoter Extraordinaire”
Source: Real in Memphis: A Tale of Territory, Treachery and Turbulence (Wrestling Noir)
“It’s a world worth fighting for. Set fire to the broken pieces; start anew.”
Source: Sever
“It's a worm, you idiot!”
“It's about as comfortable as a roller-coaster."
"Oh? Do you fight?"
"We fight, all right."
"Who usually starts it?"
"Me."
"You? I find it hard to believe. What do you fight about?"
Max sighed. "I can't seems to accept her for what she is.”
Source: White Palace
“It's about building lasting confidence, developing healthy relationship skills, and approaching dating with a renewed sense of purpose and self-assurance.”
Source: The Therapist's Handbook for Modern Dating: From First Move to First Date
“It’s about…’ but there isn’t a word for it in a language he knows.
“He makes the sign again, two hands intertwined.
“‘Fucking?’
“His face darkens. He makes the sign for fucking. It is different. He pushes his hands away and apart. Then he says, =Not fucking. That we have to do for them. Something we do for ourselves. Because we—= and he makes a strange sign, which she does not understand, then spells it out, *love*, repeating afterward his hands-on-heart sign.
“=Do we ‘love’?= she signs back, because she doesn’t know a word for it in the spoken language he knows.…
“She pulls off her shift and sits naked before him. He puts a hand up, halfway. Her hand meets his. Later she is not sure who first pulled the other closer, even though it all happens very slowly.…
“Suddenly, an unfamiliar and terrifying feeling mounts through her belly to the top of her head. It seems to spread in circles, like the concentric circles at the servants’ ritual, but spreads and spreads. She cries out, ‘What is it?’ but her voice is wild and she doesn’t know what language she has used. Suddenly she cannot bear his hand any more: she clasps it to her belly and pushes against him and he comes into her harder, comes with a ragged shout of his own which he later tells her would have been words if he hadn’t, so many years ago, had his words stolen away.
“They lie down then, touching over more surface than she has touched anyone in her short life, and sleep entangled like his fingers were when he made the sign for this, for whatever this has been, this that they have done together.”
Source: Black Wine
“It's about celebrating diversity in all its aspects, human and biological.”
“It's about creating a path together,
throwing away the rocks on the difficult roads
and continuing the journey,
It's about building a future together.”
“It’s about drive, it’s about power. We stay hungry, we devour. Put in the work, put in the hours, and take what’s ours.”
“It's about enabling the generation of materials and structures designed to interact, adapt and respond to the natural environment.”
“It's about family. Not necessarily the one we were born with, but the one we choose. This one. The people we trust to be part of our lives. The people we care about.”
Source: The Raven King
“It’s about Fia. Everything always is, even when she is nowhere near, even when she left all of us. We still orbit the brilliant, chaotic burning of her star.”
Source: Perfect Lies
“It's about finding that balance where you have one foot in the familiar, one foot in the unfamiliar.
If you have two feet in the unfamiliar it's overwhelming.
If you have two feet in the familiar then there's just boredom.
It's about having both.”
“It’s about finding your place at the table and knowing there will always be enough to fill your plate.”
Source: Switched at Birth: The True Story of a Mother's Journey
“It's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.”
Source: On writing: a memoir of the craft
“It's about how to quit smoking and never crave for it again. I can’t tell you how to do it in 1 hour, 10 hour or 24 hour. It’s a process and it will take time. If you’re looking for some overnight miracle then forget about it, it doesn’t exist.”
Source: Stardust Family - We Are One!
“It’s about letting yourself feel,
but not wallow;
it’s about leaning into love, not fear,
as the preferred force in your life.”
Source: Enriched Heart: The Tao of Balancing Your Big, Beautiful, Badass Soul
“It’s about loving someone and seeing them as a part of your family. I think some people have the capacity to see different people as part of their family and some don’t.”
Source: Out of Salem
“It's about loving you so much that it makes me feel miserable and elated at the same time. It's about needing you so much that I feel like I can't breathe without you.”
Source: Fruit of Misfortune
“It's about my own self-concept. Can I accept that I am worth looking for? Here lies the core of my spiritual struggle: the struggle against self-rejection, self-contempt, and self-loathing. It is a very fierce battle because the world and its demons conspire to make me think about myself as worthless, useless, and negligible. As long as I am kept “small,” I can easily be seduced to buy things, meet people, or go places that promise a radical change in self-concept even though they are totally incapable of bringing this about. But every time I allow myself to be thus manipulated or seduced, I will have still more reasons for putting myself down and seeing myself as the unwanted child.”
Source: The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming
“It’s about Nietzsche’s theory of universal debt. Your parents make it possible for you to believe a far better myth than Santa. They let you think that you, as a kid, don’t owe the world a thing. The world can give you, even if just for a few minutes, utter joy without requiring anything from you. It’s not about consumerism. As far as you know, no one buys you these presents. They come out of nothingness, with fantasies of elves attached. You aren’t required to be grateful to your parents or anything like that. They can give to you and nothing is required in return. When you get old enough, when you have kids, you get to enact this myth for them. It has nothing to do with any fat man in a red suit, no matter what we tell ourselves. It’s about owing nothing, and then realizing that you have to do this job of perpetuating this… this fantasy world, whether you like it or not.”
Source: Flies to Wanton Boys
“It's about picking which baggage is worth carrying with you later, when you go into the real world, where people don't want to hear about body parts on the roads.”
Source: Answering 911: Life in the Hot Seat
“It's about power, man.”
Source: The Ultimates (2024-) #9
“It’s about putting more life in your years, not just more years in your life.”
Source: The Energy Formula: Six life changing ingredients to unleash your limitless potential
“It's about religious acceptance, it's no longer about religious tolerance.”
“It’s about second chances, Neil. Second, third, fourth, whatever, as long as you get at least one more than what anyone else wanted to give you.”
Source: The Foxhole Court
“It’s about showing someone you care for them, wanting them to care for you, doing things they like because you want them to be happy. Because their happiness makes you happy. That’s love, Dane. That’s how you’ll win…your daughter over.”
Source: The Millionaire Daddy Project
“It’s about showing up, not showing off. But sometimes just showing up as yourself will make other people think that you’re showing off. Show the fuck up anyway.”
“It's about that applause I want to speak to you. I want you to remember that when you've done a little dance or a song or sketch, the applause which you get is not only because you yourself have done your best, but because each of those men is seeing in you someone he loves at home, and because of you is able to forget for a little while the unhappiness of not being in his home, and in some cases the great tragedy of not knowing what has happened to the children in his family.”
Source: Theater Shoes
“It’s about the eyes, really. If you’ve seen enough, you just look older, no matter what the rest of your face looks like.”
Source: The Butterfly Garden
“It’s about the person, not the body parts.”
Source: TAD
“It's about the ways in which girls deal with anger and aggression, as opposed to the ways in which boys do. The premise is that boys tend to be more direct in their aggression - physical confrontation - while in contrast, girls use an indirect approach known as relational aggression. Relational aggression is a form of aggression where the group is used as a weapon to assault others and others' relationships. It uses lies, secrets, betrayals and a host of other two-faced tactics to destroy or damage the relationships and social standing of others in the group.”